Summary: Xi Jinping stressed the importance of proactively planning and developing future industries during the 24th Politburo collective study session, emphasizing their significance for national strength and rejuvenation. Xi called for focusing on key areas for future industrial development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, enhancing strategic foresight in cutting-edge technologies, and promoting coordinated industrial development. He highlighted the need to leverage China's system to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies and promote enterprise innovation. Xi also emphasized the importance of supportive policies, risk management, and international cooperation to foster future industries. No US or US-China relations were mentioned in the article.
Summary: Xi Jinping's upcoming *Qiushi* article will emphasize the need to build a "financial superpower" with "Chinese characteristics," distinct from Western models, by strengthening the Party's leadership and focusing on serving the real economy. The article outlines key elements of a financial superpower, including a strong currency, central bank, financial institutions, international financial center, regulatory system, and talent pool. To achieve this, the article calls for constructing a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics, focusing on regulation, market structure, and infrastructure. The article also stresses the importance of a unique Chinese financial culture rooted in traditional values and ethical conduct, promoting honesty, integrity, prudence and innovation that supports the real economy.
Summary: President Xi Jinping and Algerian President Tebboune exchanged congratulatory messages on the successful launch of Algeria's Remote Sensing Satellite-3 from Jiuquan. Xi highlighted the project as another successful Sino-Algerian cooperation in aerospace, following the Algerian Communication Satellite-1, and a key indicator of their comprehensive strategic partnership. He expressed his desire to work with Tebboune to enhance the bilateral relationship, emphasizing the fruitful practical cooperation between the two countries. Tebboune affirmed the launch as a milestone in bilateral relations and expressed Algeria's desire to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights China's advancements in agricultural machinery, particularly the increasing use of domestically produced drones for tasks like crop protection and transportation, contributing to a comprehensive mechanization rate of 76.7%. It notes efforts to improve the reliability and sophistication of domestic machinery, including overcoming key technological challenges in high-horsepower tractors and addressing needs in previously underserved hilly regions. The piece emphasizes a collaborative approach between research, production, and application, including the establishment of testing grounds for new machinery. Governmental support through subsidies and service networks aims to ensure farmers can access and utilize advanced equipment, improving overall agricultural productivity. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Tianjin is expanding its "credit instead of certification" (信用代证) system to streamline business operations by using a unified credit report to replace various certificates from multiple departments. The "Credit Instead of Certification 3.0" initiative aims to reduce transaction costs by focusing on verifying the qualification, credit history, and relationships of market entities. This system now covers both businesses and individuals and has expanded to include cross-regional recognition with Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and Shanxi, allowing for a single report to replace multiple regional certifications. This expansion relies on the integration of vast amounts of data from various government departments and levels. Yang Liquan from Tianjin's Development and Reform Commission stated that the goal is to improve the system from "universally applicable" to "precisely tailored."
Summary: Shanghai launched a "Come to Pudong, Celebrate the New Year" event series running until March. The events include traditional cultural activities like iron fireworks and fish lantern parades along the Huangpu River. To celebrate the Lunar New Year, Shanghai will host 2,570 events encompassing festivals, performances, and exhibitions. The goal is to promote traditional Chinese culture and integrate cultural tourism, commerce, sports, and exhibitions, creating a festive atmosphere for residents and visitors staying in Shanghai for the holiday.
Summary: In 2025, China's high-tech product exports reached 5.25 trillion yuan, a 13.2% increase, with the "new three" (新能源汽车、锂电池、光伏产品) exports rising by 27.1%. Qinghai Province experienced a 41.9% export growth, with lithium batteries accounting for nearly half of the total. Qinghai FD Battery Co., Ltd. achieved significant export growth, with products going to Belt and Road countries and ASEAN markets; the company improved its products to meet the demands of the ASEAN market. Local government and railway authorities helped the company expand transportation options to ease shipping; Qinghai province's green energy infrastructure supports the export of lithium batteries. Qinghai plans to further strengthen its lithium battery industry chain to boost exports.
Summary: Despite a complex global trade environment marked by rising unilateralism and geopolitical risks, China's foreign trade demonstrated resilience in 2025, exceeding 45 trillion yuan with a 3.8% increase. Challenges remain for Chinese firms in key technologies, international branding, and adapting to international rules, necessitating strengthened supply chain resilience. To sustain growth in 2026, Chinese firms should prioritize technological innovation and explore diverse markets like ASEAN and Belt and Road countries, while the government should foster digital and green trade and improve trade facilitation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In 2025, China's fiscal revenue declined by 1.7% compared to 2024, totaling 21.6 trillion yuan, although most regions experienced revenue growth. Government spending increased by 1%, with significant increases in social security, education, and healthcare. The Ministry of Finance allocated special treasury bonds to support consumer spending and initiated pilot programs for new consumption models in 65 cities. Furthermore, the government supported grain production through high-standard farmland construction and black soil protection. The "zero tariff" system in Hainan Free Trade Port spurred economic growth, with increased goods imports and foreign investment.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice to improve the capacity pricing mechanism for power generation. The notice refines the existing capacity pricing mechanisms for coal, gas, and pumped hydro storage, and establishes a capacity pricing mechanism for independent new energy storage on the grid side for the first time at the national level. This aims to address issues like declining coal power generation hours and inconsistent gas and new energy storage pricing across regions. The new policy is designed to ensure power supply stability, promote renewable energy consumption, and has no impact on residential or agricultural electricity prices. The policy seeks to build a new power system and better ensure users’ electricity demands.
Summary: This article reports on tourism in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, noting its popularity as a winter destination. It anticipates a peak in tourist arrivals during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday. No individuals are mentioned, nor is there any discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights China's advancements in agricultural machinery, emphasizing the increasing use of domestically produced drones and other equipment to enhance agricultural productivity. It notes the development of advanced machinery like 300-horsepower tractors and high-speed planters, breaking foreign monopolies and addressing challenges in hilly regions. The piece details government support through subsidies and the establishment of testing grounds to accelerate the development and application of new agricultural technologies. Ji Mingfeng of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, they will continue to promote technological innovation and achievement transformation, and continuously shorten the research and development application cycle of agricultural machinery. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China successfully launched Algeria's Remote Sensing Satellite-3B (AlSat-3B) via a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The satellite, intended for land planning and disaster mitigation, was placed into its planned orbit. This launch marks the 629th flight of the Long March rocket series. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) held a press conference announcing the fifth batch of typical cases in livestreaming e-commerce regulation, signaling a "regulation promotes development" approach. SAMR is establishing a "penetrating regulation system" to address complex legal relationships in livestreaming e-commerce, improving "human, material, and technical defense" capabilities for precise governance. This includes building a database of livestreaming entities and piloting commodity QR code verification to strengthen platform and producer accountability. SAMR is also pushing for the establishment of a monitoring information system for livestreaming e-commerce to conduct cross-monitoring of high-risk activities and promote penetrating regulatory pilot programs.
Summary: The 2026 Xiong'an New Area "Artificial Intelligence +" Innovation Ecology Series of events opened on January 31st, featuring the release of the "LimiX" data model developed by Tsinghua University and Wenzhun Intelligent (Xiong'an) Technology Co. The LimiX model, designed for structured data, aims to provide solutions for the intelligent transformation of industries like manufacturing, energy, and transportation. The event also announced the launch of the Xiong'an New Area's AI training ecosystem, focused on addressing talent shortages. Xiong'an New Area intends to continuously build a fusion ecosystem of "data models + industrial clusters."
Summary: Chinese companies are participating in the second phase of Morocco's high-speed rail project, constructing tunnels, bridges, and roadbeds. Mohammed VI, the King of Morocco, called the Rabat high-speed rail tunnel a landmark project in Morocco's modernization. Chinese firms are working with local partners, integrating Chinese technology and expertise with Moroccan market resources. The project is expected to create jobs and stimulate economic development in the regions it serves. Chinese companies are also engaging in community projects such as road repair and drainage construction.
Summary: According to Roger Kornberg, Chairman of the World Laureates Association (WLA) and Nobel laureate, the WLA will host a summit in Dubai focusing on "Basic Science: Addressing the Challenges of Humanity's Future." Kornberg emphasizes China's growing importance in global science due to its strategic choices and advancements in areas like AI and materials science. He also highlighted China's support for the WLA and its commitment to promoting international scientific cooperation, referencing congratulatory messages from Xi Jinping. The summit aims to promote open science and ensure AI development contributes to human progress. The article does not mention the United States or US-China relations.
Summary: Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei addressed foreign journalists and diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' New Year Reception, emphasizing China's commitment to global stability and shared destiny. He highlighted China's role in providing certainty, opportunity, and responsibility amidst global challenges. Hong encouraged journalists to report objectively on China's modernization and its mutually beneficial relationships with other countries. The event, co-hosted with the Beijing Municipal Government, included a concert following the reception. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this report.
Summary: Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou will conduct a state visit to China from February 1st to 7th at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Lacalle Pou, who previously served as Governor of Canelones, was elected president in November 2024 and will take office in March 2025.
Summary: Former Thai Education Minister Suchat, who also goes by the Chinese name Zhang Guotai, emphasized the vital role of Chinese language education in strengthening Thailand-China relations and promoting cultural exchange. Suchat, a dedicated student of Chinese at the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University, highlighted the expansion of Chinese language programs throughout Thai schools, facilitated by Chinese volunteer teachers. He believes Chinese language skills are increasingly important for Thais, especially in the context of China's growing influence. Suchat underscored the importance of Chinese education in facilitating cooperation and shared progress between the two nations, referencing his own engagement with Chinese culture and history. He did not mention U.S.-China relations or the United States.
Summary: During UK Prime Minister Starmer's visit to China, China and the UK signed multiple cooperation documents in the economic and trade fields. According to a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson, the two countries signed four economic and trade documents on January 29, focusing on trade in goods, trade in services, and the construction of economic and trade mechanisms to further deepen Sino-British economic and trade relations. The agreements include a memorandum on "Export to China" cooperation, making the UK the first country to sign such a memorandum. China has invited the UK to be one of the annual theme countries for the "Shared Market, Export to China" initiative.
Summary: A CCP delegation led by CASS President Gao Xiang visited Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan from January 27-31. Gao promoted the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CCP Central Committee and held an unveiling ceremony for the "Xi Jinping's Works Bookstore". He met with Kyrgyz leaders including Speaker Turunbek-Uulu, State Secretary Koichiev, and Deputy Prime Minister Baysalov, as well as Uzbek leaders including First Deputy Chairman Safayev, Deputy Speaker Khakimov, and Presidential Advisor Umurzakov. Both countries praised the Fourth Plenary Session and expressed interest in deepening governance experience exchange and aligning development strategies to promote a shared future for mankind.
Summary: A China-Vietnam youth science and technology exchange took place in Guangxi's Pingxiang city on January 31st, centered on the theme of "Technology Hand-in-Hand, Friendship Together." The event involved visits to smart ports, AI practice sessions, and interactive technology projects. The activities were designed to strengthen ties between the youth of both countries. The event featured interaction with AI robots.
Summary: Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi attended the inauguration ceremony of a Chinese-invested graphite processing plant in Niassa Province, praising it as a concrete result of China-Mozambique economic and trade cooperation. Nyusi stated the plant will help Mozambique shift from exporting raw materials to exporting higher value-added products, creating jobs and boosting economic development. The plant, invested in by the Jinan YuXiao Group, has a planned annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of graphite with a total investment of $150 million.
Summary: Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of cultivating and developing future industries, including 3D printing, for technological advancement and modernization. The article highlights applications of 3D printing in various sectors, including medical devices like ultra-thin dental veneers developed through collaboration between Chongqing Mofang Precision Technology and Peking University, architecture as seen in the "Xiongan Wing" project utilizing 3D-printed components, and ceramic arts in Jingdezhen. The use of 3D printing enables greater precision, customization, and sustainability in these industries. The "Xiongan Wing" project is listed as a "14th Five-Year Plan" national key research and development project, demonstrating the integration of smart and green construction technologies. By fostering collaboration between academia and industry, 3D printing is facilitating innovation and expanding the boundaries of traditional crafts.
Summary: The China Media Group's 2026 Spring Festival Gala successfully completed its third rehearsal, featuring the first integrated rehearsals with the four branch venues in Harbin, Yiwu, Hefei, and Yibin. The main venue will feature innovative performances blending traditional Chinese elements with modern technology, including AI-generated visuals and interactive stage design. Branch venues will showcase local cultural elements, such as trade in Yiwu, scientific displays in Hefei, and folk customs in Yibin. There is no mention of the United States in the article.
Summary: The 18th National Socialist Academies Presidents Conference on January 31st reported that in 2025, the Central Socialist Academy (CSA) held a record 184 training sessions, an increase of 30% year-on-year, training 13,500 individuals and achieving full coverage of 12 categories of United Front work targets. Training for representatives of the private sector increased 140% and new social strata by 170%. Since 2016, the CSA has trained nearly 90,000 representatives from various United Front fields, while provincial academies have trained over 1.1 million. The CSA will launch activities to celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2026.
Summary: Chinese player Zhang Shuai, partnered with Belgian player Mertens, won the Australian Open women's doubles title. This marks Zhang's third Grand Slam women's doubles title. In wheelchair tennis, Li Xiaohui won her first Grand Slam singles title. Additionally, the Chinese duo Wang Ziying and Li Xiaohui defended their wheelchair tennis women's doubles title.
Summary: The 2026 "Qinhu Bay Winter Fishing" event was held in Jiangyan District, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province on January 31st. The event attracted citizens and tourists. The article does not mention any political figures, U.S. relations, or policy announcements.
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Summary: The article highlights the burgeoning low-altitude economy in China and its appeal to young professionals. It profiles several young individuals working in the field, including a drone swarm choreography planner, a drone delivery engineer focused on emergency medical transport, a product manager for passenger drones, and a flight test engineer for specialized drone applications. These young professionals emphasize the industry's rapid development, the importance of continuous learning, and the satisfaction derived from contributing to this emerging sector. They also mention the increasing demand for domestic performances and overseas opportunities. The article frames the low-altitude economy as a promising field for young people to shape the future, which includes both engineering and policy work.
Summary: This article discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by China's burgeoning low-altitude economy. It highlights the sector's potential for youth employment and innovation across various roles, from R&D to implementation of new technologies. The piece emphasizes the need for skilled, adaptable young professionals to meet the demands of this rapidly evolving industry. The article also suggests that China's low-altitude economy requires that China's youth be innovative to face the evolving challenges.
Summary: The article discusses the increasing trend of "reverse reunions" (反向团圆) among Chinese youth during the Spring Festival. Instead of returning to their hometowns, young people are inviting their parents to their cities or taking them on trips. This trend is driven by a desire for more relaxed and meaningful family time, avoiding the pressures and obligations often associated with traditional hometown gatherings. This new form allows the younger generation to create a more relaxing holiday for their parents. The article emphasizes that the core of the reunion remains the same: familial love and companionship.
Summary: Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) students are participating in practical activities ("返家乡”, “红色研学”, “基层服务”) in revolutionary areas, defense frontlines, and rural areas. BIT Deputy Party Secretary Yang Fan stated that the university will deepen the "mobile ideological and political education class" system, forming a practical education chain throughout the year. The university has created a "local issue, youth answer" mechanism to connect students with real-world problems, ensuring that each project is closely linked to "real needs, real problems, and real actions." A team from BIT developed a weeding robot to increase efficiency for farmers, demonstrating the university's commitment to applying knowledge to practical solutions. These activities transform students from learners into practitioners, fostering a sense of national mission.
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Summary: The article discusses the PLA Navy's Honghe warship, which inherited the honorific title of "Maritime Tiger Boat," emphasizing its commitment to upholding the traditions of loyalty and valor. It highlights the ship's modernization and expanded mission from coastal defense to distant sea escort, including participation in anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden. The piece stresses the importance of political education and maintaining the original aspiration of absolute loyalty to the Party amidst technological advancements. It also mentions that the ship successfully rescued a cargo ship in the Red Sea. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A national conscription video conference was held on January 15th, initiating the annual recruitment drive focused on enlisting college students and graduates to improve troop quality. The recruitment aims to attract patriotic young people to serve and contribute their talents to the military. The article emphasizes that military service cultivates willpower, patriotism, and provides a platform for individuals to develop their skills. It encourages youth to contribute to national defense by linking personal aspirations to the country's future. The article did not contain any discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article recounts a soldier's experience in the People's Armed Police (PAP) from initial struggles to becoming a squad leader and officer. After struggling initially, the soldier was inspired by the history and honor of the "Sharp Knife Eight Company" to improve his physical fitness and Mandarin skills. He then succeeded to become a training leader, and was eventually accepted into military academy. Now graduated, he has returned to the same unit as a platoon leader, committed to defending the frontier.
Summary: PLA's 78th Group Army conducted winter field training exercises in frigid conditions in northern Xinjiang. The drills tested troop coordination, logistical support, and continuous combat capabilities, accumulating valuable experience for actual combat in cold regions. Soldiers practiced camouflage, rapid donning of gas masks, and equipment operation in sub-zero temperatures, recording equipment performance data under extreme conditions. The training aimed to improve the troops' ability to perform diverse tasks in complex battlefield environments. The exercises focused on turning harsh winter conditions into a "sharpening stone" for combat readiness.
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Summary: The article highlights the importance of reading and its impact on personal growth, professional development, and societal values, particularly in light of the new "National Reading Promotion Regulations." Several authors share personal anecdotes of how reading shaped their lives, careers, and understanding of Chinese culture. Tian Qinxin, the director of the National Theatre of China, discusses how reading traditional Chinese literature and philosophy has influenced her theatrical work and her desire to promote Chinese dramatic style. Other authors also mentioned reading helping them understand Chinese culture and better themselves.
Summary: The author, a professor at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, argues that despite the challenges posed by short videos and readily available information, reading remains crucial for personal growth and development. They emphasize the importance of cultivating "reading appreciation" (阅读鉴赏力), particularly through classic texts, to navigate the modern information landscape and avoid the pitfalls of algorithmic filtering. The author believes that classic literature provides a foundation for critical thinking and allows one to make informed choices in the digital age. By engaging with classic literature, people can avoid falling victim to "information cocoons" (信息茧房) and open up the chance for a more profound life. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A recent popular art exhibition at the Zhejiang Art Museum has sparked debate within the industry about the balance between short-term popularity and long-term cultural impact. The article argues that while "blockbuster" exhibitions can drive innovation and expand audiences, an overemphasis on them risks sacrificing originality, depth, and the core mission of art museums to preserve cultural heritage and promote aesthetic education. The article warns against the trend of prioritizing spectacle and social media appeal over genuine artistic engagement, potentially leading to a decline in public aesthetic appreciation and critical thinking. It advocates for a slower, more deliberate approach to curation, emphasizing the importance of building strong collections, conducting thorough research, and fostering meaningful experiences for viewers. The piece does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the challenges and opportunities facing traditional Chinese arts and crafts education in the digital age. It emphasizes the importance of preserving the "hand-made temperature" and "craftsman spirit" while integrating new technologies like AI and big data. The piece argues that technology should assist in understanding and refining cultural essence, not replace human creativity and aesthetic judgment. Ultimately, the article advocates for cultivating talent with both artistic and technological skills to promote innovation and adapt to modern needs, building a new aesthetic order and cultural ecology. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The artwork "Twelve Months Order - December" depicts a scene of winter life in ancient China, showcasing the unique order and warmth of the season. Instead of portraying a bustling festive atmosphere, it captures the anticipation of the upcoming new year. The painting emphasizes the social aspect of winter, where people gather for warmth and support. It highlights the ancient Chinese wisdom of living in harmony with nature and finding joy in simple activities. The warm color palette and detailed brushwork create a serene and evocative image, reflecting the beauty of winter and the hope for renewal.
Summary: As the Year of the Horse approaches, a new wave of zodiac-themed designs are emerging in China, imbuing traditional culture with modern spirit through stamps, logos, and commemorative coins. Designers are exploring modern expressions and cultural reflections, emphasizing the horse's symbolism of strength, courage, progress, and vitality with contemporary aesthetics. The designs highlight not only individual heroism but also the importance of collective effort and unity for national development. Some designs like the UN postal administration's horse year stamp, are using modern illustrations and printmaking techniques to convey universally relatable power and cultural symbolism to an international audience. These artistic endeavors aim to connect with the spirit of the times, emphasizing balanced and sustainable development.
Summary: A joint project between the Beijing Fine Art Academy and the Shandong Art Museum, titled "Qi Baishi in Shandong," explores the influence of Shandong province on Qi Baishi's art, despite the artist never having visited the region. The project features an exhibition of Qi Baishi's work alongside pieces from his Shandong disciples, highlighting themes of inheritance and innovation. The exhibition utilizes digital technology to immerse viewers in Qi Baishi's artistic world and incorporates interactive elements like replica letters. The project aims to integrate art with tourism and cultural heritage, extending beyond museum walls into urban areas and contemporary life through various events and cultural products. It is the first time Qi Baishi's art has been systematically linked at the provincial level.
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Summary: This text provides contact information for a specific publication at the People's Daily newspaper. It lists the email address for submissions ("msfk@peopledaily.cn") and credits the page design to Zhang Danfeng. There is no discussion of Chinese politics, statements by officials, or U.S.-China relations within this excerpt.
A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, with cutting-edge technologies emerging and leading and supporting the rapid rise of future industries. We must stand at the strategic height of promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, base ourselves on objective conditions, give play to comparative advantages, adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, cultivate in a gradient manner, and promote the continuous achievement of new breakthroughs in the development of China's future industries.
Cultivating and developing future industries is of great significance for seizing the commanding heights of science and technology and industry, grasping the initiative of development, developing new quality productive forces, building a modern industrial system, improving the quality of people's lives, and promoting the all-round development of people and all-round social progress. In recent years, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to this, strengthened policy support, and promoted the development of future industries, showing a good momentum.
Future industries have the characteristics of being forward-looking, strategic, and disruptive, requiring scientific planning and overall coordination. We must focus on the main direction of China's future industrial development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, scientifically demonstrate the technical route, and enhance the strategic forecasting ability of cutting-edge technologies. We must comprehensively consider national strategic needs, technological maturity, factor support conditions, and other factors, and develop in a differentiated manner according to local conditions. We must strengthen industrial synergy and promote the mutual complementation of future industries with emerging and traditional industries.
The degree of technological breakthrough largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development. We must give full play to the advantages of the new type of national system, adhere to the principle of "industry posing the questions, science and technology answering them," increase efforts to tackle key core technologies in key areas, strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, and accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements.
The rise of many future industries is driven by enterprises making breakthroughs step by step. We must give play to the main role of enterprises, promote the concentration of various innovation resources towards enterprises, vigorously cultivate leading technology enterprises and high-tech enterprises with leading core technologies and strong innovation capabilities, and lead the industry to move towards the forefront and high-end fields.
The cultivation cycle of future industries is long and the market risk is high, so policy support is needed, and the government should provide good services. We must improve fiscal and tax policies, vigorously develop science and technology finance, do a good job in talent cultivation, introduction, and use in an all-round way, and create a strong atmosphere of encouraging innovation in the whole society.
The development of future industries involves a wide range of areas, and a sound governance system must be established. We must coordinate development and security, explore scientific and effective regulatory methods, prevent relevant risks, and ensure that we can both "let go" and "manage well." We must deepen international cooperation and actively promote the joint construction of standards, the joint discussion of rules, and the joint promotion of industries by all parties. Leading cadres at all levels must strengthen their learning of cutting-edge scientific and technological knowledge and strive to know technology, understand industry, and be good at decision-making.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), January 31st. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) held its 24th collective study on the prospective layout and development of future industries on the afternoon of January 30th. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, emphasized when presiding over the study that a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, with cutting-edge technologies emerging and leading and supporting the rapid rise of future industries. We must stand at the strategic height of promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, base ourselves on objective conditions, give play to comparative advantages, adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, cultivate in a gradient manner, and promote the continuous achievement of new breakthroughs in the development of China's future industries.
Yu Xiaohui (余晓晖), from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信息通信研究院), gave an explanation on this issue and put forward work suggestions. The comrades of the Central Political Bureau (中央政治局) listened carefully to the explanation and conducted discussions.
Xi Jinping (习近平) made an important speech after listening to the explanation and discussion. He pointed out that cultivating and developing future industries is of great significance for seizing the commanding heights of science and technology and industry, grasping the initiative of development, developing new quality productive forces, building a modern industrial system, improving the quality of people's lives, and promoting the all-round development of people and all-round social progress. In recent years, the Party Central Committee (党中央) has attached great importance to this, strengthened policy support, and promoted the development of future industries, showing a good momentum.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that future industries have the characteristics of being forward-looking, strategic, and disruptive, requiring scientific planning and overall coordination. We must focus on the main direction of China's future industrial development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, scientifically demonstrate the technical route, and enhance the strategic forecasting ability of cutting-edge technologies. We must comprehensively consider national strategic needs, technological maturity, factor support conditions, and other factors, and develop in a differentiated manner according to local conditions. We must strengthen industrial synergy and promote the mutual complementation of future industries with emerging and traditional industries.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the degree of technological breakthrough largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development. We must give full play to the advantages of the new type of national system, adhere to the principle of "industry posing the questions, science and technology answering them," increase efforts to tackle key core technologies in key areas, strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, and accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the rise of many future industries is driven by enterprises making breakthroughs step by step. We must give play to the main role of enterprises, promote the concentration of various innovation resources towards enterprises, vigorously cultivate leading technology enterprises and high-tech enterprises with leading core technologies and strong innovation capabilities, and lead the industry to move towards the forefront and high-end fields.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the cultivation cycle of future industries is long and the market risk is high, so policy support is needed, and the government should provide good services. We must improve fiscal and tax policies, vigorously develop science and technology finance, do a good job in talent cultivation, introduction, and use in an all-round way, and create a strong atmosphere of encouraging innovation in the whole society.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that the development of future industries involves a wide range of areas, and a sound governance system must be established. We must coordinate development and security, explore scientific and effective regulatory methods, prevent relevant risks, and ensure that we can both "放得活"又"管得好" (fàng de huó yòu guǎn dé hǎo - "let go to activate and manage well," to balance deregulation with effective regulation). We must deepen international cooperation and actively promote the joint construction of standards, the joint discussion of rules, and the joint promotion of industries by all parties. Leading cadres at all levels must strengthen their learning of cutting-edge scientific and technological knowledge and strive to know technology, understand industry, and be good at decision-making.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 31st. The 3rd issue of "Qiushi" magazine, to be published on February 1st, will feature an important article by Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, entitled "Embark on a Financial Development Path with Chinese Characteristics and Build a Strong Financial Nation."
The article emphasizes that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have actively explored the laws of financial development in the new era, continuously deepened our understanding of the essence of socialism with Chinese characteristics in finance, and continuously promoted financial practice innovation, theoretical innovation, and institutional innovation, accumulating valuable experience and gradually embarking on a financial development path with Chinese characteristics. First, adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over financial work. Second, adhere to a people-centered value orientation. Third, adhere to serving the real economy as the fundamental purpose of finance. Fourth, adhere to risk prevention and control as the eternal theme of financial work. Fifth, adhere to promoting financial innovation and development on a market-oriented and rule-of-law track. Sixth, adhere to deepening supply-side structural reform in the financial sector. Seventh, adhere to coordinating financial opening-up and security. Eighth, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability. The above points clarify how to view and do financial work in the new era and on the new journey, and are an organic whole that embodies the basic stance, viewpoints, and methods of the financial development path with Chinese characteristics. The financial development path with Chinese characteristics not only follows the objective laws of modern financial development, but also has distinct characteristics suitable for China's national conditions, and is essentially different from the Western financial model. We must be confident and continue to explore and improve in practice, so that this path becomes wider and wider.
The article points out that a strong financial nation should be based on a strong economic foundation, with world-leading economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength, and at the same time possess a series of key core financial elements. First, it has a strong currency, which is widely used in international trade and investment and foreign exchange markets, and has the status of a global reserve currency. Second, it has a strong central bank, capable of doing a good job in monetary policy regulation and macro-prudential management, and preventing and resolving systemic risks in a timely and effective manner. Third, it has strong financial institutions with high operating efficiency, strong risk resistance, complete categories, and global layout capabilities and international competitiveness. Fourth, it has a strong international financial center that can attract global investors and influence the international pricing system. Fifth, it has strong financial regulation, sound financial rule of law, and strong voice and influence in the formulation of international financial rules. Sixth, it has a strong financial talent team.
The article points out that to build a strong financial nation, we must accelerate the construction of a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics. First, a scientific and sound financial regulation system. Second, a financial market system with a reasonable structure. Third, a financial institution system with division of labor and cooperation. Fourth, a complete and effective financial regulatory system. Fifth, a diversified and professional financial product and service system. Sixth, an autonomous and controllable, safe and efficient financial infrastructure system.
The article points out that to promote high-quality financial development and build a strong financial nation, we must adhere to the combination of the rule of law and the rule of virtue, vigorously promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and actively cultivate a financial culture with Chinese characteristics. First, be honest and trustworthy, and do not cross the bottom line. Second, seek profit with righteousness, and do not be profit-oriented. Third, be stable and prudent, and do not seek quick success and instant benefits. Fourth, be upright and innovative, and do not deviate from the real economy and move towards the virtual. Fifth, abide by laws and regulations, and do not act recklessly.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 31st. On January 31st, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Algerian President Tebboune exchanged congratulatory messages, celebrating the successful launch of the Algerian Remote Sensing Satellite-3 at Jiuquan (酒泉).
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the Algerian Remote Sensing Satellite-3 project is another successful cooperation between China and Algeria in the aerospace field, following the Algerian Communication Satellite-1, and is an important manifestation of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Algeria. In recent years, China-Algeria relations have made considerable progress, political mutual trust between the two countries has been continuously consolidated, and pragmatic cooperation has yielded fruitful results. I attach great importance to the development of China-Algeria relations and am willing to work with President Tebboune to continuously enrich the connotation of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Algeria, so as to better benefit the people of both countries.
Tebboune said that the successful launch of the Algerian Remote Sensing Satellite-3 is another substantial achievement in aerospace cooperation between Algeria and China, and is another milestone in the development of bilateral relations, which will help both sides expand cooperation prospects. Algeria is willing to work with China to continue to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郁静娴 李晓晴
In an orchard in Xiongjialing Village (熊家岭村), Guojiaba Town (郭家坝镇), Zigui County (秭归县), Hubei Province (湖北), a fruit farmer, Xiong Renfa (熊仁发), remotely operates an agricultural drone. With a "buzz," the drone, carrying 60 kilograms, takes off from the orange orchard on the hillside and transports the oranges down the mountain in less than 3 minutes. "The mountain road is rugged, and it takes forty to fifty minutes to carry them down manually. The drone can transport 30,000 kilograms a day!" Drone aerial transport of navel oranges has become a new winter scene here.
In China, the number of agricultural drones has exceeded 300,000, used for plant protection, fertilization, hoisting, etc., with an annual operating area exceeding 460 million mu. Agricultural drones cultivating the vast fields are a vivid footnote to the new and improved direction of China's agricultural machinery industry.
Agricultural machinery and equipment are an important aspect of new quality productive forces in agriculture. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Vigorously promote agricultural mechanization and intelligence" and "Accelerate the efforts to address the shortcomings in modern agricultural material equipment such as drying, storage, cold chain preservation, and agricultural machinery, especially to increase the independent research and development of important agricultural equipment."
Drones are widely used in agricultural production, Beidou satellite navigation technology is deeply integrated into various fields of agricultural machinery, and multi-functional and applicable machinery alleviates the difficulties of agricultural production in hilly and mountainous areas. In 2025, China's grain output once again reached the 1.4 trillion jin level. The sufficient supply and variety of "vegetable baskets" and "fruit plates" are inseparable from the hard-core support of modern agricultural machinery and equipment.
-- Domestic production accelerates, and the agricultural machinery industry system is improving day by day.
Stamping, welding, assembly, debugging, testing... In the production workshop of Shandong Weichai Lovol (山东潍柴雷沃), a new 2026 Lovol Valley God (雷沃谷神) crawler harvester slowly rolls off the production line. The new model has comprehensively upgraded key components such as tracks, wheel systems, and gearboxes, and can adapt to large fields and highly humid and heavy soils, harvesting crops such as rice, wheat, and corn.
From "usable" to "reliable and easy to use," domestic agricultural machinery is focusing on tackling key shortcomings. Weichai Lovol (潍柴雷沃) is deeply linked with upstream and downstream enterprises to accelerate the formation of an intelligent agricultural machinery industry cluster integrating production and innovation.
"In order to solve the reliability problem, engineers went to various operating scenarios such as the black soil of Northeast China, the Gobi Desert of Xinjiang, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the paddy fields of the South to collect data, simulate extreme working conditions, and evaluate, calculate, and simulate iterations from parts and components to the whole machine," said Zhang Peng (张鹏), deputy dean of the Weichai Lovol (潍柴雷沃) Tractor Research Institute. At present, they have successfully overcome the difficulties of intelligent driving, whole machine control, continuously variable transmission, and power shift of high-horsepower intelligent tractors, and have achieved independent control of key core technologies and key components and import substitution.
Able to produce, reliable, and provide excellent supply, domestic agricultural machinery is accelerating towards "large, medium, and small-sized, intelligent, green, and efficient integration." In the field of high-end intelligence, 300-horsepower continuously variable transmission tractors, high-speed electric drive seeders, and 15 kg/second feeding volume grain combine harvesters have broken foreign monopolies and achieved industrial application. In hilly areas where there was once "no machine available" or "no good machine available," the gaps in applicable machinery for terraced rice harvesting, rhizome Chinese medicinal material harvesting, and bulk tea harvesting are being filled at an accelerated pace. In the field of new energy models, hybrid tractors have created a series of products ranging from 200 to 700 horsepower, and the power transportation operations in facilities greenhouses, fruit and tea gardens, and other plots have achieved green transformation.
A batch of highly intelligent and advanced and applicable complete machine equipment is constantly improving modern agricultural productivity. At present, the market recognition of domestic agricultural machinery in China has significantly improved, meeting more than 90% of the domestic market demand. The comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation, planting, and harvesting in the country has reached 76.7%, exceeding the target task of 75% during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
-- The entire chain is connected, and agricultural machinery research and development and application are accelerating.
In Lujiagou Town (鲁家沟镇), Anding District (安定区), Dingxi City (定西市), Gansu Province (甘肃), a new type of articulated tractor drove into the terraced fields. "The new machine is very convenient for turning around in narrow plots, which solves the problem," said Li Judong (李聚东), head of the Xuanye Agricultural Machinery Service Farmers Professional Cooperative (宣烨农机服务农民专业合作社). "The conventional tractor can plant 5 rows wide, but it can plant 6 rows, and after 1,500 mu of land, it can harvest dozens of mu more."
The seed potato "artifact" praised by Li Judong (李聚东) is a batch of prototype machines put into use by China Yituo Group Co., Ltd. (中国一拖集团有限公司) in some bases in Gansu Province (甘肃省). Before the machinery was put into use, the company carried out precise docking of needs with local farmers, listed the problems of difficulty in climbing slopes, difficulty in turning, and wide wheelbases as research and development key points, and continued to follow up on the operation of the machinery after it was put into use, modifying it while using it.
"Anding District (安定区) has a perennial potato planting area of about 900,000 mu, and its unique terrain makes it a natural testing ground for agricultural machinery testing and verification in hilly and mountainous areas," introduced Zhang Jilin (张吉琳), director of the Anding District (安定区) Agricultural Machinery Service Center. Agricultural machinery enterprises have targeted the pain points in farmers' production and put in 20 sets of various prototype machines in the local area, covering key links such as tillage, corn harvesting, potato harvesting, and Chinese medicinal material planting and harvesting, to carry out multi-condition testing and verification, effectively shortening the industrialization and optimization cycle of new products from the laboratory to the field.
Promoting research and development through use, promoting manufacturing through use, and promoting transformation through use, China adheres to the integrated promotion of research, production, promotion, and use, strengthens departmental coordination, provincial and ministerial linkage, and fully promotes the action to address the shortcomings of agricultural machinery and equipment. At present, the country has built 500 agricultural machinery and equipment familiarization application test sites in different regions and for different crops, and has deployed pilot projects for the county-level large-scale familiarization application of hilly agricultural machinery in 13 counties, accelerating the familiarization, finalization, and mass production application of a series of innovative products.
-- Policies are down-to-earth, so that farmers can use them and use them well.
In Chengxi Town (城西镇), Ganyu District (赣榆区), Lianyungang City (连云港市), Jiangsu Province (江苏), the warm winter sun shines on the wheat fields. Ma Benfei (马本飞), a large grain grower, looks at the green winter wheat and feels gratified: "Thanks to the machines coming quickly, the rush harvest and rush drying were powerful."
In the autumn harvest of 2025, the Huanghuaihai region (黄淮海地区) encountered rare continuous rainy weather. In Chengxi Town (城西镇), more than 36,000 mu of rice faced the challenge of rush harvesting. The local socialized service system responded quickly, and the town's agricultural machinery department urgently dispatched cross-regional operation machinists. In just a few days, 66 crawler harvesters suitable for wet and rotten fields were assembled from the southern region.
Pengcheng Agricultural Machinery Cooperative (鹏程农机合作社) is also the main force of agricultural machinery services in Chengxi Town (城西镇). "With machines in hand, there is no worry about harvesting." The head of the cooperative said that in 2025, using the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, the cooperative added a new mobile dryer, and also drove members to update 63 subsidized machines throughout the year, including the 27 new combine harvesters for this emergency rush harvest.
Targeting important agricultural seasons such as the "Sanxia" (三夏) (sān xià - "three summers," referring to the summer harvest, planting, and management) and autumn harvest, multiple departments and units work together to ensure cross-regional traffic and fuel for operations; based on "dual-use in peacetime and emergency," various regions have built 6,813 regional agricultural machinery socialized service centers and 14,200 normalized agricultural machinery emergency operation service teams; the agricultural machinery purchase and application subsidy continues to expand and increase standards, "superior machines get superior subsidies" and "there are entries and exits," promoting the iterative upgrading of agricultural machinery in use... A security network of agricultural machinery services is becoming increasingly dense, steadily supporting the **国之大者** (guó zhī dà zhě - "the most important affairs of the country," matters of national importance).
Ji Mingfeng (冀名峰), director of the Agricultural Mechanization Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, they will continue to promote technological innovation and achievement transformation around the national action to increase the yield per unit area of major crops such as grain and oil, and continuously shorten the research and development and application cycle of agricultural machinery. At the same time, they will accelerate the inclusion of more urgently needed and urgently used agricultural machinery and equipment required for diversified food supply into the scope of subsidies, accelerate the construction of agricultural machinery operation service organizations, and accelerate the cultivation of agricultural machinery operator teams, so as to provide stronger and more powerful equipment guarantees for practicing the grand food concept and building a diversified food supply system.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 龚相娟
Just arrived at the company in the morning, employee Li Sha (李莎) received a tricky task: the company is preparing for financing and needs to submit proof of no violations of laws and regulations for its affiliated subsidiaries to financial institutions.
Unfortunately, Tianjin Ruitai Shengxiang Machinery Co., Ltd. (天津瑞泰盛祥机械有限公司), which the company merged with and acquired, was deregistered in October 2024. Li Sha (李莎) was in a dilemma: which department should she ask to issue a credit certificate for a deregistered subsidiary?
After much searching, she tried calling the Tianjin Municipal Public Credit Center (天津市公共信用中心). The reply she received relieved her: "You don't need to run to various departments. We can issue a unified credit report to replace the proof of no violations of laws and regulations issued by the market supervision, taxation, human resources and social security, and ecological environment departments."
Behind this convenience is Tianjin's (天津) continuous improvement of the social credit system and exploration of optimizing the business environment.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The socialist market economy is a credit economy and a rule-of-law economy." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to "build a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy, and create a first-class market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment."
"‘Credit instead of certificate’ is to replace the proof of whether there are violations of laws and regulations with a special credit report. Tianjin (天津) is promoting the ‘Credit instead of certificate 3.0’ reform, which aims to turn credit into a ‘pass’ to open up the flow of factors, focusing on the authenticity of the main qualification, historical credit, and relationship, and reducing the trust cost of market transactions by improving the credit system," introduced Yang Liquan (杨立全), director of the Credit Construction Division of the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission (天津市发展改革委). Compared with the previous 1.0 and 2.0 versions, "Credit instead of certificate 3.0" has achieved a leapfrog development from business entities to natural persons, and from pilot projects in key areas to full coverage in high-frequency areas.
To further facilitate enterprises and benefit enterprises, the "Credit instead of certificate 3.0" reform also aims at the difficulties of cross-regional handling of affairs.
There is no need to "run across provinces and handle multiple times" to obtain certificates. Tianjin (天津) promotes the cross-regional mutual recognition of "Credit instead of certificate" in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and Shanxi (山西) has also taken the initiative to join. From December 1, 2025, the special credit report (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shanxi mutual recognition version) will realize "one-click joint handling," and one report can replace multiple cross-regional certificates.
The efficient operation of "Credit instead of certificate" is inseparable from the aggregation and integration of massive data behind it.
"The difficulty is not data aggregation, but dynamic integration across regions and departments." Yang Liquan (杨立全) cited an example, saying that the credit report in Tianjin (天津) alone needs to integrate information from 65 municipal departments and 16 administrative regions, and now it has been extended to the street and township levels. It is conceivable how difficult it is to "compare, deduplicate, and associate" these data to establish a dynamically updated "credit data archive cabinet" for each business entity. As of the end of 2025, the Tianjin Municipal Credit Center (天津市信用中心) has gathered 7.1 billion data items, processing an average of 19 million items per day.
Today, the application scenarios of "Credit instead of certificate" are still expanding: in foreign aid medical projects, personalized credit certificates can be issued quickly; when recruiting, evaluating, and selecting advanced individuals, relevant credit records can also be "retrieved with one click." From local to cross-regional, from facilitating enterprises to benefiting the people, the "Credit instead of certificate 3.0" reform is delivering "credit dividends" to more people.
"To thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, we will continue to improve the basic market economic system such as social credit, improve the long-term mechanism for integrity construction, and promote the upgrading of services from ‘universal and general’ to ‘precise adaptation’," said Yang Liquan (杨立全).
Return to TopThe "Come to Pudong, Celebrate the New Year" Spring Festival series of activities kicked off in Shanghai on January 30th. The activities will continue until March, during which a series of traditional cultural activities such as molten iron fireworks and fish lantern parades will be featured on the Bund (黄浦江畔). To welcome the Lunar Year of the Horse, Shanghai will launch a total of 2,570 activities including festivals, performances, and exhibitions to showcase outstanding Chinese traditional culture, promote the integration of culture, tourism, commerce, sports, and exhibitions, and create a joyful and festive atmosphere for Shanghai citizens staying in Shanghai for the New Year and tourists from other places coming to Shanghai for the New Year. The picture shows molten iron fireworks, an intangible cultural heritage skill, performed on the Bund (黄浦江畔) in Shanghai on January 31.
Reported by Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏) and photographed by Wang Chu (王初) (People's Vision)
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In 2025, China's high-tech product exports reached 5.25 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.2%. The export of the "new three" increased by 27.1%. China's imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" reached 23.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.3%, accounting for 51.9% of the total value of imports and exports; imports and exports to ASEAN, Latin America, and Africa increased by 8%, 6.5%, and 18.4% respectively.
In the industrial park, the north wind howls, and the workshops are bustling. In the Nanchuan Industrial Park of Xining (西宁) City, Qinghai (青海) Province, in the cell production workshop of Qinghai Fudi Battery Co., Ltd. (青海弗迪电池有限公司), robotic arms wave in an orderly manner, producing a lithium battery cell every 4 seconds.
In 2025, Qinghai Province's export growth rate reached 41.9%, with lithium batteries accounting for nearly half of the total export value. As a lithium battery company, Fudi Company achieved exports of 2.99 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.8 times, with products sold to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" such as Hungary (匈牙利), Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦), Malaysia (马来西亚), Vietnam (越南), and the ASEAN market.
With abundant salt lake resources, lithium carbonate products produced by Qinghai salt lake chemical companies are important raw materials for lithium batteries, attracting a large number of lithium battery companies to invest and build factories. Fudi Company was put into production in 2023 and reached full production in the same year. The accelerated export growth in 2025 is due to the efforts of existing enterprises to lead product iteration through technological innovation, as well as the joint efforts of all parties to promote products to overseas markets.
Green lights flash, and automated transport vehicles the size of go-karts carry newly produced cells into the battery pack workshop. On the assembly line, robotic arms install the battery management system, sealing housing, and fastening insulation bolts in place, and the lithium battery pack is formed.
"From slurry preparation to final testing, it is fully automated intelligent manufacturing. Our batteries use a lamination process, lengthening and thinning traditional square cells and 'stacking' them together," said Guo Bo (郭波), general manager of Fudi Company. Using this process, the battery has high energy density and long driving range, allowing the company to break through the market competition of "low-price competition."
To open up overseas markets, it is also necessary to meet the diverse needs of local markets. Taking the ASEAN market such as Thailand (泰国) as an example, high temperatures can easily lead to battery capacity decay. After thousands of charge and discharge cycle tests, Fudi Company developed a high-temperature stable electrolyte formula, which increased the upper limit of the thermal stability temperature of the battery electrolyte. In 2025, sales of some models equipped with Fudi batteries in Thailand achieved a growth of over 170%.
For some European markets, carbon footprint is an important factor affecting lithium battery exports. On the Qinghai Green Electricity Traceability Platform, the proportion of hydropower, wind power, photovoltaic, and other energy sources used by Fudi Company on that day is displayed on the screen, and the historical proportion of clean energy use is displayed: over 90%. Qinghai has a high proportion of green electricity installed capacity, providing abundant and low-priced green electricity support for lithium battery exports.
There is still one last step: transporting lithium batteries overseas. The relevant person in charge of Fudi Company introduced: "The demand for lithium batteries in the international market is increasing, especially the increase in orders for exporting to countries jointly building the 'Belt and Road'. Due to the large delivery volume, tight delivery period, and involvement of multiple modes of transportation, traditional export methods are difficult to meet the company's needs for timely delivery of goods. Once the delivery time is missed, a large amount of liquidated damages and storage fees will be incurred."
With multiple measures taken, Xining Customs (西宁海关) optimized the supervision model. Before exporting lithium batteries, it is necessary to apply for a dangerous goods packaging use appraisal certificate, also known as a "dangerous packaging certificate." "Advance declaration and appointment inspection, the customs increased the frequency of commodity inspection, and after the on-site inspection, we can receive the lithium battery 'dangerous packaging certificate' on the same day, ensuring rapid customs clearance," said Guo Bo (郭波).
The railway department also promoted the export of lithium batteries "by train." Previously, most lithium batteries needed to be transported by land to sea or air. At the end of 2023, Fudi Company found China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路青藏集团有限公司), hoping to transport goods by rail. Upon receiving the request, Zeng Qiang (曾强), the head of the customer service department, was in trouble: "Lithium batteries are dangerous goods. To transport them by rail, we need to find a special transportation station and have special power lithium battery containers."
"In response to transportation bottlenecks, the provincial commerce department coordinated relevant units to carry out safety tests for railway transportation of lithium batteries," introduced Yang Xiaomin (杨小民), Deputy Director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Commerce (青海省商务厅). Enterprises, railway departments, and government departments formed a special team to tackle the problems one by one.
"We have customized special containers for the export transportation of lithium batteries," Zeng Qiang (曾强) pointed to the containers and introduced that under the appearance of standardized containers, there are built-in smoke detection, pressure relief and exhaust devices to ensure transportation safety. At the same time, through the upgrading of dangerous goods facilities, Xining Changningbao Station (西宁市长宁堡站) also meets the requirements of the transportation station.
In 2025, Qinghai Province operated 187 international freight trains, a year-on-year increase of 38.5%, reaching 16 cities in 10 countries in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Europe, and other regions. The export road for lithium batteries is becoming wider and wider.
Li Xiaoniu (李小牛), Director of the Qinghai Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology (青海省工业和信息化厅), said that this year, Qinghai will focus on the utilization of salt lake resources and strengthening, extending, and supplementing the lithium battery industry chain, strengthen leading enterprises in the chain, accelerate the layout of industrial chain projects such as cells and batteries, and promote the continuous improvement of exports of advanced manufacturing products such as new energy and new materials.
This issue is coordinated by: Guo Xueyan (郭雪岩)
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In 2025, China's foreign trade navigated pressure and moved forward, maintaining stability in quantity and improving quality. The total import and export volume for the year exceeded 45 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.8%, demonstrating strong resilience.
The global economic and trade environment is becoming increasingly complex and severe. Unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and geopolitical risks are spilling over, significantly restricting the smooth flow of international economic cycles. The latest report released by the World Trade Organization shows that the expected growth rate of global merchandise trade volume in 2026 is 0.5%, far lower than the 2.4% in 2025. At the same time, China's foreign trade enterprises need to strengthen their efforts in key technology breakthroughs, brand internationalization, and adaptation to international rules. The resilience and security level of the industrial and supply chains also need to be further improved. Foreign trade development still faces common challenges and external pressures.
In 2026, China's foreign trade should continue to consolidate the solid foundation for maintaining stability in quantity and improving quality through enterprises' proactive breakthroughs and precise policy support. Enterprises need to proactively break through, strengthen technological innovation, increase R&D investment, and focus on breaking through key components and technological bottlenecks to increase the added value of products from the supply side; explore diversified markets, make full use of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 version, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and other free trade agreements, deeply cultivate emerging markets such as countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" initiative, and expand cross-border e-commerce channels; strengthen the research and connection with international high-standard economic and trade rules, and comprehensively improve compliance operations and multinational operation capabilities.
The government needs to provide systematic support. Cultivate new driving forces and optimize the structure, actively develop digital trade and green trade, encourage the export of knowledge-intensive services and traditional advantageous services, deepen the integration of domestic and foreign trade, increase the import of high-quality products, and promote the balanced development of import and export; optimize the environment and provide precise services, continuously improve the level of trade facilitation, and conduct pilot tests of international high-standard rules in free trade pilot zones and other open platforms to provide enterprises with pressure tests and supporting services for rule alignment.
(The author is a deputy researcher at the Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部国际贸易经济合作研究院). This article was compiled and edited by Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopAccording to a press conference held by the Ministry of Finance (财政部) on January 30, reported by our Beijing (北京) correspondent Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵): In 2025, China's fiscal operations were stable and orderly, the budget execution was generally good, nearly 90% of regions achieved fiscal revenue growth, key expenditures were strongly guaranteed, and finance was effective in supporting the expansion of domestic demand, warming people's livelihoods, stabilizing grain, and promoting opening up.
In 2025, the national general public budget revenue was 21.6 trillion yuan, a decrease of 1.7% compared to 2024. Among the 31 provinces, except for individual regions where income decreased due to the decline in prices of bulk commodities such as coal, 27 regions achieved fiscal revenue growth in 2024. The annual tax revenue increased by 0.8%, showing an overall steady recovery trend. In 2025, the national general public budget expenditure was 28.74 trillion yuan, an increase of 1% compared to 2024. Among them, social security and employment expenditure increased by 6.7%, education expenditure increased by 3.2%, health expenditure increased by 5.7%, science and technology expenditure increased by 4.8%, energy conservation and environmental protection expenditure increased by 6.1%, and culture, tourism, sports and media expenditure increased by 2.2%.
In 2025, the Ministry of Finance (财政部) successively issued four batches of ultra-long-term special treasury bond funds totaling 300 billion yuan to support the trade-in of consumer goods. Preliminary statistics show that the sales of related products exceeded 2.6 trillion yuan, benefiting more than 360 million people; the Ministry of Finance (财政部) and the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) jointly launched two pilot projects for the construction of new consumer formats, new models, new scenarios, and an internationalized consumption environment, and determined 65 pilot cities through competitive review, and allocated the first batch of funds of 9.6 billion yuan. At the end of 2025, the Ministry of Finance (财政部), together with the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), jointly launched a prize-winning invoice activity to support 50 prefecture-level and above cities to carry out pilot work, covering major scenarios of residents' daily consumption such as shopping, dining, tourism accommodation, and cultural and sports activities. The list of pilot cities is currently being publicized.
In 2025, finance took multiple measures to support grain production. Through transfer payments, ultra-long-term special treasury bonds and other arrangements, 176.6 billion yuan was allocated for the construction of high-standard farmland, an increase of 53% year-on-year, supporting the construction of 75.68 million mu of high-standard farmland; 17.1 billion yuan was allocated to support the expansion of the scope of black soil protection, stabilizing the area of conservation tillage at more than 100 million mu; 13.1 billion yuan was allocated to focus on supporting the protection and utilization of germplasm resources, and strengthening the research, development, promotion and application of major varieties; the support for agricultural insurance was increased, promoting the scale of agricultural insurance premiums to exceed 155 billion yuan, providing risk protection of more than 5.2 trillion yuan for 125 million farmers; by launching the implementation of inter-provincial horizontal interest compensation between grain producing and marketing areas under the central government's overall planning, the first annual compensation funds were organized and allocated in a timely manner.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the full island closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), the Ministry of Finance (财政部) took the lead in formulating tax policies for the entry and exit of goods through the "first line" and "second line" and their circulation within the island, as well as a catalog of imported taxable goods, which has been implemented since the full island closure operation on December 18, 2025, basically establishing the "zero tariff" system of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港). Since the closure, as of January 27, 2026, the value of "zero tariff" goods imported was 857 million yuan, an increase of 2.43 times year-on-year, covering multiple industries such as chemical industry, mineral product manufacturing, and medical health, with tax reductions and exemptions of approximately 129 million yuan, an increase of 2 times year-on-year; more than 10,000 enterprises have applied to become beneficiaries of the "zero tariff" policy, and more than 5,700 new registered foreign trade enterprises have been added; 409 new foreign-invested enterprises have been added in the province, an increase of 23.56% year-on-year, and the total amount and growth rate of foreign direct investment rank among the top in the country; the sales amount of offshore duty-free goods was 6.28 billion yuan, with 981,000 shoppers, especially during this year's New Year's Day holiday, the sales amount of offshore duty-free goods was 712 million yuan, a substantial increase of 128.9% year-on-year.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on January 31st (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强), Ding Yiting (丁怡婷)) Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) jointly issued the "Notice on Improving the Capacity Electricity Price Mechanism on the Power Generation Side," which improves the current capacity electricity price mechanism for coal-fired power, gas-fired power, and pumped storage, and for the first time at the national level, clearly establishes a capacity electricity price mechanism for independent new energy storage on the grid side.
Relevant officials from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) stated that the large-scale development of new energy in China has made it the largest installed power source type. However, new energy has strong randomness and volatility, and a certain scale of regulating power sources must be built to support it. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the state successively established capacity electricity price mechanisms for coal-fired power and pumped storage, and some provinces explored the establishment of capacity electricity price mechanisms for gas-fired power and new energy storage. Through institutional arrangements, these power sources are promoted to generate electricity to ensure supply during peak hours and give way to new energy at other times, ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power system and promoting the consumption and utilization of new energy.
With the construction and development of new power systems, the current capacity electricity price mechanism has encountered some new situations and new problems: First, the number of hours of coal-fired power generation in some regions has declined rapidly, and the current level of capacity electricity price is showing signs of insufficient guarantee. Second, the current capacity electricity price mechanism for pumped storage lacks sufficient cost constraints on enterprises, which is not conducive to the scientific and rational layout, cost reduction and efficiency improvement, and orderly development of pumped storage projects. Third, the principles of capacity electricity price mechanisms for gas-fired power and new energy storage vary from place to place, which is not conducive to creating a fair and competitive market environment.
In response, the notice proposes that local authorities should increase the standard of coal-fired power capacity electricity prices in light of their actual conditions, and may establish a gas-fired power capacity electricity price mechanism with reference to coal-fired power. For newly started pumped storage power stations in recent years, a unified local capacity electricity price should be formulated according to the principle of compensating for average costs. A capacity electricity price mechanism for independent new energy storage on the grid side should be established, and the capacity electricity price standard should be determined in combination with factors such as discharge duration and peak contribution.
The notice clarifies that after the continuous operation of local electricity spot markets, a reliable capacity compensation mechanism on the power generation side will be established in an orderly manner. The reliable capacity of units will be compensated according to the same principle based on peak capacity, fairly reflecting the peak contribution of different units to the power system. This will help promote fair competition among different technology types and promote high-quality development of the industry, and is also a common practice in mature electricity markets.
It is understood that after the policy is introduced, it will have no impact on the electricity price levels of residential and agricultural users, and the current catalog sales electricity price policy will continue to be implemented. For industrial and commercial users, after the capacity electricity price mechanism on the power generation side is improved, the cost of regulating power sources that needs to be recovered through the electricity energy market will decrease, and the cost recovered through the capacity electricity price will increase. The "one increase and one decrease" will form an offset, which will have little impact on the electricity purchase cost of industrial and commercial users. At the same time, improving the capacity electricity price mechanism on the power generation side will help accelerate the construction of a new power system and better ensure users' electricity demand.
Return to TopOn January 31st, tourists visited the Manting Royal Garden (曼听御花园) in Jinghong City (景洪市), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (西双版纳傣族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省). In winter, southern winter escape tourism has become a hotspot, and a new wave of passenger flow is expected during the Spring Festival holiday.
Photo by He Huawen (何华文) (People's Vision)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郁静娴 李晓晴
In an orchard in Xiongling Village (熊家岭村), Guojiaba Town (郭家坝镇), Zigui County (秭归县), Hubei Province (湖北), a fruit farmer, Xiong Renfa (熊仁发), remotely controls an agricultural drone. With a "buzz," the drone, carrying 60 kilograms of cargo, takes off from the orange orchard on the hillside and transports the oranges down the mountain in less than 3 minutes. "The mountain road is rugged, and it takes forty to fifty minutes to carry them down manually. The drone can transport 30,000 kilograms a day!" Drone aerial transport of navel oranges has become a new winter scene here.
In China, the number of agricultural drones has exceeded 300,000, used for plant protection, fertilization, hoisting, and more, with an annual operating area exceeding 460 million mu. Agricultural drones working in the vast fields are a vivid reflection of China's agricultural machinery industry moving towards new and better quality.
Agricultural machinery and equipment are an important aspect of new quality productive forces in agriculture. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Vigorously promote agricultural mechanization and intelligence" and "Accelerate the improvement of shortcomings in modern agricultural material equipment such as drying and storage, cold chain preservation, and agricultural machinery, especially increasing independent research and development of important agricultural equipment."
Drones are widely used in agricultural production, Beidou satellite navigation technology is deeply integrated into various fields of agricultural machinery, and multi-functional applicable machinery alleviates agricultural production problems in hilly and mountainous areas. In 2025, China's grain output once again reached the 1.4 trillion jin level. The sufficient supply and variety of "vegetable baskets" and "fruit plates" are inseparable from the hard-core support of modern agricultural machinery and equipment.
--Domestic production is accelerating, and the agricultural machinery industry system is becoming increasingly完善 日臻完善 (rì zhēn wán shàn - "daily perfect," becoming more and more perfect).
Stamping, welding, assembly, debugging, testing... In the production workshop of Shandong Weichai Lovol (山东潍柴雷沃), a new 2026 Lovol Valley God (雷沃谷神) tracked harvester slowly rolls off the production line. The new model has comprehensively upgraded key components such as tracks, wheel systems, and gearboxes, and can adapt to large fields and highly humid and heavy soils, harvesting crops such as rice, wheat, and corn.
From "usable" to "reliable and easy to use," domestic agricultural machinery is focusing on overcoming key shortcomings. Weichai Lovol (潍柴雷沃) is deeply linked with upstream and downstream enterprises to accelerate the formation of an intelligent agricultural machinery industry cluster integrating production and innovation.
"In order to solve the reliability problem, engineers went to various operating scenarios such as the black soil of Northeast China, the Gobi Desert of Xinjiang (新疆), the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and the paddy fields of southern China to collect data, simulate extreme working conditions, and evaluate, calculate, and simulate iterations from parts and components to the whole machine." Zhang Peng (张鹏), deputy dean of the Weichai Lovol (潍柴雷沃) Tractor Research Institute, said that they have successfully overcome the difficulties of intelligent driving, whole machine control, continuously variable transmission, and power shifting of high-horsepower intelligent tractors, and have achieved independent control of key core technologies and key components and import substitution.
Able to produce, reliable, and provide excellent supply, domestic agricultural machinery is accelerating towards "large, medium, and small-sized, intelligent, green, and efficient integration." In the field of high-end intelligence, 300-horsepower continuously variable transmission tractors, high-speed electric-drive seeders, and 15 kg/second feeding grain combine harvesters have broken foreign monopolies and achieved industrial application. In hilly areas where there was once "no machine available" or "no good machine available," the gaps in applicable machinery for terraced rice harvesting, rhizome Chinese medicinal material harvesting, and bulk tea harvesting are being filled at an accelerated pace. In the field of new energy models, hybrid tractors have created a series of 200-700 horsepower products, and the power transportation operations in facilities greenhouses, fruit and tea gardens, and other plots have achieved green transformation.
A batch of highly intelligent and advanced and applicable complete machine equipment is constantly improving modern agricultural productivity. At present, the market recognition of domestic agricultural machinery in China has significantly improved, meeting more than 90% of the domestic market demand. The comprehensive mechanization rate of plowing, planting, and harvesting of national crops has reached 76.7%, exceeding the target task of 75% during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
--The entire chain is connected, and agricultural machinery research and development applications are accelerating.
In Lujiagou Town (鲁家沟镇), Anding District (安定区), Dingxi City (定西市), Gansu Province (甘肃), a new type of articulated tractor drove into the terraced fields. "The new machine is very convenient for turning around in narrow plots, which solves the problem." Li Judong (李聚东), head of the Xuanye Agricultural Machinery Service Farmers Professional Cooperative (宣烨农机服务农民专业合作社), said, "The conventional tractor has a width of 5 rows for planting, but it can plant 6 rows. After 1,500 mu of land, it can harvest dozens of mu more."
The seed potato "artifact" praised by Li Judong (李聚东) is a batch of prototype machines put into use by China Yituo Group Co., Ltd. (中国一拖集团有限公司) in some bases in Gansu Province (甘肃省). Before the machinery was put into use, the company conducted precise demand docking with local farmers, listed the problems of difficulty in climbing slopes, difficulty in turning, and wide wheelbases as research and development issues, and continued to follow up on the operation of the machinery after it was put into use, modifying it while using it.
"Anding District (安定区) has a perennial potato planting area of about 900,000 mu. The unique terrain makes it a natural testing ground for agricultural machinery testing and verification in hilly and mountainous areas." Zhang Jilin (张吉琳), director of the Anding District (安定区) Agricultural Machinery Service Center, introduced that agricultural machinery companies are targeting the pain points in farmers' production and have put 20 sets of various prototype machines into use locally, covering key links such as tillage, corn harvesting, potato harvesting, and Chinese medicinal material planting and harvesting, conducting multi-condition testing and verification, effectively shortening the industrialization and optimization cycle of new products from the laboratory to the field.
Promoting research and development through use, promoting manufacturing through use, and promoting transformation through use, China adheres to the integrated promotion of research, production, promotion, and use, strengthens departmental coordination and provincial-level linkage, and makes every effort to promote the action to make up for the shortcomings of agricultural machinery and equipment. At present, 500 agricultural machinery and equipment familiarization application test sites have been built across the country by region and crop, and pilot projects for large-scale familiarization application of hilly agricultural machinery in 13 counties have been laid out. A series of innovative products are accelerating familiarization, finalization, and mass production applications.
--Policies are down-to-earth, so that farmers can use them and use them well.
In Chengxi Town (城西镇), Ganyu District (赣榆区), Lianyungang City (连云港市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), the warm winter sun shines on the wheat fields. Ma Benfei (马本飞), a large grain grower, looks at the green winter wheat and feels relieved: "Thanks to the machines coming quickly, the rush harvesting and rush drying were effective."
In the autumn harvest of 2025, the Huanghuaihai region (黄淮海地区) encountered rare continuous rainy weather. In Chengxi Town (城西镇), more than 36,000 mu of rice faced the challenge of rush harvesting. The local socialized service system responded quickly, and the town's agricultural machinery department urgently dispatched cross-regional operation machine operators. In just a few days, 66 tracked harvesters suitable for wet and rotten fields were assembled from southern regions.
Pengcheng Agricultural Machinery Cooperative (鹏程农机合作社) is also the main force of agricultural machinery services in Chengxi Town (城西镇). "With machines in hand, there is no worry about harvesting." The head of the cooperative said that in 2025, using the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, the cooperative added a new mobile dryer, and also drove members to update 63 subsidized machines throughout the year, including 27 new combine harvesters for this emergency rush harvesting.
Targeting important agricultural seasons such as "Sanxia" (三夏) (summer harvesting, summer planting, and summer management) and autumn harvest, multiple departments and units work together to ensure cross-regional traffic and fuel for operations; based on "dual-use in peacetime and emergency," 6,813 regional agricultural machinery socialized service centers and 14,200 normalized agricultural machinery emergency operation service teams have been built in various places; the agricultural machinery purchase and application subsidy continues to expand and improve standards, "superior machines receive superior subsidies" and "there are entries and exits," promoting the iterative upgrading of agricultural machinery in use... A security network for agricultural machinery services is becoming increasingly dense, steadily supporting the "major affairs of the country" 国之大者 (guó zhī dà zhě - "the greatest of the nation," the most important national priorities).
Ji Mingfeng (冀名峰), director of the Agricultural Mechanization Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, they will continue to promote technological innovation and achievement transformation around the national action to increase the yield per unit area of major crops such as grain and oil, and continuously shorten the agricultural machinery research and development application cycle. At the same time, they will accelerate the inclusion of more urgently needed and used agricultural machinery and equipment required for diversified food supply into the subsidy scope, accelerate the construction of agricultural machinery operation service organizations, and accelerate the cultivation of agricultural machinery operator teams, so as to provide stronger and more powerful equipment guarantees for practicing the grand food concept and building a diversified food supply system.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on January 31st (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) At 12:01 PM Beijing Time on January 31st, China successfully launched the Algeria Remote Sensing Satellite-3B using the Long March 2C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心). The satellite successfully entered its predetermined orbit, and the launch mission was a complete success. The satellite is mainly used in the fields of land planning and disaster prevention and mitigation.
This mission was the 629th flight of the Long March series of carrier rockets.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on January 31st (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) held a special press conference on live-streaming e-commerce supervision on January 30th, releasing the fifth batch of typical cases in the field of live-streaming e-commerce, sending a clear signal of promoting development through supervision.
The relevant person in charge of the Network Supervision Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局网监司) introduced that, in response to the complex characteristics of the legal relationships of live-streaming e-commerce participants, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) coordinated network supervision technical forces to establish and improve a penetrating supervision system, enhance "human prevention, physical prevention, and technical prevention" capabilities, and achieve precise governance.
First, improve the live-streaming e-commerce entity database, research and formulate the "Data Reporting Specification for Identity Information of Operators within Platforms" (《平台内经营者身份信息数据报送规范》), focusing on live-streaming room operators, associating and grasping relevant entity information, strengthening data docking with platforms, and providing data support for precise supervision.
Second, promote the pilot project of commodity code assignment and verification, pilot code assignment and verification for key commodities sold through live-streaming, establish a traceability supervision model of "platform code display, consumer code scanning, and regulatory department code use," and consolidate the platform's review responsibility and the production enterprise's main responsibility for quality.
Third, promote the establishment of a live-streaming e-commerce monitoring information system, relying on the live-streaming e-commerce monitoring platform, deploy and carry out cross-monitoring of high-risk live-streaming activities, guide market supervision departments in platform economy active regions to carry out pilot projects of penetrating supervision of live-streaming e-commerce, and promote the construction of a system-integrated, collaborative, and efficient penetrating supervision system.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) dispatch on January 31st (Reporter Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)) On January 31st, the 2026 Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) "Artificial Intelligence +" Innovation Ecosystem series of activities opened in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北).
At the event, the latest achievements and strategic plan of the "LimiX" data large model, jointly developed by Tsinghua University (清华大学) and Wenzhun Intelligence (Xiong'an) Technology Co., Ltd. (稳准智能（雄安）科技有限公司), were released. As a general-purpose large model for processing structured data, "LimiX" leads in performance in several international benchmark tests. The model integrates cutting-edge technologies such as causal reasoning and synthetic data generation, and has the advantages of versatility, interpretability, and out-of-the-box use, and is committed to providing efficient solutions for the intelligent transformation of general industrial fields such as industrial manufacturing, energy, and transportation.
In addition, the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) Artificial Intelligence Training Ecosystem was also released at the event. The ecosystem directly addresses the pain points of talent supply and demand mismatch under the rapid development of the industry, and innovatively constructs a "job-oriented, modular curriculum, personalized path, and dual-engine platform" four-in-one talent training and delivery system.
Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) will continue to build an integrated ecosystem of "data large model + industrial cluster."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张志文
Rabat (拉巴特), the capital of Morocco (摩洛哥), is in the rainy season. Chinese engineering and technical personnel wearing reflective vests seized the opportunity during a break in the rain to set up testing points and use equipment such as geophones to conduct geological surveys in preparation for the construction of a high-speed rail underground tunnel through the city's core area.
In April 2025, Morocco (摩洛哥) officially launched the second phase of its high-speed rail project. Many Chinese companies are participating in the construction of tunnels, bridges, roadbeds, and other projects to help improve Morocco's (摩洛哥) transportation infrastructure.
"A Landmark Project in Morocco's (摩洛哥) Modernization Process"
Morocco (摩洛哥) is the first country in Africa (非洲) to have high-speed rail. In 2018, with the completion and opening of the first phase of the 200-kilometer high-speed rail project, Morocco (摩洛哥) entered the high-speed rail era, providing an important foundation for economic and social development and the upgrading of the cultural tourism industry. Chinese-funded enterprises such as China Hydropower Bureau 5 Co., Ltd. (中国电建水电五局) and China Railway Eighth Group Co., Ltd. (中铁八局) participated in the construction of the first phase of the high-speed rail project, and were highly praised by the Moroccan (摩洛哥) owners, which also laid a good foundation for cooperation in the second phase of the project.
The second phase of the high-speed rail line, which is 430 kilometers long and designed for a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, is connected to the first phase of the high-speed rail line, and will connect Rabat (拉巴特), the largest city Casablanca (卡萨布兰卡), and the southern ancient city of Marrakesh (马拉喀什), providing transportation security for the 2030 FIFA World Cup.
The Rabat (拉巴特) high-speed rail tunnel, which runs through the core area of Rabat (拉巴特), is designed to be 2,849 meters long and passes under municipal buildings, public roads, schools, and parks. "In order to overcome the challenges of complex geological conditions and avoid the pollution and inefficiency of traditional geological drilling rigs, we have introduced new processes and methods for exploration," said Ao Guohui (敖国辉), project manager of the Morocco (摩洛哥) Rabat (拉巴特) high-speed rail tunnel project of China Hydropower Bureau 5 Co., Ltd. (中国电建水电五局), to reporters. The construction team accurately calculated the underground medium structure and interface position by measuring the resistivity distribution and seismic wave propagation speed of the formation, providing geological reference for the tunnel design.
Walking into the construction site of the Rabat (拉巴特) high-speed rail tunnel, the entrance of the huge double-line high-speed rail tunnel has begun to take shape, and the staff is carrying out construction operations in an orderly manner using equipment such as arch frame trolleys and lining trolleys.
Moroccan (摩洛哥) King Mohammed VI (穆罕默德六世) said at the groundbreaking ceremony of the second phase of the high-speed rail project: "The Rabat (拉巴特) high-speed rail tunnel is a landmark project in Morocco's (摩洛哥) modernization process and will become a model for the two countries to jointly promote the construction of urban underground transportation in Africa (非洲)." In order to build this tunnel well, the construction team of China Hydropower Bureau 5 Co., Ltd. (中国电建水电五局) and the Moroccan (摩洛哥) General Engineering Company formed a consortium to effectively connect Chinese technology and experience with Moroccan (摩洛哥) market resources to achieve win-win cooperation.
"The reason for choosing Chinese companies as partners is because they have rich experience in tunnel construction," said Mohammed Asattote (穆罕默德·阿萨托泰), project director of the Rabat (拉巴特) high-speed rail tunnel project, to reporters. Chinese companies working with local partners can effectively integrate the technical capabilities and market resources of both parties.
"Bringing More Opportunities for Our Country's Development"
The second phase of the Moroccan (摩洛哥) high-speed rail line will run through the country's major Atlantic (大西洋) coastal towns in the north. The geological structure along the route is complex and the existing road network is dense, making bridge construction particularly important. The ninth section undertaken by China Energy Engineering Group Gezhouba Group (中国能建葛洲坝集团) includes six large bridges. Among them, the Nanmale Bridge (南马勒桥) has a single span of 1.1 kilometers.
At the construction site of the Nanmale Bridge (南马勒桥), multiple drilling equipment are operating in an orderly manner. Under the guidance of Chinese technicians, the local construction team is carrying out hoisting, grouting, and other operations. Zheng Ai (郑爱), project manager of the ninth section, introduced that the project introduced China's (中国) mature drilling and cast-in-place pile technology during the pile foundation construction stage. At the same time, in order to cope with the challenges brought by Morocco's (摩洛哥) windy, high-temperature, and complex formations, the project improved the mud preparation formula, selected pulping materials suitable for local geology, and monitored the specific gravity and viscosity indicators of the mud in real time to ensure the stability of the hole wall.
On the other side of the site, workers are preparing steel cages. From bending tendons, tying cages to welding, Chinese and Moroccan (摩洛哥) employees can be seen working side by side and cooperating tacitly in every process. Zewad (哲瓦德) is a local welder with 16 years of work experience. He is leading several workers to calibrate the spacing of the rebars one by one, and then use electric welding to make the frame of the rebar cage. "Chinese colleagues have taught me a lot of advanced welding techniques, and I am very grateful to them," said Zewad (哲瓦德). "I am very honored to be able to participate in the construction of this high-speed rail, and I believe this will bring more opportunities for our country's development."
The project team comprehensively sorted out the Moroccan (摩洛哥) local specifications and relevant European standards, compared the Chinese construction methods with the local requirements one by one, and made localized adjustments. Through cooperation with local design companies, consulting agencies, and construction teams, they jointly solved problems such as terrain adaptation and process connection encountered during construction, promoted the adaptation of Chinese technical advantages to local specifications, and formed a complete application system.
"I Believe My Development Will Get Better and Better"
According to local media reports, the newly built high-speed rail line will serve 59% of Morocco's (摩洛哥) population, and the economic aggregate of the connected areas accounts for more than 2/3 of the country's total. It will also directly or indirectly create thousands of jobs and promote the development of industries such as industry and service industry.
"In the past, I worked in a local construction company. I heard that Chinese companies came to Morocco (摩洛哥) to build high-speed rail, so I submitted my resume with a try-and-see attitude. They interviewed and hired me, and now my income has increased," said Muzong (穆宗), a Moroccan (摩洛哥) engineer working in the first section project department of the China Railway Fourth Bureau (中铁四局) Morocco (摩洛哥) high-speed rail project, to reporters. By participating in the construction of the second phase of the high-speed rail project, he gradually accumulated high-speed rail construction experience and management experience. "With these skills, I believe my development will get better and better."
The 15-kilometer line in the first section passes through the territory of Hadada Town (哈达达镇) in Kenitra Province (盖尼特拉省). "Since Chinese companies participated in the construction, they have driven the economic development of the town and created employment opportunities through material procurement and other means," said Hamid Sadawi (哈米德·萨达维), mayor of Hadada Town (哈达达镇).
At the end of 2025, Kenitra Province (盖尼特拉省) suffered continuous heavy rainfall, and many roads in Hadada Town (哈达达镇) were damaged, and many villagers' homes were flooded. Sadawi (萨达维) said that he found the project department and hoped to help the village solve the problem of water accumulation. The project department immediately organized personnel to check the site conditions and quickly arranged professional personnel and excavators, graders, and other mechanical equipment to enter the site. Through close cooperation with the villagers, the team repaired the damaged roads in 3 days and also dug two 500-meter-long drainage ditches.
Li Peng (李鹏), administrative director of the first section project of the second phase of the China Railway Fourth Bureau (中铁四局) Morocco (摩洛哥) high-speed rail project, introduced that the company has built roads, bridges, and other infrastructure facilities free of charge, and created people-benefiting projects such as drinking water and drainage for residents, helping villages and towns along the high-speed rail line solve people's livelihood problems and providing assistance within its capacity to improve the lives of local people.
Abdelhamid Mazid (阿卜杜勒哈米德·马齐德), governor of Kenitra Province (盖尼特拉省), said that through more than half a year of getting along, he has a new understanding of Chinese companies. "China (中国) has the world's largest and most technologically advanced high-speed rail network, and Chinese companies have mature construction experience and advanced equipment technology," he said. "We welcome Chinese companies to help Morocco (摩洛哥) build high-speed rail."
(Reported from Rabat (拉巴特) by this newspaper)
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In today's world, the science and technology development strategies of major countries not only affect their own countries but also the world. China's choices in science and technology development strategies and policies are increasingly attracting the attention of the global scientific community.
From February 1st to 3rd, the World Laureates Association (世界顶尖科学家协会) will hold the World Laureates Forum in Dubai (迪拜), United Arab Emirates (阿联酋). At that time, 71 top scientists from various countries, 26 top university presidents and hospital directors, and 22 young scientists will gather to conduct in-depth and open discussions around the theme of "Basic Science: Addressing the Challenges of the Human Future."
In November 2017, I, along with Michael Levitt (迈克尔·莱维特), Barry Sharpless (巴瑞·夏普莱斯), and other Nobel Prize laureates, founded the World Laureates Association (世界顶尖科学家协会) in Hong Kong (香港), China. The year after the association was founded, with the strong support and promotion of the Chinese government, the first World Laureates Forum (世界顶尖科学家论坛) opened in Shanghai (上海), becoming an annual event in the scientific community. President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent congratulatory letters and delivered video speeches to the second and third World Laureates Forums respectively, fully demonstrating China's high regard for promoting the development of cutting-edge technology and promoting international scientific cooperation.
In today's world, the science and technology development strategies of major countries not only affect their own countries but also the world. China's choices in science and technology development strategies and policies are increasingly attracting the attention of the global scientific community. In recent years, adhering to the concept of openness and cooperation, China has made significant progress in basic research, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence, materials science, life science, and new energy. With its market-oriented innovation mechanism, strong talent reserve, and broad application environment, China has made major breakthroughs in promoting industrial innovation. At the same time, China has built a complete scientific research infrastructure, national laboratories, and cooperative research networks, and has the ability to support major global and long-term scientific research projects, covering multiple basic research fields.
Looking back on human history, science has gradually evolved into the main driver of economic growth, reshaping the economic structure and cycle of the 20th century, and directly affecting the macroeconomic pattern and microeconomic model. As demonstrated by the epoch-making impact of smartphones, technological innovation has not only become an important engine of economic growth, but has also fundamentally changed the daily lives of each of us. However, we must also recognize that humanity is in an era full of unprecedented and intertwined challenges. While science is constantly making major breakthroughs, it has also accumulated certain systemic, structural, and institutional risks. Artificial intelligence is having a comprehensive and accelerating impact on science, fundamentally reshaping the scientific ecosystem. Humanity is standing at a crossroads in choosing the future direction of scientific development.
Scientific resources are essentially the crystallization of human collective wisdom. In the face of scientific truth, all people are born equal. Everyone should be able to access, publicly use, and reuse scientific knowledge, so as to achieve fairness and justice in the scientific field. The main goal of this summit is to promote the formation of an open science consensus, so that science becomes a common cause for all mankind. Open science aims to transcend the boundaries of nature, artificial intelligence, generations, national borders, value systems, and civilizations, promote the free flow and wide sharing of scientific knowledge, and build a new scientific framework adapted to the digital and intelligent era.
We believe that from now until 2050, the technological singularity of artificial intelligence development will officially arrive. The mission of modern science is to ensure that this process can promote the progress of human civilization. The mission of science is not only to explain the world, but also to promote civilization to a higher level.
(The author is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Chairman of the World Laureates Association (世界顶尖科学家协会).)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on January 31st (Reporter Wang Xinping (王新萍)) On the evening of January 30th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部) and the Beijing Municipal People's Government (北京市人民政府) jointly held the 2026 New Year Reception for Foreign Journalists at the Beijing Art Center (北京艺术中心). Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Hong Lei (洪磊) attended and delivered a speech. Approximately 700 people attended the reception, including foreign journalists and their families stationed in China, press officers from embassies in China, spokespersons from relevant ministries and commissions, domestic experts and scholars, and media representatives.
Hong Lei (洪磊) stated that 2025 was an extraordinary year, with changes unseen in a century accelerating, the international situation intertwined with turbulence, and global challenges becoming more prominent. China adheres to the belief of a shared future for mankind and firmly stands on the right side of history. China provides certainty to the world with its own stability, provides new opportunities to the world with its own openness, and promotes the cause of human peace, development, and progress with its own responsibility. The year 2026 is the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and China will resolutely create a new landscape for national rejuvenation and write a new chapter for human well-being. Safeguarding peace, promoting cooperation, responding to changes, and undertaking moral responsibilities will make greater contributions to promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. Foreign journalists are a link connecting China and the world, playing an important role in communication between China and foreign countries. It is hoped that everyone will tell the story of Chinese-style modernization to the world from an objective and fair perspective, with in-depth and professional reports, the story of China and other countries achieving mutual benefit and win-win results, common development, and a shared future, and play a positive role in promoting friendly and cooperative relations between China and other countries.
After the reception, the guests jointly attended the "Dragon-Horse Spirit" Spring Festival Concert. 龙马精神 (lóng mǎ jīng shén - "dragon horse spirit," energetic and vigorous spirit).
Return to TopAt the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平), President Luis Lacalle Pou (路易斯·拉卡列·波乌) of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay will pay a state visit to China from February 1st to 7th.
Luis Lacalle Pou (路易斯·拉卡列·波乌), male, was born in Canelones (卡内洛内斯省), Uruguay, on June 13, 1967. He previously served as Secretary-General and Governor of the Canelones Provincial Government.
He was elected President in November 2024 and took office on March 1, 2025.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), January 31)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 章念生 白元琪
"Chinese education is flourishing in Thailand, injecting lasting momentum into the deepening of friendly relations between Thailand and China." Former Thai Minister of Education Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) recently stated in an interview with this reporter that as Thailand and China jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, Chinese education is increasingly becoming an important bridge for enhancing youth exchanges and promoting people-to-people connectivity.
After stepping down as Minister of Education in 2012, Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) went to Peking University (北京大学) for a two-month Chinese language course. After returning to Thailand, he went to the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University (朱拉隆功大学孔子学院) in Bangkok (曼谷) to continue learning Chinese. Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) said that although his residence is an hour's drive from the Confucius Institute, he insists on going to school twice a week, without interruption for many years. He believes that Chinese characters are an art, so he gave himself the Chinese name Zhang Guotai (张国泰).
"For me, every Chinese lesson is a cultural journey." Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) said that learning Chinese is not only mastering a language, but also the only way to understand Chinese culture and read China. As his interest grew, Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) took the initiative to increase his class hours and dabbled in calligraphy, Chinese painting, Chinese chess, etc. "I often read *The Art of War* (《孙子兵法》) and *The Analects of Confucius* (《论语》), from which I understand the excellent traditional Chinese culture." During the interview, he occasionally interspersed quotations from Chinese historical allusions, saying that he had just finished watching Chinese film and television dramas such as *The Qin Empire* (《大秦帝国》) and *Romance of the Three Kingdoms* (《三国演义》), and was deeply impressed by many historical figures in them. "I often listen to Chinese history podcasts while driving, and the more I listen, the more addicted I become," said Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察).
During his tenure as the Minister of Education of Thailand, Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) vigorously promoted the development of Chinese education in Thailand. Through continuous deepening of cooperation with China, the scale of Chinese teacher volunteers in Thailand has continued to expand. Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) said: "From primary school to university, Chinese courses have been opened at all educational stages in Thailand." Today, Thailand has received more than 20,000 Chinese teacher volunteers, and thousands of schools provide Chinese learning opportunities for approximately 4 million students.
In Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech's (素察) view, learning Chinese is not only a link to promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning between the two countries, but also the basis for the two countries to expand cooperation and work together. Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) once ran into a group of Thai youths learning Chinese on the campus of South China Normal University (华南师范大学). "At that time, most of these young people had already entered the workplace. Some of them told me that learning Chinese would help them better connect with Chinese customers." Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) said, "As China's influence continues to rise and Chinese education becomes more popular, it has opened the door to a wider world for Thai youth."
"Live and learn." Suchart Thada-Thamrongvech (素察) said in Chinese, "Learning Chinese makes me feel the depth of Chinese civilization, and it also makes me believe that exchanges and cooperation can bring a better future."
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), January 30th (Reporter Xie Xiyao (谢希瑶)) During British Prime Minister Starmer's visit to China from January 28th to 31st, China and the UK signed several cooperation documents in the economic and trade fields. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) introduced on January 30th that on January 29th, China and the UK jointly signed four economic and trade outcome documents, simultaneously focusing on goods trade, service trade, and the construction of economic and trade mechanisms to further deepen Sino-British economic and trade relations.
Regarding the Memorandum of Understanding on China-UK "Export to China" cooperation, the spokesperson introduced that through the signing of the "Memorandum of Understanding on Carrying out 'Shared Big Market, Export to China' Cooperation," the UK has become the first country to sign a memorandum of understanding with China since the launch of the "Shared Big Market, Export to China" series of activities, and China has invited the UK to serve as one of the annual theme countries for the activities. The two sides will establish an "Export to China" cooperation mechanism, improve the level of trade facilitation, and jointly promote the healthy development of Sino-British trade.
Regarding the Memorandum of Understanding on China-UK launching a feasibility study on a service trade agreement and establishing a bilateral service partnership, the spokesperson said that in recent years, China and the UK have actively promoted cooperation in the field of service trade and achieved good results. Through the signing of two documents, the "Memorandum of Understanding on Launching a Joint Feasibility Study on a China-UK Service Trade Agreement" and the "Memorandum of Understanding on Establishing a Bilateral Service Partnership," China and the UK will conduct a feasibility study on launching negotiations on a service trade agreement, and at the same time, make full use of the complementarity and respective advantages in the service field to further deepen cooperation in creative industries, professional services, financial services, medical and health care, and other fields.
Regarding the Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening the Work of the China-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee, the spokesperson stated that the China-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee is an important mechanism for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. The "Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening the Work of the China-UK Joint Economic and Trade Committee" signed by the two sides this time aims to consolidate the role of the Joint Committee as a platform for Sino-British economic and trade policy dialogue and trade and investment promotion, promote interaction between the Joint Committee and the China-UK Entrepreneur Committee, strengthen political and business dialogue between the two countries, promote the resolution of problems and demands of enterprises on both sides, and contribute to deepening Sino-British economic and trade relations.
Return to TopTashkent, January 31st (Reported by Li Qiang (李强) of this newspaper) From January 27th to 31st, Gao Xiang (高翔), member of the CPC Central Committee and President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社科院), led a CPC delegation to visit Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The delegation promoted the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to all sectors of the two countries, held an unveiling ceremony for the Xi Jinping (习近平) Works Bookstore, and met with Kyrgyz Speaker Turganbek Uulu (图尔贡别克乌鲁), State Secretary Koichiev (科伊奇耶夫), Deputy Prime Minister Baysalov (拜萨洛夫), First Deputy Chairman of the Uzbek Senate Safayev (萨法耶夫), Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Chamber Khakimov (哈基莫夫), and Presidential Strategic Development Advisor Umurzakov (乌穆尔扎科夫), among others.
All sectors of the two countries spoke highly of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, expressing their willingness to deepen exchanges of experience in state governance, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, and promote the building of a human community with a shared future.
Return to TopOn January 31st, the China-Vietnam Youth Science and Technology Exchange Activity, themed "Technology Hand-in-Hand, Friendship Together," was held in Pingxiang City (凭祥市), Guangxi (广西). During the event, the youth of both countries deepened their friendship through visits to smart ports, artificial intelligence practices, and interactive science and technology projects.
The picture shows Chinese and Vietnamese youth interacting with an artificial intelligence robot.
By Pang Geping (庞革平) and Pang Haiwen (庞海文).
Return to TopMaputo, January 31 (Xinhua) -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi (查波) attended the completion ceremony of a graphite processing plant invested and constructed by a Chinese-funded enterprise in Niassa Province (尼亚萨省), northern Mozambique, on January 31. He said that the completion of the processing plant embodies the pragmatic results of Mozambique-China economic and trade cooperation.
Nyusi (查波) said that the graphite processing plant will help Mozambique change its single development model of exporting raw materials, promote the export of high value-added products, thereby creating jobs for the people, increasing household income, and promoting sustainable economic development.
The project was initiated, invested, and constructed by the Chinese-funded Jinan Yuxiao Group (济南域潇集团), with a total investment of approximately 150 million US dollars and a planned annual output of 200,000 tons of graphite.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强 沈靖然 王 丹
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during the 24th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee: "Cultivating and developing future industries is of great significance for seizing the high ground in science, technology, and industry, grasping the initiative in development, developing new quality productive forces, building a modern industrial system, improving the quality of people's lives, and promoting the all-round development of individuals and overall social progress."
3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is an emerging manufacturing technology that uses digital models as a basis to build physical objects by layering materials. It is an important force in promoting the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces in China and a new growth point for the development of future industries. From medical devices and building materials to ceramic crafts, 3D printing technology is being applied in various industries, accelerating its integration into production and life, and adding color to economic and social development and people's well-being.
——Editor
More Precise Medical Devices
"Doctor, will veneers damage my teeth?" a patient asked in the clinic of Peking University School of Stomatology (北京大学口腔医院). Dr. Sun Yuchun (孙玉春) introduced the veneer sample: "This zirconia veneer is only 80 microns thick. Using it to repair teeth requires almost no grinding, which can greatly reduce damage to the enamel."
How was this ultra-thin veneer created? "Previously, the thinnest veneers made using traditional machining were 300 microns," said Yang Fei (杨斐), Vice President of MolecuTech Precision Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆摩方精密科技股份有限公司). The company used 3D printing technology to significantly reduce the thickness of the veneers.
In the MolecuTech Precision production workshop located in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area (重庆两江新区), a series of mask projection micro stereolithography equipment operates quietly. Ultraviolet beams are precisely projected onto the surface of photosensitive zirconia slurry with an accuracy of 2 microns, and the physical object is layered according to the three-dimensional digital model of the veneer. After more than 20 processes, the translucent veneer is born.
The difficulty in developing this ultra-thin veneer lies in simultaneously overcoming three major challenges: materials, equipment, and processes. "First is the zirconia slurry, which must ensure that the fluidity is suitable for printing and that it can maintain strength after sintering; second, the 3D printer needs to achieve micron-level tolerance control; and creating a medical-grade clean production environment is even more difficult," said Yang Fei (杨斐).
Technical problems are overcome through industry-university-research collaboration. In 2021, MolecuTech Precision (摩方精密) and Peking University School of Stomatology (北京大学口腔医院) established a joint laboratory to jointly develop 3D-printed veneers. The project was approved as a key project under the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Key R&D Program.
After thousands of experiments, researchers used mask projection micro stereolithography equipment to optimize the process in a targeted manner, finally breaking through several problems and obtaining a Class III medical device registration certificate for additive manufacturing dental veneer zirconia slurry. "Using this equipment, we finally 'printed' ultra-thin veneers that we wanted to make in the past but couldn't, achieving minimal or even no-grinding repair," said Liu Yunsong (刘云松), Director of the Department of Prosthodontics at Peking University School of Stomatology (北京大学口腔医院口腔修复科主任).
What is the prospect of 3D-printed medical devices? This still needs market verification.
The vigorously developing advanced new materials industrial cluster in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area (重庆两江新区) provides important support for 3D-printed medical devices to enter the market. "Currently, more than 100 dental hospitals and clinics in China have introduced this product, and more than 10,000 pieces of veneer material will be exported abroad in 2025," said Yang Fei (杨斐).
It's not just veneer products. In terms of thrombus treatment, the 3D-printed spiral magnetic robot is only 2.15 mm in diameter and can autonomously navigate to the location of the thrombus in blood vessels; in terms of glaucoma treatment, 3D-printed drainage devices can greatly simplify traditional surgical procedures... Today, 3D printing technology is exploring more possibilities in the medical field.
Creative Architectural Design
At the southern end of the central axis of the Rongdong area (容东片区) of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei Province, a comprehensive cultural space called "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) stands tall.
This cultural space has a total construction area of approximately 23,000 square meters and is equipped with a multi-functional theater, lecture hall, office, and commercial space. In the future, it will be used to meet the cultural and living needs of the people in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区). The main building has giant curved surfaces on both wings, and its shape is like a white egret spreading its wings, which is flexible and beautiful. The surface is also designed with complex water ripple textures and color gradients. The inspiration comes from Ouyang Xiu's (欧阳修) "Picking Mulberries" (《采桑子》): "A little white egret flies over Cangzhou."
As one of the largest architectural 3D printing application projects in China, "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) demonstrates the advantages of new quality productive forces. "It is difficult to adapt its unique shape using traditional techniques," said Zhao Yiqing (赵奕清), architect of the "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) project at the Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tongji University (Group) Co., Ltd. (同济大学建筑设计研究院（集团）有限公司). "Therefore, the project uses 3D-printed components to build the exterior facade of the wings to achieve the precise implementation of complex shapes and design implications."
In the early stage, in order to ensure the large-scale application of new technologies, the project party conducted rounds of detailed and in-depth demonstrations: discussing the feasibility of 3D printing technology, simulating construction through computers, and conducting performance tests on 1:1 scale samples... Today, at the construction site, it can be seen that the main structure of "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) has been completed, and workers are standing on aerial vehicles to install the printed colored building components on the steel structure of the main building.
These components come in part from the "capsule factory" on the first floor of the "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) main building. There, a huge robotic arm 3D printer works 24 hours a day, and the components produced can be used on-site.
"This printer uses modified plastic as the main material, and the printed components are all double-curved hollow structures," said Meng Yuan (孟媛), chief engineer of Shanghai Yizao Technology Co., Ltd. (上海一造科技有限公司), the 3D printing technology consultant for the "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) project. There are also multiple 3D printers working simultaneously at the company's production base in Shanghai. Each of the more than 4,000 components required for the project is unique in size and curvature.
"It is worth mentioning that the modified plastic used for 3D-printed components is a recyclable material, which is green and environmentally friendly," said Meng Yuan (孟媛). As a demonstration project selected for the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Key R&D Program, "Wings of Xiong'an" (雄安之翼) will be completed in September this year. At that time, it will not only play a demonstration role in the fields of intelligent construction and green construction, but also bring a heavy sense of gain to the cultural life of the masses.
Ceramic Technology Adds Vitality
Pulling, trimming, dipping glaze, swinging glaze... Jingdezhen (景德镇) porcelain in Jiangxi Province has a saying that "seventy-two hands are required to make a utensil." The birth of each exquisite porcelain requires complex and meticulous processes, and it is extremely difficult to achieve integrated molding by hand throughout the entire process. At present, artistic creation pursues complex internal and external structures, high precision, and personalized expression, which puts higher demands on ceramic production.
3D printing technology has given new vitality to ceramic design and production.
Walking into the intelligent manufacturing workshop of Weici Technology (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd. (微瓷科技（江西）有限公司), a series of equipment nozzles precisely spray binder onto the flattened white powder according to digital instructions, layering it layer by layer, and a complex component gradually takes shape. On the other side, technicians gently "dig out" a complete and undamaged porcelain blank from the completed printing powder pile. This is the high-precision ceramic binder jetting additive manufacturing technology independently developed by Weici Technology (微瓷科技).
"This technology has achieved three major breakthroughs," said Huang Wancheng (黄万成), general manager of Weici Technology (微瓷科技): more precise, the printing layer thickness can be reduced to 0.1 mm; more stable, the sintering shrinkage rate is controlled within 1%, which solves the pain point of easy deformation during the firing of complex ceramic devices; easier to mass-produce, it can not only meet personalized customization, but also achieve small-batch flexible production.
Traditional ceramic product production requires mold opening, and the minimum order quantity is generally two to three hundred pieces, while 3D printing can be directly printed without molds. This enables ceramic designers to quickly transform creativity into physical objects at a lower cost and conduct market testing, thereby improving the flexibility and market adaptability of ceramic product development.
In the company's exhibition hall, a wide variety of 3D-printed ceramic products, such as fashionable accessories and trendy dolls, showcase the charm of "technology + ceramics." "Technological empowerment allows ceramic art to further open up high value-added space," said Huang Wancheng (黄万成).
3D printing technology has also expanded the learning and research space for ceramic making techniques.
Weici Technology (微瓷科技) has a fixed practice teaching and employment base for Jingdezhen Ceramic University (景德镇陶瓷大学), and also cooperates with universities such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院) and the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院) to carry out research and exchange activities and joint creation projects, becoming an active "industry-university-research" intersection.
"We regularly open visits to teachers and students of universities, hold technical lectures, and also provide proofing services to support their research projects," said Huang Wancheng (黄万成). This in-depth cooperation allows future ceramic designers to familiarize themselves with and use digital manufacturing tools as early as possible, helping to realize whimsical ideas and expanding the application boundaries of ceramics.
Huang Shengquan (黄声权), a student at Jingdezhen Ceramic University (景德镇陶瓷大学), is a beneficiary. The ceramic aroma diffuser he designed has a hollow design on the upper layer and a complex internal structure. If traditional techniques are used, the mold cost is high, time-consuming, and the hollow effect is difficult to guarantee. Finally, in cooperation with Weici Technology (微瓷科技), 3D printing technology enabled this idea to be quickly realized and enter the market.
New technology ignites "new kiln fire." 3D printing has opened up a broad space for creative transformation and innovative development for the ancient art of ceramic making.
This issue coordinated by: Liu Jingwen (刘静文)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on January 31st (Reporter Liu Yang (刘阳)): On January 31st, the China Media Group's (中央广播电视总台) 2026 Spring Festival Gala successfully completed its third rehearsal. The branch venues in Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), and Yibin (宜宾), Sichuan (四川) made their debut, completing a combined rehearsal with the main venue in Beijing (北京).
The main venue's programs integrate innovative and creative expressions, allowing ancient charm and national style to appear in a more interactive, empathetic, and contemporary way. The singing and creative show "Ode to the Flower Goddess" uses "flowers" as its imagery, creating a visual spectacle through artificial intelligence-generated images and real-scene stage expansion technology, presenting the natural interest of the changing seasons. The song "Small Family Every Year" incorporates the melodious singing of Suzhou (苏州) Pingtan (评弹), singing the warm and bustling "small family," the thriving "big family," and the beautiful expectations for the future. The opera program integrates and recreates classic repertoires such as Peking Opera (京剧), Ping Opera (评剧), Yue Opera (越剧), Cantonese Opera (粤剧), and Henan Opera (豫剧), singing the beautiful scene of spring shining all over the pear garden.
The four branch venues each have their own unique charm. The Harbin (哈尔滨) branch venue integrates performing songs, symphony orchestras, ballet, and other performance forms, connecting urban landmarks with story-telling expressions. The Yiwu (义乌) branch venue sets up its main stage in the Global Digital Trade Center (全球数贸中心), incorporating local elements such as rattle drums, Wu Opera (婺剧), and welcoming dragon lanterns into the performance. Above the main stage of the Hefei (合肥) branch venue, Luogang Park (骆岗公园), low-altitude aircrafts fly in formation, fully demonstrating the charm of technology and humanity. The Yibin (宜宾) branch venue takes the mighty river view of the "First City of the Yangtze River" (万里长江第一城) as its backdrop, with the folk custom of "inviting spring wine" running through the entire event, and laughter and songs filling the banks of the three rivers and six shores.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on January 31st (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) It was learned from the 18th National Socialist Academy Presidents Conference held on January 31st that in 2025, the Central Academy of Socialism (中央社院) held 184 training sessions throughout the year, training 13,500 students, an increase of 30% over the previous year, reaching a record high, and achieving full coverage of training for 12 categories of united front work objects, united front cadres, and united front theoretical research talents. National provincial-level academies of socialism and sub-provincial city academies of socialism held more than 3,200 training sessions throughout the year, training nearly 240,000 students, an increase of 7% and 14% respectively over the previous year, and the training coverage was significantly expanded.
The Central Academy of Socialism (中央社院) adheres to focusing on the center and serving the overall situation. While running the original main training sessions well, it has increased the training efforts to directly serve the overall work of the Party and the country. Among them, it has trained more than 3,160 representatives of the private economy, an increase of 1.4 times over the previous year, and nearly 1,000 new social class people, an increase of 1.7 times over the previous year.
It is understood that since 2016, the Central Academy of Socialism (中央社院) has held more than 1,350 various types of training courses, including advanced study classes, training courses, special seminars, and national conditions study courses, training nearly 90,000 representatives from various fields of the united front. The 47 national provincial-level academies of socialism and sub-provincial city academies of socialism have trained more than 1.1 million people. The Central Academy of Socialism (中央社院) and local academies of socialism have also trained more than 1 million people online through online academies, achieving expanded coverage, increased volume, improved quality, and enhanced efficiency in education and training.
The year 2026 is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Central Socialist Academy (中央社会主义学院). As the main front for the education and training of united front talents led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the Central Socialist Academy (中央社会主义学院) will carry out a series of characteristic activities to show the academy's history, school-running achievements, and future development in stages, three-dimensionally, and panoramically, so as to promote the academy to better integrate into the overall work of the Party and the country at a new starting point and better serve the development of the united front cause in the new era.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on January 31st (Reporter Li Shuo (李硕)) On January 31st, in the 2026 Australian Open Women's Doubles final, 37-year-old Chinese player Zhang Shuai (张帅), partnered with Belgian player Mertens, tenaciously fought back from a 1-4 deficit in the first set, eventually defeating Danilina (达尼丽娜) (Kazakhstan)/Krunic (克鲁尼奇) (Serbia) with a score of 7-6 (4), 6-4 to win the championship. This is Zhang Shuai's (张帅) second Australian Open Women's Doubles title after winning the title with Australian star Stosur (斯托瑟) in 2019, and also Zhang Shuai's (张帅) third Grand Slam Women's Doubles title.
In the women's singles final of the wheelchair tennis lower limb group held on the same day, Chinese player Li Xiaohui (李晓辉) defeated Dutch star de Groot (德格鲁特) with a score of 6-1, 6-2, winning her first Grand Slam singles title in wheelchair tennis, becoming a double champion in wheelchair tennis at this year's Australian Open. In the match the previous day, the Chinese team Wang Ziying (王紫莹)/Li Xiaohui (李晓辉) defended their wheelchair tennis women's doubles title.
In the women's singles final held on the same day, Kazakh player Rybakina (莱巴金娜) defeated Belarusian player Sabalenka (萨巴伦卡) with a score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, winning her first Australian Open singles title, which is also her second Grand Slam singles title.
Return to TopJanuary 31st, the 2026 Qinhu Bay (溱湖湾) Winter Fishing Festival was held in Qinhu Bay (溱湖湾), Jiangyan District (姜堰区), Taizhou City (泰州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). The lively scene attracted citizens and tourists to watch. The picture shows the scene of the winter fishing activity on that day.
Photo by Gu Jihong (顾继红) (Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘博通 姜晓丹 窦 皓
In the night sky, drones stage a light and shadow feast; on low-altitude routes, unmanned delivery "flash delivery" arrives directly; in sightseeing areas, "air taxis" make a stunning appearance, bringing a new travel experience... The low-altitude economy is constantly unlocking new scenarios and new applications, rapidly entering people's vision.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests accelerating the development of strategic emerging industry clusters such as new energy, new materials, aerospace, and the low-altitude economy. New industries, new opportunities, and the booming low-altitude economy have attracted a large number of young people to invest in it. Recently, reporters approached young people who are striving and growing on the low-altitude economy track, listening to them tell stories of "low-altitude" accumulation and riding the wind.
"Only by maintaining a keen sense of industry development changes can we keep up with the pace of development"
As night falls, the lights come on. Thousands of drones slowly rise into the night sky, arranged and combined like stars, transforming into magnificent patterns... On the ground, Sun Jinggui (孙景贵), born after 2000, stares at the computer screen, his fingers dancing quickly on the keyboard. As a drone swarm flight planner for Qianji Technology Group (千机科技集团), he is one of the behind-the-scenes "directors" of this light and shadow feast.
Sun Jinggui's connection with drones began in college. "My major in school was drone application technology, and when I first started working, I did drone plant protection," Sun Jinggui said. Later, he chose a more "cool" track - drone formation performance.
However, behind the glamorous performance lies meticulousness and hardship. "Each performance has to be prepared a month in advance. From the national allocation of materials, centralized charging of batteries, to flight path planning and on-site process control, every link tests the team's collaboration and expertise."
For each performance, Sun Jinggui and his colleagues often arrive at the site 4 hours in advance. How the trucks enter the site, where to unload the goods, how to place the drones, how to build the control console... Every detail needs to be precisely coordinated. "One to two hours before the flight, we have to debug all the equipment, turn on the batteries in advance, and all the power has been precisely calculated and screened."
"Seeing the patterns on the PPT turn into paintings in the air, this sense of accomplishment makes me 'addicted' and is also the reason why I love this industry," Sun Jinggui said.
6 p.m., Binjiang (滨江), Hangzhou (杭州). A drone urgently takes off in the hazy night, while the roads are densely packed with traffic.
Lakeside Branch of Hangzhou First People's Hospital (杭州市第一人民医院湖滨院区), a pregnant woman had a premature birth leading to severe bleeding, urgently needing a blood transfusion. It was the evening rush hour, and navigation showed that it would take at least 40 minutes from the Zhejiang Provincial Blood Center (浙江省血液中心) to the hospital. Every second faster the delivery, the patient has one more point of safety. At this time, a normalized low-altitude route from the blood station to the hospital solved the urgent need.
After receiving the hospital's request, Chen Jinhang (陈金航), a post-2000s drone operations engineer at Hangzhou Xunyi Network Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州迅蚁网络科技有限公司), quickly dispatched a drone to depart from the blood station. Sending a take-off command from the cloud, the drone automatically takes off and gradually climbs upward... Inside the monitoring center of the operations backend, Chen Jinhang is fully focused. As the drone smoothly passes through the city's airspace and steadily lands on the hospital's helipad - the process only took more than 10 minutes. That night, Chen Jinhang completed 3 transportation missions from the blood station to the hospital, providing a guarantee for the pregnant woman's rescue.
"What we do is not dealing with cold machines, but a particularly warm and fulfilling thing," Chen Jinhang said, the full-process operation and maintenance management of drones, the design and development of drone routes, etc. are his main tasks.
"When a drone rises into the sky, it doesn't just fly directly from point A to point B," Chen Jinhang introduced, the route needs to avoid key areas such as high-speed rail stations, school gas stations, etc., and also consider mountain signal coverage, mountain peak valley wind effects, etc. After the route is initially planned, it needs to be modified multiple times and tested in the field to ensure accuracy. "This is an emerging industry, there is still a lot of new knowledge and new technologies to learn, only by maintaining a keen sense of industry development changes can we keep up with the pace of development," Chen Jinhang said.
"Details determine success or failure, we must both 'fly high' and 'fly steadily'"
Huangpu District (黄埔区), Guangzhou (广州), in the test flight field of EHang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (亿航智能技术有限公司), a tourist sat in the EH216-S manned unmanned aerial vehicle. After preparation, the aircraft rose vertically, the rotor cut through the blue sky, and headed towards the preset route.
In the ground control center, the light of the screen reflected on Liu Chang's (刘畅) focused face - flight altitude, battery status, real-time trajectory, etc., are all data he is concerned about. As the company's senior product manager, Liu Chang's daily work spans hardware design, software interaction, airworthiness certification and even air traffic control system design, he often jokingly calls himself a "cross-border worker."
In 2015, Liu Chang graduated from Tsinghua University (清华大学). Over the years, he has witnessed the evolution of models from consumer-grade aerial photography equipment to industry applications and even manned flight. "At first, we made consumer machines controlled by mobile phone APP, then logistics drones, and now manned machines - each stage is a dual breakthrough in technology and scenarios."
Liu Chang's career has also been constantly transformed with the evolution of products. He has gradually shifted from an engineer writing software programs to product planning and management. In his opinion, the product manager of the drone industry must be both a "technical translator" and a "scenario designer", who must understand both code and hardware, as well as operation and policy.
From airspeed calibration, battery thermal runaway emergency plans, to the design of ground control stations and the compilation of flight manuals, Liu Chang and his team have overcome many technical and management problems. "Every arc and every interface of the aircraft is not only for aesthetics, but also for safety, efficiency and user experience." Liu Chang said with deep feeling, "We must ensure that every link from design, manufacturing, operation to emergency disposal can stand the test."
Every breakthrough in application is inseparable from the "technical support" at the R&D level, and the value of R&D also needs to be verified in front-line scenarios.
Yandu Technology Flight Base (远度科技飞行基地) in Yanqing District (延庆区), Beijing (北京), the outdoor cold wind is biting, and Ding Congying (丁聪颖) and his colleagues are preparing a flight test of a vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing drone.
Born in 1997, Ding Congying joined Beijing Yandu Interconnection Technology Co., Ltd. (北京远度互联科技有限公司) after graduating in 2019. "Starting from a front-line drone pilot, I have successively participated in the R&D and testing of more than 20 types of equipment such as vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing and multi-rotor, and participated in the delivery and training of drones in various industries." Over the past few years, Ding Congying has grown into the company's deputy manager of the flight department and the head of the Yanqing flight test base.
Adjusting technical parameters in the ground station software, planning test routes, conducting complete pre-flight checks, and confirming airspace, Ding Congying pressed the take-off button. "Buzz--" As the rotor began to rotate, the drone quickly lifted off the ground and climbed. "Arrive at the predetermined altitude, start automatic flight and payload function test." Ding Congying's eyes were fixed on the screen, constantly observing data such as altitude, attitude, power, and wind speed. Not far away, another team member held the remote control, closely monitoring the drone's aerial trajectory, in case of emergency takeover.
"In recent years, customer needs have become increasingly diverse. The combination of drone + functional payload allows drones to be used in emergency rescue, power patrol, surveying and mapping, and other fields." Ding Congying introduced that the focus of the flight test phase is on trial and error and polishing. "For example, when testing the multi-rotor multi-machine joint lifting application, we need to explore the collaborative operation logic under different loads and different conditions. Our team repeatedly test-flew at the test site, recording data from morning to night, and even a slight abnormality must be rigorously reviewed and no hidden dangers left."
"Details determine success or failure, we must both 'fly high' and 'fly steadily'." In order to verify the reliability of drones in different altitudes and climatic conditions, Ding Congying has been traveling to different provinces in recent years, and being exposed to wind and sun is the norm. "Being able to participate in and witness the 'from 0 to 1' process time and time again, I feel that my efforts are very meaningful," Ding Congying said.
"This is an industry where young people can personally participate in shaping the future"
In recent years, the low-altitude economy has taken off, bringing broad prospects for young people to ride the wind. Development and change, harvest and growth, have become high-frequency words in the interview.
In Ding Congying's view, with the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, today's drones have become "all-rounders", which can not only add convenience to daily life, but also provide assistance to the production field.
"Taking power patrol as an example, traditional power transmission line patrols are mostly manual walking or tower climbing operations, which are not only inefficient, but also have safety risks of field operations and high-altitude operations, especially in mountainous and remote areas, the patrol difficulty is extremely high." Ding Congying introduced that drones equipped with high-definition zoom cameras, infrared thermal imagers and lidar and other equipment can achieve fully automatic patrol of power transmission lines and detect safety hazards in a timely manner.
"In this rapidly developing industry, we are experiencing and witnessing changes every day." Ding Congying said, "I believe this industry can provide rich possibilities for the growth and development of young people."
Having been in the industry for 3 years, Sun Jinggui has participated in more than 200 drone performances. With the country vigorously promoting the development of the low-altitude economy, Sun Jinggui has personally felt the changes in the market: "Not only has the domestic performance demand increased greatly, but also the opportunities to go abroad are increasing. In the past 3 years, I have participated in fifty or sixty overseas performances."
As a post-00s, Sun Jinggui feels that he "happens to be standing on the cusp of the trend." "The low-altitude economy is taking off, I believe in this industry, and I also believe that I can grow with the industry."
The technological updates of the low-altitude economy are changing with each passing day, and the constantly expanding application scenarios also put forward higher requirements for the professional quality and interdisciplinary comprehensive ability of practitioners.
"The low-altitude economy we are talking about now has developed into a systematic ecosystem." Liu Chang exemplified that consumer-grade drones meet personal creativity and entertainment; industry-grade drones go deep into agricultural plant protection, fire patrol, logistics and distribution, and other fields; and manned unmanned aerial vehicles are opening up new scenarios such as short-distance sightseeing, emergency rescue, and urban commuting.
For young people, Liu Chang believes that this industry is full of opportunities: "Whether it is engineering technology, product design, operation management or policy research, more young talents are needed to join. This is an industry where young people can personally participate in shaping the future - the code you write, the design drawings you draw, and the processes you develop may all become part of the low-altitude economy, and I look forward to more young people joining in."
(Related videos can be found in the "Experience" column of People's Daily Online (人民网).)
Return to TopBy: 刘博通
In the low altitude, opportunities are limitless. In an interview, the reporter saw that with the continuous release of relevant policy dividends, many technologies in the low-altitude economy have achieved breakthroughs, and application scenarios cover many fields. A rapidly developing industry needs a large number of compound talents, providing a vast "blue ocean" for young people to give full play to their talents and realize their self-worth. Whether it is participating in research and development to improve technology, or promoting new low-altitude technology and equipment to thousands of households, young people in different positions are using the technological pen in their hands to inject new momentum and new advantages into emerging industries.
New opportunities also contain new challenges. Technological updates are changing with each passing day, which puts forward higher requirements for the abilities of practitioners. The new track of the low-altitude economy is becoming increasingly broad, calling for more and more young people to rise "with the wind" and move "towards the new," grow in hard work, and become talents in innovation. 日新月异 (rì xīn yuè yì - "daily new monthly different," changing rapidly; improving with each passing day).
Return to TopBy: 易舒冉
"This year I want to bring my parents to celebrate the New Year with me," "My parents have never seen the sea, I want to take them on a trip to see the sea during the New Year"... As the Spring Festival approaches, "Where to celebrate the New Year" has become a hot topic among young people. Unlike their parents' preference for "nesting" reunions, more and more young people are choosing "reverse reunions," such as bringing their elders to their own cities or traveling with their parents, injecting new forms into traditional reunions.
There are many practical considerations behind young people's choice of "reverse reunions," and "social pressure" is one of them. Some netizens say that after a busy year, returning home is supposed to be a warm moment to comfort homesickness and chat with family, but the wage "interrogations," marriage and childbearing urgings, and car and house inquiries among relatives and friends often turn a relaxing holiday into a passive "test," making the originally pleasant Spring Festival anxious and tiring. "Reverse reunions," pursuing a purer and more relaxed companionship, instead allow young people to be more calm and comfortable.
In fact, "reverse reunions" are also a positive expression of affection and reunion by young people. Growing up in an open and diverse era, young people, while yearning for holiday reunions, often pursue more personalized lifestyles and rhythms. Compared to the "whirlwind" New Year visits after returning home, more and more young people yearn for high-quality, in-depth companionship with their parents, allowing affection to settle and warm up in undisturbed interaction.
Letting parents experience life in their working cities enhances mutual understanding and communication; taking parents on trips to enjoy quiet and leisurely time makes up for the regret of not having time to accompany them on weekdays; even if they choose "cloud reunions" due to busy studies or careers, it is to send a greeting and chat across the screen. These new forms of "reverse reunions" by young people make companionship more heartfelt and are a return to the essence of reunion.
Society is developing, technology is advancing, and concepts are changing. Furthermore, "reverse reunions" are not only a change in the festival mode of the younger generation but also a product of the evolution of the times. The increasing convenience of transportation networks and digital services, the rapid development of age-appropriate supporting services in cities, as well as the inclusiveness of the social atmosphere and the transformation of the connotation of "going home for the New Year," have all eliminated barriers to this journey.
"Reverse reunions" only change the geographical coordinates of reunion, but the taste of affection remains the same. The creative inheritance of traditional customs ultimately aims to make "spending a comfortable year with loved ones" more feasible. Some people lament that in the past, the New Year was entirely arranged by parents, and young people only needed to go home and be "hands-off shopkeepers"; now, young people take the initiative to plan, so that parents can worry less, relax more, and enjoy the children's care and companionship. In this regard, "reverse reunions" also provide young people with an opportunity to express filial piety to their parents.
Reunion has no fixed place, peace of mind is home. The red lanterns on the streets have already been hung up, and festive New Year music is playing in a loop in shopping malls, and the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger day by day. The focus of New Year reunions is never "which home to return to," but "where the family is, that is where the home is," and heartfelt companionship is far warmer than rigid forms. "Reverse reunions" also have the warm appearance of reunion.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁雅诵
"Let us go to Yan'an (延安) together, following in the footsteps of our predecessors, and step into that glorious era." Before the departure of the "Seeking Red Education Path, Telling BIT's Service to the Country" practice team of Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学), Li Jinxin (李锦鑫), a doctoral student from the School of Marxism, told the team members about the school's red traditions to prepare for the winter vacation social practice.
This winter, another group of BIT students are ready to go. They finalized plans, packed their bags, and headed to old revolutionary areas, the front lines of national defense, and rural grassroots areas in the forms of "returning to their hometowns," "red research and study," and "grassroots service," embarking on journeys of growth that combine knowledge and action.
"Whatever the country needs, we will overcome; whatever society expects, we will respond to. This is the concept that the school's social practice has always followed." Zhou Daichen (周迨琛), Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学团委), introduced that the school has innovatively constructed and deeply practiced a two-way docking and empowerment mechanism of "localities propose questions, youth answer," to ensure that every practical project is closely linked to "real needs, real problems, and real actions." First, "propose questions" accurately. The school links multiple networks to solicit specific and urgent practical problems in economic and social development from the grassroots level and publishes them to students through the school platform. Second, "select topics" in both directions. Hold social practice "double selection meetings" to encourage students to "take charge" across majors and invite the question proposers to communicate with the team face-to-face. Third, "answer questions" systematically. After the team project is approved, it can receive guidance from mentors, resource support, and security guarantees, and continuously track feedback during the practice process.
"Traditional weeding requires four people to work all day on one mu of land, but with our robot, it can be completed in two hours!" On the edge of the experimental field in Chifeng City (赤峰市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Wang Yuxing (王宇行), the head of the BIT "Heguang Intelligence" team, demonstrated the intelligent weeding robot to farmers. This team "revealed the list" of "real questions" from the local agricultural cooperative through the "double selection meeting" and integrated knowledge of communication principles, mechanical design, and other fields into field solutions.
In order to enable the robot to accurately identify crops and weeds, they observed on the ridges throughout the summer and collected more than 5,000 sets of image data; when parts were missing, they drew their own drawings and performed 3D printing... Finally, the robot's comprehensive weeding efficiency increased by 21.3%, and it can also be monitored in real time through a mobile phone APP. The solution was directly adopted by the enterprise.
In practice, the direction of life becomes clearer. The "Retracing the Yan'an Road, Replicating Radio" team resonated professional knowledge with red history by restoring communication equipment from the revolutionary era; the "Yunli Science" popular science team, which rushed to Xinjiang (新疆), Yunnan (云南), and Shanxi (山西), lit up the scientific dreams of rural children with 30 class hours of perseverance... These practices transformed young people from "learners" into "doers," tempering their growth in the process of serving the country and society.
"In the next stage, BIT will further deepen the 'walking ideological and political class' system to form a practical education chain that runs throughout the year." Yang Fan (杨帆), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学党委), said that at the same time, efforts will be made to promote the transformation of practical observations into policy recommendations and service decisions; optimize practical solutions into innovative projects and give back to teaching and research; and internalize practical insights into value identity and aspirations to serve the country.
"What the university gives to young people is not only knowledge accumulation, but also the mission and responsibility to anchor the country and the striving power to integrate into the era," Yang Fan (杨帆) said.
By: 本报记者 金正波
The sea is wide and the clouds are gentle, waves surge into the naval port. On the deck of the Honghe Ship (红河舰), a "dialogue meeting between new and veteran sailors" is underway. The crew members are dressed in sailor uniforms, standing tall and neatly lined up.
"This year marks the 60th anniversary of the naming of the 'Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)'. I hope you will carry on the red bloodline, inherit the heroic spirit, bravely venture into the deep blue, and sing triumphant songs!" Wang Muchang (王木昌), a veteran crew member of the "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)" and a first-class meritorious individual, spoke powerfully, echoing across the sea and sky.
Years change, but the spirit endures. From the small boat of that time to the 4,000-ton domestically produced new-type guided-missile frigate, the "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)" has undergone five generations of inheritance, interpreting the "tiger's" prestige with each departure.
In October 2023, the Honghe Ship (红河舰) officially inherited the honorary title of "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)", embarking on a new journey as the fifth-generation "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)". Bathed in the glory of the battle flag, this unit is accelerating its transformation—from safeguarding rights and interests on the front line of the sea to escorting ships in the distant waters of the Gulf of Aden, the officers and soldiers of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) are maintaining their true colors in the continuous inheritance and writing a new chapter in the journey of strengthening the military in the new era.
"Now the equipment is more advanced, but the original aspiration and true colors cannot be changed."
"Fighting with bayonets at sea, cleaving through the crests and troughs of the waves..." Accompanied by the passionate "Song of the Maritime Tiger," stepping into the corridor of the Honghe Ship (红河舰), a series of photos and battle histories connect the glorious journey of five generations of ships.
From the days of "using small boats to fight big ships," fighting bloody battles at sea and making outstanding achievements, to October 2019, when the "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)" battle flag was reviewed by the Party and the people in Tiananmen Square (天安门广场), and then to the victorious return from escort missions in the Gulf of Aden... Every heroic story is a vivid interpretation of loyalty.
A ship with a soul can gallop across thousands of miles of sea. From nearshore defense to far sea escort, equipment is upgraded, tasks are expanded, and tracks are extended, but the belief that "wherever the Party points, we will fight" has never changed.
"Loyalty is like a compass; without it, even the most advanced warship will lose its way." At the battle flag inheritance ceremony, the ship's political commissar spoke with a resounding voice.
On the Honghe Ship (红河舰), the first lesson for new crew members is to visit the battle flag honor room. Recalling the scene when he was first assigned to the Honghe Ship (红河舰) after graduating from military school, Li Tiao (李眺), an officer of the Honghe Ship (红河舰), has vivid memories. When he first saw the "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)" battle flag, his eyes were full of awe, and he secretly made up his mind: "The honor that our predecessors exchanged with their lives must not fade in our hands."
"The equipment of the previous ships was simple, and our predecessors relied on their absolute loyalty to the Party to fight a bloody path through the rain of bullets. Now the equipment is more advanced, but the original aspiration and true colors cannot be changed. The farther we go, the more we must not deviate from the course," said Han Jianting (韩建廷), a first-class sergeant major of the Honghe Ship (红河舰).
Political firmness stems from theoretical clarity. Since taking over the ship, the ship's Party committee has always placed the task of cultivating the soul and educating people in an important position, and has regularly carried out the study of the Party's innovative theories.
Combining their practical experience, the officers and soldiers of the entire ship have transformed the results of their theoretical studies into a powerful driving force for training and preparing for war. During the escort missions, they adhered to the principle of "escorting all the way, learning all the way, and improving all the way," and combined the departure, crossing the equator, overseas docking, major festivals, and other opportunities to carry out activities such as mobilization rallies and joint study and construction, continuously strengthening the internal consciousness of holding high the tiger battle flag and inheriting the loyal bloodline.
After an educational activity, Li Tiao (李眺) wrote in his diary: "Loyalty is not an abstract slogan, but a belief imprinted in the depths of the soul, and the courage to take responsibility in times of crisis."
The ship's political commissar keeps a stack of special letters in his drawer—these are replies from old heroes such as Hua Keyi (华克毅) to the new generation of "Tiger successors." "You must inherit the spirit of the Maritime Tiger and guard the sea frontier for the motherland," "Seeing the new type of warship galloping across the ocean, we old sailors are extremely proud"... The earnest exhortations between the lines encourage the officers and soldiers to forge ahead.
Since its commissioning, the Honghe Ship (红河舰) has regularly organized "dialogue meetings between new and veteran sailors" and "battle flag leads my growth" discussion meetings, and conducted letter dialogues and video connection activities with veterans during the August 1st Army Day and naval battle memorial days, deepening the understanding of the original aspiration and mission in the collision of ideas.
"Sailing thousands of miles, the direction commanded by the Party is the direction of advancement. This loyalty is the root of the 'Tiger successors.' Losing the root means losing the soul!" During a "dialogue meeting between new and veteran sailors," the words of Yang Jinxing (杨进兴), a veteran of the second-generation "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)", were deeply imprinted in the minds of the officers and soldiers.
On the "Hero List" in the cultural corridor, the deeds of the old heroes are juxtaposed with the meritorious photos of the officers and soldiers of the new era, constantly reminding the crew members: to carry on the red bloodline, we must not only remember history, but also practice it at all times.
"Skills are not just empty talk; they are honed in actual combat and training."
In the depths of winter, in a certain sea area of the East China Sea, the first actual combat exercise of the new year for the Honghe Ship (红河舰) formation is in full swing.
In the air, "enemy" aircraft launch multiple waves of surprise attacks; on the surface, "enemy" ships conduct covert harassment; underwater, "enemy" submarines ambush in their positions... Facing multiple threats, the officers and soldiers of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) respond quickly, and each battle position closely coordinates to successfully resolve the "dangerous situation."
Transformation means metamorphosis, but it also means a comprehensive improvement in capabilities. The development history of the "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)" is a powerful testament to the modernization of the People's Navy.
In one naval battle, the second-generation "Maritime Tiger Boat (海上猛虎艇)" closely cooperated with fraternal ships to launch a fierce attack on the enemy ship. During the battle, the resistor of the main gun's cooling water pipe was broken by the shock, and the gun could stop firing at any time due to overheating. Wang Muchang (王木昌), the then-chief of the engine squad, rushed into the rear engine room with a high temperature of more than 50 degrees Celsius, and pressed the resistor tightly with both hands, and the cooling water was re-pressurized. He gritted his teeth and persevered until the end of the battle.
"Skills are not just empty talk; they are honed in actual combat and training!" At the beginning of the formation, the officers and soldiers of the entire ship formed a high degree of consensus that they must temper their bloodiness into their bones and hone their skills to the extreme in actual combat and training.
Han Qiang (韩强), the captain of the main gun area who served on the third-generation Tiger Boat, has a deeper understanding of inheriting the "Maritime Tiger Spirit" of "bravery, tenacity, and the determination to win."
Before a main gun shooting assessment, the sea conditions suddenly deteriorated, the visibility decreased, and the target appeared and disappeared in the waves. Some young soldiers panicked: "Squad leader, the conditions are too bad, we can't see clearly, we can't hit at all."
Han Qiang (韩强) said calmly: "The revolutionary predecessors honed their confidence in charging in the smoke of gunpowder. What is this wind and wave to us?" With more than ten years of honed skills, he completed the actions from aiming, loading to firing in one go. The old soldiers set an example, and the new soldiers bravely strived for the first place. On the day of the assessment, the shells roared out and achieved excellent results of hitting the target for the first time and hitting 10 out of 12 shots in unfamiliar waters.
Bloodiness is not recklessness, but the courage to face gaps and make up for shortcomings; skills are not empty talk, but the ability to be proficient in military affairs, strengthen capabilities, and dare to fight and win.
During one voyage, Han Jianting (韩建廷) led young crew members to troubleshoot a fault in the engine room at a high temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius. While debugging the equipment, Han Jianting (韩建廷) imparted his experience. He has served on three generations of "Maritime Tiger Boats (海上猛虎艇)", and the more than 10 scars on his arms caused by repairing equipment are impressive.
When he enlisted in the army, Han Jianting (韩建廷), who was not highly educated, relied on the "stupid" method of "chasing the instructors to ask questions during the day and studying the drawings under the lights at night" to master the operating principles of weapons and equipment. Today, he is already a "technical expert" and chief sergeant of the detachment.
"We must combine heroic courage with professional skills, and we must not only dare to fight and charge, but also be good at fighting and winning." Under his leadership, the young officers and soldiers used the gaps between training to draw pipeline diagrams and summarize fault handling methods, and more than 30 optimization suggestions were incorporated into the training program.
Once, when performing a mission, they encountered a strong typhoon, and the huge waves hit the bow of the ship, making a deafening noise, and the warship shook violently between the crests and troughs of the waves.
Liu Ziyuan (刘子媛), a young female helmsman, held the helm tightly with both hands, and her clothes were soaked with sweat. She said: "The predecessors were able to win battles in harsh conditions, and we can also complete tasks in complex environments!"
The combat activity log of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) records the crew's multiple experiences of confronting opponents. Facing provocations, the officers and soldiers of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) did not give an inch, and through precise ship maneuvers, they firmly grasped the initiative in the struggle and resolutely defended national sovereignty with practical actions.
"Competition is a contest of hard power, but also a competition of innovation ability."
In the corridor of the Honghe Ship (红河舰), there is a countdown sign for the centenary of the founding of the army. "Looking out at the distant seas and oceans, competition is a contest of hard power, but also a competition of innovation ability." As the time gets closer and closer, the crew members' sense of urgency that they cannot wait is getting stronger and stronger.
"Honor represents the past, and advancement requires even more progress!" In tasks such as combat readiness patrols and distant sea escorts, the officers and soldiers of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) dare to innovate and explore boldly, and their combat effectiveness has been improved.
"In those days, when faced with warships seized from the enemy, the predecessors conducted tens of thousands of explorations without any experience. If there is no experience to follow, then create experience; if there is no precedent to follow, then become a precedent!" That year, at the ship handover mobilization meeting, the political commissar of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) ignited the officers and soldiers' passion for struggle with a speech.
The ship established an innovative teaching group, compiled its own guidance materials, and customized training programs for each officer and soldier. They repeatedly explored the operating essentials during the day and studied the structural principles of the equipment at night, and the construction of combat effectiveness entered the fast lane.
In the year after the trial voyage, the officers and soldiers of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) won the first place in the comprehensive acceptance of the "thousand-point system" equipment inspection of the same type of ship; in the basic operation skills competition of the ship training center, they won multiple individual first places and the group first place; they completed the capability generation training several months in advance, and passed the full-course training assessment with excellent results... "There is no one-size-fits-all solution, we must seize the day and strive for the best." Recalling the past, the leaders of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) sighed.
Half a year after its commissioning, the Honghe Ship (红河舰) received a pilot task for a certain reform of surface ships, focusing on solving the problem that the traditional management of surface ships is not adapted to the requirements of transformation and development.
"Where to change? How to change? Some systems have been used for decades, and generations of officers and soldiers have formed habits and produced fixed thinking. There is no precedent to refer to for reform, and there is also a risk of failure." Reviewing the beginning of the mission, the captain expressed his feelings at the time.
Only innovators advance. To this end, the ship's Party committee adhered to both breaking and establishing, highlighting the focus on managing for war and problem-oriented, and comprehensively tried out more than 10 reform points in education, combat readiness, training, and equipment, etc., the professional group training was intensive and efficient, the performance list was clear at a glance, and the quality and efficiency of equipment maintenance were greatly improved.
The effectiveness of the reform was tested in the 47th escort formation's escort mission. During the voyage of more than 50,000 nautical miles, the formation to which the Honghe Ship (红河舰) belonged safely escorted more than 100 Chinese and foreign ships.
One day in 2025, the Honghe Ship (红河舰), berthed at the Djibouti support base pier, received an order from its superiors to go to the Red Sea to rescue a cargo ship on fire. It took only 40 minutes to set sail and rush to the designated sea area to complete the mission.
"Thank you to the People's Navy for escorting us!" During the "May Day" holiday in 2025, the Honghe Ship (红河舰) successfully escorted the cargo ship "Zhenhua 35" to a safe sea area. At the time of departure, the crew of "Zhenhua 35" waved the five-star red flag and unfurled a banner on the side of the ship that read "Thank you to the Chinese Navy for escorting us."
Fu Zhiyuan (付智渊), an officer of the Honghe Ship (红河舰), said with emotion: "The 'sea bayonet fighting' of our predecessors was to defend our country, and our escort is to maintain peace. As time changes, the mission and responsibility of the People's Navy will never fade."
Since its commissioning, the officers and soldiers of the Honghe Ship (红河舰) have overcome difficulties, made new breakthroughs, and leaped to become stronger, fearing no hardship in fighting the wind and waves, and striving to win in training and preparing for war, and have successfully completed many major tasks and been rated as an advanced "four iron" unit by the Navy.
On the electronic chart of the Honghe Ship (红河舰), the magnificent track from the near sea to the deep blue is clearly recorded. This heroic warship is forging ahead courageously on the deep blue ocean with excellent skills and pioneering spirit.
(Tian Peiyu (田沛羽) and Lin Bin (林彬) participated in the writing)
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The bugle of conscription has sounded once again. On January 15th, the National Conscription Work Video Conference was held in Beijing (北京), kicking off the new year's conscription work. This conscription focuses on college students, highlighting the recruitment of graduates from various levels and types of schools, aiming to send more high-quality soldiers to the troops.
"The motherland's mountains and rivers are so vast, they always need people to guard them." Yang Ning (杨宁), a retired soldier and student at Shandong University (山东大学), has a deep understanding of being a soldier. The altitude of four to five thousand meters in Ali (阿里), Tibet (西藏), is "very far from home, very close to the sky." He took over the steel gun to defend the country, braving the high altitude and lack of oxygen, with a splitting headache, gritting his teeth, and enduring the most difficult days, turning the patrol road of crossing snow-capped mountains and wading through ice rivers into a daily routine.
In military uniform, a lifetime of passion. Nowadays, more and more young people are choosing to put on military uniforms, imprinting "pure love, only for China" in their hearts, and jointly embarking on a "youth agreement" of blood and mission.
The military camp is a furnace for tempering will.
There is no "lying flat" comfort zone here, only solid training. Fang Xinhao (方新昊), a flight cadet, was greeted with a physical fitness "package" of long-distance running, single and double bars, rotating ladders, and rollers as soon as he arrived at the Air Force Aviation University (空军航空大学). The high-intensity training once made him feel stressed, but he chose to "compete" with himself—constantly adding extra training on the training ground, with sweat soaking his clothes every day. After more than two months of gritting his teeth and persevering, he lost more than 30 pounds, and his physical fitness scores rose sharply, eventually being named "Excellent New Training Cadet." To be a good soldier, you must learn to hold on when you are tense and withstand the pressure when you are burdened. The sweat shed and the injuries suffered are proof of growth and will bring strength that will benefit you for a lifetime.
The military camp is a hotbed for cultivating national sentiments.
Safeguarding the peace and security of the country is the common pursuit of soldiers. Buhetumuer (布和图木尔), the captain of the Bayannur Detachment of the Armed Police Inner Mongolia Corps (武警内蒙古总队巴彦淖尔支队), has been rooted in the border area for more than 20 years, helping villagers build roads and develop industries, and leading officers and soldiers to guard the peace of the area. He wrote in his diary, "It is my duty to make the land more stable and the lives of the people more secure," expressing the common aspirations of countless soldiers. With my perseverance, I promise the people peace. Safeguarding the tranquility of every "small family" is the most affectionate confession of soldiers to the country.
The military camp has a stage to display talents.
In the military, every profession and passion can find its own "battlefield." Between the sea and the sky, carrier-based aircraft pilots accompany the aircraft carrier to pursue the deep blue with the precision of "dancing on the tip of a knife"; on the training ground, commanders devote sweat and wisdom to training, tempering every command and every action into the cornerstone of marching towards victory... The era has great potential, calling on young officers and soldiers to make great achievements. Whether you hold code or blueprints, whether the battle position is ten thousand meters in the air or the vast border defense line, you must bring the focus of "doing one thing to the extreme," calm down and strengthen your professional ability, and contribute to winning the battle in a down-to-earth manner.
Define the coordinates of youth with struggle, so that you will not lose your way. Astronaut Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) said: "Only by closely linking personal dreams with the future and destiny of the country, striving forward and working together, can we stimulate surging youthful power." May every young person with ideals cherish this enthusiasm, respond to the call of the times, go to the military camp to shed wisdom and sweat, and give youth a long journey.
Return to TopBy: 努尔艾力
The train headed north, bypassing the majestic Tianshan Mountains (天山), carrying me towards the distance... After many years, I often recall the scene when I joined the army after graduating from high school. The first time I stood in front of the "Sharp Knife Eighth Company" (尖刀八连) – the gate of the Mobile First Company of a detachment of the Armed Police Corps (武警兵团总队) – I was both excited and a little nervous.
Before coming, I told myself that being a soldier would definitely be tough, but reality still caught me a little off guard. My Mandarin was not fluent, and I often stuttered when communicating with my comrades; my body didn't listen during training, and the movements that others did neatly and crisply were always half a beat slow for me. As my assessment scores fell behind, I became even more nervous, and my body was always covered in bruises. Once, during a preliminary assessment, the results were not ideal. That night, I sat alone on the edge of my bed, feeling particularly bad.
The squad leader saw my low spirits. He didn't say much, but pulled me into the company's honor room. Inside was a yellowed "Book of Glory" (光荣簿). The squad leader gently opened it and pointed out the shining names and deeds to me. "Everyone in our company wants to write their name in here." He slowly told me the story of combat hero Liu Zilin (刘子林), the old company commander – in an ambush, facing enemies several times his own, the comrades around the old company commander fell one by one. But he was like a nail, firmly nailed to the position, without taking a step back.
"We don't retreat even at the critical moment of life and death, how can we shrink back when we encounter setbacks in normal times?" The squad leader's words were like a resounding hammer, awakening me. I secretly made up my mind: to be a truly good soldier like the old company commander! From then on, I competed with myself. I practiced strength training every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and long-distance running every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Regardless of wind or rain, my figure was always on the training ground. To learn Mandarin well, I read the newspaper every day, looked up words in the dictionary, practiced pronunciation, and mustered the courage to speak in front of everyone. Little by little, I made progress, my Mandarin became more and more fluent, and I gradually broke down the communication barriers with my comrades.
Sweat doesn't lie. My scores climbed up little by little, from the "bottom of the list" to slowly running in front of the team, and later I was appointed as squad leader. I often reminded myself: it's not enough for one person to be strong, the whole squad must be strong. Some soldiers were afraid of hardship, so I accompanied them to practice together; some soldiers didn't like to talk, so I took the initiative to chat with them; some soldiers were not good at long-distance running, so I taught them my breathing rhythm and pace techniques... Our squad's scores became more and more advanced, and we repeatedly brought back the company's "Sharp Knife Squad" (尖刀班) mobile red flag.
In order to win glory for the company, I signed up to participate in the corps' training ace competition. With solid accumulation, I took first place in the armed five kilometers, second place in grenade throwing, and second place in bayonet fighting, and was named the corps' "Training Ace" (训练尖子), earning a third-class merit. After that, I was also named an advanced individual with "Four Have's" (四有) by the Armed Police Force, and together with two other squad leaders, I was promoted to officer and entered the gate of military academy. Before leaving the company, the company held a special ceremony for us – our names and deeds were written in that "Book of Glory" (光荣簿). That sense of pride constantly motivates me to move forward.
Last summer, after graduating from military academy, I was assigned to the "Sharp Knife Eighth Company" (尖刀八连) as a platoon leader. Returning to the company, the barracks were still so familiar, the team flag was still bright red, and that "Book of Glory" (光荣簿) became even thicker.
Now, every day after training, I go to the honor room to stay for a while, looking at that "Book of Glory" (光荣簿). The handwriting on it is different, but what is written is the same oath – to guard the border and protect peace. I know that the burden of the platoon leader is heavy. In the future, I will take root in the border like a poplar tree, leading more comrades to fight and charge, and carve their stories on the land of the border.
(The author is the platoon leader of the Mobile First Company of a detachment of the Armed Police Corps (武警兵团总队), Li Longyi (李龙伊) and Huang Chao (黄超) compiled)
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In the depth of winter in northern Xinjiang, breathing turns to ice. "Doo, doo, doo!" The urgent assembly whistle pierced the night sky as a winter field training exercise of a brigade of the 78th Group Army (陆军第78集团军) of the People's Liberation Army (陆军) unfolded in the mountains.
Just out of the camp gate, they were attacked by "enemy" artillery fire. The officers and soldiers quickly sought out rock piles, bushes, and other shelters to disperse and conceal themselves, wearing camouflage clothing that blended in with the surrounding environment. In the severe cold weather, the heat they exhaled condensed into ice on their cold-proof masks, and the soles of their shoes had long been frozen hard. Before the smoke cleared, the situation reappeared. The reconnaissance detachment reported that yellow smoke was rising 500 meters ahead. The officers and soldiers quickly put on gas masks and quickly passed through the "contaminated" area.
"At minus 20 degrees Celsius, the discharge efficiency of the battery is reduced by 30%." Wu Hao (吴昊), a military officer of a certain battalion, was leading officers and soldiers in carrying out extreme equipment tests at the training ground.
Honking the horn, engaging the gear, slamming on the accelerator, and speeding up the slope... With an order, a chariot, like an arrow released from a bow, sped towards the slope ahead. The driver stared ahead, gripped the steering wheel tightly, and fully depressed the accelerator. The chariot's tires spun rapidly, and the altitude continued to rise. As the impact speed gradually decreased, it finally stopped at a certain height. Wu Hao (吴昊) quickly ran forward and recorded in detail the extreme data such as the slope and the chariot's climbing height in the "Equipment Operation Data under Severe Cold Conditions" book.
In the early morning, the temperature was even lower. The officers and soldiers arrived at the campsite and camped in units of platoons. Before going to bed, squad leader Li Xiangqian (李向前) turned on the "field heating stove" and told the new recruits participating in the training for the first time to first lay a layer of dry branches on the ground, followed by a cold-proof mat and an individual sleeping bag.
At dawn, the "battle" continued. Li Xiangqian (李向前) quickly organized the entire squad to pack up their luggage and begin a long-distance raid. As the distance increased, many new recruits in the company who were participating in the march for the first time experienced discomfort. Li Xiangqian (李向前) explained relevant techniques in a timely manner and guided them to adjust their condition: "Don't lift your legs too high, uniform speed is the most energy-saving; those behind, try to step on the footprints of those in front..." The vanguard platoon took turns opening the way, maintaining the marching speed, and the new recruits gradually mastered long-distance marching techniques under the guidance of the veterans.
After more than 30 hours of "combat," the team successfully reached the finish line. During the training, the troops' command coordination, logistical support, and continuous combat capabilities were tested, accumulating valuable experience for cold-region combat.
"The more severe the weather and the more complex the environment, the more it can temper the officers' and soldiers' fighting will and test the equipment's combat performance." The brigade leader introduced that since the start of training, the temperature in the garrison has dropped sharply. The troops, in conjunction with the new year's training assessment plan, have organized multiple training subject assessments and competitions, and in complex battlefield environments and extreme conditions, they have comprehensively improved the troops' ability to perform diverse tasks through realistic combat training.
In the depths of winter, swords are forged for battle. Now, a number of severe cold combat data have been entered into the "Combat Manual," and more "golden ideas" are emerging on the training ground. The officers and soldiers regard the severe cold as a "grindstone" for training, and will continue to train in the cold and train in difficulty.
Return to TopHow does reading illuminate life? By using reading to connect to the vast world, the immense sea of books is precisely the source of energy to enrich oneself. The "National Reading Promotion Regulations" (《全民阅读促进条例》) come into effect today, and the legal guarantee for building a society filled with the fragrance of books will be more complete.
When reading becomes a way of life, when the whole society participates in reading, the social atmosphere of loving to read, reading good books, and being good at reading will inevitably become more intense and lasting, and the light of reading will surely illuminate a more distant future for the nation.
-- Editor
"Taking Books as a Boat to Cross the River of Life"
Tian Qinxin (田沁鑫)
My reading enlightenment began with the influence of my family.
My mother painted meticulous brush paintings, and I followed her in learning to paint from a young age, being influenced by the teachings of art masters such as painter Wu Zuoren (吴作人) and calligrapher Liu Bingsen (刘炳森), and began to love Chinese art.
When I was a child, I liked to browse through thread-bound books, not understanding the deep meaning, but being attracted by the yellowed words and illustrations, and developing a strong interest in traditional ancient books and classical literature. In my youth, after embarking on the path of drama, I researched traditional Peking Opera scripts, and I would ask: Where is the source of Chinese drama? Where did the scripts come from? What are the themes of dramatic literature that have flowed for thousands of years?
The answers gradually became clear through reading. From Mencius' (孟子) "benevolent people love others," the Book of Changes' (周易) "continuous creation is called change," and the fu bi xing (赋比兴) techniques of the Book of Songs (诗经), I saw the long-standing ideological spirit and literary tradition of Chinese drama.
China is a romantic literary power. From the paiyou (俳优) of the pre-Qin period, the "Hundred Plays" (百戏) of the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty's Canjun Opera (参军戏) and the Song-Jin Dynasty's Yuanben (院本), the literary nature of Chinese drama became stronger and stronger, presenting a romantic temperament as a whole. By the Yuan Dynasty zaju (杂剧), realism began to appear, such as the story of "The Orphan of Zhao" (赵氏孤儿), which rendered the spirit of loyalty and righteousness in generously rushing to death, which was extremely realistic. By the Ming Dynasty, the poetic romantic structure returned again. In the Qing Dynasty, Peking Opera (京剧) took shape, and opera performances matured, while also becoming more popular. "The Case of Chen Shimei" (铡美案) lashed out at the behavior of abandoning wives and children and moral corruption, "Striking the Dragon Robe" (打龙袍) educated children and promoted filial piety, "Red Mane Steed" (红鬃烈马) praised unwavering love... It is these vivid stories that deduce joys and sorrows and deeply discuss ethics and morality that make the tendency of combining romanticism and realism stronger and stronger. Reading nourished my path of dramatic art.
I do Chinese plays in almost all of my works. From "Life and Death Field" (生死场) to "Beijing Fayuan Temple" (北京法源寺), from "Raging Storm" (狂飙) to "Four Generations Under One Roof" (四世同堂), each creation is a deep dialogue with traditional culture. This dialogue is not only a choice of subject matter, but also a conscious exploration and practice of the Chinese-style view of drama. I hope to build a theatrical system with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese spirit, rooted in the spiritual qualities and aesthetic traditions of Chinese civilization, and tell common human stories in the Chinese people's own discourse system.
Reading also expands my understanding of life. When creating the drama "Spring Dawn on Su Causeway" (苏堤春晓), I had a dialogue with Su Shi (苏轼) thousands of years ago through reading.
The ripple effect produced by reading Lin Yutang's (林语堂) "The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo" and Li Yibing's (李一冰) "New Biography of Su Dongpo" exceeded my imagination. The two books led me to further read "History of the Song Dynasty" (《宋史》), Su Shi's (苏轼) collections of poetry and prose, research on Song Dynasty culture, and more related books. Through Su Shi's (苏轼) magnificent life, I appreciated the essence and spirit of Chinese culture. To understand Su Shi (苏轼) is not to sympathize with what he encountered, but to learn his open-minded feelings of facing the sun.
Every book is like a window, opening up a new world for me, allowing me to see how people in different eras and cultures face the challenges of life and how they seek the meaning of life. It is reading that makes me realize that the most valuable wealth of mankind is not material accumulation, but spiritual inheritance.
Reading changing life is not empty talk. No matter how the outside world changes, we can build a rich and resilient inner world through reading; no matter what kind of difficulties we encounter, we can draw strength from the spiritual treasure house of mankind.
In this era of information explosion and accelerated pace, reading seems to have become a luxury. However, it is this seemingly "slow" activity that gives us the deepest strength. It allows us to dialogue with great souls, allows us to gain peace in浮躁 (fú zào - "restlessness," impetuousness), and find direction in迷茫 (mí máng - "bewilderment," confusion).
May we all take books as a boat to cross the river of life, both to enjoy the tranquility brought by reading, "a gentle breeze comes, and the water does not ripple," and to understand history in books, and to reach the openness and clarity of the heart in the face of life's challenges.
(The author is the president of the National Theatre of China (中国国家话剧院))
"Relying on Knowledge to Grow Wings to Fly"
Ren Linju (任林举)
Today's teenagers like to "travel through time," one moment to the Tang Dynasty, the next to the Song Dynasty, but no one "travels through time" to the rural environment of the 1960s and 1970s to experience the living conditions of rural teenagers in that era. If someone really did that, after "traveling through time" again, their life concepts and attitudes would definitely change.
Rural life at that time was not only poor, but also difficult. Farmers farming was not like it is now, with pesticides, fertilizers, and automated agricultural machinery, everything is easily done. Sowing, watering, plowing, catching insects, weeding, harvesting, threshing, etc., were basically manual operations. From spring to autumn, they had to **面朝黄土背朝天** (miàn cháo huáng tǔ bèi cháo tiān - "face the yellow earth and back to the sky," to toil laboriously in the fields) and "sweat drops fall and break into eight pieces," endlessly working prostrate on the earth. Little boys had to help their parents "go to the fields" to work when they were twelve or thirteen years old. Agricultural labor has left bitter and painful memories for many rural teenagers.
At that time, a farmer's family with a little "ideal" almost all had a strong desire, that is, one day they must let their children break away from the shackles of the land and completely change the fate of "plowing the soil" for generations. But how can people who are not firmly "bound" by the earth know the difficulty of breaking away from the earth? How can one grow a pair of powerful wings to break free from the strong gravity of the earth? Today, there may be many answers, but in that era, there seemed to be only one option, that is, to study hard and rely on knowledge to grow wings to fly. So, at the urging of my parents, I not only had to study hard, "**好好学习，天天向上**" (hǎo hǎo xué xí, tiān tiān xiàng shàng - "study hard and make progress every day," a common slogan encouraging diligent study), but also had to try to expand my knowledge and increase my spiritual nourishment.
The impoverished era was not only materially poor, but also culturally and spiritually poor. Rural teenagers had very few books to read. In a supply and marketing cooperative of more than one hundred square meters, there were only a dozen kinds of books to buy. Occasionally, you could also see some folk tales and ancient chapter novels, such as "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (《聊斋志异》) and "Journey to the West" (《西游记》). In that era, there were no singers or movie stars. Sun Wukong (孙悟空), who could somersault one hundred and eight thousand miles with a single flip, became the object of my envy.
Lu Xun's (鲁迅) collections were also common, but the only one that was deeply impressed and could be remembered was "Old Tales Retold" (《故事新编》). There were several chapters in it, such as "Mending the Sky" (《补天》), "奔月" (bēn yuè - "Running to the Moon," Chang'e flying to the moon), and "Casting the Sword" (《铸剑》), which I have kept in mind for many years. Although I didn't know what these chapters were trying to tell us at the time, I could never forget some of the strange, unfamiliar, but gorgeous images in them, and they often lingered in my mind. Perhaps it was because I couldn't understand them that it stimulated my awe and interest in literature. I thought at the time, when will I be able to write such extraordinary words?
At that time, I was still young and received education relatively late. At the age of twelve or thirteen, I still couldn't understand the exact meaning of some words in the book. In order to read the book smoothly, I had to keep a dictionary in hand and constantly look it up. Children's attention is easily distracted. While looking it up, they actually put aside the books they needed to read and concentrated on memorizing the dictionary. For two years, I didn't read any interesting books in my spare time. I held the dictionary, which was very boring in the eyes of others, and looked at it all day long, lingering between various meanings and sentences, and indulging in various techniques of using words and making sentences.
Looking back on this life experience, I think it is a very strange thing. Why are other children obsessed with stories, but I am obsessed with boring and dull dictionaries? Could it be that, subconsciously, I thought that I was not yet qualified to pursue fun and entertainment, and could only let my reading stop at the learning stage that belonged to basic training? Or am I naturally timid and dare not indulge myself in entertainment and fun? Anyway, at the age of 15, I participated in the newly restored National Higher Education Entrance Examination (全国高考), and relied on my solid Chinese language skills to get high scores, and successfully completed the "betrayal" or transcendence of the land.
Even today, occasionally, because a certain word needs to be looked up in the dictionary, I will take the opportunity to flip through it for a while. Between the opening and closing of each page, there is a breeze blowing, and there is a kind of illusion of wings soaring in the air.
(The author is a member of the National Committee of the China Writers Association (中国作协全国委员会) and a winner of the Lu Xun Literary Prize (鲁迅文学奖))
"Reading Defines My Life"
Dai Heng (戴珩)
When people are young, most of them are ignorant and confused, and rarely know what they should do in their lives and what kind of person they can become. At this time, reading is particularly important. Through reading, you can get to know outstanding people in all walks of life, and they will provide enlightenment for your life. Reading defines my life. It can be said that the two key positions in my life are closely related to reading.
I first defined my life at the age of 17. In class, I read Ye Shengtao's (叶圣陶) novel "Ni Huanzhi" (《倪焕之》). Immersed in the book, I learned more about Mr. Ye's life trajectory. He is not only a children's writer full of childlike innocence, but also a prose master with a timeless style. He also devoted most of his life to children, compiling dictionaries and dictionaries, and editing magazines such as "Middle School Students" (《中学生》) and "Middle School Students' Literature and Art" (《中学生文艺》). Before that, I was a little confused about the road ahead, but after reading "Ni Huanzhi" (《倪焕之》) and learning about Mr. Ye Shengtao's (叶圣陶) life, I suddenly became enlightened, that is, I will also be like Mr. Ye Shengtao (叶圣陶) in the future, using words to irrigate childlike innocence and using education to light up hope. After graduating from normal school, I got my wish to stand on the Chinese language podium, and at the same time began to devote myself to literary creation, and participated in editing a publicly published literary newspaper, and also personally founded a class newspaper "Spring Grass" (《春草》), which published excellent student compositions. At the age of 22, my children's literature work "Poor Child Ruby" (《穷孩子卢比》) was selected into the elementary school Chinese language reading textbook edited and published by the People's Education Press (人民教育出版社).
At the age of 36, the organization transferred me to work in the provincial cultural department, and I ushered in the second positioning of my life. This time, what touched and inspired me was Fei Xiaotong's (费孝通) works and thoughts. That year, I read "Jiangcun Economy" (《江村经济》) and "From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society" (《乡土中国》) in detail, and was shocked by the concept of "cultural self-awareness" he proposed. Fei Xiaotong's (费孝通) two works and the idea of "cultural self-awareness" directly awakened my cultural self-awareness, and also prompted me to once again position my life: to be a cultural worker, taking the inheritance and promotion of excellent Chinese traditional culture and the prosperity and development of socialist culture as my responsibility. First, let yourself have a high degree of cultural self-awareness, and then use your cultural self-awareness to stimulate the cultural self-awareness of others, use your cultural confidence to strengthen the cultural confidence of others, and use your cultural innovation and creativity to ignite the cultural innovation and creativity of others.
In the more than 20 years that I have been engaged in cultural work, I have always cultivated the fertile soil of culture in multiple roles as a researcher, inheritor, practitioner, communicator, and server of culture. I have traveled all over China to investigate and research intangible cultural heritage and public culture, participated in the formulation of a series of national and provincial laws, regulations and policies in the fields of public culture, intangible cultural heritage, and national reading, undertaken and completed a number of major research projects on cultural reform and development, published more than 20 public cultural works such as "Open the Door" (《把门打开》) and "The Mission and Responsibility of Cultural Centers in Chinese-style Modernization" (《中国式现代化中的文化馆的使命与担当》), edited nearly 20 intangible cultural heritage books, deeply participated in and promoted the construction of the public cultural service system and intangible cultural heritage protection work, planned hundreds of cultural benefit activities and intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, promoted the overseas dissemination of intangible cultural heritage, and held more than 1,000 cultural lectures across the country, using culture to strengthen confidence, inspire wisdom, nourish the soul, and inspire the spirit.
Reading influences life, changes life, and shapes life. Reading more books, reading good books, and being good at reading are especially important in every stage of life.
(The author is a cultural scholar and writer)
"Give Me a Heart That Will Never Grow Old"
Wang Yuzhen (王玉珍)
I was born in an ordinary small village on the North China Plain (华北平原). Before the age of 20, I probably knew more than 3,000 Chinese characters, which is equivalent to elementary school education.
Although I had basic reading ability, in those years of relative cultural poverty, there were very few books to encounter. The first extracurricular book in my life was a comic book "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King" (《哪吒闹海》). Later, I accidentally picked up half a copy of "Fighting Youth" (《战斗的青春》), which was the first time I really came into contact with "literature."
In the 1980s, culture gradually became prosperous, and my reading journey also truly began. From "General's Ballad" (《将军吟》) to "And Quiet Flows the Don" (《静静的顿河》) to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (《百年孤独》). This reading has been nearly half a century.
I read "October" (《十月》), "Contemporary" (《当代》), and "Harvest" (《收获》) to feel the pulse of the times; I also read San Mao (三毛), Hai Zi (海子), and Yu Guangzhong (余光中) to feel the homesickness and the wandering of the world. I came to the city from the countryside, and then from a teacher to a civil servant. After retirement, I also sold antiques and opened a small shop. My identity has been changing, but the only thing that has not changed is the book in my hand.
Some people ask me, is it useful for you to read so much? Yes, from a material point of view, reading has not allowed me to be promoted to a higher title, nor has it allowed me to gain more wealth. But it has given me another pair of eyes, allowing me to see the distance beyond ordinary life; it has also given me a heart that will never grow old, allowing me to still be full of curiosity about the world in my twilight years. I think this is the power of words.
When family琐事 (suǒ shì - "trivial matters," chores) make me exhausted, the mother of Shao Ping (少平) in "Ordinary World" (《平凡的世界》), who is as warm and坚韧 (jiān rèn - "tenacious," firm and resolute) as the earth, will appear in front of me. When I encounter confusion and difficulties at work, the figure of Paul Kochakin (保尔·柯察金) in the snow and the questioning of Shi Tiesheng (史铁生) in the depths of the Temple of Earth (地坛) will all turn into the strength that supports me.
At the age of 68, I closed the small shop that I had been running for many years. The children have already started their own families, and my old partner has also left me one step ahead. Suddenly, the days became empty, and I had a lot of time to be alone.
On a quiet afternoon, I picked up a pen. A year later, an article in memory of my old partner unexpectedly won an award. A year later, my first book "I Love Hegu" (《我恋禾谷》) was published. All this happened so naturally, but it surprised me secretly. This is the gift that reading gave me. The seed that had been buried in my heart for 50 years finally broke ground in my old age.
What exactly has reading changed? It doesn't seem to have directly changed the trajectory of my life. I am still the child who came out of the small village, and I am still the ordinary person who follows the steps. But it allows me to glimpse greatness in the ordinary, recognize hope in suffering, and see eternity in the fleeting time.
Now I am 71 years old and still reading. As for how much I can remember after a book is closed, I don't think it matters. Those moments that make your heart tighten, your eyes heat up, and your thoughts surge have long been engraved into your soul in some secret way. What reading leaves behind is not memory, but growth. As long as you open the pages of the book, the river of life is still flowing. Even in old age, there will still be new gains.
If a young person asks me: Grandma, why read?
I will tell him: Reading is to look at the infinitely vast world in a limited life; it is to meet resonant souls on a journey destined to be lonely; it is to grasp something certain in a constantly changing world.
This is what reading gives me, and I think it can also give it to you.
(The author is a folk writer)
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I remember when I was a child, getting a thick book was like seeing a period of happy time ahead. At that time, the preciousness of books was etched into my genes. A profound memory is at the old book stall at the east gate of the school, I used the saved food expenses to buy a lot of classic books, at that time I often had the joy of Shen Deqian (沈德潜) "owning books and being a small prince."
Now, you can open an electronic library with very little money, and you can borrow books for free from libraries everywhere, greatly reducing the cost of obtaining books. However, there are fewer and fewer people who are devoted to reading, and more and more people are keen on watching short videos.
Admittedly, the development of science and technology is profoundly changing the way humans read, and it also makes traditional reading face the challenges of fragmentation and superficiality. In the increasingly fast-paced information age, can reading continue to play a role in nourishing the mind and changing lives?
I believe that if we make good use of the convenience that the times bring to reading and cultivate a new kind of reading appreciation, reading can still have a profound impact on the voyage of life.
People's innate endowments and acquired circumstances make the differences between people exist for a long time. Bacon believed that "reading can make up for the deficiencies of nature." This is the same as Liu Xiang's (刘向) saying that "books are like medicine, and reading them well can cure foolishness." Reading gives ordinary people the tools and confidence to catch up with the wise.
In traditional China, more emphasis was placed on reading to change one's life. Confucius (孔子) advocated reading and learning, revealing the acquired efficacy of reading to understand reason, and emphasized the role of spiritual liberation from "I was determined to learn at fifteen" to "at seventy, I could follow my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries." Reading a classic, thick can be read thin, thin can be read thick, just like the richness and simplicity of life. The ancients said, "Read the classics on hard days and history on soft days," you can use reading to shift time, regulate your temperament, and avoid being deeply trapped in the quagmire of emotions, thus opening up a bright light in your heart. Reading gives the mind freedom and breadth.
Therefore, whether from practical utility or from inner cultivation, reading is still a powerful tool for changing life.
Nowadays, we must be wary of the short videos that flash by quickly. Faced with the precise push based on big data, we are all difficult to resist the temptation of fast-food browsing, and the time for reading books is squeezed. In this information jungle dominated by algorithms, we need to cultivate an internal sense of feeling and appreciation.
In an era of scientific prosperity, we do not lack the rationality and logic of knowledge, but precisely lack the fresh internal sense of feeling of human beings as subjects. The cultivation of this sense of feeling needs to return to classical reading to form reading appreciation.
The reason why classics become classics is the wise summary of the questions of history and the times, and it is also a text that is constantly given new value with the development of the times. Reading classics can gain appreciation. Therefore, returning to the classics can create new classics. In this sense, reading appreciation is also a practical ability, which determines whether you can actively put down your mobile phone and pick up a book.
The appreciation cultivated by classical reading is still a vane of reading in the era of artificial intelligence. In the massive amount of information, what we choose to read, from the result, this choice is like a program running on a computer, which will present the meaning of the choice as it is. Therefore, which running program you click on, if you do not distinguish and appreciate it, obscuration will occur. The so-called information cocoon is also produced in this way.
Conversely, if we choose to read a classic, the life enlightenment and changes we obtain from the classic are tested by time and space, and can be deeply internalized into awakening and motivation. In the ever-changing tide of the times, the certainty that classical reading brings us is enough to hedge against uncertainty and make the road of life more stable.
People with reading appreciation can create their own world based on classical reading. Liu Yuanqing (刘元卿) of the Ming Dynasty did not like drinking, playing chess, and other entertainment, but it was inevitable that he would have social gatherings. He selected interesting philosophies and stories from classical reading as a way to treat guests. When guests arrived, he would use one or two classical meanings and stories as conversation topics, which was once spread as an elegant affair. His work "Xian Yi Bian (贤奕编)" was produced from this. It can be seen that the beauty of reading appreciation makes life elegant and colorful.
The times have opened an unprecedented large book for reading, in which the essence and dross coexist. Whether we can take the essence and use it widely depends on "the wonderful use of it lies in one's heart" 运用之妙，存乎一心 (yùn yòng zhī miào, cún hū yī xīn - "the wonderful application lies in one's heart," the key to success lies in flexible application and understanding). Learning to read and appreciate this large book will make our lives more profound and wonderful.
(The author is the director and professor of the Sinology Research Center of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences (北京市社会科学院).)
Return to TopBy: 应金飞
In recent times, the "Faces and Traces: Wim Wenders and Robert Bosisio Photographic Painting Exhibition" and the "Landscape and Atmosphere - Jin Nong Special Exhibition," held concurrently at the Zhejiang Art Museum (浙江美术馆), have generated a surge of online and offline dissemination through diverse channels, becoming a cultural hotspot during the New Year period. This phenomenon has prompted the public to further pay attention to and reflect on the aesthetic trends and the intrinsic value of life in this era, and has also urged the industry to conduct a more rational examination: How can exhibitions transition from short-term popularity to deep sedimentation?
From the perspective of communication patterns, the key factor for some exhibitions to become popular is that they have built a bridge for communication between the public and art. The value of exhibitions that can be "evergreen" often lies not only in achieving "traffic diversion" through interesting topics, but also in achieving "retention" with high-quality content and in-depth experiences, promoting the public to shift from shallow participation to deep aesthetic perception and even directly to cultural identity. The two exhibitions specially planned by the Zhejiang Art Museum (浙江美术馆) are attracting attention because they emphasize a return from traffic orientation to the artistic value itself. In these high-quality exhibitions, the spatial narrative aesthetics that harmonize with the artistic characteristics of the exhibited works are the language, the excellent artworks are the flesh and blood, and the speculative humanistic care is the soul, jointly expanding the audience's dimension of understanding the works and enabling them to generate emotional resonance.
A "hit" is essentially a two-way cultural communication phenomenon. It does present positive value in curatorial practice, which can promote cultural innovation, stimulate social resonance, expand the audience coverage of art museums, and provide a feasible path for the industry to explore market-oriented profit models. However, the excessive penetration of the "hit" logic can easily trigger multiple structural risks in the art museum industry: First, in order to quickly replicate successful experiences, exhibition themes and forms tend to converge, squeezing the living space for original expression; second, under the influence of traffic orientation, exhibitions focus more on sensory stimulation and topicality, and the way of viewing is guided by point-based guidance, resulting in a superficial aesthetic experience, and the ideological depth and aesthetic tension of artworks are not sufficiently highlighted; third, some exhibitions pursue a check-in effect, making the viewing experience shift from artistic perception to social sharing, and the content of the exhibition dilutes the ideological content in order to cater to a wider acceptance, which to some extent obscures the cultural value of the artworks and the art museum itself. It is necessary to emphasize that exhibitions that pursue superficial eye stimulation and game thinking, born in the context of fast-food consumption, can easily lead to a general degradation of public aesthetics and a blunting of philosophical thinking abilities.
The phenomena that have already appeared in the industry require particular vigilance: some art museums, in order to pursue traffic, invest huge amounts of money to purchase ready-made exhibitions, but neglect the long-term accumulation of collection systems, public art education, and academic research, and ultimately fall into the "hollowing out" tendency of "emphasizing exhibitions and neglecting collections and research." This blind following of the "traffic competition" is essentially a deviation from the main functions of art museums in fulfilling artistic research, cultural inheritance, and aesthetic guidance, which violates the objective laws of sustainable development of cultural undertakings, and will not only cause inefficient allocation of industry resources, but also have a potential negative impact on the overall social aesthetic ecology and cultural innovation vitality.
The construction of the collection system of museums and art museums carries the history and culture of a country and a region, and is an important carrier connecting the past, present, and future, and maintaining the continuation of civilization. Scientific collection management and rigorous system construction together constitute the solid shield of museums and art museums. In order to forge this shield, art museums need to uphold unique professional standards and academic judgment principles to promote the construction of the collection system; at the same time, they should avoid superficial work that seeks comprehensiveness, and focus on exploring and researching distinctive cultural resources with identification, and promote cross-regional cultural exchanges.
The philosopher Zhang Shiying (张世英) once summarized the four realms of life, from low to high, as the realm of desire, the realm of knowledge, the realm of morality, and the realm of aesthetics. As an important field of social aesthetic education, art museums should assume the responsibility of expanding the boundaries of public aesthetic education and improving the public's aesthetic literacy. Rationally viewing popular exhibitions and slowing down the pace will help the art museum industry to carefully design and scientifically plan exhibitions, avoid being superficial and lively, and thus improve the public's aesthetic awareness with higher-quality exhibitions, so that the public's aesthetics can return from the fast-food context to the quiet harbor of the soul.
From a sociological perspective, the traffic myth created by popular exhibitions should perhaps be regarded as a mirror reflecting the times. Reflected in the mirror are both the public's cultural thirst, the vast space empowered by technology, and the logical penetration of "art + commerce." As an important carrier of cultural communication, the responsibility of art museums lies in using high-quality content as a bridge and rich activities as a guide to precipitate the fleeting "tourists" into "viewers" who read carefully, and to fully ignite the curiosity that was originally just a taste with the artistic appeal that goes straight to the heart. In this era of pursuing speed and efficiency, what we truly lack is often a long-term "slow" determination. Only by mastering the balance between fast and slow can we seize the best opportunity to connect exhibitions with the audience and with the times in the fast-paced modern life, and rebuild the scale of judgment and open up a deep awareness of beauty in a quiet place.
Return to TopBy: 赵 璐
From intangible cultural heritage handicrafts to clothing and accessories, and even digital collectibles, traditional arts and crafts are constantly expanding and upgrading in today's surging wave of digital intelligence, attracting widespread attention. In the era of digital intelligence, how to allow traditional crafts to bloom with new vitality has become a direct issue for arts and crafts education and a key focus of discussion at the 3rd National Arts and Crafts Education Conference.
Arts and crafts are an art of living, and their vitality is rooted in "handmade warmth" and the "**工匠精神**" (gōng jiàng jīng shén - "craftsman spirit," dedication to quality and precision in craftsmanship). Looking back at the history of Chinese arts and crafts, generations of arts and crafts masters have promoted the continuous inheritance of skills in various craft fields and laid the foundation for corresponding aesthetic systems through "master-apprentice teaching" and "heart-to-hand transmission." No matter how the times develop, the foundation of arts and crafts education still lies in the inheritance of skills and the cultivation of the craftsman spirit, which is the cornerstone for maintaining the forward development of arts and crafts.
Currently, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data bring new opportunities and challenges to arts and crafts creation and education. Using algorithms to analyze patterns and crack dyeing codes, learning skills with big data, and simulating materials through virtual simulation are helping traditional crafts achieve intelligent upgrades. In the National Excellent Graduation Works Exhibition of Arts and Crafts Majors in Colleges and Universities, many works can be seen using digital modeling, artificial intelligence algorithms, etc., to make materials, colors, and textures more flexible and changeable, promoting the contemporary translation of traditional cultural genes. At the same time, it should also be seen that while technology brings convenience to creation, it can also easily cause works to lose their due craftsmanship temperature. Facing intelligent creation, it is necessary to further enhance students' aesthetic literacy and promote the craftsman spirit.
The intervention of digital technology in craft creation is not intended to completely replace manual labor. The more in-depth and systematic the intervention of digital technology, the more pure and profound the refinement of the essence of craft culture may be. For example, in the digital teaching of traditional embroidery techniques, some art colleges not only established a needlework database but also used algorithms to analyze the color preferences, composition rules, and cultural meanings of embroidery patterns in various regions, forming a "digital embroidery gene pool." When creating on this basis, artificial intelligence tools can provide intelligent suggestions that conform to craft logic and regional style, but the final design decisions, emotional expression, and cultural interpretation are still firmly in the hands of the creators, and the creators' aesthetic literacy, creative ability, and adherence to the craftsman spirit are particularly important. This process is a vivid embodiment of how technology "intervenes" to help culture "precipitate out"—technology helps creators see traditional context more clearly, and creators then carry out contemporary translation and innovation based on this.
In the past, the "secret transmission" model that has continued for thousands of years has, to some extent, limited the innovation and dissemination of arts and crafts, while databases and other digital projects have transformed the inheritance of arts and crafts from closed workshops to open collaboration and cross-border integration innovation systems. Based on "collaborative open source," it is possible to classify and construct arts and crafts gene pools and Chinese craft culture corpora, establish a cooperation mechanism involving universities, communities, enterprises, and representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, and promote new models of digital application. This transformation enables arts and crafts to move from a single skill inheritance to multi-dimensional value creation and industrial upgrading.
Talent is always the primary driving force for promoting the innovative development of arts and crafts. Facing new era demands, the cultivation of talent is no longer simply about handicraftsmen but also about composite talents with artistic perception, technological understanding, and humanistic literacy. This means that the design of arts and crafts courses must also change with the times, allowing students to not only skillfully use digital tools for creation but also always maintain critical thinking about the application of technology; to not only absorb foreign nutrients from a global perspective but also root themselves in local culture for creation.
The contemporary development of arts and crafts is an important part of building a new era of aesthetic order and cultural ecology. Just as the foundation of arts and crafts is practical art that serves life, the development of arts and crafts in the era of digital intelligence must also embrace life, embrace the times, and embrace technological innovation, actively adapt to the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and open up the path of "art living" in the new era.
(The author is a specially-appointed professor at Shenzhen University (深圳大学))
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In the Chinese traditional view of time, "winter" is endowed with the unique implication of concluding the year. The ordinary life amidst the biting cold is brewed by painters into a lasting wisdom of life and a vivid seasonal interest.
The monthly ordinances "connect events with months," linking the celestial phenomena, phenology, and government orders of the twelve months of the year, and gradually applied to painting titles in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Painters depict the different seasonal characteristics and festive customs of the year within scrolls, expressing the abstract operation of time through visual narratives. As an important work in this tradition, the anonymous "Monthly Ordinances of the Twelve Months (December)" (十二月月令图（十二月）) of the Qing Dynasty is precisely a delicate and vivid "ancient winter illustration."
Unrolling the scroll, court painters comprehensively use meticulous brushwork, ruled-line painting, and other artistic forms to layer human life against a grand landscape background. In the distant view, snow-capped mountains cover the ridges, and the lake surface is frozen, with people playing on the ice river. The middle and close views focus on presenting courtyards, pavilions, trees, and human activities. The spatial progression from far to near gradually transitions "winter" from a natural state to social life, forming a visual rhythm from cold to warm, from stillness to movement. In the courtyard, the cold retreats to the background, and the warmth of life quietly emerges. Children kick shuttlecocks, sculpt snow lions, and frolic endlessly. In the hall, scholars gather around the stove to drink and dine, with calm expressions. Behind the hall, a deer park gathers hundreds of deer, symbolizing "hundreds of blessings," and several small deer outside the window of the building on the right stretch their heads to look, seemingly interacting intimately with the people indoors. In the layered daily scenes, the unique order and warmth of winter are revealed.
Different from the lively and noisy "busy year" scenes in New Year's celebration themes such as "Celebrating the New Year" and "Village Celebration of the New Year," "Monthly Ordinances of the Twelve Months (December)" (十二月月令图（十二月）) is more like the moment when the New Year is approaching but the lanterns have not yet been lit, and the joy of the festival is still brewing. It is this state of "not full but about to be full" that constitutes the most moving scene of December. Outdoor work is temporarily suspended, and the focus of daily life shifts to family and neighborhood. People either gather to chat, sweep snow and tidy the courtyard, or play with children. The cold winter does not stagnate life, but instead promotes the generation of another rhythm, which coincides with the time concept of "closing and storing" and "cultivating stillness" at the end of the year. The figures in the painting mostly appear in groups, with few isolated individuals, which is a vivid footnote to the highly social nature of winter life. Coldness prompts people to get closer to each other, and family and neighborhood become important supports for resisting natural pressure. This psychology of "using human relations to resist the cold and using reunion to welcome the New Year" has become the warm background of Chinese New Year customs and culture.
The ancients understood the measure and interest of "joy" even more. Ice boating, gathering around the stove, children playing, and domesticating poultry and livestock, these activities do not pursue grand scenes, but emphasize a moderate and long-lasting pleasure, which hides the profound wisdom and poetic feelings of the Chinese nation in harmony with nature. The joy that arises in accordance with the seasons embodies the wisdom of "adapting to the times" in traditional Chinese aesthetics of life.
The brush and ink of Chinese painting form an internal echo with this attitude towards life. The overall tone of the picture is warm, with light ochre, light ink, and pink white blending with each other, which avoids the emptiness of pure white and retains the unique solemn atmosphere of the cold winter. The branches and trunks of the trees are outlined with ink lines and re-outlined with white powder, revealing the beauty of the bones of winter. The accumulated snow is combined with blank space, application of powder, and dotting, which shows both a sense of weight and transparency. The clothing of the characters is dyed in a well-organized manner, forming visual highlights in restraint. This gentle beauty not only fits the natural essence of all things returning to storage in winter, but also reserves a rich spiritual space for the upcoming New Year.
The twelfth lunar month, as the last month of the year, is the end of the time sequence and the starting point of new life. "Monthly Ordinances of the Twelve Months (December)" (十二月月令图（十二月）) tells us with a stable, gentle, and vibrant picture: even the coldest winter can be turned into a good time worth reminiscing; the deepest warmth lies in the poetry of people getting along with heaven and earth, with the seasons, and with each other.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Humanities, Communication University of China (中国传媒大学))
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As the Lunar Year of the Horse approaches, zodiac design is once again gaining momentum. In designs for stamps, logos, commemorative coins, and more, the image of the horse, with a completely new visual language, not only gives new vitality to traditional culture but also demonstrates the spiritual pursuits of contemporary people.
In the Chinese view, the horse is not only a means of transportation and a mount for war but also a symbol of strength, courage, enterprise, and vitality. From ancient times to the present, the image of the horse has been one of the most vibrant symbols in Chinese culture, conveying the spirit of the times, national beliefs, and aesthetic ideals through carriers such as rock paintings, portrait stones, sculptures, and arts and crafts. The horse in traditional art is rich in imagery and profound in connotation, possessing both the bravery of the "foundation of armor and soldiers" on the battlefield and the unrestrained spirit of "the spring breeze is proud of the horse's hooves." It embodies both the 天行健 (tiān xíng jiàn - "heaven's movement is ever vigorous," constant self-improvement) and the beautiful wish of 马到成功 (mǎ dào chéng gōng - "arrival of the horse brings success," instant success). The continuous artistic creation has laid the aesthetic spirit and profound cultural heritage of the horse, and these historical accumulations have become an important source of inspiration for contemporary design.
In the zodiac design of the "horse," designers pay more attention to exploring image expression and cultural thinking in a modern way. For example, the 2026 "Bingwu Year" special stamps issued by China Post—the first stamp, "Galloping for a Grand Plan," and the second stamp, "Ten Thousand Horses Bring Blessings"—are designed to depict the image of a spirited horse leaping forward with boldness and enterprise. The former uses a single horse to express the pioneering spirit of "taking the lead," while the latter uses three horses to interpret the united strength of "ten thousand horses galloping." At the same time, traditional auspicious patterns such as auspicious cloud patterns, flame patterns, and twining branch patterns are cleverly integrated into it, conveying beautiful meanings.
To make traditional culture "live" in modern design, the key is to find a common artistic language between ancient and modern times. For designers, it is necessary to understand the cultural codes of traditional patterns and traditional colors, and also to learn how to effectively transform traditional elements with modern design thinking. Especially when spreading Chinese culture to the world, designers should start from the common aesthetic pursuits of mankind and tell Chinese stories with unique creativity. The zodiac Year of the Horse stamps designed by designer Pan Hu (潘虎), leading the way for the United Nations Postal Administration, may bring some inspiration. The main image of the stamp is a running horse, inspired by the Eastern Han Dynasty "Bronze Running Horse" (铜奔马) housed in the Gansu Provincial Museum—the soaring momentum vividly conveys a heroic ambition of forging ahead, which is something all mankind can empathize with. The background of the stamp deconstructs, geometrically reshapes, and continuously reconstructs the caisson patterns of Dunhuang (敦煌), using layers of progressive symmetrical graphics to cleverly set off the galloping posture of the horse. The entire picture is treated with a combination of modern illustration and printmaking techniques, which is clean and neat, and has both oriental charm and does not require too much explanation, allowing people from different countries to feel the power contained in it, successfully turning the Chinese zodiac symbol into a blessing that can be understood by the world.
The essence of design ultimately points to the expression of the spirit. Today, the reason why we continue to innovate the image design of the horse is precisely because the spiritual qualities it represents are still needed by the times. In the hands of designers, in addition to presenting the horse's tenacity in bearing heavy burdens and its courage in pioneering and enterprising, it also conveys a new connotation of collaborative progress. Judging from the 2026 China Bingwu (Horse) Year precious metal commemorative coins issued by the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) and some logo designs, the image of the horse increasingly emphasizes the collective and order. Whether it is four horses galloping side by side or six horses galloping forward, what is highlighted is not the hero acting alone, but a group with a unified direction and mutual response, aiming to convey the belief that the development of the country and the progress of society require unity of purpose and concerted efforts.
At the same time, the image design of the horse mostly reveals a sense of "powerful composure." For example, the colors can be very warm, but the composition emphasizes balance; the momentum can be very unrestrained, but the structure must be stable. This is precisely the projection of the spirit of the times: at present, while pursuing rapid development, we emphasize healthy and sustainable development; we yearn to run, but we pay more attention to the rhythm and direction of running.
From the bronze running horse of the Han Dynasty traveling through the wind and sand, to the Zhaoling Six Steeds (昭陵六骏) of the Tang Dynasty commemorating meritorious service, and then to Xu Beihong's (徐悲鸿) Running Horse painting the spirit of resistance, the image of the "horse" has always witnessed the advancing footprints of the Chinese nation. Today, the ingenuity of designers makes the image of the horse leap onto colors, shine in light and shadow, and be engraved on metal and stone with a brand-new look, entering the lives of the masses, not only continuing the cultural context but also inheriting the spirit.
(The author is the Vice Dean of the School of Arts of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学))
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Qi Baishi's (齐白石) artistic life has remained evergreen not only because of his aesthetic creation of being "between likeness and unlikeness," but also because of his down-to-earth freshness and open-mindedness that resonates with people.
Opening Qi Baishi's (齐白石) life map, his footsteps marked neither Shandong (山东) as he went north to Beijing (北京) and south to Guangdong (粤海). However, the "Qi Baishi (齐白石) in Shandong (山东)" cultural tourism integration and innovation project, jointly launched by the Beijing Fine Art Academy (北京画院) and the Shandong Art Museum (山东美术馆), presents the audience with another kind of "arrival": Qi Baishi (齐白石) never climbed Mount Tai (泰山), but he repeatedly depicted "Dai Temple Map (岱庙图)". The steamed bun mountain with its warm and cold colors even became a symbolic pattern in his later landscape paintings. The old man Baishi's (白石) saying that resounded throughout the art world, "Those who learn from me will live, those who resemble me will die," echoed loudly in Shandong (山东). Li Kuchan (李苦禅), Yu Feian (于非闇), Xu Linlu (许麟庐), Cui Zifan (崔子范) and other Shandong (山东) disciples emerged from their teacher's brush and ink, integrating the mountains and rivers of the Qilu (齐鲁) land between the rubbing and dyeing, and jointly continued the new chapter of 20th-century Chinese flower and bird painting.
From "Qi Baishi (齐白石) in Beijing (北京)" to "Qi Baishi (齐白石) in Shandong (山东)", the Beijing Fine Art Academy (北京画院) uses art as a carrier to continuously promote the deep integration of culture and tourism. As the main activity of the "Qi Baishi (齐白石) in Shandong (山东)" project, the "Those Who Learn from Me Will Live - Special Exhibition of Qi Baishi (齐白石) and Shandong (山东) Disciples" triggered a wave of visits as soon as it was launched at the Shandong Art Museum (山东美术馆). During the New Year's Day holiday, the museum received more than 10,000 visitors every day. In order to form a communication effect, Jinan (济南), Qingdao (青岛), Yantai (烟台) and other places simultaneously launched four parallel exhibitions: "Ying Also Captures My Heart - Li Kuchan (李苦禅) Art Exhibition", "Inheritance and Innovation - Wang Xuetao (王雪涛) Flower and Bird Painting Art Exhibition", "Calligraphy and Painting Love - Xu Linlu (许麟庐) Art Exhibition", "Qi Rhyme Inheritance and Innovation, Great Simplicity Returns to Truth - Cui Zifan (崔子范) Art Exhibition and a Review Exhibition of Fine Works Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of Cui Zifan's (崔子范) Birth". The main exhibition echoes the parallel exhibitions, so as to discuss the topic of "inheritance and innovation": to see how the old man Baishi (白石) enters and exits between ancient and modern times, learns from tradition and gains his own ideas; and to see how the disciples knock on the "door of great craftsmen" and become their own masters.
Building a bridge of resonance is a major feature of the main exhibition. Strolling through the exhibition hall, visitors can not only see the vigorous and profound brush and ink of Baishi (白石), but also step into a natural painting environment created by digital technology. The world of vitality under the pen of the old man Baishi (白石) awakens from the paper: green bamboos, a pond of clear water, buzzing summer insects, and several farmhouses hidden among the mountains and forests. For a time, the audience changed from "looking at paintings" to "entering paintings", and truly felt Qi Baishi's (齐白石) life philosophy of "achieving greatness and exhausting subtlety" in the integration of audio and video. At the same time, the exhibition hopes to lead the audience back to the era of "seeing the words as if meeting the person". Tens of thousands of "Baishi (白石) Letters" hang in the exhibition hall, and visitors can take a letter or write blessings to relatives and friends, **鱼传尺素** (yú chuán chǐ sù - "fish convey a letter," send letters) and **纸短情长** (zhǐ duǎn qíng cháng - "paper is short, affection is long," the letter is too short to express all the feelings).
The original intention of the "Qi Baishi (齐白石) in Shandong (山东)" project is to let art out of the hall and back to the place where it was originally born - the hot life, and to draw a walkable cultural map. Through the method of "cultural vein linkage and regional symbiosis", the project introduces the natural world under Baishi's (白石) pen from the exhibition walls of the art museum into the city streets, lakeside scenic spots and contemporary life, affecting the springs of Jinan (济南), the wind of Qingdao (青岛), and the sea of Yantai (烟台), with the calmness of Tai'an (泰安), the splendor of Zibo (淄博), and the vigor of Weifang (潍坊), it grows again in a scene full of fireworks.
This is the first time that Qi Baishi's (齐白石) art has been systematically linked at the provincial level. In addition to the exhibition matrix, it also uses diversified forms such as intangible cultural heritage activation, poetry cross-border, and stage performances to jointly complete the deep integration of culture and tourism. The "Autumn Lotus Chant · Daming Lake Poetry Meeting (秋荷之咏·大明湖诗会)" linked Qi Baishi (齐白石) with the "Jinan Er'an (济南二安)" culture; the "Art Museum Wonderful Night - Art New Year's Eve Event" allowed the audience to usher in the new year in an art feast jointly created by traditional calligraphy and painting and contemporary dance drama; the "Future Baishi (白石) - Children's Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition" was launched simultaneously in multiple public spaces, allowing the traditional cultural context to continue in the younger generation; the objects in the old man Baishi's (白石) paintings are cleverly integrated with the traditional crafts of the Qilu (齐鲁) land, and derived cultural and creative products such as soft pottery ponies, fruit and vegetable colored glaze, and blessing gourds...
Through the construction of a diversified scene of the integrated ecology of "exhibition + culture and tourism + intangible cultural heritage", "Qi Baishi (齐白石) in Shandong (山东)" not only innovated artistic expression, but also expanded the way of cultural and tourism integration, allowing Baishi's (白石) natural interest to integrate into the urban texture and contemporary life, and quietly grow in the hearts of every viewer, transforming into a sweet spring that nourishes people's hearts.
(The author is the Art Director of the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy (北京画院美术馆))
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