Summary: Xi Jinping, along with Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, and Han Zheng, attended the 2026 New Year's Opera Gala in Beijing. The performance showcased a variety of traditional and modern Chinese opera pieces, highlighting the art form's vitality and development. The event was attended by other Party and state leaders as well as officials from relevant departments. The performances included both classic and newly created works, featuring artists of all ages. No mentions of the United States or U.S.-China relations were included in the article.
Summary: The Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 29th to 30th, focusing on "San Nong" (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers) work for 2026. Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of "San Nong" work for the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, calling for efforts to modernize agriculture and rural areas, ensure grain production, and increase farmers' income. The conference stressed the need to prevent a return to poverty and to improve rural governance. Vice Premier Liu Guozhong attended the meeting and delivered a speech. The meeting participants discussed agricultural modernization and rural revitalization.
Summary: President Xi Jinping will deliver his 2026 New Year's address on the evening of December 31st, to be broadcast via state media outlets, including CCTV, CNR, and online platforms like People's Daily and Xinhua Net. The address will be available across multiple channels, including Mandarin and foreign language platforms. The report does not include any statements on international relations, including U.S. relations, or any officials accompanying Xi.
Summary: According to the article, China has achieved significant progress during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, with its economy expected to reach 140 trillion yuan in 2025, contributing approximately 30% to global economic growth. The focus has been on comprehensively implementing the new development concept, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development through technological innovation and the development of new productive forces. The article emphasizes the importance of "Shi Gan Chu Zheng Ji", which translates to "achieving political achievements through solid work" and also the continued commitment to high-level opening up, including the Hainan Free Trade Port. The article did not contain any discussions or allusions to the United States or U.S.-China relations. The report references the strategic importance of domestic demand and innovation in the face of external pressures.
Summary: The Central Rural Work Conference in Beijing analyzed the current challenges in agriculture and rural areas and comprehensively planned the 2026 work, emphasizing the importance of agricultural and rural modernization for the overall success of China's modernization. The conference highlighted the need to enhance agricultural production capacity and quality, ensuring food security for China's 1.4 billion population amid a complex global environment. It also stressed the importance of consolidating poverty alleviation achievements and promoting rural revitalization by integrating urban and rural development. The meeting underscored the importance of food security and the need to maintain stable grain production. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree to promulgate the "Implementation Regulations of the Value-Added Tax Law of the People's Republic of China," effective January 1, 2026. The regulations, comprising 6 chapters and 54 articles, detail taxpayer definitions and taxable transaction scopes for goods, services, intangible assets, and real estate. They clarify tax rate applications, including zero-rate export goods and cross-border transactions, while also specifying calculation methods for taxable amounts in various scenarios. The regulations elaborate on tax incentives, emphasizing transparency and periodic evaluations. Finally, they refine tax collection and management measures, addressing registration, invoice issuance, and tax declaration.
Summary: The article reviews Xi Jinping's New Year addresses from the past five years, highlighting key themes and locations reflecting China's development. These addresses emphasized improving people's livelihoods, promoting technological advancement, and preserving Chinese culture. Specific locations mentioned in the addresses, such as the Xiong'an New Area and the South Pole Qinling Station, showcase China's strategic development and scientific progress. The addresses also underscored China's commitment to global engagement through events like the Belt and Road Forum, presenting China as open and confident on the world stage. There is no explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Huning met with leaders of the China Taoist Association at its 11th National Congress. Wang emphasized the need to study Xi Jinping Thought and implement the Party's religious policies, urging Taoists to support the Party and contribute to China's modernization. He stressed adherence to the Sinicization of religion, promotion of core socialist values, and cultivation of patriotic and knowledgeable talent within the Taoist community. Li Ganjie, head of the United Front Work Department, also attended the meeting.
Summary: China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance have issued a notice outlining the "equipment renewal and trade-in" policies for 2026. A first batch of 62.5 billion yuan in special national bonds have been allocated to support consumer goods trade-ins, with expansions to include elevator upgrades in old residential areas and equipment upgrades for elderly care facilities. The policy widens subsidies from digital products to encompass broader digital and smart product purchases. Furthermore, the investment threshold for project applications will be lowered, increasing support for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Summary: China's Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration announced a new policy on value-added tax (VAT) for individual housing sales, effective January 1, 2026. The policy reduces the VAT rate for individuals selling homes purchased less than two years prior from 5% to 3%. It also extends the VAT exemption for sales of homes owned for two years or more to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, aligning these cities with the rest of the country. According to Li Xuhong, Vice President of Beijing National Accounting Institute, this adjustment is intended to stabilize the real estate market. This policy aims to reduce transaction costs, stimulate the housing market, and create a fairer market environment by standardizing VAT rules across the country.
Summary: The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has announced an action plan to upgrade the digital RMB, transitioning it from a "digital cash" to a "digital deposit currency" system by January 1, 2026. According to PBOC Vice Governor Lu Lei, the digital RMB in commercial bank wallets will be treated as account-based commercial bank liabilities. The plan allows banks to pay interest on digital RMB wallet balances and manage them as assets and liabilities, with deposit insurance providing the same security as traditional deposits. The PBOC considers digital RMB margin deposits equivalent to client reserve funds for non-bank payment institutions.
Summary: An impoverished village in Guangxi province underwent comprehensive land remediation to consolidate fragmented plots, improve irrigation, and introduce new industries. Initial villager hesitancy was overcome through government subsidies and clear communication of the benefits by the village's first secretary, Huang Renjian. This consolidation allowed for mechanized farming and the introduction of new crops like rice and edible fungi, significantly increasing village income. Villagers now participate in labor services and share profits, leading to a substantial rise in per capita income and collective economic revenue. The improved infrastructure and landscape are also expected to boost tourism.
Summary: The article discusses China's "holistic land consolidation," a program implemented across 24 provinces during the 14th Five-Year Plan, which consolidates fragmented farmland, reclaims construction land, and aims to revitalize rural economies. Over 1,700 projects were undertaken, consolidating over 10 million mu of land, including transforming small plots into larger, more manageable fields and addressing the conversion of farmland for non-grain purposes. The program also focuses on activating existing land resources to alleviate land and funding shortages in rural areas, citing an example in Guangdong province where revitalized old buildings have spurred new businesses and increased local income. The 15th Five-Year Plan will continue promoting holistic land consolidation to ensure food security and contribute to rural revitalization.
Summary: The article reviews Xi Jinping's New Year addresses from the past five years, highlighting key themes and achievements. These addresses emphasized improving the lives of ordinary people through economic development in both rural and urban areas. They also showcased China's technological advancements, such as space exploration and deep-sea research, and its commitment to preserving its cultural heritage. Furthermore, the addresses underscored China's role in global affairs, including hosting international events and promoting multilateral cooperation through initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative. These events and accomplishments are presented as evidence of China's growing strength and influence in the world.
Summary: According to the article, international observers believe the CPC's Eight-Point Regulation demonstrates the party's commitment to self-improvement and good governance. These regulations, initiated in 2012, serve as a key to understanding the CPC's approach and offer valuable lessons for political parties worldwide. Observers noted the regulations' focus on practical improvements, anti-corruption measures, and closer ties between the party and the people. The CPC's emphasis on self-discipline and accountability has fostered trust and enhanced governance, creating a favorable environment for economic and social development. Several international figures were quoted in the piece, including Vito Petrocelli, Cholong Aidin, Marcos Pires, Xie Monile, Ahmed Tarabek, Alawi Semanda, and Cuitláhuac Alcántara.
Summary: The article criticizes Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent statements on Taiwan, arguing they represent a dangerous shift towards potential military intervention and a departure from Japan's post-war pacifist principles. The author contends that Takaichi's remarks, made during a Diet session, triggered strong protests from China who views them as expressing an intention to intervene militarily, reflect a broader societal trend in Japan of prioritizing military buildup over genuine reflection on its wartime past. Furthermore, the author suggests that Japan's historical "absolution" due to its alignment with the West during the Cold War has distorted its understanding of its role in regional security. The author calls on Japan to reassess the costs of war and its responsibilities in the region, especially considering its wartime aggression against China and other Asian countries. Japan's increasingly hawkish stance, often framed in the context of "considering China," is viewed with concern.
Summary: South African writer Michael Mayalo, after visiting China as a Peking University scholar, lauded China's poverty alleviation and rural revitalization efforts, contrasting them with the challenges faced by his home village. He highlighted China's infrastructure development, particularly its high-speed rail, as a facilitator of economic growth. Mayalo also emphasized China's support for African development through initiatives like the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative. He aims to promote Sino-African youth exchange and cooperation.
Summary: Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking at a seminar on international affairs and Chinese diplomacy, outlined China's foreign policy goals for 2025 under the leadership of Xi Jinping. He stated China aims to be a stabilizing force in a turbulent world, a leader in its region, and a driver of global development, enhancing its international influence and moral appeal. Wang also emphasized that in 2026 China's diplomacy would make greater achievements in supporting national development, improving relations with its neighbors, and aiding developing countries. He highlighted the importance of Xi Jinping's leadership and thought in guiding China's confident and forward-moving diplomacy. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this report.
Summary: The Central Rural Work Conference in Beijing analyzed challenges facing agricultural work and comprehensively planned work for 2026, emphasizing the importance of agricultural and rural modernization for overall national modernization. The conference highlighted achievements in agriculture in the past years, including increased grain production and poverty alleviation, despite external pressures and natural disasters. It stressed the need to enhance agricultural production capacity and quality, focusing on grain security as a top priority and consolidating poverty alleviation achievements. The meeting underscored the integration of urban and rural development to promote comprehensive rural revitalization. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The modernized Mexico City Metro Line 1, undertaken by CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., is now fully operational, featuring 29 new Chinese-made trains. Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada hailed the project as a symbol of the city's transportation modernization, noting the trains' increased capacity and efficiency. China's ambassador to Mexico, Chen Daojiang, stated that the project exemplifies the alignment of China's modernization and opening-up with Mexico's development strategy, and is an important infrastructure project between China and Latin America. Chen expressed hope for further cooperation in infrastructure, green transportation, and clean energy. The upgraded line is reducing commute times and increasing daily ridership, demonstrating the benefits of modern rail transit.
Summary: The China Energy Engineering Group's Sukhi Kinari Hydropower Station, a key project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, has been commercially operational since September 2024, providing 2.8 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy. The project has created over 6,000 jobs during peak construction and continues to provide over 100 stable positions for locals, including those who were relocated from the dam's submersion area. The hydropower station has improved the quality of life for nearby villages, providing electricity for new appliances and helping local tourist spots flourish. Furthermore, the project management team has implemented various sustainable development initiatives, such as fish farming and tree planting activities, with over 150,000 trees having been planted.
Summary: At the invitation of Xi Jinping, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will conduct a state visit to China from January 4th to 7th, 2026, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announcement on December 30th.
Summary: Spokesperson Li Ming of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) stated at a press conference that the CIDCA will conduct 200 digital economy and AI training programs for Global South countries over the next five years. This initiative aims to bridge the digital divide and promote technological benefits for developing nations. China plans to foster a "Digital South" brand under the Global Development Initiative, focusing on strengthening digital infrastructure in partner countries. Digital technologies will be used to enhance agriculture, education, and disaster warning systems.
Summary: The article discusses Nanjing's efforts to improve public transportation for the elderly, specifically highlighting the upgrade of bus route 523 to a "Respect for the Elderly" line with features like wheelchair ramps and trained drivers. The bus route connects residential areas, hospitals, and markets frequently used by seniors. Nanjing has also launched "medical microcirculation" bus lines, such as B90, to facilitate access to hospitals for elderly residents. These initiatives aim to address the needs of Nanjing's aging population.
Summary: According to a *Global Times* survey, nearly 70% of foreign respondents have a favorable impression of China, with over 80% recognizing China's strong economic and technological prowess. The article attributes this rising global favorability towards China to its commitment to shared development and building a community of common destiny. China's contributions to global green initiatives and its dedication to achieving its "dual carbon" goals are highlighted as evidence of its reliability. The article also emphasizes the growing global interest in Chinese culture, as demonstrated by the popularity of Chinese games and micro-dramas. The article suggests that positive perceptions of China are increasing globally, and it does not mention the United States.
Summary: The article emphasizes the achievements of China's 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) and highlights Xi Jinping's economic thought as guiding the nation's progress. It stresses the importance of high-quality development, promoting new productive forces, and tailoring strategies to local conditions. The article also mentions China's commitment to opening up, exemplified by the Hainan Free Trade Port, and its role as a major contributor to global economic growth. The article references a foreign media source, which states that China is "redefining itself," while concluding by emphasizing the need for continued hard work and innovation to achieve future goals under the 15th FYP.
Summary: The PLA Eastern Theater Command began "Joint Sword-2025" exercises around Taiwan on December 29, which elicited strong reactions from Taiwanese society. Taiwanese commentators and political figures such as KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen criticized Lai Ching-te for escalating tensions and provoking the mainland, accusing him of relying on external forces, particularly the U.S., and pushing Taiwan towards conflict. Analysts also suggested that the exercises served as a warning to both Lai's administration against pursuing independence and to external forces against using Taiwan to contain China. Commentators noted the exercises highlighted the PLA's growing capabilities and served as a deterrent against "Taiwan independence" forces misjudging the situation. Some commentators warned Lai against falling into the U.S. trap of "selling war fears and weapons."
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of adapting to changing circumstances to maintain strategic initiative, particularly as China approaches the "15th Five-Year Plan" (2026-2030). It acknowledges a complex international environment marked by rising unilateralism and protectionism, and intensifying competition between major powers, while also recognizing opportunities from technological advancements. The article advocates for maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing, building a strong domestic market, and prioritizing technological innovation to achieve high-quality development. It also touches on expanding domestic demand as a strategic move, not just a temporary measure. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the newly released "National Reading Promotion Regulations" set to take effect in February, marking a shift towards a more formalized and legally-backed approach to promoting reading in China. It highlights the importance of equitable access to reading resources, particularly in rural areas and for disadvantaged groups, with a focus on bridging the gap between urban and rural reading rates. The regulations support both digital and traditional reading formats, aiming for a balanced reading ecosystem. The goal is to build a "reading society" that enhances the nation’s cultural strength, turning libraries and bookstores into inviting spaces. By leveraging legal means to address structural challenges in resource distribution, the initiative strives to ensure that reading services are not only available but effectively utilized.
Summary: The article highlights the ongoing efforts across various regions in China to improve public services and convenience for residents. Examples include 24-hour comprehensive service stations in Xiamen, Fujian, and the "15-minute convenient medical service circle" in Yinchuan, Ningxia. These initiatives aim to provide readily accessible amenities and services, enhancing the quality of life for local communities. The focus is on delivering public services at the grassroots level, making daily life more comfortable and convenient. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The first article discusses the popularity and enduring appeal of Henan Opera (豫剧), highlighting its connection to the common people and its ability to evolve with the times through new performance styles and online platforms. It emphasized that the opera's popularity stems from its roots in folk culture and its reflection of the public's concerns. The article also notes the importance of both state-supported and grassroots efforts in promoting the art form. The second article critiques the trend of uncritically copying popular tourism trends, arguing that true success comes from developing unique, locally-rooted attractions. It advocates for focusing on quality and innovation to create sustainable tourism brands rather than simply chasing fleeting trends.
Summary: The article discusses the persistent issue of "shake-to-jump" ads in Chinese mobile applications, where unintentional phone movements trigger unwanted redirects to shopping pages. Despite regulations and standards implemented by authorities like the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Network Security Standardization Technical Committee, some businesses continue to circumvent these rules, employing deceptive practices. The author emphasizes that exploiting users' attention for short-term profits undermines trust and ultimately harms businesses. Creating a trustworthy environment for information consumption is essential, and the author hopes that by focusing on the existing problems, it will enhance people's sense of gain in information consumption.
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Summary: A recent Xinhua article discusses the Central Economic Work Conference held in December, focusing on China's economic achievements and plans for the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. Experts highlighted the country's economic resilience and potential, emphasizing the importance of internal circulation, innovation, and reform. They acknowledged both domestic and international challenges, stressing the need to balance development with risk management. The article underscored the importance of policy support, technological advancement, and expanding domestic demand to achieve sustainable growth and improve living standards. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, led a delegation to Cangzhou, Hebei, to conduct a "sending warmth" campaign. He visited and expressed his regards to model workers, frontline employees, and new-form employment laborers, conveying holiday greetings to workers nationwide. Wang emphasized the importance of studying Xi Jinping's speeches and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, guiding workers to follow the Party, and promoting the spirit of model workers. He also stressed the need to focus on workers, provide services, and enhance their sense of security and happiness.
Summary: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held its inaugural Youth Academic Conference in Beijing on December 29th, focusing on themes like Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, organized research, talent development, Chinese-style modernization, and international studies. CASS President Gao Xiang emphasized the importance of understanding the historical context and future direction of academic pursuits, encouraging young scholars to produce insightful, meaningful, and principled research. Participants discussed topics such as promoting high-quality economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period and contributing to the construction of a socialist modern country. The conference also announced the winners of the first CASS Youth Outstanding Research Achievement Award. The gathering aimed to integrate individual academic pursuits with the broader goals of the Party and the nation.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security has issued a notice demanding that public security organs nationwide crack down on prominent food-related crimes during the upcoming New Year and Spring Festival holidays. The focus will be on meat, alcohol, agricultural and aquatic products, targeting areas like tourist vendor sites, and stages of production such as farming and animal raising. The authorities will be cracking down on the production and sale of toxic and unsafe food products, as well as other counterfeit goods. The goal is to ensure a safe and peaceful holiday for the public.
Summary: The Bank of China's Hunan branch (BOC Hunan) is prioritizing support for technological innovation to bolster Hunan's development strategy. BOC Hunan has provided over 132 billion yuan in technology loans to over 8,000 tech companies. It has streamlined processes, including a "green channel" for loans under 150 million yuan, and collaborated with government entities to support specialized and sophisticated enterprises. The bank is also involved in underwriting technology-related bonds. BOC Hunan is fostering collaboration between government, banks, enterprises, and investment firms to build a robust ecosystem for technological innovation.
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Summary: The article announces the selection of 18 individuals as "Most Beautiful Veterans" for 2025, highlighting their contributions to various sectors after leaving the military. Examples include veterans contributing to rural revitalization through industry development and education, others involved in rescue efforts, and some dedicating themselves to preserving the memory of fallen soldiers. One veteran, blinded in service, established an educational training institution, and another leads a team testing unmanned aerial vehicles in the Taklamakan Desert. The common thread is their continued dedication to service and the betterment of society after their military careers.
Summary: A symposium was held in Beijing on December 30th to celebrate the 85th anniversary of China's national radio broadcasting. Attendees, including radio hosts, experts, scholars, and listeners, discussed topics such as guiding public opinion, promoting culture, and innovative development. The meeting emphasized that radio broadcasting's development has resonated with the Party and the people's aspirations, especially since the 18th Party Congress. Participants stressed the need for reform, integrated communication, and technological empowerment to contribute to building a strong cultural nation. The event commemorated the establishment of Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station in 1940, marking the beginning of China's national radio broadcasting.
Summary: Sichuan's Xuzhou district authorities investigated and rectified improper fee collection for water installation in Heshizhen, a case discovered during an "appeal to the discipline inspection" outreach program. The investigation revealed that the water company mistakenly charged residents for installation costs already covered in the project contract due to management oversight. Under the supervision of the district's discipline inspection commission, the company refunded over 967,000 yuan to 250 households and publicly apologized. Xuzhou district has been focusing on addressing public concerns such as property registration issues and other practical matters since 2025. This initiative aims to enhance public satisfaction by resolving issues related to infrastructure, social assistance, and rural water safety.
Summary: In 2025, Yongdeng County in Gansu Province focused on optimizing its business environment, safeguarding key areas like food and drug safety, and protecting intellectual property rights. The county implemented measures such as streamlining business registration, strengthening food safety inspections, and promoting the use of geographical indications for local products like "Kushui Rose." They also focused on consumer rights protection, achieving high rates of complaint resolution and establishing consumer protection stations. These efforts aim to stimulate market vitality and support the county's high-quality economic development. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Beijing Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC Beijing Branch) focused on supporting major national strategies and the capital's development. ICBC Beijing Branch provided financial support for projects such as the Beijing Winter Olympics, urban renewal, and transportation infrastructure in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as well as the "Belt and Road" initiative. The bank also facilitated cross-border RMB settlements and digital currency applications. It also supported technological innovation, green finance, and small and micro enterprises. ICBC Beijing Branch also focused on improving financial services for housing, elderly care, and consumption to enhance the well-being of Beijing residents.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of "Xi Jinping's Economic Thought" (习近平经济思想) as the guiding principle for China's economic development, particularly highlighting its role in achieving economic milestones during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. It states that under this guidance, China has successfully navigated challenges and advanced high-quality development. The article also discusses the deepening understanding of economic laws, strategic policy formulation, and work methods derived from Xi's economic thought. It emphasizes China's commitment to high-level opening up and contributing to global development, while also pointing out the negative effects of "decoupling" and "small yard and high fence".
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of "accumulating momentum" (蓄势) versus merely "creating momentum" (造势) for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. It critiques officials who prioritize superficial displays and short-term gains over substantive, long-term efforts. The piece argues that true achievements stem from consistent, grounded work and strategic focus on areas such as improving the business environment and protecting the environment. It urges cadres to cultivate a long-term vision and work diligently, like "laying a road" for those who will come after, to build a solid foundation for future success. The article is a call for officials to focus on tangible results rather than empty gestures.
Summary: The newly opened Beijing Tongzhou Station, located within the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, aims to integrate the city's ground space by moving railway and transportation functions underground. The station connects to the Beijing-Tangshan intercity railway, facilitating travel to locations such as Tangshan, Yanjiao, and Tianjin, thereby promoting regional integration within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. With the addition of the new station, Beijing now has eight major railway stations and two large international airports, forming an integrated transportation hub. The station is designed to connect to both Capital Airport and Daxing Airport with airport bus lines. The development is intended to support Beijing's spatial structure and improve urban functionality.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping emphasized the important role of central enterprises in serving the Party and the nation's overall agenda and contributing to Chinese-style modernization. The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) is actively studying and implementing the spirit of the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenary Session and Xi's instructions to ensure the fulfillment of the 14th Five-Year Plan. AVIC is focused on technological innovation, including "Artificial Intelligence +," and the development of aviation equipment, like the J-35, J-15T, and KJ-600. The company is also planning for the 15th Five-Year Plan, emphasizing high-level technological self-reliance and strengthening national defense. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The RMB has strengthened against the U.S. dollar, breaking the 7.0 barrier to reach its highest point since May 2023. Experts attribute the RMB's rise to a weakening dollar index driven by expectations of Federal Reserve rate cuts and increased confidence in the resilience of the Chinese economy, leading to greater foreign investment in RMB assets. Seasonal factors, such as increased settlement demands from exporters at the end of the year, also contribute to the RMB's strength. Despite this, analysts urge businesses to avoid betting on a one-sided RMB trend and to manage exchange rate risk using financial instruments. The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized maintaining the RMB exchange rate at a reasonable and balanced level and to "prevent the risk of exchange rate overshooting."
Summary: Shanxi Province is promoting the development of "specialized towns," which are county-level industrial clusters. The province is using financial tools to support the upgrade and diversification of industries within these towns, exemplified by the transformation of a malleable cast iron company in Taigu into a producer of new energy vehicle brake discs. The Shanxi Financial Investment Holding Group has established a 200 million yuan fund to further support the growth of these "specialized towns," with the goal of facilitating industrial upgrades through tailored financial products. Shanxi has so far cultivated 30 provincial-level and 122 city-level "specialized towns," with leading enterprises experiencing a 10.1% increase in sales revenue in the first three quarters of this year.
Summary: A conference was held in Beijing on December 30th focusing on the "Dianhong ecosystem" (电鸿生态), an energy internet operating system. Participants emphasized the importance of developing an independent and controllable energy internet operating system and building an open-source, shared industrial ecosystem for energy digitalization. The development of the Dianhong ecosystem is seen as crucial for strengthening China's digital infrastructure and achieving technological self-reliance in the energy sector, particularly in building a new power system and ensuring national energy security. Southern Power Grid Digital Grid Group Co., Ltd. and China Energy News Co., Ltd. also reached a strategic cooperation agreement on digital brand promotion of the Dianhong ecosystem. The conference was hosted by China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd.
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Summary: An old residential community in Shenyang, Liaoning province, experienced frequent elevator malfunctions, prompting concerns about safety. The Tiexi District Party Committee Secretary Gao Wei noted the effort required to provide the new elevators reflects the government’s administrative abilities and focus on the people. The local Party committee addressed the issue by securing state subsidies to replace 32 aging elevators, and mobilized community members to ensure the smooth execution of the project. A representative of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee's Organization Department stated that they adhere to the concept of "for the people, for convenience, and for peace," and they prioritize community construction in grassroots governance, allocating more resources to communities to improve people's lives. The initiative is part of Liaoning's broader "Happy New Community" construction project.
Summary: A new regulation on the management of Chinese employees hired by foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China will take effect on January 1, 2026. The regulation aims to standardize the employment and management of these employees, while protecting their rights and facilitating the operations of foreign missions, as obligated by international treaties like the Vienna Conventions. It establishes a centralized management system where the Ministry of Foreign Affairs oversees the process, delegating specific responsibilities to designated units and local foreign affairs offices. Foreign missions can use a MOFA-established platform to find suitable candidates, working with designated service organizations for contracts and administration. The regulation emphasizes that Chinese employees must abide by Chinese laws and not engage in activities that endanger national security.
Summary: Multiple schools and kindergartens across China are holding various campus activities to celebrate the upcoming New Year. A photo depicts children interacting with a lion dance at a kindergarten in Wenling City, Zhejiang province. The article focuses on festive celebrations for children and does not mention any political figures, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the 2025 Tengchong Scientists Forum in Yunnan, Betterni Bio-Technology Group shared its approach to innovative development and industrialization practices of Yunnan's unique plant resources. Betterni has successfully registered 17 new plant-based ingredients, with seven already used in its Winona and other skincare brands for sensitive skin and infant care. The company has also established a comprehensive service platform to facilitate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, including a lab focused on developing Yunnan's distinctive plants for cosmetics, functional foods, and pharmaceuticals. Betterni is building raw material bases with local partners, forming a complete traceability system from germplasm research to optimized breeding, which will protect biodiversity and enable development of plant resources. Betterni aims to contribute Chinese plant ingredients to the global cosmetics industry.
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Summary: Jingdong Property (JD Property), a subsidiary of JD.com, is expanding its global warehouse network to support supply chain development. JD Property leverages its experience in serving JD.com's logistics to offer customized warehousing products and services to external partners, including domestic companies and international brands like BMW and Geely Auto. The company operates over 220 high-standard logistics parks in China and has expanded to 12 countries and regions, including the UAE, Indonesia, and the UK. JD Property aims to provide comprehensive solutions, including site selection, compliance, and operational management, to facilitate global expansion for businesses. By integrating with JD.com's ecosystem, JD Property can offer additional services in procurement and technology, improving supply chain efficiency for its clients.
Summary: The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting on Venezuela, where Russia and China criticized U.S. actions in the region, including military deployments under the guise of anti-drug operations, which have escalated tensions. Chinese representative Sun Lei called on the U.S. to cease its actions against Venezuela, accusing the U.S. of violating international law and threatening regional peace and security. The article highlights the U.S.'s intensified military presence in the Caribbean, including naval deployments and alleged drone strikes. The U.S.'s updated National Security Strategy, prioritizing the Western Hemisphere, has drawn criticism from Latin American countries. Russia has expressed concerns about the U.S. military buildup and reaffirmed its support for the Maduro government.
Summary: A Chinese company, China Construction Sixth Engineering Division Transportation Construction Co., Ltd., is undertaking a major infrastructure project in Kuwait's South Al-Mutlaa New City focused on water management. The project addresses three key challenges: managing subterranean seawater intrusion, collecting and reusing rainwater using sponge city technologies, and treating and recycling wastewater for irrigation. The project includes construction of rainwater harvesting units, treatment systems, and extensive piping for both rainwater and sewage, aiming to provide a sustainable and modern living environment for over 100,000 residents. Kuwaiti officials praised the project's potential to alleviate water scarcity and improve the local environment. The project is expected to alleviate housing pressure in the old city of Al-Ahmad.
Summary: Beijing's Daxing district is focusing on developing specialized "characteristic towns" to promote coordinated development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The district is focusing on tailored development of each town based on their natural resources, such as the Caiyu Digital Fashion Town which focuses on digital economy and fashion industries. Another example is Panggezhuang Watermelon Town which is focused on the leisure industry, specifically agritourism and the pet economy. These towns aim to integrate industry, urban life, and the environment, with the goal of becoming regional economic hubs. The Caiyu Digital Fashion Town is leveraging its proximity to Beijing's airports to build a business network connecting the region to international markets.
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Summary: Jamshed Suleimanov, the Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry's chief representative in China, is dedicated to strengthening Uzbek-Chinese relations as a "Silk Road inheritor." Suleimanov emphasizes cultural exchange and economic cooperation, citing the "Friendly China" initiative and increased flights between the two nations. He highlights the success of Chinese poverty alleviation strategies, including agricultural technology and rural development models, and their potential application in Uzbekistan. Suleimanov also promotes tourism, envisioning a "Uzbekistan version of Dianping" to facilitate travel. He admires China's modernization, seeing it as a model for Uzbekistan's development.
Summary: This article, written by the Uzbek Ambassador to China, highlights the robust development of Uzbekistan-China relations, emphasizing the strategic leadership of both countries' leaders. Bilateral ties were elevated to a "new era all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership" in January 2024. The two countries maintain close cooperation within multilateral frameworks like the UN and SCO, with Uzbekistan supporting China's global initiatives. Increased connectivity via the Belt and Road Initiative, including the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, is boosting trade, investment, and cultural exchange, with plans to increase trade to $20 billion in the coming years.
Summary: Uzbekistan is increasingly becoming a popular tourist destination for Chinese travelers due to its rich historical sites and improved infrastructure. The "Uzbekistan Tourism Year" in China featured cultural events and business matchmaking, resulting in numerous tourism and cultural cooperation agreements. Uzbekistan has enhanced its digital infrastructure, including online ticketing and mobile payment options, to cater to Chinese tourists' preferences. Visa-free travel and increased flights have also contributed to the surge in Chinese visitors, with numbers expected to reach 400,000-500,000 next year. This growing tourism cooperation is strengthening bilateral relations between China and Uzbekistan by increasing understanding of each other's culture.
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Summary: The article discusses the transformation of Chongqing's Jiefangbei商圈 into a modern commercial hub that blends historical and cultural elements with new business models. The district is leveraging its unique topography to create distinctive consumer experiences and promoting its open economy. Jiefangbei has become a hub for international businesses, hosting major events and attracting global brands while also offering convenient services for international visitors. The area aims to become a leading international consumption destination. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan Power Grid has focused on constructing a "four vertical, four horizontal, and one center" power grid, significantly increasing its clean energy capacity. Yunnan Power Grid has also facilitated "West-East Electricity Transfer," sending over 2 trillion kWh of electricity to eastern regions and promoting cross-border electricity sales with neighboring countries like Vietnam and Laos. The Yunnan Power Grid has signed an agreement with the Yunnan government to build a new energy system. Yunnan Power Grid is also developing energy data centers and modernizing its operations with technologies like drones for inspections and disaster prevention.
Summary: The article reviews China's technological achievements in 2025, highlighting breakthroughs in areas like two-dimensional materials, lunar exploration with Chang'e-6, and the Jiangmen Neutrino Observatory (JUNO). It emphasizes advancements in artificial intelligence, including DeepSeek, and brain-computer interfaces. The piece also discusses the progress of major scientific projects such as the "artificial sun" EAST and the Tianwen-2 asteroid exploration mission. These innovations contribute to China's comprehensive competitiveness and high-quality development, as well as improvements to livelihoods in China.
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Summary: In late 2025, several Chinese automakers achieved milestones, including FAW-Volkswagen reaching 30 million vehicles produced, and China Changan Automobile producing its 30 millionth Chinese-branded vehicle. China's total auto production and sales exceeded 31 million units in the first 11 months of the year, maintaining its position as the world's largest auto market. Changan Automobile is expanding globally, including a plant in Thailand, and aims for 30% of its sales to be overseas by 2030. FAW-Volkswagen is developing technologies locally, with some being adopted by Volkswagen globally, and is cooperating with Huawei on intelligent driving systems. Nio, an EV maker, has committed to innovation, including battery swapping infrastructure, and is set to reach 300,000 sales in 2025.
Summary: The article discusses the achievements of China's automotive industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan (FYP) period, highlighting its growth in production, sales, and exports, particularly in the electric vehicle (EV) sector. It emphasizes the importance of coordinated efforts between government and industry, as well as responding to consumer demand, for the continued success of Chinese manufacturing. The article acknowledges the challenges faced by Chinese companies in the global market, including trade barriers and competition, and stresses the need for both competition and cooperation with foreign enterprises to expand China's manufacturing capabilities. It also alludes to the necessity of high-level opening-up to inject new impetus into world development. The article does not mention the United States directly.
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Summary: The Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) has entered a new phase of higher-level opening-up with the official launch of full island closure on December 18, with a series of policies benefiting businesses and the public. The article highlights the positive impact of this closure on consumers, foreign workers, local businesses, and foreign enterprises. A Korean lawyer, Choi Pil-jae, cited smoother foreign exchanges and increased opportunities for foreign-related legal services as reasons for establishing a presence in Haikou. Dun & Bradstreet China's president Wu Guangyu said he saw broad opportunities in the Chinese market with data security and orderly flow in place, and highlighted the company's expansion of services in Hainan. The article does not directly discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) officially initiated island-wide customs closure on December 18th, marking a significant step in China's opening-up policy since its initial proposal in 2018. Xi Jinping has stated the Hainan FTP is an important gateway for China's opening to the outside world, and the project highlights China's commitment to multilateralism and promoting an open world economy. The FTP has implemented measures such as expanding the scope of "zero-tariff" goods and streamlining foreign investment processes. Hainan's advantageous location makes it a key node connecting Southeast Asia and a junction for domestic and international dual circulation, with substantial growth in foreign investment and trade.
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Summary: Several Chinese writers and artists reflected on their "2025" in a recent article. Ge Jianxiong, a professor at Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen), recounted academic achievements and international travel, including a trip to the U.S., and participation in a UNESCO event. Tao Yong, an ophthalmologist, discussed the challenges of treating a young patient and the limitations of medicine in addressing social issues. Feng Li, a playwright, discussed her work with China's Opera and Dance Drama Theater and her receipt of the "Little Prince" lifetime achievement award at the Serbia Subotica International Children's Theater Festival. Lin Junmin described how AI technology is impacting online literature and the creation of media such as short videos.
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th The 2026 New Year's Opera Gala was held at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院) on the evening of the 30th. Party and state leaders Xi Jinping (习近平), Li Qiang (李强), Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Wang Huning (王沪宁), Cai Qi (蔡奇), Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), Li Xi (李希), Han Zheng (韩正), and others, watched the performance together with people from all walks of life in the capital, joyfully welcoming the New Year.
The National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院) in the night was resplendent with lights, and the theater was filled with warmth. At about 19:45, Xi Jinping (习近平) and other Party and state leaders arrived at the gala venue, and the audience burst into warm applause.
Elegant music celebrated the New Year, and opera melodies praised the glorious years. The cheerful and passionate instrumental performance "Pihuang Welcomes the New Year" opened the gala. The "Peking Opera New Stars Joint Recital" was smooth and flowing, and the children's program "Spring Oriole Leaving the Valley" was meticulous, demonstrating the gratifying scene of the flourishing and orderly inheritance of opera art. The Kunqu Opera excerpt "Jiangzhou Sending Wine" reproduced the charm and elegance of the ancient opera genre. The situational performance "Opera Performed to the Doorstep" and the Chuju Opera excerpt "The Biography of Tian Gengniu" each had their own characteristics, showcasing the good ecology and unique charm of local opera development. In the "Peking Opera Classic Excerpts," "The Empty City Stratagem," "Xi Shi," and "The Battle of Red Cliffs" were all well-known and demonstrated the profound charm of the national quintessence art. The modern Peking Opera excerpt "The Red Lantern" vividly portrayed the image of heroic Chinese sons and daughters resisting Japan. The martial arts opera excerpt "Yandang Mountain" demonstrated the robust and heroic spirit of Peking Opera martial arts with solid and excellent skills. The majestic opera song "National Quintessence Rhyme" brought the atmosphere of the gala to a climax, singing the common aspiration of the vast number of literary and art workers to adhere to Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on culture as a guide, and strive to make greater contributions to the prosperity of the literary and art cause and the construction of a strong cultural country. The artists' wonderful performances won bursts of cheers and warm applause from the audience.
The entire gala showcased the talent of the old, middle-aged, young, and children, with classic repertoires and newly created masterpieces complementing each other, and different opera genres 百花齐放 (bǎi huā qí fàng - "let a hundred flowers bloom," a metaphor for encouraging diverse development), presenting the vigorous vitality of the prosperous development of opera art, and singing the triumphant song of continuing to struggle on the new journey.
Relevant leading comrades of the Party and the state, and responsible comrades of relevant departments watched the performance.
Return to TopThe year 2026 marks the beginning of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," making it crucial to do a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work. It is essential to adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as guidance, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, focus on the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, steadily promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and promote integrated urban-rural development. We must unremittingly focus on grain production, promote the integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, and enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, quality, and efficiency. We must improve the effectiveness of policies that strengthen, benefit, and enrich farmers, promote the maintenance of prices of grain and other important agricultural products at reasonable levels, and promote the steady increase of farmers' income. We must continue to consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, incorporate regular assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and firmly guard the bottom line against large-scale relapse into poverty. We must learn from and apply the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project, promote the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages in accordance with local conditions, and improve the level of rural governance and the construction of civilized rural customs.
Party committees and governments at all levels must adhere to prioritizing the resolution of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" issues, adhere to the five-level Party secretaries grasping rural revitalization, forge ahead with determination, do practical work, and strive to build agriculture into a modern major industry, make rural areas basically possess modern living conditions, and make farmers' lives more prosperous and beautiful.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th. The Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing from December 29th to 30th. The conference took Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as its guide, thoroughly implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, fully implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions and instructions on "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, implemented the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, analyzed the current situation and challenges facing "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, and deployed the 2026 "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work.
The Party Central Committee attached great importance to this conference. Before the meeting, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee put forward clear requirements for holding this meeting well and doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work.
Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, made important instructions on doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work. Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the year 2026 marks the beginning of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," making it crucial to do a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work. It is essential to adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as guidance, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, focus on the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, steadily promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and promote integrated urban-rural development. We must unremittingly focus on grain production, promote the integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, and enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, quality, and efficiency. We must improve the effectiveness of policies that strengthen, benefit, and enrich farmers, promote the maintenance of prices of grain and other important agricultural products at reasonable levels, and promote the steady increase of farmers' income. We must continue to consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, incorporate regular assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and firmly guard the bottom line against large-scale relapse into poverty. We must learn from and apply the experience of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project, promote the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages in accordance with local conditions, and improve the level of rural governance and the construction of civilized rural customs.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that Party committees and governments at all levels must adhere to prioritizing the resolution of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" issues, adhere to the five-level Party secretaries grasping rural revitalization, forge ahead with determination, do practical work, and strive to build agriculture into a modern major industry, make rural areas basically possess modern living conditions, and make farmers' lives more prosperous and beautiful.
The meeting conveyed and studied Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and discussed the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Focusing on the Modernization of Agriculture and Rural Areas and Steadily Promoting the Comprehensive Revitalization of the Countryside (Discussion Draft)." Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions are far-sighted, insightful, and profound, with strong ideological guidance and practical relevance, further pointing out the direction for doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, and must be deeply studied, understood, and resolutely implemented.
The meeting emphasized that the modernization of agriculture and rural areas is related to the overall situation and quality of Chinese-style modernization, and it is necessary to accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country. We must stabilize grain and oil production, intensify the implementation of a new round of action to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion jin, and promote the breeding and quality improvement of grain varieties. We must strengthen the construction of water conservancy infrastructure, strengthen meteorological monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, and enhance the ability of agriculture to prevent and reduce disasters. We must promote the quality and efficiency of the "vegetable basket" industry and enhance the ability to supply diversified food. We must strengthen the protection and quality improvement of cultivated land, strictly adhere to the red line of cultivated land, and promote the construction of high-standard farmland with high quality by zone and category. We must strengthen the tackling of key core technologies in agriculture and the efficient transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, and develop new quality productive forces in agriculture in accordance with local conditions. We must establish a normalized mechanism to prevent relapse into poverty in a coordinated manner, improve the regular assistance policy system, continue to support the development of underdeveloped areas, and continue to consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation. We must do everything possible to promote the steady increase of farmers' income and improve the income guarantee mechanism for grain farmers. We must coordinate and do a good job in providing service guarantees for migrant workers and supporting returning home for employment and entrepreneurship, and promote the stable employment of migrant workers. We must cultivate and strengthen county-level industries that enrich the people, expand the channels and methods for farmers to participate in industrial development, and improve the mechanism for linking farmers and benefiting farmers. We must improve the implementation mechanism of rural construction in accordance with local conditions, coordinate and optimize the spatial layout of rural land, accelerate the completion of shortcomings in modern rural living conditions, and create high-quality rural living spaces. We must continue to rectify and improve the rural living environment and solve problems such as rural toilet renovation and garbage surrounding villages with a **钉钉子精神** (dīng dīng zi jīng shén - "nailing spirit," perseverance and determination to solve problems thoroughly). We must do a good job in the re-election of rural grassroots organizations and improve the effectiveness of Party building in leading rural governance. We must deeply implement the construction project of civilized rural customs and continue to promote the transformation of customs and habits in rural areas. We must adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, resolve various contradictions and disputes in a timely manner, and maintain rural stability and tranquility. We must further deepen rural reforms, comprehensively carry out the pilot project of extending the second round of land contracts for another 30 years in the entire province, standardize and orderly do a good job in revitalizing and utilizing various rural resources, innovate the investment and financing mechanism for rural revitalization, and continuously add impetus and vitality to rural development.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the Party's overall leadership over "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, improve the ability of Party and government cadres at all levels to grasp "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, strengthen the implementation of the rural revitalization responsibility system, and solidly promote the implementation of various tasks. We must establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, consciously act in accordance with the laws, fully stimulate the vitality of doing business and starting a business, and promote new progress in the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and a new level in the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆), State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council, presided over the first plenary meeting.
Members of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, responsible comrades from provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities under separate state planning, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central and State organs, relevant people's organizations, relevant financial institutions and enterprises, and relevant departments of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th. President Xi Jinping (习近平) will deliver the 2026 New Year's address at 7:00 PM on the 31st through China Media Group and the internet. The comprehensive channel, news channel, Chinese international channel, and 4K channel of China Central Television (中央电视台) under China Media Group (中央广播电视总台), the foreign language channels of China Global Television Network (中国国际电视台), China National Radio (中央人民广播电台), China Radio International (中国国际广播电台), as well as the websites and new media platforms of major central news media such as People's Daily Online (人民网), Xinhua Net (新华网), and CCTV News client (央视新闻客户端) will broadcast on time.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 汪晓东 吴秋余 韩 鑫
In 2025, we will fully complete the '14th Five-Year Plan'." "We have always grown in the baptism of wind and rain and grown stronger through trials. Everyone should be full of confidence."
As we bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new, reviewing President Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest message in his New Year's message for 2025 allows us to better appreciate the profound philosophy and powerful strength it contains.
This year, China's economy has advanced against pressure, developing towards new and better directions. The construction of a modern industrial system has continued to advance, reform and opening up have taken new steps, positive progress has been made in resolving risks in key areas, and people's livelihoods have been more effectively guaranteed.
In these five years, we have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to come to a successful conclusion, and a good start has been made in the new journey towards the second centenary goal.
Looking at five years from one year, it is extremely unusual and extraordinary, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps;
Looking at the new era from five years, we are striving forward with courage and determination, and the cause of the Party and the country has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes.
In the new era and on the new journey, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable. "Time and momentum are on our side. This is where our determination and confidence lie, and it is also where our determination and confidence lie."
Five years of grasping the laws and deepening understanding—
Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern
As the end of the year approaches, ports across China are still operating busily, day and night, and the flowing China is full of vitality.
At about 9:00 a.m. on December 2, in Zhejiang (浙江), the 40 millionth TEU in 2025 was successfully hoisted at Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港). From exceeding "30 million" for the first time in the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" to exceeding "40 million" for the first time in the year of its conclusion, the growth of this world's largest port in terms of cargo throughput reflects the secret to China's high-quality development.
Intelligence has become the key to enhancing the competitiveness of ports. On February 14 this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) successfully deployed the DeepSeek (深度求索) large model locally in the intelligent gate system, realizing the world's first landing application of DeepSeek in intelligent gates.
Green has become the distinctive background color of port development. Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has joined hands with Hamburg Port (汉堡港) and Wilhelmshaven Port (威廉港) in Germany, Valencia Port (瓦伦西亚港) in Spain, and HAROPA Port Alliance (法国HAROPA港口联盟) in France to jointly build a green shipping corridor, becoming one of the domestic hub ports with the largest number of green shipping corridors under construction, and promoting the global shipping industry to move towards low-carbonization.
Opening up injects strong impetus into connecting rivers and reaching the sea. At present, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has more than 300 stable routes, reaching more than 600 ports in more than 200 countries and regions. It integrates land-based logistics businesses internally, and the number of sea-rail intermodal transport lines has increased to 111, radiating 69 cities in 16 provinces in China. By promoting the "Zhejiang e-Port Pass" (浙江e港通) model, it realizes the front-end functions of customs, port and shipping affairs.
Behind the dynamic vitality of the major port is the vigorous vitality of the major country's economy.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, against the background of the anti-globalization cold wave and the impact of production and supply chains, China's total economic volume crossed the thresholds of 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan. It is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan in 2025, and its contribution to world economic growth will remain at about 30%, becoming a stable and reliable source of power.
China's economy is making steady progress and moving forward steadily and far-reachingly, demonstrating the power of truth and the power of practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The world is undergoing unprecedented profound changes unseen in a century. It is unprecedented to solve the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in the world's largest developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion. The tasks of reform, development and stability are heavy, the contradictions, risks and challenges are numerous, and the tests of governing the country are great.
"I feel that the current situation is very different. The environmental conditions for large-scale imports and exports have changed. We must put forward new ideas to guide development based on the new situation."
In the spring of 2020, more than five years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) for inspection. Gathering thoughts on the past, present and future, shortly after returning to Beijing (北京), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward the strategic choice of building a new development pattern.
In October 2020, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) planned the blueprint for the "14th Five-Year Plan" and made comprehensive arrangements for building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other.
Cultivating new opportunities in crises and opening up new prospects in changing situations is a profound understanding of the trends of the times and a grasp of the pulse of the times. It is also the courage to "smooth out the bumps and turn them into avenues, and set off again after fighting through hardships."
The more turbulent the situation, the more ideological guidance is needed; the more magnificent the journey, the more leadership and steering are needed.
"Entering a new stage of development clarifies the historical orientation of my country's development, implementing the new development concept clarifies the guiding principles of my country's modernization construction, and building a new development pattern clarifies the path choice for my country's economic modernization."
The new stage of development, the new development concept, and the new development pattern outline a clear coordinate system for China's economy in the new era, bring about changes in quality, efficiency, and power to China's economy, and reflect the strategic vision, overall strategic wisdom, and rock-solid strategic determination of the leader of China's economy.
"Comprehensively implementing the new development concept and accelerating the construction of a new economic pattern is the key for China to redefine itself in the world," foreign media commented.
Using theoretical innovation results to guide new development practices is a distinctive feature of China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must work hard in learning and research, strengthen the analysis of the situation, see the essence through the phenomena, and grasp the laws."
In the past five years, Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought has been continuously enriched and developed in practice, clearly pointing out new methods and paths for economic and social development from "how to look at it" to "how to do it", and injecting strong confidence and impetus into our successful response to various risks and challenges.
Forming the greatest consensus—the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job in economic work. At critical moments and important nodes, the Party Central Committee promptly analyzes the situation and makes decisions and deployments to ensure that China's economic ship can ride the wind and waves and move forward steadily and far-reachingly.
Revealing the laws of development—In the past five years, the "five fundamentals", "five musts be coordinated", and "five musts" and other regular understandings put forward by the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) have fully utilized the "two combinations" to open up a new realm of development.
Without demand, supply cannot be realized, and new demand can give rise to new supply; without supply, demand cannot be met, and new supply can create new demand. We must coordinate the relationship between total supply and total demand to smooth the national economic cycle.
People are the starting point and end point of development. We must adhere to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people, promote the coordinated accumulation of material capital and human capital, and achieve two-way empowerment and mutual promotion of investing in things and investing in people.
The more standardized government behavior is, the more effective the role of the market will be. We must coordinate the relationship between an effective market and a capable government to form an economic order that is both "flexible" and "well-managed."
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A series of regular understandings of economic work are based on the accurate grasp of the overall trend of domestic and international economic development and the summary of domestic and international development experience by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core. They are drawn and summarized from the practice of economic work, and constantly improve and develop our Party's ideological understanding and working methods in leading economic work, which is of great guiding significance for successfully steering China's economic ship.
We can calmly overcome stormy waves and move forward regardless of wind and rain. The new leap of China's economy during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period fully demonstrates that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core has the skilled ability to manage complex situations and the superb wisdom to lead China's development, providing a fundamental guarantee for the sustained and healthy development of China's economy and society.
Five years of being extremely unusual and extraordinary—
Firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development and develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions
An upward curve that "runs" out reflects the strong pulse of China's economy.
In the past five years, the average annual growth rate of China's production and sales of new energy vehicles has exceeded 75%, setting the highest increase in each five-year plan period.
In the first 11 months of this year, China's automobile production and sales both exceeded 31 million vehicles. The vigorous upward development momentum has driven more than 100 industrial chains to leap forward together. The gorgeous leap of the automobile industry from small to large and from weak to strong demonstrates the new atmosphere of China's high-quality economic development.
The most unusual thing seems ordinary, but success is easy but difficult.
Entering the "14th Five-Year Plan", China's economic ship encountered new rapids and shoals—
From an international perspective, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing rapidly, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments, the impact of the century-long epidemic is far-reaching, geopolitical conflicts are intensifying, the anti-globalization trend of thought is rising, and unilateralism and protectionism are obviously rising. The world has entered a new period of turbulence and change.
From a domestic perspective, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development is still prominent, the ability of scientific and technological innovation needs to be further improved, the pressure on ecological and environmental protection is still relatively high, and the task of promoting high-quality development is still arduous.
In key periods, the greatest advantage brings strong confidence and confidence to cope with risks and challenges.
In the face of the sudden century-long epidemic, we made scientific decisions in accordance with the times and the situation, gave full play to the institutional advantages of socialism in concentrating efforts to do big things, and effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development;
In the face of the constantly escalating external suppression and containment, we concentrated our efforts on doing our own things well, building a large country economy led by domestic demand, and insisted on putting the development of the country and the nation on the basis of our own strength;
In the face of some new situations and problems in economic operation, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局会议) held on September 26, 2024 made arrangements, which significantly improved confidence, improved expectations, and stimulated development momentum, becoming "a milestone move in macro-control";
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Make the greatest efforts to strive for the best results. In the past five years, the certainty of China's high-quality economic development has been continuously consolidated and enhanced, "optimistic about China" has become a consensus, and "long on China" has become increasingly popular.
"With a large economic volume, greater impetus is needed for forward development." Where to find new momentum? General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has far-sighted considerations, and new quality productive forces are an important place to focus on.
"High-quality development requires new productivity theory to guide it, and new quality productivity has already taken shape in practice and demonstrated a strong driving force and support for high-quality development" "We must firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development and develop new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions"... Diagnosing and orienting, innovatively proposing the theory of new quality productivity, and igniting a new engine for high-quality development.
"We must continue to do a good job in innovation and promote the accelerated development of new quality productivity" "We must lead industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and actively cultivate and develop new quality productivity" "We must adhere to taking the development of characteristic and advantageous industries as the main direction and develop emerging industries in accordance with local conditions"... Seeking truth and being pragmatic, putting forward a series of practical requirements, and clearly defining the development path of new quality productivity.
Following the direction guided by the General Secretary, all regions and departments are striving to climb, and China is full of ever-changing creations—
Major country weapons are constantly being updated. At sea, we have collected the "three pearls on the crown" of the shipbuilding industry, and "Haidou-1" (海斗一号) has completed a 10,000-meter sea trial; in the air, the "Tiangong" (天宫) space station has entered the stage of normalized operation, and the C919 large aircraft has achieved commercial flight; on land, the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant has been put into commercial operation, and the CR450 EMU technology leads the world... In the past five years, new steps have been taken in achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
The foundation of innovation is more solid. The production and sales of new energy vehicles rank first in the world, the scale of network infrastructure is the largest and most widely covered in the world, the stock of industrial robots in service ranks first in the world, and the installed capacity of photovoltaic and wind power ranks first in the world... In the past five years, "world's bests" have accelerated, highlighting the hard-core strength of innovation.
"Is new quality productivity equal to emerging industries?"
"The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries can also develop new quality productivity." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly, "We must adapt to local conditions and have our own characteristics."
He told Heilongjiang (黑龙江) to "base itself on the existing industrial base and solidly promote the high-quality development of advanced manufacturing", asked Guangdong (广东) to "build a modern industrial system with international competitiveness", and encouraged Tianjin (天津) to "give play to its advantages such as abundant scientific and educational resources and strive to be the first and be good at developing new quality productivity"... In each local inspection and each important meeting, the connotation of new quality productivity is clearer, and the pace of developing new quality productivity is more firm.
Automated rail cranes accurately lift and transfer goods, intelligent guided transport vehicles shuttle in an orderly manner, and the entire process is unmanned... Rizhao Port (日照港) in Shandong Province (山东) is a busy scene at the fully automated container terminal.
Rizhao Port (日照港) has been sailing and forging ahead in the tide of the times, and has quickly grown into the "youngest" 500 million-ton port. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the port's annual cargo throughput has crossed two 100 million-ton steps in a row and will reach 640 million tons.
"This shows that the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries can also develop new quality productivity. If we want to move from a big country to a strong country, we must pass this test and take the road of independent innovation." In May 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) first stop in Shandong (山东) was Rizhao Port (日照港) on the coast of the Yellow Sea (黄海).
"We must prevent a rush and bubble, and we must not engage in a single model." Coordinating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, the construction of a modern industrial system has achieved obvious results—
Traditional industries are "renewed". Since the "14th Five-Year Plan", more than 230 excellent intelligent factories and 1,260 5G factories have been built, and the comprehensive energy consumption of unit products such as steel and cement clinker has generally reached the world's advanced level.
Emerging industries are "leading". More than 60 national advanced manufacturing clusters in emerging industrial fields have been cultivated and formed, and a number of advantageous industries such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and lithium batteries have been cultivated and expanded. New formats and new models such as flexible customization, shared manufacturing, and intelligent logistics are accelerating.
Future industries are "taking root". Superconducting quantum computers and optical quantum computers have achieved quantum superiority verification, the overall level of laser manufacturing technology has entered the first echelon in the world, and humanoid robots have the entire industrial chain manufacturing capabilities from key chips, components to the entire machine.
"Adhering to starting from reality", all regions have promoted the rapid development of new industries, new models, and new momentum based on their resource endowments, industrial foundations, and scientific research strength.
Qinghai (青海) is focusing on building a highland of ecological civilization and building "four lands" for industry; Shanxi (山西) is focusing on promoting energy transformation and accelerating the transformation of energy production methods, consumption methods, and development momentum; Hunan (湖南) is continuing to build a national important advanced manufacturing highland and build a modern industrial system; Guangdong (广东) is focusing on building emerging pillar industries and implementing industrial innovation projects...
Opening the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposals of various regions, the development picture of adapting to local conditions and competing for a new situation is becoming clearer.
"To go with China is to go with opportunity, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future."
On December 18, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) officially launched the full island closure, becoming a landmark measure for China to unswervingly expand high-level opening up and promote the construction of an open world economy.
From carrying out pilot projects to expand opening up in fields such as value-added telecommunications and biotechnology in some regions, to supporting domestic and foreign-funded enterprises to participate in large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in activities on an equal footing; from the expansion of the "visa-free circle of friends" to "China Travel (中国游)" becoming a popular online term... In the past five years, China's door to opening up has been opening wider and wider, allowing the world to share development opportunities.
Thousands of rivers converge into the sea, and the wind is just right for setting sail.
China's economic ship is riding the wind and waves forward, continuing to be the main contributor and stabilizer of world economic growth, and building a more solid material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
The five years of continued struggle and unremitting efforts—
Adhering to delivering political achievements for the people and achieving them through hard work.
"The people are the creators of history, the most solid foundation and the deepest strength for advancing modernization."
A livelihood project reflects the people's stance.
At dawn, in Caoxi Third Village (漕溪三村), Xuhui District (徐汇区), Shanghai (上海), the sound of carrying chamber pots is gone, replaced by tranquility and peace.
New houses have sprung up on the old site. Gu Lanmei (顾兰妹), 68, who had lived in a cramped space for more than 40 years, moved into an elevator building.
Picking up the keys, taking the elevator, the first thing she did upon entering was to rush to see the toilet, "One button, whoosh flush. Goodbye forever to the ceramic spittoon!"
In September of this year, the task of renovating over 14,000 households still using chamber pots was completed ahead of schedule, and Shanghai (上海) bid farewell to carrying chamber pots altogether.
A blueprint is drawn to the end. Over 30 years, Shanghai (上海) has "eliminated" 1.64 million chamber pots, historically winning the "tough battle" involving millions of residents.
Putting in enough "embroidery skills" and cleverly solving "key small matters," this project of "achieving broadness and exhausting subtlety" condenses the people's sentiments of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
When working in Shanghai (上海), he proposed that "the renovation of old districts must be insisted on, and the people cannot be allowed to live in such dilapidated houses anymore"; after working in the central government, he emphasized that "the Yangtze River Delta region has early urban development and many old urban areas, and the renovation task is very heavy. This matter involves the vital interests of the masses and the long-term development of the city, and we must find ways to solve it no matter how difficult it is"... General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) always keeps in mind the warmth of one more square meter for the people.
"What the people worry about, I must think about; what the people expect, I must do." In the General Secretary's heart, the word "people" weighs a thousand pounds.
In Nangou Village (南沟村), Yan'an (延安), Shaanxi (陕西), he learned about the apple harvest from the fruit farmers picking on the spot and encouraged them to "continue to work hard and move forward"; in Changan Community (长安小区), Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), he visited residents' homes and pointed out that "we should better care for the 'old and the young'"; in Xining National Middle School (西宁民族中学), Guoluo (果洛), Qinghai (青海), he inspected students' dining and accommodation conditions and urged them to "ensure students' food safety and nutrition"...
Thinking about what the people think and doing what the people entrust. The concerns about people's livelihood that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) keeps in mind are written into the five-year development plan and transformed into a series of efforts to grasp reform and promote development.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" outlines seven livelihood indicators, accounting for more than 1/3 of the 20 major indicators, the highest proportion in previous five-year plans. Over the past five years, fiscal investment in the field of people's livelihood has been nearly 10 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 70% of the national general public budget expenditure.
Continuing to implement policies such as phased reductions in unemployment and work-related injury insurance rates, carrying out work such as creating high-quality and balanced compulsory education in counties, innovating and introducing childcare subsidy systems, steadily promoting the construction of affordable housing, and comprehensively promoting the construction of close-knit county medical communities... A series of tangible and accessible livelihood policies are constantly turning the people's yearning for a better life into reality—
The annual increase in urban employment has been stable at more than 12 million people, the gross enrollment rate of preschool education has reached 92%, long-term care insurance covers 190 million people, and more than 6,200 "15-minute convenient living circles" make life more convenient for 129 million residents. Every practical matter concerning people's livelihood supports the "steady happiness" of more than 1.4 billion people.
"Chinese-style modernization puts people's livelihood first." "Adhere to delivering political achievements for the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) words are concise and profound.
Relying closely on the people and doing everything for the people. Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," common prosperity for all the people will take new steps, and building a strong socialist modern country in all respects will write a new chapter.
Guangdong (广东), the forefront of reform and opening up. Looking at northern Guangdong (粤北), Nanfu Village (南福村), Meixian District (梅县区), Meizhou (梅州), fruit farmers are busy packing golden pomelos, and this year is another bumper harvest; observing western Guangdong (粤西), the Maoming (茂名) pilot section of the Guangdong Coastal Tourism Highway (广东滨海旅游公路) connects scenery, and tourists flock to check in; inspecting eastern Guangdong (粤东), Chaozhou (潮州) Sanhuan (三环) "turns porcelain into gold" (点瓷成金), and the sales of many new material products rank among the top in the world; exploring the Pearl River Delta (珠三角), the "Seven Swordsmen" of robots are strongly rising, and one out of every three industrial robots in the country is made in Guangdong (广东).
Suitable for agriculture, then agriculture; suitable for industry, then industry; suitable for commerce, then commerce. Here, the Pearl River Delta (珠三角) "takes the lead"; there, 12 cities in eastern, western, and northern Guangdong (粤东西北) are striving to catch up. On a map of less than 180,000 square kilometers, vitality is surging.
"Guangdong (广东) must compare itself with itself." Faced with a growth rate lower than the national average, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) hit the nail on the head when he inspected Guangdong (广东) in November this year.
These short seven characters dispel the fog of "growth anxiety" and express the orientation of being realistic and pioneering, and being good at doing things.
"All plans must be based on facts and seek realistic and uninflated growth." A month later, at the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly pointed out that "political achievements should be achieved through hard work," and the view of political achievements "is reflected not only in immediate and effective achievements, but also in potential achievements that lay the foundation, increase momentum, and benefit the long term."
In the dialectic of the obvious and the potential, there is a strategic clarity of "adhering to starting from reality in everything."
Communists are materialists, and pragmatism is an essential quality. We must be realistic, seek truth from facts, and work hard.
"If you see it accurately, seize it and do it quickly, and do as much as you can."
"All work should be done as early as possible, seize it and implement it, and ensure sufficient strength."
"Implementation needs to be combined with reality and adapted to local conditions."
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Every year, the Central Economic Work Conference releases an important signal: "Chinese-style modernization is achieved through hard work."
Upholding reality and being earnest. Adhering to innovation-driven development, research and development investment has increased year after year, and "major country weapons" are emerging in competition; adhering to green development, illegal fishing has been effectively curbed, and the "ten-year fishing ban" in the Yangtze River (长江) is being firmly promoted; firmly adhering to reform and opening up, the negative list for foreign investment access is constantly shrinking, and "investing in China" continues to be strong... Looking back on the "14th Five-Year Plan," various undertakings have been unremitting and have made pioneering progress, and the momentum for high-quality development has accumulated and the momentum is strong.
Seeking reality and being pragmatic. Based on ice and snow resources, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) has proposed to strengthen the ice and snow economy into a trillion-level industrial cluster; relying on talent endowments, Sichuan (四川) is orderly promoting the development and deployment of artificial intelligence large models; carrying the mission of opening up, Hainan (海南) is fully implementing the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港建设总体方案)"... Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," all regions are finding their positioning, being realistic, and planning development paths and grasping the initiative for development in accordance with local conditions.
The blueprint for the "15th Five-Year Plan" has been laid out. With the established goals as a strategic guide, unswervingly doing our own things well, and unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, the Chinese economic ship will surely cross rapids and shoals, ride the wind and waves, and move steadily and far.
"The journey is long, and only struggle can lead to success." The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, unite as one, forge ahead, and strive to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development next year, and ensure that the "15th Five-Year Plan" starts well and takes a good step.
"We have created a glorious past through hard work, and we must also rely on hard work to create a better future."
Return to TopChinese-style modernization cannot be achieved without the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued important instructions, scientifically grasping the strategic position of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" ("三农") in the overall development of the Party and the country, putting forward clear requirements and making important deployments for doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work next year, providing scientific guidance for us to anchor agricultural and rural modernization and steadily promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside on the new journey.
The Central Rural Work Conference held in Beijing (北京) from December 29th to 30th deeply analyzed the situation and challenges currently facing "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work, and comprehensively deployed the "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work for 2026, which is of great significance for us to accelerate the efforts to address the prominent shortcomings in the agricultural and rural areas and accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country.
Attaching importance to agriculture is fundamental, and it is the foundation of the country. The year 2025 was very extraordinary. Under the complex situation of increased external pressure and many internal difficulties, the whole country acted as one, with everyone united, overcoming the adverse effects of relatively severe natural disasters and other unfavorable factors. Grain production increased again throughout the year, the results of poverty alleviation were continuously consolidated and expanded, farmers' income continued to increase, and rural society was harmonious and stable. The "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" answer sheet has achieved remarkable results, providing strong support for promoting high-quality economic and social development and achieving a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan." The past five years have been extremely unusual. The reason why we have been able to overcome difficulties and risks, and promote new and major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and achieve a good start to the new journey towards the second centenary goal, is that an important aspect lies in adhering to stabilizing the basic agricultural plate and guarding the foundation of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" as the "ballast stone" for coping with various shocks and challenges, and winning the overall initiative with the improvement of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers".
The year 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, making top-level design and strategic planning for China's economic and social development in the next five years, and making special deployments for accelerating agricultural and rural modernization. Agricultural and rural modernization is related to the overall situation and quality of Chinese-style modernization. We must adhere to solving the problems of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" as the top priority of the work of the whole Party, earnestly implement the spirit of the Central Rural Work Conference, combine with reality, and take measures to implement the deployment of various tasks in accordance with local conditions, adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, and steadily move towards the goal of building a strong agricultural country.
Food security is a "major issue for the country" (国之大者). In recent years, China's grain has had bumper harvests year after year, and food security is generally guaranteed, but in the long run, demand will continue to grow. No matter how high the degree of social modernization is, the stable supply of food and important agricultural products for more than 1.4 billion people is always the top priority. The more turbulent the external environment is, the more we must tighten the string of food security and unremittingly grasp grain production. The first priority in the deployment of next year's "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work at this Central Rural Work Conference is to improve the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality benefits. We must adhere to grasping output capacity, production ecology, increased production and increased income together, adhere to storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, comprehensively consolidate the foundation of food security, and firmly grasp the initiative in food security.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years after the transition period of consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation and effectively linking them with rural revitalization, and next year is the first year of carrying out normalized assistance. Winning the battle against poverty has created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction and has taken a solid step on the road of promoting common prosperity for all people, which has far-reaching historical and world significance. Party committees and governments at all levels must take the continuous consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements as a major political task, incorporate normalized assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, improve the normalized assistance policy system, maintain the overall stability of policies in terms of financial investment, financial support, and resource allocation, take development-oriented assistance as the top priority, improve the accuracy and effectiveness of monitoring and assistance, and ensure that no large-scale return to poverty occurs.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with integrated urban-rural development" and "strengthening the organic combination of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization" demonstrates the methodology of adhering to the concept of systems and overall planning. Promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside is the overall grasp of the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" in the new era and on the new journey, and it is necessary to stimulate the vitality of rural resource elements. We must base ourselves on the overall situation of promoting urban-rural integration and regional linkage, coordinate the promotion of urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers and comprehensive rural revitalization, develop county economies with distinctive characteristics in accordance with local conditions, improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit agriculture, and enrich farmers, promote the integrated development of industry revitalization, county strengthening, and people's prosperity, promote the construction of livable, work-friendly, and beautiful villages, and continuously improve the level of rural industrial development, rural construction, and rural governance.
Achieving agricultural and rural modernization is a systematic project and a strategic task, which requires both long-term efforts and seizing the day. We must unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee (党中央), anchor the goals, respect the laws, exert our energy, and forge ahead, and strive to build agriculture into a modern large industry, make rural areas basically have modern living conditions, and make farmers' lives more prosperous and beautiful.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th. Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) recently signed a State Council decree, announcing the "Implementation Regulations of the Value-Added Tax Law of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will come into effect on January 1, 2026. The "Regulations" aim to implement the "Value-Added Tax Law of the People's Republic of China" and consist of 6 chapters and 54 articles, mainly stipulating the following content:
First, detailing taxpayers and the scope of taxation. Detailing the scope of taxable transactions of goods, services, intangible assets, and real estate stipulated in the Value-Added Tax Law; further clarifying the standards for units and individuals, general taxpayers and small-scale taxpayers among taxpayers, as well as the specific circumstances of consumption of services and intangible assets within the territory.
Second, clarifying the application of tax rates. Further clarifying the scope of exported goods subject to zero tax rate, as well as the specific circumstances of cross-border sales of services and intangible assets subject to zero tax rate; clarifying the principle of applying tax rates and collection rates when a taxable transaction involves more than two tax rates or collection rates.
Third, determining the calculation method of taxable amounts in different situations. Making provisions for the specific types of value-added tax deduction vouchers and the specific methods for deducting input tax; detailing the methods for tax authorities to verify taxpayers' sales amounts, and clarifying the rules for deducting input tax under special circumstances.
Fourth, improving tax incentives. Clarifying the specific standards for various value-added tax exemption items in the Value-Added Tax Law, and stipulating that the scope, standards, and conditions of application of value-added tax preferential policies should be disclosed to the public in accordance with the law in a timely manner. At the same time, the regulations require the financial and tax authorities of the State Council (国务院) to evaluate the implementation effect of value-added tax preferential policies in a timely manner and promptly report to the State Council (国务院) for adjustment and improvement.
Fifth, improving collection and management measures. Further clarifying the registration matters for general taxpayers, the requirements for issuing special value-added tax invoices, the time of occurrence of tax obligations, the applicable circumstances for consolidated declaration and tax payment and advance tax payment, and making provisions for export tax refund (exemption) rules, tax-related information sharing, etc.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金正波 程 龙
The landscape adds to its beauty, and starlight reflects on every home. On the occasion of the New Year, listening to the New Year's message of President Xi Jinping (习近平) has become a common expectation of the Chinese people.
2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Standing at an important juncture, looking back at the past five years and revisiting the five New Year's messages, many unforgettable Chinese voices, Chinese moments, and Chinese stories shine in each coordinate of time and space.
From the northern frontier to the southern regions, from history to the present, from China to the world, the lines of longitude and latitude of time and space outline the magnificent trajectory of China moving from building a moderately prosperous society in all respects to building a modern socialist country in all respects.
These coordinates are not only geographical nouns but also historical annotations, recording the implementation of national strategies and the thriving of people's lives, vividly demonstrating the myriad aspects of Chinese-style modernization.
Sensing the Temperature of People's Livelihood
Family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs—making people live a happy life is the top priority.
"Our goal is both grand and simple, and ultimately it is to allow the people to live a better life." "Of all the complex matters, what it boils down to is the affairs of every household." The New Year's message embodies the original aspiration of "people's livelihood as the greatest concern."
A happy life reflects the historical leap from the complete victory in poverty alleviation to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
An apple reflects a vibrant life.
In winter, at the Nanshan Huaniu Apple Base in Maiji District (麦积区), Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肃), fruit farmers are meticulously managing the fruit trees, laying a good foundation for a bumper harvest next year.
Installing soil monitoring systems to save costs and improve quality; building a full traceability system to enhance brand credibility; intelligent sorting to ensure apple quality and enhance the "appearance" of apples... From the branches to the taste buds, a complete industrial chain has been formed.
The "big and red" Huaniu apples are releasing tremendous energy, widening the path to comprehensive rural revitalization.
Thousands of miles away, in the southeastern coastal area, in Aojiao Village (澳角村), Chencheng Town (陈城镇), Dongshan County (东山县), Zhangzhou (漳州), Fujian (福建), fishing boats return home in the evening glow, their holds full of fish.
In 2001, Xi Jinping (习近平) visited here while working in Fujian (福建). Twenty-three years later, on October 15, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited Aojiao Village (澳角村) again, saw the tremendous changes in the village, and encouraged everyone to "make good use of the 'sea' resources."
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest instructions, Aojiao Village (澳角村) insists on revitalizing the village through the sea and strengthening the village through the sea. In the live broadcast room, anchors take turns; in the breeding ponds, there are abundant types of seafood. Focusing on "a fish, a sea, a street," Aojiao Village (澳角村) strengthens modern fisheries, refines coastal tourism, and develops fishermen's homestays, allowing tourists to immerse themselves in the fun of sea fishing. The once backward fishing village has become a well-known tourist attraction.
Each distinctive industry contains the secret to wealth for the masses, broadening the path to development and revitalization. The development path of Aojiao Village (澳角村) is a vivid microcosm of the transformation and upgrading of thousands of villages across China.
A happy life is also contained in the daily lives of thousands of households.
"We must work together to continuously improve the level of social construction and governance, continue to create a harmonious and inclusive atmosphere, solve the major and minor issues around the people, and make everyone smile more and feel warmer." The New Year's message contains the deep affection of "people first."
"Residents of multi-ethnic communities in Yinchuan (银川) are as close as family." A Han (汉) brother puts out braised sea bass, a Hui (回) aunt brings hand-grabbed mutton, and a Manchu (满) sister makes spicy chicken... The "Thousand Family Banquet" in Changcheng Garden Community (长城花园社区), Jinfeng District (金凤区), Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia (宁夏), is filled with fragrance. The masses are "as close as family" precisely because the "work is done at home." Yinchuan (银川) has interspersed and resettled 274,000 immigrants, guiding people of all ethnic groups to live in an embedded manner. Singing the same song and eating at the same table, the flower of ethnic unity blooms.
"The Six-Foot Lane's tradition of courtesy is passed down from generation to generation." A small alley about 100 meters long and only two meters wide witnessed a story of mutual concession and valuing harmony more than 300 years ago. Today, Six-Foot Lane (六尺巷) is well-known. From the "Six-Foot Lane Work Method" of community governance in Tongcheng City (桐城市), Anhui (安徽), to the Supreme People's Court's work report proposing the promotion of the "Six-Foot Lane" mediation method, this small alley has become a classic model of traditional culture empowering modern governance.
From industrial revitalization driving farmers' income growth to moving towards the sea to achieve fishing village transformation; from multi-ethnic communities promoting unity and progress to traditional culture endowing grassroots governance with new connotations... Simple wishes and colorful lives paint a vibrant and bustling China.
Marking the Height of Development
The New Year's message records the annual rings of struggle and also engraves the footprints of development.
From the rapidly growing Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) standing at the forefront; from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) braving the waves to the Antarctic Qinling Station (南极秦岭站) rising from the ice and snow... These coordinates in the New Year's message, connected into lines, outline the curve of Chinese-style modernization climbing upwards, measuring the constantly surpassing height of development.
Height is built on the vast land where national strategies are implemented.
"In just six years, Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has grown from nothing, from blueprint to reality, and a high-level modern city is rising from the ground, which can be called a miracle." In May 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) set foot on this hot land for the third time in six years. This future city, bearing the millennium plan, is growing rapidly. "Global vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics, and high-point positioning" – this is not only a modern new city but also a new path to the future, imprinted with the essential characteristics of Chinese-style modernization.
Looking south, the coast of the South China Sea is surging with the spring tide of reform. In June 2024, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) was completed and opened to traffic. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly in his congratulatory letter: "Chinese-style modernization is achieved through hard work, and great undertakings are accomplished through practical efforts!" This super project not only physically connects the two sides of the Pearl River Estuary but also marks the daring spirit of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) standing at the forefront.
From the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast writing a new chapter to the vibrant pulse of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and then to the vigorous development of the Hainan Free Trade Port... Each regional growth pole coordinates and links together, accumulating strength and forming a strategic high ground for the high-quality development of China's economy.
Height is also refreshed on the journey to advance science and technology.
In the vast space, the footprints of the Chinese people continue to extend. From "Tianwen-1" (天问一号) and "Chang'e-5" (嫦娥五号) in the 2021 New Year's message to "the complete construction of the Chinese space station, our 'space home' is traveling in the sky" in the 2023 New Year's message, and then to "Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) sampling the far side of the moon for the first time" in the 2025 New Year's message... This series of space coordinates records the extraordinary leap of the Chinese nation from looking up at the stars to setting foot on the stars, demonstrating the lofty aspirations of the Chinese people to chase their dreams in the stars.
Climbing to higher places and also seeking deeper places. In the ten-thousand-meter deep blue, the "Fendouzhe" (奋斗者) manned submersible dives to the extreme depth; in the vast ocean, the "Mengxiang" (梦想) ocean drilling ship explores the deep sea... These coordinates in the New Year's message mark the new height of China's scientific and technological self-reliance.
"China strives to climb with the spirit of self-improvement, and there are new creations everywhere." This vivid footnote to the New Year's message is written in every specific breakthrough: from the annual production of new energy vehicles exceeding 10 million for the first time to new achievements in integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, quantum communication, and other fields; from the full operation of the Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站) to the commercial flight of the C919 large aircraft... These major national instruments and technological breakthroughs are not only exciting and beautiful business cards but also peaks that China is climbing on the road to scientific and technological self-reliance.
Highlighting the Depth of Civilization
The coordinates in the New Year's message not only point to economic growth poles but also frequently fall in glorious history and beautiful rivers and mountains.
"The Chinese nation is so great, its history is so long, and its civilization is so profound." In these five years, the New Year's message connects history and the present, measuring the heavy cultural confidence in the longitudinal depth of more than five thousand years.
In the 2025 New Year's message, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said with deep feeling: "The word 'China' is engraved on the bottom of the 'He Zun' (何尊), and it is also engraved in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter." This deep review spanning ancient and modern times gives the spatial and temporal coordinates of modern China a civilizational depth of field that transcends thousands of years.
The National Archives of Publications and Culture (国家版本馆) Central Pavilion stands majestically on the northern extension of the central axis of Beijing (北京) and at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains (燕山). This is the national resource bank of versions and the seed gene bank of Chinese culture. From more than 300 versions of precious documents such as "The Communist Manifesto" to vast ancient books, this coordinate guards the roots and soul of the nation, just as General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said: "The original intention of building the archives is to collect, that is, in this historical stage, to collect and protect all the classics and materials that can be collected since ancient times, and to continue to pass on the only uninterrupted civilization in the world."
From the dawn of civilization in Liangzhu (良渚) and Erlitou (二里头) to the textual inheritance of oracle bone inscriptions in Yin Ruins (殷墟), and then to the cultural treasures of Sanxingdui (三星堆)... These coordinates in the New Year's message string together a brilliant pearl chain of Chinese civilization that has never been interrupted.
The Maijishan Grottoes (麦积山石窟), the "Oriental Smile" spans thousands of years; Tianjin Ancient Culture Street (天津古文化街), the clay figurine Zhang (泥人张), Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings (杨柳青木版年画) and other national intangible cultural heritages are revitalized in the bustling crowds... The ancient civilization has not slept in the museum. They silently tell us: Our confidence comes from the deepest accumulation in this land.
"People will not let down the green mountains, and the green mountains will surely not let down the people." Another set of coordinates in the New Year's message is equally dazzling, marking the ecological background of Chinese-style modernization.
This is the safety of major rivers. Reading the New Year's message carefully, the surging sound of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河) always echoes between the lines. It not only contains the earnest concern that "the safety of the Yellow River (黄河) is the millennium expectation of the Chinese sons and daughters" but also the solid footprints of "traveling all over the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yellow River (黄河) in 9 provinces and regions," as well as the strong voice of the times of "the vibrant pulse of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带)." From the "millennium expectation" of watching to the "vibrant pulse" of rushing, one north and one south, the two giant dragons jointly unfold a magnificent ecological picture of Chinese-style modernization.
This is the miracle of the plateau forest and sea. The New Year's message takes us to look at the rippling Qinghai Lake (青海湖) and overlook the winding Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江)... In Hebei (河北), the builders of the Saihanba Forest Farm (塞罕坝林场) have turned the former wilderness into a million acres of artificial forest and sea, embedding a moving "green emerald" on the map. These coordinates are an epic written by the Chinese people for global ecological governance.
This is the harmony of all things coexisting. We will not forget the two vivid pictures in the New Year's message: "Yunnan elephants going north and returning south" and "Tibetan antelopes breeding and migrating." From the leisurely stroll in the tropical rainforest to the life rushing on the snowy plateau, the free migration of this group of creatures is no longer a disturbed panic but a landscape being cared for. They use their footsteps to feel the temperature of the ecological red line, becoming the warmest footnote to a beautiful China.
From the "Zhai Zi China (宅兹中国)" in the inscription of "He Zun (何尊)" to the "Beautiful China" painted by Saihanba Forest and Sea (塞罕坝林海), this group of coordinates highlights the depth of civilization. They vividly demonstrate the distinct characteristics of Chinese-style modernization: it is not only the modernization of continuing ancient civilization but also the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Demonstrating the Open Attitude
From the historical depth to the vastness of the world, the coordinates in the New Year's message cross mountains and seas, outlining an open China embracing the world.
"China not only develops itself but also actively embraces the world," whether it is Beijing's (北京) "Dual Olympic City," Xi'an's (西安) "Silk Road Covenant," or the first China-Central Asia Summit and the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum... These coordinates have both the confidence of hosting guests and the responsibility of managing all directions. They jointly interpret China's open attitude of running towards the world in both directions.
The New Year's message records the grand occasion of China treating guests from all directions as the host. Each coordinate of the home diplomacy is a window to show the world Chinese-style modernization.
Here is the moment of unity in the Global South. In Beijing (北京), the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was grandly held. New and old friends gathered to discuss the grand plan of China-Africa friendly cooperation in the new era. The overall positioning of China-Africa relations has been upgraded to a new era of China-Africa community with a shared future, gathering the powerful strength of more than 2.8 billion Chinese and African people, and solemnly declaring to the world: "**一个都不能少** (yī gè dōu bù néng shǎo - "not one less," no one should be left behind on the road to modernization, emphasizing inclusive development)" and "**一国都不能掉队** (yī guó dōu bù néng diào duì - "no country should be left behind," no country should be left behind, emphasizing shared progress)."
Here is the civilizational echo of the millennium Silk Road. In Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), the holding of the first China-Central Asia Summit allowed the starting point of this ancient Silk Road to hear the camel bells spanning time and space again, witnessing a new chapter of China and Central Asian countries helping each other and developing together. In Beijing (北京), the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was full of distinguished guests, looking back at the "golden decade" of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and drawing a new blueprint for the high-quality development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road."
Here is the passionate bloom of youth and vitality. From the dazzling "Ice Ribbon" of the Beijing Winter Olympics to the amazing "Bashu Charm" of the Chengdu Universiade, and then to the heartwarming "Jiangnan Memories" of the Hangzhou Asian Games... These coordinates of sports events present a sunny, prosperous, and open image of China to the world, allowing the concept of "state-to-state relations lies in people-to-people affinity" to penetrate deeply into people's hearts.
The open attitude is also reflected in China's steps towards the world.
This is the grand pattern of major-country diplomacy. From the gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the expansion of the BRICS countries, from the regional cooperation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation to the solidarity of the G20... Whether in the ancient city of Central Asia or on the coast of Latin America, the voice of China is always loud. These multilateral diplomatic coordinates confirm China's responsibility and responsibility as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a maintainer of the international order.
This is the confident and high-spirited spirit. In 2024, the fighting figures of Chinese athletes in the Paris Olympic arena always touched the hearts of the motherland. When General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with the Chinese sports delegation to the 33rd Summer Olympics, he pointed out that "the outstanding achievements of the Chinese sports delegation are not only a concentrated reflection of the development and progress of China's sports undertakings but also an epitome of the achievements of Chinese-style modernization." From the "Chinese speed" in the swimming pool to the "Chinese power" on the weightlifting platform, these coordinates lit up in Paris show the "confident, optimistic, enthusiastic, and friendly sunshine temperament of the Chinese youth generation."
A just cause enjoys abundant support, and the whole world is one family. From the full house of distinguished guests in Beijing (北京) in autumn to the passionate competition in Paris in summer, from the starting point of the ancient Silk Road to the coast of Latin America, these coordinates weave a network of longitude and latitude that closely connects China and the world. Between this longitude and latitude, it shows the future of sharing a common destiny: China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China.
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Time engraves immortality, and struggle achieves eternity.
Rereading the five New Year's messages, each coordinate is a solid footprint of national development. The New Year's message witnesses struggle and also indicates the future.
In 2026, we are about to stand on the new starting line of the "15th Five-Year Plan," with a more magnificent journey of thousands of miles under our feet. With dreams as the banner and hard work as the ladder, let every ordinary step of ours resonate powerfully on the great journey of building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation!
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 30th (Reporter Zhao Bing (赵兵)) The Eleventh National Congress of the Chinese Taoist Association was held in Beijing (北京) from the 29th to the 30th. Wang Huning (王沪宁), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met with members of the leadership of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会) and took a group photo with the delegates. He stated that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, deeply understand Xi Jinping (习近平) 's important expositions on religious work, fully implement the Party's basic policy on religious work, guide people in the Taoist community and religious believers to firmly listen to the Party and follow the Party, and contribute to the realization of the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and the promotion of Chinese-style modernization.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) congratulated the convening of the Eleventh National Congress of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会), affirmed the work done since the Tenth National Congress of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会), and put forward expectations for the next step of work. He stated that the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会) must adhere to the correct political direction, grasp the era's requirements for unity and struggle, guide people in the Taoist community and religious believers to establish correct views on the country, history, ethnicity, culture, and religion, and continuously enhance their recognition of the great motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese culture, the Communist Party of China, and socialism with Chinese characteristics, and forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. It is necessary to adhere to the direction of Sinicization of religion in our country, explore the positive, healthy, and upward content in Taoist doctrines, and make interpretations that conform to the requirements of contemporary Chinese development and progress, conform to the core socialist values, and Chinese outstanding traditional culture. It is necessary to implement comprehensive and strict governance of religion, strengthen publicity and education on the rule of law, and establish an image of the Taoist community that loves the country and religion, has correct beliefs and actions, abides by regulations and laws, and strictly observes precepts. It is necessary to cultivate "dual-proficient" talents who are proficient in classical doctrines and proficient in outstanding Chinese traditional culture, promote friendly exchanges between Taoism and foreign countries, and tell the story of Chinese religion well. It is necessary to strengthen self-construction and give full play to the role of religious organizations as a bridge and link.
Li Ganjie (李干杰), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting.
The Eleventh National Congress of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会) deliberated and approved the work report of the Tenth Council of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会), the newly revised Constitution of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会), and a series of religious rules and regulations, and elected a new leadership of the Chinese Taoist Association (中国道教协会).
Return to TopThe first batch of 62.5 billion yuan in ultra-long-term special treasury bonds for 2026 to support consumer goods trade-in funding plan has been allocated in advance.
Support scope in the livelihood sector increased to include elevator installation in old residential areas and equipment upgrades for elderly care institutions.
The digital product purchase subsidy is expanded to include digital and smart product purchase subsidies.
Further lowering the investment threshold for project applications and increasing support for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Beijing (北京), December 30th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) - The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) recently issued the "Notice on Implementing Large-Scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in Policies in 2026," clarifying the support scope, subsidy standards, and work requirements for the "Two New" policies in 2026. To ensure a smooth and orderly transition of policies and meet the peak consumption demand during New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), together with the Ministry of Finance (财政部), has allocated the first batch of 62.5 billion yuan in ultra-long-term special treasury bonds for 2026 to support consumer goods trade-in funding plan to local governments in advance.
According to reports, the "Two New" policies for 2026 have been optimized in three main aspects.
Optimizing the support scope. In terms of equipment renewal, the overall support scope is consistent with that of 2025, with the addition of elevator installation in old residential areas and equipment upgrades for elderly care institutions in the livelihood sector, fire rescue and inspection and testing equipment upgrades in the safety sector, and equipment upgrades for commercial complexes, shopping centers, department stores, large supermarkets, and other offline consumption commercial facilities in the consumer infrastructure sector. In terms of consumer goods trade-in, resources are further concentrated to focus on improving the "subsidy rate" of key consumer goods with a wide coverage and strong driving effect. Continue to implement subsidies for automobile scrapping and renewal and automobile replacement and renewal; continue to implement subsidies for home appliance trade-in, focusing on six types of products: refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, air conditioners, computers, and water heaters; at the same time, expand the digital product purchase subsidy to digital and smart product purchase subsidies, supporting mobile phones, tablets, smart watches (bracelets), smart glasses, and smart home products (including age-friendly home products).
Optimizing subsidy standards. In terms of equipment renewal, the fixed subsidy for the renewal of old residential elevators will be adjusted to a differentiated subsidy based on the number of elevator floors (stations); in the subsidy for the scrapping and renewal of old operating trucks, priority will be given to supporting the renewal to electric trucks. In terms of consumer goods trade-in, while maintaining the upper limit of automobile subsidies unchanged, the fixed subsidy will be adjusted to a subsidy based on the proportion of the car price; the home appliance trade-in will be adjusted to subsidize Grade 1 energy efficiency or water efficiency products, subsidizing 15% of the product's selling price, with a single subsidy capped at 1,500 yuan; the subsidy standard for digital and smart products will remain the same as the previous standard for digital products.
Optimizing the implementation mechanism. In terms of equipment renewal, optimize the project application mechanism and review process, further lower the investment threshold for project applications, increase support for small and medium-sized enterprises, and expand the coverage of policies. In terms of consumer goods trade-in, optimize the fund allocation method, improve the implementation details of the entire chain, and severely crack down on illegal and irregular behaviors such as fraudulent subsidies and "price increases before subsidies." At the same time, implement the requirements for the construction of a unified national market, and clarify the unified subsidy standards for automobile scrapping and renewal, automobile replacement and renewal, trade-in of six types of home appliances, and purchase of four types of digital and smart products nationwide.
The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) will work with relevant departments to give full play to the role of the inter-ministerial joint conference system for "Two New," strengthen overall coordination and tracking and scheduling, organize local governments to reasonably grasp the pace of work, use subsidy funds in a balanced and orderly manner, strengthen fund supervision throughout the entire chain, smoothly and orderly implement the consumer goods trade-in policy, and continue to release the effectiveness of the "Two New" policies.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 30th (Reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)). The Ministry of Finance (财政部) and the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) released the "Announcement on Value-Added Tax Policy for Individual Housing Sales" on December 30th. Starting from January 1, 2026, individuals (excluding general taxpayers among individual industrial and commercial households, the same below) who sell housing that has been purchased for less than 2 years shall pay value-added tax in full at a levy rate of 3%; individuals who sell housing that has been purchased for 2 years or more (including 2 years) shall be exempt from value-added tax.
Article 5, Paragraph 1 of Appendix 3, "Provisions on Transitional Policies for the Pilot Program of Replacing Business Tax with Value-Added Tax," of the "Notice of the Ministry of Finance (财政部) and the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) on Fully Promoting the Pilot Program of Replacing Business Tax with Value-Added Tax," stipulates that "individuals who sell housing that has been purchased for less than 2 years shall pay value-added tax in full at a levy rate of 5%; individuals who sell housing that has been purchased for 2 years or more (including 2 years) shall be exempt from value-added tax. The above policies apply to regions other than Beijing (北京市), Shanghai (上海市), Guangzhou (广州市), and Shenzhen (深圳市)." According to the announcement released by the two departments on the 30th, the above clauses will be simultaneously terminated from January 1, 2026.
The announcement clarifies that if the value-added tax involved in the sale of housing by individuals before January 1, 2026, has not been declared and paid, it can be implemented in accordance with this announcement if it complies with the provisions of this announcement.
Li Xuhong (李旭红), Vice President of the Beijing National Accounting Institute (北京国家会计学院), said that this adjustment of the value-added tax policy for individual housing sales is an important measure to stabilize the real estate market and reflects the continuity and optimization of the policy. Reducing the value-added tax levy rate for the sale of housing purchased for less than 2 years from 5% to 3% significantly reduces the tax burden on short-term transactions; including Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Guangzhou (广州), and Shenzhen (深圳) in the scope of value-added tax exemption for housing sales after 2 years helps to achieve universal national policy and reduce regional differences. From a macro perspective, this adjustment not only reduces the cost of housing transaction links, which can stimulate the liquidity of the existing housing market and promote the release of improved demand for "selling the old and buying the new," but also creates a fair market environment by unifying policy standards, helping the virtuous cycle of the primary and secondary housing markets. The policy takes into account both rigid and improved housing demand, which is conducive to stabilizing market expectations and injecting momentum into the healthy development of the real estate market.
Return to TopAccording to sources, the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) has introduced the "Action Plan on Further Strengthening the Management and Service System and Related Financial Infrastructure Construction of Digital Renminbi." According to the plan, a new generation of digital Renminbi measurement framework, management system, operating mechanism, and ecosystem will be launched on January 1, 2026. The digital Renminbi will move from the digital cash era to the digital deposit currency era.
Lu Lei (陆磊), Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), stated that according to institutional arrangements, the digital Renminbi in customers' commercial bank wallets is a commercial bank liability based on accounts, marking the digital Renminbi's transition from a cash-based 1.0 version to a deposit currency-based 2.0 version.
The plan clarifies that banking institutions will pay interest on the balance of customers' real-name digital Renminbi wallets, complying with the self-discipline agreement on deposit interest rate pricing. Banks can independently carry out asset-liability management of digital Renminbi wallet balances, and deposit insurance will provide the same security as deposits in accordance with the law. For non-bank payment institutions, the digital Renminbi margin is no different from the customer reserve funds of non-bank payment institutions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张云河
Before my eyes, the farmland stretches out in connected plots, and 41-year-old Li Rongguang (李荣广), a formerly impoverished villager from Yongren Village (永仁村) in Du'an Yao Autonomous County (都安瑶族自治县), Hechi (河池), Guangxi (广西), can't help but recall the old days.
"Nine parts stone, one part soil," "The land is barren and stony; scattering seeds is like splashing them on bare rock," is how the land in Yongren Village (永仁村) was described. Not only that, but the arable land was fragmented: "A patch the size of a ladle, a patch the size of a bowl, three patches can be covered by a straw hat"; the layout was chaotic: "A mess of haphazard construction and occupation, leading to a whole string of troubles."
Yet the livelihoods of the villagers depended on it. Before 2021, even the smallest plots of land had to be used to grow corn. The land was infertile, machines couldn't get in, and the harvest was far from ideal.
In early 2021, upon hearing about the comprehensive land consolidation project—combining small plots of arable land into larger ones, renovating the appearance of the villages, and comprehensively managing "fields, water, roads, forests, and villages"—Huang Renjian (黄任建), the first secretary stationed in Yongren Village (永仁村), was quite happy, but the villagers were hesitant.
"It's a good thing to level the land, but after it's leveled, will we get back our original plots?"
"The land will still belong to everyone after it's leveled. Because of the construction of canals and roads, the area may be a little smaller, but the quality will improve, and the yield will definitely increase."
"The village was just 'lifted out of poverty' in 2016. After the consolidation, if the topsoil is destroyed, will we still be able to grow anything? Where will we earn money?"
"The topsoil will be temporarily affected after the consolidation, but the government will set up a management and protection period to improve the quality of the land, and subsidies will be given to everyone during this period."
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Through the villagers' questions and Huang Renjian's (黄任建) answers, the policies gradually changed from "official jargon" to "everyday language."
Li Rongguang (李荣广) was moved, thinking of his own several plots of land, different in size and distance: "My land includes four-tenths of a mu in 'Niuping' (牛坪), three and a half tenths in 'Sijiaodi' (四角地), and another tenth along the 'Xiaobeibian' (小河边). Just carrying manure and fertilizer requires walking an extra three or four li, but the harvest is limited."
Taking the "combining small plots of arable land into larger ones" aspect alone, Li Rongguang (李荣广) carefully calculated: "My land is included in the consolidation, and I won't be able to plant for four years, but the government will give me subsidies every year; there are also 0.53 mu of mulberry trees in the land, and I can get 795 yuan in compensation for the young seedlings. A total of 5695 yuan, without any effort, and there's still income, which is quite a good deal."
Like Li Rongguang (李荣广), many villagers slowly came to understand. In March 2021, the comprehensive land consolidation began to be implemented one after another.
It was not easy to centrally transfer the management of the consolidated land.
The enterprises entering the village had doubts: The land transferred to them was the consolidated land, but what if the villagers changed their minds? Wouldn't the investment be wasted? The villagers were also worried: After the consolidation, the area of the land became smaller, so would their income be affected?
"Impoverished villages can't afford to be messed around with. We have to find a way to reassure the villagers about the transfer and allow the enterprises to develop with peace of mind," said Huang Renjian (黄任建). The local government formulated the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Land Consolidation in Yongren Village (永仁村)" to ensure that the content of the consolidation, the implementation steps, and the adjustment of land ownership were legal, compliant, and traceable, leaving room for industrial introduction.
The villagers' meeting and the village-level council solicited villagers' opinions, and everyone shared the land occupied by roads, ditches, and canals in proportion. "The village also established a labor service company and an economic cooperation association to cooperate with enterprises and enhance the villagers' bargaining power," said Huang Renjian (黄任建).
From onlookers to working together, the rules became clearer, and the benefits became visible, so the villagers actively participated.
Huang Renjian (黄任建) said: "After the consolidation, the 767 plots of arable land in the village were merged into 176 plots; the plots became larger, which can store water, and the dry land basically became paddy fields. The rice planting area increased from 3.75 mu to 1283.25 mu, and machines can also enter; industries such as vegetables, edible fungi, and mountain spring water have been introduced, and the villagers use land resources as shares and enjoy dividends. In 2024, the village's collective economic income reached 375,000 yuan, and the villagers' annual per capita disposable income was nearly 15,000 yuan."
Li Rongguang (李荣广) also did the math: "My wife and I were introduced by the village's labor service company to work at the edible fungus farm, and each of us can earn 3,500 yuan per month; we also raised 30 chickens and ducks in the village's planned centralized breeding area, which also brings some income. The two combined are more promising than going out to work all year round or growing corn and raising silkworms at home."
Liuzhou (柳州), Guangxi (广西), 300 jin; Hechi (河池), 307 jin; Nanning (南宁), 800 jin; Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), 304 jin... This is the amount of morels sold in one day by the Du'an Wanyuxiu Edible Fungus Planting Farm (都安万雨秀美食用菌种植农场) where Li Rongguang (李荣广) works.
The village turned idle land into facilities for agricultural use, providing a site for growing edible fungi. "Four edible fungus cabins were added the year before last, and the village used collective funds to purchase two more last year, which were rented to the farm, earning another 9,000 yuan in rent each year," said Huang Renjian (黄任建).
A cascading dam was built on the Jiu Mo River (九磨河), which not only ensures irrigation but also serves as a cultural tourism attraction, greatly changing the appearance of the village. It is estimated that it will receive about 100,000 tourists in 2025.
As the sun gradually rises, Li Rongguang (李荣广) walks on the ridge, "Fortunately, I didn't fall behind that year! Otherwise, how could I have caught up with today's good times?"
(Huang Shangning (黄尚宁) participated in the writing)
This issue is coordinated by: Zhang Anyu (张安宇)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 常 钦
Comprehensive land consolidation is not just about "filling pits to create fields," but also involves profound spatial changes in rural production, life, and ecology. Data shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 24 provinces implemented more than 1,700 projects, completing a total consolidation scale of over 10 million mu.
Many places face the problem of fragmented cultivated land. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, comprehensive land consolidation increased concentrated and contiguous cultivated land by more than 1.8 million mu and eliminated more than 60,000 scattered cultivated land patches of less than 5 mu through methods such as changing small plots of cultivated land into large plots. For example, Zhejiang (浙江) promoted the concentrated and contiguous consolidation of permanent basic farmland, cumulatively forming 2.14 million mu of concentrated and contiguous high-quality cultivated land. By guiding garden land "uphill" and cultivated land "downhill," the problem of non-grain cultivation of cultivated land was solved, and "palm-sized fields" were transformed into mechanized "whole fields."
Comprehensive land consolidation not only "moves land" but also "enriches the people." The focus is on revitalizing existing resources and solving the rural "lack of land and money" dilemma. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, approximately 140,000 mu of existing construction land was revitalized, creating valuable space for rural industrial development and tertiary industry integration.
In Yongmo Village (雍陌村), Sanxiang Town (三乡镇), Zhongshan (中山), Guangdong (广东), the local area combined comprehensive land consolidation to revitalize 76 old buildings, introducing 28 new business format merchants such as homestays and cultural and creative industries, driving employment for 116 people, and adding approximately 2 million yuan in annual income for the village collective and villagers.
Comprehensive land consolidation optimizes the national land space pattern, while adhering to the red line of cultivated land, it awakens "sleeping" land assets. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests, "Coordinate and promote county-level national land space governance, and steadily carry out comprehensive land consolidation." This measure will continue to play a role in ensuring national food security and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金正波 程 龙
The landscape adds to its beauty, and starlight reflects in every home. On the occasion of the New Year, listening to the New Year address of President Xi Jinping (习近平) has become a common expectation of the Chinese people.
2026 is the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Standing at an important juncture, looking back on the past five years, and revisiting five New Year addresses, many unforgettable Chinese voices, Chinese moments, and Chinese stories shine in each coordinate of time and space.
From the northern frontier to the southern regions, from history to the present, from China to the world, the lines of latitude and longitude of time and space outline the magnificent trajectory of China moving from building a moderately prosperous society in all respects to comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
These coordinates are not only geographical nouns but also historical annotations, recording the implementation of national strategies and the increasing prosperity of people's lives, vividly demonstrating the myriad aspects of Chinese-style modernization.
Feeling the Temperature of People's Livelihood
Family affairs, national affairs, and world affairs – enabling people to live a happy life is the top priority.
"Our goal is both grand and simple, which is, in the final analysis, to enable the people to live a better life." "Of all the complex matters, what matters most are the affairs of each and every household." The New Year's address embodies the original aspiration of "people's livelihood as the top priority."
A happy life reflects the historical leap from the successful conclusion of poverty alleviation to the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization.
An apple reflects a vibrant life.
In winter, at the Nanshan Huaniu Apple Base in Maiji District (麦积区), Tianshui (天水), Gansu (甘肃), fruit farmers are meticulously managing the apple trees, laying a solid foundation for a bumper harvest next year.
Installing soil monitoring systems to reduce costs and improve quality; building a full traceability system to enhance brand credibility; intelligent sorting to ensure apple quality and enhance the "appearance" of apples... From branch to taste bud, a complete industrial chain has been formed.
The "big and red" Huaniu apples are releasing tremendous energy, widening the path of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Thousands of miles away, along the southeastern coast, in Aojiao Village (澳角村), Chencheng Town (陈城镇), Dongshan County (东山县), Zhangzhou (漳州), Fujian (福建), fishing boats return in the evening glow, their holds full of catch.
In 2001, Xi Jinping (习近平), while working in Fujian (福建), visited this place. Twenty-three years later, on October 15, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) visited Aojiao Village (澳角村) again, and seeing the tremendous changes in the village, he encouraged everyone to "make the most of the 'sea' article."
Keeping in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平总书记) earnest instructions, Aojiao Village (澳角村) insists on revitalizing the village through the sea and strengthening the village through the sea. In the live broadcast room, anchors take turns; in the breeding ponds, there is a rich variety of seafood. Focusing on "a fish, a sea, and a street," Aojiao Village (澳角村) strengthens modern fisheries, refines coastal tourism, and develops fishermen's homestays, allowing tourists to immerse themselves in the fun of sea fishing. The once-backward fishing village has become a well-known tourist attraction.
Each distinctive industry contains the secret to wealth for the masses, broadening the path to development and revitalization. The development path of Aojiao Village (澳角村) is a vivid microcosm of the transformation and upgrading of thousands of villages across China.
A happy life is also contained in the daily lives of thousands of households.
"We must work together to continuously improve the level of social construction and governance, continue to create a harmonious and inclusive atmosphere, solve the major and minor issues around the people, and bring more smiles and warmth to everyone's hearts." The New Year's address embodies the deep affection of "people first."
"Residents of multi-ethnic communities in Yinchuan (银川) are as close as family." A Han (汉) brother puts out braised sea bass, a Hui (回) aunt brings hand-grabbed mutton, and a Manchu (满族) sister makes spicy chicken... The "Thousand Family Banquet" in Changcheng Garden Community (长城花园社区), Jinfeng District (金凤区), Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia (宁夏), is filled with aroma. The masses are "as close as family" precisely because "the work is done well." Yinchuan (银川) has interspersed and resettled 274,000 immigrants, guiding people of all ethnic groups to live in an embedded manner. Singing the same song and eating at the same table, the flower of ethnic unity blooms.
"The tradition of courtesy and harmony in the Six-Foot Lane (六尺巷) has been passed down from generation to generation." A small alley, about 100 meters long and only two meters wide, witnessed a story of mutual concession and valuing harmony more than 300 years ago. Today, Six-Foot Lane (六尺巷) is well-known. From the "Six-Foot Lane Work Method" of community governance in Tongcheng City (桐城市), Anhui (安徽), to the Supreme People's Court's work report proposing to promote the "Six-Foot Lane" mediation method, this small alley has become a classic example of traditional culture empowering modern governance.
From industrial revitalization driving farmers' income growth to achieving the transformation of fishing villages by embracing the sea; from multi-ethnic communities promoting unity and progress to traditional culture giving new meaning to grassroots governance... Simple wishes and colorful lives paint a vibrant and bustling China.
Marking the Height of Development
The New Year's address records the years of struggle and also marks the footprints of development.
From the rapidly growing Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) to the pioneering Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区); from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) braving the waves of the sea to the Antarctic Qinling Station (南极秦岭站) rising on the icy plains... These coordinates in the New Year's address, connected into lines, outline the upward climbing curve of Chinese-style modernization, measuring the ever-surpassing height of development.
Height is built on the vast land where national strategies are implemented.
"In just six years, Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has gone from nothing to something, from blueprint to reality. A high-level modern city is rising from the ground, which can be called a miracle." In May 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) set foot on this hot land for the third time in six years. This future city, bearing the millennium plan, is growing rapidly. "Global vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics, and high positioning" – this is not only a modern new city but also a new path to the future, imprinted with the essential features of Chinese-style modernization.
Looking south, the coast of the South China Sea is surging with the spring tide of reform. In June 2024, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) was completed and opened to traffic. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) pointed out profoundly in his congratulatory letter: "Chinese-style modernization is achieved through hard work, and great undertakings are accomplished through practical efforts!" This super project not only physically connects the two sides of the Pearl River Estuary but also marks the pioneering spirit of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
From the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast writing a new chapter to the vibrant pulse of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and then to the vigorous development of the Hainan Free Trade Port... Each regional growth pole is synergistically linked, accumulating momentum, and jointly building a strategic highland for the high-quality development of China's economy.
Height is also refreshed on the journey to advance science and technology.
In the vast space, the footprints of the Chinese people continue to extend. From "Tianwen-1 (天问一号)" and "Chang'e-5 (嫦娥五号)" in the 2021 New Year's address to "the comprehensive completion of the Chinese space station, our 'space home' is traveling in the sky" in the 2023 New Year's address, and then to "Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) sampling the far side of the moon for the first time" in the 2025 New Year's address... This series of space coordinates records the extraordinary leap of the Chinese nation from looking up at the stars to standing on the stars, demonstrating the ambition of the Chinese people to pursue their dreams in the stars.
Climbing to higher places and seeking deeper depths. In the ten-thousand-meter deep blue, the "Fendouzhe (奋斗者)" submersible dives to the extreme depth; in the vast ocean, the "Mengxiang (梦想)" ocean drilling ship explores the deep sea... These coordinates in the New Year's address mark the new height of China's scientific and technological self-reliance.
"China strives to climb with the spirit of self-improvement, and there are new creations everywhere." This vivid footnote to the New Year's address is written in every specific breakthrough: from the annual production of new energy vehicles exceeding 10 million for the first time to new achievements in integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, and quantum communication; from the full operation of the Baihetan Hydropower Station (白鹤滩水电站) to the commercial flight of the C919 large aircraft... These major national instruments and technological breakthroughs are not only exciting and beautiful business cards but also peaks that China is climbing on the road to scientific and technological self-reliance.
Demonstrating the Depth of Civilization
The coordinates in the New Year's address not only point to economic growth poles but also frequently fall in the glorious history and beautiful rivers and mountains.
"The Chinese nation is so vast, its history so long, and its civilization so profound." In these five years, the New Year's address connects history and the present, measuring the heavy cultural confidence in the depth of more than five thousand years.
In the 2025 New Year's address, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) said with deep feeling: "The word 'China (中国)' is engraved on the bottom of the 'He Zun (何尊),' and even more so in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter." This deep review spanning ancient and modern times gives the spatial and temporal coordinates of modern China a civilizational depth that transcends thousands of years.
The National Archives of Publications and Culture (国家版本馆) Central Pavilion stands majestically on the northern extension of the central axis of Beijing (北京) and at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains (燕山). This is the national resource bank of versions and the seed gene bank of Chinese culture. From more than 300 versions of precious documents such as "The Communist Manifesto" to vast ancient books, this coordinate guards the roots and soul of the nation. As General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) said: "The original intention of building the version library is to collect, that is, at this historical stage, to collect and protect all the classics and materials that can be collected since ancient times, and to continue to pass on the only uninterrupted civilization in the world."
From the dawn of civilization in Liangzhu (良渚) and Erlitou (二里头) to the textual inheritance of Yin Xu (殷墟) oracle bones, and then to the cultural treasures of Sanxingdui (三星堆)... These coordinates in the New Year's address string together a brilliant pearl chain of Chinese civilization that has never been interrupted.
The Maijishan Grottoes (麦积山石窟), the "Oriental Smile" spans thousands of years; Tianjin Ancient Culture Street (天津古文化街), the clay figurines of Zhang (泥人张), Yangliuqing (杨柳青) woodblock New Year pictures and other national intangible cultural heritages are rejuvenated in the bustling crowds... The ancient civilization has not slept in the museum. They silently tell us: Our confidence comes from the deepest accumulation in this land.
"People will not let down the green mountains, and the green mountains will surely not let down the people." Another set of coordinates in the New Year's address is equally dazzling, marking the ecological background of Chinese-style modernization.
This is the safety of major rivers. Reading the New Year's address carefully, the surging sound of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Yellow River (黄河) always echoes between the lines. It not only includes the earnest concern that "the safety of the Yellow River (黄河) is the millennium expectation of the Chinese sons and daughters" but also the solid footprints of "walking through the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River (黄河) in 9 provinces and regions," as well as the strong voice of the times of "the vibrant pulse of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带)." From the watch of "millennium expectation" to the flow of "vibrant pulse," one north and one south, two giant dragons jointly unfold the ecological picture of Chinese-style modernization.
This is the miracle of the plateau forest and sea. The New Year's address takes us to look at the rippling Qinghai Lake (青海湖) and overlook the winding Yarlung Zangbo River (雅鲁藏布江)... In Hebei (河北), the builders of the Saihanba Forest Farm (塞罕坝林场) have turned the former wilderness into a million mu of artificial forest and sea, embedding a moving "green emerald" on the map. These coordinates are the heroic epic written by the Chinese people for global ecological governance.
This is the harmony of all things living together. We will not forget the two vivid pictures in the New Year's address: "Yunnan elephants going north and returning south (云南大象北上南归)" and "Tibetan antelopes breeding and migrating (藏羚羊繁衍迁徙)." From the leisurely walk in the tropical rainforest to the life rushing on the snowy plateau, the free migration of this group of creatures is no longer a disturbed panic but a landscape that is cared for. They feel the temperature of the ecological red line with their steps and become the warmest footnote to beautiful China.
From the "Zhai Zi China (宅兹中国)" in the inscription of "He Zun (何尊)" to the "Beautiful China (美丽中国)" painted by the Saihanba Forest and Sea, this group of coordinates demonstrates the depth of civilization. They vividly demonstrate the distinctive characteristics of Chinese-style modernization: it is not only the modernization of continuing ancient civilization but also the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Demonstrating the Openness
From the depth of history to the breadth of the world, the coordinates in the New Year's address cross mountains and seas, outlining an open China embracing the world.
"China not only develops itself but also actively embraces the world." Whether it is Beijing's "Dual Olympic City (双奥之城)," Xi'an's "Silk Road Covenant (丝路之约)," or the first China-Central Asia Summit (中国—中亚峰会) and the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum ("一带一路"国际合作高峰论坛)... These coordinates have both the confidence of hosting guests and the responsibility of managing all directions. They jointly interpret China's open attitude of running towards the world in both directions.
The New Year's address records the grand occasion of China treating guests from all directions as the host. Each coordinate of the home diplomacy is a window to show the world Chinese-style modernization.
Here is the moment of unity in the Global South. In Beijing (北京), the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛北京峰会) was grandly held. New and old friends gathered to discuss the grand plan of China-Africa friendly cooperation in the new era. The overall positioning of China-Africa relations has been upgraded to a new era of China-Africa community with a shared future, gathering the powerful strength of more than 2.8 billion Chinese and African people, and solemnly declaring to the world: "No one can be left behind on the road to modernization, and no country can be left behind."
Here is the civilizational echo of the millennium Silk Road. In Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), the holding of the first China-Central Asia Summit (中国—中亚峰会) allowed the starting point of this ancient Silk Road to hear the camel bells spanning time and space again, witnessing a new chapter of China and Central Asian countries helping each other and developing together. In Beijing (北京), the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum ("一带一路"国际合作高峰论坛) was full of distinguished guests, looking back at the "golden decade" of the "Belt and Road" initiative and drawing a new blueprint for the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road."
Here is the passionate bloom of youth and vitality. From the glittering "Ice Ribbon (冰丝带)" of the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会) to the amazing "Bashu Rhyme (巴蜀韵)" of the Chengdu Universiade (成都大运会), and then to the heartwarming "Jiangnan Memories (江南忆)" of the Hangzhou Asian Games (杭州亚运会)... These coordinates of sports events present a sunny, prosperous, and open image of China to the world, allowing the concept of "the key to sound relations between states lies in the affinity between their people" to take root in people's hearts.
The openness is also reflected in China's steps towards the world.
This is the grand pattern of major-country diplomacy. From the gathering of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the expansion of the BRICS countries, from the regional cooperation of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation to the solidarity of the G20... Whether in the ancient city of Central Asia or on the coast of Latin America, the voice of China is always loud. These multilateral diplomatic coordinates confirm China's responsibility and responsibility as a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a maintainer of the international order.
This is the confident and high-spirited spirit. In 2024, the fighting figures of Chinese athletes in the Paris Olympic arena always touched the hearts of the motherland. When General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) met with the Chinese sports delegation of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games, he pointed out that "the excellent achievements of the Chinese sports delegation are not only a concentrated embodiment of the development and progress of China's sports cause but also a microcosm of the achievements of Chinese-style modernization." From the "China Speed" in the swimming pool to the "China Power" on the weightlifting stage, these coordinates lit up in Paris show the "confident, optimistic, enthusiastic and friendly sunshine temperament of the young generation in China."
A just cause enjoys abundant support, and the whole world is one family. From the full house in Beijing (北京) in autumn to the passionate competition in Paris (巴黎) in summer, from the starting point of the ancient Silk Road to the coast of Latin America, these coordinates weave a latitude and longitude network that closely connects China and the world. This latitude and longitude shows the future of sharing a common destiny: China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China.
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Time engraves immortality, and struggle achieves eternity.
Rereading the five New Year's addresses, each coordinate is a solid footprint of national development. The New Year's address witnesses struggle and also indicates the future.
In 2026, we will stand on the new starting line of the "15th Five-Year Plan," with a more magnificent journey of thousands of miles under our feet. With dreams as the banner and hard work as the ladder, let every ordinary step of ours resonate powerfully on the great journey of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation!
Return to TopSelf-revolution is the second answer to the Chinese Communist Party's (中国共产党) ability to escape the historical cycle of rise and fall. Starting with improving work style to promote comprehensive and strict Party governance is an important experience in the Party's self-revolution in the new era. Since 2012, the Chinese Communist Party has used the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定) as an entry point and mobilization order, carrying out more than 10 years of unremitting and sustained efforts to improve work style. The Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) is not only a "golden business card" for strengthening the Party's work style in the new era, but also a key for the international community to understand the Chinese Communist Party. International figures interviewed by this newspaper said that the regular and long-term implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC demonstrates the Chinese Communist Party's firm commitment to the Chinese people, highlights its determination to continuously improve governance and pursue excellence, and its relevant successful experience is worth learning from by political parties in various countries.
"Strict intra-Party political life has become the norm for the Chinese Communist Party"
The Chinese Communist Party insists on taking the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定) as an iron rule and a hard constraint, unremittingly rectifying the stubborn diseases of the "four forms of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance" (四风), and constantly promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction, demonstrating to the international community the Chinese Communist Party's courage to turn the blade inward, its determination to scrape the bone to remove poison, and its perseverance in making every effort count.
"The Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) embodies the spirit of self-revolution of the Chinese Communist Party." Vito Petrocelli, President of the Italy-BRICS Association, said that by strictly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) and strengthening the construction of work style, the Chinese Communist Party "has shown the international community a good image of strict discipline and pragmatism."
"The special feature of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) is that it establishes a self-supervision mechanism for the Party and the country." Cholong Erdene, Director of the Mongolia "Belt and Road" Joint Development Research Center, said that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) starts with small entry points, focuses on public concerns, and has been strictly implemented for a long time. The key to the great success of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) is that it is top-down, with leaders setting an example, the construction of work style is integrated into daily work, the discipline inspection and supervision organs strictly supervise and hold accountable, improve the Party's work style, lead the social atmosphere to improve, and win the support of the broad masses of the people.
"I have visited China many times, and the cadres at all levels of the Chinese Communist Party I have come into contact with have shown a high degree of self-discipline and responsibility. This work style ensures policy execution and national cohesion." Marcos Pires, Professor of Political Economy at the State University of São Paulo, Brazil, said that adhering to grasping the "key few" and leading by example has been reflected in practice. The Chinese Communist Party insists on focusing on practical results, which makes the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) promote the formation of a good social atmosphere of integrity and efficiency.
"After the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定), strict intra-Party political life has become the norm for the Chinese Communist Party." Chea Munyrith, President of the Cambodian Chinese Relations Development Institute, said that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) promotes the maintenance of the advanced nature and purity of the Chinese Communist Party, further strengthens the relationship between the Party and the masses, and has become an indispensable part of the socialist governance system with Chinese characteristics.
"The people's trust and support for the Chinese Communist Party are constantly increasing"
The Chinese Communist Party perseveres in implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定), promotes the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction, and continuously transforms political advantages, organizational advantages, and institutional advantages into development advantages and governance advantages, promoting the steady and long-term development of the Chinese-style modernization cause.
Ahmed Tarabik, a columnist for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, believes that the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) has greatly improved the work style of CPC members. "CPC members are more disciplined, and their work style is more pragmatic and efficient. The administrative efficiency of governments at all levels in China has been greatly improved, the connection between the Chinese Communist Party and the people has become closer, and the people's trust and support for the Chinese Communist Party have been constantly increasing."
Alawi Semanda, Executive Director of the Uganda Development Observation Center, was deeply impressed by the government service centers in many cities in China. "China closely links improving efficiency with improving people's well-being. The degree of electronicization of government affairs information in various parts of China is very high, and people can enjoy one-stop services in government service centers." Semanda said, "The Chinese Communist Party constantly maintains self-reflection and constantly promotes self-revolution, which is an important reason for a political party to maintain long-term vitality."
"The Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) has had a profound impact on China's economic, social and cultural development." Pires said that at the governance level, it has promoted the concept of a "service-oriented government" to the grassroots level and corrected formalism and bureaucracy; at the social level, it has improved people's livelihoods, combated corruption, and won the support of the masses; in the economic field, it has created a better business environment and promoted high-quality development; and at the cultural level, it is conducive to guiding social atmosphere, improving public morality, and enhancing cultural confidence.
Cuauhtémoc Alcántara, Director of the Historical Archives Communication Office of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) has led to the spread of values such as thrift, pragmatism, and integrity, and the social atmosphere is healthier and more rational. Society, economy, and culture have achieved more coordinated development in this virtuous cycle. "These changes reflect that China's governance system is more efficient and pragmatic, and also demonstrate the ability of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government to drive overall social progress through self-revolution."
"Provides experience that can be learned from for global political party building and public governance"
The spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) contains profound governance wisdom. The Chinese Communist Party continues to deepen the construction of work style with a thorough spirit of self-revolution, providing an important reference for the development of political parties in the world.
"The Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) provides experience that can be learned from for global political party building and public governance." Alcántara said that a political party with self-restraint and moral leadership can maintain efficient governance and long-term development. Political parties in many countries, including Mexico, can draw inspiration from the experience of the Chinese Communist Party - by strengthening political discipline, improving the implementation of systems, and paying attention to moral leadership, the credibility and governance capabilities of political parties can be improved.
"The Chinese Communist Party's implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定) and promotion of work style construction show that the Chinese Communist Party is a political party that dares to engage in self-revolution and is responsible to the people. China's practice provides new ideas for the construction of work style of political parties in other countries." Tarabik said that the Chinese Communist Party's reform is to fundamentally solve problems, promote comprehensive and strict Party governance with the spirit of self-revolution, and pay attention to discipline education and system construction.
"The basic principles, concepts and logic of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) are worth learning from and thinking about." Cholong Erdene said that for political parties in various countries, reforms should be achieved through action rather than empty talk, and can be started from the daily links that the public can see and touch, such as optimizing work processes and paying attention to implementation, so that reforms can be smoothly promoted.
"As the Chinese Communist Party has shown, the mutual trust between the Party and the people comes from integrity and wholehearted service." Chea Munyrith said that the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee of the CPC (中共中央八项规定) has become a system regulation and moral requirement in China's political life. "China's innovative practice inspires political parties in other countries: improving Party conduct is to strengthen internal unity and win the trust of the people."
(This newspaper Beijing (北京), Rome (罗马), Ulaanbaatar (乌兰巴托), Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢), Bangkok (曼谷), Cairo (开罗), Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡), Mexico City (墨西哥城) December 30th dispatch Reporters Zhou Zhou (周輖), Xie Yahong (谢亚宏), Zhang Penghui (张朋辉), Chen Yiming (陈一鸣), Bai Yuanqi (白元琪), Huang Peizhao (黄培昭), Zou Song (邹松), Xie Jianing (谢佳宁))
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Japan should not treat the conflict sparked by Prime Minister Takaichi as speculative capital, but should take this opportunity to face history squarely and seriously consider its responsibility for regional security.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, and Japan must once again face up to its history of external aggression. When the new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) was questioned in the Diet about the Taiwan issue, she touched on the "existential crisis" that the Japanese government had always been cautious about. The Chinese side immediately lodged solemn representations and strong protests, demanding that the Japanese side withdraw its relevant remarks, but the Japanese side had no intention of withdrawing them, and Sino-Japanese relations have fallen to a freezing point in recent years.
One of the reasons why Prime Minister Takaichi (高市早苗) crossed the line this time is her political considerations. She does not want to be accused of "contradicting her pre-inauguration remarks" or "taking a weak stance." But to attribute everything to "Takaichi's color" is obviously not to see the whole picture. For example, after Prime Minister Takaichi (高市早苗) made relevant remarks, the reaction of some people in Japanese society is worth pondering: even if Sino-Japanese relations are rapidly cooling down, these people are still unaware of the seriousness of the problem. Why is this?
The fundamental problem is that post-war Japan has never faced up to and reflected on its own war responsibilities. This summer, when I wrote for a German magazine, I mentioned that the reason why the Japanese have failed to thoroughly reflect on the war is that the Cold War quickly began shortly after the war. Japan was incorporated into the Western camp before it had faced up to its own war crimes, thereby obtaining a "certificate of absolution" in the confrontation between the camps. This "certificate of absolution" has seriously distorted the historical and security views of Japanese society.
During World War II, Japan dragged Asia into a huge disaster, while also losing more than 3 million compatriots. What did it ultimately gain? This is what Japan should carefully calculate. This time, the Prime Minister's answer is also a muddled account of unclear gains and losses. In recent years, "security" has become a high-frequency word in Japanese society. "Security" should have prevented the tragedy of war from recurring, but in the current relevant discussions in Japan, the focus has shifted to setting enemies and enhancing its own military strength.
As the supreme commander of the Self-Defense Forces, Prime Minister Takaichi (高市早苗) should have remained calm and cautious to prevent Japan from being involved in conflicts, but the reality is that Prime Minister Takaichi's (高市早苗) words and deeds have increased the risk of Japan being involved in the Taiwan Strait issue. The Chinese side believes that this is the first time that Japan has expressed its ambition to try to intervene militarily in the Taiwan issue, and the first time it has issued a military threat to China. Does Japanese society have such self-awareness? Is it aware of the seriousness of the problem?
Post-war Japan returned to the international community by adhering to the "Peace Constitution" and promising to contribute to the cause of peace. Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution also stipulates that Japan forever renounces war initiated by the sovereign right of the state, the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. This is the premise for Japan's post-war return to the international community and the legal cornerstone of Japan's post-war pursuit of a pacifist line. In recent years, however, the Japanese government has continued to hollow it out without any sufficient explanation. The limit of defense spending not exceeding 1% of GDP, which was originally set to implement the "Peace Constitution," has been broken, and now there is even a theory that "2% is not enough"; in the field of cyber warfare, the principle of exclusive defense has gradually become preemptive attacks; the "Three Principles on Arms Exports" have changed their name and content, and now Japan is attempting to revise the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles." These moves continue to stimulate the sensitive nerves of Asian war victims, especially China, but the Japanese are unaware of it.
When emphasizing external crises and promoting the expansion of defense capabilities, Japanese media often use the expression "listing China as a consideration." During the House of Councilors election this summer, tough rhetoric toward the outside world appeared frequently. Prime Minister Takaichi's (高市早苗) remarks this time are not unrelated to this social atmosphere. What kind of motives are lurking behind the fervor of being tough on the outside world? Japan should calmly re-examine the heavy price of war, should not treat the conflict sparked by Prime Minister Takaichi (高市早苗) as speculative capital, but should take this opportunity to face history squarely and seriously consider its responsibility for regional security.
(The author is a professor at the Institute of World Affairs at Takushoku University (拓殖大学) in Japan)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然
"Before going to China, 'poverty alleviation' and 'rural revitalization' were high-frequency words I encountered when studying articles related to China." Michael Mayalo, a South African independent columnist, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter a few days ago, "When I walked into Mafang Village (马坊村) in Jianshui County (建水县), Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), and saw clean and tidy roads leading to the villagers' doorsteps, rows of beautiful and neat houses, and villagers greeting me warmly and friendly, I had a direct and clear understanding of 'poverty alleviation' and 'rural revitalization'."
In 2021, Mayalo received the Peking University (北京大学) "Oriental Scholarship." After completing a year of online courses, from June to December 2022, he came to China as a visiting scholar and recorded what he saw and heard in China. "What measures has China taken to promote rural revitalization? What successful experiences can South Africa learn from China? With these questions, I went to China to study, hoping to find answers." Mayalo said that during his visit, he visited Beijing (北京), Zhejiang (浙江), Shaanxi (陕西), Yunnan (云南) and other places to gain an in-depth understanding of China's modernization development experience, especially China's rural revitalization achievements, and the answers in his heart became clearer.
Mayalo comes from Willowvale Village in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. "In our place, young people want to leave their hometowns to work in big cities, and most of those who stay in the village are the elderly and children. The village has inconvenient transportation and no factories that can provide employment." Mayalo said, "In the countryside of Zhejiang (浙江) and other places, the local government attracts young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses by developing characteristic industries and creating rural tourism brands. These policies not only bring industrial development opportunities and provide employment opportunities, but also provide young people with rich career choices, while driving the modernization transformation of the countryside. I hope to introduce China's successful development experience to South Africa and help my hometown develop."
"When I arrived in China, I took the high-speed train for the first time. The train speed exceeded 300 kilometers per hour, and it felt stable and comfortable sitting in the carriage. China's ability in the field of infrastructure construction is admirable." Mayalo said that China has built the world's largest high-speed rail network, and many remote areas have access to high-speed rail, "which not only greatly promotes the flow of people, but also brings unlimited opportunities for economic development."
In Mayalo's view, the important achievements of Chinese-style modernization are not only reflected in China's own development, but also in China's consistent adherence to mutual benefit and win-win results, and its support and assistance to the development of other countries. "Under the frameworks of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛) and the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' (一带一路), China has helped African countries build and upgrade nearly 100,000 kilometers of roads and more than 10,000 kilometers of railways, effectively improving the level of local connectivity and benefiting people's livelihoods." Mayalo said that at present, African countries are promoting green and digital transformation, and Chinese enterprises are actively participating in clean energy development, network infrastructure construction, etc., and are constantly expanding new space for pragmatic cooperation between Africa and China.
Not long ago, Mayalo released a new book, *China in My Eyes: A South African Youth's Journey to China*. Talking about his original intention for writing, he said: "My experience in China has benefited me a lot, so I hope to objectively and truthfully introduce China's development to the South African people, especially the young people, and deepen their understanding of China."
In May of this year, Mayalo went to Hunan Province (湖南省) to participate in the training course on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and international cooperation in African countries sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (中国商务部), and discussed the development model of cross-border e-commerce, the operation and management of small and medium-sized enterprises and other topics with other young entrepreneurs from African countries. "China has become my 'source of inspiration'. Whenever I encounter a problem, my first thought is 'Let's see how China does it'." Mayalo said that he will continue to study China's development experience in depth, strive to promote youth exchanges and cooperation between South Africa and China, and contribute to enhancing the understanding and friendship between the two peoples.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 30th (Reporter Bao Han (包晗)) - Wang Yi (王毅), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Situation and China's Diplomacy Seminar in Beijing (北京) on December 30th and delivered a keynote speech.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that in 2025, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, we will hold high the banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, take head-of-state diplomacy as a strategic guide, unite the world's progressive forces with the greatest sincerity, and do our best to gather the energy of peaceful development. We will serve as a stabilizing anchor in the turbulent world, the backbone of the new situation in the surrounding environment, the lodestar in the changing international order, the main engine in the global development dilemma, and the ballast stone in the international moral crisis, and constantly create a new realm of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that China's relationship with the world is developing in a more positive direction, and China's international influence, innovation leadership, and moral appeal have been significantly enhanced. The key to China's diplomacy being so calm and confident, and forging ahead, lies in President Xi Jinping's (习近平) leadership and steering, the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, and the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. At the same time, it also lies in the strong support of the broad masses of the people and the fact that China's diplomatic philosophy always occupies the high ground of international morality.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that in 2026, major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics should be more promising. We will provide a more solid strategic support for national development and rejuvenation, open up more effective ways to forge a new path for major-country relations, make more active efforts to build a community with a shared future in the neighborhood, gather more powerful forces for the Global South to jointly move towards modernization, inject stronger impetus into global opening-up and cooperation, make more prominent contributions to reforming and improving global governance, and demonstrate a more firm sense of mission in safeguarding national interests.
Return to TopChinese-style modernization cannot be achieved without the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) gave important instructions, scientifically grasping the strategic position of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" ("三农") in the overall development of the Party and the country, putting forward clear requirements and making important deployments for doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work next year, providing scientific guidance for us to anchor agricultural and rural modernization and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside on the new journey.
The Central Rural Work Conference held in Beijing (北京) from December 29th to 30th deeply analyzed the current situation and challenges facing the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers," and comprehensively deployed the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" in 2026, which is of great significance for us to accelerate the efforts to make up for the outstanding shortcomings in the field of agriculture and rural areas and accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country.
Attaching importance to agriculture is fundamental, and it is the foundation of the country. The year 2025 was very extraordinary. Under the complex situation of increasing external pressure and many internal difficulties, the whole country acted as one, with one heart from top to bottom, overcoming the adverse effects of relatively serious natural disasters and other unfavorable factors. Grain production increased again throughout the year, the results of poverty alleviation were continuously consolidated and expanded, farmers' incomes continued to increase, and rural society was harmonious and stable. The "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" answer sheet has achieved remarkable results, providing strong support for promoting high-quality economic and social development and achieving a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan." The past five years have been extremely unusual. The reason why we have been able to overcome difficulties and risks and promote new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and achieve a good start in the new journey towards the second centenary goal, is that an important aspect lies in adhering to stabilizing the basic agricultural plate and guarding the foundation of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" as the "ballast stone" to cope with various shocks and challenges, and winning the overall initiative with the improvement of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers."
The year 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) deliberated and adopted the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, making top-level design and strategic planning for China's economic and social development in the next five years, and making special arrangements for accelerating agricultural and rural modernization. Agricultural and rural modernization is related to the overall situation and quality of Chinese-style modernization. We must adhere to solving the problems of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" as the top priority of the work of the whole Party, earnestly implement the spirit of the Central Rural Work Conference, combine with reality, and take measures suitable to local conditions to ensure the implementation of various work deployments, adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, and make solid progress towards the goal of building a strong agricultural country.
Food security is a "major issue for the country." In recent years, China has achieved bumper harvests year after year, and food security is generally guaranteed, but in the long run, demand will continue to grow. No matter how high the degree of social modernization is, the stable supply of food and important agricultural products for more than 1.4 billion people is always the top priority. The more turbulent the external environment is, the more we must tighten the string of food security and grasp grain production without any relaxation. The first priority in the Central Rural Work Conference's deployment of next year's "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" work is to improve the comprehensive production capacity and quality and efficiency of agriculture. We must adhere to grasping output capacity, production ecology, increasing production and increasing income together, adhere to storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, comprehensively consolidate the foundation of food security, and firmly grasp the initiative of food security.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years after the transition period of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively connecting with rural revitalization, and next year is the first year of carrying out normalized assistance. Winning the battle against poverty has created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction, and has taken a solid step on the road of promoting common prosperity for all people, which has far-reaching historical and world significance. Party committees and governments at all levels should take the continuous consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements as a major political task, incorporate normalized assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, improve the normalized assistance policy system, maintain the overall stability of policies in terms of financial investment, financial support, and resource element allocation, take development-oriented assistance as the top priority, improve the accuracy and effectiveness of monitoring and assistance, and ensure that no large-scale return to poverty occurs.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with integrated urban-rural development" and "strengthening the organic combination of comprehensive rural revitalization and new urbanization" demonstrates the methodology of adhering to the concept of systems and taking overall consideration into account. Promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside is the overall grasp of the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" in the new era and new journey, and it is necessary to stimulate the vitality of rural resource elements. We must base ourselves on promoting the overall situation of urban-rural integration and regional linkage, coordinate and promote the construction of urbanization with county towns as an important carrier and the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, develop county economies with distinctive characteristics in accordance with local conditions, improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit agriculture, and enrich farmers, promote the integrated development of revitalizing industries, strengthening counties, and enriching people, promote the construction of livable, business-friendly, and beautiful villages, and continuously improve the level of rural industrial development, the level of rural construction, and the level of rural governance.
Achieving agricultural and rural modernization is a systematic project and a strategic task, which requires both long-term efforts and seizing the day. We must unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, anchor the goals, respect the laws, exert our efforts, forge ahead, and strive to build agriculture into a modern large industry, make rural areas basically have modern living conditions, and make farmers' lives more prosperous and beautiful.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谢佳宁
The morning sun shines on the dome of the Observatorio Metro Station (天文台地铁站) in Mexico City (墨西哥城). It is rush hour, and citizen Carlos Garcia (卡洛斯·加西亚) is waiting for the subway train to arrive. He lives in eastern Mexico City (墨西哥城东部) and takes Metro Line 1 (地铁一号线) to work every day. "Because I live far away, I used to have to leave at 5 a.m. Now that the train frequency has increased, I can leave half an hour later, and the carriages are not as crowded as before," Garcia (加西亚) said.
A few days ago, the Huancatlán Station (胡安卡特兰站) to Observatorio Station (天文台站) section of the Mexico City Metro Line 1 (墨西哥城地铁一号线) overall modernization project, undertaken by CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. (中车株洲电力机车有限公司), was officially opened and put into operation. With the smooth connection of this section of the line, all 20 stations on the line are open, marking the rejuvenation of this old subway with more than half a century of history.
"This is not only the rebirth of a subway line, but also a symbol of the modernization of transportation in Mexico City (墨西哥城)," said Mexico City Mayor (墨西哥城市长) Claudia Sheinbaum (克拉拉·布鲁加达). The new Metro Line 1 (地铁一号线) is equipped with 29 modern trains developed by CRRC (中国中车), with more spacious interiors, lower noise, and greater energy efficiency. The trains can accommodate more than 2,200 passengers and operate more smoothly and efficiently. "I used to choose to take the bus more often, but after the overall modernization project of Metro Line 1 (地铁一号线) was completed, I take the subway to work almost every day, and now my commute only takes 15 minutes," passenger Salvador Castillo (萨尔瓦多·卡斯蒂略) told reporters.
According to Mexican statistics, after the full opening of Line 1 (一号线), passengers' commuting time has been shortened, the average daily passenger volume has increased significantly, and the city's "20-minute living circle" has taken initial shape. More stable, efficient, and intelligent trains allow citizens who commute every day to feel the convenience of modern rail transit. "We not only deliver trains, but also deliver a complete set of modern rail transit solutions," said Wang Qiaolin (王巧林), Chairman of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. (中车株洲电力机车有限公司). "We hope that the renewed Metro Line 1 (地铁一号线) will become a bridge connecting China-Mexico friendship and provide Mexico City (墨西哥城市) citizens with a higher quality travel experience."
Chinese Ambassador to Mexico (中国驻墨西哥大使) Chen Daojiang (陈道江) said that the successful completion of the Mexico City Metro Line 1 (墨西哥城地铁一号线) renovation project is another fruitful result of pragmatic cooperation between China and Mexico, vividly demonstrating the deep integration of Chinese-style modernization and China's high-level opening to the outside world with Mexico's development strategy, and is an important practice of cooperation between China and Latin America in the field of infrastructure. "We hope to take this project as a new starting point, and the two sides will deepen cooperation in infrastructure construction, green transportation, clean energy and other fields, so as to better benefit the people of the two countries and promote the in-depth and solid development of China-Mexico economic and trade relations to a new level," Chen Daojiang (陈道江) said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程是颉
In the picturesque Kunhar River (昆哈河) valley, the reflection of distant snow-capped mountains and verdant pines in the gorge shimmers on the mirror-like surface of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊) Suki Kinari Hydropower Station (苏吉吉纳里水电站). Downstream, within the main powerhouse deep inside the mountain, four turbine generator units operate steadily, converting the 923.7-meter head into a continuous stream of clean energy.
The Suki Kinari Hydropower Station (苏吉吉纳里水电站) is invested, constructed, and operated by China Energy Engineering Group Overseas Investment Co., Ltd. (中能建海外投资有限公司) and commenced commercial operation in September 2024. Over the past year, the hydropower station has successfully achieved its safety operation goal of "zero accidents, zero losses," outputting 2.8 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 1 million Pakistani families.
Ali's family used to live in the hydropower station's reservoir inundation area. In 2017, with the support of the hydropower station's operating team, he was admitted to Jilin University (吉林大学) in China to pursue a master's degree. After graduation, he joined the hydropower station's construction and operation and maintenance team. There are many local people like Ali. During the peak of project construction, it provided more than 6,000 direct employment opportunities for the local area, and after operation, it provides more than 100 stable employment opportunities.
Ali said that after the completion of the hydropower station, many changes have taken place in the lives of residents in relocated communities and surrounding areas. "With a stable power supply, we have all added new home appliances." Ali said, "Refrigerators, electric fans, and other appliances used to be on everyone's 'wish list,' but now they have been added to everyone's 'shopping list,' making life more convenient and comfortable." Due to the lack of electricity in the past, the mountain roads in Naran (纳兰), a local tourist attraction, lacked nighttime lighting and were difficult to travel, and most tourists only stayed for a short time during the day. This year, the scenic spot has carried out a nighttime "lighting project," and many hotels have installed electric water heaters and electric heaters. Watching the sunset and sunrise in Naran (纳兰) has become a new "check-in" project, and the number of local tourists has increased significantly, and per capita consumption has also gradually increased.
The hydropower station project management team also investigated the local sustainable development potential and carried out a series of livelihood projects. Hasnain (哈斯奈因) is the safety, quality, and environmental protection engineer of the Suki Kinari Hydropower Station (苏吉吉纳里水电站). He and his colleagues communicated with the local fisheries department to make reasonable use of the Kunhar River (昆哈河) basin resources and built a trout hatchery for the local area to carry out fish propagation, stocking, and monitoring. "After the completion of the hydropower station, the economic benefits and ecological development of the Kunhar River (昆哈河) have been promoted simultaneously." Hasnain (哈斯奈因) said that the survival rate of trout fry has been significantly improved, and regular stocking has made local fisheries development more stable, and fishermen's income has increased.
Compared with before the project construction, the barren mountains around the Kunhar River (昆哈河) valley have become lush and the soil erosion has been effectively controlled. Hasnain (哈斯奈因) said that the hydropower station has organized employees to carry out tree planting activities since the construction period, and has planted more than 150,000 trees so far. The hydropower station also cooperates with surrounding universities, local hydropower development departments, etc., to regularly organize open visits and offer practical courses to create a Pakistani hydropower talent training platform.
"For me and my colleagues, this job makes us feel proud." Ali said that everyone in the team is full of affection for the hydropower station and will maintain the long-term stable operation of the hydropower station at a high level. Hasnain (哈斯奈因) said that he looks forward to more opportunities to contribute to the development of surrounding communities based on the hydropower station platform.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on December 30th: At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) of the Republic of Korea will pay a state visit to China from January 4th to 7th, 2026.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, December 30th) (Reporter Chen Xirui (陈熙芮)) At the fourth quarterly regular press conference on December 30th, the spokesperson for the State International Development Cooperation Agency (国家国际发展合作署), Li Ming (李明), stated that over the next 5 years, the agency will conduct 200 digital economy and artificial intelligence training programs for countries of the Global South, helping to bridge the North-South digital divide and promote better and greater benefits from scientific and technological achievements and technological applications for developing countries.
Li Ming (李明) stated that China will actively promote the creation of a "Digital South" brand under the Global Development Initiative framework, consult with partner countries to determine key areas and directions for cooperation, further strengthen the digital infrastructure support capabilities of partner countries, and use digital technology to empower agricultural production, universal education, disaster early warning, and other fields, helping the Global South to steadily and deeply integrate into the global digital development landscape.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姚雪青
Strengthen the age-friendly and barrier-free transformation of public facilities.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Recommendations
One winter morning, with the sun shining down, 77-year-old Guan Shengliang (管胜亮), who lives in Xinzha Village (新闸村), Baguazhou Subdistrict (八卦洲街道), Qixia District (栖霞区), Nanjing City (南京市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), left his home in an electric wheelchair and went to the No. 523 bus stop to wait for the bus.
"Uncle Guan (管大爷), going out for a stroll today?" a neighbor asked.
"It's convenient to take the bus now, so I can go out on my own," the old man replied with a smile.
Baguazhou (八卦洲) is a small island located in the middle of the Yangtze River (长江). Many young people on the island go out to work, and most of the permanent residents are elderly. Although there are several bus routes connecting the island to the urban area, it was always inconvenient for Uncle Guan (管大爷), who had suffered a stroke, to get on and off the bus, and he didn't want to bother his children all the time, so he often stayed at home alone for many years.
Last year, on the Double Ninth Festival, the No. 523 bus was upgraded to a "Respect for the Elderly Line (敬老线)," and age-friendly transportation added "hard facilities" and "soft services," and everything became different.
Before long, the No. 523 bus arrived. The passengers at this time were mainly elderly people, some carrying fresh vegetables, some holding CT films, and Uncle Guan (管大爷) was going to the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for physiotherapy.
After the bus came to a complete stop, the driver, Huang Dongdong (黄东东), immediately came to the rear door and skillfully lowered the foot pedal, instantly turning the steps into a gentle ramp. Huang Dongdong (黄东东) carefully pushed the wheelchair onto the bus and folded up the two window-side "love seats," which became a dedicated wheelchair parking area. The whole process lasted only two or three minutes. Huang Dongdong (黄东东) said that as a driver of the "Respect for the Elderly Line (敬老线)," he had undergone business training before taking up his post, and helping elderly people with mobility difficulties to get on and off the bus would not take too long.
In addition to the "Respect for the Elderly" logo on the front of the bus and the words "No. 523, Respect for the Elderly Line (523路、敬老线)" displayed on the electronic screen, the bus is full of an atmosphere of respect for the elderly: above the carriage are illustrated stories of respecting and caring for the elderly; the seat backs have promotional paintings of "Inheriting Respect for the Elderly"; behind the driver's cab is a convenience box, which is fully equipped with convenient items such as umbrellas, masks, and band-aids... As the weather turns cooler, the handrails in the carriage have also been replaced with "fluffy coats," which no longer feel cold to the touch.
This No. 523 bus starts at Zhongqiao Middle School (中桥中学) in Baguazhou (八卦洲) and ends at Maigaoqiao East Station (迈皋桥东站), connecting several old residential areas, hospitals, and farmers' markets along the 18-kilometer route. "We have done statistics in the background, and more than 40% of the passengers on the No. 523 bus swipe elderly cards. There is a vegetable base on Baguazhou (八卦洲), and many elderly people in the urban area like to go there to buy vegetables; there are tertiary hospitals near Maigaoqiao (迈皋桥), and many elderly people go there to see a doctor," said Yang Jing (杨靖), secretary of the Party branch of the No. 523 bus team, explaining that this is the main reason why the No. 523 bus was upgraded to a "Respect for the Elderly Line (敬老线)."
This bus route is also one of the 12 "Respect for the Elderly Lines (敬老线)" opened by Nanjing City (南京市) since 2018. Since last year, Nanjing (南京) buses' "Respect for the Elderly Lines (敬老线)" have served a total of 43,118,400 passengers, with elderly passengers accounting for 48.27%.
In order to make it more convenient for citizens to see a doctor, Nanjing Public Transport Group (南京公交集团) has opened 6 "Little Blue Whale Medical Microcirculation (小蓝鲸就医微循环)" special lines this year, serving a total of more than 500,000 passengers. Among them, the B90 bus is the medical line that carries the most elderly people. This bus route starts and ends at the outpatient department of Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital (江苏省人民医院门诊部), connecting several tertiary hospitals along the way.
On the B90 bus, 71-year-old citizen Yang Jian (杨建) repeatedly praised: "I have suffered from chronic diseases for many years, and I have to go to the hospital to get medicine every month, but I can't take a taxi. In the past, I could only ask my daughter, who works in another city, to book a car in advance, and it was not convenient to contact the driver." Yang Jian (杨建) said that now he can take the B90 bus directly to the outpatient building of the hospital, which is especially convenient.
The relevant person in charge of Nanjing Public Transport Group (南京公交集团) introduced that as one of the cities in the country that entered the aging population earlier, Nanjing City (南京市) has been continuously enriching and strengthening brand services such as "Respect for the Elderly Lines (敬老线)" and "Medical Buses" in recent years to help the elderly have support and travel with benefits.
Return to TopBy: 常 晋
How does the world view China?
The answer lies in the "China Experience." Russian blogger Kate, wearing a qipao, heard a conversation she deeply agreed with while taking photos in an old Shanghai street. A little girl, holding her mother's hand, asked, "Why is the foreign sister wearing our clothes?" The mother replied, "Because she likes Chinese culture."
The consensus lies in the "Global Survey." Recently, the Global Times released the 2025 Global Survey Report on China's International Image. Nearly 70% of foreign respondents have a favorable impression of China, over 80% recognize China's economic and technological strength as "strong," and over 2/3 hope that their country's relationship with China will become better in the future, with the relevant proportions increasing compared to last year. In July 2025, the Pew Research Center released a survey showing that global public favorability towards China has risen to a six-year high.
The rise in "global favorability" is not accidental. This is the natural result of China "firmly standing on the right side of history and on the side of human civilization's progress," the inevitable echo of "not pursuing a modernization that only benefits itself," and the sincere dedication to "committing to promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind." In a word, 得道者多助 (dé dào zhě duō zhù - "the virtuous are supported by many," a just cause enjoys abundant support).
The Dao lies in a global perspective, with "harmony and co-existence" interpreting China's "respectable" responsibility.
In South America, residents of the small Brazilian city of João Câmara drink clean water thanks to a brackish water desalination project built by a Chinese enterprise; in Oceania, rural Fijian women have embarked on a path of self-reliance and prosperity with the help of Fujian Juncao technology... Without attaching political conditions or engaging in lecturing like a teacher, China sincerely responds to the urgent desire of various countries to develop their economies and improve people's livelihoods, linking together a vivid picture of "true development is development for all."
From the Belt and Road Initiative and other international public goods benefiting the world, to the four major global initiatives gaining widespread recognition, along the way, the development cake is shared with the world, and the sincerity of cooperation is confirmed by results. The "circle of friends" naturally expands, and the number of "fellow travelers" is bound to increase.
The Dao lies in "doing what is said," with green development demonstrating China's "credible" character.
Living in the same global village, whoever cares for the common home will gain everyone's respect. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China contributed 1/4 of the world's new green area, and 1 out of every 3 kilowatt-hours of electricity used is green electricity... China is going all out to achieve its "dual carbon" goals and fulfill its solemn commitments to the international community.
Today, this vibrant greenery is flying across borders on the wings of new quality productive forces, becoming a benefit for all mankind. China's wind power and photovoltaic products are exported to more than 200 countries and regions, driving down the cost of related power generation by more than 60%, and cumulatively reducing carbon emissions for other countries by about 4.1 billion tons during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
It is inevitable and reasonable that the country that has increased green cover the most and fastest, and is most determined to fulfill its emission reduction commitments, will win the affirmation of the international community.
The Dao lies in the "combination of the two," with the ancient and the new fully demonstrating China's "lovable" style.
"Before coming, China was a mystery; after coming, I became a China fan," one sentence expresses the common sentiment of foreign tourists, which is a vivid footnote to how footsteps measure and break through "cognitive cocoons," and cultural contact generates resonance and recognition. It is still remembered that in the spring of 2025, the American internet celebrity "Hyperthyroidism Brother" came to China for live streaming, praising "It's so beautiful, this is China." Without filters or editing, a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China inherently possesses the power to move the world.
"Black Myth: Wukong" has a global revenue of over $1 billion, and many overseas players are "hard-chewing" "Journey to the West" with translation dictionaries; the number of downloads of Chinese micro-dramas overseas is growing rapidly, and the compact plot makes foreign audiences exclaim "addictive"... Today's China is launching an "Oriental wave" around the world with abundant cultural supply and a confident and open attitude.
Practicing the "combination of the two," the rich treasure house of outstanding Chinese traditional culture and the rich picture of Chinese-style modernization will inevitably continue to release the dual charm of being both profound and youthful.
With thousands of changes and transformations, the Dao is one. Always adhering to "taking the people's heart as our heart and taking the world's benefit as our benefit," China will surely further benefit the world and win the future.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 汪晓东 吴秋余 韩 鑫
In 2025, we will fully complete the '14th Five-Year Plan'." "We have always grown in the baptism of wind and rain and strengthened through trials. Everyone should be full of confidence."
As we bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new, revisiting President Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest message in his New Year's message for 2025 allows us to better appreciate the profound philosophy and powerful strength it contains.
This year, China's economy has advanced against pressure, developing towards new and better directions. The construction of a modern industrial system has continued to advance, reforms and opening-up have taken new steps, positive progress has been made in resolving risks in key areas, and people's livelihoods have been more effectively safeguarded.
In these five years, we have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, the '14th Five-Year Plan' is about to come to a successful conclusion, and a good start has been made in the new journey towards the second centenary goal.
Looking at five years from the perspective of one year, it is extremely unusual and extraordinary, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps;
Looking at the new era from the perspective of five years, we have been striving forward with determination and courage, and the cause of the Party and the country has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes.
In the new era and on the new journey, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an unstoppable trend. "Time and momentum are on our side. This is where our composure and confidence lie, and it is also where our determination and confidence lie."
Five years of grasping the laws and deepening understanding—
Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and accelerate the construction of a new development pattern
As the end of the year approaches, ports across China are still operating busily, day and night, and the flowing China is full of vitality.
At around 9:00 a.m. on December 2nd, in Zhejiang (浙江), the 40 millionth TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) in 2025 was successfully hoisted at Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港). From exceeding "30 million" for the first time in the first year of the '14th Five-Year Plan' to exceeding "40 million" for the first time in the closing year, the growth of this world's largest port in terms of cargo throughput reflects the secret to China's high-quality development.
Intelligence has become the key to enhancing the port's competitiveness. On February 14th of this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) successfully deployed the DeepSeek (深度求索) large model locally in its intelligent gate system, realizing DeepSeek's first global landing application in intelligent gates.
Green has become a distinct feature of port development. Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has joined hands with Hamburg Port (汉堡港) and Wilhelmshaven Port (威廉港) of Germany, Valencia Port (瓦伦西亚港) of Spain, and HAROPA Port Alliance (法国HAROPA港口联盟) of France to jointly build green shipping corridors, becoming one of the domestic hub ports with the largest number of green shipping corridors under construction, promoting the global maritime industry to move towards low-carbonization.
Opening-up injects strong momentum into connecting rivers and reaching the sea. Currently, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has more than 300 stable shipping routes, reaching more than 600 ports in more than 200 countries and regions. Internally, it integrates land-based logistics businesses, and the number of sea-rail intermodal transport lines has increased to 111, radiating 69 cities in 16 provinces across the country. By promoting the "Zhejiang e-Port Pass (浙江e港通)" model, it realizes the pre-positioning of customs, port, and shipping functions.
Behind the vibrant port is the vigorous vitality of a major country's economy.
During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, against the backdrop of the reverse globalization cold wave and the impact on production and supply chains, China's total economic output has crossed the thresholds of 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan. In 2025, it is expected to reach around 140 trillion yuan, with its contribution to world economic growth remaining at around 30%, becoming a stable and reliable source of power.
China's economy is progressing steadily and moving forward smoothly, demonstrating the power of truth and the great power of practice of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought.
During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, China has embarked on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The profound changes unseen in a century are changing as never before. Solving the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in the world's largest developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, the weight of reform, development, and stability tasks, the number of contradictions, risks, and challenges, and the test of governing the country are all unprecedented.
"I feel that the current situation is very different. The environmental conditions for large-scale imports and exports have changed. We must propose new ideas to guide development based on the new situation."
In the spring of 2020, more than five years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) for inspection. Crystallizing thoughts on the past, present, and future, shortly after returning to Beijing (北京), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly proposed the strategic choice of building a new development pattern.
In October 2020, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) planned the blueprint for the '14th Five-Year Plan' and made a comprehensive deployment for building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other.
Cultivating new opportunities in crises and opening up new prospects in changing situations, this is the profound insight into the trends of the times and the grasp of the pulse of the times, and it is also the courage of "smoothing out the bumps to make a great road, and setting off again after fighting through difficulties."
The stormier the situation, the more ideological guidance is needed; the more magnificent the journey, the more leadership and steering are needed.
"Entering a new stage of development clarifies China's historical position, implementing the new development concept clarifies the guiding principles for China's modernization, and building a new development pattern clarifies the path choice for China's economic modernization."
The new stage of development, the new development concept, and the new development pattern outline a clear coordinate system for China's economy in the new era, bring about changes in quality, efficiency, and power for China's economy, and reflect the strategic vision, overall strategic wisdom, and rock-solid strategic determination of the leader of China's economy.
"Fully implementing the new development concept and accelerating the construction of a new economic pattern is the key for China to redefine itself in the world," foreign media commented.
Guiding new development practices with theoretical innovation is a distinct feature of China's development during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must put effort into learning and research, strengthen the analysis of the situation, and see through the essence and grasp the laws through phenomena."
In these five years, Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought has been continuously enriched and developed in practice, clearly pointing out new methods and paths for economic and social development from "how to view" to "how to do," injecting strong confidence and momentum for us to successfully cope with various risks and challenges.
Forming the greatest consensus—the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core is the fundamental guarantee for doing a good job in economic work. At critical moments and important junctures, the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) promptly analyzes the situation and makes decisions and deployments, ensuring that China's economic ship can ride the wind and waves and move forward steadily.
Revealing the laws of development—Over the past five years, the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) has proposed regular understandings such as the "five fundamentals," the "five musts to coordinate," and the "five musts," fully applying the "two combinations" to open up a new realm of development.
Without demand, supply cannot be realized, and new demand can give rise to new supply; without supply, demand cannot be met, and new supply can create new demand. We must coordinate the relationship between total supply and total demand to smooth the national economic cycle.
People are the starting point and end point of development. We must adhere to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people, promote the coordinated accumulation of material capital and human capital, and achieve two-way empowerment and mutual promotion between investing in things and investing in people.
The more standardized government behavior is, the more effective the market's role will be. We must coordinate the relationship between an effective market and an active government to form an economic order that is both "flexible" and "well-managed."
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A series of regular understandings of economic work are proposed by the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core on the basis of accurately grasping the overall trend of domestic and international economic development and summarizing domestic and international development experience. They are drawn and summarized from the practice of economic work, and continuously improve and develop our Party's ideological understanding and working methods in leading economic work, which is of great guiding significance for successfully navigating China's economic ship.
Calmly weathering the stormy waves and moving forward despite wind and rain. The new leap of China's economy during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period fully demonstrates that the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has the skilled ability to manage complex situations and the superb wisdom to lead China's development, providing a fundamental guarantee for the sustained and healthy development of China's economy and society.
Five extremely unusual and extraordinary years—
Firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development and develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions
An upward curve "run" out reflects the strong pulse of China's economy.
Over the past five years, the average annual growth rate of China's new energy vehicle production and sales has exceeded 75%, setting the highest increase in each five-year plan period.
In the first 11 months of this year, China's automobile production and sales both exceeded 31 million vehicles. The vigorous upward development momentum has driven the joint leap of hundreds of industrial chains. From small to large, from weak to strong, the gorgeous leap of the automobile industry demonstrates the brand-new atmosphere of China's high-quality economic development.
Seemingly ordinary is the most extraordinary, and success seems easy but is hard-won.
Entering the '14th Five-Year Plan', China's economic ship encountered new rapids and shoals—
From an international perspective, the world's profound changes unseen in a century are accelerating, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing rapidly, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustments, the impact of the century-long epidemic is far-reaching, geopolitical conflicts are intensifying, the reverse globalization trend of thought is rising, unilateralism and protectionism are significantly rising, and the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change.
From a domestic perspective, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development is still prominent, the ability of scientific and technological innovation needs to be further improved, the pressure on ecological and environmental protection is still relatively large, and the task of promoting high-quality development is still arduous.
At a critical period, the greatest advantage brings strong confidence and confidence to cope with risks and challenges.
In the face of the sudden century-long epidemic, make scientific decisions in accordance with the times and situations, give full play to the institutional advantages of socialism in concentrating efforts to do big things, and effectively coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development;
In the face of the constantly escalating external suppression and containment, concentrate efforts to do our own things well, build a large country economy led by domestic demand, and insist on placing the development of the country and the nation on the basis of our own strength;
In the face of some new situations and problems in economic operation, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) meeting held on September 26, 2024, made deployments, significantly enhancing confidence, improving expectations, and stimulating development momentum, becoming "a milestone move in macroeconomic regulation and control";
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Make the greatest efforts and strive for the best results. In these five years, the certainty of China's high-quality economic development has been continuously consolidated and enhanced, "being optimistic about China" has become a consensus, and "being more optimistic about China" has become increasingly popular.
"With a large economic volume, greater impetus is needed for forward development." Where to find new momentum? General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has far-sighted considerations, and new quality productive forces are an important place to start.
"High-quality development requires new productivity theory to guide it, and new quality productive forces have already taken shape in practice and demonstrated a strong driving force and support for high-quality development" "We must firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development and develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions"... Diagnosing and directing, innovatively proposing the theory of new quality productive forces, igniting a new engine for high-quality development.
"We must continue to do a good job in innovation and promote the accelerated development of new quality productive forces" "We must lead industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation and actively cultivate and develop new quality productive forces" "We must adhere to taking the development of characteristic and advantageous industries as the main direction and develop emerging industries in accordance with local conditions"... Seeking truth and being pragmatic, proposing a series of practical requirements, clearly defining the development path of new quality productive forces.
Following the direction guided by the General Secretary, all regions and departments are striving to climb, and there is rapid creation everywhere in China—
Major country heavyweights are continuously being updated. At sea, the "three pearls" on the crown of the shipbuilding industry are gathered, and "Haidou-1 (海斗一号)" has completed its 10,000-meter sea trial; in the air, the "Tiangong (天宫)" space station has entered normalized operation, and the C919 large aircraft has achieved commercial flight; on land, the world's first fourth-generation nuclear power plant has been put into commercial operation, and the CR450 EMU technology leads the world... In these five years, high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement have taken new steps.
The foundation of innovation is more solid. The production and sales of new energy vehicles rank first in the world, the scale of network infrastructure is the largest and most widely covered in the world, the stock of industrial robots in service ranks first in the world, and the installed capacity of photovoltaics and wind power ranks first in the world... In these five years, "the world's most" has accelerated its emergence, highlighting the core strength of innovation.
"Is new quality productive force equal to emerging industries?"
"The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries can also develop new quality productive forces." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly, "We must adapt to local conditions and have our own characteristics."
Instructing Heilongjiang (黑龙江) "to base itself on the existing industrial base and solidly promote the high-quality development of advanced manufacturing," requiring Guangdong (广东) "to build a modern industrial system with international competitiveness," and encouraging Tianjin (天津) "to give play to its advantages such as abundant scientific and educational resources and strive to be the first and be good at developing new quality productive forces"... In each local inspection and each important meeting, the connotation of new quality productive forces is clearer, and the pace of developing new quality productive forces is more firm.
Automated rail cranes accurately lift and transfer, intelligent guided transport vehicles shuttle in an orderly manner, and the entire process is unmanned... Rizhao Port (日照港) of Shandong Port (山东港口) is a busy scene at the fully automated container terminal.
Rizhao Port (日照港) is sailing against the tide of the times, catching up later, and rapidly growing into the "youngest" 500 million-ton port. During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the port's annual cargo throughput has crossed two 100 million-ton steps in a row and will reach 640 million tons.
"This shows that the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries can also develop new quality productive forces. If we want to move from a big country to a strong country, we must pass this hurdle and take the road of independent innovation." In May 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) first stop in Shandong (山东) was Rizhao Port (日照港) on the coast of the Yellow Sea (黄海).
"We must prevent a rush and bubble, and we must not engage in a single model." Coordinating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, the construction of a modern industrial system has achieved remarkable results—
Traditional industries are "renewed." Since the '14th Five-Year Plan', more than 230 excellent intelligent factories and 1,260 5G factories have been built, and the comprehensive energy consumption of unit products such as steel and cement clinker has generally reached the world's advanced level.
Emerging industries are "leading." More than 60 national advanced manufacturing clusters in emerging industrial fields have been cultivated, and a number of advantageous industries such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and lithium batteries have been cultivated and expanded, and new formats and new models such as flexible customization, shared manufacturing, and intelligent logistics are accelerating.
Future industries are "rooted." Superconducting quantum computers and optical quantum computers have achieved quantum superiority verification, the overall level of laser manufacturing technology has entered the first echelon in the world, and humanoid robots have the entire industrial chain manufacturing capabilities from key chips, components, and components to complete machines.
"Adhere to starting from reality," and all regions promote the rapid development of new industries, new models, and new momentum according to their resource endowments, industrial foundations, and scientific research strength.
Qinghai (青海) is focusing on building a highland of ecological civilization and building "four places" for industry; Shanxi (山西) is focusing on promoting energy transformation and accelerating the transformation of energy production methods, consumption methods, and development momentum; Hunan (湖南) continues to build a national important advanced manufacturing highland and build a modern industrial system; Guangdong (广东) focuses on building emerging pillar industries and implementing industrial innovation projects...
Opening the "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations from various places, the development picture of adapting to local conditions and competing for new situations is becoming clearer.
"To be with China is to be with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future."
On December 18, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) officially launched the entire island's closure, becoming a landmark measure for China to unswervingly expand high-level opening-up and promote the construction of an open world economy.
From carrying out pilot projects to expand opening-up in value-added telecommunications, biotechnology, and other fields in some regions, to supporting domestic and foreign-funded enterprises to participate in large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods trade-in activities on an equal footing; from the expansion of the "visa-free circle of friends" to "China Travel (中国游)" becoming a hot word on the Internet... In these five years, China's door to opening-up has been opened wider and wider, allowing the world to share development opportunities.
Thousands of rivers converge into the sea, and the wind is just right to set sail.
China's economic ship is riding the wind and waves forward, continuing to be a major contributor and stabilizer to world economic growth, and building a more solid material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
The five years of continued struggle and unremitting efforts—
Adhering to delivering political achievements for the people and achieving them through hard work
"The people are the creators of history, the most solid foundation and the deepest strength for advancing modernization."
A livelihood project reflects the people's stance.
At dawn, in Caoxi Third Village (漕溪三村), Xuhui District (徐汇区), Shanghai (上海), the sound of pouring chamber pots is gone, and there is tranquility and peace.
New houses have grown on the old site. Gu Lanmei (顾兰妹), 68 years old, who had been "living in a snail shell" for more than 40 years, moved into an elevator apartment.
Receiving the key, taking the elevator, and the first step into the door, she rushed to see the toilet, "One button, and it flushes. Goodbye forever to the ceramic spittoon!"
In September of this year, the task of renovating more than 14,000 households "carrying chamber pots" was completed ahead of schedule, and Shanghai (上海) bid farewell to "carrying chamber pots" completely.
A blueprint is drawn to the end. For more than 30 years, Shanghai (上海) has "eliminated" 1.64 million chamber pots, and the "tough battle" involving millions of residents has been won historically.
Putting in enough "embroidery effort" and cleverly solving "key small matters," this project of "achieving great breadth and meticulous detail" condenses the people's feelings of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
When working in Shanghai (上海), he proposed that "the renovation of old districts must be insisted on, and the people must not be allowed to live in such dilapidated houses anymore"; after working in the central government, he emphasized that "the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region developed early and has many old urban areas, and the renovation task is very heavy. This matter involves the vital interests of the masses and the long-term development of the city, and we must find ways to solve it no matter how difficult it is"... General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) always keeps in mind the warmth of one more square meter for the people.
"What the people worry about, I must think about; what the people expect, I must do." In the General Secretary's heart, the word "people" weighs a thousand pounds.
In Nangou Village (南沟村), Yan'an (延安), Shaanxi (陕西), he learned about the apple harvest from the fruit farmers picking on the spot and encouraged them to "continue to work hard and move forward"; in Changan Community (长安小区), Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), he visited residents' homes and pointed out that "we should better care for the 'old and the young'"; in Xining National Middle School (西宁民族中学), Guoluo (果洛), Qinghai (青海), he inspected students' dining and accommodation conditions and urged them to "ensure students' food safety and nutrition"...
Thinking about what the people think and doing what the people ask, the concerns about people's livelihood in General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) mind are written into the five-year development plan and transformed into efforts to grasp reform and promote development.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五规划) outlines seven livelihood indicators, accounting for more than 1/3 of the 20 major indicators, the highest proportion in previous five-year plans. During the five years, fiscal investment in the field of people's livelihood was nearly 10 trillion yuan, accounting for more than 70% of the national general public budget expenditure.
Continuing to implement policies such as phased reductions in unemployment and work-related injury insurance rates, carrying out work such as creating high-quality and balanced compulsory education in counties, innovating and introducing childcare subsidy systems, steadily promoting the construction of guaranteed housing, and comprehensively promoting the construction of close-knit county medical communities... A series of tangible and accessible livelihood policies are constantly turning the people's yearning for a better life into reality—
The annual increase in urban employment has been stable at more than 12 million people, the gross enrollment rate of preschool education has reached 92%, long-term care insurance covers 190 million people, and more than 6,200 "15-minute convenient living circles" make life more convenient for 129 million residents. Every practical matter concerning people's livelihood supports the "steady happiness" of more than 1.4 billion people.
"Chinese-style modernization puts people's livelihood first." "Adhere to delivering political achievements for the people." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) words are concise and profound.
Relying closely on the people and doing everything for the people, as we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), the common prosperity of all the people will take new steps, and the comprehensive construction of a strong socialist modern country will write a new chapter.
Guangdong (广东), the forefront of reform and opening up. Looking at northern Guangdong (粤北), in Nanfu Village (南福村), Meixian District (梅县区), Meizhou (梅州), fruit farmers are busy packing golden pomelos, and this year is another bumper harvest; looking at western Guangdong (粤西), the Maoming (茂名) pilot section of the Guangdong Coastal Tourism Highway (广东滨海旅游公路) connects scenery, and tourists come to check in; observing eastern Guangdong (粤东), Chaozhou Sanhuan (潮州三环) "turns porcelain into gold" (点瓷成金), and the sales of many new material products rank among the top in the world; exploring the Pearl River Delta (珠三角), the "Seven Robot Swordsmen" are strongly rising, and one out of every three industrial robots in the country is made in Guangdong (广东).
Suitable for agriculture, then agriculture; suitable for industry, then industry; suitable for commerce, then commerce. Here, the Pearl River Delta (珠三角) "takes the lead"; there, 12 cities in eastern, western, and northern Guangdong (粤东西北) are catching up. On a map of less than 180,000 square kilometers, vitality is surging.
"Guangdong (广东) must compare itself with itself." Facing the current situation of growth lower than the national average, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) hit the nail on the head when he inspected Guangdong (广东) in November this year.
In just seven words, he cleared away the fog of "growth anxiety" and revealed the orientation of being realistic and pioneering, and being good at doing things and achieving success.
"All plans must be realistic and seek real and water-free growth." A month later, at the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly pointed out that "political achievements should be achieved through hard work," and the concept of political achievements "is reflected not only in immediate and effective achievements, but also in potential achievements that lay the foundation, increase momentum, and benefit the long term."
In the dialectic between the obvious and the potential, there is a strategic clarity of "adhering to starting from reality in everything."
Communists are materialists, and pragmatism is an essential quality. We must be realistic, seek truth from facts, and work hard.
"If you see it accurately, seize it and do it quickly, and do as much as you can."
"All tasks should be done as early as possible, grasped tightly and implemented, and ensure sufficient strength."
"Implementation needs to be combined with reality and adapted to local conditions."
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Every year, the Central Economic Work Conference releases an important signal: "Chinese-style modernization is achieved through hard work."
Upholding reality and being earnest. Adhering to innovation-driven development, R&D investment has increased year after year, and "major country weapons" are emerging one after another; adhering to green development, illegal fishing has been effectively curbed, and the "ten-year fishing ban" in the Yangtze River (长江) is being firmly promoted; firmly adhering to reform and opening up, the negative list for foreign investment access is constantly being reduced, and "investing in China" continues to be strong... Looking back on the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五), various undertakings have been carried out tirelessly and have made pioneering progress, and the momentum for high-quality development has been accumulated and the momentum is strong.
Seeking truth and being pragmatic. Based on ice and snow resources, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) has proposed to expand the ice and snow economy into a trillion-yuan industrial cluster; relying on talent endowments, Sichuan (四川) is orderly promoting the development and deployment of artificial intelligence large models; carrying the mission of opening up, Hainan (海南) is fully implementing the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" (海南自由贸易港建设总体方案)... As we move towards the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), various regions are finding their positioning, seeking truth from facts, and planning development paths and grasping the initiative for development in accordance with local conditions.
The blueprint for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) has been laid out. With the established goals as a strategic guide, unswervingly doing our own thing well, and unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world, the Chinese economic ship will surely cross rapids and shoals, ride the wind and waves, and move steadily and far.
"The journey is long, and only struggle can lead to success." The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, unite as one, forge ahead, and strive to achieve the goals and tasks of economic and social development next year, and ensure a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五).
"We have created a glorious past through hard work, and we must also rely on hard work to create a better future."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Taipei, December 30th. The Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军东部战区) began the "Joint Sword-2025" exercises around Taiwan Island (台湾岛) on the 29th, which has attracted high attention from Taiwanese society. Public opinion and various sectors on the island generally believe that the Lai Ching-te (赖清德) authorities disregard peace in the Taiwan Strait and the safety of the Taiwanese people, constantly trampling on red lines and introducing external forces, pushing Taiwan (台湾) into a dangerous situation. The mainland military exercise is a stern warning to the Lai Ching-te (赖清德) authorities' provocations of "seeking independence through military means" and "seeking independence by relying on foreign forces," and a powerful countermeasure against external forces interfering in China's internal affairs.
Chairman Eric Chu (郑丽文) of the Kuomintang (中国国民党) stated that Lai Ching-te (赖清德) is constantly provoking and trampling on red lines, and fundamentally does not want to create cross-strait peace. He does not have any ability to solve problems, but only constantly carries out political mobilization through hatred and fear, provoking cross-strait confrontation. He has completely cut off the road and must go to the end, implicating 23 million people in Taiwan (台湾). Lai Ching-te (赖清德) and the Democratic Progressive Party's (民进党) erroneous cross-strait policies are the reason for pushing Taiwan (台湾) into a dangerous situation.
Chi Hsin (纪欣), publisher of Taiwan's "Observation" magazine, said in an interview that Lai Ching-te (赖清德) has recently intensified his efforts, frantically clamoring against the mainland, and constantly pledging allegiance to external forces. The People's Liberation Army (解放军) launched military exercises at this moment, firstly to warn the Lai Ching-te (赖清德) authorities to stop their provocative actions and not to rush forward and cross the red line; and secondly, to warn external forces not to continue to "use Taiwan (台湾) to contain China" and expand the conflict.
Lo Chih-cheng (罗庆生), executive director of the Taiwan "International Strategic Society," wrote in the "China Times" that radical "Taiwan independence" activists love to falsely claim that the People's Liberation Army (解放军) "lacks strength," but this "encirclement of Taiwan (围台)" military exercise shows that the People's Liberation Army (解放军) has demonstrated a tougher attitude, more skilled actions, and a more rapid response capability. The connotation of the People's Liberation Army's (解放军) previous "encirclement of Taiwan (围台)" military exercises is to demonstrate strength, and the essence is "deterrence," warning "Taiwan independence" forces not to misjudge the situation and cross the red line.
Chao Hsing-peng (赵兴鹏), a researcher at the Taiwan Chinese Strategic Society, wrote in the "United Daily News" calling on Lai Ching-te (赖清德) not to indulge in verbal sparring and not to fall into the trap of the United States "selling war fear on one hand and selling weapons on the other."
Taiwan's "China Times News Network" published a commentary pointing out that the Lai Ching-te (赖清德) authorities have recently been increasing their voice in order to increase the NT$1.25 trillion "special defense budget," and have also restricted cross-strait exchanges and freedom of speech, causing political confrontation and social unrest on the island.
Huang Hui (黄惠), a retired civil servant in Taipei (台北), wrote in the "United Daily News" that Lai Ching-te (赖清德) is desperately trying to please the United States, buying American weapons, and preparing for "street fighting." "But ordinary people may not think so. We are all very scared that war will destroy the current stable and prosperous society."
"Cross-strait peace and stability, and people living and working in peace and contentment, are the days that Taiwanese young people want." Chen Chong-chen (陈崇真), a young man from Taiwan (台湾), said in an interview that the mainland's military exercise has made it increasingly clear to the Taiwanese people that the Democratic Progressive Party (民进党) authorities' "seeking independence by relying on foreign forces" is a dead end, and that only cross-strait peace and reconciliation are the way out. "Opposing military purchases and protecting people's livelihoods" is an increasingly strong mainstream public opinion in Taiwanese society.
Hsieh Chih-chuan (谢志传), a current affairs commentator in Taiwan (台湾), said in an interview that it is not difficult to see from the key exercise subjects such as seizing comprehensive control and blockading important ports and areas that the People's Liberation Army (解放军) has strong capabilities to completely crush the "Taiwan independence" separatist forces' attempts to "seek independence through military means" and "seek independence by relying on foreign forces."
"The military exercise is named 'Joint Sword,' to highlight that safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity is the common responsibility of all Chinese people." Chi Hsin (纪欣) said that all Taiwanese people who cherish peace should realize that only cross-strait reconciliation, through consultation and dialogue, and the early realization of reunification, can Taiwan (台湾) achieve true long-term peace and stability.
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Being adept at recognizing, responding to, and seeking change, and maintaining overall stability and opening new prospects amidst changing circumstances, is an important method for our Party to lead the people in overcoming all risks and challenges and firmly grasping the strategic initiative.
In 2026, we will usher in the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) profoundly grasped the general trend of the world and the trend of the times, made major judgments on the environment facing China's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and carried out top-level design and strategic planning for strategic tasks concerning the overall situation. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal reviewed and approved by the plenary session concerns the new blueprint for China's development in the next five years. It is an important manifestation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core promoting the spirit of historical initiative, and it is the practical result of our Party accurately recognizing changes, scientifically responding to changes, and proactively seeking changes, providing an important guide for us to master the initiative and win the future.
Ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," an important aspect is to enhance the consciousness and ability to recognize, respond to, and seek change, overcome difficulties, fight risks, and meet challenges with the spirit of historical initiative, and strive to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
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Correctly judging the situation is an important prerequisite for scientific decision-making.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Correctly understanding the historical position and stage of development of the cause of the Party and the people is the fundamental basis for our Party to clarify the central tasks of the stage and formulate guidelines and policies."
From directly facing the complex situation of "three periods superimposed" and making the judgment that China's economic development has entered a new normal, to grasping the problems of extensive development such as structural imbalance and environmental pollution, and clarifying that China's economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development... Since the new era, the Party Central Committee has accurately grasped the overall situation and made scientific judgments and key decisions at critical moments and important nodes, demonstrating extraordinary strategic vision and a strong historical initiative.
"China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and there are more uncertain and unpredictable factors." The basic judgment made by the plenary session is based on a profound analysis of the complex environment facing China's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
From an international perspective, the century-old changes are accelerating, the world is entering a new period of turbulence and change, major power games are becoming more complex and intense, and uncertainty is increasing sharply.
On the one hand, in recent years, the逆流涌动 (nì liú yǒng dòng - "countercurrents surge," adverse trends are rising) of unilateralism and protectionism has surged, and individual countries have successively launched trade wars and tariff wars, constantly impacting the global economic and trade order.
On the other hand, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, and global technological innovation is entering an unprecedentedly dense and active period, providing broad new space and historical new opportunities for China to promote high-quality development.
From the perspective of the domestic situation, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are numerous, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great, but the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development is still prominent, changes in the population structure pose new challenges, and the development tasks are arduous.
Looking at the favorable conditions. In the first 11 months of 2025, trade-ins of consumer goods alone drove sales of related commodities exceeding 2.5 trillion yuan. The ultra-large-scale market provides rich application scenarios, helping China leap from a "world factory" to a "global innovation center."
Looking at the shortcomings and weaknesses. The modernization of agriculture and rural areas is relatively lagging behind, and the most arduous and onerous tasks are still in rural areas. But the gap is potential, and the difference is also momentum. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal makes arrangements for "accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas." In the next 5 to 10 years, investment demand in agriculture and rural areas will remain strong.
In general, the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of the ultra-large-scale market, the advantages of the complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources are more prominent, and the supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed.
Maintaining strategic clarity, facing the risks, challenges, contradictions, and problems that will inevitably be encountered on the road ahead, and always being aware of the situation is an important foundation for us to master the historical initiative.
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Making scientific decisions in a timely manner according to changes in the situation is the secret to our Party's success and future victory.
Keenly perceiving that "the environmental conditions of large-scale import and export have changed," assessing the situation and proposing the construction of a new development pattern, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's economic increment is expected to exceed 35 trillion yuan, equivalent to recreating a Yangtze River Delta (长三角).
Faced with increasing downward economic pressure, on September 26, 2024, the Party Central Committee's "milestone move in macroeconomic regulation and control" decisively deployed a package of incremental policies, effectively boosting market confidence, and the economy achieved a significant rebound in the fourth quarter.
Scientific response and scientific decision-making are prerequisites for us to master the strategic initiative. From the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal, we can better understand the strategic considerations of a series of major decisions and deployments.
Being in a century-old change, cultivating new opportunities in crisis.
Faced with the major adjustments, major divisions, and major reorganizations of the global political and economic landscape, the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal deploys tasks such as "maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing" and "building a strong domestic market," reflecting the determination and determination to concentrate efforts on doing our own things well.
For example, "maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing." Manufacturing is the foundation of the country, the tool for revitalizing the country, and the foundation for strengthening the country. Maintaining a reasonable proportion can ensure that "when others do not open the door for us, we can still survive and live better on our own." At the same time, "building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone" can consolidate the material foundation of Chinese-style modernization and become an indispensable "key link" in the global industrial chain and supply chain.
China is so big and has so many people that it will not change its strategic direction and development pace due to external pressure. Only by placing the development of the country and the nation on the basis of its own strength can it not be afraid of storms and ensure a smooth voyage.
Focusing on the overall situation of rejuvenation and opening up a new situation in the midst of change.
Chinese-style modernization needs to be supported by scientific and technological modernization, and achieving high-quality development requires technological innovation to cultivate new driving forces. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal highlights the leading role of scientific and technological innovation and places the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions in a more prominent strategic position, precisely in order to seize the opportunities of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, so as to win the strategic initiative in fierce international competition.
Since the new era, the development of two industries has been particularly remarkable—
One is that China's cumulative sales of new energy vehicles have exceeded 40 million, and its production and sales have remained the world's first for 10 consecutive years; the other is that the number of artificial intelligence enterprises in China has exceeded 5,300, and the scale of the core industry is expected to exceed 1.2 trillion yuan in 2025.
The transformation of the two industries is inseparable from the Party Central Committee's advanced deployment and planning, and it is inseparable from transforming the key variable of scientific and technological innovation into the largest incremental factor for promoting high-quality development.
Making good use of the new type of national system, seizing the commanding heights of scientific and technological development, and constantly spawning new quality productive forces, in the next five years, promoting high-quality development will surely achieve new and greater results.
From proposing the main goals, to highlighting the theme of development, and then to deploying strategic tasks that have a major traction, driving, and supporting role in promoting Chinese-style modernization... The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal profoundly grasps the new trends and characteristics of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, explaining both how to view and how to do and how to implement, providing scientific guidance for doing a good job in economic and social development in the next five years.
Moving with the trend and taking advantage of the situation, we will surely be able to consolidate our advantages and take advantage of the momentum in major tests with high winds and waves or even stormy waves.
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Changes contain opportunities, and challenges inspire fighting spirit.
Realizing变革创新 (biàn gé chuàng xīn - "reform and innovation," to transform and innovate) on the basis of grasping the laws, combining the firmness of strategy with the flexibility of tactics, and responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, we can continuously create a new situation in comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
The plenary session proposed "adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point," which is not only related to people's livelihood needs, but also in line with development needs, and also involves economic security. It is not an expedient measure, but a strategic move.
Since the new era, among the "troika" driving national economic growth, domestic demand composed of consumption and investment has become the main driving force and anchor of stability. However, China's ultra-large-scale market advantages have not been fully utilized, and there is still huge potential to tap the contribution of domestic demand to economic growth.
Anchoring the strategic base point of expanding domestic demand requires adhering to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people, and macroeconomic policies should move with the times and change with the situation.
In 2025, the consumer goods trade-in policy added 3 types of digital products such as mobile phones, tablets, and smart watches and bracelets, and 4 types of household appliances such as microwave ovens, water purifiers, dishwashers, and rice cookers on the basis of 2024; since 2025, equipment renewal projects supported by ultra-long-term special treasury bonds have driven total investment of over 1 trillion yuan. The strengthening, expansion, and quality improvement of the "two new" policies have continuously enhanced the leverage effect, which is the result of adhering to the dialectical unity of strategy and tactics.
Anchoring the strategic base point of expanding domestic demand also requires adhering to a better combination of an effective market and a capable government, and stimulating the vitality of seeking progress while maintaining stability with the dividends of reform and opening up.
Issuing the "National Unified Market Construction Guidelines (Trial)," implementing the "Fair Competition Review Regulations," reducing the negative list for market access, and comprehensively rectifying "involution-style" competition... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the "invisible hand" and the "visible hand" each gave full play to their strengths and worked together to effectively enhance the endogenous动力 (dòng lì - "driving force," internal power) of China's economic development.
A strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization, and a high-level socialist market economic system is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, aiming at goals, making decisions according to circumstances, deepening reforms, establishing various systems and rules that are conducive to the construction of a unified national market, removing various obstacles and constraints that are not conducive to the construction of a unified national market, and continuously improving the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance, fully stimulating the enthusiasm and creativity of various business entities, will further enhance the动力 (dòng lì - "driving force," internal power) and vitality of high-quality development.
Development initiative is seized and fought for.
Actively recognizing, responding to, and seeking change, firmly grasping the strategic initiative, and concentrating our efforts on doing our own things well, we will surely be able to continue writing new chapters in the two great miracles.
(Written by: He Juan (何娟), Chang Jin (常晋))
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Under the guidance of the rule of law, we should promote reading services from "tangible coverage" to "effective coverage," making libraries, community bookstores, and physical bookstores warm corners "where people want to walk in and sit down."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward: "Promote the construction of a reading society." Not long ago, the "National Reading Promotion Regulations" were officially promulgated and will safeguard our reading life from February 1st next year. National reading has moved from continuous policy guidance to a new stage of institutionalization and the rule of law, setting a new milestone for enhancing the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural literacy of the entire nation and improving the level of civilization of the entire society.
Reading has never been just a personal hobby; it is also related to the spiritual altitude of a country and is a key path for transforming the advantage of population size into the advantage of talent quality. Incorporating national reading into the rule of law is to provide a lasting spiritual impetus for the country's long-term development in a legal way. The rule of law provides institutional guarantees, and national reading injects spiritual impetus. The combined efforts of the two promote the all-round progress of people and the coordinated development of material and spiritual civilization.
With the collaborative promotion of all sectors of society, China's national reading cause is booming. As of the end of 2024, there are 3,248 public libraries and more than 40,000 new public cultural spaces across the country. However, in reality, the "threshold" for opening a book is sometimes much higher than we imagine. For example, the reading rate of rural residents is lower than that of urban residents, and the scope of reading is relatively narrow. Also, adults do not have much time for reading in the "running" of work and life.
The significance of the rule of law lies in solving structural problems such as resource imbalance, weak promotion, and service failure with the will of the state. In practice, the exploration of many places has been fruitful: Gansu (甘肃) has moved farmers' bookstores to the "cloud," and villagers can roam the sea of books with a light touch of their fingertips; Zhejiang (浙江), Anhui (安徽) and other places have promoted "universal borrowing and returning" of urban and rural books, giving books flowing "wings"... The regulations clearly state that "promoting the balanced and coordinated development of national reading" means that promoting the tilt of reading resources to the grassroots and flowing to weak areas has become a statutory obligation that must be fulfilled.
Today, as fingertips swipe across the screen, information washes over us like a waterfall, digital reading is becoming more and more convenient, while traditional reading is being impacted. The regulations clearly support the combination of digital reading and traditional reading, promote the supply of high-quality digital reading content, and at the same time require digital reading service providers to strengthen content management and create a healthy and upward digital reading environment. Allowing each reading form to find its value will nurture a more complete and warmer reading ecology.
"No one can be left behind" in national reading, which means that the rights and interests of special groups cannot be left unattended. The China Braille Library (中国盲文图书馆) has jointly launched an accessible AI reading system with digital platforms, allowing visually impaired people to "hear" the vast world through high-quality audiobooks and voice navigation. The rule of law is the cornerstone of fairness and justice, not only drawing clear red lines for chaos, but also committed to safeguarding the bottom line of fairness and justice. Supporting the construction of barrier-free facilities for national reading in the form of the rule of law, the light of reading will shine farther and benefit a wider range of people.
The rule of law is not only a means of social governance, but also a cornerstone of safeguarding the spiritual home. Under the guidance of the rule of law, we should promote reading services from "tangible coverage" to "effective coverage," making libraries, community bookstores, and physical bookstores warm corners "where people want to walk in and sit down," and national reading will better help realize the beautiful vision of building a strong socialist cultural country.
Return to TopIn Xiamen (厦门), Fujian province, 24-hour comprehensive service stations are fully equipped with self-service government affairs machines, convenient rental cabinets, microwave ovens, battery swapping cabinets, and more. In Yinchuan (银川), Ningxia province, the "15-minute convenient medical service circle" has constructed a three-dimensional service network supplemented by community health service centers and retail pharmacies. For some time, various regions have continued to promote the construction of convenient service facilities and introduced various measures to improve people's livelihoods, making residents' lives warmer and more convenient.
This is precisely:
Walking within a short distance,
All facilities and services are available.
Exquisite embroidery in the subtle details,
The warmth of daily life warms the heart.
By Gao Shilin (高世林)
Return to TopWhy the Snow-Swept Stage Moves People
Liu Weidong (刘伟东)
Not long ago, a report about the mutual devotion between Henan Opera actors and their audience warmed hearts: in a snowy rural area of Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), actors insisted on performing, and the audience held umbrellas to watch.
The actors' facial makeup was frozen, their hands were numb, but the performance continued; the audience braved the wind and snow, unwilling to leave. The touching scene in the snow was like a vivid folk painting. Why does Henan Opera shine on the vast stage? Because it carries the fragrance of the soil, sings the voices of the people, and performs the feelings of home and country. The earthy atmosphere from the folk is its profound foundation.
From exploring immersive performances in small theaters, to singing Henan Opera in live broadcast rooms, to new historical dramas telling profound history with trendy aesthetics... what the audience sees is the development path of modern Henan Opera that adheres to tradition without being rigid, and innovates without abandoning its roots. In Henan (河南), state-owned troupes cultivate the grassroots, thousands of private troupes are active in the countryside, and "opera entering campuses" and "stage art going to the grassroots" continuously sow seeds... professional troupes and folk forces echo each other, offline rooting and online breaking circles promote each other, jointly forming a good ecology for the inheritance and development of Henan Opera.
True cultural confidence is not only reflected in the exhibitions in museums, but also manifested in the living inheritance in life; it is not a highbrow, self-admiring appreciation, but a conscious innovation that resonates with the pulse of the times. When ancient tunes spread to all directions through new media, what we see is the prosperity of new mass literature and art under the conditions of the Internet, and the surging of the national spirit in the contemporary era.
(Excerpted and adapted from *Henan Daily* (《河南日报》), original title: "Why the Stage in the Snow Warms Hearts")
Forging "Ready-Made Iron" Requires Refining "Raw Steel"
Chen Han (谌晗)
I once heard a saying: "Forge 'ready-made iron,' refine 'raw steel.'" Using this sentence to enlighten the current cultural tourism market is quite accurate. As soon as a scenic spot becomes a popular hotspot, replica versions emerge in clusters everywhere; as soon as a highway becomes popular, similar road signs instantly spread throughout urban and rural areas... whatever is popular is followed, some praise its rapid response, others worry about aesthetic fatigue.
What is "ready-made iron"? It refers to those rapidly replicated cultural tourism products. What is "raw steel"? It means having a unique character rooted in the local area and distinctive local features. "Ready-made iron" can gain temporary spotlight, but lacks support and is difficult to withstand market testing; refining "raw steel" is the only way to stand firm and go far in cultural tourism competition.
Cultural tourism needs traffic, marketing can take advantage of the trend, but development cannot follow the crowd. "We do whatever others do that is popular" is ultimately a short-sighted act of seeking quick success and instant benefits, and "overexertion" in pursuit of exposure will ultimately overdraw the reputation of local cultural tourism.
A square inch of iron, a hundred refinements of steel, the cultural tourism industry is never a 一锤子买卖 (yī chuí zi mǎi mài - "one hammer deal," a one-off transaction). Instead of chasing temporary popularity, it is better to concentrate on refining "raw steel" to create a lasting brand. By calming down to explore local characteristics, polish service quality, and innovate presentation methods, cultural tourism products can have both "traffic" and "retention," allowing the cultural tourism economy to truly achieve sustainable development.
(Excerpted and adapted from *Guizhou Daily* (《贵州日报》))
Return to TopBy: 成 森
Unintentionally shaking the phone, the software immediately jumps to a shopping page. Recently, media reporters have found through actual tests that the much-criticized "shake-to-jump" advertising chaos still occurs from time to time, troubling many users.
"Shake-to-jump" advertising refers to interactive advertising in which applications use mobile device sensors to determine a user's intention to visit based on actions such as shaking the device. Compared to traditional forms such as click-to-jump, "shake-to-jump" simplifies user operations and can increase the triggering and diversion probability of advertising links. In recent years, it has become an important form of advertising in software splash screens and other scenarios.
The Internet economy is, to some extent, an "attention economy." Selling advertising by leveraging scarce user attention resources is not only one of the basic profit models for software service providers, but also, as an information service, can objectively promote supply and demand matching. Therefore, improving the attractiveness of advertising through innovative delivery methods is a normal business behavior for enterprises.
However, it must be recognized that enterprises should not ignore the protection of consumer rights, which is the foundation of their existence, when carrying out business activities. Many users visit "shake-to-jump" advertising pages due to misoperation. For involuntary users, triggering frequent and difficult-to-avoid jumps has obvious implications of inducement and coercion, which inevitably arouse user resentment. Placing commercial interests above consumer rights is a fundamentally flawed move in terms of business ethics, and is undoubtedly blind and short-sighted for business entities.
In recent years, relevant departments have carried out rectification of the chaos. In 2022, under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信通院) and the Telecommunication Terminal Industry Association (电信终端产业协会) jointly formulated standards with a number of key industry enterprises, specifying the acceleration, rotation angle, and operation time of "shake-to-shake" actions, and strengthening the obligation of explicit notification. In July 2025, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee (全国网络安全标准化技术委员会) issued the "Network Security Standard Practice Guide - Security Requirements for Shake-to-Shake Advertising Triggering Behavior," which clarified the three basic principles of "transparency, autonomy, and personal information protection."
A series of measures have curbed the barbaric growth of the chaos. However, due to some merchants "exploiting loopholes," various chaotic phenomena have not been completely eliminated, but instead present more new tricks, making them difficult to guard against. For example, although some applications allow users to turn off "shake-to-jump," the entrance is hidden and inconvenient to find, and even third-party platforms "guide" application developers to dynamically adjust parameters to avoid supervision. To solve these stubborn problems, it is necessary to comprehensively use institutional construction, supervision and inspection, and technical support to improve governance effectiveness, increase the cost of violations for merchants, and guide the industry to strengthen self-discipline.
Some users on social media complain that advertising "tricks" users, and although traffic increases, what companies get is not goodwill, but resentment. 人无信不立 (rén wú xìn bù lì - "a man cannot stand without trust," a person cannot establish themselves without credibility) and 业无信不兴 (yè wú xìn bù xīng - "a business cannot thrive without trust," a business cannot prosper without integrity). Frequent "shake-to-jump" advertisements may obtain short-term economic benefits, but what is consumed is the goodwill and trust of users, which will eventually force users to "vote with their feet." In the future, only by strengthening self-discipline and operating with integrity can enterprises and platforms win users and win reputation.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposes to "vigorously boost consumption." A good consumption environment is an indispensable part of releasing domestic demand vitality. At present, China has entered the fast lane of digital economic development. To enhance people's sense of gain in information consumption, it is necessary to creatively explore incremental policies and solve existing problems in a targeted manner. Focusing on the blockages, bottlenecks, and pain points in the details, and striving to create an efficient, convenient, safe, trustworthy, fair, and orderly information consumption environment, can truly make consumers feel comfortable and at ease, and allow the Internet to help and add color to a better life.
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Return to TopThe Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing (北京) from December 10th to 11th. This was a very important meeting convened by the Party Central Committee at a crucial historical juncture as the "14th Five-Year Plan" is about to conclude successfully and the "15th Five-Year Plan" is about to commence.
How should we view the significant achievements made in China's economic and social development this year and during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period? What important signals did the conference release for doing a good job in next year's economic work? How should we implement the conference's decisions and deployments to ensure a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan"?
On December 30th, Xinhua News Agency (新华社) launched the 27th edition of the "China Economic Roundtable" (中国经济圆桌会), a large-scale all-media interview program, inviting Liu Rihong (刘日红), Director of the Social Division of the State Council Research Office (国务院研究室), Yang Zhiyong (杨志勇), President of the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences (中国财政科学研究院), Liu Zhicheng (刘志成), Researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委宏观经济研究院), and Xia Hua (夏华), Vice President of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and Chairman of the Eve Group (依文集团), to discuss the implementation of the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and strive to achieve a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Deeply Understand Development Achievements
Accurately Understand Regularity Awareness
2025 is an extraordinary year. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and work hard, unswervingly implement the new development concept, promote high-quality development, coordinate the domestic and international situations, implement more proactive and effective macro policies, and the main goals of economic and social development will be successfully completed.
China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better directions, the construction of a modern industrial system is continuously advancing, reform and opening up have taken new steps, positive progress has been made in resolving risks in key areas, and people's livelihood guarantees have been strengthened... The conference pointed out that in the past 5 years, we have effectively responded to various shocks and challenges, promoted new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, 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 at this year and the past 5 years together, China's total economic volume has continuously crossed several major thresholds of 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan, and will reach about 140 trillion yuan this year, with an estimated average economic growth rate of over 5% in the past 5 years, higher than the global average level," said Liu Rihong (刘日红).
Yang Zhiyong (杨志勇) said that this Chinese economic report card was achieved under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and through the hard work of the people across the country. It was hard-won and needs to be cherished.
Xia Hua (夏华) shared her feelings as the head of a private enterprise: "The underlying tone of this report card is the market vitality and corporate confidence supported by policy stability. A series of arrangements and deployments such as promoting the development and growth of the private economy, promoting the digital transformation of manufacturing, and expanding domestic demand have allowed private enterprises to dare to invest long-term and settle down in the real economy with peace of mind."
The fundamental reason for achieving these achievements lies in the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想).
"We must fully tap economic potential, we must adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation, we must ensure both 'vibrancy' and 'good governance', we must adhere to the close combination of investment in things and investment in people, and we must respond to external challenges by practicing internal skills" - the conference summarized the new understanding and experience of doing a good job in economic work under the new situation with "five musts."
"'Five musts' is a further deepening of our Party's understanding of the regularity of doing economic work, the latest achievement of Xi Jinping's economic thought, answering the major problems facing current economic work and providing theoretical explanations, and providing scientific thinking methods and methodologies," said Liu Rihong (刘日红).
Regarding "we must ensure both 'vibrancy' and 'good governance'," Liu Rihong (刘日红) said that focusing on the key core issues in economic system reform, the conference further elaborated on how to allow the market to play a decisive role in resource allocation and better leverage the role of the government.
Regarding "we must adhere to the close combination of investment in things and investment in people," Liu Rihong (刘日红) believes that China's economic development is undergoing a transition from tangible goods to a service economy, and future investment must focus more on people, focusing on people's feelings, lives, and ability improvement. This transformation will inevitably have a positive impact on people's well-being.
Only by accurately judging and grasping the situation can we formulate realistic goals, tasks, and policy strategies.
The impact of external environmental changes is deepening, the contradiction between strong supply and weak demand is prominent domestically, and there are many risks and hidden dangers in key areas... Currently, China's economic development still faces many old problems and new challenges.
"From an international perspective, China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. From a domestic perspective, the long-term positive supporting conditions and basic trends such as China's stable economic foundation, numerous advantages, strong resilience, and great potential have not changed, and the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super-large-scale market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources will be more prominent," said Liu Zhicheng (刘志成). Better coordination of domestic economic work and international economic and trade struggles has a solid foundation and favorable conditions.
In the view of the guests, the risks and challenges facing China's economic development can be resolved through efforts. "In the past few years, we have encountered many problems in development. It is precisely by facing problems and solving problems that the Chinese economic ship can ride the wind and waves and move steadily forward," said Yang Zhiyong (杨志勇).
Grasp the Overall Requirements and Policy Orientation
Consolidate and Expand the Momentum of Steady Improvement
The conference pointed out that in terms of policy orientation for next year's economic work, we must adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency.
"'Seeking progress while maintaining stability' is not only the overall tone of work, but also the methodology for doing a good job in economic work," said Liu Zhicheng (刘志成). The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Next year is the first year of implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan." We must strive for a smooth start and actively forge ahead, aiming at the goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035 and laying a solid foundation for ensuring decisive progress in basically realizing socialist modernization.
"'Improving quality and efficiency' is not only a systematic requirement for development, but also a targeted requirement for the implementation of macro policies," said Liu Zhicheng (刘志成). To achieve "improving quality and efficiency," we must not only optimize increments but also revitalize existing assets, drive increments through revitalizing existing assets, and optimize resource allocation to achieve quality and efficiency improvements. We must not only make good use of existing policies but also plan and implement incremental policies, and leverage the integrated effect of existing and incremental policies to allow various policies to move in the same direction and work together.
Deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, formulate regulations for the construction of a unified national market, orderly expand the autonomous opening up of the service sector, and deeply promote energy conservation and carbon reduction transformation in key industries... The series of policy measures proposed by the conference reflect the combination of adhering to goal orientation and problem orientation, and clearly signal the certainty of high-quality development to cope with various uncertainties.
Xia Hua (夏华) said that many of the policy measures deployed by the conference accurately responded to corporate concerns and strengthened the confidence of enterprises to further develop and grow, "allowing us to take a 'reassurance pill' for starting a business."
"The conference clearly stated that it will deeply rectify 'involutionary' competition, which hits the current pain points of the market," said Xia Hua (夏华). Policy guidance will promote the market to shift from "price wars" to benign "value competition," allowing enterprises to change from "rolling prices" to "rolling quality," and from "rolling prices" to "rolling innovation," truly creating a fair and healthy development environment for enterprises that adhere to long-termism.
We need both policy support and reform efforts. The more complex the situation and the more uncertain factors there are, the more we must adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation.
"Innovation is the main theme of our era. To accelerate the development of new quality productive forces and cultivate and strengthen new driving forces, we must vigorously promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation," said Yang Zhiyong (杨志勇).
Enterprises are the main body of innovation and the vital force for promoting innovation and creation.
"The relevant policy package proposed by the conference has pointed out a clear path for enterprises to achieve transformation and upgrading through digitalization and intelligence, and encourages enterprises to take technological innovation as the core driving force," said Xia Hua (夏华). The digital and intelligent industrial internet platform built by the enterprise connects global designers with high-quality domestic supply chains, promoting the transformation of traditional manufacturing enterprises into intelligent enterprises.
While consolidating and expanding the momentum of steady improvement, we must also continue to prevent and resolve risks in key areas.
Liu Rihong (刘日红) believes that this year China has made positive progress in resolving risks in key areas. Judging from the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference, next year we will continue to make continuous prevention and resolution of risks in key areas a key task.
Unite and Work Hard to Overcome Difficulties
Ensure a Good Start for the "15th Five-Year Plan"
Focusing on doing a good job in next year's economic work, the conference clarified eight key tasks: adhering to domestic demand dominance, adhering to innovation-driven development, adhering to reform and tackling key problems, adhering to opening up to the outside world, adhering to coordinated development, adhering to "dual carbon" leadership, adhering to people's livelihood as the top priority, and adhering to safeguarding the bottom line.
The broad space and deep potential of China's super-large-scale market are the "ballast stone" for resisting risks and achieving sound development. "Adhering to domestic demand dominance and building a strong domestic market" is listed as the first of the eight key tasks.
"An important feature of a large country's economy is internal circulation. We must put the strategic focus of development on expanding domestic demand," said Liu Rihong (刘日红). Next year, we will optimize the implementation of "two new" policies, formulate and implement an income increase plan for urban and rural residents, and stimulate the endogenous动力 of residents' consumption. By intensifying and improving supportive policies, it is expected to further release the potential of service consumption such as culture and tourism, elderly care, and childcare.
He said that in terms of promoting the stabilization and recovery of investment, with the implementation of measures such as optimizing the use management of special bonds of local governments and continuing to leverage the role of new types of policy-based financial instruments, government investment will maintain a considerable level and effectively stimulate private investment.
"Next year, we will expand domestic demand and boost consumption, which gives us more confidence in deeply cultivating the national trend culture and creating immersive new consumption scenarios," said Xia Hua (夏华). We must innovate consumption scenarios and other measures to allow "cultural value" and "economic value" to complement each other in the new wave of consumption and better meet consumer needs.
Coordinated regional development is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization. The Central Economic Work Conference required promoting urban-rural integration and regional linkage.
"An important part of promoting integrated urban-rural development is to deeply promote people-oriented new urbanization and scientifically and orderly promote the urbanization of agricultural transfer population," said Liu Zhicheng (刘志成). From the perspective of urbanization construction, next year China will coordinate and promote urbanization construction with county towns as important carriers and comprehensive rural revitalization, promote high-quality development of the county economy, and then enhance industrial support capabilities and public service levels.
Large economic provinces are the "ballast stones" of the overall national development situation. Liu Zhicheng (刘志成) said that the conference clearly stated that it supports large economic provinces in taking the lead, which means that next year we will deeply promote the market-oriented allocation reform of factors, vigorously promote high-level opening up to the outside world, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and create diversified consumption scenarios through various policy incentives and guarantees, and further leverage the advantages of large economic provinces.
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. The Central Economic Work Conference proposed to strive to do practical things for the people, deploy and implement actions to stabilize jobs, expand capacity, and improve quality, and stabilize the employment of key groups such as college graduates and migrant workers.
Liu Rihong (刘日红) said that the current fields of artificial intelligence, new energy vehicles, etc. have created many new employment opportunities, and the development of the service industry has also provided broad space for employment. At the same time, the implementation of large-scale skills training and the continuous enhancement of the protection of the rights and interests of flexible employment and new employment form workers will better promote high-quality and full employment.
Yang Zhiyong (杨志勇) said that the current international and domestic environment facing China is very complex, with both old problems and new challenges. As long as we can face problems and face challenges squarely, and strive to solve one problem at a time, the Chinese economy will surely move steadily and far.
The blueprint has been drawn, and hard work creates the future.
"The more complex the situation, the more we must strengthen the Party's overall leadership over economic work and form a unified will and strong synergy," said Liu Rihong (刘日红). The Party Central Committee has clarified the major policies and guidelines for next year's economic work. The key next step is to implement them, establish and practice a correct view of performance, implement the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, and all localities should base themselves on their own resource endowments, adhere to adapting to local conditions, and better leverage their comparative advantages to hand in a new answer sheet of high-quality development with solid development results.
The guests said that looking forward to next year, anchoring development goals, strengthening development confidence, and gathering development synergy, we will surely continue to consolidate and expand the momentum of steady improvement in the Chinese economy, achieve a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan," and write a new chapter in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), December 30th) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporter)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th (北京) - On December 30th, Wang Dongming (王东明), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (中华全国总工会), led a team to Cangzhou (沧州), Hebei (河北) to carry out trade union's "Sending Warmth" activities. He visited and extended regards to model workers and craftsmen, frontline workers, and new forms of employment laborers, and extended festive greetings and best wishes to the vast number of workers and masses across the country.
Wang Dongming (王东明) emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the important speeches of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, unite and guide the vast number of workers to unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party, vigorously promote the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and the spirit of craftsmanship, and give full play to the role of the working class as the main force on the new journey, and strive unremittingly to achieve the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and promote Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to adhere to a worker-centered work orientation, do a good job in safeguarding rights and providing services with heart and soul, strive to help workers and the masses solve problems and difficulties, effectively enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security of workers and the masses, and deliver the care and concern of the Party Central Committee and the warmth of trade union organizations to the hearts of workers and the masses.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on December 30th (Reporter He Siqi (何思琦)) On December 29th, the first Youth Academic Conference of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) was held in Beijing (北京). With the theme of "Showcasing Intellectual Brilliance, Promoting Interdisciplinary Integration, and Discussing the Future of Academia," the conference set up six sub-forums: the Study and Interpretation of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Culture, Studying and Implementing the Spirit of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Party, Organized Scientific Research, Talent Growth, Research on Chinese-style Modernization, and International Studies. Participating young scholars focused on "Holding High the Torch of Thought and Inheriting the Chinese Cultural Heritage," "Promoting High-Quality Economic and Social Development During the '15th Five-Year Plan' Period," "Establishing the Ambition of Serving the Country Through Academic Achievements and Exploring the Path of Organized Scientific Research," "Strengthening the Foundation and Cultivating the Future, Innovating and Leading," "Comprehensively Promoting the Construction of a Strong Country and the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation with Chinese-style Modernization," and "Telling the Chinese Story Well and Promoting Global Governance," and other topics for in-depth exchanges.
The conference announced the list of winners of the first Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) Youth Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award. Gao Xiang (高翔), President and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), said that the academic expedition is a long road of exploration, and it is necessary to understand where the road under your feet comes from and where it leads. Young scholars should do scholarship that is thoughtful, emotional, and has integrity. Participating young scholars said that they should consciously integrate their personal academic pursuits into the overall situation of the development of the Party and the country, and contribute their youthful wisdom and strength to accelerating the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences and comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
Return to TopBeijing, December 30th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) - The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): The Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部环境资源和食品药品犯罪侦查局) recently issued a notice requiring environmental, food, and drug crime investigation departments of public security organs nationwide to severely crack down on prominent crimes in the food sector of the New Year's Day and Spring Festival holiday market in accordance with the law, to ensure that the broad masses of people spend a safe and peaceful holiday.
The notice emphasized that focus should be placed on key categories such as meat products, alcohol, and agricultural and sideline (aquatic) products, key areas such as scenic spot vendors, and key links such as planting and breeding. It is necessary to severely crack down on the production and sale of toxic and harmful foods, foods that do not meet safety standards, and various types of counterfeiting and selling fake products in accordance with the law.
Return to TopBank of China Hunan Branch (中国银行湖南省分行) (hereinafter referred to as "BOC Hunan Branch") will deeply study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee as an important task, always bear in mind the "major affairs of the country," base itself on the fundamental purpose of financial services for the real economy, consciously place support for scientific and technological innovation in a prominent position, solve the financing bottlenecks of technology enterprises by optimizing the product system, improve the quality and efficiency of financial supply by innovating the service model, gather the joint force of the technology finance ecosystem with the concept of openness and collaboration, focus on building a comprehensive financial service system that runs through the entire innovation chain and covers the entire life cycle of enterprises, and continue to inject strong financial impetus into Hunan Province's implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy.
As of the end of November 2025, the balance of BOC Hunan Branch's technology loans exceeded 132 billion yuan, the number of technology loan customers exceeded 8,000, the number of technology-based enterprise credit customers exceeded 6,600, and the credit coverage rate of specialized, refined, and new enterprises exceeded 43%, providing solid financial support for Hunan to build a science and technology innovation highland with core competitiveness.
Venturing into the "Deep Water Zone": High-Level Layout to Solve Financing Problems in Frontier Fields
Commercial aerospace is a frontier field of China's strategic emerging industries, but some related enterprises face development difficulties due to large capital investment and long return cycles.
The "Hybrid InSAR Satellite Constellation System Project" ("Zhuzhou Constellation") of Zhuzhou Aerospace Interstellar Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. (株洲太空星际卫星科技有限公司) is accelerating, with broad prospects, but the single-star construction cost of hundreds of millions of yuan has become a realistic challenge for the transformation of achievements and the landing of production capacity.
BOC Zhuzhou Branch (中行株洲分行) established a special service team to accurately connect with the needs of enterprises, and achieved a major breakthrough in only 3 months from demand docking to the approval of hundreds of millions of yuan in total credit. Up to now, the relevant loan funds have been invested in the front line of research and development and production, effectively helping the "Zhuzhou Constellation" to go from design to reality. This move is a successful practice of commercial satellite operation project loans, and it is also a vivid microcosm of BOC Hunan Branch's financial innovation serving scientific and technological self-reliance.
Building a "Fast Track": Process Reengineering to Achieve Precise Drip Irrigation of Scientific and Technological Innovation Seedlings
The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is a key link in the connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain. BOC Hunan Branch focuses on the characteristics of technology-based enterprises of "light assets, high growth" and the needs of "urgent financing, long term," promotes process innovation internally, and promotes precise drip irrigation of financial services to technology-based enterprises.
In order to match the "fast pace" of technology-based enterprises, BOC Hunan Branch has opened a "green channel" for technology finance: national high-tech zones, economic development zones, and advanced manufacturing clusters in the province are included in the exclusive credit granting area, and open credit granting of 150 million yuan (inclusive) or less is exempt from meeting approval; the evaluation system is innovated, and the Ministry of Science and Technology's "Innovation Points System" and industry-specific evaluation models are introduced to pay more attention to the enterprise's technological advancement, R&D team strength, market growth and other "soft power," so that the financial vision is more forward-looking. A national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprise in Kaifu District (开福区), Changsha City (长沙市), Hunan Province (湖南省) has stage-based capital planning needs. BOC Hunan Branch quickly approved a medium-term working capital loan for it through an exclusive credit granting model. Since 2025, BOC Hunan Branch has newly granted credit of more than 11 billion yuan to growing technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises.
Embracing the capital market, BOC Hunan Branch participated in underwriting 8 types of science and technology innovation bonds issued by various enterprises and financial institutions, including science and technology innovation medium-term notes, science and technology innovation financial bonds, and science and technology innovation asset-backed commercial paper, with an issuance scale of 10 billion yuan and an underwriting scale of 1.813 billion yuan, forming a "credit + bond" dual-wheel drive pattern, effectively broadening the financing channels for enterprises and reducing their comprehensive financing costs.
Building an "Ecosystem": Multi-Party Collaboration to Cultivate Fertile Soil for Scientific and Technological Innovation and Development
The high-quality development of technology finance requires the government, banks, enterprises, and investment institutions to jointly play a "symphony."
Deepening bank-government cooperation, BOC Hunan Branch and the Hunan Provincial Department of Science and Technology (湖南省科学技术厅) jointly promote the pilot reform of knowledge value credit loans. As of the end of November 2025, the cumulative filing amount exceeded 12 billion yuan, serving more than 4,100 enterprises, and the filing scale ranked among the top of the cooperative banks; jointly with the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology (湖南省工业和信息化厅), it carried out the "Hui Ru Yuan · Specialized, Refined, and New Inclusive Action" activity, tailored the "Specialized, Refined, and New Loan," and has provided credit support for more than 2,700 national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises and provincial-level specialized, refined, and new enterprises; held more than 100 various bank-enterprise docking activities throughout the year, serving more than 5,000 enterprises on-site, and realizing the precise drip irrigation of financial living water.
Strengthening investment and loan linkage, focusing on the construction of Hunan Province's "4×4" modern industrial system, taking the lead in organizing industry-finance docking between upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain and well-known investment institutions, and actively promoting diversified cooperation such as equity investment, IPO guidance, and mergers and acquisitions. Linking high-end think tanks, connecting with innovation source areas such as Yuelu Mountain University Science and Technology City (岳麓山大学科技城), and holding the "Talent Weekly Salon · Science and Technology Innovation Roundtable" activity; taking the lead in organizing the special training of "Mergers and Acquisitions Empowering, Seeking Common Development," inviting well-known experts and scholars to give lectures, and helping technology enterprises achieve leapfrog development by leveraging the capital market.
Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," BOC Hunan Branch will continue to focus on technology finance, further deepen and break through in product system, service model, and ecological construction, and continue to contribute BOC's strength to striving to write a Hunan chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Data source: Bank of China Hunan Branch (中国银行湖南省分行)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李龙伊
Recently, the "Most Beautiful Veterans" for 2025 were announced, with 18 comrades being honorably selected. After taking off their military uniforms, they are displaying their talents and playing their roles in different positions. After leaving the military camps, they keep in mind the mission and responsibility of veterans, taking root and selflessly dedicating themselves in places where the motherland needs them.
Dedicated Contribution
"What else can I do for the people?" Wang Zhiming (王志明), head of the Veteran Rural Revitalization Service Team in Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西), often asks himself this question. After retiring, he resolutely took root in Dongsheng Village (东升村), Guilin (桂林). Over the years, he has organized his team to donate and raise more than 5 million yuan to help form distinctive industries such as Phoenix Chicken, fragrant pigs, and red peppers. He raised funds to improve the teaching environment of Dongsheng Primary School (东升小学), and helped more than 500 students in need apply for more than 2.4 million yuan in grants, contributing to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with practical actions.
In the vast fields, the hardworking and dedicated figures of veterans are active.
Hu Zhanjun (胡占军), chairman of the Shengyuan Vegetable Professional Cooperative in Shuocheng District (朔城区), Shuozhou City (朔州市), Shanxi (山西), lacked funds and technology in the early stages of his business, and also needed to connect with the market. He constantly experimented, and after countless failures, led farmers to grow off-season vegetables. He created a "technology-led, base demonstration, industry linkage" development model, driving more than 3,000 farmers to embed themselves in the modern agricultural industry chain, achieving an average increase in income of more than 3,000 yuan per mu.
Qu Weiming (屈卫明), former Party branch secretary and director of the Linhai City (临海市) Forestry Farm in Zhejiang (浙江), spent 37 years leading employees to reclaim land and start a business with hard work, accumulating 48,000 mu of afforestation, covering the mountains with greenery. "What we are engaged in is a green cause, a project that benefits future generations," Qu Weiming (屈卫明) said with pride.
The warmth and persistence of veterans are written on the long journey of finding relatives with love.
Gan Biao (甘彪), a veteran from Linshui County (邻水县), Sichuan (四川), embarked on a public welfare journey to find relatives. Over the years, he has run his business during the day, and edited and released family-seeking videos at night, gathering many caring people to form a volunteer team, accumulating more than 5,500 pieces of family-seeking information, and successfully helping more than 120 families reunite. "**万水千山**" (wàn shuǐ qiān shān - "ten thousand waters, thousand mountains," nothing can separate people with blood ties). Looking back on the journey of public welfare to find relatives, Gan Biao (甘彪) has many feelings.
The memory of history and the respect for heroes have been transformed into a heavy guardianship. "Revolutionary martyrs shed their blood and sacrificed their lives, and I have an obligation to find family members for the martyrs." This is the firm belief of Zhang Yong (张勇), administrator of the Tangfang Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery (唐房革命烈士陵园) in Pulandian District (普兰店区), Dalian City (大连市), Liaoning (辽宁). In the past 20 years, he has traveled across 16 provinces, traveled more than 20,000 kilometers, visited relatives and comrades of martyrs, verified and improved more than 1,500 pieces of martyr information, and identified more than 20,000 clues of various types. He carefully collected and sorted out historical materials, and gave more than 2,300 free lectures on the deeds of heroes.
Loyal Guardianship
On May 16, 2017, the alarm bell of the Emergency Rescue Center of Xinjiang Tianye (Group) Co., Ltd. (新疆天业（集团）有限公司) rang sharply: a fire broke out in a repair shop in Shihezi City (石河子市). Captain Li Ruichang (李瑞昌) quickly led his team to the scene. Explosions were heard from time to time in the fire, but Li Ruichang (李瑞昌) and his team members did not flinch and worked hard to gradually control the fire. After continuous fighting, the fire was completely extinguished.
This rescue is an epitome of Li Ruichang's (李瑞昌) 14 years of work in hazardous chemical fire protection. In his work, he always rushes to the front line of emergency rescue, participating in the disposal of more than 700 dangerous situations, rescuing 11 people in distress, and interpreting the loyalty and responsibility of firefighters time and time again in the face of life and death tests.
The inheritance of the fire protection cause is the tempering of skills, but also the continuation of the spirit. As a descendant of fire-fighting heroes, Batel (巴特尔), the station chief of the South Second Ring Road Fire Rescue Station in Yuquan District (玉泉区), Hohhot City (呼和浩特市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), insists on high-intensity training, without interruption in severe cold and hot weather. He firmly believes: "One second faster in rescue, one more hope for life." In training, he strives for perfection, often studying repeatedly to improve a second of performance and optimize the placement of a piece of equipment.
On the front line of combating crime and maintaining social stability, the people's police use professionalism and wisdom to build a safety defense line. Nian Guoqiang (年国强), a second-level police chief of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Public Security Bureau of Fuyang City (阜阳市), Anhui (安徽), has devoted himself to studying fugitive cases. Over the years, he has arrested more than 300 fugitives, cracked down on hundreds of criminal gangs, and solved more than 50 cases supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, deterring illegal crimes and safeguarding peace in one area.
Showing skills in times of crisis and seeing true feelings in ordinary positions. Zhang Jilin (张吉林), an auxiliary police officer of the Public Security Brigade of the Hunjiang District Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Baishan City (白山市), Jilin (吉林), has stepped forward several times in critical moments: facing a robber with a knife, he was calm in the face of danger and protected the masses at the expense of himself; when he encountered a woman who wanted to commit suicide, he risked climbing onto the balcony and successfully rescued her; when he learned that an old man had entered the mountain alone with the intention of committing suicide, he reported to the police in time and cooperated in the search and rescue... He practiced the solemn commitment to serve the people wholeheartedly with practical actions.
The rescue force from the people has converged into a warm current to protect life.
One cold winter morning in 2008, a 6-year-old girl accidentally fell into the river. Wang Aidong (王爱东), a veteran who was doing morning exercises, jumped into the cold river immediately after hearing the news and rescued her. The following year, he founded the Suqian Sucheng Yellow River Water Volunteer Rescue Team (宿迁市宿城区黄河水上志愿救援队) in Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu (江苏), and served as its captain. The team has carried out more than 19,000 volunteer guarding and safety training sessions, and participated in more than 2,300 emergency rescues.
Zhang Dasheng (张大生), chairman of the Sanyuan Agricultural Machinery Farmers Professional Cooperative (三源农机农民专业合作社) in Queshan County (确山县), Henan (河南), established a voluntary rescue team after retiring, widely mobilizing caring people to participate, organizing team members to systematically learn first aid knowledge, and regularly carrying out emergency rescue drills, leading a folk rescue force. Over the years, he has led team members to participate in flood fighting and rescue, earthquake relief and other public welfare actions, rescuing more than 16,000 people.
Striving and Fighting
On the field of life, veterans are showing their fighting spirit in different ways.
A car accident caused Jia Jiandong (贾建东), a veteran, to become paraplegic. The will tempered by his military career made him refuse to bow his head to fate. With an indomitable belief, he devoted himself to training and became a disabled athlete. With a fighting spirit, he insisted on starting training at 5:30 every morning, and even took the initiative to add extra training after the regular training. Finally, at the 11th National Games for the Disabled and the 8th Special Olympics, Jia Jiandong (贾建东) represented Ningxia (宁夏) and bravely won the silver medal in the men's 200-meter T51 wheelchair race.
Luo Muyuan (骆牧渊), chairman of Gansu Chuanglian Guopei Education Technology Co., Ltd. (甘肃创联国培教育科技有限公司), lost his sight due to war. "Although I can't see, my heart is full of light." After retiring, he taught himself Braille and many professional courses, and founded an education and training institution, training more than 450,000 people, allowing the spark of knowledge to illuminate the way forward for more people.
On the journey of science and technology, innovation and serving the country has become a new charge.
In the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), Hu Ming (胡明), the founder of the Veteran Aviation and Aerospace Science and Technology Innovation Team in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (巴音郭楞蒙古自治州), Xinjiang (新疆), is leading his team to organize the testing and acceptance of new equipment. He founded a company specializing in the experimental support of unmanned aerial vehicles, and in recent years has led the team to successfully complete more than 400 support launch experiments and measurement and control tasks.
Wang Kuiyuan (王魁元), a senior technician at the 365th Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University (西北工业大学), has been deeply involved in the field of drones for more than 30 years. He has participated in the development and production of 23 models, and the many technologies he has developed have overcome industry problems. He created an innovation studio, selflessly imparting technology and experience, and cultivated many technical backbones.
In different positions, the vast number of veterans are actively forging ahead, tackling key problems, and demonstrating an upward-looking spirit—
Li Jianping (李健平), head of the "Veteran Pioneer Duty Group" of the Beijing Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station (北京出入境边防检查总站), has been sticking to the entry-exit border inspection post for 34 years. She led the team to successfully complete more than 150 major event entry-exit inspection tasks, and innovatively summarized a number of working methods such as the digital human-certificate rapid verification method, which improved customs clearance efficiency and law enforcement temperature while ensuring control safety.
Gao Han (高寒), a physical education teacher at Shangyou No. 2 Primary School (上犹二小) in Shangyou County (上犹县), Jiangxi (江西), was once a female special operations soldier. Today, she has brought the perseverance and unwillingness to admit defeat that she tempered in the military camp to the campus. She teaches students in accordance with their aptitude, pays attention to cultivating students' will and quality, and promotes students' physical and mental health and all-round development.
Wang Xinyuan (王新元), a municipal representative inheritor of Guangxi embroidery (广绣), a national intangible cultural heritage, has studied Guangxi embroidery for more than 20 years after retiring. By improving the process, expanding the subject matter of creation, and introducing intellectual property protection, he has led 40 inheritors and more than 30,000 students to learn and inherit Guangxi embroidery. He actively promoted Guangxi embroidery "out of the circle," held personal exhibitions at home and abroad many times, and went to Xinjiang (新疆), Guizhou (贵州) and other places to teach more than 2,000 people.
Brighten the true colors of soldiers and maintain the original intention of serving the people. In one position after another, countless veterans and supporters of the army inherit the red gene, adhere to their mission, and dedicate themselves silently, jointly writing a new chapter of the era of military-civilian unity and strengthening the country and the army.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 30th (Reporter Liu Yang (刘阳)): On December 30th, the symposium of the Central Radio and Television Station (中央广播电视总台) celebrating the 85th anniversary of the founding of the People's Broadcasting Undertaking was held in Beijing (北京). Several generations of radio hosts, experts, scholars, and listener representatives engaged in in-depth exchanges on topics such as conveying the Party's voice, guiding public opinion, disseminating outstanding culture, and innovating integrated development, offering suggestions for the high-quality development of the People's Broadcasting Undertaking in the new era.
The meeting pointed out that, looking back on the glorious 85-year history, the growth and progress of People's Broadcasting has always resonated with the development of the Party and the country, and moved in the same direction as the expectations of the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the People's Broadcasting Undertaking has pressed the "fast-forward button" for high-quality development, accelerated integrated innovation, and significantly enhanced its guiding force, dissemination power, and influence, with the red radio waves radiating stronger vitality in the new era.
Participants stated that on the new journey, the People's Broadcasting Undertaking should be brave in reform and innovation, deepen integrated communication, vigorously promote the optimization and intensive development and accelerate the transformation of the radio frequencies of the Central Radio and Television Station (中央广播电视总台) with all-media thinking, strengthen technological empowerment, solidly promote the construction of an all-media talent team, achieve new breakthroughs in the systematic transformation of mainstream media, and contribute greater strength to the construction of a strong cultural country.
On December 30, 1940, Yan'an Xinhua Broadcasting Station (延安新华广播电台) began broadcasting, marking the birth of the Chinese People's Broadcasting Undertaking. Over the past 85 years, the People's Broadcasting Undertaking has grown from nothing to something, from small to large, starting a business in hardship, progressing in exploration, and developing in innovation.
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"Previously, we were negligent in our work and overcharged for the installation of tap water connections. Now we are refunding everyone, and we ask for your understanding..." said the staff member to the people who came to receive the refund at the centralized refund site in the gathering area of Heshi Town (合什镇), Xuzhou District (叙州区), Yibin City (宜宾市), Sichuan Province (四川省).
Previously, Xuzhou District (叙州区) discovered during the "Looking for Discipline Inspection When Something Happens" visits that the water supply company responsible for the tap water installation in the Heshi Town (合什镇) gathering area was suspected of irregular charging in the undertaking of the increase-decrease linkage tap water installation project, and immediately launched an investigation.
"After investigation, it was found that the general contract of the project already included the relevant costs of tap water installation. Due to the negligence of the company's management personnel, they did not verify clearly with the general contractor of the project when undertaking the tap water pipeline network installation project, resulting in the re-collection of tap water installation fees from the public," said the relevant person in charge of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.
Under the supervision of the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, the water supply company has comprehensively refunded a total of more than 967,000 yuan for the tap water installation fees of 250 households in Heshi Town (合什镇) in the form of "centralized + door-to-door + transfer," and publicly apologized to the public.
Since 2025, Xuzhou District (叙州区) has taken the promotion of "micro-practical matters for people's livelihood" as the starting point, focused on tackling practical matters for people's livelihood around the masses, and deeply carried out centralized rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses.
Xuzhou District (叙州区) regards the rectification of the "difficulty in real estate registration" as an important task in the "16 specific practical matters for the masses." The District Party Committee and the District Government took the lead in establishing a special working group for "difficulty in real estate registration" to study and dispatch in a timely manner. It was found that the problem of residents in the Yuanding Community (园丁小区) of Guanyin Town (观音镇), Xuzhou District (叙州区) not receiving real estate certificates for as long as 12 years was relatively prominent. In order to coordinate and promote the resolution of the problem, the working group convened various functional departments for many coordinations, and the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision followed up and supervised the whole process, actively resolving various difficulties.
Now, the residents of the community have finally received their own real estate certificates. "I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and I finally got the certificate. In addition to being happy, I feel more at ease," said Ms. Yan (颜女士), a resident of Yuanding Community (园丁小区), happily at the certificate awarding ceremony.
Whether it is the refund of tap water installation fees or the solution of the difficulty in real estate registration, it is a microcosm of Xuzhou District (叙州区) practicing the Party's mass line in the new era and promoting the solution of urgent and difficult problems for the masses. Xuzhou District (叙州区) coordinates all parties to solve a number of worrying issues involving travel, production and domestic water and electricity, and convenient facilities that plague the masses, and thinks and works together with the masses.
At present, the district is continuing to focus on people's livelihood areas such as infrastructure construction, social assistance, and rural drinking water safety. Through fixed-point reception of visits and on-site visits, it is focusing on accomplishing a number of practical matters for people's livelihood that the masses can feel and touch, and continuously improving the masses' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Return to TopIn 2025, Yongdeng County (永登县), Lanzhou City (兰州市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), anchored its efforts on the main goals of "emphasizing politics, strengthening supervision, promoting development, and ensuring safety." It focused on key areas such as optimizing the business environment, safeguarding the four major areas of safety, protecting intellectual property rights, and ensuring consumer rights. The county exerted efforts in both precise supervision and high-quality services, providing important support for the high-quality economic and social development of the county.
Strengthening the Foundation with Party Building; Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Supervision and Services
The Yongdeng County Market Supervision Bureau (永登县市场监督管理局) insisted on the deep integration of Party building and business operations, and promoted the "Secretary-led, Party Member-assisted" work model, allowing Party members to show their identity, set an example, and demonstrate responsibility on the front lines of supervision and service. Through activities such as "three meetings and one lesson," skills competitions, and business contests, the bureau conducted 13 centralized learning sessions and 108 themed Party building activities throughout the year, significantly improving the comprehensive quality of Party member cadres. The bureau innovated the "Party Building + Supervision" and "Party Building + Service" models, with key Party member forces leading the investigation of 706 food and drug safety risks and handling 52 cases. Party member mediators accepted 1,482 complaints and reports throughout the year, with a completion rate and satisfaction rate of 100% and over 98% respectively, using Party building to empower and promote the quality and efficiency of supervision and services. At the same time, the bureau created a diversified publicity front, carried out more than 40 themed activities such as "Food Safety Publicity Week," and formed a Silver Age Elderly Care Team to care for and help elderly people, benefiting more than 20,000 elderly people, consolidating the policy publicity and public opinion guidance defense line.
Improving Quality and Efficiency to Optimize Services; Increasing the Vitality of Business Entities
Yongdeng County (永登县) took the reform of "efficiently handling one matter" as the starting point, reducing the handling steps, completion time limit, and submitted materials by more than 70%. The market supervision system handled 11,471 various types of businesses throughout the year. The county created the "Lanzhou Assistance" service brand, providing 860 sets of 4,300 free seals for newly established enterprises, saving a total of 344,000 yuan in enterprise establishment costs. The county solidly promoted the "four transformations" project, completing 442 "individual to enterprise" transformations, 7 "small to large" transformations, 14 "lower to upper" transformations, and 3 "branch to subsidiary" transformations, steadily increasing the total number of business entities. The county strengthened fair competition review, completed the review of 66 new policy measures, carried out 36 "three entries" publicity and training sessions, and investigated and dealt with 4 cases of unfair competition and unlicensed operations, stimulating the vitality of business entities with a standardized and orderly market environment.
Strictly Adhering to the Bottom Line to Build a Barrier; Weaving a Dense Defense Line to Ensure Safety
Yongdeng County (永登县) strictly implemented the "strictest four requirements" for food safety, focusing on 9 key areas such as campus food safety and fake and inferior food in rural areas, inspecting 7,718 food production and operation units, rectifying 925 problems and hidden dangers, and investigating and handling 52 illegal and non-compliant cases. At the same time, the county strengthened the supervision of drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics, investigating and eliminating 196 safety risks. The county carried out quality inspections of industrial products such as gas appliances and electric bicycles, and sampled 31 batches of coal and gasoline and diesel, all of which were qualified. The county implemented full life cycle supervision of special equipment, inspected 380 sets of equipment, and carried out 4 emergency drills. In the four major areas of food, drugs, industrial products, and special equipment, no safety accidents occurred throughout the year, building a solid safety defense line.
Strengthening Empowerment with Intellectual Property Rights; Activating Vitality with Innovation-Driven Development
Yongdeng County (永登县) built a full-chain service work system for intellectual property rights led by the government, with inter-departmental linkage, and enterprise-led innovation. Relevant departments jointly carried out 12 intellectual property rights "five entries" publicity activities. Focusing on the protection and utilization of geographical indications, the county authorized 10 enterprises in the county to use the special logo for "Kushui Rose" (苦水玫瑰) and "Yongdeng Qishan Goat" (永登七山羊) geographical indication products. The county assisted 50 Lanzhou Beef Noodle (兰州牛肉拉面) restaurants in obtaining the "Bull Head Graphic" trademark authorization. The county opened a fast pre-examination channel for patent applications, promoted the publication of the local standard "Geographical Indication Product Kushui Rose," completed the full-chain standardization system construction of "Yongdeng Qishan Goat," and focused on promoting the declaration of "Wusheng Post Hand-Grabbed Mutton" (武胜驿手抓羊肉), "Shuping Danxia Honey Peach" (树屏丹霞蜜桃), and "Kushui Rose Essential Oil" (苦水玫瑰精油) as geographical indication protection products or certification trademarks. The county has authorized 30 valid invention patents, making intellectual property protection more efficient and fully activating the innovation capabilities of the entire society.
Providing Warmth with Rights Protection Services; Safeguarding People's Livelihood and Increasing Well-being
Yongdeng County (永登县) promoted "double random, one public" supervision, carried out the "Iron Fist" action in the field of people's livelihood, and unblocked online and offline complaint channels such as the 12315 hotline. The market supervision system achieved a 100% completion rate for handling complaints and reports throughout the year, recovering more than 1.2 million yuan in economic losses. The county built 5 "six ones" standard rights protection stations in key scenic spots, established 32 contact points in townships and administrative villages, and selected 36 "reassuring consumption commitment demonstration units," making it easier for consumers to protect their rights and consume with more peace of mind.
In the next step, Yongdeng County (永登县) will continue to deepen regulatory reforms, optimize service measures, and continuously improve the modern market supervision system. With a more pragmatic style and tougher measures, the county will firmly adhere to the safety bottom line, stimulate market vitality, and inject strong momentum into the high-quality development of the county's economy.
Data source: Yongdeng County Market Supervision Bureau (永登县市场监督管理局)
Return to TopDuring the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Beijing Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行)) has always kept the "big picture of the country" in mind, deeply integrated into the major national strategies and the overall situation of the capital's development, actively played its financial role and ICBC's strengths, fully supported the development of the real economy, and served the inclusive people's livelihood with heart and soul. It has taken practical actions to practice the political and people-oriented nature of financial work, and promoted the high-quality economic and social development of the capital with high-quality financial services.
Based in the Capital, Striving to be the Financial "Main Force"
ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) resonates its own development with the implementation of major strategies and the promotion of the capital's "four centers" construction, actively playing a role in ensuring economic stability, empowering urban upgrading, and promoting high-level opening-up, striving to be the financial "main force."
Serving major strategies and helping the economy grow steadily and rapidly. ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) is anchored to the "three best" standards of the best quality financing approval, the most prioritized allocation of funds, and the most optimized financing costs, and continues to inject financial vitality into key areas. It fully guaranteed the organization and preparation of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, with a cumulative credit of nearly 20 billion yuan for Winter Olympic projects such as the National Speed Skating Oval (国家速滑馆), and more than 6 billion yuan in loans. Actively assisting urban renewal, it led the formation of a 5.3 billion yuan syndicated loan to support the renovation and reconstruction of the Workers' Stadium (工人体育场). It successfully promoted transportation interconnection in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, approving a loan of 10 billion yuan for the reconstruction project of Beijing Fengtai Railway Station (北京丰台站), with more than 5 billion yuan disbursed; it supported the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Intercity Railway (京张城际铁路), with nearly 6 billion yuan in loans disbursed. To meet the diversified and market-oriented financing needs and improve the quality and efficiency of bond business services, the underwriting scale of corporate bonds in the Beijing area during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period was approximately 1.3 trillion yuan; innovative products such as sustainable development-linked bonds and special bonds for energy supply guarantee were implemented.
Empowering the construction of the "four centers" in the capital and serving the high-quality development of the capital. Serving the construction of the international exchange center, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) led the formation of a syndicate to provide 17.5 billion yuan in financing support for the second phase of the China National Convention Center (国家会议中心) project; it led the formation of a 7 billion yuan syndicated loan for the Asian Financial Building (亚洲金融大厦) project. To help build a science and technology innovation center, it approved and issued a 1.2 billion yuan loan for the commercial aerospace common scientific research and production base - Beijing Rocket Street (北京火箭大街) project; it innovatively launched the "Star Shine" scientist service system, creating the "Entrepreneur Gas Station" and "Entrepreneur Think Tank" platforms, serving more than 1,200 science and technology entrepreneurs, holding more than 100 events, covering more than 4,000 entrepreneurs. To promote the construction of the national cultural center, it approved financing of 6.9 billion yuan for 8 old city protection projects such as the Dashilan Guanyinsi (大栅栏观音寺) area in Xicheng District; it deeply participated in activities such as Beijing Fashion Week, the 12th Beijing Citizens' Happy Ice and Snow Season, and the China Cultural Relics International Expo, launching people-benefiting measures such as shopping district discounts and payment preferences to promote the deep integration of culture, tourism, and finance.
Serving the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and helping promote high-level opening up. Cross-border financial business has achieved leapfrog development. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the average daily balance of foreign exchange deposits increased by 40%, the balance of cross-border financing in both local and foreign currencies was close to 600 billion yuan, the total amount of international receipts and payments exceeded 1.2 trillion US dollars, and the cross-border RMB settlement volume exceeded 6 trillion yuan. It has helped Chinese-funded enterprises land nearly a thousand key projects in more than 90 countries and regions, and the scale of cross-border receipts and payments with countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road" has increased nearly 6 times compared with 5 years ago, reaching 370 billion US dollars. ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) took the lead in implementing landmark policies such as the integrated local and foreign currency capital pool and new offshore trade, and innovatively launched characteristic financial services such as the "Two Zones" cross-border convenience remittance. The application of cross-border digital RMB is at the forefront of the country. In 2024, a "Digital Currency Bridge" capital business with a scale of 10 billion yuan was implemented. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the business scale of the multilateral central bank digital currency bridge exceeded 22 billion yuan.
Deeply Cultivating the Real Economy and Consolidating the Economic "Ballast Stone"
In the past 5 years, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) has innovated financial products and service models, focusing on key areas such as industrial upgrading, technological innovation, green development, and inclusive finance, injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of the capital's economy.
Strengthening financial support in key areas. Focusing on high-end manufacturing and technology finance, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) actively innovates business models and empowers the stable and rapid development of the technology industry with high-quality comprehensive financial services. As of now, the balance of debt-to-equity swap investment of ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) is nearly 80 billion yuan, focusing on supporting the equity capital needs of high-end manufacturing and technology enterprises; it has established 8 financial asset investment company (AIC) equity investment funds with a scale of over 10 billion yuan, focusing on supporting "hard technology" fields such as AI chips and solid-state batteries; it has cumulatively supported over 500 technology enterprises through market-oriented funds; it has cumulatively issued over 80 billion yuan in M&A loans, with M&A loans for technology enterprises exceeding 10 billion yuan; the announced project amount of stock repurchase and increase loans exceeds 6 billion yuan, with technology and manufacturing enterprises accounting for over 50%.
Building a benchmark bank for green finance. ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) has participated in underwriting 86.5 billion yuan of green bonds in the past 5 years, achieving multiple innovative breakthroughs such as "blue bonds," "green technology innovation perpetual bonds," and bonds linked to the development of China Certified Emission Reductions (CCER); it has cooperated with Jingneng Group (京能集团) to explore the "thermal power transformation + renewable energy" path, creating a "green energy + green finance" demonstration model; it provides a hundred billion-level supply guarantee credit line and establishes a rapid response mechanism to ensure stable energy supply.
Stimulating the vitality of small and micro enterprises. Relying on the full amount of data such as transaction records, credit information, and tax payment, it innovatively created the inclusive characteristic product "New Generation Partner e-Loan," realizing online, intelligent, intensive, and ecological financing, further solving the problems of difficult and expensive financing for small and micro enterprises. Actively implementing the coordination mechanism for supporting the financing of small and micro enterprises, it carries out grid-based actions in parks, communities, streets, and villages to expand service coverage. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the balance of inclusive loans increased nearly 3 times, and the number of small and micro business entities served quadrupled; a total of 25,000 new first-time loan enterprises were added; entrepreneurial guarantee loans have cumulatively provided financial vitality to more than 4,600 enterprises, fully supporting individual entrepreneurship and enterprise employment absorption.
Serving People's Livelihood and Paving a "Road to Happiness" for the People
In the past 5 years, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) has focused on the needs of the masses in housing, elderly care, consumption, and convenient services, and continuously enhanced the sense of gain, happiness, and security of the citizens of the capital with warm financial services.
Consolidating the foundation of people's livelihood security. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the scale of personal housing loans of ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) reached 166 billion yuan, with a cumulative issuance of 152 billion yuan; it actively promoted the new model of "transfer of ownership with mortgage," and the timeliness of second-hand housing loan disbursement increased by 78%; it issued national and municipal housing provident fund loans to personnel of enterprises relocated from Xiong'an (雄安), solving the problem of cross-regional services. In the field of education and medical care, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it cumulatively issued 2 billion yuan in equipment purchase and renovation loans to tertiary hospitals and universities in Beijing, supporting hospitals to improve their diagnosis and treatment service capabilities and helping universities form a new batch of teaching and research results; it developed and launched a characteristic card issuing system for universities, providing more convenient card issuing and using experience for teachers and students, especially international students. It provides third-generation social security card replacement services for more than 70,000 enterprises and institutions and more than 1.8 million citizens, helping Beijing citizens enjoy more intelligent and comfortable social security services.
Protecting the most beautiful "sunset glow" in the capital. In terms of pension finance, the entrusted scale of pension funds exceeds 78 billion yuan, serving nearly 6 million citizens of the capital, and the托管规模超1万亿元. More than 160 pension financial demonstration outlets have been built, and all outlets in the jurisdiction have put into operation large-character versions of intelligent equipment; it serves more than 4.33 million elderly mobile banking customers, managing financial assets of more than 1.3 trillion yuan; it has blocked more than 3,800 cases of telecommunications fraud involving the elderly, involving more than 600 million yuan. In terms of pension industry finance, it has cumulatively issued 3 billion yuan in loans, serving institutions such as Universal Kangyang (通用康养) and Beijing Kangyang (北京康养); in 2025, it issued 40 million yuan in pension loans after the new policy of the People's Bank of China on re-lending for service consumption and elderly care, promoting the acceleration and faster development of the elderly care industry.
Releasing the potential for consumption growth and upgrading. In 2025, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) cumulatively issued approximately 6.8 million consumer coupons, stimulating the vitality of the consumer market; it cooperated with the Beijing People's Art Theater (北京人艺) to innovatively create a "ticket stub economy" cultural, commercial, and tourism consumption closed loop, helping to build the "Watching Big Shows in Beijing" brand; it deeply participated in activities such as Beijing Fashion Week and the China Cultural Relics International Expo; it innovatively launched the "Rong e Jie" batch pre-authorization model, creating a "real-time credit + GC pre-authorization" model, with credit loans exceeding 10 billion yuan, driving the expansion and upgrading of citizens' consumption through innovation in consumer loan models.
Consolidating the Bottom Line and Building a "High-Level Security Model Bank"
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) has always adhered to coordinating development and security, anchored the goal of "high-level security model bank," and built a risk management system with a scientific structure, efficient operation, and strong guarantee. Deepening the linkage of "professional + technology," promoting the "Beita" intelligent risk control system, and using big data and artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of risk identification, providing guarantee for business development. Consolidating the "Three Gates and Seven Color Pools" intelligent credit risk control system, putting risk management throughout the entire process of investment and financing planning, business expansion, due diligence, review and approval, and post-loan management, escorting the safe development of credit business, and no systemic risks have occurred in key credit areas in the past 5 years. Strictly implementing anti-money laundering obligations, actively participating in the work of preventing illegal activities and combating illegal activities, and fully safeguarding the people's "money bags."
Continuously building a "big consumer protection" work pattern. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, an average of more than 3,500 financial education activities are carried out annually, serving more than 8 million consumers, and improving citizens' financial literacy and risk identification ability. Implementing more than 400 anti-fraud measures, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 16,000 cases of telecommunications fraud were blocked, involving 2 billion yuan.
Standing at a new historical starting point, ICBC Beijing Branch (工行北京分行) will further focus on the implementation of major strategies with a higher political stance, stronger sense of responsibility, and better financial services, actively empower the real economy, actively optimize people's livelihood services, and continuously consolidate the security defense line. It will stand at the forefront in the new journey of serving the construction of the "four centers" in the capital and promoting high-level opening up, and contribute more ICBC wisdom to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
Data source: Beijing Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (中国工商银行北京市分行)
Return to TopBy: 李玉举 顾 严
As an important component of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought is a major theoretical achievement formed by applying the basic principles of Marxist political economy to guide the practice of economic development in the new era, and it is the scientific guide to action for China's economic work in the new era. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period was an extraordinary and remarkable period in China's development history. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, China withstood the impact of the century-long pandemic, effectively responded to a series of major risks and challenges, steadily promoted high-quality development, and took new and solid steps towards Chinese-style modernization. 事非经过不知难，成如容易却艰辛 (shì fēi jīng guò bù zhī nán, chéng rú róng yì què jiān xīn - "one only knows the difficulty after experiencing it, success seems easy but is actually hard," it is difficult to appreciate the effort required to achieve something until you have tried it yourself). The achievement of these development goals comes from systematic and comprehensive strategic planning, resolute and decisive policy implementation, and scientific and effective working methods, which fully demonstrates the scientific truth and practical guiding force of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, and further strengthens our determination and confidence to forge ahead, overcome difficulties, and promote steady and long-term economic development.
Guiding the deepening of understanding of the laws of economic development, ensuring that the Chinese economy sails forward in the right direction.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must strengthen the Party's leadership over economic work and deepen our understanding of the laws of socialist economic construction." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, facing the complex and volatile international situation and the arduous and heavy domestic reform, development, and stability tasks, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), with the historical initiative, extraordinary theoretical courage, outstanding political wisdom, and strong sense of mission of a Marxist statesman, thinker, and strategist, promoted theoretical innovation, responded to the changes of the times and answered the questions of the times, and proposed a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies in leading the voice of the times and solving the problems of the times, further enriching and developing Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, and providing scientific guidance for promoting high-quality development on the new journey.
For example, the Central Economic Work Conference in recent years has summarized and refined the regular understanding of doing economic work well. The 2024 Central Economic Work Conference proposed the important understanding of "one greatest consensus, five musts be coordinated"; the 2025 Central Economic Work Conference proposed that we must fully tap economic potential, must adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation, must be both "flexible" and "well-managed," must adhere to the close combination of investment in things and investment in people, and must respond to external challenges by practicing internal skills. These important understandings embody the deepening of our Party's regular understanding of doing economic work well under the new situation, and are a model of combining economic practice innovation with theoretical innovation, further enriching and developing Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought. These regular understandings have been accumulated in the process of adapting to new situations and changes, and actively responding to severe risks and challenges, which is in line with the spiral upward development process of "practice-understanding-re-practice-re-understanding," and is of great guiding significance for us to continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of economic stability and improvement, and win strategic initiative in fierce international competition.
For example, reform is a key measure to solve the deep-seated problems facing economic and social development. Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has scientifically summarized historical experience, profoundly grasped the laws of reform, and used the Marxist stand, viewpoint, and method to put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new conclusions on comprehensively deepening reform, scientifically answering major theoretical and practical questions such as why comprehensively deepen reform and how to comprehensively deepen reform, which constitute the richest, most vivid, and most creative part of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought. The convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee sounded the clarion call for opening up broad prospects for Chinese-style modernization with further comprehensive deepening of reform. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly expounded several major theoretical and practical issues in further comprehensively deepening reform at the special seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, further enriching and developing Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought.
For example, productivity is the fundamental driving force of human social development, and it is also the ultimate reason for all social changes and political changes. High-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and requires new productivity theory to guide it. Since putting forward the important iconic concept of new quality productive forces during local inspections in 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has delivered a series of important expositions with profound principles, theories, and philosophies on what new quality productive forces are and how to develop new quality productive forces, innovatively developing the Marxist theory of productive forces, guiding the formation and steady development of new quality productive forces in practice, and making high-quality development obtain a more powerful driving force and support. The "Proposal" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed to "accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and lead the development of new quality productive forces" and made a comprehensive deployment, which will further promote China to continuously achieve substantial and breakthrough progress in scientific and technological innovation, industrial transformation, and structural optimization.
China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity also needs China. Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought places China's development in an international perspective, creating a good international environment for China's development and injecting impetus into world economic development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and accelerating the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to building an open world economy and promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind; proposed and promoted the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, providing important public goods for mankind to cope with global challenges; emphasized that China is always a member of the "Global South," a reliable long-term partner of developing countries, and an actionist and pragmatist who supports the global development cause, bringing valuable certainty to the uncertain world economy with its own stable development. This fully embodies the world significance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, which not only demonstrates China's responsibility as a responsible major country, but also creates a good international environment for China's high-quality development.
Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought is constantly deepening in understanding, constantly improving in strategy, and constantly enriching in practice, opening up a new realm of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics, and providing a sharp ideological weapon for promoting China's high-quality economic development, scientifically responding to major risks and challenges, and comprehensively building a socialist modern country. The reason why China's economic development was able to achieve major achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period lies fundamentally in General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) leadership and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and in the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee over economic work.
Guiding the scientific formulation of macroeconomic policies to ensure the smooth realization of the main goals and tasks of economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Scientific theory needs correct policies to implement. Macroeconomic policies are a powerful support for China's economy to maintain stable operation and move towards high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We follow the general trend and plan major events, maintain the stability and pertinence of macroeconomic policies, do not engage in quantitative easing and 'flood irrigation' style strong stimulus, and highlight improving the quality and efficiency of economic development." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought, China's macroeconomic policies firmly focused on the outstanding problems restricting high-quality economic development, anchored the development goals and strategic tasks without wavering, and strengthened the consistency orientation without deviating. In particular, in response to the new situations and new problems in economic operation, while promoting the implementation of existing policies, it resolutely deployed and vigorously launched a package of incremental policies, which effectively guaranteed the smooth realization of the established goals and tasks.
Focusing on the main contradictions and outstanding problems, implementing precise policies. Economic operation is a multi-dimensional, multi-level, and dynamically changing large system, and various contradictions and problems are intertwined. Among the thousands of threads and ever-changing contradictions and problems, only by grasping the main contradiction and the main aspects of the contradiction, and focusing on solving the outstanding problems in major key links, can we grasp the key and clarify the whole picture. For example, supply and demand are two basic aspects with inherent relationships in the market economy, and only by coordinating the use of supply-side management and demand-side management can we achieve scientific and effective macroeconomic regulation. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, our Party sized up the situation, made decisions according to the situation, and prescribed the right medicine. In particular, after the smooth transition of COVID-19 prevention and control, we took restoring and expanding demand as the key to sustained economic recovery and improvement, while accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system and cultivating and strengthening new driving forces, promoting the economy to develop towards new and better directions. Since 2024, facing the new situation of insufficient domestic effective demand, the CPC Central Committee has scientifically analyzed the new changes in the relationship between total supply and demand in economic operation, resolutely deployed a package of incremental policies, which has effectively boosted social confidence, and the economy has significantly recovered and shown great resilience. It is precisely because we have grasped the main contradictions and outstanding problems and implemented precise policies that we can timely and effectively and successfully respond to a series of severe risks and challenges, while focusing on improving the stability and international competitiveness of the industrial chain and supply chain, laying a solid foundation for the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan."
Increasing the intensity of counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustments, focusing on tackling key problems. Both counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical policy adjustments are important means to cope with economic cycle fluctuations. Resolute, powerful, rapid, and effective counter-cyclical adjustments have played a key role in effectively responding to downward economic pressure and smoothing out short-term economic fluctuations. In recent years, from "macroeconomic policies focus on counter-cyclical adjustments, and the pace and intensity should be able to offset the impact of the epidemic" to "increasing the intensity of counter-cyclical adjustments in fiscal and monetary policies" to "strengthening unconventional counter-cyclical adjustments," a series of counter-cyclical adjustment policies have been introduced intensively and continuously strengthened. Take 2024 and 2025 as examples. In terms of fiscal policy, the issuance of ultra-long-term special treasury bonds supports "two focuses" and "two news," and increases support for local governments to carry out debt swaps; in terms of monetary policy, the deposit reserve ratio has been continuously reduced, and structural tools have been created; in terms of investment policy, private capital is encouraged to participate in the construction of major projects; and so on. Cross-cyclical policies closely cooperate, anchoring medium- and long-term development goals, releasing new momentum and forming a good situation of combining short-term and long-term to cope with downward pressure by accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and cultivating and strengthening strategic emerging industries and future industries. At the same time, existing policies are implemented ahead of schedule, a package of incremental policies is more powerful, and various policies continue to exert efforts to ensure the smooth completion of the goals and tasks of economic and social development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Enhancing the consistency of policy orientation and forming synergy. As the "toolbox" of macroeconomic governance becomes more and more abundant, the requirements for strengthening policy coordination, enhancing consistency of orientation, and preventing and solving "composition fallacy" or "decomposition fallacy" become more prominent. The CPC Central Committee has clarified the direction and focus for various policies. Macroeconomic policies should be more active and promising, micro policies should continue to stimulate the vitality of business entities, structural policies should focus on smoothing the national economic cycle, industrial policies should develop and ensure security, science and technology policies should focus on scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, reform and opening up policies should activate development momentum, regional policies should enhance the balance and coordination of development, and social policies should ensure the bottom line of people's livelihood. This is conducive to clarifying the main direction for various policies, so as to exert efforts in a targeted manner. At the same time, we should strengthen policy coordination and carry out consistency assessment of macroeconomic policy orientation. The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) took the lead in establishing a policy document evaluation mechanism in 2022, and continuously improved the evaluation system and strengthened the construction of the evaluation team. In practice, the consistency assessment of macroeconomic policy orientation promotes relevant parties to play an important role in all stages of policy formulation, introduction, implementation, and adjustment, and promotes the final policy effect to conform to the decision-making intentions of the CPC Central Committee. In the past few years, the synergy of various policies has been significantly improved, and the "combination punches" have been played in the same direction, giving full play to the integrated effect.
Doing a good job in policy pre-research and reserve, and being prepared. Sufficient pre-research and reserve are necessary conditions for policies to be introduced quickly and take effect quickly. Policy pre-research is carried out dynamically, and reserve policies are constantly updated. Reserving in advance and maintaining a state of preparedness can not only ensure that policies are decisively implemented when they should be, but also help improve market expectations and boost social confidence. For example, the 2023 Central Economic Work Conference clearly required "making advance preparations and leaving redundancy in policy reserves." Relevant departments unswervingly implemented this important requirement, continuously strengthened policy pre-research, and continuously enriched the policy reserve; shortly after the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee deployed a package of incremental policies in September 2024, China's first monetary policy tool to support the capital market was implemented, which aroused a positive response from the capital market and played a significant role in stabilizing expectations and strengthening confidence. In recent years, many policies that the majority of enterprises have personally felt and benefited from, such as structural tax reduction and fee reduction, pre-tax deduction of research and development expenses, and value-added tax deduction for advanced manufacturing enterprises, are all based on solid pre-research and reserve, and have effectively stimulated enterprise investment and innovation vitality after implementation.
Guiding the formation of a series of correct working strategies and methods to promote the implementation of the CPC Central Committee's decisions and deployments.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Strategy serves the strategy under the guidance of the strategy" "We must grasp the time, degree, and effect according to the needs of the situation, and adjust the struggle strategy in a timely manner." To promote sustained and healthy economic development, we must not only have correct strategies and policies, but also have correct working strategies and methods. Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought contains scientific ideological methods and working methods, which not only deploy the task of "crossing the river," but also guide the solution of the problem of "bridge or boat," and effectively promote the implementation of the CPC Central Committee's various decisions and deployments.
Adhering to viewing development with a comprehensive, dialectical, and long-term perspective. Facing the stormy external environment and the rapidly changing economic situation, the complexity and arduousness of China's economic work are unprecedented. Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought requires us to make good use of materialist dialectics and adhere to viewing the achievements and challenges in development with a comprehensive, dialectical, and long-term perspective. If we only see difficulties, contradictions, and risks, we will inevitably be trapped in "mountains and rivers are exhausted and there is no way out"; if we can correctly see opportunities, conditions, and advantages, we will see "willows are dark and flowers are bright and there is another village." In economic work, we must adhere to the unity of "two points theory" and "key points theory," face difficulties squarely, strengthen confidence, seek progress while maintaining stability, grasp the overall situation and promote development in overall consideration; at the same time, make the fullest preparations, make the greatest efforts, and strive for the best possible results.
Adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability. For a large economy like China, facing the complex and severe domestic and international economic situation, it is crucial to maintain the good trend of economic development since reform and opening up. Maintaining the overall stability of the economy and society, ensuring that there are no major fluctuations in growth, employment, and prices, and ensuring that there are no regional and systemic risks in finance, can create a stable development environment for "progress." On this basis, actively making progress in transforming the mode, adjusting the structure, improving the quality, and increasing the efficiency, grasping the strategic initiative, and enhancing development resilience can create good expectations and new momentum for achieving high-quality development. Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought emphasizes adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, adhering to seeking truth from facts, respecting laws, systematic concepts, and bottom-line thinking, and taking practice as the standard for testing the effectiveness of various policies and work. In practice, we adhere to seeking truth from facts, proceed from reality in everything, and promote the continuous realization of effective quality improvement and reasonable quantity growth of the economy by implementing more active and promising macroeconomic policies, and improving quality and efficiency while maintaining stability.
Adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability. For an economy as large as China's, it is crucial to maintain the positive trend of economic development since the reform and opening up, in the face of complex and severe domestic and international economic situations. Maintaining overall economic and social stability, ensuring no major fluctuations in growth, employment, and prices, and ensuring no regional or systemic financial risks, will create a stable development environment for "progress." On this basis, actively making progress in transforming the mode of development, adjusting the structure, improving quality, and increasing efficiency, mastering strategic initiative, and enhancing development resilience will create good expectations and new impetus for achieving high-quality development. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s economic thought emphasizes adhering to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, adhering to seeking truth from facts, respecting laws, systematic thinking, and bottom-line thinking, and taking practice as the standard for testing the effectiveness of various policies and work. In practice, we adhere to seeking truth from facts, proceed from reality in everything, and through the implementation of more proactive and effective macro policies, improve quality and efficiency while maintaining stability and seeking progress, and promote the continuous and effective improvement of the quality and reasonable growth of the economy.
Adhere to the combination of the whole country acting as one and adapting to local conditions. China has a vast territory, and the resource endowments and development levels of various regions are different. For example, the western region plays a pivotal role in the overall situation of reform, development, and stability in the country, the northeastern region shoulders important missions in safeguarding national defense security, food security, ecological security, energy security, and industrial security, the central region is an important grain production base, energy and raw material base, modern equipment manufacturing and high-tech industry base, and comprehensive transportation hub in China, and the eastern region takes the lead in development and accelerates the advancement of modernization in the process of Chinese-style modernization. This is not only a unique advantage of China's development, but also determines that doing economic work must be combined with reality and adapted to local conditions. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s economic thought requires all regions and departments to firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development and the strategic task of building a new development pattern, both accurately identifying their strategic positioning in the overall national development situation and closely combining their own realities to take development paths with their own characteristics, solving problems and increasing momentum for the development of one region while contributing to the overall development.
Adhere to the correct methodology of reform. Focusing on the institutional and mechanism obstacles that restrict high-quality development, promoting deep-level reform and expanding high-level opening up can continuously enhance development momentum and social vitality, and shape new driving forces and new advantages for development. Xi Jinping (习近平)'s economic thought requires that reform must adhere to being people-centered, grasp key and decisive factors, grasp the rhythm and progress well, pay attention to consolidating and expanding advantages, breaking through bottlenecks and blockages, strengthening weaknesses and shortcomings, improving quality and efficiency, and enhancing the systematicness, integrity, and coordination of reform. In practice, we adhere to the concept of systems, properly handle a series of major relationships such as supply and demand, government and market, domestic and international, development and security, promote overall progress while highlighting key points, strive for practical results in system integration, and continuously improve the incentive and constraint mechanisms for promoting high-quality development, shaping a strategic advantage that is conducive to breaking the old situation, opening up a new situation, and winning the overall situation.
Adhere to creative implementation. To promote the continuous recovery and improvement of the economy, the key lies in vigorously grasping the implementation of policies and transforming policy dividends into tangible development momentum. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized grasping implementation, clarifying that "grasping implementation should be taken as the main way to carry out work, using brains, thinking of ways, coming up with real and practical measures, and earnestly grasping the various tasks of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments one by one." This is not only an important political requirement, but also scientific methodological guidance. In practice, we grasp objective laws, fully promote democracy, conform to social expectations, and transform the Party Central Committee's strategic intentions and various decisions and deployments into practical actions and innovative measures to promote the reform and development of our region and department. At the same time, we implement the requirement of "doing it as soon as we see it," put more energy into grasping implementation and doing practical things, and continuously optimize and improve policy measures in execution, ensuring that economic and social development goals are achieved year after year with the real effort of grasping, the daring effort of grasping, the skillful effort of grasping, and the persistent effort of grasping.
Guiding Economic Development to Take More Solid Steps and Laying the Foundation for a Good Start to the "15th Five-Year Plan"
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s economic thought, and with the strong promotion of macro policies, China's economic development has taken more solid steps during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The gross domestic product (GDP) has successively crossed three levels of 110 trillion yuan, 120 trillion yuan, and 130 trillion yuan. It is expected to reach about 140 trillion yuan in 2025. The economic increment in the five years is expected to exceed 35 trillion yuan. In 2024, the total economic volume will account for about 17% of the world's total economic volume, and the status of the world's second largest economy is stable. From 2021 to 2024, the average economic growth rate reached 5.5%, ranking among the top among major economies. The average annual contribution rate to world economic growth remained at about 30%, making it the most stable and reliable source of power for world economic development. The per capita GDP increased from 10,632 US dollars in 2020 to 13,445 US dollars in 2024, exceeding 13,000 US dollars for two consecutive years, ranking among the top among upper-middle-income countries. At the same time, China has achieved fruitful results in scientific and technological innovation, comprehensively deepened reform has been further promoted, high-level opening up has been continuously expanded, and the pace of green and low-carbon transformation has been accelerated, fully demonstrating the resilience and vitality of a major economy. Recently, many international institutions have successively raised their expectations for China's economic growth rate in 2025. Among them, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Asian Development Bank raised their forecasts by 0.4, 0.2, and 0.1 percentage points, respectively. We must unite as one, boost our energy, respond to challenges, and forge ahead to ensure a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Achievements and confidence come from the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. The Chinese economy is a giant ship. The larger the volume and the greater the wind and waves, the more important it is to steer and lead. At critical moments and important nodes, the Party Central Committee promptly analyzes the situation and makes decisions and deployments, the market will have long-term stable expectations, and the whole society will be able to firmly maintain the confidence to move forward steadily. In the ever-changing tide of the world economy, only by always adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over economic work, properly handling the relationship between reform, development, and stability, striving to achieve overall planning and steady progress, and coordinating the interests of all parties, can we effectively respond to risks and challenges and promote the Chinese giant ship to sail steadily and far in high winds and waves or even stormy seas. On the road ahead, we must consciously unify our thoughts and actions with the Party Central Committee's scientific judgment of the situation, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, comprehensively implement the Party Central Committee's ideas, tasks, and policies on economic work, and ensure that the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments are implemented and effective.
Achievements and confidence come from the supporting conditions and basic trends of China's long-term economic improvement. China has a population of more than 1.4 billion, a large middle-income group, and more than 200 million people with higher education, a complete industrial chain, supply and demand that can effectively support the domestic cycle and the domestic and international dual cycles, and extensive economic and trade partners, more than 190 million business entities and a high household savings rate, and in particular, the unique institutional advantages of the socialist market economy system, the valuable opportunities brought by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the important magic weapon of reform and opening up, and a long-term stable social environment. These factors bring full confidence in the super-large-scale market and broad prospects for high-quality development, and bring the confidence to successfully manage various risks and challenges, enabling China's economy to show a solid foundation, strong resilience, and huge potential in many unfavorable conditions. On the road ahead, we must grasp the general trend of China's development, strengthen confidence, make good use of advantages, respond to challenges, transform the advantages of all aspects into the actual effectiveness of high-quality development, and continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of steady economic improvement.
Achievements and confidence come from the benign interaction between China and the world. In today's world, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and hegemonic attempts and the threat of a "new Cold War" are exacerbating world turmoil. History has repeatedly proven that "small yards and high walls" can only restrict oneself, and "decoupling and breaking chains" is even more harmful to others and oneself. China's pragmatic actions and remarkable achievements in adhering to the correct direction of economic globalization show that only mutual benefit and win-win results can promote lasting prosperity. At present, China's high-quality products and services are welcomed in more and more regional and national markets, and more and more countries have strengthened their infrastructure, expanded their product exports, and improved their people's well-being by strengthening cooperation with China. On the road ahead, we must firmly stand on the right side of history and on the side of human civilization progress, adhere to opening up to the outside world, actively advocate and promote an equal and orderly world multi-polarization and an inclusive economic globalization, promote multi-field cooperation and win-win results, win recognition while benefiting the Chinese and world people, and boost confidence in creating a favorable external environment.
Achievements and confidence come from the joint struggle of the entire Party and the people of the whole country. To comprehensively promote Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, everyone is not an onlooker, but a participant, contributor, and striver. The new achievements made in China's high-quality development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period are the result of the joint struggle of the Party Central Committee leading the entire people. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, our enterprises dare to venture and fight, operate flexibly, and our people are diligent, intelligent, and indomitable, and have extremely strong abilities to adapt to environmental changes and shape development advantages. Broadly gathering the powerful energy of unity and struggle, and fully exerting the creative power of hundreds of millions of people, will surely promote the Chinese economic ship to ride the wind and waves and move forward steadily and far. On the road ahead, under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s economic thought, we must form a unified will and strong synergy, fully stimulate positive social energy, continue to write new chapters of the "two miracles" on the new journey, and create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
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Those who observe the trend are wise, and those who control the trend win. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to grasping the "trend," and clearly pointed out that it is necessary to "be good at accumulating, gathering, and planning the trend." For party members and cadres, being able to recognize, accumulate, use, and create momentum is an important manifestation of Party spirit, political ability, and comprehensive quality. "Momentum" is an objective existence. Only by actively taking action and accumulating strength can we firmly grasp the initiative in development. In reality, some party members and cadres value "creating momentum" over actual results, and are keen on creating lively scenes and external momentum; while party members and cadres who are good at "accumulating momentum" can often calm down and achieve success. The difference between "creating momentum" and "accumulating momentum" reflects the level of ideological realm of party members and cadres.
"Creating momentum" is like beating a drum, focusing on immediate effect. A loud and far-reaching beat can quickly gather attention. When necessary, the drumbeat to urge the expedition is indispensable, but if only the drum is heard and no soldiers advance, everything will often remain the same after the excitement. For example, some localities and departments put their minds on creating "bonsai-style" models, but do not solve the "long-standing and difficult" problems that restrict development; some, when promoting reforms, "issue documents and hold meetings" and add layers of pressure, but are unwilling to touch the "hard bones." This kind of "creating momentum" not only consumes valuable resources, but also overdraws the trust of the masses.
"Accumulating momentum" is like ramming a foundation, focusing on long-term effort. Those who are good at "accumulating momentum" take deep roots, do practical work, and seek practical results, like rivers that converge into streams, never stopping day and night, and eventually become a powerful force. In actual work, solving people's livelihood problems, optimizing the business environment, and protecting green mountains and clear waters all require this kind of strategic determination to be willing to work silently and be good at accumulation. It is particularly important to point out that the key to "accumulating momentum" lies in following the laws and continuous investment. Its effect may not be immediately apparent, but its success will be solid.
A few party members and cadres mistakenly regard "creating momentum" as a skill and political achievement, and even replace "reality" with "momentum," resulting in superficial work. The root cause lies in the deviation of the concept of political achievement. Some only focus on obvious achievements during their tenure, and are only happy to do things that are "visible"; some suffer from "myopia" and lack a long-term vision; and some harbor "speculative intentions" and are good at packaging highlights to cater to inspections. The result is often that the greater the momentum, the further away from reality; the more beautiful the scene, the more hidden contradictions and hidden dangers are buried.
"If the accumulation of water is not thick, then it is powerless to carry a large boat." Starting a business is inseparable from necessary publicity and mobilization, but it must be based on the foundation of "accumulating momentum." Without years of continuous optimization of the business environment and empowerment to cultivate business entities, there would be no momentum for the reputation of "hot investment land"; without continuous and unremitting efforts to promote technology transformation and industrial upgrading, there would be no leading advantage in emerging industries; without one term after another of protecting the ecological environment, there would be no winning situation of turning green mountains and clear waters into golden mountains and silver mountains... Attempting to bypass the solid accumulation process of "accumulating momentum" and "creating momentum" with short-term behavior or skill packaging can only be a mirage that is bright for a while and difficult to sustain.
To be good at "accumulating momentum," it is necessary to cultivate excellent political ability and master scientific working methods. The first is to have the big picture in mind, be willing to be a "paving stone," cultivate the spiritual realm of "achieving success does not have to be me," and be willing to do the potential work of laying the foundation and benefiting the long term; the second is to be down-to-earth, develop "iron feet," and insist on going deep into the front line to find out the situation, identify problems, and make up for shortcomings; the third is to persevere, maintain the "nail-driving" spirit, and grasp the identified goals to the end until results are achieved. At the same time, it is necessary to take the initiative to act under the premise of following the laws and carry out work creatively. "Accumulating" is to build a solid foundation, and "using" is the key to transformation. If the foundation is not solid, the momentum is weak, and if it is not used when it is needed, the effort is wasted. When "accumulating momentum" is abundant, we must dare to be good at "using momentum" and "planning momentum," seize opportunities, make decisive decisions, and resolutely promote the transformation of accumulated advantages into the winning momentum of development.
The real achievements are not in the momentum, but in the quality; not in the moment, but in the long term. On the new journey, party members and cadres can only maintain historical patience, work steadily and surely, and make long-term efforts, so that they can accumulate a lot and make a big difference, and write answers that live up to history and the people.
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A station without ground-level station buildings returns ground space to the city; a regional linkage shortens the space-time distance between cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region; a multi-station collaborative network promotes traffic governance and urban space optimization and upgrading.
On December 30, after more than six years of construction, Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站), located within the Beijing Urban Sub-Center Integrated Transportation Hub, officially began operations. On the same day, the entire Beijing-Tangshan Intercity Railway (京唐城际铁路) was opened. Beijing (北京) became the first city in China with eight first-class railway passenger stations and two large international airports, adding a new engine to the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region.
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Sunshine Station, Three-Dimensional Connection --
A Hub That "Grows"
At 9:30 a.m., in the B2-level waiting hall of Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站), the first group of passengers was passing through the ticket gates in an orderly manner. Looking up, sunlight streamed into the station through the huge "Beijing Sail" roof. "I didn't expect an underground station to be so bright," one passenger remarked.
"To let the sunlight in, we specifically created five skylights, with the 'Beijing Sail' as their roof," said Chen Fan (陈帆), Deputy General Manager of Beijing Jingtou Transportation Hub Investment Co., Ltd. (北京京投交通枢纽投资有限公司). The station conceals the railway and rail transit underground, returning ground space to the city.
Stepping into the B1-level commercial area, which has been opened in the first phase, cloisonné enamel, Beijing embroidery and other intangible cultural heritage items, as well as old brands such as Ziguangyuan (紫光园) and Beibingyang (北冰洋), form a special "market" that attracts passengers to stop and browse. "The Beijing Urban Sub-Center Integrated Transportation Hub follows the 'growth-oriented' development concept, and innovatively introduces the 'market' operation model to address the problem of insufficient basic commercial facilities in the initial stage of opening," said Liu Haitao (刘海涛), Director of the Beijing Key Station Area Management Committee (北京市重点站区管委会). "In the future, we will continue to optimize the commercial layout and improve the hub's functions, with each functional area being gradually put into use as construction progresses."
It is reported that the core area, mainly Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站), is being used in the first phase of the hub's operation. Among them, the M1 mezzanine level is mainly for bus stations and station support; the B1 level has both entry functions and urban attributes, with commercial pedestrian streets, sunken plazas and other public spaces; the B2 level serves as a transportation transfer level, with both waiting and urban transfer functions; and the B3 level is the intercity railway platform level.
Connectivity is a key part of station operations. Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站) has built a three-dimensional connection system based on public transportation and supplemented by a variety of modes. In terms of rail transit, the station has already achieved transfers with Metro Line 6; in terms of ground buses, the Beijing (北京) transportation department has optimized and adjusted 8 routes.
"Airport buses will also open two routes, one to Capital Airport (首都机场) and one to Daxing Airport (大兴机场), to meet the needs of passengers transferring between land and air," said Li Xuebin (李雪滨), Director of the Passenger Transport Comprehensive Coordination Division of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission (北京市交通委员会客运综合协调处). "As rail construction continues to advance, Metro Line 22 and Line M101 will also be connected, further enriching rail transit transfer methods."
Convenient Commuting, Promoting Integration --
Accelerating the Flow of Factors
On the B3 level platform, the train is lying quietly on the track, completely enclosed by the platform screen doors and the shielding cover above. "The installation of platform screen doors not only protects safety, but also helps with fire prevention," said Hou Chao (侯朝), Chief Engineer of the Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站) project of China Construction Engineering Group (中铁建工集团). In the event of a fire, the screen doors can be opened and closed normally within 10 minutes and can maintain structural integrity for 1 hour.
At 10 a.m., the G6751 train to Tangshan Station (唐山站) slowly started. After stopping at Yanjiao Station (燕郊站) and Baodi Station (宝坻站), this first train arrived in Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北) at 11 a.m.
"It only takes 11 minutes to get to Yanjiao (燕郊), and the ticket price is 11 yuan." Chen Ming (陈明), who lives in Yanjiao (燕郊) and works near Guomao (国贸) in Beijing (北京), made a special trip to experience the new station after learning about its opening. "Transferring to the subway in the station, the whole journey is by rail transit, with no risk of traffic jams."
"As an important node on the 'Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on Rails,' the completion and operation of Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站) will not only be able to accommodate commuter traffic in the three northern counties of Langfang (廊坊), Hebei (河北), but also help promote the deep integration of the surrounding Beijing area and improve the level of transportation interconnection in functional and industrial circles," said Zhu Yuechen (朱跃辰), Senior Engineer of Beijing Urban Construction Design & Development Group (北京城建院).
It is reported that in the initial stage of operation, Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站) will operate 12 pairs of trains, mainly undertaking the originating and terminating services of the Beijing-Tangshan Intercity Railway (京唐城际铁路) and the Beijing-Binhai Intercity Railway (京滨城际铁路) (completed section). From here, it takes only 50 minutes to reach Tangshan (唐山), 26 minutes to Baodi (宝坻), 56 minutes to Beichen (北辰), and 90 minutes to Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛).
It is worth mentioning that the original "Tongzhou Station" (通州站) on the Beijing-Harbin Line (京哈线) has been renamed "Zhongcang Station" (中仓站), mainly handling the suburban railway sub-center line business; Tongzhou West Station (通州西站) on the Beijing-Chengde Line (京承线) mainly serves the Tongmi Line and some ordinary speed trains.
Han Yong (韩勇), Deputy Director of the Passenger Transport Department of China Railway Beijing Group Co., Ltd. (国铁北京局集团客运部), introduced that the Tongzhou (通州) area has now formed a multi-station pattern of Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站), Zhongcang Station (中仓站), Tongzhou West Station (通州西站), and Qiaozhuang East Station (乔庄东站), "helping the 'Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on Rails' to accelerate."
Time and space are compressed, and factors are surging. Liu Wei (刘伟), the head of an equipment manufacturing company in Tangshan (唐山), calculated the costs: "Now it takes only 50 minutes to get from Tangshan (唐山) to Tongzhou Station (通州站), plus urban transportation, the one-way trip is less than two hours, which means that it is possible to conduct technical docking on the same day."
"In the future, Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站) will be connected to 8 rail transit lines of different types," said Li Xuebin (李雪滨). "When fully completed, it will be possible to reach Capital Airport (首都机场) in 15 minutes, Daxing Airport (大兴机场) in 35 minutes, and urban nodes in the capital functional circle such as Xiong'an (雄安) and Tianjin (天津) in 1 hour; and functional nodes in the capital industrial circle such as Tangshan (唐山) and Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛) can be reached within 1.5 hours."
Spatial Reshaping, Governance Upgrading --
The "Eight Stations and Two Airports" Pattern Takes Shape
With the opening of Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站), the capital's transportation pattern has ushered in a historic leap -- the "eight stations and two airports" pattern jointly formed by eight major railway hubs and two aviation hubs has officially taken shape. The "eight stations" are Beijing Station (北京站), Beijing West Station (北京西站), Beijing South Station (北京南站), Beijing North Station (北京北站), Qinghe Station (清河站), Beijing Chaoyang Station (北京朝阳站), Beijing Fengtai Station (北京丰台站), and Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站); the "two airports" are Beijing Capital International Airport (北京首都国际机场) and Beijing Daxing International Airport (北京大兴国际机场).
"Before 2020, citizens mainly relied on Beijing Station (北京站), Beijing West Station (北京西站), Beijing South Station (北京南站), and Beijing North Station (北京北站) for railway travel," Li Xuebin (李雪滨) recalled. "During the morning and evening peak hours, railway passenger flow and urban commuter flow overlapped, and the surrounding roads were overwhelmed."
Qinghe Station (清河站) was put into use at the end of 2019, Beijing Chaoyang Station (北京朝阳站) was opened in 2021, Beijing Fengtai Station (北京丰台站) was rebuilt and completed in 2022, and Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站) was put into operation at the end of 2025... "This is not a simple addition of numbers, but a systematic optimization," Zhu Yuechen (朱跃辰) explained this change with "corridor division": Beijing (北京) railway transportation will be divided into 4 corridors: east and northeast-bound trains will be undertaken by Beijing Station (北京站), Beijing Chaoyang Station (北京朝阳站), and Beijing Tongzhou Station (北京通州站); northwest-bound trains will be undertaken by Beijing North Station (北京北站) and Qinghe Station (清河站); southwest-bound trains will be undertaken by Beijing West Station (北京西站) and Beijing Fengtai Station (北京丰台站); and southeast-bound trains will be undertaken by Beijing South Station (北京南站).
The new pattern is also promoting urban governance upgrades. "The nationally pioneering key station area management system is coordinated by the Municipal Key Station Area Management Committee (市重点站区管委会) to unify the eight major railway stations and two airports, realizing 'coordination on one platform and synergy in operating mechanisms'," Liu Haitao (刘海涛) introduced, which changes the past situation of inconsistent management entities and different standards in each station area from the institutional mechanism.
"The formation of the 'eight stations and two airports' comprehensive transportation hub pattern strongly supports Beijing's (北京市) urban spatial structure layout of 'one core, one main, one deputy, two axes, multiple points, and one area'," said Xu Yan (许焱), President of the Beijing Transport Institute (北京交通发展研究院). "Forming comprehensive, multi-functional, and full-element urban vitality spaces around the hub will help optimize and upgrade Beijing's (北京) urban functional layout."
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) recently gave important instructions on the work of central enterprises, emphasizing: "On the new journey, central enterprises must fully recognize their responsibilities and missions, better serve the overall work of the Party and the country, serve the high-quality development of the economy and society, serve the protection and improvement of people's livelihoods, bravely shoulder social responsibilities, and contribute more to the construction of Chinese-style modernization."
In recent days, the Party Leadership Group of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) has, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, led all cadres and employees in deeply studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, closely integrating it with the study and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and resolutely upholding the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieving the "Two Safeguards" with practical actions. The entire group has unified its thinking, will, and actions, promoting frequent reports of success in equipment research and production, continuous emergence of scientific and technological innovation achievements, prominent results in deepening reform and upgrading, maintaining stable and positive performance in business quality and efficiency, and improving the quality and empowering of high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development. All key tasks of reform and development have been fully completed, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" tasks of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) are about to be successfully concluded.
Deeply study and thoroughly understand, and comprehensively implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
After the closing of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Party Leadership Group of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) carefully planned and deployed, supervised and implemented, and quickly launched a wave of enthusiasm for studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session.
Adhere to grasping the "key few" and covering the entire field and all members. The Party Leadership Group of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) and Party committees at all levels took the lead in studying one step ahead and one level deeper in the form of "first topic" and theoretical learning center group studies, conducting more than 200 learning and discussion sessions. The Party Leadership Group of the Group Company organized and held a reporting meeting, setting up 1 main venue and 189 video sub-venues, inviting Ding Guowen (丁国文), a member of the Central Propaganda Group and full-time deputy director of the Central Reform Office, to give a report on the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to 45,000 Party member leading cadres, employee representatives, representatives of the United Front, and representatives of retired personnel, explaining the guiding ideology, main goals, strategic tasks, and major measures for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. More than 360 Party committees at all levels were organized to hold joint learning sessions of the theoretical learning center group. Cheng Fubo (程福波), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of the Group Company, gave special guidance to 40,000 cadres and employees at all levels of Party organizations, scientific research and production frontlines, and test flight frontlines, explaining the historical position, mission tasks, and opportunities and challenges faced by the development of the aviation industry during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The 12th Plenary (Enlarged) Meeting of the 3rd Committee of the Group's Communist Youth League, symposiums for non-Party members, symposiums for loss-making enterprises, and study meetings for overseas employees were organized, and Party organizations at all levels were supervised to carry out "three meetings and one lesson" and theme Party days, publicizing and explaining the spirit of the Plenary Session in categories and groups, achieving full coverage of 113,000 Party members and nearly 400,000 aviation personnel.
Through study and publicity, the cadres and employees of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) felt greatly encouraged and inspired, underwent ideological re-tempering and action re-motivation, became more determined in their confidence and full of energy, led action with ideological consciousness, and worked together to promote high-quality development.
Be pragmatic and determined to ensure the successful completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" goals and tasks.
The Party Leadership Group of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) adheres to the Party's comprehensive leadership over the aviation industry, continues to deeply study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, combines it with the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and approvals, leads high-quality development with high-quality Party building, vigorously promotes the spirit of serving the country through aviation in the new era, and resolutely completes the annual goals and tasks.
Focusing on the primary responsibility and main business, new achievements have been made in the development of the aviation industry. At the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, 134 advanced aviation equipment of 35 types independently developed by China were honorably reviewed by the Party and the people. China's first electromagnetic catapult-type aircraft carrier, the Fujian ship (福建舰), was commissioned, and three advanced equipment, the J-35 (歼—35), J-15T (歼—15T), and KJ-600 (空警—600), successfully achieved "three catapults on one ship." The "20 family" and other aviation equipment made a systematic appearance at international air shows, and the international military trade market was upgraded and expanded. The large amphibious aircraft AG600 (AG600) has successively obtained the model qualification certificate and production license, adding advanced equipment power to China's emergency rescue system construction. AR-E800 (AR—E800), "Jiu Tian" (九天) drones and other successful first flights have injected new momentum into the development of the low-altitude economy.
Deeply implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition that "we must adhere to the view that science and technology is the primary productive force, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force," hold a group-wide science and technology innovation conference, and take multiple measures to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and the efficient integration of new quality productive forces and new quality combat capabilities. Implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action to seize the commanding heights of military intelligence and open up new frontiers in aviation intelligence. Coordinate location and industrial advantages to build talent centers and innovation highlands in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), Xi'an (西安), and Chengdu (成都), create a source of original aviation technology, a gathering place for innovative talents, and an incubation place for scientific and technological achievements, and accelerate the promotion of high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in aviation science and technology.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the entire line of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) kept its entrustment in mind, was grateful and forged ahead, unswervingly advanced along the direction guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), lived up to its mission, and lived up to its heavy trust, promoting new progress and new breakthroughs in the high-quality development of the aviation industry.
Take advantage of the momentum and strive to write a new chapter in high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," the Party Leadership Group of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Adhere to ideological leadership. The Party Leadership Group of the Group Company resolutely implements General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions on the work of central enterprises and on the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan," comprehensively and deeply studies and implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, and runs the Party's leadership through all aspects and the entire process of reform and development, and integrates research and argumentation on the Group Company's responsibilities and missions, development strategies, development goals, and key tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Adhere to demand traction. The Party Leadership Group of the Group Company adheres to goal orientation and problem orientation, systematically studies and promotes 404 items of undertaking and implementation content such as promoting high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology, supporting the modernization of national defense and the military, further comprehensively deepening reform, and coordinating development and security, ensuring that the Group Company's "15th Five-Year Plan" preparation always revolves around the primary responsibility and main business, enhances core functions, enhances core competitiveness, and better serves the overall work of the Party and the country, serves the high-quality development of the economy and society, and serves the protection and improvement of people's livelihoods.
Adhere to open consultation. The Party Leadership Group of the Group Company took the lead in carrying out "one-on-one" strategic interviews, holding symposiums for academicians and experts, reading classes, seminars, etc., soliciting and collecting opinions and suggestions from academicians and experts, various departments, and various units. Party group members went to more than 70 affiliated units to conduct research, listen to opinions and suggestions from team members and frontline employee representatives. The Party Leadership Group held 6 special meetings to deeply study major issues in the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and feedback from all parties, deeply analyzed and studied more than 2,000 opinions and suggestions collected, and the adoption rate exceeded 95%, effectively gathering wisdom and building consensus.
Embarking on a new journey, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (航空工业集团) will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, shoulder the responsibilities and missions of serving the country through aviation and building a strong aviation country, focus on the primary responsibility of strengthening the military, focus on independent innovation, focus on advanced manufacturing, anchor the goal of building a world-class aviation high-tech industry group with global competitiveness, accelerate the construction of a strong aviation country, be loyal and dedicated, self-reliant, work hard, and bravely climb to the peak, and contribute greater aviation strength to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
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On the afternoon of December 30th, the onshore RMB against the US dollar broke through the 7.0 level, reaching a new high since May 2023.
Since April 2025, the RMB exchange rate against the US dollar has continued to strengthen, rising from around 7.35 to around 7.01. On December 25th, the offshore RMB against the US dollar took the lead in breaking through the 7.0 level, the first time since September 2024.
Guan Tao (管涛), Global Chief Economist of Bank of China Securities (中银证券), believes that there are two main factors driving the recent strengthening of the RMB exchange rate. First, the expectation of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve has increased, driving the US dollar index down. Since late November, the US dollar index has fallen by about 2.0%. Second, since the beginning of this year, facing a complex external environment, the Chinese economy has shown strong resilience. Recently, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and Goldman Sachs and other foreign institutions have given China's economy a "vote of confidence," and have successively raised China's economic growth forecast, increasing foreign investment in RMB assets.
At the same time, the end of the year is the peak season for foreign exchange settlement, and the increased demand for foreign exchange settlement from export enterprises will also drive the seasonal strengthening of the RMB.
Regarding the future trend of the exchange rate, experts said that the market and business entities need to view it rationally. There are many market factors and policy factors that will affect the exchange rate in the future, and there is still great uncertainty in the RMB trend.
"The appreciation of the RMB will reduce the exchange profits of export enterprises, while reducing the costs of import enterprises." Wang Qing (王青), Chief Macro Analyst at Golden Credit Rating (东方金诚), said that foreign trade enterprises should not bet on the unilateral trend of the RMB exchange rate, but should stick to their main business and use foreign exchange derivatives tools such as options and futures as much as possible to control the risk of exchange rate fluctuations.
The Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) pointed out that it is necessary to maintain the basic stability of the RMB exchange rate at a reasonable and balanced level. The fourth quarter例会 (lì huì - "regular meeting") of the Monetary Policy Committee (货币政策委员会) of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) in 2025 emphasized "preventing the risk of exchange rate overshooting." "Two-way fluctuations and enhanced flexibility of the RMB exchange rate are the norm. In the next step, we must continue to enhance the resilience of the foreign exchange market, stabilize market expectations, and prevent the risk of exchange rate overshooting," said Lou Feipeng (娄飞鹏), a researcher at China Postal Savings Bank (中国邮政储蓄银行).
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In Shanxi, "specialized towns" are a form of cluster economy based on counties (cities, districts) as basic geographical units. As one of the first batch of provincial-level key "specialized towns," Taigu Magang Specialized Town (太谷玛钢专业镇) in Jinzhong City (晋中市) has multiple titles such as "China Magang Industry Base (中国玛钢产业基地)."
Located here, Canef Group (Shanxi) Pipeline System Co., Ltd. (卡耐夫集团（山西）管道系统有限公司) started with the production of malleable iron pipe fittings, etc., and this year put into operation two robotic automated production lines, and its main products have achieved a transformation to the field of new energy vehicle brake discs and other fields. "The transformation and upgrading benefited from the timely release of financial funds," said Zhou Yongjun (周永军), chairman of the company.
There is a market and orders, but a lack of collateral. How to help companies transform and upgrade? In 2023, Shanxi Re-guarantee Company (山西再担保公司) found that the company's electricity costs were positively correlated with the scale of production and sales, and based on the research, released the "Zhenxingbao·Taigu Magangbao (镇兴保·太谷玛钢保)" product to accurately determine the guarantee amount. Through credit enhancement, the local bank increased the company's credit line from 3 million yuan to 10 million yuan.
In response to the current situation that the overall industrial scale of "specialized towns" is relatively small, financial service models continue to iterate: China Coal Insurance (中煤保险) focuses on the upstream and downstream of "specialized town" enterprises to enrich its product matrix; Shanxi Equity Exchange Center (山西股权交易中心) has established a "specialized town special board" to broaden financing channels.
The entire chain of finance helps the development of county manufacturing. "Guarantee + Data" "Insurance + Industry"... Shanxi Financial Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. (山西金融投资控股集团有限公司) coordinates financial instruments such as insurance, funds, guarantees, and securities to help industrial upgrading and moderately diversified development. Wang Zhenyu (王振宇), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Group, introduced that the "Shanxi New Engine Specialized Town Industrial Investment Fund (山西新引擎专业镇产业投资基金)" with 200 million yuan has been established, and innovative financial service tools will be used in a coordinated manner to help "specialized towns" become bigger and stronger.
According to statistics, Shanxi has cumulatively cultivated 30 provincial-level key "specialized towns" and 122 municipal-level "specialized towns." In the first three quarters of this year, the sales revenue of leading enterprises in provincial-level "specialized towns" increased by 10.1% year-on-year.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on December 30th (Reporter Dong Zitong (董梓童)) On December 30th, the 2025 Electric Harmony Ecosystem Conference and Media Briefing, themed "Building an Electric Harmony Ecosystem and Drawing the Future of Electric Power Internet of Things," was held in Beijing (北京).
Participating guests believe that developing an independent and controllable energy Internet of Things operating system and building an open-source and shared industrial ecosystem are key measures to promote the digital transformation of energy and cultivate new quality productive forces in the industry. The co-construction and shared prosperity of the Electric Harmony Ecosystem provide a practical path for the energy and power industry to consolidate its digital foundation and achieve a high level of self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology. It is an important support for enabling the construction of a new power system and ensuring national energy security.
In order to further enhance the influence of the Electric Harmony Ecosystem, China Southern Power Grid Digital Grid Group Co., Ltd. and China Energy News Co., Ltd. reached a strategic cooperation on digital and intelligent brand promotion of "Enterprise-Media Co-building Electric Harmony Ecosystem." This conference was hosted by China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. (中国南方电网有限责任公司) and organized by Southern Power Grid Digital Grid Group Co., Ltd. (南方电网数字电网集团有限公司) and Southern Power Grid Digital Grid Research Institute Co., Ltd. (南方电网数字电网研究院股份有限公司).
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Are the frequently occurring elevator malfunctions and major safety hazards in the old building fixed?
——Resident Liu Chunjie (刘春杰) of the residential community
"The new elevators are fast and stable, and they are also equipped with emergency call buttons, making it much easier to go up and down the building now." In the Shifan Heping Jiayuan residential community of Tiejun Community (铁军社区), Jihong Sub-district (霁虹街道), Tiexi District (铁西区), Shenyang City (沈阳市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), 73-year-old resident Liu Chunjie (刘春杰) invited reporters to try out the newly replaced elevators.
Previously, frequent elevator malfunctions were a troubling issue for high-rise residents in the community. "Strange noises and shaking in the car were common, but what was even more worrying was being trapped in the elevator and sudden drops," said Liu Chunjie (刘春杰). "Once, when I went downstairs to buy groceries, the elevator suddenly stopped in mid-air. There was no call button in the car, and there was no cell phone signal. We were trapped in the elevator." After the incident, Shi Wenfang (史文芳), Secretary of the Party Committee of Tiejun Community (铁军社区党委书记), led a team to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the elevator operation. The results showed that the 32 elevators in the 14 high-rise residential buildings in the community, which were put into use in 2004, had long been "overaged" and had prominent safety hazards.
"At the beginning of this year, the community Party committee took the lead in holding several joint meetings to formulate two sets of plans for elevator repair and replacement," said Shi Ligang (石立刚), Deputy Director of the Owners Committee of Shifan Heping Jiayuan residential community. During the consultation phase, the work was temporarily deadlocked due to residents' differing opinions on issues such as the use of public maintenance funds and the quality of elevator products.
Just as they were 一筹莫展 (yī chóu mò zhǎn - "at wit's end," to be at a loss; unable to find a solution), good news came from the district: National subsidies could be applied for the renovation and upgrading of old residential elevators. The community Party committee applied according to the prescribed procedures while running to the sub-district and district to explain the situation and seek support. In July of this year, all 32 old elevators in the community were included in the 2025 elevator renovation project in two batches.
When soliciting public opinion again, the process went much smoother: Make good use of national subsidy funds, residents do not need to contribute additional funds, and choose cost-effective local brand elevators. Shi Wenfang (史文芳) said: "The 9 cadres of the community spent a week visiting the 823 households in the 14 high-rise residential buildings, hoping to let everyone use the new elevators as soon as possible." In order to dispel the concerns of some residents, the community Party committee invited experts to answer questions on the spot and organized resident representatives to visit the elevator factory for on-site visits.
During the implementation of the project, in order to reduce the impact of construction on the public, the community Party committee organized party member backbones and volunteers to form a "climbing service team" to provide door-to-door services such as buying vegetables, buying medicine, and delivering express delivery for residents with mobility difficulties, and to provide special assistance services for the elderly.
On November 5, the first batch of 25 new elevators officially passed the acceptance inspection. On December 30, the second batch of 7 new elevators also successfully completed the acceptance inspection, and more than 800 households completely bid farewell to the "difficulty of climbing stairs." "An elevator tests governance capabilities and carries the temperature of people's livelihood," said Gao Wei (高威), member of the Standing Committee of the Tiexi District (铁西区委常委) Committee and Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Jihong Sub-district (霁虹街道党工委书记), with deep feeling. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tiexi District (铁西区) has invested a total of about 2.7 billion yuan to renovate and upgrade 2,100 residential buildings in 309 old residential communities, benefiting 179,300 households.
This warm transformation has made the community's "human touch" more and more rich. At the consultation meetings organized by the community, residents are very satisfied: "The new elevator car is clean and refreshing, and the operation is safe and stable. We go downstairs to bask in the sun more often than before." "I had the idea of moving, but with the new elevator, I can live here with peace of mind"...
From "troubled travel" to "happy direct access" is a vivid microcosm of Liaoning's solid promotion of the construction of "happy new communities" in recent years. The Organization Department of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee (辽宁省委组织部), the Social Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee (省委社会工作部) and other 6 departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction of 'Happy New Communities' in the Province", focusing on 5 specific construction requirements of "strong organization, effective governance, quality service, loving neighborhood, and safe and orderly", adhering to the leadership of the Party throughout the whole process and all aspects of community construction, and promoting the formation of a working situation of Party and the masses working together and integrating construction. "We have firmly established the concept of 'for the people, convenient for the people, and safe for the people', and always put community construction in an important position in grassroots governance. By promoting more resources to be tilted towards the community, we can make people's lives more fulfilling," said the relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee (辽宁省委组织部).
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The "Regulations on the Administration of Chinese Employees of Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Missions in China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") were adopted at the 65th executive meeting of the State Council (国务院) on July 31, 2025, and will come into effect on January 1, 2026. The "Regulations" adhere to the overall promotion of domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, establish a unified and standardized new type of diplomatic and foreign affairs service management system, and are a major measure for China to improve the level of legalization of foreign affairs services. The "Regulations" consist of 12 articles, focusing on the employment and management of Chinese employees of foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese employees, and facilitating foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to perform their duties in accordance with the law.
Facilitating the performance of duties by foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China is China's statutory obligation.
China is a party to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. These two conventions jointly establish the basic legal framework for diplomatic and consular relations in modern international relations, clarify the operating rules of embassies and consulates, and the privileges and immunities of relevant personnel, and have become the basic international legal documents for adjusting diplomatic and consular exchanges between countries. According to the provisions of these two conventions, the receiving state shall take necessary measures to facilitate the effective performance of duties by embassies and consulates. As a contracting party to the two conventions and a responsible major diplomatic country, China's provision of convenience for foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to perform their duties is not only the due meaning of China's adherence to international law and fulfillment of treaty obligations, but also the inevitable requirement for deepening the diplomacy of a major country with Chinese characteristics. In order to better implement the relevant provisions of these two conventions, China has also combined its own actual situation and promulgated the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities" and the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Consular Privileges and Immunities" in 1986 and 1990 respectively, which constitute an important domestic legal basis for China to regulate the rights and interests and behaviors of foreign diplomatic and consular missions and their personnel in China. Facilitating the performance of duties by foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China is not only an international legal obligation of China, but also a domestic legal obligation.
Providing employment services for Chinese employees is an important part of fulfilling the obligation of facilitation.
Foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China often need a large amount of auxiliary and service human support when carrying out daily work such as visa processing, document translation, and overseas Chinese services. If these basic staff are recruited and dispatched from their own countries, it will greatly increase the time cost and operating cost of foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China. In order to ensure the daily operation of the institutions and the effective performance of duties by diplomatic and consular officials, foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China generally need to employ a large number of Chinese employees to engage in translation, assistant, driving, maintenance, reception, cleaning, security and other work. However, due to unfamiliarity with China's labor laws and regulations, social security policies and human resources market, it is difficult for foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to recruit suitable Chinese employees. They mainly rely on specialized foreign affairs service agencies to provide professional human resources services, from job posting, personnel screening, background investigation, to salary distribution, social security payment, certificate processing and other full-process agency services. Based on this consideration, Article 3, paragraph 1 of the "Regulations" clearly stipulates that "the Chinese government shall, in accordance with the law, provide convenience for foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to employ Chinese employees," providing a legal basis for foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to entrust foreign affairs service agencies to employ Chinese employees, reflecting the responsibility and commitment of the Chinese government in foreign relations. Of course, according to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 3, in the employment process, "foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China shall respect China's laws and regulations and protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese employees."
The centralized management system is an important guarantee for facilitating the employment of Chinese employees.
Article 4 of the "Regulations" stipulates that foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China shall implement centralized management for the employment of Chinese employees. This constitutes the cornerstone of China's foreign affairs service management system with Chinese characteristics. The centralized management system builds a clear hierarchical management system, so that the management responsibility for providing employment services for Chinese employees has a clear attribution. Among them, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部) is responsible for the overall guidance and coordination of employee management work nationwide, and the units entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the foreign affairs authorities of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government are respectively responsible for the management of Chinese employees of foreign diplomatic missions in China and foreign consular missions in China within their respective administrative regions. This division of labor management model avoids possible problems such as unclear management subjects and unclear responsibilities, so that foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China have clear docking subjects, which facilitates the employment of Chinese employees by foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China. In addition, Article 4 of the "Regulations" requires that relevant departments such as human resources and social security, taxation, market supervision and management, public security, and national security should cooperate in their respective responsibilities to do a good job in the management of Chinese employees and jointly provide high-quality services for foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to employ Chinese employees. Article 6, paragraph 2 of the "Regulations" clearly requires that "the competent foreign affairs service authorities and foreign affairs service agencies shall improve the level of management and improve the quality of service."
A unified platform and clear procedures provide an effective way to employ Chinese employees.
In order to facilitate foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China to employ Chinese employees, according to Article 5 of the "Regulations", foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China shall publish job demand information through the Chinese employee human resources platform established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), and select Chinese employees to be employed as needed. The human resources platform gathers information on Chinese citizens who are suitable for engaging in auxiliary and service work in foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China, including basic information, work experience, qualifications, language skills and other key information that foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China are concerned about in the recruitment process, forming a comprehensive, accurate and dynamic talent information database. Foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China can freely choose Chinese employees to be employed on the platform. When necessary, foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China can also recommend suitable candidates outside the platform to apply for entering the talent information database of the platform according to the procedures. Once the candidates are determined, foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China can connect with the foreign affairs service agencies designated by the competent foreign affairs service authorities in the location of the institutions in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 of the "Regulations". Foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China first need to sign a service agreement with the foreign affairs service agencies as a basic agreement to determine the protection of the rights and interests of Chinese employees, the application of law, dispute resolution, foreign affairs service fees and other contents; after that, the foreign affairs service agencies, entrusted by the foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China, sign labor contracts with the selected Chinese employees to clarify the job responsibilities, labor remuneration, work location, work period and work discipline of the auxiliary and service work engaged in by the Chinese employees in the foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China. According to the provisions of Article 7 of the "Regulations", after the foreign affairs service agencies sign labor contracts with Chinese employees, the competent foreign affairs service authorities shall issue Chinese employee certificates to the Chinese employees as their work permits. In order to ensure that the work carried out by Chinese employees meets the requirements of diplomatic and consular missions in China and to maintain the compliance and seriousness of diplomatic and consular activities, Article 8 of the "Regulations" clearly requires that Chinese employees shall abide by China's laws and regulations, fulfill the obligations stipulated in the labor contract, and shall not engage in activities that endanger national security or harm social public interests, and shall not carry out activities in the capacity of diplomatic representatives or consular officers.
(The author is an associate professor of the School of International Law of China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学), and the vice dean of the School of Law of Xinjiang University of Political Science and Law (新疆政法学院).)
Return to TopAs the New Year's Day approaches, schools and kindergartens in many places are holding a variety of colorful campus activities to allow children to welcome the New Year in joy and celebration.
The picture shows children interacting with lion dancers at the Wenling Municipal Government Kindergarten in Wenling (温岭), Zhejiang (浙江) on December 30th.
Photo by Xu Weijie (徐伟杰) (Image China).
Return to TopFrom December 5th to 7th, the 2025 Tengchong Scientists Forum was held in Tengchong (腾冲), Yunnan (云南). As one of the forum's series of activities, the South Asia and Southeast Asia International Intellectual Property Innovation and Cooperation Seminar was held on December 7th. At the meeting, Yunnan Botanee Bio-Technology Group Co., Ltd. (云南贝泰妮生物科技集团股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Botanee (贝泰妮)") shared its experiences on the theme of "Innovative Development and Industrialization Practice of Yunnan's Characteristic Plant Resources," introducing Botanee's (贝泰妮) practical paths and innovative achievements in the field of plant new raw material research and development to domestic and foreign experts.
Relying on Yunnan's (云南) plant resources, 17 plant new raw materials have been filed. Yunnan (云南) is a major province of forest and grass resources, known as the "Kingdom of Plants," with more than 19,300 species of higher plants, many of which are unique to the local area or rare plants in the country. Against the industry background of active filing of new plant raw materials, the "Kingdom of Plants" provides resource support for Botanee's (贝泰妮) new raw material research and development. The Botanee (贝泰妮) R&D team screened more than 2,000 kinds of characteristic plants for reserve based on books, literature and scientific research institute data such as "Yunnan Materia Medica Atlas" (《云南天然药物图鉴》), "Diannan Materia Medica" (《滇南本草》), and "Yunnan Provincial Standards for Chinese Herbal Medicines" (《云南省中药材地方标准》), and screened out 266 kinds of plants with cosmetic efficacy components or active parts, and adhered to the concept of biodiversity protection for plant resource development and utilization, and continued to carry out plant raw material research and development from the aspects of soothing and anti-inflammatory, barrier repair, whitening and sunscreen.
Up to now, Botanee (贝泰妮) has successfully filed 17 plant new raw materials. In terms of achievement transformation, 7 new raw materials have been successfully applied to its Winona (薇诺娜), Aokeman (瑷科缦), Beforting (贝芙汀) and other brand products, covering the fields of soothing, moisturizing and other effects. The transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements has injected new vitality into the development of the enterprise. Up to now, Botanee (贝泰妮) has created Winona (薇诺娜), Winona Baby (薇诺娜宝贝), Aokeman (瑷科缦), Beforting (贝芙汀) and other brands around sensitive skin, infant skin, acne care and other skin care fields.
Among them, Winona (薇诺娜) has the core technology of the whole process of research and development and industrialization, and the key core technology has realized independent control, and has successfully realized the industrialization transformation and application. Through brand integration and all-round layout, efficient operation and transformation of intellectual property rights, Botanee (贝泰妮) has formed a solid intellectual property foundation, created an enterprise intellectual property protection system based on patent rights, and consolidated the foundation for the company's high-quality development.
Building a comprehensive service platform to empower the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. The Yunnan (云南) Characteristic Plant Extraction Laboratory, led by Botanee (贝泰妮), is based on the development and utilization of Yunnan (云南) characteristic plants, guided by industrialization, and focuses on the research and development of functional cosmetics, functional foods and drugs. The laboratory focuses on the Yunnan (云南) characteristic plant industry, and has built a functional cosmetics CRO (Contract Research Organization) product research and development service platform and a CRAO (Contract Registration Organization) product listing comprehensive service platform, providing a full-process service covering product design, target research, raw material screening, formula preparation, product safety and efficacy evaluation to product commercialization, providing scientific and technological support for industrial innovation through technical breakthroughs, forming a characteristic plant product cluster and enterprise cluster with tiered development, helping to extend the industrial chain, and developing high value-added characteristic plant health products. In addition, the laboratory has undertaken the research and development of plant raw materials with local characteristics such as Nujiang (怒江) grass fruit and Xishuangbanna (西双版纳) water dragon, helping to create raw material innovation and industrialization value.
Adhere to the concept of long-term development and strengthen the protection of biodiversity in Yunnan (云南). In order to find more characteristic plant raw materials, the Botanee (贝泰妮) R&D team went deep into the snow-capped mountains and plateaus, tropical rain forests, and cooperated with local planting bases and communities to build raw material bases, forming a full-chain traceability system from germplasm resource research to optimized breeding, which not only ensures the supply and quality stability of raw materials, but also becomes a coordinated sample of protecting biodiversity and effectively developing plant resources.
At the end of 2023, the Qingci fruit scientific research planting base located in Haba Snow Mountain (哈巴雪山) in Shangri-La (香格里拉) was completed. The base focuses on the germplasm research and optimization of raw material Qingci fruit, and carries out the planting research of plateau characteristic plants. At the same time, the base adheres to the concept of long-term development and promotes the education and practice of biodiversity protection by creating a biodiversity science education exhibition hall combining agriculture and tourism. In 2024, Botanee's (贝泰妮) Haba Snow Mountain (哈巴雪山) West Slope Ecological Restoration Project was officially launched. Through scientific methods, it maintains soil and water, conserves water sources, builds protective fences, and plants local native plants such as Yunnan (云南) Sea Buckthorn, Yellow Flower Wood, Oil Wheat Hanging Spruce, and Rhododendron to provide rescue protection for the rare and endangered Elegant Cypripedium and Tibetan Cypripedium.
From the Yunling (云岭) land to the world stage, Botanee (贝泰妮) is continuously promoting the progress from plant raw material innovation to achievement application transformation. In the future, Botanee (贝泰妮) will continue to study Yunnan's (云南) characteristic plant resources, deepen industry-university-research collaborative innovation, and let more plant raw materials containing Yunnan (云南) characteristics and reflecting Chinese wisdom go to the world, and contribute Chinese strength to the global cosmetics industry innovation.
Data source: Yunnan Botanee Bio-Technology Group Co., Ltd. (云南贝泰妮生物科技集团股份有限公司)
Return to TopLocated within the smart logistics park in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (阿联酋迪拜), forklifts weave through spacious aisles, as nearly 800,000 electronic products are intelligently sorted and distributed to various parts of the Middle East. Thousands of kilometers away in Wuhan (武汉), China, trucks loaded with goods enter the East-West Lake Logistics Park (东西湖物流园), where dairy products from the black soil of Northeast China are distributed to over 500 distributors in the Hunan (湘), Hubei (鄂), and Jiangxi (赣) provinces. These snapshots across time and space collectively outline the strategic vision of JD Property (京东产发) – JD Intelligent Supply Chain & Property Development Group Co., Ltd. (京东智能产发股份有限公司) – to serve industrial development with logistics infrastructure by building a global warehouse network and laying the foundation for supply chains.
Rooted in the Chinese market, consolidating the cornerstone of supply chain upgrades.
As a subsidiary of JD.com (京东集团) providing infrastructure construction, asset management, and integrated services, JD Property (京东产发) was formerly the infrastructure department of JD.com's self-built logistics system. The first "Asia No. 1" high-standard warehouse in China was designed and built by them. Based on the experience accumulated over the long-term service in the logistics and e-commerce fields, JD Property (京东产发) has a deeper understanding of retail and supply chains. Through years of construction verification and product iteration, it provides industrial customers with more customized warehousing products.
Efficient logistics is the foundation of the retail industry. As China's 180 billionth express delivery this year was sent from a JD.com (京东) warehouse, the highly automated and intelligent JD.com (京东) retail logistics system can easily cope with the express delivery peak season. Inside the double-layer warehouse of the JD.com (京东) Dongguan (东莞) Smart Industrial Park, a large cross-belt sorting system stretches 22 kilometers. More than 800 sorting chutes on the sorter precisely divert packages to JD Property's (京东产发) regional logistics centers across the country, processing an average of one million orders per day. Efficient logistics operations stem from JD Property's (京东产发) years of accumulated system capabilities: a single-layer 9-meter clear height, 3-ton load-bearing warehouse structure, and scientifically planned zoning can accommodate large-scale intelligent logistics equipment; efficient vehicle flow line design within the park supports quick vehicle entry and exit, with sufficient energy and material reserves, and complete traffic and fire protection. During this year's JD.com (京东) 618 shopping festival, JD Property's (京东产发) parks across the country ensured an average daily service flow of 90,000 vehicles and 110,000 people, achieving a high on-time delivery rate.
These high-standard warehouse products and in-depth industry customized service capabilities honed in serving JD.com's (京东) vast logistics system are increasingly becoming the cornerstone of JD Property's (京东产发) service to a wider range of industrial customers. JD Property (京东产发) has reached a strategic cooperation with RRS Supply Chain (日日顺供应链), a domestic large-item logistics company. The first cooperative project between the two parties – JD.com (京东) Pinggu (平谷) Smart Industrial Park – is ready to be put into operation. This project will significantly improve RRS Supply Chain's (日日顺供应链) warehousing, sorting, and distribution efficiency in the North China region, better meeting the strong demand of the local home appliance, e-commerce, and other retail markets. This is also a vivid practice of JD Property (京东产发) empowering external partners with mature logistics infrastructure service experience.
In the automotive manufacturing industry, logistics costs are one of the key factors affecting the industry's profits. Therefore, optimizing warehousing and distribution capabilities in the automotive supply chain can greatly improve the operating efficiency of automotive supply chain companies. JD Property (京东产发) operates more than 220 high-standard logistics parks in 30 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government), basically located in major transportation hubs across the country. The sites are generally located within 15 minutes' drive from highway exits, allowing for efficient and rapid access to internal and external transportation networks. This networked warehousing layout covers the main production and sales areas of the automotive industry, which can greatly reduce the logistics costs of automotive supply chain companies and help companies shorten the transportation distance to customers.
In 2021, JD Property (京东产发) took only 12 months to tailor a regional distribution center for BMW (宝马公司), which is also BMW's (宝马公司) first green parts distribution center in China. To date, JD Property (京东产发) has provided BMW (宝马) with multiple customized logistics infrastructure services, two of which have obtained LEED green building certification, helping BMW (宝马公司) improve its localized logistics network in China.
With the rapid rise of the domestic new energy vehicle industry, JD Property (京东产发) has customized a 100,000-square-meter high-standard warehouse for Li Auto (理想汽车) in Changzhou (常州), Jiangsu (江苏). The two parties cooperated in a "fully托管" (tuō guǎn - "entrusted," a model where JD Property manages the entire process) model, with JD Property (京东产发) fully responsible for the entire process from site selection, land acquisition, design, to construction, acceptance, and delivery, completing the delivery in just 7 months, efficiently meeting Li Auto's (理想汽车) business development needs.
Serving global customers, creating an integrated overseas service entity.
JD.com (京东) is positioned as a technology and service enterprise based on supply chains. Therefore, in the process of accelerating the development of international business, JD.com (京东) actively promotes the "going out" of supply chain technology and services, building supply chain infrastructure, hiring employees, serving local industries and consumer ecosystems, and truly integrating into local markets. Therefore, by establishing a stable and efficient supply chain network, JD Property (京东产发) not only improves the efficiency of local supply chains, but also attracts more global brands to land and operate locally, optimizing their commercial circulation system.
Since 2020, JD Property (京东产发) has been landing high-standard logistics parks in some key overseas logistics hub areas. As of December 31, 2025, JD Property's (京东产发) high-standard logistics parks have taken root in 12 countries and regions, from Coventry (考文垂), UK, to Brisbane (布里斯班), Australia, and from Dubai (迪拜), UAE, to Singapore (新加坡), with more than 50 logistics parks weaving a warehousing service network covering major global economic and trade hubs.
These logistics parks are more scientific in terms of construction standards, space layout, and energy utilization, providing local enterprises with stable and efficient supply chain basic services. Based on its own experience, JD Property (京东产发) has formed systematic solutions around the warehousing, supply chain, compliance, and cost issues encountered by cross-border enterprises in the process of expanding their business locally. With rich overseas project experience, mature local teams, and professional service processes, JD Property (京东产发) provides cross-border enterprises with full-process support from site selection and preparation, compliance access, to operation and management.
In Jakarta (雅加达), Indonesia, a home appliance brand planned to cooperate with JD Property (京东产发) for short-term lease of warehousing space when expanding its business. In the process of cooperation, JD Property (京东产发), with its high-quality project operation efficiency and the professional services of the local team, not only solved the company's warehousing shortage problem, but also improved the company's logistics efficiency by optimizing the internal flow line design. As a result, the two parties transformed from a short-term cooperative relationship into a long-term strategic partnership.
Geely Auto (吉利汽车) has significantly shortened the delivery cycle to the Middle East market by leveraging JD.com's (京东) logistics nodes in the Middle East. JD.com's (京东) logistics warehouses in the Middle East have also become one of Geely Auto's (吉利汽车) main auto parts centers in the region. JD Property's (京东产发) logistics parks in Wilhelmshaven (威廉港), Germany, and Coventry (考文垂), UK, also provide comprehensive logistics and warehousing services for companies such as Volkswagen (大众汽车) and Polestar (极星).
From space to ecosystem, promoting the value leap of supply chain infrastructure.
As an important part of the JD.com (京东) ecosystem, JD Property (京东产发) can efficiently coordinate JD.com's (京东) ecological resources to realize more dimensions and longer supply chain services and product customization.
On the procurement side, JD Industrial (京东工业) has a set of digital solutions for the entire supply chain covering both the supply and demand sides. JD Property (京东产发) can link with JD Industrial (京东工业) to realize intensive procurement for in-warehouse hardware logistics facilities based on the batch demand within the JD.com (京东) ecosystem, reducing the procurement cost of supply chain hardware facilities for customers.
On the technology side, JD Technology (京东科技) can open JD Cloud's (京东云) digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence services, and other services to external partners. Based on its technology, JD Property (京东产发) can provide park customers with services such as automatic traffic flow assessment and vehicle scheduling, and use AI technology to monitor in-warehouse operation flow lines and saturation, helping customers maximize operational efficiency.
This advantage is particularly evident overseas. JD Property (京东产发) stores local companies' goods within a reasonable transportation range from the market through reasonable site selection, and JD Logistics (京东物流) is responsible for operations, helping companies invest more energy and resources in developing the market, thereby reducing management costs and improving their competitiveness.
In Europe, JD Property's (京东产发) logistics park in Coventry (考文垂), UK, relies on its location advantage of "covering 90% of the UK in 4 hours" and JD Logistics' (京东物流) efficient logistics services in the local area to provide smart home companies with a full-chain solution from smart warehousing to transshipment, sorting, and "last mile" delivery, helping them significantly improve local supply chain efficiency.
Currently, more and more companies need not only warehousing space, but also multi-dimensional services from scientific site selection consulting to digital operation management, and ecological collaboration. JD Property (京东产发) is also reconstructing the value of supply chain infrastructure from multiple dimensions: in terms of efficiency, the intelligent park system monitors the operating status of equipment through IoT monitoring equipment, greatly reducing operation and maintenance costs; in terms of greenness, building distributed photovoltaic and energy storage systems to build a clean energy network for the park; in terms of ecology, JD Property (京东产发) has linked multiple professional service institutions around the world to provide one-stop cross-border services for companies going overseas. In 2026, JD Property (京东产发) will continue to improve the global layout of the logistics network, providing a solid foundation for the globalization of cross-border merchants and supply chain companies.
From Dongguan (广东东莞) and Wuhan (湖北武汉) in China, to Jakarta (印度尼西亚雅加达) in Indonesia and Coventry (英国考文垂) in the United Kingdom, JD Property (京东产发) is interpreting the new value of logistics services under the global industrial changes with solid infrastructure layout, and is committed to becoming a solid partner for global brands to expand their business.
Data source: JD Property (京东产发)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 时元皓
The United Nations Security Council recently held an emergency meeting on the situation in Venezuela. Representatives from Russia and China criticized the United States' actions against Venezuela, and the vast majority of Security Council members emphasized the need to adhere to the "United Nations Charter" and resolve disputes peacefully.
For some time, the United States has deployed multiple warships in the Caribbean Sea near Venezuela under the pretext of "drug interdiction," putting pressure on the country. Since early September, the U.S. military has sunk more than 30 ships in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific that the U.S. claims were "drug trafficking vessels," resulting in over a hundred deaths. U.S. President Donald Trump (唐纳德·特朗普) threatened in late November that he might "soon" strike Venezuelan "drug dealers" by land. On December 16, Trump posted on social media that the U.S. had designated the Venezuelan government as a "foreign terrorist organization" and ordered a "complete and thorough blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. The U.S. newspaper *The New York Times* reported that Trump had approved the CIA to conduct covert operations within Venezuela, a move to further pressure Venezuela and prepare for possible military action. According to reports, the U.S.'s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, has entered the Caribbean Sea with its carrier strike group, joining the USS Bataan amphibious ready group and the embarked Marine Expeditionary Unit, which were previously deployed in the Caribbean Sea, to form the "Southern Spear" Joint Task Force. The U.S. claims that its military deployment in the Caribbean Sea is the largest in over 30 years. According to a December 29 report by CNN, the U.S. CIA recently conducted a drone strike on a port facility on the Venezuelan coast, causing no casualties. This is the first known U.S. attack on a target within Venezuela.
Recent reports from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (缉毒署) show that Venezuela is not a major source of drugs flowing into the United States. The U.S. interception of oil tankers has further exacerbated tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela. The Venezuelan government has repeatedly accused the U.S. of attempting to orchestrate a regime change in Venezuela and carry out military expansion in Latin America, condemning the U.S. interception of oil tankers as piracy. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (尼古拉斯·马杜罗) accused the U.S. of intending to orchestrate a regime change in Venezuela and seize the country's oil through military threats, stating that "the United States is creating a new war, and its actions constitute a huge international challenge." Maduro called on the international community to condemn the U.S. military operations in the Caribbean region, stating that the U.S. blockade and theft of Venezuela's energy trade will affect the supply of oil and other energy sources, exacerbate instability in the international market, and also affect the economy of the region and the world.
The U.S.'s series of words and actions have led to continued tension in the region, causing strong concern among regional countries and the international community. Several experts from the United Nations Human Rights Council stated that the U.S. has no right to enforce unilateral sanctions through armed blockades, which is an extremely serious act of the use of force and constitutes illegal armed aggression. The illegal use of force at sea and on land, as well as threats to use further force, seriously endanger the right to life and other human rights of the people of Venezuela and the region.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (美洲玻利瓦尔联盟) recently issued a statement condemning the U.S. government for "acting like pirates" and "illegally depriving sailors of their freedom," which is "an unacceptable aggression against legitimate trade and national sovereignty," and "exposes the intention to deliberately plunder the natural resources of sovereign states and sets a very bad precedent for the region and the entire international system," and "is a neocolonial hegemonic strategy aimed at forcibly establishing an anarchic order where violence prevails, undermining international law, and replacing international norms with intimidation and deprivation."
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (卢拉) stated that South America is once again overshadowed by the military presence of an external power, and that "armed intervention in Venezuela would be a humanitarian disaster for the Western Hemisphere and would set a dangerous precedent for the world." Lula said that the real threat to the sovereignty of regional countries today "comes in the form of war, anti-democratic forces, and organized crime."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (拉夫罗夫) recently expressed serious concern about the escalating U.S. actions in the Caribbean Sea during a telephone conversation with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil (希尔) regarding the escalation of the situation in the Caribbean region, pointing out that these actions pose a threat to international shipping, and that Russia will fully support and stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan leaders and people. The two foreign ministers agreed to continue close bilateral cooperation and coordination of actions on international platforms, especially the United Nations. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova (扎哈罗娃) stated at a regular press conference on December 25 that Russia strongly condemns the U.S. attempts to undermine the stability of the situation in Venezuela, reiterates its support for the Maduro government, and hopes that U.S. President Trump will demonstrate "pragmatism and rationality" and resolve the issue through legal channels.
China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sun Lei (孙磊) spoke at an emergency public meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Caribbean region, calling on the U.S. to immediately stop its actions against Venezuela. Sun Lei said that the U.S. actions seriously infringe upon the sovereignty, security, and legitimate rights and interests of other countries, seriously violate the "United Nations Charter" and international law, and threaten peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Venezuela, as an independent and sovereign country, has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries and has the right to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests. The international community should respect and support this. China opposes all unilateral hegemonic acts and supports all countries in defending their sovereignty and national dignity.
Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samuel Moncada (萨穆埃尔·蒙卡达) stated at the emergency meeting that the U.S.'s ambition is not limited to Venezuela, but to dominate the entire South American continent. The newly released U.S. National Security Strategy report reflects this ambition. The U.S. wants to divide and conquer Latin American countries and attempts to impose its will on the entire Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has now become a country that threatens international law and international peace and security.
The latest version of the U.S. National Security Strategy report recently released by the White House reorders the U.S.'s strategic priorities: proposing "Western Hemisphere Priority," describing the Western Hemisphere as the "frontier" of U.S. border security, critical supply chains, and geopolitical competition, regarding border security, combating drug trafficking, and preventing the intervention of external countries as core interests, and proposing the so-called "Trump Corollary" to the "Monroe Doctrine." Its goals include: preventing and containing large-scale migration flows; using lethal force to combat drug cartels when necessary; preventing foreign hostile forces from controlling key assets in the Western Hemisphere; ensuring that the U.S. continues to enjoy the use of key strategic locations; strengthening military deployments in Latin America; establishing or expanding access in strategically important locations; and linking aid and trade to relations with Latin American countries.
The latest version of the U.S. National Security Strategy report has aroused opposition from Latin American and Caribbean countries and other parties. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel (迪亚斯—卡内尔) stated that the new U.S. National Security Strategy and its so-called "Trump Corollary" to the "Monroe Doctrine" exacerbate the enormous challenges facing humanity, attempt to impose the notion that "the Western Hemisphere is its exclusive sphere of influence," and are pursuing a policy of "peace through strength." Díaz-Canel said that the U.S. measures and actions against Venezuela have led to an escalation of tensions in the Caribbean region, exposing the imperialist, hegemonic, and criminal purposes of the U.S. government.
Nicaragua's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Jaime Hermida (海梅·埃尔米达) stated that the U.S.'s "modern piracy" is undermining regional stability and peace. Colombia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations stated that the U.S.'s escalating military operations in the Caribbean region violate international law and undermine the international community's collective efforts in conflict prevention and regional stability.
Héctor Saint-Pierre (埃克托·圣皮埃尔), Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Policies and International Relations at São Paulo State University in Brazil, analyzed that the series of military operations implemented by the U.S. are intended to reposition its strength in its geopolitical environment and control the Latin American region, but have not achieved the expected results and have instead caused negative reactions, and that "'gunboat diplomacy' has lost its effectiveness and legitimacy." He believes that Latin American countries are now enjoying greater freedom of action and new decision-making space.
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Kuwait is located in the desert, with high temperatures, little rain, and water scarcity all year round. Recently, when reporters visited the South Al-Mutlaa New City Infrastructure Project (南艾哈迈德新城基础设施项目) undertaken by China Construction Sixth Engineering Division Transportation Construction Co., Ltd. (中建六局交通建设公司) (see picture, provided by China Construction Sixth Engineering Division Transportation Construction Co., Ltd. (中建六局交通建设公司)), they found that the most important task of the project is "water management."
The first is to manage "groundwater." The new city is close to the Persian Gulf, and the project site is rich in seawater that has infiltrated the ground. According to reports, the groundwater level is on average 1-2 meters below the ground. Once the foundation trench is excavated, seawater gurgles out and fluctuates violently under the influence of tides. The deepest water accumulation once reached 2.5 meters. In the early stage of entering the site, tidal groundwater once brought the project construction to a standstill.
After much research, the project finally explored six dewatering (lowering the water level) schemes, which were applied to different working conditions. In order to protect the surrounding soil and ecological balance, "surface recharge" measures were also adopted: near the dewatering pipe ditch, a pool was surrounded by sand to collect the groundwater pumped out by the pumping station; this water slowly渗入地下 (shèntòu rù dìxià - "seep into the ground") through the surface to achieve groundwater balance; the remaining infiltrated water is used for mixing water for roadbed and pipe ditch backfilling, which also solves the problem of difficult water extraction in desert areas. The project also has a small seawater desalination plant, which treats groundwater and uses it for concrete and other parts of the construction that require fresh water.
At a foundation trench construction site, reporters saw two excavators working. A few meters away, separated by a pile of sand, half a meter of infiltrated water could be seen. Yang Guihu (杨贵虎), chief engineer of the project, said: "This contrast just shows that managing groundwater well is essential for construction."
The second is to manage "rainwater." Kuwait is arid all year round, and freshwater resources are extremely scarce. Once it rains, this rainwater is a valuable resource. At the same time, if there is a lack of response measures to rainfall, desert cities are prone to flooding. The collection, storage, and reuse of rainwater is an important part of the construction of South Al-Mutlaa New City (南艾哈迈德新城). Yang Guihu (杨贵虎) said that the Chinese side fully drew on China's mature sponge city technology in the design and construction process. Through BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology, visual modeling of underground pipe networks is carried out to connect the rainwater system and irrigation system in the new urban area. The rainwater is first collected in a water tank, and after treatment such as sedimentation and filtration, it is then used for irrigation of green plants in green belts and parks in the new city through a pump unit system.
According to reports, in the construction of South Al-Mutlaa New City (南艾哈迈德新城), Chinese companies will build nearly 7,600 rainwater collection units, 9 rainwater treatment and conversion systems, and lay a total of more than 264 kilometers of rainwater pipes, with a recycling and treatment capacity of more than 65,000 cubic meters. Once filled with water, it can meet the annual irrigation water demand of 50 mu of green plants. Issam Jaber (伊萨姆·贾柏尔), quality engineer of the Kuwait Public Authority for Housing Welfare (科威特住房福利署), said: "The rainwater collection system built by Chinese companies will improve the local ecological environment to a certain extent, alleviate water shortages, and create a greener and more comfortable living environment for Kuwaiti residents."
The third is to manage "sewage." The collection and treatment of domestic sewage is equally important. After the project is completed in February 2027, it will provide a modern living environment for at least 100,000 residents. The project considered combining sewage treatment and reuse in its design. In the future, domestic sewage will be pumped to the green belt for use as fertilizer after sedimentation treatment, and treated reclaimed water will also be used for the new city's irrigation system. According to reports, the project will lay a total of more than 260 kilometers of sewage pipes, with a recycling and treatment capacity of more than 50,000 cubic meters. Currently, there are more than 1,400 people working at the project site, and the camp generates a large amount of domestic sewage every day. The project department introduced Chinese sewage purification equipment to treat the sewage from the workers' living area and use it for on-site concrete mixing and curing.
Faced with the three "water management" problems, Chinese companies have solved them one by one, demonstrating their hard-core strength in the field of construction design. The South Al-Mutlaa New City Infrastructure Project (科威特南艾哈迈德新城基础设施项目) in Kuwait covers an area of 52.79 square kilometers. Zhu Xiangang (朱现刚), the project manager, said that in the future, the project will further build substations, power communications, and community roads. The Chinese side will ensure high-quality performance and demonstrate a good brand image. Mohammed Abbas (穆罕默德·阿巴斯), the owner's representative, said: "The implementation of the project will greatly alleviate the housing pressure in the old city of Al-Ahmad, and the efforts of Chinese companies on the project are admirable."
Return to TopIn the grand scheme of coordinated development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Daxing District (大兴区), Beijing (北京市) is using the construction of distinctive towns as a key initiative, adhering to the development philosophy of "industry being specialized and strong, functions being clustered and integrated, form being small and beautiful, and mechanisms being new and vibrant." It aims to achieve specialization and strength in "industry" through precise positioning, clustering and integration in "city" through systematic creation, and a happy and livable environment for "people" through institutional innovation, thereby promoting the differentiated and distinctive development of townships.
Delving Deep into Local Genes, Caiyu Digital Fashion Town Gathers New Industrial Momentum
The vitality of Daxing District's (大兴区) distinctive towns stems from the in-depth exploration of resource endowments and differentiated positioning.
Caiyu Digital Fashion Town (采育数字时尚小镇), with a planned total area of 3.22 square kilometers, is accelerating its construction by leveraging its advantages of "superior location, thriving industry, sufficient space, and excellent ecology." Focusing on the digital economy and fashion industry, it is developing a new generation of information technology and cutting-edge fashion business formats, and is committed to building a "startup town" that attracts young creative talents and high-tech enterprises. Through the adjacent layout of offices, commerce, and residences, it creates an atmosphere of "slow life, quiet work, and joyful enjoyment," and strives to build an international distinctive town that is "exquisite, elegant, and fashionable" in the countryside, forming a good situation of high-precision and cutting-edge industrial clusters and low-density living.
The vibrant industrial vitality of distinctive towns cannot be separated from the support of a flexible and efficient "soft environment." Daxing District (大兴区) has explored a collaborative model of "government guidance, market leadership, and professional operation" in practice, fully relying on market forces for industrial import and operational services.
Caiyu Digital Fashion Town (采育数字时尚小镇) plans to build an industrial cluster integrating headquarters settlement, research and development design, incubation and cultivation, display and release, and experiential consumption. By providing high-quality "move-in ready" spaces and regularly holding the "Town Night Talk" government-enterprise dialogue platform, it has successfully built an important platform for gathering government-enterprise wisdom and linking industrial resources. Currently, it has attracted more than 40 well-known digital and fashion companies to sign contracts, and a complete industrial chain from research and development design to display and consumption is accelerating its formation.
Daxing District (大兴区) ensures that towns have unique industrial advantages and clear development paths through precise planning tailored to each town, avoiding homogeneous development.
"Industry, City, and People" Harmoniously Coexist, Panggezhuang Watermelon Town Stimulates New Vitality
Daxing District (大兴区) is focusing on building distinctive towns into miniature urban communities that integrate production, life, and ecology.
Panggezhuang Town (庞各庄镇) in Daxing District (大兴区), known as the "Hometown of Chinese Watermelons," is a "Capital Forest Town" with 51 parks and green spaces and a greening rate of 54.3%, forming an urban landscape of "flowers in three seasons and scenery in all four seasons." While continuing to strengthen traditional advantageous agriculture such as watermelons, it is actively expanding new industrial paths, establishing the goal of "happy leisure," and is committed to creating a "industry-city integration, low-carbon and high-value" happy industrial belt through the dual-wheel drive of "agricultural and forestry technology + pet economy."
Panggezhuang Watermelon Town (庞各庄西瓜小镇) has put into use 110,000 square meters of industrial space in the Jingnan Agricultural and Forestry Science and Technology Park (京南农林科技园), attracting agricultural technology research and development enterprises to gather and promoting the improvement of modern agriculture. At the same time, the Beijing International Flower Industry Park (北京国际花卉产业园) was officially unveiled in Panggezhuang Town (庞各庄镇), injecting new and strong impetus into the development of the town. Currently, it has successfully introduced 50 high-quality enterprises such as China National Agricultural Means of Production Group Corporation (中垦集团) and SilicNest Biological (硅巢生物), forming a good situation of accelerated gathering of industries and talents.
The reasonable layout of spatial forms, the increasing improvement of functional facilities, and the deep integration of public services and industrial services make the town not only a place to work, but also a place to feel at ease, realizing a profound transformation from "separation of industry and city" to "integration of industry, city, and people."
Embedded in Regional Strategy, Distinctive Towns Serve as Industrial Functional Nodes
The distinctive towns in Daxing District (大兴区), with their vivid practice of industrial renewal, are deeply integrated into the overall situation of Daxing District (大兴区) and even the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, becoming distinctive functional nodes for regional development.
Relying on its unique location advantage of being adjacent to the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center (北京城市副中心) and the "dual airports" of Beijing Capital International Airport (北京首都国际机场) and Beijing Daxing International Airport (北京大兴国际机场), Caiyu Digital Fashion Town (采育数字时尚小镇) is building a rapid business transportation network that radiates Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and connects domestic and foreign countries. In the next 2-3 years, it plans to promote the establishment and growth of 100 national high-tech enterprises and gather 10,000 designers and engineers; Panggezhuang Watermelon Town (庞各庄西瓜小镇) will leverage the radiation advantages of the Beijing Daxing International Airport (北京大兴国际机场) Airport Economic Zone and the Daxing Biomedical Industry Base (大兴生物医药产业基地) to accelerate the construction of a pet-friendly town and create a new benchmark for the international flower industry. In the future, it is committed to becoming the "first and last stop" of Beijing tourism and the "green growth pole" of regional economic development.
From precise industrial anchoring to deep functional integration, to flexible mechanism design and broad regional coordination, Daxing District (大兴区) systematically answers the question of "how to promote industry-city integration with small town pivots" through the construction of distinctive towns.
In the future, with the planned appearance of more distinctive towns such as Lixian Airport Town (礼贤空港小镇), a cluster of distinctive towns with clear positioning, complementary functions, and differentiated development will accelerate its rise in Daxing District (大兴区), jointly polishing the bright name card of the southern urban system of the capital, not only providing a practical sample of "great career development and great life" for industry-city integration development, but also injecting a continuous stream of momentum into the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Daxing District Committee of Beijing (中共北京市大兴区委宣传部)
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Jamshed Suleimanov (贾姆希德·苏莱曼诺夫), an Uzbekistan "China Hand," has "three identities": He is the Chief Representative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan in China, active on the front lines of China-Uzbekistan cooperation; he is a "Chinese character enthusiast" who speaks fluent Chinese; and he is also a "poverty alleviation consultant" who is keen on studying and spreading Chinese experience to his motherland. Today, with the mission of being a "Silk Road Descendant," he travels between the two countries, dedicated to building a bridge of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation and telling the story of connectivity.
Learning Chinese, Practicing Chinese Characters -
Unlocking Thousands of Years of Civilizational Accumulation
When I first encountered Chinese, I was still a naive teenager. At that time, there were three foreign language options in middle school: English, German, and Chinese, but only a few schools had the ability to offer Chinese courses. The Tashkent No. 59 Middle School (塔什干第五十九中学) where I studied was the only school in the entire Central Asia region at that time that offered Chinese courses.
I chose to learn Chinese purely because I was attracted by the unique character of Chinese characters – the graceful and dynamic strokes of a calligraphy brush, and the dignified and upright strokes of a pen, all had a special "coolness" in my eyes. Therefore, I did not hesitate to choose Chinese as the foreign language I wanted to learn. However, at that time, Central Asia lacked Chinese teaching resources, and the teaching staff was also quite weak. The road to learning was full of difficulties from the beginning, but my parents gave me the greatest support. They inquired everywhere for Chinese learning materials and asked friends who went to China to bring back thick calligraphy books and dictionaries. Whenever I studied late into the night and practiced Chinese characters, they would always quietly stay by my side, their eyes full of encouragement and expectation.
As my studies deepened, one Chinese character after another gradually unfolded a magnificent cultural scroll before my eyes. My classmates and I often argued heatedly about the meaning of a Chinese character, and then suddenly realized the profoundness of the culture. For example, the character "仁" (rén - "benevolence") with a single person radical implies the Chinese way of "仁者爱人" 仁者爱人 (rén zhě ài rén - "the benevolent love others," a Confucian principle emphasizing compassion and empathy); the character "和" (hé - "harmony") is composed of "禾" (hé - "grain") and "口" (kǒu - "mouth"), implying the beautiful vision of abundant harvests and prosperity for everyone. It turns out that each Chinese character contains a cultural code, and unlocking it reveals thousands of years of civilizational accumulation and inheritance.
This curiosity and enthusiasm for Chinese culture guided me step by step closer to China. While studying international relations at Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies (塔什干国立东方大学), I obtained the opportunity to study at Beijing Language and Culture University (北京语言大学). In order to consolidate my language foundation, I would sit at my desk every day and trace Chinese characters in Tian Zi Ge (田字格) paper, writing each character repeatedly for 3 pages. Day after day for four years, I practiced more than 5,000 Chinese characters. This perseverance and tenacity allowed my Chinese proficiency to improve by leaps and bounds, and also laid a good foundation for my future involvement in China-Uzbekistan cooperation and exchange work.
After graduating from university, I worked in the fields of China-Uzbekistan energy cooperation, logistics, and trade. Now, as the Chief Representative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan in China, I am even more wholeheartedly devoted to building a bridge of cooperation, interpreting the local investment environment, policies, regulations, and cultural customs for Chinese companies interested in investing and starting businesses in Uzbekistan, and helping Uzbek companies enter the Chinese market.
First Tourism, Then Investment -
Creating an Uzbek Version of "Dianping"
Uzbekistan, as an important node on the ancient Silk Road, has a history of friendly exchanges with China for more than 2,000 years. The name of my WeChat video account is "Silk Road Descendant" (丝路传人). These four characters not only carry the deep historical origins of China and Uzbekistan, but also represent my original intention as an inheritor of Silk Road civilization. I hope that through my efforts, the friendship accumulated on this ancient trade route will continue to extend and develop in the new era.
Today, this inheritance of thousands of years of friendship is unfolding in a more vivid manner. The "Friendly China" program actively promoted by Uzbekistan is a vivid example: Chinese signs, signposts, and menus are widely set up in airports, hotels, and restaurants, and China's mainstream payment systems such as UnionPay, WeChat Pay, and Alipay have also been connected, which greatly facilitates the cross-border travel of Chinese tourists. I have also participated in the "Uzbekistan Tourism Year" roadshow events held in several cities in China. In front of the booth, I introduced the magnificent scenery of Uzbekistan to Chinese friends in detail, and told about the unique cuisine and cultural customs. Each promotion is a cultural dialogue and a transmission of friendship.
Now, there are more than 60 round-trip flights between China and Uzbekistan every week, and it may increase to 100 flights in the future. Departing from Beijing in the morning, you can set foot on the land of Tashkent in the afternoon; taking off from Shanghai in the evening, you can enjoy the sunrise in Samarkand the next morning. I believe that the increasingly frequent exchanges between the people of the two countries will increase their goodwill and recognition of each other, and will accumulate a deeper understanding and trust for cooperation between enterprises, hand in hand between cities, and docking at the national level.
Not long ago, the daughter of an entrepreneur from Anhui (安徽) whom I met chose Uzbekistan as her honeymoon trip with her newly married husband. During this journey, their footprints covered cities such as Tashkent (塔什干), Samarkand (撒马尔罕), and Bukhara (布哈拉). Shuttle through the maze-like streets of the ancient city, they touched the mottled city walls and felt the historical echoes of the Silk Road civilization. After returning to China, the girl shared this journey with her family with great interest, and her words were full of love for Uzbekistan: "This place has both historical heritage and development vitality. It is a country worthy of long-term attention and in-depth understanding." Her sharing aroused the strong interest of her father, who is an entrepreneur, in Uzbekistan. Soon after, he organized a business team to conduct research, and finally invested in the construction of an industrial park in Fergana Region (费尔干纳州) in the second half of this year, and also brought 6 upstream and downstream companies from Anhui to settle in. This story of "first tourism, then investment" vividly interprets the virtuous interaction between China-Uzbekistan cultural tourism exchanges and economic and trade cooperation, complementing each other and promoting each other.
Today, the forms of China-Uzbekistan cultural tourism exchanges are becoming more and more diverse. Recently, a themed tourism product of "Traveling Uzbekistan along the 'Journey to the West' Route" has been welcomed by Chinese tourists. In Tashkent New City (塔什干新城), a "Chinatown" (唐人街) with Chinese cultural elements as the main feature is also being planned and constructed, which will gather Chinese-style restaurants and specialty shops to create a more friendly and familiar environment for Chinese tourists. Looking at these booming cultural tourism scenes, I also have an idea in my mind: perhaps these offline resources can be moved online to create an Uzbek version of "Dianping" (大众点评). At that time, Chinese friends can easily check the scenic spots, popular restaurants, characteristic homestays, and souvenir shops in various parts of Uzbekistan as long as they pick up their mobile phones, and they can also see the real evaluations and travel guides of other Chinese tourists. This small online platform may become a new link connecting tourists and merchants from the two countries, making cultural tourism exchanges more convenient and efficient.
Visiting Villages, Visiting Colleges -
Bringing Back the Chinese Poverty Alleviation Handbook
In my spare time, I like to go to various parts of China, especially the countryside. From the oases of Xinjiang (新疆) to the fields of Guangdong (广东), from the greenhouses of Shandong (山东) to the mountain villages of Hebei (河北), one visit to the villages after another, and one field interview after another, made me more clearly realize that the agricultural technology and poverty alleviation experience accumulated in various parts of China can accurately meet the actual needs of Uzbekistan.
Saline-alkali land and desertification areas are widely distributed in Uzbekistan. Under the traditional planting model, crop yields are low and benefits are poor. How to revitalize barren land has always been a difficult problem lingering in my mind. With this confusion, I went to the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所) and Guangdong Ocean University (广东海洋大学) to learn about the experience of saline-alkali land management, and invited Uzbek experts to come for training and study. After returning to China, they tried to plant cold-resistant, salt-resistant, and drought-resistant crops such as cotton, forage, and Chinese herbal medicines in deserts and saline-alkali land, which not only improved the soil structure and curbed the expansion of desertification, but also gradually enriched the pockets of local farmers. Under my promotion, last year, Guangdong Ocean University and Tashkent State Agrarian University (塔什干国立农业大学) jointly established a joint laboratory for the development and utilization of saline-alkali land. The crops jointly cultivated by the two parties were piloted and promoted in 3 regions around the Aral Sea, and the yield generally increased by more than 30%. Many farmers told me: "In the past, nothing could be grown on this land, and there was almost no harvest. Now the land has sprouted green again, has vitality, and can support a family!"
However, in the exchange with farmers, I found that it is not enough to choose the right crops. Uzbekistan has cold winters and large winds and sand, and the requirements for wind and cold protection are very high. It is difficult to stabilize yields by relying solely on open-air planting. Therefore, I began to focus on facility agriculture, hoping to use technical means to solve the constraints of natural conditions. I led the organization of two batches of about 40 Uzbek farmers to Shouguang City (寿光市), Shandong Province (山东省) to learn modern greenhouse technology. On the spot, they directly connected with local enterprises for technologies such as plastic greenhouses and glass greenhouses, and brought back advanced concepts and complete solutions. Since then, in Surkhandarya Region (苏尔汉河州) and other places in southern Uzbekistan, a number of modern greenhouses have been built one after another, and high value-added crops such as lemons, kiwis, and various flowers have gradually become new fist products, which not only enrich the local market supply, but also begin to step out of the country and move towards neighboring countries.
In the process of visiting Chinese villages many times, I can always think of many areas in Uzbekistan, which have similar natural conditions and industrial foundations. For example, Fuping County (阜平县) in Baoding City (保定市), Hebei Province (河北省), and Weiyuan County (渭源县) in Dingxi City (定西市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), etc. The characteristic homestays and potato processing and other poverty alleviation industries they promote are very worthy of reference. However, when learning from China's experience, the first confusion we encountered was how to define poverty standards. Previously, Uzbekistan only had the vague concept of "low-income families," which had neither clear income definition standards nor a complete set of classification, identification, assistance, and assessment procedures. What moved me was that after Chinese friends learned of our difficulties, they immediately handed over the detailed poverty alleviation work manual to us and patiently and meticulously disassembled their practical experience. They not only helped us clarify the poverty income benchmark lines in different regions, but also refined the classification and identification indicators such as family population, housing conditions, and health status one by one, which made us suddenly enlightened. Now, government departments in Uzbekistan are studying these valuable experiences and formulating income-increasing plans for low-income families, hoping to enable more people to live a prosperous and stable life.
During the more than 20 years of living in China, I have witnessed China's transition from high-speed growth to high-quality development, from cash-based transactions to the popularity of mobile payment, and from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing powerhouse. For me, China is not only a hot land where I can realize my ambitions, but also profoundly changed my life trajectory. In my heart, Chinese-style modernization is a modernization with warmth, which has not only an open and inclusive social atmosphere, but also a value orientation that respects struggle, and a spiritual force that encourages people to keep moving forward. I am willing to continue to work hard in China, my second hometown, and integrate my understanding and love for China into every cooperation, and be a "Silk Road Descendant" who enhances the friendship between the people of Uzbekistan and China.
(The author is the Chief Representative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan in China, interviewed and compiled by Cui Qi (崔琦), a reporter of this newspaper)
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Currently, the relationship between Uzbekistan and China maintains a strong momentum of development. The political mutual trust between the two sides continues to consolidate, the achievements in economic, trade, investment, and industrial cooperation are fruitful, and cultural exchanges continue to deepen and become more practical, making them close friends and reliable partners to each other.
The steady and long-term development of Uzbekistan-China relations is key to the strategic guidance of the two heads of state. The two heads of state have close exchanges and have established deep mutual trust and sincere friendship, laying a solid foundation for the in-depth development of Uzbekistan-China cooperation. In January 2024, during the state visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (米尔济约耶夫) to China, the two sides elevated bilateral relations to a new era of all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership.
Uzbekistan and China maintain regular meetings and consultations at all levels, and exchange views and coordinate positions on bilateral relations and major international issues of common concern in a timely manner through mechanisms such as the friendly group of legislative bodies, the intergovernmental cooperation committee, and the strategic dialogue of foreign ministers. They also maintain close collaboration within multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the China-Central Asia mechanism. The Uzbek side supports a series of important global initiatives proposed by the Chinese side, and at the same time actively carries out exchanges of experience in governance with the Chinese side. For example, by drawing on China's poverty alleviation experience and promoting the improvement of people's livelihoods in combination with its own national conditions, Uzbekistan's poverty rate has dropped from 35% to 6% (as of December 2025), and is expected to further drop to 4.5% in 2026.
Uzbekistan and China have deep historical ties. The ancient Silk Road closely linked each other, giving them a natural advantage in the field of interconnection. Today, driven by the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, this advantage is continuing to be released, and the flow of personnel and goods between the two sides is becoming more convenient and efficient. In particular, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project, which officially started in December 2024, will become the shortest land passage connecting Central Asia and China, further enhancing the hub status of Uzbekistan and the entire Central Asian region on the Eurasian continent.
As the level of interconnection continues to increase, the space for economic, trade, investment, and industrial cooperation between the two sides is expanding accordingly. Since 2017, the trade volume between the two countries has increased by two times, reaching 14 billion US dollars. In the next few years, the two sides plan to increase the trade volume to 20 billion US dollars. During the same period, Uzbekistan attracted a total of 24.6 billion US dollars of Chinese investment. In 2024, the Chinese new energy vehicle company BYD (比亚迪) established a factory in Uzbekistan, becoming an important milestone in Uzbekistan-China industrial cooperation. With the implementation and effectiveness of a number of landmark projects, the cooperation between the two countries in economic, trade, investment, and innovation is constantly deepening, which will help accelerate the modernization and diversification of Uzbekistan's economy.
The people of Uzbekistan and China have maintained close ties in the cultural field for a long time. As the ancient Chinese saying goes: "The key to sound relations between states lies in the affection of their people, which in turn stems from the heart-to-heart communication." The cultures of the two countries are rich and diverse, making important contributions to the development of world civilization, and also creating favorable conditions for deepening Uzbekistan-China cultural exchanges. At present, Uzbekistan and China have established more than 30 pairs of friendship cities, and the work of establishing cultural centers in each other's countries is also actively advancing, and the bond of people-to-people connectivity is becoming increasingly close. In recent years, the enthusiasm of Uzbek youth for learning Chinese has been increasing year by year. Chinese has not only entered university classrooms, but also included Chinese as a second foreign language in the education system of primary and secondary schools. The Chinese side has opened Confucius Institutes in Tashkent (塔什干) and Samarkand (撒马尔罕). Universities in the two countries are also actively carrying out joint training programs, promoting scientific research cooperation in key areas, and well-known Chinese universities have also established branches in Uzbekistan to promote the sharing of high-quality educational resources. In September 2024, the Uzbekistan Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊) was officially inaugurated in Tashkent, aiming to cultivate practical skilled talents to meet the needs of industrial development. Next, the two sides plan to continue to open Luban Workshops in other regions of Uzbekistan to promote the improvement and upgrading of vocational education cooperation.
The deep historical and cultural ties between the two countries have also created favorable conditions for carrying out closer tourism exchanges. In June of this year, the Uzbekistan-China mutual visa exemption agreement officially came into effect, providing more convenience for personnel exchanges, business negotiations, and tourism cooperation. At the same time, the China "Uzbekistan Tourism Year" was successfully held, and various cultural, tourism, and economic and trade exchange activities were held in many cities in China, further enhancing the popularity and attractiveness of Uzbekistan's tourism industry. At present, Uzbekistan is continuing to improve tourism infrastructure and enrich tourism products, in order to welcome Chinese tourists with more enthusiasm and more convenient services.
Looking to the future, the Uzbek side is willing to work with the Chinese side to take the history of civilization exchange accumulated by the ancient Silk Road as a link, and take mutually beneficial and win-win pragmatic cooperation as a cornerstone, continue to promote the steady and long-term development of bilateral relations, and make positive contributions to the development of the two countries and even the entire Central Asian region.
(The author is the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to China)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 强
In the early morning, the high-speed train departing from Tashkent pulled into Samarkand Station. Several Chinese tourists, dragging their luggage, walked out of the platform and exited the station in an orderly manner, following the clear Chinese signs. Opening their mobile phone apps, they quickly hailed a ride online and headed straight to their hotel. When checking in, the front desk handed them a small card with a Chinese welcome message, thoughtfully indicating breakfast times, scenic area opening hours, and currency exchange locations. Arriving at the entrance of the famous local Registan Square, they opened the QR code for their electronic tickets and smoothly entered the scenic area with a "beep" sound. The morning light shone on the blue dome, and they couldn't help but slow down, taking pictures and exclaiming, "Beautiful, fun, and very convenient."
As a rich area of Central Asian historical and cultural heritage, historical cities such as Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva carry the memory of thousands of years of Silk Road civilization and were once favored destinations for Chinese historians. Today, from transportation transfers to online ticket purchases, from multilingual services to the expansion of mobile payment scenarios, more and more details are turning Uzbekistan, this ancient Silk Road country, into a travel destination that you can visit on a whim, and also allowing more young Chinese tourists to include it in their outbound travel lists.
Not long ago, the China "Year of Tourism in Uzbekistan" closed in Beijing (北京). Since the launch of the event in December 2024, Uzbekistan has carried out a series of exchange activities in 12 cities including Beijing (北京), Shenzhen (深圳), Hangzhou (杭州), and Chongqing (重庆). During this period, themed activities such as tourism promotion conferences and cultural heritage exhibitions showcased the unique charm of World Heritage sites such as Samarkand and Bukhara through physical displays and multimedia presentations. The ethnic food tasting event featured on-site cooking of special delicacies such as pilaf and roasted buns, combined with traditional music and dance performances, allowing Chinese people to immerse themselves in the local folk customs. During the event, Uzbekistan also organized more than 500 business matchmaking sessions, promoting the implementation of more than 40 tourism and cultural cooperation agreements.
While holding promotion activities, Uzbekistan continues to improve tourism infrastructure and public services, promote the construction of digital consumption scenarios, and better connect with the travel habits and consumption patterns of Chinese tourists. Tourists can book tickets, hotels, and guided tours online through official websites and social platforms before departure. Some scenic spots and museums have also opened online ticket purchases and QR code ticket verification, reducing queuing time and meeting the travel needs of "light planning, heavy experience." In neighborhoods and cafes where young people gather, scanning codes to order food and mobile payments are gradually becoming popular. Merchants also use short video platforms and tourism platforms to showcase the city's features and special products, attracting more "check-in" and "in-depth tour" tourist groups. In addition, measures such as mutual visa exemptions and increased flight routes have further narrowed the distance between the people of the two countries. "Here, there is both a sense of history and a digital lifestyle," many Chinese tourists commented.
According to statistics from the Uzbekistan National Tourism Committee, in the first 11 months of this year, the total number of Chinese citizens visiting Uzbekistan reached 350,000, of which approximately 250,000 were tourists, an increase of more than 2 times compared to 75,000 in 2024. Uzbekistan expects to receive 400,000 to 500,000 Chinese inbound tourists next year.
Against the backdrop of the "Uzbekistan Tourism Fever" in China, the significance of China-Uzbekistan tourism cooperation has long surpassed personnel exchanges and economic benefits, and is gradually becoming one of the most warm and sustainable areas of cooperation in bilateral relations. Chinese tourists can form the most direct understanding of Uzbekistan's history and culture while strolling around, and local people can also learn about open and diverse modern China in the process of receiving Chinese tourists. With the continuous improvement of cooperation mechanisms and the continuous enrichment of product supply, China-Uzbekistan tourism cooperation will further release its driving effect, promote deeper cultural exchanges and closer industrial cooperation, and inject continuous momentum into the development of bilateral relations.
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Return to TopAs night falls, the lights gradually illuminate, and crowds throng the Shizi Jin Street in the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district. In front of the Monument to the Victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the People's Liberation Monument, young tourists are intently listening to locals telling old stories of Chongqing (重庆); at the entrance of the Chongqing Department Store (重庆百货大楼), citizens carrying shopping bags brush shoulders with tourists holding cameras; on Bayi Road Food Street (八一路好吃街), a dazzling array of snacks such as spicy and sour noodles, Chongqing small noodles, and ice dumplings fill the air with aromas and the sizzle of cooking.
The Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district, located in Yuzhong District (渝中区), Chongqing (重庆), has been a hub of commerce and culture since ancient times. After years of development, old brands, old buildings, new business formats, and new spaces intertwine and blend here. The cultural heritage continues, the commercial vitality is renewed, attracting consumers from all over the world. The constantly rising atmosphere of daily life promotes the release of new vitality in the consumer market.
Cultural Heritage, Adding Color to the City's New Consumer Landmark
A street that spans history, is engraved with the imprint of the times, and witnesses the changes of the city: In 1950, Chongqing's (重庆) first department store, Chongqing Department Store (重庆百货), opened in Jiefangbei (解放碑); in 1989, Chongqing's (重庆) first foreign-funded enterprise, Jin夫人 (Jin Furen), settled in Jiefangbei (解放碑); in 1997, Jiefangbei (解放碑) became the first commercial pedestrian street in western China, enjoying the reputation of "the first street in the west." In the same year, Chongqing's (重庆) first Hong Kong-funded modern large shopping center, The Metropolis (大都会), opened... These commercial landmarks, which carry the memories of generations of Chongqing (重庆) people, have always been an important part of Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street (解放碑步行街).
In order to let the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district "old tree sprout new buds" and further promote the simultaneous development of culture and commerce, Yuzhong District (渝中区) adheres to high-starting-point planning and layout:
In 2003, the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (重庆市人民政府) designated Jiefangbei (解放碑) as the core area of the Chongqing Central Business District (重庆中央商务区), with a total area of 1.61 square kilometers. In 2022, the Chongqing Municipal Government (重庆市政府) optimized and adjusted the land area of the Jiefangbei Central Business District (解放碑中央商务区) to 4.2 square kilometers, further enriching the cultural and commercial ecology of Jiefangbei (解放碑). In recent years, Jiefangbei (解放碑) has been successively awarded the first batch of "National Demonstration Pedestrian Streets," "National Demonstration Smart Business Districts," and "National-level Nighttime Culture and Tourism Consumption Agglomeration Areas," and has won honors such as "National Business District with the Most Consumption Leadership," writing a vivid footnote for Chongqing's (重庆) cultivation and construction of an international consumption center city.
The renovated Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district integrates the main landmarks of the "Two Rivers and Four Banks" (两江四岸) of the mountain city, river city, and sleepless city, condensing the essence of the old mountain city, ancient Bayu, and new Chongqing culture. Its surrounding area has more than 30 cultural relics and historical sites, such as the former site of the Sino-British Liaison Office and the former site of the Meifeng Bank, and more than 20 popular attractions, such as the Yangtze River Cableway, Hongyadong, and Eighteen Steps, making it the area with the most complete historical and cultural heritage and the richest cultural resources in Chongqing (重庆), with an average daily passenger flow of more than 700,000 people.
Today, the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district is writing new stories: from the former site of the Meifeng Bank transforming into the Chongqing Financial History Museum and the Chengdu-Chongqing Financial Judicial Museum, to the former site of the Sino-British Liaison Office being built into the Chongqing Reception Hall for Hong Kong-Chongqing Economic and Trade Cultural Exchange; from the restoration of the "Seven Streets and Six Alleys" (七街六巷) texture of Eighteen Steps to reproduce the memories of the mountain city, to the Daijia Lane "Cliffside Boxes" connecting the riverside walkway and the Huangge ancient trees; from the century-old Luzu Temple gathering trendy business formats with "one street, one scene, one street, one characteristic," to 52 time-honored Chinese brands and Bayu old businesses taking root in the block... Historical culture is gradually integrated into modern commercial life, transforming into a perceivable, experienceable, and consumable modern urban lifestyle. Every weekend, tourists stroll through the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district, amidst the scenery of time-honored shops and international brands facing each other across the street, and in the interweaving of blue brick courtyards and skyscrapers, touching the urban memories of the mountain city of Chongqing (重庆) while feeling the vigorous vitality of modern commerce.
Commercial Innovation, Introducing Diverse New Consumption Formats
Strolling through the Crystal Sky Bridge of Raffles City Chongqing (重庆来福士), you can enjoy a panoramic view of the dazzling night scene of the "Two Rivers and Four Banks" (两江四岸); in the air-raid shelter-themed bar, music accompanies laughter, bringing a new consumption experience; the first MINISO LAND theme store in Southwest China officially opens, unlocking new trendy ways to play; in the Chongqing Grand Theatre (重庆国泰艺术中心), various high-quality dramas are staged in turn, showcasing international style, Chinese flavor, and Bashu charm... One by one, distinctive consumption scenes string together the memories of old Chongqing (重庆) and the vitality of the new city, and also witness the magnificent transformation of the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district from a single shopping district to an integrated, curatorial, and experiential international consumption destination.
In recent years, the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district, based on the resource endowment of "three-dimensional mountain city, light and shadow river city, and charming mother city," has transformed its topographic advantages into consumption attractions. Upward, it has created "cloud" landmarks such as the World Trade "Rooftop 131" sky release hall and the Daronghui "Sky Buyer Street"; downward, the underground ring road and air-raid shelter formats form a unique experience; along the river, waterfront projects such as Changbin Park paint a picture of riverside consumption; on the cliffside, the 60-meter height difference of the Hongyadong ancient city wall is used to create a 750-meter cliffside walkway, presenting 8D magical creative aesthetics. The three-dimensional layout of "going up to the sky, entering the ground, facing the river, and overlooking the cliff" has gradually made the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district a new consumption landmark with national recognition.
New consumption formats and new scenes are accelerating their expansion, and the first-store economy and nighttime economy are booming. Currently, the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district has introduced more than 200 first-brand and first-store businesses, such as the national flagship store of the century-old Italian high-fashion brand Coreterno and the first Southwest China store of Li Family Cuisine, and has held more than 180 international large-scale festivals, first shows, first releases, and first exhibitions, such as the Forbes China Jiefangbei Forum, the Jiefangbei International Consumption Festival, and the Changan Automobile UNI-V National Flying Premiere, and was selected as one of the first "First-Store Economy Agglomeration Areas" in Chongqing (重庆). At the same time, on the "Eighteen Steps—Jiefangbei—Chaotianmen" nighttime consumption core demonstration belt, mountain city lanes, Eighteen Steps, Luzu Temple, and other gathering points form a continuous area, constructing a full-area nighttime consumption corridor, and the scale of nighttime consumption ranks among the top in the country's business districts.
The agglomeration effect of commerce and trade is accelerating, and the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district has gathered 297 key headquarters enterprises, 98 Fortune 500 companies and globally renowned multinational corporations, and has 13 large-scale commercial complexes, such as Raffles City Chongqing (重庆来福士), the largest Singaporean investment project in China. The total retail sales of consumer goods took the lead in breaking through 100 billion yuan in the western region, and ranked fourth in the country in the 2024 Forbes China Central Business District Consumption Competitiveness Evaluation.
Pioneering and Trying First, Creating an Internationally Renowned Business District
Walking into the International Consumption Center of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (陆海新通道) in the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district, imported goods from more than 20 countries and regions, such as Thailand, Italy, and Colombia, are neatly placed on the shelves, and the vivid scene of "buying globally" is staged here.
As an important commercial window for Chongqing (重庆) to connect with the world, the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district is superimposed with the opening advantages of the Chongqing Free Trade Pilot Zone (重庆自贸试验区), the China-Singapore Interconnection Project (中新互联互通项目), the National Comprehensive Pilot Project for Expanding Opening-up of the Service Industry, and the Central Business District. Today, it is positioned as an "Inland Opening-up Demonstration Window" and is focusing on creating a first-class international business environment and enhancing the internationalization level of the business district.
The vitality of opening-up continues to burst forth. In the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district, 15 consulates general in Chongqing (重庆) are clustered, more than 700 foreign-funded enterprises have taken root and grown, and 31 foreign-related chambers of commerce alliance organizations gather together; Chongqing's (重庆) first payment facilitation demonstration zone has been built, and the amount of overseas personnel's card swiping in 2024 reached 114 million yuan, and it was awarded the "Top Ten Inbound Consumption Friendly Business Districts"; more than 30 international economic and trade activities, such as the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Strategic Interconnection Demonstration Project Financial Summit, have been undertaken, building an efficient cooperation bridge.
The consumption ecology is becoming more and more perfect. The Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district has carried out a pilot project of "bonded display + cross-border e-commerce" fast delivery, and has landed the Jiefangbei Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行解放碑支行) and the Raffles City (来福士) offshore tax refund offline centralized refund point. At present, there are more than 40 offshore tax refund stores in the business district; multilingual signs are clear and eye-catching, the foreign-related service center operates efficiently, and foreign language volunteer service teams are visible everywhere, allowing foreigners to feel convenience and warmth in consumption and travel. The consumption pattern of "buying globally and selling globally" with full-area payment facilitation is accelerating.
Thousands of sails are racing, and hundreds of boats are competing for the flow. In the next step, the Jiefangbei (解放碑) business district will continue to transform and upgrade, promote commercial upgrading, highlight the demonstration effect, and strive to build an internationally renowned destination for consumption, a hub for international economic and trade exchanges, a place for presenting the image of an international metropolis, and a demonstration area for smart governance in digital Chongqing (重庆), and build an internationalized well-known business district with "complete functions, complete system, first-class in the country, and leading the future."
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yuzhong District Committee of Chongqing (中共重庆市渝中区委宣传部)
Return to TopThe "Four Vertical and Four Horizontal, One Center" large power grid covers the entire province; the installed capacity of clean energy climbs year by year; the construction of a world-class new power system provincial demonstration power grid has achieved remarkable results; solid-state hydrogen energy power generation connected to the grid, flexible control equipment for electrolytic aluminum load, and a batch of other scientific and technological achievements have been maturely applied... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China Southern Power Grid Yunnan Electric Power Co., Ltd. (云南电网) (hereinafter referred to as "Yunnan Electric Power") wrote a "Yunnan Electric Power Answer Sheet" for the high-quality development of energy central enterprises in the new era on the journey of serving the national energy strategy and helping the regional green transformation.
Integrating into the overall situation, power grid construction resonates with regional development.
Among the Hengduan Mountains (横断山脉), iron towers and silver lines shuttle through the clouds; on the red soil plateau, green electricity surges endlessly. From the lights of the Nujiang Grand Canyon (怒江大峡谷) to the bright lights of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), power arteries are transporting Yunnan's clean energy to thousands of miles away.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the construction of Yunnan's 500 kV backbone power grid accelerated, and a series of projects such as the 500 kV Mingtong (明通) Transmission and Transformation Project, the 500 kV Tianxing (天星) Transmission and Transformation Project, and the 500 kV New Energy Gathering Project were intensively implemented. China Southern Power Grid (南方电网) invested more than 100 billion yuan in Yunnan (云南), completed and put into operation more than 800 main network projects, and directly promoted the 500 kV backbone project from "single-point breakthrough" to "cluster effectiveness."
Starting from the "day"-shaped single ring network in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, to the formation of a "pin"-shaped 500 kV backbone network in the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, to the construction of a "two vertical and two horizontal, one center" pattern in the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, and finally to the formation of the "four vertical and four horizontal, one center" main network pattern in 2024, each transformation and upgrade of Yunnan Electric Power's main network is an accurate response to the needs of power development.
The increasingly resilient power grid has become the foundation for supporting Yunnan's (云南) continued efforts in "West-East Electricity Transmission" (西电东送). As of the end of November 2025, Yunnan's (云南) cumulative electricity transmission volume of "West-East Electricity Transmission" (西电东送) has exceeded 2 trillion kWh, which is equivalent to saving about 665 million tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 1.728 billion tons for the eastern region. At present, Yunnan's (云南) "West-East Electricity Transmission" (西电东送) transmission capacity reaches 42.2 million kilowatts.
While serving the national strategy, Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) is making every effort to ensure electricity consumption in border areas. The "Power Sky Road" that crosses the highest altitude of the Gaoligong Mountain (高黎贡山) snow line—the Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) 35 kV grid-connected project—has allowed Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡) in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture (怒江傈僳族自治州) to bid farewell to the history of unstable electricity consumption, and the average annual power outage time has been greatly reduced. In the tea processing factory in Cangyuan Va Autonomous County (沧源佤族自治县), Lincang City (临沧市), the machines are roaring, and the villagers' entrepreneurial dreams are illuminated by the "Electricity Shining Ava Mountain" project. The construction of the border smart distribution network has allowed the development of Va villages to enter the fast lane. Not only that, Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) has built modern rural power grid demonstration counties in Weixi Lisu Autonomous County (维西傈僳族自治县), Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (迪庆藏族自治州), and Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County (新平彝族傣族自治县), Yuxi City (玉溪市), injecting strong momentum into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Green transformation, creating a "Yunnan version" of the new power system.
In August 2024, China Southern Power Grid Corporation (南方电网公司) and the People's Government of Yunnan Province (云南省人民政府) signed a framework agreement to jointly build a new energy system. This "handshake" between the central government and local authorities not only opened a new chapter in the cooperation and development between the two parties, but also directly joined forces to launch an assault on the construction of a national demonstration zone for a new power system.
Yunnan (云南) has unique basic conditions for building a new power system. As an important green energy base in the country, Yunnan (云南) has long accumulated unique advantages in resources, location, technology, and scenarios: From the perspective of resource reserves, Yunnan (云南) has abundant green energy reserves, with a prospective renewable energy development capacity of over 150 million kilowatts. The current installed capacity of new energy has exceeded 68 million kilowatts, an increase of 54.97 million kilowatts compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan," and the green foundation continues to thicken; From the perspective of location advantages, the country transmits electricity to Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), East China (华东) and other places through "ten DC and two AC" channels, and the scale of electricity transmission ranks among the top in the country. Across the border, it is connected to Vietnam (越南), Laos (老挝), and Myanmar (缅甸) through 15 110 kV and above lines. In addition, with the China-Laos (中老) 500 kV grid-connected project that has started construction, the prototype of a regional international energy hub is gradually emerging; From the perspective of technical strength, Yunnan (云南) has built a provincial asynchronous power transmission large power grid with advanced technology, complex characteristics, and green electricity. The market-oriented reform of the power industry started early and achieved effective results, forming a complete market system of "medium and long-term + spot + auxiliary services," which has built a "hard support" for system construction; From the perspective of application scenarios, the "four markets" of domestic, regional, cross-regional, and cross-border have taken shape, providing practical soil for the construction of a new power system demonstration zone with multi-scenario linkage and full-element integration.
Anchoring the goals of "clean and low-carbon, safe and abundant, economical and efficient, supply and demand coordination, flexible and intelligent," Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) is comprehensively promoting the construction of a new power system, and a series of landmark achievements have been successively implemented, and the system characteristics are becoming increasingly prominent.
The clean and low-carbon background is stronger, and the power structure continues to move towards "green." At present, the total installed power capacity in Yunnan Province (云南省) has reached 167 million kilowatts, of which 151 million kilowatts are clean energy, and the proportion of installed clean energy and power generation both exceed 90%, and the utilization rate of new energy is stable above 95%. The foundation for safety and abundance is stronger, and the power grid support is becoming stronger. Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) is accelerating the construction of a modern main network with "four-wing groups and core double rings" and a green and intelligent distribution network. The large power grid has achieved 28 consecutive years of safe and stable operation. The economic and efficient characteristics are more obvious, and the service development efficiency is upgraded. As of now, Yunnan's (云南) cumulative electricity transmission volume of "West-East Electricity Transmission" (西电东送) has exceeded 2 trillion kWh, and cross-border electricity purchase and sale has exceeded 80 billion kWh, and the benefits of cross-regional allocation of energy continue to be released. The level of supply and demand coordination is higher, and power supply is guaranteed while maintaining stability and seeking progress. Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) has achieved "three guarantees and three wins" of ensuring supply, promoting consumption, and stabilizing growth through deepening source-grid-load-storage coordination, optimizing joint scheduling of water, fire, wind, and solar power, and leveraging the mutual assistance of surpluses and deficiencies on large platforms. The flexible and intelligent vitality is more sufficient, and the innovation momentum is accelerating. Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) has established a provincial new power system technology standards committee, and the Lancang-Mekong (澜湄) National Electric Power Technology International Cooperation Joint Laboratory is operating substantially, and innovation vitality is being transformed into tangible construction results.
Technological empowerment, innovation-driven smart transformation of power grid operation.
In 2021, Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) officially launched the construction of the Yunnan Energy Big Data Center (云南能源大数据中心) to promote the reshaping of energy data value. Based on power data, the project integrates more than 200 types of cross-industry data in the fields of meteorology, enterprises, and new energy power plants, breaking the pattern of information dispersion and systematically accelerating the convergence to a unified "smart hub." After 4 years of construction, Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) has built a Yunnan Energy Big Data Center (云南能源大数据中心) with a strong data base, complete data elements, excellent management capabilities, a solid security defense line, and high social recognition. The center has built an underlying framework for data interconnection, realizing the integration, analysis, integration, and open sharing of various types of data, and helping to optimize people's livelihood energy use, industrial economic judgment, and deepen applications in disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief.
The construction of the Yunnan Energy Big Data Center (云南能源大数据中心) is a concentrated embodiment of Yunnan Electric Power's (云南电网) adherence to scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and its hard work to build hard strength. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan Electric Power's (云南电网) cumulative investment in scientific and technological research and development exceeded 6.5 billion yuan, an increase of 70% compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) is driving the smart transformation of power operation models with innovation. On the snow-capped mountains of Nujiang Prefecture (怒江州), a drone equipped with an infrared camera is precisely measuring the temperature of transmission lines, and real-time data is transmitted back to the control system at the foot of the mountain through a relay drone. At present, Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) has achieved the comprehensive mature application of the "sky-ground" three-dimensional inspection model, marking a new stage of intelligent operation and maintenance management.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan Electric Power (云南电网) actively cultivated new quality productive forces and promoted high-quality development, focusing on the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and continued to exert efforts in independent innovation, industrial system construction, and energy transformation. It led the establishment of a joint laboratory for power remote sensing technology, and initially built a space-air-ground three-dimensional disaster prevention and mitigation system, carrying out all-weather disaster prevention, mitigation, and emergency work under extreme weather conditions. At the same time, it deepened the application of light and heavy drones, live working robots and other equipment, and built a high-reliability key technology support system focusing on live-line operation and distribution network automation. 35 kV and above overhead lines have achieved full coverage of drone autonomous inspections, and key and important line risk sections, fixed external damage risk points, and important intersection and crossing points have achieved full coverage of online monitoring devices.
Data source: China Southern Power Grid Yunnan Electric Power Co., Ltd. (南方电网云南电网有限责任公司)
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Looking back at the end of the year, the Milky Way is dazzling. In 2025, Chinese science and technology used "limit" as a yardstick to measure the realm of cognition.
We are not only dreamers gazing at the stars, but also creators who reconstruct matter, dialogue with ghostly particles, and decipher the code of life. This year, Chinese wisdom has left a distinct Chinese imprint on the order of the universe, matter, life, and information through a series of original and disruptive major breakthroughs. It not only injects surging momentum into China's high-quality development, but also contributes indelible Eastern strength to the progress of human civilization.
To the stars, chasing dreams forward.
——Editor
Looking back at 2025, the beam flow of the "artificial sun" lit up in an instant, carrying the dream of mankind to explore "ultimate energy"; the optoelectronic integrated communication chip came out, laying the hardware foundation for 6G; astronauts safely traveled back and forth between heaven and earth, and the national space laboratory operated well, with unceasing steps to fly to the sky and chase dreams; bridges flew across, high-speed trains galloped, remote surgery "operated" from a distance, and "cloud classrooms" empowered mountain village classrooms, making people's livelihood guarantees more powerful; artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robotics and other landmark scientific and technological products amazed the world, and 24 global innovation clusters were shortlisted in the world's top 100, and China's innovation strength and comprehensive competitiveness have been increasingly recognized...
Looking at the land of China, an economic system and development model led and supported mainly by innovation is taking shape, and comprehensive innovation with scientific and technological innovation as the core is accelerating. This year, we have once again handed in a satisfactory answer sheet on the journey of building a strong country in science and technology.
Original innovative landmark achievements emerge, expanding the boundaries of cognition
People often use "thin as cicada's wings" to describe a material that is extremely thin, but in the microscopic world, there are materials that are tens of thousands of times thinner than cicada's wings, and these are two-dimensional materials.
In 2004, single-atom layer graphene was prepared, opening a new era of two-dimensional material research. Since then, researchers have been committed to turning more materials into two-dimensional forms, and the most common metals have naturally become one of the goals.
In 2025, this extremely difficult research achieved a major breakthrough. The research team of the Institute of Physics (物理研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) achieved the preparation of large-area two-dimensional metal materials for the first time in the world, creating single-atom layer ultra-thin metal with a thickness of only one two-hundred thousandth of the diameter of a human hair, which is expected to open up a new field of two-dimensional metal research. The relevant research results were published online in the journal Nature in March. In December, this achievement was selected into the "Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 2025" list announced by Physics World.
If two-dimensional metal represents the "microscopic limit" of human manipulation of matter, then lunar back research continues to expand the "macroscopic limit."
On July 9, the research teams of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (地质与地球物理研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), the National Astronomical Observatories (国家天文台) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), and Nanjing University (南京大学) obtained four latest research results using the lunar back samples collected by Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号), which respectively revealed the lunar back magmatic activity, the ancient lunar magnetic field, the water content of the lunar mantle, and the evolution characteristics of the lunar mantle, and for the first time revealed the evolution history of the lunar back, achieving several "original" key progress.
Previously, the scientific community's understanding of the lunar back was mainly based on remote sensing research. "A series of important discoveries made by Chinese scientists from the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) lunar samples are constantly subverting and refreshing human understanding of the moon," said Wang Chi (王赤), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院).
While Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) was exploring the lunar back, deep in the earth, Chinese scientists were also trying to listen to the faintest "whispers" of the universe in another extreme way.
Neutrinos are one of the basic particles that make up the material world, and their mass origin is closely related to major cosmological problems. However, because neutrinos hardly interact with any matter, they are not easily captured, so they are also called "ghost particles." In August, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) (江门中微子实验) in Guangdong (广东) officially started operation and released its first physical result in November, measuring two key parameters of neutrino oscillation, with a measurement accuracy 1.5-1.8 times higher than the previous international highest level, which is currently the highest accuracy.
"Extremely microscopic" and "extremely macroscopic" go hand in hand, "theory" and "technology" fly together, these original innovative achievements not only expand the boundaries of human cognition, but also contribute key forces to solving scientific problems in the fields of energy, information, and life.
Cutting-edge technology stands on the commanding heights, mastering strategic initiative
In January 2025, the domestic artificial intelligence large model DeepSeek became popular. In September, DeepSeek became the first major large model to pass peer review.
Behind the widespread attention is DeepSeek's leading innovation capability. This major breakthrough achieved by China in the field of artificial intelligence foundation models has broken the traditional path of "stacking computing power, competing for funds and data," and has achieved top performance under limited computing power conditions through algorithm optimization and engineering innovation, contributing a new low-cost, high-efficiency "Chinese path" to the world.
What is even more valuable is that DeepSeek actively breaks technical monopolies, opens up model architecture, training tools, and the entire process of data processing, allowing developers to freely call and redevelop, attracting hundreds of thousands of developers around the world to participate in ecological co-construction, promoting the inclusive benefit of artificial intelligence technology globally, bringing new opportunities for global innovation and development, and fully demonstrating the openness and confidence of Chinese scientific and technological innovation.
Currently, the wave of science and technology is sweeping the globe with unprecedented momentum, and cutting-edge technology has become the main focus of innovation competition. Chinese researchers are striving to be the first and forging ahead, opening up a vast world in cutting-edge technology fields such as artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and quantum computing.
Moving a thought can control actions, and the human dream of "wishful thinking" is coming into reality.
Brain-computer interface is a cutting-edge technology for a new generation of human-computer interaction and human-computer hybrid intelligence, and Chinese researchers have made major breakthroughs in this field, benefiting health, new consumption and other fields.
The Brain Science and Intelligence Technology Excellence Innovation Center (脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and the Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University (复旦大学附属华山医院) and other teams cooperated to successfully carry out China's first prospective clinical trial of invasive brain-computer interface. In terms of invasive brain-computer interface technology, China has become the second country in the world to enter the clinical trial stage. After the patient implanted the brain-computer interface device, with only 2 to 3 weeks of training, they can control the computer touchpad with their thoughts to complete operations such as typing, sending messages, and playing computer games.
In the experiment, Chinese researchers created a number of "world's best" - the neural electrodes were independently developed and produced by the team, and are currently the smallest and most flexible neural electrodes in the world; the brain-controlled implant used is only the size of a coin, and does not need to penetrate the skull as a whole during implantation, superimposed with neurosurgical minimally invasive surgery, significantly shortening the postoperative recovery period.
The 105-bit superconducting quantum computing prototype machine "Zu Chongzhi-3 (祖冲之三号)" was successfully constructed, and the speed of processing specific problems is trillions of times faster than the fastest supercomputer currently; the research team of Shandong Agricultural University (山东农业大学) revealed for the first time the molecular mechanism behind the development of a single somatic cell into a complete plant, cracking the mystery of the totipotency mechanism of plant cells that has plagued the scientific community; the research team jointly formed by the Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学), the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Quantum Science Center (粤港澳大湾区量子科学中心), and Tsinghua University (清华大学) achieved high-temperature superconductivity of nickel oxide materials under normal pressure, providing a new breakthrough for solving the scientific problem of high-temperature superconductivity mechanism...
The breakthroughs and progress of cutting-edge technology will drive the overall level of national science and technology, and emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, new energy, and biotechnology are forming new economic growth points. Advancing to the "forefront" and playing the "first move" will spawn new industries, new models, and new momentum, and promote China to accelerate towards the goal of a strong country in science and technology.
Major country instruments accumulate and develop, bravely climbing the peak of science and technology
Building a world power in science and technology requires landmark scientific and technological achievements. In 2025, the construction of major country instruments continued to advance, diving into the deep sea, flying into space, exploring the vast universe, and revealing tiny particles, which together constitute the most important part of China's scientific and technological innovation process.
In Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) (全超导托卡马克核聚变实验装置), known as the "artificial sun," successfully achieved 1066 seconds of steady-state long-pulse high-confinement mode plasma operation at 100 million degrees Celsius, once again breaking the world record, and also fully verified the feasibility of steady-state operation of the fusion reactor high-confinement mode, which is a major step in promoting fusion research from basic scientific research to engineering practice.
Controllable fusion energy is regarded as one of the "ultimate keys" to solving human energy problems, and the continuous breakthroughs of the EAST device mean that China is becoming a "leader" in this cutting-edge field from a "participant." Fully mastering the entire chain of research and development and construction capabilities of the ion cyclotron wave system from the transmitter to the antenna, and the system localization rate reaching 100%... The breakthrough of EAST also means the improvement of China's independent research and development capabilities. "After tens of thousands of discharge tests, the system has shown international first-class operational stability and engineering reliability, and more and more international counterparts are actively seeking cooperation with us," said Zhang Wei (张伟), 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) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院).
Turning our attention to more distant places. The Tianwen-2 (天问二号) planetary exploration project was successfully launched, opening China's first asteroid exploration and sampling return journey, which will collect samples of asteroid 2016HO3 and return to Earth, and then carry out scientific exploration of main-belt comet 311P. This means that China's deep space exploration has once again taken a key step, which will fill China's technical gap in the field of small celestial body exploration and expand the scientific understanding of small celestial bodies.
At the same time, the exploration of small celestial bodies means more complex orbital design, more precise control capabilities, and technological breakthroughs in long-term autonomous operation in deep space environments. "Flying, exploring, and making decisions," the Tianwen-2 (天问二号) probe has further improved its intelligence and autonomy. Behind the project is the collaborative effort of multiple systems such as rockets, telemetry, communication, and exploration, and it is also a vivid footnote to China's collaborative combat and collaborative innovation in the aerospace field.
In space, the Shenzhou-22 (神舟二十二号) manned spacecraft was successfully launched, marking the complete success of China's first emergency launch mission of the manned space program; the Meridian Project (子午工程) was officially completed, building a "weather outpost" in the sun-earth space, providing support for the research and real-time forecasting of space weather.
On the ground, the world's largest "Hualong One (华龙一号)" nuclear power base - Zhangzhou Nuclear Power Unit 2 (漳州核电2号机组) was successfully connected to the grid for the first time, officially sending electricity to the grid; the "Jiaolong (蛟龙)" manned submersible completed China's first manned deep dive in the Arctic ice area, and carried out underwater collaborative operations with the "Fendouzhe (奋斗者)" (Striver) submersible, innovating China's underwater collaborative operation mode of dual manned submersibles... A large number of major country instruments shining with Chinese wisdom and condensing Chinese strength continue to emerge, demonstrating the confidence and strength of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
From a longer time dimension, the value of major country instruments is not reflected in how quickly they "take effect," but they are an important yardstick for measuring a country's scientific and technological innovation capabilities. The stable operation of these major facilities and key projects provides solid support for strengthening basic research and tackling key core technologies, and constitutes an indispensable cornerstone of China's scientific and technological innovation.
Innovation momentum is ever-changing, empowering thousands of industries
As an important engine for cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, innovation achievements such as artificial intelligence add fuel to high-quality development. Since this year, a series of artificial intelligence innovation achievements independently developed by Chinese enterprises have become the "intelligent foundation" for serving the construction of digital China and driving high-quality development with their cutting-edge algorithms, independent research and development, and industrial practice.
At Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), a computing platform based on the domestic Wenxin (文心) large model has realized the deep integration of generative artificial intelligence and scientific research scenarios, greatly improving scientific research efficiency; in CRRC (中国中车), the artificial intelligence solution for non-destructive testing of rail transit created by SmartMore (思谋科技) has been implemented on a large scale; in the Shuanggang Street Community Health Service Center (双岗街道社区卫生服务中心) in Hefei (合肥), the "Xiaoyi (晓医)" general practice auxiliary diagnosis and treatment system of iFlytek (科大讯飞) has improved the level of primary diagnosis and treatment... From scientific and technological research and development to industrial production, from cultural education to medical and health care, "artificial intelligence +" empowers thousands of industries and serves production and life in all directions.
Humanoid robots, a new industry that integrates new technologies, new materials, and high-end manufacturing, has become a track for various innovation entities to compete for new quality productive forces.
2025 is the year when humanoid robots "break the circle." In August, the World Robot Conference (世界机器人大会) opened in Beijing (北京), with more than 200 domestic and foreign companies participating in the exhibition, an increase of 25% compared with 2024. Less than a week later, the World Humanoid Robot Sports Conference (世界人形机器人运动会) was held, and Tiangong Ultra (天工Ultra), Yushu H1 (宇树H1) and other robots sprinted hard in the "100-meter flying man" competition. Since this year, many domestic humanoid robots have entered factories for "practical training" to obtain performance verification and optimization opportunities in real environments and accumulate a large amount of high-quality scenario data.
From dedicated research in laboratories to continuous improvement on production lines, from the steady development of the domestic market to accelerating integration into the global pharmaceutical industry pattern, innovation supports the construction of a healthy China. Data released by the National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局) on December 7 showed that since 2025, China has approved 69 innovative drugs for marketing, which has exceeded the 48 in the whole year of 2024, once again creating a new historical high.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development and the strategic support for building a modern economic system. Since this year, China has accelerated the tackling of key core technologies, accelerated the cultivation of new industries and new momentum, and a series of key technological breakthroughs and a batch of landmark scientific and technological innovation products have enabled the Chinese economy to show unprecedented resilience and potential in a complex and volatile international environment.
The momentum is steadily shifting, and innovation is exerting its strength. The cement industry promotes carbon capture technology, and the steel industry promotes digital and intelligent transformation; the production and sales of new energy vehicles rank first in the world, and the CR450 EMU consolidates and expands the world-leading advantage of high-speed rail technology; bio-manufacturing, 6G and other future industries are accelerating their layout... Since this year, the pace of conversion between new and old momentum has accelerated, injecting strong momentum into the construction of a modern industrial system. New momentum represented by scientific and technological innovation, industrial upgrading, digital empowerment, and green transformation is optimizing the structure and quality of the Chinese economy.
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and lead the development of new quality productive forces." At present, China's R&D expenditure intensity is close to the average level of countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the number of high-level international journal papers and the number of invention patents rank first in the world. Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are accelerating integration, the advantages of rich application scenarios are constantly emerging, and more cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements are being transformed into new quality productive forces, which are constantly providing new momentum for high-quality development.
(Our reporters Gu Yekai (谷业凯), Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Li Junqiang (李君强), Zhao Yongxin (赵永新), Wu Yuehui (吴月辉))
Return to TopIn late October 2025, the Sino-foreign joint venture FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) celebrated the production of its 30 millionth vehicle; on December 10th, the independent brand China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) saw its 30 millionth Chinese brand vehicle roll off the production line; on December 11th, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (中国汽车工业协会) released data: in the first 11 months of this year, China's automobile production and sales both exceeded 31 million vehicles, and it is expected to remain the world's largest automobile producer and seller for the 17th consecutive year.
The "three 30 millions" demonstrate the powerful strength of Chinese manufacturing and the vigorous vitality of the Chinese market, injecting a solid foundation for accelerating the development of new quality productive forces and building a modern industrial system. This issue of the Industrial Economy section takes you into three companies to experience the "three 30 millions" of Chinese automobiles.
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Building a multi-brand matrix, with its Chinese brand automobiles exceeding 30 million vehicles
China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车): Technological Support, Exploring the Global Market
By Jiang Feng (姜峰), reporter of this newspaper
On December 10, 2025, at the Chongqing Avatr (重庆阿维塔) Digital Factory, as an Avatr 12 four-laser version rolled off the production line, China Changan Automobile's (中国长安汽车) Chinese brand automobile production exceeded 30 million vehicles.
In 1984, China's first mass-produced micro-cars were born in Chongqing (重庆), marking China Changan Automobile's (中国长安汽车) first step "from 0 to 1"; it took 30 years to go from 0 to 10 million vehicles; then accelerated to 7 years to reach 20 million vehicles; and only 4 and a half years to go from 20 million to 30 million vehicles. How did China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) achieve its 30 million vehicles?
——Independent research and development of core technologies to enhance industrial competitiveness.
"Before intelligent vehicles can be driven on the road, they must pass network security protection capability tests to ensure user safety." At the China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) Information Security Laboratory, Liu Ximeng (刘西蒙), Deputy Chief Engineer of Network Security, is working with his team to develop an intelligent vehicle security brain engine. "This system can automatically generate tens of thousands of similar extreme scenarios based on a real danger scenario, which is used to train and verify the reliability of the intelligent driving system." Adhering to the principle of prioritizing user safety, Changan (长安) has built a leading national key laboratory for intelligent vehicle safety technology and the Tianshu (天枢) Intelligent Experiment Center.
Research and development is the lifeline of an enterprise. In 2001, China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) established its first overseas R&D center in Europe; in 2010, it built its first national-level key laboratory; in 2019, it released the Blue Whale Power (蓝鲸动力) brand to solve the pain points of traditional power; in recent years, it has successively launched technologies such as the "Golden Bell Cover" (金钟罩) battery, Tianshu (天枢) Intelligent Driving, and Tianshu (天枢) Large Model, and built more than 200 laboratories covering 16 fields such as safety and intelligent driving... Adhering to independent innovation, Changan (长安) has gradually built a global R&D layout of "six countries and ten regions," applying for more than 14,000 patents in the past 3 years, an average of 19 per day, and recently obtained the first batch of L3-level autonomous driving vehicle product access permits in the country.
——Building a multi-brand matrix to meet the needs of different consumer groups.
Facing diversified market demands, China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) has built a five-brand matrix with clear levels and coordinated development: Avatr (阿维塔), positioned as "original, intelligent, and new luxury," has exceeded 10,000 units in sales for nine consecutive months; Deep Blue Automobile (深蓝汽车), which focuses on "young technology and sports," has accumulated the favor of over 700,000 young users worldwide; Changan Qiyuan (长安启源) targets global mainstream family users, with single-month sales exceeding 46,000 units in November; China Changan Automobile's (中国长安汽车) classic products such as CS55, CS75, and Yidong (逸动) are geared towards daily family needs; and Changan Kaicheng (长安凯程) remains at the forefront of the new energy commercial vehicle market.
The five major brands "clench their fingers into a fist," promoting China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) to achieve sales of over 1 million new energy vehicles and total brand sales exceeding 2.9 million vehicles in 2025.
——Steadily "going out" and gradually expanding into the international market.
At the China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) Rayong (罗勇) plant in Thailand, the production line is operating efficiently, delivering new energy vehicles that meet local needs to the market. "Currently, the localization rate of the factory's supply chain is close to 40%. We will strive to increase this proportion to over 70% by 2027 to 2028," said Deng Zhitao (邓智涛), General Manager of China Changan Automobile's (中国长安汽车) Southeast Asia Business Department.
China Changan Automobile's (中国长安汽车) overseas journey began in 1991 when it knocked on the door of the Middle East market. From initial tentative trade, establishing assembly plants overseas, and forming overseas brand promotion teams, to the release of the "Hai Na Bai Chuan" (海纳百川) globalization strategy in 2023 (海纳百川 (hǎi nà bǎi chuān - "the sea accepts all rivers," all rivers run into the sea; broad and inclusive)), promoting the comprehensive "going out" of products, technology, brands, services, and ecosystems, China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车) has steadily established itself in overseas markets. In the first 11 months of 2025, overseas sales reached 583,000 vehicles.
For China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车), a newly established central enterprise, 30 million vehicles is a new starting point towards the future. "In the future, we will be guided by the three major plans of the 'Shangri-La' (香格里拉) for new energy, the 'Beidou Tianshu' (北斗天枢) for intelligentization, and the 'Hai Na Bai Chuan' (海纳百川) for globalization, and continue to build the three major digital and intelligent new energy brands of Avatr (阿维塔), Deep Blue Automobile (深蓝汽车), and Changan Qiyuan (长安启源). We will strive to achieve production and sales of 5 million vehicles by 2030, with new energy accounting for over 60% and overseas accounting for over 30%," said the relevant person in charge of China Changan Automobile (中国长安汽车), adding that they will fully build a world-class automobile group with global competitiveness and independent core technologies.
34 years of Sino-foreign joint venture, with cumulative production and sales exceeding 30 million vehicles
FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众): Co-creation and Co-research, Seeking Mutual Benefit and Win-Win
By Wang Zheng (王政), reporter of this newspaper
Walking into the new technology development center built by FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) with an investment of 870 million yuan, a 1.5L high-efficiency hybrid-specific engine is running on the test bench. The second round of test bench testing of this model is about to be completed. "This is a hybrid-specific engine proposed for development by a joint venture and completed with independent research and development of A and B prototypes, with industry-leading thermal efficiency," said He Shuang (何爽), a product development engineer at FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众). According to the plan, the engine will be first launched on domestically produced models in 2027 and will be included in the global engine product series as the development basis for Volkswagen Group's future hybrid-specific technology.
As one of the earliest automobile joint ventures in China, FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) has continuously deepened Sino-foreign cooperation in the 34 years since its establishment, from the initial 1 brand and 1 model to the current 30+ fuel and new energy models under the three major brands of Volkswagen, Audi, and Jetta, with cumulative production and sales exceeding 30 million vehicles, cumulative operating income exceeding 5.5 trillion yuan, and driving more than 500,000 upstream and downstream jobs.
Over the past 34 years, FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) has taken the lead in introducing globally advanced technical standards and mature management systems, forming domestic first-class commodity project management models, manufacturing systems, quality review systems, dealership sales models, talent selection systems, and more. Facing the trend of electrification and intelligentization in the automotive industry, FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) has built a gradient R&D layout from mass application and technology pre-research to forward-looking exploration in core platforms such as powertrain and connected cockpits. In 2025, it has carried out a total of 155 innovation projects and successfully introduced 50 results into mass projects, covering more than 10 models of fuel, hybrid, and pure electric vehicles, and applied for 115 patents throughout the year. This joint venture has transformed from the "borrowing" of model introduction and localization modification to a technology-based car company with independent research and development and independent supply chain control capabilities, officially opening the "Joint Venture 2.0 Era."
In the FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) transmission production workshop, the automated production line is conducting pre-batch trial production of the DHT hybrid-specific transmission C sample. "In January next year, the new hybrid model equipped with this independently developed and self-produced transmission will undergo software calibration and acceptance testing under extremely cold conditions before mass production," Liu Yongming (刘永明), a transmission development expert at FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众), told reporters. This hybrid-specific transmission was included in the Volkswagen Group's global transmission development system in 2023 and is expected to be installed in more models and go abroad in the future.
If the "reverse output" of engine and transmission technology marks the FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众) in the "Joint Venture 2.0 Era" has achieved a leap from "following" to "running alongside" in the field of electrification, then breakthroughs in core technologies such as electronic and electrical architecture, intelligent cockpits, and driving assistance have allowed this joint venture to enter a new stage of "co-creation and co-research" between China and foreign parties.
In 2019, FAW-Volkswagen Audi (一汽—大众奥迪) and Huawei (华为) began cooperation on the development of a combined driving assistance system for fuel vehicles. "Audi's requirements for quality are almost harsh. Taking electromagnetic compatibility as an example, the team spent more than half a year trying many components before reaching Audi's standards," introduced Leng Jiangtao (冷江涛), Vice President of Marketing and Sales Service of Huawei's (华为) Car BU. The new Audi A5L, which was launched this year, became the first Audi fuel sedan equipped with Huawei's (华为) Qiankun (乾崑) intelligent driving system.
In 2026, the Jetta (捷达) brand, which is familiar to Chinese consumers, will launch its first new energy model, which will be the first to be equipped with the company's independently developed SOA electronic and electrical architecture. "The electronic and electrical architecture is not only the 'brain' of intelligent connected new energy vehicles, but also the 'nervous system'. With this digital base that supports all intelligent functions, the development and verification of all controllers and actuators are in the hands of the joint venture's R&D team," introduced Xu Xueliang (徐学亮), Deputy Director of Technology Development at FAW-Volkswagen (一汽—大众). The new car is not only equipped with self-developed "three-electric" core technology, but also adapted to industry-leading chips, realizing AI large model intelligent cockpit and high-speed and urban NOA functions.
"From introducing Germany's leading car manufacturing technology to independently developing core electrification and intelligent technology to meet the needs of Chinese users, and then to the reverse empowerment of German shareholders by the local technology of joint venture car companies, FAW-Volkswagen's (一汽—大众) development capabilities have achieved a leapfrog advancement, building a solid core support for the next 30 million vehicles," Xu Xueliang (徐学亮) believes.
All-round innovation, annual sales will exceed 300,000 vehicles in 2025
NIO (蔚来汽车): "New Force" in Car Manufacturing, Showing New Strength
By Wang Zheng (王政), reporter of this newspaper
The severe winter in Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽) is intensely cold, but the NIO (蔚来) Advanced Manufacturing Factory is warm and surging. More than 1,000 robots have been "fighting" for the delivery of NIO (蔚来) ES8 for several months. Since September 2025, the new NIO (蔚来) ES8 has successively delivered outstanding answers - the delivery volume exceeded 10,000 units in 41 days, the delivery volume exceeded 30,000 units in 89 days, and the delivery volume exceeded 40,000 units in 100 days.
The high-end ES8 is favored, which is a positive feedback from the market to NIO's (蔚来) adherence to the high-end market and commitment to providing high-quality supply in the 11 years since its establishment.
When NIO (蔚来汽车) was established in 2014, China's new energy vehicles were still in the "groundbreaking period" of commercialization. The annual sales of new energy vehicles were only 74,000 units, and there were less than 40,000 public charging piles in the country. Small market, high prices, difficult charging, short battery life, weak brands... One "hard bone" after another was placed in front of NIO (蔚来).
"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that 'developing new energy vehicles is the only way for China to move from a large automobile country to a strong automobile country,' which has pointed out the direction for the accelerated transformation and upgrading of China's automobile industry and the realization of high-quality development, and has also given new energy vehicle companies a 'reassurance pill'," said Li Bin (李斌), founder, chairman, and CEO of NIO (蔚来汽车), with emotion. As a result, NIO (蔚来) was determined to insist on doing "difficult and correct things." "The most important path is all-round innovation."
Technological innovation. Chips and in-vehicle intelligent hardware, battery systems, electric drive and high-voltage systems, the whole vehicle full-domain operating system, intelligent driving... NIO (蔚来) insists on the forward development of core technologies, with a cumulative investment of nearly 70 billion yuan, and has built a "NIO (蔚来) technology full stack" in 12 fields. As of the end of November 2025, the total number of patent applications and authorized patents was more than 9,900. In recent years, they have successively launched the whole vehicle full-domain operating system "SkyOS Tianshu" (SkyOS 天枢) and the world's first 5-nanometer automotive-grade intelligent driving chip "Shenji NX9031" (神玑NX9031), realizing both "core" and "soul." NIO (蔚来) ET9 has obtained the production license for wire-controlled steering from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Category innovation. At the beginning of entering the new track, NIO (蔚来) set its sights on the niche market - high-end pure electric SUVs above 400,000 yuan. The ES8, which was launched in 2017, became one of the few domestic models that could benchmark against international top brands at that time with its advanced pure electric powertrain, 4.4-second acceleration from 0 to 100 kilometers, a full-stack self-developed all-aluminum body, standard air suspension, and a starting price of 448,000 yuan. Since 2024, NIO (蔚来) has successively launched two new brands, Letao (乐道) and Firefly (萤火虫). Today, NIO (蔚来) has built a brand matrix of three major brands and 11 main models, with a cumulative delivery of nearly 950,000 new cars. The NIO (蔚来) brand continues to lead the high-end pure electric market above 300,000 yuan.
Energy form innovation. In order to solve users' mileage anxiety, NIO (蔚来) decided to "change its thinking" - not afraid of heavy asset investment, pioneered the battery swap mode, and built its own charging and battery swap infrastructure. As of December 23, 2025, NIO (蔚来) has built more than 8,400 charging and battery swap stations across the country, with battery swap networks covering more than 1,000 districts and counties across the country.
Business model innovation. NIO (蔚来) took the lead in proposing the concept of "full life cycle service" in the industry, providing users with one-click maintenance, door-to-door tire repair, roadside assistance, accident peace of mind, driving enjoyment and other special services. NIO (蔚来) City Living Room "NIO House" and community APP have become online and offline "third living spaces" with high user stickiness.
One innovation after another has given NIO (蔚来) the ability to extend from the high-end market to the mainstream family market, quickly scale up and reduce costs. Since 2024, NIO (蔚来) has begun to promote the improvement of system capabilities, promote organizational changes for all employees to operate, and has achieved remarkable results in improving quality and efficiency. In 2025, NIO's (蔚来) full-year sales will exceed 300,000 vehicles.
NIO's (蔚来) 11-year entrepreneurial journey is a microcosm of the growth of China's new car-making forces in exploration.
In recent years, they have innovated business models, innovated user operation models, and created disruptive product definitions and pricing systems, driving China's entire automotive industry chain to accelerate technology cost reduction, scale cost reduction, and management cost reduction, and forging globally leading competitiveness. In the first 11 months of this year, Leapmotor (零跑), Xpeng (小鹏), Li Auto (理想), Xiaomi (小米), and NIO (蔚来) cumulatively sold 1.918 million vehicles, an increase of more than 60% year-on-year, accounting for about 13% of the total sales of new energy vehicles in China during the same period. The new car-making forces are growing into the "new strength" of China's automotive industry.
Return to TopBy: 刘志强
"If the path is right, we must persevere and work tirelessly for a long time." By coordinating efforts from top to bottom, "Made in China" will form a powerful synergy. By smoothing supply and demand, "Made in China" will reap strong momentum. By coordinating "competition" and "cooperation," "Made in China" will open up greater space.
Standing at the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, looking back at the five years of automotive industry development, it can be described as full of highlights and remarkable achievements:
Strength continues to increase. Looking at the overall scale, in 2023, the national annual automobile production and sales volume exceeded 30 million units for the first time. In the first 11 months of 2025, the annual production and sales volume both exceeded 31 million units, continuing to maintain the world's first position. Looking at foreign trade exports, in 2023, China's automobile exports surpassed Japan for the first time, ranking first in the world. In the first 11 months of 2025, automobile exports reached 6.343 million units, an increase of 18.7% year-on-year, and China firmly holds its position as the world's largest automobile exporter.
Transformation continues to advance. The production of new energy vehicles in 2020 was about 1.4 million units, and in the first 10 months of this year, it exceeded 13 million units. In October, the monthly sales of new energy vehicles even exceeded 50% of the total sales of new vehicles for the first time. In terms of intelligence, the proportion of new passenger vehicles with combined assisted driving functions increased from 16.2% in 2020 to 64% in the first three quarters of 2025. Seizing the opportunities of electrification and intelligent transformation, the automotive industry is taking advantage of the momentum and constantly opening up new spaces.
Technology continues to evolve. Looking at the "three electrics" technology of new energy vehicles, in the past five years, China's power battery charging efficiency has increased by more than four times, and the motor and electronic control systems are globally leading. Coupled with the continuous evolution of human-computer interaction, collaborative perception, and other technologies, large computing power chips and intelligent wire-controlled chassis are being mass-produced, and the hard-core strength of Chinese automobile products is becoming stronger and stronger.
"If the path is right, we must persevere and **久久为功** (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent effort," persistent effort will lead to success)." The weighty "14th Five-Year Plan" automotive report card has laid a solid foundation for accelerating the construction of a strong automotive country, and also injected firm confidence into us in promoting the transformation of "Made in China" from large to strong during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
By coordinating efforts from top to bottom, "Made in China" will form a powerful synergy.
Today, for every three new energy vehicles sold globally, two are from China. China is leading the way in the field of new energy vehicles, and one of the key to success lies in top-down coordination: In terms of top-level design, the national level has successively issued two medium- and long-term development plans, and various departments have successively introduced many supporting policies such as fiscal and tax finance, points management, and road traffic, making forward-looking layouts, long-term investment, and optimizing the ecology; In terms of implementation, various regions have found their positioning and displayed their strengths, developing related links in the industrial chain, and the majority of enterprises have actively responded, breaking through key technologies, and launching innovative products. It is precisely with the joint efforts of all parties that China has formed a relatively complete new energy vehicle industrial chain and supply chain in just 10 years, realizing "overtaking on a curve" and "catching up from behind" in the automotive field.
Those who have the same desires from top to bottom will win. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal outlines the development blueprint for the next five years, and makes systematic deployments around "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy." Adhering to the national unified planning, drawing a blueprint to the end, and fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all aspects of industry, academia, and research, "Made in China" will continue to leap to new heights, and the material and technological foundation of Chinese-style modernization will be more solid.
By smoothing supply and demand, "Made in China" will reap strong momentum.
Cool body, exquisite interior, smart intelligent driving system, advanced and reliable chips, batteries... In recent years, Chinese brand cars such as BYD (比亚迪), Geely (吉利), Great Wall (长城), and Xiaomi (小米) have been widely favored by the market. A very important reason is that the continuous improvement of technology, function, and quality effectively responds to the constantly upgrading consumer demand.
Today's China has a population of more than 1.4 billion, and is the world's largest and most potential market. The per capita GDP has been continuously and stably above 13,000 US dollars, and is in a critical period of consumption expansion and upgrading. The huge population base, strong consumer demand, and massive application scenarios provide broad demand space for "Made in China." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to "improve the system and mechanism for promoting consumption, and clean up unreasonable restrictive measures on consumption such as automobiles and housing," which will also promote the effective release of consumption potential. For the majority of enterprises, relying on the advantages of both supply and demand, and striving to launch new technologies and new products that are marketable, they can continue to receive positive feedback from the market and achieve greater development. In the benign interaction between supply and demand in thousands of industries, "Made in China" will steadily achieve an increase in quantity and quality.
By coordinating "competition" and "cooperation," "Made in China" will open up greater space.
Having gone through the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the international market share and global industry influence of Chinese automobile companies have been increasing day by day. At the same time, it should also be seen that compared with many traditional multinational brands, Chinese car companies still have a large gap in overseas market revenue and profit performance, and companies "going out" also face multiple pressures such as increased trade barriers and fierce competition in the international market.
These shortcomings and challenges are not only encountered by the automotive industry, but are common challenges that "Made in China," which already has considerable strength, will face during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. An important path to solving the problem is to broaden our horizons, look to the long term, unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, and continuously inject new impetus and create new opportunities for the world's development with our own new development. Taking the automotive industry as an example, on the one hand, we must open up the market and embrace competition, and continue to enhance our own capabilities in open competition. On the other hand, we must deepen cooperation, strengthen exchanges and interactions with foreign companies in the process of "going out" and "bringing in," seek mutual benefit and win-win results, and jointly make the automotive industry "cake" bigger.
Industry prospers the country, and hard work builds the country. Since the new era, "Made in China" has been steadily climbing and **竿头日进** (gān tóu rì jìn - "make daily progress," to make constant progress). The scale and volume have remained the world's first. Moving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," with unremitting efforts and continuous struggle, "Made in China" will continue to create new glories.
Return to TopOn December 18, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) officially launched full island customs closure, moving towards a new stage of higher-level opening to the outside world, with a series of policies benefiting enterprises and the people expanding and taking root. Nearly half a month into the operation of the customs closure, consumers are refreshing their shopping experience in duty-free shops; foreign workers in China are falling in love with working and living in Hainan; local enterprises on the island are welcoming new development opportunities; and foreign-funded enterprises are optimistic about the future of their development in China.
Recently, reporters interviewed consumers, foreign workers in China, local enterprises on the island, and foreign-funded enterprises in Hainan, recording the sense of gain of these four types of entities.
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Mr. Zhang (张先生), a tourist from Beijing (北京) --
High-quality domestic products can also enjoy offshore tax refunds
Reporter Sun Haitian (孙海天)
"I originally only planned to buy some skin care products, but I didn't expect mobile phones to be so cost-effective now. With the various instant discounts in the store, the price is more than 3,000 yuan cheaper than the official website!" At the Haikou Meilan Airport Duty Free Shop (海口美兰机场免税店), Mr. Zhang, a tourist preparing to return to Beijing, had just purchased a Huawei (华为) triple-folding screen mobile phone.
Today, in addition to mobile phones, consumers can buy more high-quality domestic products in duty-free shops. This is thanks to the new offshore duty-free policy implemented on the eve of the full island customs closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port. The policy clarifies that operating entities with offshore duty-free commodity distribution qualifications that purchase six types of domestic goods such as coffee and tea for sale in offshore duty-free shops are regarded as exports, and value-added tax and consumption tax are refunded (exempted).
Yao Jiangnan (姚江南), comprehensive sales supervisor of Haikou Meilan Airport Duty Free Shop, told reporters that since the customs closure operation, the number of business travelers like Mr. Zhang has obviously increased, and high-end domestic electronic products have become a popular souvenir for them to bring to relatives and friends. Zheng Fujia (郑栿家), a salesperson of electronic products in the store, added that recently, not only has the number of inquiries about high-end models of some mobile phones increased significantly, but also trendy technology products such as flying cameras and electronic guitars, which have been newly included in the duty-free category, are quite popular among young travelers.
Offshore tourists return with a full load, and the "shopping carts" of island residents are also becoming more and more full.
In the MixC Duty Free Shop (日月广场免税店) in Haikou (海口), Ms. Li (李女士), a 35-year-old Haikou citizen, is purchasing imported milk powder and skin care products. After checking out, she directly carried the shopping bag out of the store, without having to pick up the goods at the airport as before.
"In the past, if I wanted to buy duty-free goods, I had to find an opportunity to go on a business trip or travel out of the island, which was very troublesome. Now the policy stipulates that as long as you have one offshore record within a year, you can buy goods on the 'buy now, take now' list an unlimited number of times within the limit of 100,000 yuan," Ms. Li said with emotion, "Now the duty-free shop is like a supermarket at my doorstep, I can buy it anytime, and I can take it away after buying it, which is so convenient."
From "can only buy when leaving the island" to "can buy anytime with a record," the fine-tuning of the policy makes people's lives more convenient. Li Yingjun (李映君), a staff member of the marketing department of MixC Duty Free Shop, introduced that after the implementation of the policy, the duty-free consumption scenarios have been further broadened, especially the convenient measures for island residents, which have accelerated the integration of duty-free goods into the daily life of local residents.
According to Haikou Customs (海口海关) statistics, from December 18 to 24, Haikou Customs supervised offshore duty-free shopping worth 1.1 billion yuan, an increase of 54.9% year-on-year.
"The optimization of the duty-free shopping policy, coupled with the benefits of customs closure operation and the peak season for winter tourism in Hainan, multiple factors have made the sales of offshore duty-free products rise." Wang Chunhao (王纯豪), chief of the Duty-Free Goods Supervision Section of Sanya Customs (三亚海关), introduced that in addition to expanding the beneficiaries to outbound tourists and the entry of domestic goods, the types of goods have also been expanded to 47 categories, adding musical instruments and pet supplies that can be carried with you, meeting the more diverse needs of consumers.
The implementation of the policy "gift package" puts higher requirements on supervision and service. Haikou Customs has greatly improved the turnover efficiency of the entire duty-free chain through innovative models such as "centralized + automatic" document review and hierarchical supervision of duty-free enterprises, making duty-free shop goods updated faster, with more sufficient supply, and optimizing the shopping experience. "In the future, we will continue to increase institutional innovation to allow the dividends of the offshore duty-free policy to benefit more people." Wang Chunhao said, while also reminding individuals to be wary of the risk of "buying on behalf of others" to avoid affecting the duty-free shopping experience.
Choi Pil-jae (崔弼在), a Korean lawyer --
There are more opportunities for foreign-related legal services
Reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬)
Having just sorted out the documents, Choi Pil-jae, a Korean lawyer, looked out the window, where participants in the Haikou Marathon (海口马拉松) were starting from Guoxing Avenue (国兴大道), the surging crowd contrasting with the coconut trees and bustling business districts on the roadside. Having come to the Hainan Free Trade Port after the official launch of the full island customs closure, he directly felt the vitality and enthusiasm exuding from this land.
"After the customs closure, Hainan's foreign exchanges are smoother, and there are more opportunities for foreign-related legal services, which is the main reason that attracted me to work here." Choi Pil-jae, currently the chief representative of the Haikou Representative Office of Korean Jae Yoo Law Firm (韩国在宥律师事务所), has nearly 30 years of experience in the industry.
Ten years ago, realizing that Chinese enterprises going overseas and Korean enterprises investing in China would be larger in scale, he began to provide legal services to enterprises in both countries around intellectual property protection, cross-border investment, and other aspects. Day after day, he and his colleagues had a plan to establish a representative office in China.
Where to choose the location? Choi Pil-jae took the initiative to consult with Chinese counterparts and international students. After several discussions, Hainan attracted Choi Pil-jae's attention with its relevant measures to expand the opening up of the service industry.
The time of landing was faster than expected. Starting last year, Choi Pil-jae and external consultant Li Xian (李贤) began to sort out and submit materials. In July of this year, the representative office in China was filed with the Ministry of Justice (司法部). In December, Choi Pil-jae received a work permit and a residence permit. One-window processing and simultaneous issuance of certificates, an efficient multi-department joint review and co-handling model, saved him the trouble of running around to multiple departments. Filling out forms, submitting materials, recording systems, and making approvals, each step was connected in an orderly manner, and Choi Pil-jae exclaimed: "This is the speed of the Hainan Free Trade Port's opening up."
In order to attract high-end and urgently needed talents to gather, the Hainan Free Trade Port implements list management for high-end and urgently needed talents who work here and enjoy preferential policies, and the portion of their individual income tax that exceeds 15% of the actual tax burden is exempted.
"After registration and filing, we can set up business institutions in Hainan and engage in some commercial non-litigation legal affairs. My own work experience and legal skills can also be better developed in the Free Trade Port after being recognized as qualified." Choi Pil-jae said that the institution can be "on the ground" and the lawyer can be "on the scene" so that enterprises can obtain services with more peace of mind.
Another phone call came in, and a Korean enterprise consulted the law firm about the customs closure policy of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
"Tariff burden, the degree of customs clearance convenience, and the feasibility of profit repatriation are all issues that Korean enterprises are concerned about. The free and convenient measures related to trade, investment, and cross-border capital flow in the institutional design of the Hainan Free Trade Port, as well as preferential tax policies, are precisely the advantages that attract these enterprises." Choi Pil-jae is optimistic about the development prospects of Korean enterprises in Hainan. More enterprises investing here will bring more development opportunities to the representative office; the establishment of a diversified commercial dispute resolution mechanism at the Hainan International Arbitration Court (海南国际仲裁院), which is expected to develop into one of the international dispute resolution hubs, can also allow the representative office to grow together.
Choi Pil-jae said that the Hainan Free Trade Port provides relevant preferential and convenient measures for foreign high-end and urgently needed talents in terms of taxation, medical care, and visa-free entry. In Hainan, work is worry-free and promising, and life is comfortable and enjoyable.
Wang Hai (王海), General Manager of Hainan Jingrun Pearl Technology Co., Ltd. (海南京润珍珠科技股份有限公司) --
The production costs of foreign trade enterprises are lower
Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)
In the imported raw material warehouse of Hainan Jingrun Pearl Technology Co., Ltd., workers are grading a batch of raw pearls just imported from overseas. The pearls, which exude a soft luster, will be designed and processed into exquisite jewelry and sold to the mainland market.
The imported raw material warehouse is also an independent customs supervision site. High-definition monitoring equipment is installed in a corner of the roof and operates online 24 hours a day, which can monitor the storage, processing, and delivery process of imported raw pearls throughout the entire process. The monitoring system is connected to the customs intelligent supervision system to ensure that customs officers can supervise anytime and anywhere.
"In the past two weeks, we have imported another batch of pearls from the Philippines (菲律宾) and Indonesia (印度尼西亚), with a value of about 900,000 yuan and a tariff reduction of about 170,000 yuan." Wang Hai, general manager of the company, introduced that the company needs to import a large number of pearls from overseas for processing every year. Benefiting from the optimization of the policy of exempting tariffs on domestic sales of goods with a processing value-added of 30%, it can reduce the previous 21% tariff and save costs for the enterprise. At the same time, the imported consumption tax and value-added tax corresponding to the value of the goods are calculated and collected in the final customs clearance link, which can reduce capital occupation.
In early January of this year, the company imported a batch of pearl raw materials from Indonesia. On January 22, the first batch of imported pearl processing products was successfully shipped to the mainland market, with a product value of 83,600 yuan and a tariff reduction of 17,600 yuan. As of December 10, the company purchased and put into storage about 40,000 raw pearls using the processing value-added tariff exemption policy, with a value of 12 million yuan, produced 4,090 finished products, and reduced tariffs by about 1.75 million yuan in total.
The reduction in production costs can not only benefit consumers, but also bring new opportunities for the company's development. "Now the jewelry we make from imported South Sea pearls (南洋珍珠) is sold at a more favorable price in the mainland, and the market competitiveness is enhanced." Wang Hai introduced that after the customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port, the company further extended the industrial chain layout, upgraded the production and manufacturing of pearl skin care products, and also expanded the overseas pearl jewelry market.
From a pilot project in one area to full application in the entire area, the policy of exempting tariffs on processing value-added continues to iterate and upgrade. At present, except for customs untrustworthy enterprises, the applicable object enterprises of the processing value-added tariff exemption policy are not limited by size, nor are they limited to state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, or foreign-funded enterprises, realizing full coverage of enterprises in Hainan Province. After the Hainan Free Trade Port officially launched the full island customs closure, the processing value-added tariff exemption policy for the first time included Hainan's own-produced materials in the value-added part; expanded the scope of imported materials, and on the basis of only allowing bonded goods to carry out pilot projects before, included "zero-tariff" goods in the scope of application. More and more enterprises are enjoying policy preferences and gaining broad market prospects.
The enterprise application process is more convenient. Hainan has developed a processing value-added module on the international trade "single window," and enterprises can declare pilot projects online, and the average declaration review time is shortened by more than 50%. At the same time, the Hainan government service platform "Haiyiban (海易办)" has set up a "one thing" service zone for processing value-added tariff exemption, and enterprises can enjoy more convenience through integrated processing and data sharing.
In order to efficiently implement the unique policies of the Hainan Free Trade Port, Haikou Customs continues to improve the policy guidance team, sending policies to parks and enterprises, providing accurate guidance with "one enterprise, one policy," and providing a full-process service of "policy publicity + enterprise research + business guidance" to open up the "last mile" of policy implementation.
A series of policies and measures are continuously releasing dividends and activating the surging new momentum of industrial development.
Wu Guangyu (吴广宇), President of Dun & Bradstreet (邓白氏) China --
We see the broad opportunities in the Chinese market
Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)
In the Haikou Fuxing City Internet Information Industry Park (海口复兴城互联网信息产业园), employees of Hainan Dun & Bradstreet Data Technology Co., Ltd. (海南邓白氏数据科技有限公司) are seizing the time to process data.
"At the beginning of the planning of the Hainan Free Trade Port, it proposed a system design of 5 free and convenient and 1 safe and orderly flow, which includes the safe and orderly flow of data. As a data enterprise, we see the broad opportunities in the Chinese market." Wu Guangyu, President of Dun & Bradstreet China, introduced that with the help of local government departments, Hainan Dun & Bradstreet Data Technology Co., Ltd. was registered and established in Haikou in 2022, and was approved as a pilot enterprise for data outbound security assessment in 2023.
"In China, an average of one small and medium-sized enterprise applies for a Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S Number (邓白氏编码) every 10 minutes." Wu Guangyu said that with the promotion of the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, more and more international enterprises hope to settle in Hainan, and at the same time, more local enterprises are eager to go overseas. Both parties urgently need a set of internationally accepted "credit language" and "data map" to clear the obstacles encountered in developing the two markets. Relying on global commercial information data, Dun & Bradstreet has developed and created the Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S Number, which can help identify and quickly locate key commercial information of enterprises around the world, improve the efficiency of business cooperation, and help enterprises quickly connect to the global business network.
In 2024, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) decided to take the lead in carrying out pilot projects to expand the opening up of value-added telecommunications services in the Hainan Free Trade Port. In 2025, Hainan Dun & Bradstreet Data Technology Co., Ltd. became one of the first enterprises in the country to obtain the pilot approval for operating value-added telecommunications services. In addition to the value-added telecommunications business operating license that has been applied for and approved, this means that Dun & Bradstreet can operate information services and online data processing and transaction processing value-added telecommunications services in Hainan on its own.
"We quickly launched the supply chain evaluation network, and also launched the first product for Chinese individual users, Longyicha (龙易查), at the 8th China International Import Expo (进博会), which can query the information of more than 850 million enterprises around the world with a mobile phone. It can be said that Hainan's policies have allowed Dun & Bradstreet's long-cherished wish to be realized, allowing us to provide users with powerful and convenient practical tools, greatly reducing the threshold for data acquisition." Wu Guangyu said.
As of now, Hainan Dun & Bradstreet Data Technology Co., Ltd. has issued Dun & Bradstreet D-U-N-S Numbers to more than 160,000 enterprises, and has also undertaken global data processing work. "After the customs closure, there will definitely be more trade exchanges here." Wu Guangyu said that Dun & Bradstreet will make more attempts to combine global data resources and local innovation capabilities to better serve Chinese and foreign enterprises in carrying out cooperation.
From the release of the negative list for foreign investment access in the Hainan Free Trade Port to the introduction of the first negative list for cross-border service trade in the country, and then to the continuous optimization and improvement of the "single window" for international trade and international investment... Hainan actively connects with international high-standard economic and trade rules, steadily expands institutional opening up, and continuously improves the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. In the past 5 years, Hainan has actually used foreign capital of 102.5 billion yuan, creating a record of attracting more foreign investment in 5 years than the total in the previous 32 years.
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On December 18, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) officially launched full island customs closure. From the proposal in 2018 to "support Hainan (海南) to gradually explore and steadily advance the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics" to the operation of customs closure, the Hainan Free Trade Port has realized the transformation from blueprint to formation in seven years of hard work, becoming an important symbol of reform and opening up in the new era.
This is a historical initiative to further expand high-level opening up to the outside world.
"We must build the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) into an important gateway leading China's (中国) new era of opening up to the outside world." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech clarified the strategic position and historical responsibility of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) for China's (中国) opening up to the outside world.
Hainan (海南), as a natural bridge connecting Southeast Asia (东南亚) and a key node of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (21世纪海上丝绸之路), has obvious advantages in steadily promoting institutional opening up. From expanding the scope of "zero tariff" goods to approximately 6,600 tariff items, accounting for 74% of all commodity tariff items, to the continuous expansion of core measures such as multi-functional free trade accounts and visa-free policies, and then to the cultivation of 173 institutional integrated innovation cases, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) uses institutional innovation to solve the difficulties of opening up, accumulating valuable experience for China's (中国) participation in global economic governance and alignment with international high-standard economic and trade rules.
This is a historical initiative to promote the construction of an open world economy.
Currently, although economic globalization is encountering headwinds and setbacks, economic globalization is an irreversible historical trend. Free trade ports are the highest level of opening up in the world today. By fully closing the island of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), China (中国) actively promotes the liberalization and facilitation of trade, investment, and cross-border capital flows, demonstrating its commitment to multilateralism and open inclusiveness as a major country, and is a strong declaration of unswervingly expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and promoting the construction of an open world economy.
China (中国) uses open development to inject certainty into economic globalization, while also creating a certain development environment for itself, which is a vivid manifestation of actively planning international space and opening up new prospects in a changing situation.
This is a historical initiative to promote reform and development through opening up.
Currently, comprehensively deepening reform has entered a deep-water zone and a critical period. Seeking impetus from reform and vitality from opening up is an inevitable choice to stimulate endogenous动力 (dòng lì - "driving force," internal power).
Expanding the scope of beneficiaries of the "zero tariff" policy; implementing "double 15%" income tax incentives and a policy of exempting tariffs on domestic sales of goods with a processing value-added of 30%; optimizing the registration process for foreign-invested enterprises and the handling services for foreigners' work permits in China (中国)... Relying on policy advantages, the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) continues to improve its business environment, gathers and activates various factor resources, attracts the layout of high-end manufacturing, biomedicine, digital economy and other industries, and becomes an important practice ground for new quality productive forces.
In addition, Hainan (海南), backed by a super-large domestic market and facing the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) and the Indian Ocean (印度洋), its unique geographical advantages make it an important intersection of domestic and international dual circulation. From 2018 to 2024, the average annual growth of actual utilization of foreign capital in Hainan (海南) was approximately 36%; the average annual growth rates of trade in goods and services were 21.9% and 20.8% respectively... Through Hainan (海南), we see China (中国) embracing the world with a more open and inclusive mind, and integrating internal and external resources to enhance itself.
Opening up is for development, and the focus of development is always the well-being of the people. When we see that customers have a better shopping experience in duty-free shops, residents on the island find satisfactory jobs at their doorsteps, and local enterprises use policy advantages to develop new markets, this all shows that in the grand process of building the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) to a high standard, policy dividends are being transformed into tangible development vitality and warmth for people's livelihoods.
Customs closure is not the finish line for the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), but a new starting point for promoting a higher level of opening up to the outside world. We believe that the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) will be able to ride the waves in the tide of the times and add color to the great chapter of China's (中国) high-level opening up to the outside world with wonderful stories.
Return to TopLooking back on this unforgettable year, how should we write "My 2025"?
For a scholar in his twilight years, 2025 is a busy and fulfilling "new beginning"; for an ophthalmologist, it is about using professionalism, calmness, and warmth to try to untangle knots; for a writer who focuses on the growth of teenagers, it is about using words to let life "have light"; for a playwright with more than 40 years of experience in the arts, it is about continuing to sing about beauty and hope; for a writer in the new field of mass literature and art, it is about finally understanding that they should live as a "walking tree"; for a children's literature writer, it is about once again drawing childlike clarity from their predecessors; for an author who has been writing online literature for 20 years, it is about feeling the strong shock brought about by the next trend...
Different 2025, the same vigor and perseverance, the same light and warmth, the same determination and belief. May 2026 bring continued light and courageous progress to you and me!
-- Editor
A New Beginning, Followed by Another New Beginning
Ge Jianxiong (葛剑雄)
Last December, I turned eighty, and a magazine asked for a contribution. At the end of the article, I wrote "80 years old can be a new beginning." Now that this year is coming to an end, looking back on "My 2025," this new beginning is somewhat gratifying.
This year, I continued to serve as the librarian of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) (香港中文大学（深圳）). At the same time, I supervised two doctoral students at Fudan University (复旦大学), recruited a new doctoral student, and completed scientific research tasks. I served as the executive editor of the second volume of the *Historical Atlas of the People's Republic of China* (《中华人民共和国国家历史地图集》). I completed at least two normal workloads.
I published several books. Two are continuations of my personal collection of essays (volumes 1-7 have been published): the eighth volume, *Why China* (《何以中国》), and the ninth volume, *Also Reading* (《也是读书》). One is a collection of my related articles selected by the publisher, *Looking at China Through Flowing Rivers* (《江河流淌看中国》). One is the *Academic Biography of Tan Qixiang* (《谭其骧学术传记》) that I wrote. Another is a popular science work I wrote, *A History of China on Earth: History Hidden in Geography* (《大地上的中国史：藏在地理里的历史》), and a traditional Chinese version has been published in Hong Kong. Several of my old works have been reprinted, including *Within the Four Seas: Forty Lectures on Chinese History* (《四海之内：中国历史四十讲》), published last year, which has sold nearly 30,000 copies, and *Long Flowing Water: Biography of Tan Qixiang* (《悠悠长水：谭其骧传》), which has also been well received by readers.
I published 5 academic papers, more than 20 newspaper and magazine articles and interviews. I recorded dozens of videos and audios, some of which have high click-through rates and readership.
I gave a keynote report at the 18th International Conference of Historical Geographers on "Historical Geographical Environment and Chinese Civilization" (历史地理环境与中华文明), attended an academic seminar at Washington University in St. Louis in the United States, gave a keynote speech at the 2025 "Great Rivers Dialogue" co-sponsored by UNESCO and the Wuhan Municipal People's Government (武汉市人民政府), and gave keynote reports at several forums. I was invited to Tunisia to participate in the International Book Fair and gave lectures and exchanges at the University of Carthage (迦太基大学) and other places. I gave more than 100 academic reports, lectures, talks, and dialogues in universities, libraries, museums, party and government departments, cultural and tourism departments, and middle schools.
I also enjoyed family life, vacationing with my family in Tahiti, Corsica, and other places.
During this year, I took 120 flights, traveled to 3 continents, 5 countries, and 26 cities, with a flight mileage of 206,208 kilometers. Of course, this is not my highest record. The data for 2019 is 133 times, 3 continents, 9 countries, 33 cities, and 291,269 kilometers. After all, I am 6 years older!
I turned 81 on December 15 this year. The next day, December 16, I attended the launch meeting of the *Historical Atlas of China* (《中国历史地图集》) revision work held by Fudan University, and my 81st year had a new beginning.
In October 1978, I became a graduate student of my late teacher Professor Tan Qixiang (谭其骧). In 1980, I became his assistant. In 1981, he began to preside over the revision of the *Historical Atlas of China*, preparing for public publication. I experienced the entire process of revision. On March 13, 1989, I accompanied him to Beijing (北京) to attend the "Celebration Conference for the Completion of the *Historical Atlas of China*" held by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社科院). I know that Mr. Tan was looking forward to the revision in the future. Due to historical limitations, the shortcomings left by the final version of the *Historical Atlas of China* could not be eliminated for a while. Therefore, the revision 40 years later is also to fulfill Mr. Tan's last wish. This work cannot be completed in the short term, so this new beginning will be followed by a relatively long period of time.
My original goal was to work normally until the age of 80 and work easily until the age of 85. Now the first goal has been perfectly achieved, but the second goal needs to be adjusted to working normally until the age of 85 or longer. With this year's achievements and self-feeling, I am fully confident to achieve it.
Untangling
Tao Yong (陶勇)
My 2025 has many unforgettable stories.
The lights in the ophthalmology clinic are always cold white, illuminating people with nowhere to hide.
That day, when the boy was brought in, I first saw his hands tied behind his back—bound with a coarse cloth strip, tied in a knot. The thin and short grandmother was pulling the boy's arm. The father was honest and kind, with a peaceful face. The child was about 10 years old, with a blank look in his eyes, as if he couldn't see anything. Ultrasound showed: bilateral retinal detachment.
During the examination, the child's eyeballs trembled slightly, like frightened small animals. Under the ophthalmoscope, the detached retina looked like wrinkled and soaked Xuan paper, and light and color had collapsed into shadows. The father murmured beside him: "If he is not tied up, he will rub hard, he took the initiative to ask to tie his hands..."
This child's darkness is twofold: the fog of inner intellect intertwined with the twilight of external vision. I tentatively asked where the child's mother was, and the father was stunned for a moment and replied: "Ran away." The faint light of the father's mobile phone screen appeared even weaker against the white background of the consulting room.
During the process of seeing the doctor, the father kept managing the "small yellow car" hanging under the short video. He operated a self-media account with the theme of funny entertainment, had millions of fans, and the online sales income was the family's source of livelihood. This really surprised me: How could the head of a family, who was invisibly bound by the shackles of fate, have the mood to "entertain"?
The boundaries of medicine are clear and blurred at this moment. What I can deal with is the lesion of the organ; what I am powerless to face is the rough rope of fate, tied in a knot. I did bilateral surgery on the child. Before the operation, hands were tied; during general anesthesia, hands were untied; after the operation, hands were tied. I am quite confident in the child's recovery of vision. After the child was discharged from the hospital, I followed his father's account, occasionally placed orders, bought some vitamin C, and shared it with friends around me. How can meager giving fill the huge expenditure? I often feel powerless.
When the child was discharged from the hospital, his eyes recovered very well. Perhaps because of wrist discomfort, he made a vague whimper in his throat. That sound was like the wind sealed in a jar. I remembered myself as a child, with my mind full of "sharpening my sword to watch the stars, walking the world with my sword." I, who was young and energetic, once thought that I was the sword that could pierce the darkness. Now, in middle age, having experienced the test of life and death, I agree more with the famous saying in *The Catcher in the Rye*: An immature idealist will die tragically for his ideals, while a mature idealist is willing to live in a compromising way for his ideals.
A month later, the father and grandmother brought the child back for a re-examination, bringing a brocade banner, which made me quite moved. A family in distress still appreciates the help of others, does not complain about fate, does not complain about life, and strives to manage life and face life with a smile.
As an ophthalmologist, I launched the "Light M Project" to keep the light in the eyes of the visually impaired. As a member of society, what we can do is to recognize those bound stars in the endless bondage, and then use professional, calm, but warm eyes to try to be a clumsy untangler.
Outside the window, the city's sky light still shines evenly, illuminating those hidden bonds. Every time a bond is untied, a little starlight rises, lighting up the night.
Continue to "Sing"
Feng Li (冯俐)
The wilderness of life often unfolds new scenery inadvertently. At the age of nearly 59, I left the China National Theatre for Children (中国儿童艺术剧院), where I had worked for 11 years, and was transferred to the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater (中国歌剧舞剧院) as the president. For me, it is both a turn and a return to the team.
Soon after taking office, I ushered in the preparation for the literary and artistic evening *Justice Will Prevail* to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. In major cultural events such as celebrating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, I have always served as the core creator, and this time, I became the "general coordinator"—behind the art, learning how to hold up a solemn collective expression. What moved me the most was seeing thousands of young people in their 80s and 90s, who used their talents and enthusiasm to express their sincerity to history. At that moment, I deeply felt that the baton of art was being quietly passed on.
Like a handshake with history, the revival of the two major plays of the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater—the national opera *The White-Haired Girl* (《白毛女》) and *Xiao Erhei's Marriage* (《小二黑结婚》)—made me deeply understand the mission of inheriting and developing Chinese national opera and national dance drama. On the 80th anniversary of the premiere of the opera *The White-Haired Girl*, we strive to let more young people walk into the theater and let the classics shine in the face of youth. The newly created dance drama *Farewell at Chuihong: Tang Yin* (《垂虹别意·唐寅》) is like a breeze, depicting the fate of the characters with delicate brushstrokes. Since its premiere in November, it has traveled to many parts of the country and received warm responses from the audience.
Saying goodbye is always difficult, especially saying goodbye to children's drama, to which I have devoted 11 years of hard work. Thankfully, at the moment of parting, children's drama gave me the most generous "reward": the children's song and dance drama *Cat God in the Forbidden City* (《猫神在故宫》), which I wrote, made the distant history become kind and perceptible in the eyes of children. This play successively won the "One Drama Award" for the best original script of the year at the Shanghai Jing'an Drama Festival and the "Wenhua Drama Award" at the 18th Wenhua Award. What surprised and moved me even more was that the Subotica International Children's Theater Festival in Serbia awarded me the "Little Prince" Lifetime Achievement Award, held a personal achievement exhibition for me, and invited me to serve as an international judge. When I saw Chinese children's drama being seen so solemnly by the world, and recalling the 50 or so children's dramas of different styles that I led everyone to create in the past 11 years, I felt sincere comfort in that reluctance.
At the end of the year, the fairy tale musical *The Nightingale* (《夜莺》) that I left to the China National Theatre for Children was grandly opened. There are a few lines in the play: "I sing, the beauty of all things; I sing, the hope that never goes out; I sing, not for anyone; I sing, for everyone..." This is also what I, a literary and art worker who has been walking on the road of art for more than 40 years, want to say the most. I will continue to "sing" in the ranks of children's drama, in the ranks of opera, in the ranks of dance drama, and in the ranks of building a strong cultural country...
Let Life Have Light
Liang Hong (梁鸿)
Looking back on 2025, the most important thing for me is the publication of *Let There Be Light* (《要有光》).
It has been nearly 5 years from the decision to write *Let There Be Light* to now. Readers who are familiar with the "Liang Village" trilogy may be very "surprised" how the subject matter has changed from rural to adolescent psychology? But for me, it is the natural progress of life and writing. In the "Liang Village" series, I wrote about many children, and they have always been in my heart, becoming the softest part.
As my own children slowly grow up, I have experienced many confused moments in the process of raising them, and I have felt a wider range of unease in the process of chatting with other parents. With the rapid development of Chinese society, people's family awareness is also rapidly improving, and everyone is beginning to pay attention to the growth, development, and future life of their children. But new problems arise. How to love children, what values to use to cultivate children, and how to make children grow up healthier have become issues we must think about.
I focused my writing on those children who dropped out of school due to emotional distress, stayed at home on leave, and struggled on the verge of dropping out. I wanted to walk into their inner world and see how they think about themselves and how they view their parents, schools, and society. I want to find out where we missed the children, so that our love and their love passed each other by. Finally, I want to find out: In the depths of our daily behavior and social concepts, how many habitual behaviors that we are not aware of are hidden, and how do they run counter to our love for our children and become the origin of the problem. Finally, return to an essential question: What is love? How should we love? Why can't we get along with the people we love the most?
For a full 3 years, I lived with children and some families, slowly became friends, and listened to their inner voices. I discussed the children's conditions with psychological counselors and psychiatrists, and analyzed the contradictions and possibilities of education with school teachers and principals. I felt the possibility of mutual calls and mutual responses, felt the resilience of life, and saw how children save themselves and how parents reflect on themselves, which greatly encouraged me.
Since the publication of *Let There Be Light*, what has moved me the most is the feedback from readers. Some readers organize their own book clubs to read this book and discuss how to build new relationships with children and themselves. I have also received many messages and letters from readers, carefully sorting out the sources of their emotional distress, their thoughts on the future, and how to get out. Some government departments have also taken action to establish family-centered psychological counseling centers and hold regular psychological lectures. Some schools organize essay activities with the theme of "Let There Be Light" in the hope that children will speak their minds.
On December 12 this year, I did a sharing event in Shenzhen (深圳). When I was signing books at the end, a reader gave me two Shatin pomelos and said, "You bring light to the children, and I bring you the fragrance of Shatin pomelos." There was warm applause from the audience, and everyone was laughing. The laughter was bright and warm. Now, these two golden pomelos are on my desk, exuding a charming fragrance.
I think this is the meaning of "seeing" and "listening." Seeing each other and listening to each other, in this process, we feel the existence of love and feel the meaning and value of life.
Let life have light, illuminate others, and illuminate yourself.
The Child Grew Up
Zhou Min (周敏)
On November 20, 2025, in the evening, the China Writers Association (中国作协) held the 12th National Excellent Children's Literature Award Ceremony in Changsha (长沙), which was broadcast simultaneously on Hunan Satellite TV (湖南卫视) and other platforms. The organizer produced a short video in advance for preheating, one of which was a "collective appearance" of the hosts, guests, and award-winning writers attending the award ceremony.
At more than 9:00 a.m. on the 20th, I received a message from Teacher Jin Bo (金波), and the content was a screenshot of the introduction at the end of the short video. As early as the day when *Hutong Also Has Childhood* (《胡同也有小时候》) appeared on the award-winning list, Teacher Jin had congratulated me in writing. This time, the method was so unique, it was really a surprise! Because I had liked this video, my name "Zhou Min·Beijing Child" appeared at the bottom of the screenshot. Seeing the remarks Teacher Jin added to me in WeChat, a warm current surged into my heart. I thought that only Teacher Jin Bo could have such remarks. On the one hand, it was because I had created the novel *Beijing Child* (《北京小孩》), and on the other hand, it was also because in his eyes, I was always a "child."
I have known Teacher Jin Bo for more than 30 years. When we first met, I was still in my early 20s. After I started writing children's literature, Teacher Jin once attended my work seminar, and I still remember his opening remarks: "I watched Zhou Min grow up." Teacher Jin is not only my mentor on the road of literature, but also like a kind elder, always paying attention to my growth.
Speaking of being regarded as a "child" by Teacher Jin Bo, I am sometimes quite unconvinced: "Old child, little child, who knows who is more mature than the other." This is by no means groundless, but based on my actual observations.
Speaking of being regarded as a "child" by Teacher Jin Bo (金波), I sometimes feel unconvinced: "Old child, young child, who knows which of us is more mature." This is not an unfounded statement, but based on my actual observations.
Teacher Jin Bo (金波) has been engaged in children's literature creation for more than 60 years, and some of his works have been selected into primary and secondary school Chinese textbooks. For the convenience of life, he moved into a retirement community. Despite his advanced age, he is not "idle" at all. Before moving in, he prepared an insect net and a cricket cage; after settling down, he not only continued to grow flowers and plants, but also adopted a small turtle. Every time I visit Teacher Jin (金老师), he introduces them to me carefully, talking about these "little partners." From his words, I can taste the excitement of a child, and his clear and bright eyes show me a "childlike innocence."
I was thinking of being "naughty" and sending Teacher Jin (金老师) a message saying "Aren't you also a child?", but I received another message from him first: "You have grown up." Looking at these four words, I felt the affirmation of a senior in the literary world, and also the comfort of an "elder in the family."
I want to reply to Teacher Jin (金老师) with another message: "I want to learn from you and grow up slowly."
The Walking Tree
Wang Jibing (王计兵)
Looking back on this year, I have been to many places and seen many trees.
Unlike the north, where leaves fall all over the ground overnight, in the Jiangnan (江南) region where I live, the leaves fall one by one in winter. On the shore, willow leaves are like fish, jumping from the water to the shore one by one. Compared with Jiangnan (江南), I prefer the trees in the north, which sprout when they should sprout and shed their leaves when they should shed their leaves.
In the Great Northwest, I have seen a kind of tree called the "decapitated willow." Because there is not enough water for the tree to grow, the willows have to cut off their crowns again and again to reduce their dependence on water. That is a tragic bravery.
Also a willow tree, the willows in Jiangnan (江南) are much more calm. As long as you break off a section of willow branch and insert it on the bank of the water, the willow branch will re-sprout and grow, and it will tell you that life is so simple.
If I were to be a willow tree, I would rather be a decapitated willow, but as a weak person, I lack that kind of unwavering determination.
Since I started writing in 1988, I have often compared myself to some kind of tree: elm, locust, sycamore... But I always feel that these trees lack some kind of spiritual契合 (qì hé - "agreement," matching) with the desires deep in my life.
Not long ago, my poetry won the "Huadi Literature Award" (花地文学奖). When I went to Guangzhou (广州) to receive the award, I met a kind of tree - the banyan tree. I have never seen a tree so thick but without any rules. A tree constantly possesses roots, and these roots are like thick ropes, entwined together, forming an incredibly thick trunk. I asked people what use such a thick trunk could be put to? The answer was: no use.
But the banyan tree looks like a natural work of art. A tree is covered with roots. These roots float freely in the air, dry and lifeless, as if all it takes is a match to turn a tree into a huge torch, of course this is just my imagination. However, don't underestimate these tiny roots, as long as they come into contact with the soil, they will firmly grasp the earth and form new trunks. Even as a tree, the banyan tree never gives up walking, as long as it is given soil, it will continue to take root forward. Even if it cannot become a talent, it does not give up making itself constantly thicker.
Since encountering the banyan tree, I have found my spiritual home. If I can live as a tree, I must live as a banyan tree. I am willing to shed the glitz and be a simple, down-to-earth person, taking root step by step, and making continuous rooting a mission of life.
The Innovative Vitality is Like the Dawn on the Horizon
Lin Junmin (林俊敏)
Time flies, and it's the end of the year again. At this time last year, I joined Shantou University (汕头大学), and since then I have started a huge identity transformation, from an author to a teacher. Having been writing for 20 years, I naturally hope that my experience can be passed on, so I have guided several students in their creation. To continue writing for a long time, we must find a new literary trend. So I guided my students to enter the emerging field of micro-short dramas, which combines the story core of online literature with the communication logic of short videos, and its fast-paced narrative is a breakthrough for traditional literature. I thought this trend could last for two or three years, but I underestimated the speed of change! In August and September, it suddenly turned, and in October, comic dramas rose, and the real impact followed - AI is here.
In the past six months, in the words of a friend: "The industry is not shuffling the cards, but overturning the table." In November, the traffic structure of major platforms changed suddenly, and the "dragon" of AI live-action dramas emerged from the water.
That night, I received a call from my junior sister, inviting me to participate in an AI live-action drama project. I questioned whether the technology was mature, and she laughed: "We have already run through the entire process and completed the construction of the live-action AI workflow." The AI live-action workflow iterates once every two weeks, and now only three and a half people are needed to form a complete crew: 3 AI engineers control the workflow through prompts, and the leader of the 3 people essentially assumes the role of director; and that "half person" is responsible for editing for multiple groups at the same time. Such a crew can complete more than 100 minutes of production in a month. In the past, crews with dozens or even hundreds or thousands of people are now solved by three and a half people.
The significant reduction in production costs means a lower threshold for creation, which means the transfer of film and television production rights. In the past, young people who were daunted by technical and financial barriers will have the opportunity to realize their film and television dreams in the future. It is foreseeable that AI film and television creation will become as free as online literature creation.
At the same time, the popularization of AI technology also means that special effects technology is no longer expensive. In the past ten years, film and television production has been avoiding various grand scenes due to cost and cycle issues, and this difficulty may also be solved. The popularization of special effects technology will allow those imaginative ideas to be visually presented. The output efficiency of the industry will be increased by a hundred times, and in the future, China's cultural products will be produced at a speed that will lead the world.
The arrival of every technological revolution reconstructs the cultural ecology. Now our story reserves (massive online literature stories) and technical support (AI live-action workflow) are in place, and next, we are only waiting for creators to seize the opportunity. The innovative vitality is like the dawn on the horizon, 不可阻挡 (bù kě zǔ dǎng - "unstoppable," impossible to resist or obstruct).
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