People's Daily - February 10, 2026

Shanghai: One Bed, One Room, One Apartment; Xiong'an: One Plot of Land, One Blueprint, One City (New Year's Grassroots Visit)

By: 本报记者 殷新宇 巨云鹏 邵玉姿

On February 8th, an apartment in Jing'an (静安), Shanghai (上海). Shen Zhuangqi (沈壮奇), a delivery driver from Heze (菏泽), Shandong (山东) Province, has been working in Shanghai for three years. Upon seeing the reporter, he immediately said, "I've found a sense of family here." This sense of home comes from this apartment. Four people share a room, fully equipped with appliances and furniture, 24-hour hot water in the bathroom, and a billiards table, movie room, and gym on the first floor.

"How much is the rent?" the reporter asked.

"900 yuan a month. In Jing'an (静安) District, where land is 寸土寸金 (cùn tǔ cùn jīn - "every inch of land is gold," land is extremely expensive), where else could you find such cheap rent if it weren't for a 'government apartment'?" The young man's expression revealed his satisfaction.

This apartment has 196 rooms and 1,310 beds, housing delivery drivers, express delivery workers, hotel staff... These apartments, uniformly named "New Era Urban Builders and Managers Home," are distributed in various districts of Shanghai (上海).

"Migrant workers contribute to Shanghai (上海) and are equally masters of the city."

Having a place to live and a sense of belonging. As a megacity, Shanghai (上海) has been actively building a multi-tiered affordable rental housing system of "a bed, a room, a house" in recent years, providing a cumulative 610,000 units (rooms), fulfilling the dream of settling down for more new citizens and young people.

In Caoxi Third Village (漕溪三村), Xuhui (徐汇) District, the reporter met 70-year-old Yan Weiming (严伟明). He moved into his new house last year. Although the area is not large, it has a complete kitchen and bathroom. "We're spending the Spring Festival in our new home. It's enough for the two of us, and the key thing is that we have a bathroom!"

"Carrying a chamber pot" was a long-standing pain for some older Shanghai (上海) residents.

"We cannot walk towards modernization carrying chamber pots." After more than 30 years of relay efforts, the final 14,000+ household renovation task was completed ahead of schedule in September 2025, and Shanghai (上海) residents finally bid farewell to "carrying chamber pots."

Yan Weiming (严伟明) was one of them. Rebuilt on the original site, the 3-story old house in Caoxi Third Village (漕溪三村) "grew" into an 8-story building with elevators. "Getting a new house without spending any money, only our country can do that!" the old man said with emotion.

Taking a plane from Shanghai (上海) and then a high-speed train, it takes less than half a day to reach Xiong'an (雄安). Here, the reporter saw how Xiong'an (雄安) has gone from a piece of land to a blueprint, and then to a city, a modern new city rising from the ground.

"Golden Reed," the China Sinochem Building (中国中化大厦), is one of the landmarks of Xiong'an (雄安). Looking out through the office window, the new look of Xiong'an (雄安) is fully visible. Lin Chenggang (林成钢) exclaimed, "What a beautiful new city! Can you imagine? Just a few years ago, this was just a large piece of land."

Lin Chenggang (林成钢), manager of the Administrative Comprehensive Department of the Administrative Service Center of the China Sinochem Office (中国中化), bought a house in Xiong'an (雄安) last year. "The whole family will spend the New Year in Xiong'an (雄安) this year."

Building a city for a thousand years on "a large piece of land" began with a blueprint. "Planning every inch of land clearly," President Xi Jinping (习近平) outlined, "reflecting foresight and leadership."

At the Xiong'an New Area Planning Exhibition Center (雄安新区规划展示中心), in front of a huge planning map is a full-area planning sand table. The narrator, Wang Qian (王茜), carefully explained the construction concept behind every inch of land to the audience.

A blueprint is gradually becoming a reality, and the new city of Xiong'an (雄安) is dazzling.

First, look at Xiong'an's (雄安) "city above ground." "Planting greenery first, then building the city." Walking in Xiong'an (雄安), beauty can be seen everywhere: a park every 300 meters, a green belt every 1 kilometer, and a forest every 3 kilometers. Strolling through Yuerong Park (悦容公园), you can enjoy the scenery of the gardens. "5,338 buildings have been built on nearly 215 square kilometers of land, with shopping malls, schools, residences, and office buildings all available," said Feng Xiaohu (冯小虎), director of the Urban Planning Research Institute of Xiong'an Group Planning Institute (雄安集团规划院城市规划研究所).

Then, look at Xiong'an's (雄安) "underground city." In Xiong'an (雄安), you can't see power lines in the city, and you can't see iron towers carrying high-voltage lines in the suburbs. Electricity, communications, heating, gas, and tap water are all "invited" into underground utility tunnels, with more than 1,000 kilometers of pipelines in the tunnels.

In the underground utility tunnel of Rongxi (容西) area, operation and maintenance personnel monitor the operation status of the tunnel in real time through a monitoring screen. "Based on the digital city base, we have innovatively built an intelligent management platform for the utility tunnel to achieve 'full video coverage, full IoT perception, and full remote dispatch'," said Ma Yongjun (马永君), Minister of the Operation and Management Department of China Xiong'an Group Infrastructure Construction Co., Ltd. (中国雄安集团基础建设有限公司运营管理部).

Third, look at Xiong'an's (雄安) "city in the cloud." Xiong'an (雄安) is the first city to fully realize the synchronous construction of a digital city and a real city. Every building and every street lamp corresponds one-to-one, and the "twin city" has accumulated more than 30 billion pieces of public data. At the Xiong'an City Computing Center (雄安城市计算中心), engineer Zhao Song (赵松) clicked on a building on the electronic display screen, and the two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of each floor and each workstation immediately appeared in front of him.

The city of the future is also a city for the people. In Bailong West Court Community (白龙西庭小区) in the Rongxi Resettlement Area (容西回迁安置片区), the surrounding facilities are complete. Resident An Yan (安艳) praised the 15-minute living circle: her youngest daughter attends elementary school at her doorstep, "worry-free, comfortable, and life is getting sweeter and sweeter!" In Xiong'an (雄安), there are more than 300 resettlement communities like Bailong West Court (白龙西庭), and there are already 169,000 resettled residents like An Yan (安艳).

A blueprint is drawn to the end. Lin Chenggang (林成钢) noted that after "building Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) to a high standard and with high quality" was written into the "14th Five-Year Plan," "promoting the construction of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) into a modern city to a high standard and with high quality" has also been written into the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal.

"A major plan for a thousand years, planning first, 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent efforts," persistent efforts will lead to success), everything for the people. Xiong'an's (雄安) practice is absolutely unique in the world," said Lin Chenggang (林成钢).

The breath of spring is coming. Entering the "15th Five-Year Plan," Shanghai (上海) and Xiong'an (雄安), one old and one new city, "a people's city built by the people, a people's city for the people," are writing a story of the "small family" being full of vitality and the "big family" prospering.

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Two Cityscapes and the Word "People" (Reporter's Notes)

By: 殷新宇

In the new era of China, urban development models are tailored to local conditions, but the word "people" remains consistent.

Shanghai (上海), as China's earliest modernized metropolis, is where General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the important concept of "the people build the city, and the city is for the people," and it is also the place where urban builders have explored the practice of "one bed, one room, one apartment."

Xiong'an (雄安), as the "millennium plan" personally conceived by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the youngest city, a modern new city has risen from the ground, realizing the transformation of "one map for one piece of land, one city."

One old and one new city, two sets of "three ones," both point to a modern people's city.

The happiness of countless families lies in the deepest part of the city. Interviewing in Shanghai (上海) and Xiong'an (雄安), the deeper we go into the urban fabric, the closer we get to the citizens, the more we can feel the warmth of urban construction and appreciate the ideological power of the people's city concept.

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Warships Realize the Dream, Heading for the Deep Blue

By: 本报记者 金正波 解放军报记者 严 珊 宋子洵

On the shores of the South China Sea, the afterglow sprinkles the naval port. The naval vessel Hainan (海南舰) lies quietly, its hull number "31" shining brightly, like a medal engraved with its mission.

On April 23, 2021, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the centralized commissioning ceremony of three main combat vessels of the Navy, personally awarding the "August 1st" military flag and naming certificate to the Hainan (海南舰), and boarded the vessel for inspection.

Since then, the Hainan (海南舰), the first of the new-type amphibious assault ships, has officially joined the People's Navy combat sequence. For nearly 5 years, the officers and soldiers of the Hainan (海南舰) have kept their mission firmly in mind, strived to be the first, and held their dreams towards the deep blue.

In early 2026, at the sound of an order, the Hainan (海南舰) set sail again. The reporter went to sea with the ship. As the warship left the naval port, looking up, the Danxiashan (丹霞山舰) and Kunlunshan (昆仑山舰) vessels were returning from their voyage—the "old, middle-aged, and young" three generations of amphibious combat vessels of the Navy were framed together at this moment.

From tank landing ships to comprehensive landing ships, and then to amphibious assault ships... the three generations of ship silhouettes reflect the People's Navy's journey of struggle, carrying the People's Navy's dream of becoming a strong military from the nearshore to the deep blue. Standing on the warship advancing at full speed, the reporter's heart surged.

During the days at sea with the ship, it is unforgettable to see the heroic posture of the bow plowing through the waves, and even more, I was repeatedly moved by the determination and will of the officers and soldiers to overcome difficulties and strengthen the country through the sea...

A Pioneering Road Engraved with Original Intention

As a helmsman who drives a tens of thousands of tons of steel behemoth, how to keep the course steady?

In the bridge, the reporter met Zhou Yu (周玉), a young female soldier who had just stepped down from her post, and she told about a recent "rapid march"—

In December 2025, in a certain sea area of the Pacific Ocean, the waves were surging. The Hainan (海南舰) formation received an order to participate in an important joint exercise mission. Upon hearing the order, the Hainan (海南舰) traveled a long distance to the designated sea area.

"Wherever the national interest lies, the amphibious mission must be achieved!" Zhou Yu (周玉) told reporters that in the past year, the troops have carried out in-depth political rectification and training, and the enthusiasm of officers and soldiers for preparing for war has become increasingly high. "As long as the Party and the people need it, we will appear in any sea area."

On the day the Hainan (海南舰) was commissioned, Zhou Yu (周玉) was neatly dressed and received a review by the commander. This honor inspired her to bravely venture into the deep blue. In recent years, she has taken the lead in undertaking independent support tasks and winning awards among her fellow soldiers, taking a new step on the road to becoming a military expert.

A ship has a soul, so it can gallop across thousands of miles of sea.

"Resolutely listen to the Party's command, strengthen the country through the sea, and continue to move forward on the journey of safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests." In the conference room of the ship receiving building of a shipbuilding factory in Shanghai (上海), a bright red Party flag hangs high. One day in October 2019, the Hainan (海南舰) ship receiving troops were officially established under the Party flag.

Now, this Party flag has been accompanying the Hainan (海南舰) in its battles against wind and waves, and every Party member on the ship has solemnly sworn an oath facing it.

The Hainan (海南舰) is the first of the Navy's new-type amphibious assault ships. The two words "new type" and "first ship" together mean that this is a challenging pioneering road.

"The first time I saw the Hainan (海南舰), most of the equipment was not yet in place, it was just a 'rough house', and the construction task was arduous!" Zhu Chao (祝超), an officer of a landing ship detachment of the Navy and one of the first batch of crew members, still remembers the scene of receiving the ship that year.

According to experience, it takes at least 2 to 3 years for foreign countries to receive an amphibious assault ship. "Simultaneous organization, equipment reception, testing, and training, without stopping for a moment!" To tackle the difficulties of receiving the ship, the ship's Party committee established a "Pioneer Commando Team of Party Members" at the first time, and planted the bright red Party flag at the forefront of the tackling.

In order to compile the "Operating Manual," Zhu Chao (祝超) crawled into the bottom of the cabin, which was less than 1 meter high, and fought continuously for more than 30 days in the dim and humid space. His fingertips were worn with thick calluses, and his clothes were soaked with sweat. He checked thousands of pipeline interfaces one by one and overcame dozens of technical problems.

The example is silent, and there are many such examples. All the officers and soldiers of the ship worked day and night, creating the Hainan (海南舰)'s strong military acceleration.

Standing on the wide deck, the reporter seemed to be able to touch the sweat of the officers and soldiers training for war, feel the shock of the aircraft taking off and landing, and even more, understand the consistent original intention.

Since the equipment was received, the ship's Party committee has always placed the soul-casting and education in an important position, and carried out the study of the Party's innovative theories on a regular basis. Combining with important tasks, they carried out the education of "Remembering the Leader's Instructions and Building an Amphibious Pioneer," reviewed the commissioning scene, and constantly consolidated the ideological foundation of officers and soldiers, and gathered spiritual strength.

Striving forward into the deep blue writes loyalty. From the shores of the South China Sea to the depths of the ocean, from tackling the difficulties of receiving the ship to the tempering of actual combat, they use their red loyalty to guard the thousands of miles of sea frontier, and let the "August 1st" military flag fly high above the deep blue.

A Hot Picture of System Training

Compared with traditional landing ships, what is different about this amphibious assault ship?

"Large loading space, with hangars and dock cabins, can carry tanks and hovercraft; the straight-through deck is large, with an area of ​​nearly 20 basketball courts, and can take off and land 6 helicopters at the same time." Speaking of the Hainan (海南舰), Sergeant Zhang Yicheng's (张益成) face was full of pride, "**可上九天揽月，可下五洋捉鳖** (kě shàng jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè, kě xià wǔ yáng zhuō biē - "can reach the heavens to capture the moon, can plunge into the oceans to capture turtles," describes great ability or ambition; capable of anything).

"This step is not easy." Zhang Yicheng (张益成) has been in the army for nearly 30 years, has experienced three generations of sea landing ships, has fought against wind and waves all the way, and has witnessed the leap-forward development of the People's Navy from small to large. The commissioning of the Hainan (海南舰) has made up for the shortcomings of the Navy's equipment system and greatly improved the amphibious projection combat capability.

"To drive a major country's weapon, you need to practice your own skills to the extreme." In the bridge, Captain Yu (余舰长) stared at the carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing outside the window, his eyes firm.

Looking south, an important moment emerged in Captain Yu's (余舰长) mind—in April 1950, the Qiongzhou Strait (琼州海峡) was in full swing, and the People's Liberation Army launched a large-scale cross-sea landing operation. This amphibious assault ship, which was commissioned in April 2021 and named after "Hainan (海南)," has carried deep expectations since its birth. This expectation has become clearer as the troops deepen their political rectification and training, inspiring every officer and soldier to forge ahead.

Captain Yu (余舰长) told reporters that at the beginning of this year, the Hainan (海南舰) has made new breakthroughs: the carrier-based aircraft has achieved "hot refueling," and the support time has been shortened by nearly half compared with the traditional support model!

During the voyage with the ship, the reporter witnessed a night carrier-based aircraft refueling training.

Accompanied by bursts of roar, several carrier-based helicopters approached the flight deck like eagles spreading their wings. Sergeant Yu Shuxin (禹树新) led a squad wearing yellow, green, and white vests to quickly take their positions, directing the pilots to lower their altitude.

As the guide gave an order, the support soldiers stepped forward against the wind to moor the helicopter, and supplemented fuel by pulling the oil pipe under non-stop conditions. After a while, the warplane took off again. This scene is the norm after the Hainan (海南舰) realized the carrier-based aircraft "hot refueling" support model.

A new type of amphibious assault ship involves a variety of combat elements such as ships, naval marines, and carrier-based aviation. How to make a fist?

The reporter found the answer on the wall of the conference room—the striking slogan reads: "The victory of the landing soldiers is the victory of the landing ship." Behind this is the deep understanding of the word "system" by all the officers and soldiers of the ship.

In the "Deep Blue Bookstore" of the Hainan (海南舰), the reporter saw a painting by a soldier, vividly depicting the hot scene of system training—

Information flows in the command room, orders are issued decisively, and shells roar and stir up huge waves; the dock cabin door is opened, and the hovercraft carrying armored vehicles rushes to the beach like an arrow off the string. Sea-air linkage, three-dimensional assault, the battlefield situation unfolds vigorously in the vast sea area.

"Deepening joint training is closely related to every officer and soldier of the Hainan (海南舰). Everyone should not only focus on their own positions, but also learn to seek the maximum integration of the entire combat system." Captain Yu (余舰长) said.

In order to allow officers and soldiers of different services and arms to better produce a "chemical reaction," the Hainan (海南舰) established a "push-the-door mutual learning" exchange mechanism, inviting personnel from different positions to enter the support positions, and participate in and study simultaneously from combat planning to organization and implementation, to promote officers and soldiers to switch perspectives to look at problems and base themselves on the system to plan tactics.

From a single ship to integrating into the system, the trajectory of the Hainan (海南舰) reflects the firm pace of a major country's navy to strengthen the country through the sea. Here, every officer and soldier is a practitioner of the dream of a strong military, and every breakthrough is a resounding answer to the mission.

A Talent Matrix Fighting Against Wind and Waves

How difficult is it to train a new type of amphibious assault ship captain?

Faced with the reporter's question, Captain Yu (余舰长), who has served as a commanding officer of many types of main combat vessels, said: "Before taking office, I completed the learning certification of dozens of majors."

Then, Captain Yu (余舰长) listed another piece of data: the ship's lines are intertwined and staggered, and the total length is more than 1,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to the distance from Beijing (北京) to Shanghai (上海).

"This kind of 'difficulty' reflects a major country's navy's thirst for new types of combat talents!" Looking back on his personal resume, Captain Yu (余舰长) was filled with emotion, "My growth is inseparable from personal efforts, and behind it is the traction of the cause of strengthening the military."

The degree of informationization in modern warfare is constantly improving, and profound changes have taken place in the concepts, elements, and methods of winning. The Hainan (海南舰) is a new generation of equipment and requires a large number of high-quality talents.

In the tower, when the reporter met officer Zhang Tianrui (张天瑞), he was staring at the screen, quickly collecting wind direction, observing clouds, and reporting the situation. Surprisingly, this capable officer's resume reads "pilot." His transformation from a proud son of the blue sky to a naval officer is a bright spot in the Hainan (海南舰)'s talent construction picture.

"Amphibious landing operations are one of the most complex combat styles in joint operations. Forging a cross-border talent matrix of 'proficiency in one's own major and complementary multi-skills' is the key to winning the sea battlefield." Political Commissar Liu (刘政委) of the ship introduced that the exchange of personnel from different positions and different services has become the norm, accelerating the cultivation of compound talents.

Today, dozens of officers on the ship have successfully achieved professional cross-border and become the backbone of driving amphibious warships.

Above the ocean, the exercise is in full swing. Several helicopters took off and went straight to the simulated beachhead. What is striking is that the helicopter guide is a junior sergeant. A batch of young talents are growing rapidly in actual combat training.

In this exercise, the night continuous sortie training of carrier-based aircraft can be described as thrilling. Above the ocean, the ink color surged. The warship deck under the sway of the waves fluctuated, like a "moving stamp." Officer An Yulong (安宇龙) and his comrades shoulder the heavy responsibility of night take-off and landing support. Their movements are precise and standardized, and the signal transmission is calm and decisive, building a safety defense line for the pilots in the night.

At the end of the exercise, on the flight deck, the reporter met officer Zhao Zhuxiao (赵竹骁). This time, he served as a new position to participate in the exercise on the ship. Last year, he just went to other service units as a "seed player" for compound training.

The Hainan (海南舰) has sent more than 200 business backbones like Zhao Zhuxiao (赵竹骁) to brother units for exchange. "Do you think it is a pity to give away the talents you have worked so hard to train?" Faced with the question, a leader of a certain detachment blurted out: "**一枝独秀不是春，百花齐放春满园** (yī zhī dú xiù bù shì chūn, bǎi huā qí fàng chūn mǎn yuán - "one flower alone does not make a spring, a hundred flowers blooming bring spring to the garden," meaning that prosperity comes from collective effort, not individual achievement)."

"My motherland and I are like a wave in the sea. The wave is the child of the sea, and the sea is the support of the wave..." Standing on the flight deck and looking at the deep blue, the familiar melody sounded in my ears again.

Reporter's Notes

What is getting wider and wider is not only the deck

The sunrise is magnificent, and the sea breeze is blowing. Stepping on the straight and wide straight-through deck of the Hainan (海南舰), veteran Zhang Yicheng (张益成) talked about his experience of serving on a small boat more than 20 years ago—

At that time, the conditions were simple. Every summer, the cabin, which had been roasted for a day, was as hot as a steamer and could not fall asleep. The comrades had to sleep on the crowded deck until the temperature dropped slightly in the second half of the night before returning to the cabin.

Zhang Yicheng (张益成) is the longest-serving crew member on the Hainan (海南舰). From small boats to large ships, watching the increasingly wider deck, he couldn't help but sigh: Who would have thought that today's Hainan (海南舰) has thousands of cabins, and the deck can take off and land multiple helicopters at the same time.

The warship deck is a unique position for the Navy. Here, it has witnessed the bloody youth of generations of sailors, and it also carries the great dream of the People's Navy to move towards the deep blue.

In recent years, the reporter has had the honor to set foot on the decks of frigates, destroyers, amphibious assault ships, and aircraft carriers. I still remember that on the flight deck of the Shandong (山东舰), an officer of the take-off and landing support squadron firmly said: "From the Liaoning (辽宁舰) to the Shandong (山东舰) and then to the Fujian (福建舰), the take-off of carrier-based aircraft on the deck has witnessed the leap in the combat effectiveness of the People's Navy."

Above the deck is the sky and the future; below the deck is the deep sea and the mission. Standing on the deck of the Hainan (海南舰) and looking at the vast sea, we firmly believe that what is getting wider and wider is not only the deck, but also the magnificent journey of strengthening the country through the sea and moving towards rejuvenation.

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China releases revised regulations on nature reserves

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 9th. Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) recently signed a State Council decree, announcing the revised "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Nature Reserves" (中华人民共和国自然保护区条例) (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will come into effect on March 15, 2026.

The "Regulations" aim to promote the high-quality construction of nature reserves, strengthen the protection and management of nature reserves, comprehensively promote ecological civilization and the construction of a beautiful China (美丽中国), and accelerate the advancement of a modernized society where humans and nature coexist harmoniously. The "Regulations" consist of 5 chapters and 48 articles, and the main revisions are as follows:

First, improve the functional positioning of nature reserves. According to the relevant standards for the classification of nature reserves, nature reserves are defined as specific land and marine areas whose main purpose is to protect typical natural ecosystems, natural concentrated distribution areas of rare and endangered wild animals and plants, and natural relics of special significance, so as to realize the scientific protection and rational utilization of natural resources.

Second, clarify the overall requirements for the construction of nature reserves. It is stipulated that the construction of nature reserves should implement the Party and the state's guidelines, policies, and decisions, practice the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green mountains and clear water are gold and silver mountains," the idea that environmental protection and economic development are mutually reinforcing), adhere to the people-centered development ideology, adhere to the principle of ecological protection first, coordinate protection and development, adhere to adapting to local conditions and highlighting characteristics, and build a mechanism of government leadership, multi-party participation, and social sharing to achieve the unity of ecological protection, green development, and improvement of people's livelihoods.

Third, implement the reform and deployment of the management system of nature reserves. It is clarified that the forestry and grassland主管部门 of the State Council (国务院林业草原主管部门) is responsible for the supervision and management of nature reserves nationwide, the relevant departments of the State Council (国务院有关部门) are responsible for the relevant supervision and management of nature reserves within their respective responsibilities, and the management agencies of nature reserves (自然保护区管理机构) are responsible for the protection and management of corresponding nature reserves.

Fourth, standardize the establishment of nature reserves. Clarify the conditions that should be met for the establishment of nature reserves; uniformly integrate local-level nature reserves into provincial-level nature reserves (省级自然保护区); stipulate that the delineation of the area of nature reserves should comprehensively consider the integrity of the distribution area of protected objects such as natural ecosystems, management feasibility, and the needs of surrounding economic and social development.

Fifth, strengthen the protection and management of nature reserves. It is stipulated that overall protection, systematic restoration, and comprehensive management shall be implemented for nature reserves; the construction of a monitoring network system shall be strengthened, and ecological risks shall be evaluated and warned in a timely manner; human activities are generally prohibited in the core protected areas of nature reserves, and human activities are strictly restricted in the general control areas; the management agencies of nature reserves shall establish a daily patrol system and formulate emergency plans for emergencies; and supervision and inspection of the protection of nature reserves shall be strengthened.

Sixth, strict legal responsibility. Further clarify the types of illegal acts that should be punished and the law enforcement entities, and increase the penalties.

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Beautifying the Countryside and Boosting Industrial Value (First-hand Observations on Implementing the Spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session)

By: 本报记者 王锦涛

Before the holiday, after checking the accounts, the profit in 2025 was 40,000 yuan more than the previous year. Why is business so good? Wang Liping (王立平) knows it "brightly" in his heart.

Wang Liping's (王立平) hometown is Weiyuan Village (渭河源村), Weiyuan County (渭源县), Gansu (甘肃), the source of the Wei River (渭河), the largest tributary of the Yellow River (黄河), and a well-known tourist destination. Wang Liping (王立平) runs a farmhouse restaurant. At first, business was good, but later it gradually became deserted. "The collection and transportation of kitchen waste couldn't keep up, which affected both the environment and the business," Wang Liping (王立平) muttered.

In the past, many villages in Weiyuan County (渭源县) faced the dilemma of "three shortages and three difficulties" in garbage cleaning: lack of cleaners, making cleaning difficult; lack of trash cans, making collection difficult; and lack of transportation vehicles, making it difficult to leave the village. These problems not only affected the appearance of the villages but also hindered the pace of getting rich.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "improving the ecological environment is developing productivity." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts forward "promoting the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages" and "continuously improving the rural living environment." Aiming at the pain points, Weiyuan County (渭源县) is focusing on promoting "full county coverage and full process control" of rural garbage disposal.

In the past, every tourist season, as the number of tourists increased, the kitchen waste generated in the back kitchen would overflow, but garbage trucks often couldn't be called. Now it's different. Without urging, the garbage truck has already arrived at the door.

"This is not a coincidence, but a smart 'brain'," Wang Liping (王立平) exclaimed, "As long as there is a large flow of people near the farmhouse, the garbage truck driver will receive a dispatch call and rush to collect and transport the garbage in time."

Where is the "brain"? Walking into the Weiyuan County (渭源县) Rural Ecological Co-Governance Command Center, the answer is scrolling on the big screen: garbage storage status, vehicle operating routes, garbage collection and transportation, etc. are updated in real time, at a glance.

"We adopt the 'government-led + market-oriented operation' model," said Kang Jianguo (康建国), the county chief of Weiyuan County (渭源县). The county introduced Fuzhou Xuepin Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (福州雪品环境科技有限公司), built a rural ecological co-governance command center, implemented hierarchical grid management, and equipped 218 administrative villages and 1,583 natural villages in the county with 26,800 trash cans and 165 various types of garbage trucks.

"Each garbage truck is equipped with Beidou navigation," said Lan Peiqing (兰培清), the operation and maintenance manager of Weiyuan Xuepin Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (渭源雪品环境科技有限公司). Through artificial intelligence scheduling, trash cans can be scientifically placed according to the flow of people, and the collection and transportation routes can be dynamically optimized, and the progress of collection and transportation can be tracked in real time, which is accurate and efficient.

Wang Liping (王立平) wiped the windows of the farmhouse restaurant brightly: "The dining environment is much better, and business is booming again."

Weiyuan Village (渭河源村) is adjacent to the Weihe River Source Scenic Area (渭河源景区). After the living environment is improved, the surrounding environment of the scenic area is also more pleasant. The "appearance" has increased, and the "output value" has increased. In 2025, the scenic area received a cumulative total of more than 300,000 tourists, an increase of 217% year-on-year.

Weiyuan County (渭源县) has also introduced slag treatment enterprises to realize closed-loop management of garbage collection, transfer, treatment, and utilization.

"To thoroughly implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, in the first year of the '15th Five-Year Plan', we will continue to improve the rural living environment, implement grid-based layout, standardized collection and transportation, digital empowerment, and institutionalized guarantees, build livable, workable, and beautiful villages, and make the countryside both beautiful and more productive," said Lei Lixin (雷立新), Secretary of the Weiyuan County (渭源县) Party Committee.

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How Should Outstanding Engineers Be Cultivated? (Policy Q&A: Addressing Concerns)

By: 本报记者 吴 丹 吴 月

Reader Concerns

I am a university student and aspire to become an engineer in the future. I've heard that the country is promoting the reform of cultivating outstanding engineers and has established a number of Institutes of Outstanding Engineers. What other new measures are being taken to reform the cultivation of outstanding engineers? How can I better match what I learn with the needs of engineering practice?

Outstanding engineers are high-level talents who support and serve the construction of a modern industrial system and are an important part of the national strategic talent force. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal states: "Cultivate and create more strategic scientists, leading science and technology talents, outstanding engineers, master craftsmen, and highly skilled talents."

"China is a major country in terms of engineers and has built the world's largest engineering education system. The key to achieving the transition from a major engineering country to a strong one lies in cultivating and strengthening the force of top-notch talents, and a super-conventional training mechanism must be established," said Wu Gang (吴刚), Director of the Department of Degree Management and Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Education (教育部).

What is "super-conventional"? Wu Gang believes that three principles should be followed: adhere to the institutional advantages and organizational advantages of "concentrating efforts to accomplish big things" as an important basis for reform, adhere to serving national strategies as a clear guide for reform, and adhere to the deep integration of industry and education and breaking the talent training gap as a key breakthrough for reform.

Since 2022, the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), and other 9 departments have launched a special pilot project for the reform of engineering master's and doctoral training. At present, nearly 26,000 engineering master's and doctoral students have been jointly recruited and trained by universities and enterprises, of which more than 2,000 have graduated and taken up jobs, realizing for the first time the organized, systematic, and large-scale joint training of engineering master's and doctoral students by universities and enterprises.

Specifically, it is necessary to build a new talent training platform that deeply integrates industry, academia, and research. At present, 50 National Institutes of Outstanding Engineers have been built, 4 National Institutes of Outstanding Engineers Innovation have been built in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), and 50 universities, enterprises, and national laboratories have been supported to jointly establish the China Outstanding Engineers Training Consortium.

Introduce enterprise innovation resources, jointly enroll students from universities and enterprises, cultivate them through alternating work and study, and make students' entry into enterprises for practice a necessary part. Among them, engineering master's students should practice in enterprises for no less than 1 year, and engineering doctoral students should practice for no less than 2 years, so that students can study real problems in real environments and forge real skills.

Focusing on the ability requirements of outstanding engineers, promote universities and enterprises to strengthen key elements of talent training. In terms of topic research, enterprises refine topics from the front line of industry as the main source of research and engineering practice topics for engineering master's and doctoral students; in terms of curriculum system, universities and enterprises create more than 200 courses in key fields and launch them on the National Smart Education Platform; in terms of faculty, enterprises select and recommend more than 13,000 enterprise mentors and front-line chief engineers, and universities promote more than 300 internal mentors to take temporary positions in enterprises; in terms of practice platforms, universities and enterprises jointly build more than 300 engineer technology centers to provide students with more opportunities to contact actual engineering scenarios.

In terms of evaluation mechanism reform, solving practical engineering problems is taken as the main standard for degree evaluation. Engineering master's and doctoral students are supported to apply for degrees with practical achievements such as product design and major equipment, and more than 60 engineering master's and doctoral students have obtained degrees with practical achievements.

In terms of employment services and career development guidance, universities and enterprises work together to strengthen the rapid and accurate supply of talents. Enterprises adopt methods such as early signing, exemption from probation periods, and conversion of seniority to support students to stay in enterprises for employment and development. The proportion of the first 2,000 engineering master's students who stayed in key enterprises in this field for employment reached 81%. Zhejiang (浙江), Guangdong (广东), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Jiangsu (江苏) and other places have also taken the lead in realizing seamless connection between talent training and engineer title evaluation, and more than 1,100 engineering master's graduates have directly obtained engineer title certificates.

"In the next step, we will promote the reform of outstanding engineer training to a stage of upgrading standards, dynamic optimization, quality improvement and capacity expansion," said a relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education (教育部). In the future, we will promote the reform of outstanding engineer training in depth, pilot the certification of Institutes of Outstanding Engineers, promote the deepening of industry-university-research cooperation mechanisms, and support provinces to build more Institutes of Outstanding Engineers focusing on regional industrial development needs. In addition, we will take the reform of outstanding engineer training as a traction to drive the overall transformation of higher engineering education, pilot the integrated design and connection mechanism of undergraduate and postgraduate studies, and establish an international cooperation mechanism for outstanding engineer training.

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A Warm Welcome to the New Spring

As the Spring Festival approaches, Tian Chuanfu (田传府), a member of the Communist Party in Cuoshi Village (错石村), Shiqiao Town (石桥镇), Yiyuan County (沂源县), Zibo City (淄博市), Shandong Province (山东省), is particularly busy. He wants to provide free haircuts to more than 30 elderly people with limited mobility in the village before the Spring Festival.

The picture shows Tian Chuanfu (田传府) (fifth from the right) giving a haircut to an elderly person in the village on February 9th.

Photo by Zhao Dongshan (赵东山) (Image China)

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Beijing Completes Spring Festival Decorations

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) February 9th dispatch (Reporter Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)): As the Lunar Year of the Horse Spring Festival approaches, the capital Beijing (北京), under the theme of "Galloping Horse Celebrates the New Year, Beijing (京) Colors Chinese New Year," deeply explores the cultural connotations of traditional festivals, combines modern aesthetics and technological means, and comprehensively creates a festive landscape with the capital's style, the ancient capital's charm, and the spirit of the times. At present, the city's landscape arrangement is in place.

The Spring Festival landscape arrangement mainly adopts 10 kinds of arrangement forms, such as lanterns and lights, landscape sketches, night lighting, zodiac horses, and Spring Festival couplets with the character "Fu," to fully demonstrate the joy and solemnity of the New Year. A total of more than 280,000 lanterns and various decorations are hung in the streets and alleys of the city, more than 300 themed landscape sketches are set up, 10 landmark building light shows are created, and nearly 60,000 screens of various types, such as outdoor electronic screens, city TVs, and bus TVs, are used to play New Year pictures, forming a continuous festive street scene of decorations, festivity and reunion.

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He Lifeng Extends Greetings to China's Polar Expedition Team via Video Call

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 9th. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, extended cordial greetings and New Year blessings to the scientific expedition members currently undertaking missions in the North and South Poles via satellite video link in Beijing (北京) on February 9th.

After listening to speeches from representatives of the Xue Long (雪龙) icebreaker, the Qinling Station (秦岭站) in Antarctica, and the Yellow River Station (黄河站) in the Arctic, He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that the Party Central Committee and the State Council have always attached great importance to polar scientific expedition work. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the vast number of polar workers united and struggled, worked hard and dedicated themselves, and successfully completed various scientific expedition tasks. China's comprehensive polar strength has reached a new level, contributing to the advancement of the "Two Centenary Goals" and the realization of the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that 2026 is the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is necessary to deeply study and comprehend, and resolutely implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions and important instructions and directives on polar work, further enhance the comprehensive support capabilities for polar scientific research, continuously strengthen scientific and technological support, further enhance the level of understanding and protection of the poles, continue to deepen international exchanges and cooperation, further promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, strengthen care and concern for polar workers, and promote the creation of a new situation in China's polar cause in the new era and on the new journey.

Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the State Council participated in the event at the main venue in Beijing (北京). The 42nd Antarctic Expedition Team and members of the Arctic Yellow River Station (北极黄河站), among others, participated in the event at various sub-venues.

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Three County Chiefs from Eastern, Central, and Western China Discuss Developing the County Economy (New Economic Orientation: Dialogue; Striving for 2026)

By: 本报记者 刘军国 张文豪 宋朝军

The Central Economic Work Conference proposed promoting high-quality development of the county economy. This year's No. 1 Central Document proposed developing county economies with distinct characteristics. How can the county economy be developed based on different resource endowments? What good practices are there in various places to promote integrated urban-rural development? This edition invites the county heads of three counties with advanced manufacturing, modern agriculture, and ecological tourism as their characteristics to have a dialogue and talk about their insights on developing the county economy in accordance with local conditions.
——Editor

Dialogue Participants: Lü Zhongfei (吕忠飞), County Head of Jiashan County (嘉善县), Zhejiang; Wang Zhenhai (王振海), County Head of Fengqiu County (封丘县), Henan; Huang Guojie (黄国杰), County Head of Shandan County (山丹县), Gansu

"The most important thing is to make the industry special and refined"

Q: The county is a complex with many types of resources. What is the most prominent resource advantage of your county?

Lü Zhongfei: Jiashan (嘉善) is located at the intersection of Shanghai (上海), Hangzhou (杭州), Suzhou (苏州), and Ningbo (宁波) in Zhejiang, with very good location conditions. There are many manufacturing enterprises and a solid industrial foundation.

Wang Zhenhai: Fengqiu's (封丘) grain planting area is stable at more than 1.76 million mu, and it also has many characteristic business cards such as honeysuckle and raspberry. Abundant agricultural resources are the most prominent advantage.

Huang Guojie: Shandan's (山丹) main advantage is ecological tourism resources, such as the well-known Shandan Army Horse Ranch (山丹军马场). Abundant ecological agricultural resources are also one of the advantages.

Q: What challenges will you encounter in transforming advantageous resources into development momentum? How to solve it?

Lü Zhongfei: Jiashan (嘉善) has a relatively large industrial scale, but there are not enough chain owner enterprises and the competitiveness of the industrial chain is not strong enough. To this end, we are promoting the formation of a distinctive industrial layout. Give full play to the industrial advantages of many manufacturing enterprises, and use the method of attracting businesses with businesses and industrial chain investment promotion to "attract phoenixes", introduce 38 Fortune 500 projects, and sign investment projects of more than 100 million yuan in 2025, so that industrial entities can be organically integrated to form a cluster.

Wang Zhenhai: Fengqiu's (封丘) challenge is mainly that agriculture is "big but not strong." On the one hand, we will firmly hold the bottom line of food security and ensure that grain output is stable at more than 1.5 billion kilograms. On the other hand, we will build a full industrial chain of "cultivation, breeding, promotion, processing and sales" of advantageous economic crops. Taking honeysuckle as an example, we have jointly formulated 15 group standards with scientific research institutions and cooperated with leading enterprises to build a traditional Chinese medicine extraction production line, so that the income generated by each kilogram of honeysuckle has increased from dozens of yuan to hundreds of yuan.

Huang Guojie: Abundant resources do not mean strong attractiveness, and Shandan's (山丹) ecological tourism strengths are not long enough. We focus our efforts on playing two "trump cards": one is to upgrade the Shandan Army Horse Ranch (山丹军马场) into a comprehensive scenic spot integrating ecological sightseeing and themed vacations; the other is to build the Great Wall National Cultural Park (Shandan Section) (长城国家文化公园（山丹段）) to create a cultural experience corridor.

Q: How to avoid homogenized competition of "a thousand counties with one face"?

Lü Zhongfei: The most important thing is to make the industry special and refined, and improve the gradient cultivation system of "enterprise-industry-cluster". In 2026, we will revitalize and upgrade traditional industries and promote their transformation from "scale-oriented" to "value-oriented". Develop and expand emerging industries, grasp industries such as intelligent Internet of Things and high-end equipment with "chain thinking", and increase the coverage of industrial chains and supply chains. Scientifically lay out future industries, innovatively carry out "attracting businesses with computing power", build computing power clusters, accelerate the cultivation and expansion of hardware manufacturing segments such as optical modules and connectors upstream, and focus on developing high-end computing power service formats for artificial intelligence training and inference, industrial manufacturing data analysis and other scenarios downstream.

Wang Zhenhai: I believe that technological empowerment is an important starting point for Fengqiu (封丘) to give full play to its advantages. We are promoting the transformation of 48 scientific and technological achievements, promoting advanced agricultural technologies such as intelligent temperature control equipment, standardized planting and breeding technology, and green prevention and control technology, building high-yield demonstration areas, and continuously promoting the intelligence of agricultural production and improving the yield and quality of agricultural products. In 2026, we will rely on the "Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley" (中原农谷) fine seed demonstration base to build a new variety breeding base of more than 90,000 mu and a high-quality grain production base of 250,000 mu to create a grain industry cluster and promote agriculture to move towards digitalization, refinement and high-end.

Huang Guojie: For Shandan (山丹), the main focus is on making articles around leading tourism resources. For example, develop immersive experience projects at the Shandan Army Horse Ranch (山丹军马场) to turn tourists from "spectators" into "participants." Another example is to rely on the characteristic agriculture of "potatoes, grass, vegetables, sheep and horses" to create characteristic projects such as "Potato Post" to make tourism supply more sufficient. In 2026, on this basis, we will strive to cultivate a number of provincial-level tourist leisure blocks and promote scenic spots such as the Shandan Army Horse Ranch (山丹军马场) to rank among the provincial and even national all-for-one tourism demonstration zones.

"Form a situation of 'one industry prospers, all industries prosper'"

Q: The No. 1 Central Document proposes cultivating and strengthening the county's industries to enrich the people. What experiences and practices does your county have in cultivating characteristic industries and creating characteristic brands, and what problems have you solved?

Lü Zhongfei: Jiashan (嘉善) has created a characteristic industrial matrix, cultivated emerging industries such as artificial intelligence and high-end equipment, laid out future industries such as embodied intelligence and intelligent computing power, and optimized traditional industries such as precision machinery, green furniture, and fashion textiles. The shortage of construction land is one of the main bottlenecks in the development of advanced manufacturing. In response, we have reclaimed a total of 5,519 mu of construction land through land reclamation and industrial "low-yield land" renovation.

Wang Zhenhai: Although Fengqiu (封丘) has a good agricultural foundation, it has long been hovering in the upstream of the agricultural industry chain. We focus on "grain head and food tail" and "agricultural head and industrial tail" to develop deep-processed products such as quick-frozen food and functional food, and promote the extension of wheat from raw grain processing to high-end flour and snack food. The county's 18 leading agricultural enterprises have formed a cluster effect, and the conversion rate of agricultural product processing has continued to increase.

Huang Guojie: We do not engage in all-round development, but focus on the brand of "Silk Road Horse Capital · Ancient Rhyme Shandan" (丝路马都·古韵山丹) to promote the integration of "culture and tourism+", and transform static resources into in-depth experiences. The lack of talent is a major problem. We adhere to the concept of "not seeking ownership, but seeking use" and actively introduce talent. In the field of characteristic breeding, we have introduced more than 60 experts through project cooperation and other methods to solve 16 technical bottlenecks. At the same time, we pay attention to cultivating "field talents" and establish 13 talent workstations on the front line of rural areas to promote the transformation of 11 scientific research achievements in the fields.

Q: How to promote the deep integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries and create an industrial chain system with distinct regional characteristics and rich business types?

Lü Zhongfei: We have three tricks to promote the integrated development of industries. The first is to use our brains in the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and support enterprises to build research and development centers. The second is cross-domain integration. Give full play to the advantages of the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone, and jointly establish a cross-provincial high-tech zone with Qingpu (青浦) in Shanghai and Wujiang (吴江) in Suzhou to jointly create a cross-domain industrial cluster. The third is industrial integration, building a chocolate town integrating industrial production, creative research and study.

In 2026, Jiashan (嘉善) will take producer services as a starting point and accelerate the development of data model services, software and information technology services, modern logistics and other digitally-driven service industries.

Wang Zhenhai: We are building a new modern agricultural system, relying on advanced manufacturing development zones to promote the deep integration of the food industry and agriculture, and connect planting, research and development, processing, warehousing, and trading links. Cultivate diversified "agriculture+" business formats, give full play to the advantages of the national comprehensive demonstration county for e-commerce to enter rural areas, and vigorously develop "agriculture+e-commerce".

In 2026, we will strengthen the integration of "e-commerce + industry", strive to exceed 3.6 billion yuan in e-commerce transaction volume, promote the export of more characteristic agricultural products, deepen "agricultural and food integration", guide food companies to establish stable cooperative mechanisms with family farms and cooperatives, and promote the deep integration and coordinated development of agriculture and secondary and tertiary industries.

Huang Guojie: The tourism industry must be integrated with local industries to form a situation of 一业兴、百业旺 (yī yè xīng, bǎi yè wàng - "one industry prospers, all industries prosper," if one undertaking flourishes, all undertakings will thrive). We are deepening "culture and tourism + agriculture" to promote the scenicization of agricultural bases and the experientialization of agricultural activities. For example, the "Potato Post" project not only brought tourism revenue, but also directly drove the sales of potatoes. We are deeply cultivating "culture and tourism + animal husbandry" and taking measures such as holding mutton food festivals to retain the flow of visitors to scenic spots such as the Shandan Army Horse Ranch (山丹军马场), so that the proportion of overnight tourists will increase to 35% in 2025, directly feeding back into the animal husbandry industry.

In 2026, we will strive to let the tourism industry inject new value into traditional industries.

"Let towns and villages be beautiful in their own way and share the beauty together"

Q: What challenges do you encounter in promoting the construction of livable and workable beautiful villages and promoting integrated urban-rural development?

Lü Zhongfei: Although Jiashan's (嘉善) industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the main axis has achieved remarkable development results, it still faces challenges such as insufficient industrial coordination and a shortage of rural talent.

Wang Zhenhai: The challenges facing Fengqiu (封丘) are mainly the large agricultural population, low agricultural added value, and low income of agricultural practitioners.

Huang Guojie: We mainly face two challenges. One is how to let the development of characteristic industries benefit farmers and herdsmen; the other is that Shandan (山丹) has a large area and complex terrain, and how to ensure that both urban and rural areas enjoy convenient transportation.

Q: How to deal with these challenges?

Lü Zhongfei: To address the problem of insufficient industrial coordination, we develop agricultural technology with industrial thinking. For example, Tianning Town (天凝镇) integrated construction land to introduce the pickled mustard tuber industrial park project, and the products flew into space twice. To address the problem of insufficient rural talent, we implemented the Young Pragmatist Program to cultivate agricultural innovators and "new farmers." Caojia Village (曹家村) in Dayun Town (大云镇) is a typical example of benefiting from this. The creators use vacant houses to operate new business formats such as village cafes and short dramas, with annual revenue exceeding 700,000 yuan, and benefit the villagers through equity dividends and local employment.

In 2026, Jiashan (嘉善) will continue to expand the characteristic rural industries, promote the efficient flow of urban and rural elements, and strive to create a county model for high-quality development and the construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone.

Wang Zhenhai: In terms of broadening income channels, we focus on building a diversified income increase system. Promote the "one land for multiple uses, one year for multiple harvests" model to make characteristic planting the main force for income increase; encourage farmers to work in local leading enterprises and assistance workshops, and transfer 218,400 rural laborers to employment in 2025; promote rural property rights transactions to increase income for village collectives and farmers by more than 13 million yuan.

In terms of support and guarantee, attract college students, veterans, and migrant workers returning home to start businesses, and cultivate cooperatives and family farms; achieve full coverage of e-commerce service stations in administrative villages to help honeysuckle, egg rolls and other specialties sell to various places and even overseas.

In 2026, we will continue to expand the new rural collective economy, strengthen policy support for facility agriculture and characteristic agriculture, and promote the steady growth of income and continuous improvement of living conditions for agricultural practitioners.

Huang Guojie: In order to better benefit farmers and herdsmen from industrial development, we guide scenic spots and surrounding villages to form a development community, drive surrounding farmers and herdsmen to develop planting and breeding industries, and absorb farmers and herdsmen to work nearby.

To address the problem of insufficient traffic accessibility, we guarantee the construction of the Lanzhou-Zhangye High-speed Railway (兰张高铁) third and fourth lines to welcome the "dual high-speed railway" era; we continue to upgrade and transform urban and rural road networks, and the travel time from the county seat to scenic spots such as the Shandan Army Horse Ranch (山丹军马场) has been greatly shortened.

In 2025, the per capita disposable income growth rate of rural residents in Shandan (山丹) will be faster than that of urban residents, and the sense of gain of farmers and herdsmen will continue to increase. We will continue to firmly follow this path to make towns and villages beautiful in their own way and share the beauty together.

This issue is coordinated by: Cui Bin (崔斌)

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Grasping Individuality and Commonality (Editor's Notes)

By: 崔 斌

China's counties cover about 90% of the country's land area, account for about half of the total population, and account for about 40% of the national economy. Different counties vary greatly in terms of resource endowment, natural conditions, and industrial base. It is impossible to find a "**万金油**" (wàn jīn yóu - "panacea," a cure-all solution) model for developing the county economy. This requires each of the thousands of counties to have its own unique characteristics and for industries to be refined.

Jiashan (嘉善) has developed advanced manufacturing based on its location and industrial base advantages. Fengqiu (封丘) has refined agriculture based on its advantages in grain and special agricultural and sideline products. Shandan (山丹) has created an ecological tourism brand. These are all typical examples of fully utilizing the "individuality" of the county to form unique development momentum and advantages.

There are many different models for county economic development, but the experiences and measures formed in response to challenges have common characteristics. For example, in the process of developing industries, the three counties first focused on creating the most advantageous characteristic industry, this "point," then improved the relevant industrial chain from point to line, then promoted industrial integration from line to surface, and then promoted coordinated urban-rural development from surface to body, so that the fruits of county economic development benefit more people. Such a development idea is worth learning from.

We look forward to more and more counties highlighting the development of "individuality" according to local conditions, making good use of the "common" experience and ideas, and developing their own unique county economies by giving full play to their strengths.

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Warships Realize the Dream, Heading for the Deep Blue

By: 本报记者 金正波 解放军报记者 严 珊 宋子洵

On the shores of the South China Sea, the afterglow sprinkles the naval port. The naval vessel Hainan (海南舰) lies quietly, its hull number "31" shining brightly, like a medal engraved with its mission.

On April 23, 2021, President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the concentrated commissioning ceremony of three main combat vessels of the Navy, personally awarding the "August 1st" military flag and naming certificate to the Hainan (海南舰), and boarded the vessel for inspection.

Since then, the Hainan (海南舰), the first of the new-type amphibious assault ships, has officially joined the People's Navy combat sequence. For nearly 5 years, the officers and soldiers of the Hainan (海南舰) have kept their mission firmly in mind, strived for excellence, and set their dreams towards the deep blue.

In early 2026, at the sound of an order, the Hainan (海南舰) set sail again. The reporter went to sea with the ship. As the warship left the naval port, looking up, the Danxiashan (丹霞山舰) and Kunlunshan (昆仑山舰) ships were returning from their missions—the "old, middle-aged, and young" three generations of amphibious combat vessels of the Navy were framed together at this moment.

From tank landing ships to comprehensive landing ships, and then to amphibious assault ships... the three generations of ship silhouettes reflect the People's Navy's journey of struggle, carrying the People's Navy's dream of building a strong army from nearshore to deep blue. Standing on the warship advancing at full speed, the reporter's heart was surging.

During the days at sea with the ship, it was unforgettable to witness the heroic posture of the bow plowing through the waves, and even more so, I was repeatedly moved by the officers and soldiers' determination to overcome difficulties and strengthen the country through the sea...

A Pioneering Road Engraved with the Original Intention

As a helmsman driving a tens of thousands of tons of steel behemoth, how to keep the course steady?

In the wheelhouse, the reporter met Zhou Yu (周玉), a young female soldier who had just stepped down from her post. She recounted a recent "rapid march"—

In December 2025, in a certain sea area of the Pacific Ocean, the waves were raging. The Hainan (海南舰) formation received an order to participate in an important joint exercise mission. Upon hearing the order, the Hainan (海南舰) traveled a long distance to the designated sea area.

"Wherever the national interest lies, the amphibious assault mission must be achieved!" Zhou Yu (周玉) told the reporter that in the past year, the troops have carried out in-depth political rectification and training, and the officers and soldiers' enthusiasm for preparing for war has become increasingly high. "As long as the Party and the people need us, we will appear in any sea area."

On the day the Hainan (海南舰) was commissioned, Zhou Yu (周玉) was neatly dressed and received the commander's review. This honor inspired her to bravely venture into the deep blue. In recent years, she has taken the lead in undertaking independent support tasks and receiving awards among her fellow soldiers, taking a new step on the road to becoming a skilled soldier.

A ship with a soul can gallop across thousands of miles of sea.

"Resolutely listen to the Party's command, strengthen the country through the sea, and constantly move forward on the journey of safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests." In the conference room of the ship receiving building of a shipbuilding factory in Shanghai (上海), a bright red Party flag was hung high. One day in October 2019, the Hainan (海南舰) ship receiving troops were officially established under the Party flag.

Today, this Party flag has been accompanying the Hainan (海南舰) in its battles against wind and waves, and every Party member on the ship has solemnly sworn an oath facing it.

The Hainan (海南舰) is the first of the Navy's new-type amphibious assault ships. The two words "new type" and "first ship" together mean that this is a challenging pioneering road.

"The first time I saw the Hainan (海南舰), most of the equipment was not yet in place, it was just a 'rough house', and the construction task was arduous!" Zhu Chao (祝超), an officer of a landing ship detachment of the Navy and one of the first batch of crew members, vividly remembers the scene of receiving the ship that year.

According to experience, it takes at least 2 to 3 years for foreign countries to receive an amphibious assault ship. "Simultaneous organization, equipment reception, testing, and training, without a moment's rest!" To tackle the ship receiving challenge, the ship's Party committee immediately established a "Pioneer Commando Team of Party Members" and planted the bright red Party flag at the forefront of the tackling effort.

In order to compile the "Operation Manual," Zhu Chao (祝超) crawled into the bottom of the cabin, which was less than 1 meter high, and fought continuously for more than 30 days in the dim and humid space. His fingertips were worn with thick calluses, and his clothes were soaked with sweat. He checked thousands of pipeline interfaces one by one and overcame dozens of technical problems.

Role models are silent, and there are many such examples. All the officers and soldiers of the ship worked day and night, creating the Hainan (海南舰)'s own acceleration for strengthening the army.

Standing on the wide deck, the reporter seemed to be able to touch the sweat of the officers and soldiers training for war, feel the shock of the aircraft taking off and landing, and even more deeply understand the consistent original intention.

Since receiving the equipment, the ship's Party committee has always placed the task of cultivating the soul in an important position, and regularly carried out the study of the Party's innovative theories. Combining with important tasks, they carried out the education of "Remembering the Leader's Instructions and Building an Amphibious Pioneer," reviewing the commissioning scene, and constantly consolidating the ideological foundation of the officers and soldiers and gathering spiritual strength.

Striving for the deep blue writes loyalty. From the shores of the South China Sea to the depths of the ocean, from tackling the ship receiving challenge to actual combat training, they use their red hearts and loyalty to guard the thousands of miles of sea and make the "August 1st" military flag fly high above the deep blue.

A Hot Picture of System Training

Compared with traditional landing ships, what is different about this amphibious assault ship?

"Large loading space, with hangars and dock cabins, can carry tanks and air cushion boats; large through-deck, with an area of nearly 20 basketball courts, can take off and land 6 helicopters at the same time." Speaking of the Hainan (海南舰), Sergeant Zhang Yicheng's (张益成) face is full of pride, "It can reach the moon in the nine heavens, and catch turtles in the five oceans!"

"This step is not easy." Zhang Yicheng (张益成) has been in the army for nearly 30 years, experiencing three generations of sea landing ships, fighting against wind and waves all the way, and witnessing the leapfrog development of the People's Navy from small to large. The commissioning of the Hainan (海南舰) has filled the gap in the Navy's equipment system and greatly improved the amphibious projection combat capability.

"To drive a major country's weapon, you need to train your own skills to the extreme." In the wheelhouse, Captain Yu (余舰长) stared at the carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing outside the window, his eyes firm.

Looking south, an important moment flashed in Captain Yu's (余舰长) mind—in April 1950, the Qiongzhou Strait (琼州海峡) was in the midst of a fierce battle, and the People's Liberation Army launched a large-scale sea-crossing landing operation. This amphibious assault ship, which was commissioned in April 2021 and named after "Hainan (海南)," has carried deep expectations from the very beginning of its birth. This expectation has become clearer with the deepening of political rectification and training in the troops, inspiring every officer and soldier to strive forward.

Captain Yu (余舰长) told reporters that at the beginning of this year, the Hainan (海南舰) achieved a new breakthrough: the carrier-based aircraft realized "hot refueling," shortening the support time by nearly half compared to the traditional support model!

During the voyage with the ship, the reporter witnessed a night carrier-based aircraft refueling training.

Accompanied by bursts of roar, several carrier-based helicopters approached the flight deck like soaring eagles. Sergeant Yu Shuxin (禹树新) led a small team wearing yellow, green, and white vests to quickly take their positions, directing the pilots to lower their altitude.

With the guide's order, the support soldiers stepped forward against the wind to tie down the helicopter and replenish fuel by pulling the oil hose under non-stop conditions. After a while, the warplane took off again. This scene is the norm after the Hainan (海南舰) realized the carrier-based aircraft "hot refueling" support model.

A new-type amphibious assault ship involves a variety of combat elements such as ships, Marine Corps, and carrier-based aviation. How to make them work together?

The reporter found the answer on the wall of the conference room—a striking slogan read: "The victory of the landing troops is the victory of the landing ship." Behind this is the profound understanding of the word "system" by all the officers and soldiers of the ship.

In the "Deep Blue Bookstore" of the Hainan (海南舰), the reporter saw a warrior's painting, vividly depicting the hot scene of system training—

Information flows in the command room, orders are issued decisively, and shells roar, stirring up huge waves; the dock cabin door opens, and the air cushion boat carrying armored vehicles rushes to the beach like an arrow. Sea and air linkage, three-dimensional assault, and the battlefield situation unfolds vigorously in the vast sea.

"Deepening joint training is closely related to every officer and soldier of the Hainan (海南舰). Everyone cannot only focus on their own positions, but must learn to seek the maximum integration of the entire combat system," said Captain Yu (余舰长).

In order to allow officers and soldiers of different services and arms to better produce a "chemical reaction," the Hainan (海南舰) established a "knocking on the door to learn from each other" exchange mechanism, inviting personnel from different positions to enter the support positions, participating in and studying synchronously from combat planning to organization and implementation, promoting officers and soldiers to switch perspectives to look at problems and plan tactics based on the system.

From a single ship to integrating into the system, the trajectory of the Hainan (海南舰) reflects the firm pace of a major country's navy strengthening the country through the sea. Here, every officer and soldier is a practitioner of the dream of strengthening the army, and every breakthrough is a resounding answer to the mission.

A Talent Matrix Fighting Against Wind and Waves

How difficult is it to train a new-type amphibious assault ship captain?

Faced with the reporter's question, Captain Yu (余舰长), who has served as a commanding officer of many types of main combat vessels, said: "Before taking office, I completed the learning and certification of dozens of majors."

Then, Captain Yu (余舰长) listed another piece of data: the ship's lines are intertwined and staggered, and the total length of all the lines is more than 1,000 kilometers, which is equivalent to the distance from Beijing (北京) to Shanghai (上海).

"This kind of 'difficulty' reflects a major country's navy's thirst for new-type combat talents!" Looking back on his personal resume, Captain Yu (余舰长) was filled with emotion, "My growth is inseparable from personal efforts, and even more so from the traction of the cause of strengthening the army."

The degree of informationization in modern warfare is constantly increasing, and profound changes have taken place in the concepts, elements, and methods of winning. The Hainan (海南舰) is a new generation of equipment and requires a large number of high-quality talents.

In the tower, when the reporter met officer Zhang Tianrui (张天瑞), he was staring at the screen, quickly collecting wind direction, observing clouds, and reporting the situation. Surprisingly, this capable officer's resume stated "pilot." His transformation from a proud son of the blue sky to a naval officer is a bright spot in the Hainan (海南舰)'s talent construction picture.

"Amphibious landing operations are one of the most complex combat styles in joint operations. Forging a cross-border talent matrix of 'proficiency in one's own major and complementary multi-skills' is the key to winning the sea battlefield," said Political Commissar Liu (刘政委) of the ship. Exchanges between personnel in different positions and different services have become the norm, accelerating the cultivation of compound talents.

Today, dozens of officers on the ship have successfully achieved professional cross-bordering and become the backbone force in driving amphibious warships.

On the ocean, the exercise is in full swing. Several helicopters took off and went straight to the simulated beach. What is eye-catching is that the helicopter guide is a junior sergeant. A batch of young talents are growing rapidly in actual combat training.

In this exercise, the night continuous sortie training of carrier-based aircraft can be described as thrilling. On the ocean, the ink color surged. The warship deck, wrapped in waves, undulated, like a "moving stamp." Officer An Yulong (安宇龙) and his comrades shoulder the heavy responsibility of night take-off and landing support. Their movements are precise and standardized, and the signal transmission is calm and decisive, building a safety defense line for the pilots in the night.

At the end of the exercise, on the flight deck, the reporter met officer Zhao Zhuxiao (赵竹骁). This time, he served as a new position to participate in the exercise on the ship. Last year, he just went to other service units for compound training as a "seed player."

The Hainan (海南舰) has sent more than 200 business backbones like Zhao Zhuxiao (赵竹骁) to brother units for exchange. "Do you not feel sorry for giving away the talents you have worked so hard to train?" Faced with the question, a leader of a certain detachment blurted out: "**一枝独秀不是春，百花齐放春满园** (yī zhī dú xiù bù shì chūn, bǎi huā qì fàng chūn mǎn yuán - "one branch blooming alone does not make spring, a hundred flowers blooming brings spring to the garden," meaning true prosperity comes from collective flourishing, not individual success)."

"My motherland and I are like a wave in the sea. The wave is the child of the sea, and the sea is the support of the wave..." Standing on the flight deck and looking at the deep blue, the familiar melody sounded in my ears again.

Reporter's Notes

What is getting wider and wider is not only the deck

The sunrise is magnificent, and the sea breeze is blowing. Stepping on the straight and wide through-deck of the Hainan (海南舰), veteran Zhang Yicheng (张益成) talked about his experience of serving on a small boat more than 20 years ago—

At that time, the conditions were simple. Every summer, the cabins that had been roasted for a day were as hot as steamers, making it impossible to fall asleep. The comrades had to sleep on the crowded deck until the temperature dropped slightly in the second half of the night before returning to the cabins.

Zhang Yicheng (张益成) is the longest-serving crew member on the Hainan (海南舰). From small boats to large ships, watching the increasingly wide deck, he couldn't help but sigh: Who would have thought that today's Hainan (海南舰) has thousands of cabins, and the deck can take off and land multiple helicopters at the same time.

The warship deck is a unique position for the Navy. It has witnessed the passionate youth of generations of sailors and carries the great dream of the People's Navy moving towards the deep blue.

In recent years, the reporter has had the honor of stepping on the decks of frigates, destroyers, amphibious assault ships, and aircraft carriers. I still remember that on the flight deck of the Shandong (山东舰), an officer of the take-off and landing support squadron firmly said: "From the Liaoning (辽宁舰) to the Shandong (山东舰) and then to the Fujian (福建舰), the take-off of carrier-based aircraft on the deck has witnessed the leap in the combat effectiveness of the People's Navy."

Above the deck is the sky and the future; below the deck is the deep sea and the mission. Standing on the deck of the Hainan (海南舰) and looking at the vast sea, we firmly believe that what is getting wider and wider is not only the deck, but also the magnificent journey of strengthening the country through the sea and moving towards rejuvenation.

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Photo Story

On February 8th, Enshi City (恩施市), Hubei Province, held a Spring Festival Lantern Festival, attracting citizens and tourists to visit and experience colorful folk customs. The picture shows the lantern festival site, where children are happily playing.
Photo by Zhang Yuanming (张远明) (People's Vision)

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First Edition Editors: Yang Xu, Zhang Shuaizhen, Zhao Chuanbo; Second Edition Editors: Jiang Xuejie, Qi Jiarun, Guo Xueyan; Third Edition Editors: Han Xiaoming, Jiang Bo, Li Anqi; Fourth Edition Editors: Bai Zhiyu, Chen Zhen, Zhang Xueyan

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China-Central Asia Cooperation: New Direction, Green Focus (Jointly Building the "Belt and Road" - First Report from the Scene)

By: 本报记者 李 强

Snow-white snow covers the fields, and dozens of wind turbines are arranged along the undulating terrain, with silver-white blades drawing beautiful arcs in the air. About 50 kilometers from Astana (阿斯塔纳), the capital of Kazakhstan, the Akmola Wind Power Project Cluster, invested and constructed by Chinese enterprises, is operating at full capacity, sending green electricity to thousands of households and adding warmth to the cold winter days.

This project cluster is an epitome of the high-quality development of China-Central Asia cooperation. In Uzbekistan, the Tashkent (塔什干) Solar-Storage Project's energy storage station was successfully connected to the grid and began serving the Uzbek power grid. In Kyrgyzstan, the Bishkek (比什凯克) Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Power Generation Project was completed and put into operation, filling the technological gap in the field of waste-to-energy treatment in Central Asia. Over the past year, the China-Central Asia mechanism has been increasingly improved, high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has been steadily advanced, and the two sides have worked together to promote green and low-carbon cooperation, creating a number of clean energy and environmental protection projects, which not only improved the level of local new energy infrastructure, but also made positive contributions to environmental protection and people's livelihood improvement.

"Systematically learning wind power operation, maintenance, and safety management in a real production environment"

The reporter arrived at the Akmola Wind Power Project Cluster area by car. Shortly after getting out of the car, a layer of frost formed on the eyebrows and eyelashes, blurring the vision immediately. It was almost impossible to blink, and the hands and feet began to feel numb. "Come in quickly, come in quickly!" Cai Huiyong (蔡慧勇), the head of the project department, stepped forward and beckoned the reporter to enter the office quickly.

"Today the temperature is minus 30 degrees Celsius, which is not the coldest." Cai Huiyong (蔡慧勇) told reporters that the lowest temperature in Akmola (阿克莫拉) Oblast in winter can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius, and there is also snowfall and snow blowing, which brings difficulties to the operation of wind power equipment. How to solve the problem of wind turbine icing is the key to the operation of wind power equipment in cold regions. Cai Huiyong (蔡慧勇) said that the project optimizes the blade manufacturing process, increases the surface smoothness of the blades, greatly reduces the icing adhesion rate, and at the same time, through the control system, allows the wind turbines to start regularly under the premise of assessing safety, and effectively reduces the impact of icing by rotating and throwing ice. "Last year, although the overall wind conditions in the area were not as good as in previous years, the project still generated 809 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, exceeding the annual power generation task."

Ye Deli (叶得力), the production supervisor of the project department, is from Astana (阿斯塔纳). He studied Chinese at Xi'an Foreign Studies University (西安外国语大学) and joined the project department after graduation. Initially, he mainly engaged in translation work, and later was promoted to production supervisor. According to him, Kazakhstan's new energy industry is generally in its infancy, and the reserve of relevant talents is very limited. The implementation and operation of the Akmola Wind Power Project Cluster provides a platform for local talent training. "Many students who graduated from Astana (阿斯塔纳) universities come to work on the project, systematically learning wind power operation, maintenance, and safety management in a real production environment, which significantly improves their technical capabilities and professional level," said Ye Deli (叶得力).

The Akmola Wind Power Project Cluster is operated by Kazakhstan Energy Investment Company, established by China's State Power Investment Corporation Limited (国家电力投资集团有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "State Power Investment Corporation"). "The employees on the project are basically trained from scratch. Through 'full participation + mentoring,' employees participate in the entire process from equipment installation, commissioning, grid connection to operation and maintenance, forming first-hand experience, and then continuously supplementing theoretical knowledge through systematic training," said Cai Huiyong (蔡慧勇). State Power Investment Corporation has established a regular training mechanism, with the heads of the three project departments and the manager of the production technology department taking turns to teach, and also selects outstanding local employees to go to China every year to participate in skills training in the field of new energy.

"Last year, I went to Changshu (常熟市), Jiangsu (江苏省) Province, China, to participate in skills training, and learned some of the latest theoretical knowledge and operating experience, which I also shared with my colleagues around me," said Ye Deli (叶得力).

Walking out of the office area, the field area after the heavy snow has been covered with thick snow. Technician Sabar (撒巴尔) and his colleagues are seizing the time to clear the snow so that maintenance personnel can reach the wind turbine locations in a timely manner. Sabar (撒巴尔) used to be an electrician. After joining the project, he received systematic training and mastered the structure and operation process of wind power equipment. He told reporters: "China has accumulated rich experience in the field of wind power. Not only is the equipment mature, but also the management system is perfect. In the exchange, the Chinese team taught us advanced technical concepts and working methods, which is very helpful for improving the professional ability of local workers."

"What is stored here is not only electricity, but also confidence in the city's development"

At dusk, under the afterglow of the setting sun, rows of silver-white energy storage battery compartments are neatly arranged, and indicator lights are constantly flashing. At the end of last year, the energy storage station of the Tashkent (塔什干) Solar-Storage Project in Uzbekistan, constructed by China Energy Engineering Group (中国能建) under general contract, achieved full-capacity grid connection. This "breathing" energy matrix has become a stable and reliable power reserve source for Tashkent (塔什干).

"The energy storage station is like a giant power bank, so that green electricity no longer 'depends on the weather'," said Nurlan (努尔兰), an engineer of the Tashkent (塔什干) Solar-Storage Project. This project is an important strategic supporting project for Tashkent New City (塔什干新城), including a 200-megawatt photovoltaic power station and a 500-megawatt-hour energy storage system, which can give full play to the synergistic advantages of "photovoltaic + energy storage," effectively regulate the load during peak electricity consumption periods, and provide a reliable "stabilizer" for the city's power grid.

Inside the energy storage station, the temperature control, fire protection, gas monitoring, and linkage protection systems in the battery compartment are running in real time, and all key parameters are centrally monitored through the central control platform to ensure the stable operation of the equipment under high safety standards. "When the command center issues a dispatch instruction, the energy storage system automatically switches to the operating state, and the battery management system, energy management system, and converter equipment operate in coordination to stably release the collected electricity," said Nurlan (努尔兰). The project is equipped with a total of 280 energy storage battery compartments, which can store up to 770,000 kilowatt-hours of green electricity at one time. Considering the 85% charge and discharge efficiency, one discharge can meet the electricity consumption of nearly 100,000 households for one day during periods of tight power supply.

On one side of the energy storage station, Alev (阿列夫), the safety trainer of the project department, is organizing pre-shift safety training. He is not only responsible for the safety education of front-line employees, but also undertakes the important responsibility of communication and coordination between the project and the surrounding communities. "The energy storage station has extremely high requirements for safety management, and the Chinese team has helped us establish a systematic and strict management system," said Alev (阿列夫). The project department regularly introduces engineering safety measures to the surrounding communities to enhance understanding and trust. The communication between the enterprise and the community is smooth, and the cooperation atmosphere is more harmonious. "From equipment risk identification, emergency drills to community communication mechanisms, what I have learned is not only technology, but also concepts, which is very meaningful for my personal career development."

The construction of the Tashkent (塔什干) Solar-Storage Project has brought more stable employment opportunities to the surrounding residents, and the project team has also repeatedly entered the surrounding communities to carry out public welfare activities such as family visits and educational support. Cleaner Mukaram (穆卡拉姆) told reporters: "The project is near my home, and I don't have to go to the city to do odd jobs anymore, and my income is much more stable."

As night falls, the energy storage station operates quietly, continuously accumulating power for the city's electricity consumption. "What is stored here is not only electricity, but also confidence in the city's development," said Nurlan (努尔兰).

"Generating continuous and stable green electricity through 'turning waste into treasure'"

In the suburbs of Bishkek (比什凯克), the capital of Kyrgyzstan, there is a modern building with colorful colors and a sense of design. It is hard for first-time visitors to imagine that this is actually a waste-to-energy plant. At the end of last year, the Bishkek (比什凯克) Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Power Generation Project, invested, constructed, and operated by Hunan Junxin Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. (湖南军信环保股份有限公司), was completed and put into operation, helping the local solid waste treatment take a key step from "simple landfill" to "recycling," quietly changing the "smell" and appearance of the city.

"We receive domestic waste from all over Bishkek (比什凯克) every day, recycle it for power generation, and the city's waste landfill problem has been greatly alleviated," said Medetbekova (梅德特贝科娃), a laboratory tester at the power generation project. For many years, the Bishkek (比什凯克) landfill has been expanding, the garbage mountains have been piled higher and higher, garbage spontaneous combustion has occurred frequently, and it has been accompanied by a strong and unpleasant odor, which seriously affects the appearance of the city and brings trouble to the surrounding residents. Today, with the stable operation of the waste incineration power generation project, this odor has been significantly eliminated, and the city's environmental conditions have been improved.

Different from traditional coal-fired power generation models, the waste incineration power generation project converts domestic waste into green electricity through clean incineration technology and connects it to the Kyrgyz National Power Grid to provide a supplement to industrial and residential power supply, especially in the current period of tight winter electricity consumption, which reflects its important value. The current daily waste treatment scale of the project is 1,000 tons, the annual on-grid electricity is about 146 million kilowatt-hours, and the annual carbon emission reduction can reach 100,000 tons. Yan Wuyue (颜武岳), the deputy general manager of the power generation project, said that the project not only has environmental benefits, but also has energy security significance. "Generating continuous and stable green electricity through 变废为宝 (biàn fèi wéi bǎo - "turn waste into treasure," to turn something useless into something useful), while realizing the reduction, resource utilization, and harmless treatment of waste, it provides a new path for optimizing the city's energy structure."

From "garbage siege" to "garbage power generation," from environmental burden to energy assets, the concept of green development is helping urban life become cleaner, safer, more livable, and more sustainable. Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov (扎帕罗夫) highly praised that the implementation of the project will promote the solution of waste treatment problems, promote electricity production, create jobs, improve the ecological environment of Bishkek (比什凯克), and contribute to ensuring residents' electricity consumption.

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Green invigorates new momentum for development (Editor's Note)

By: 龚 鸣

During the long and cold winters in Central Asia, reporters encountered a bone-chilling "cold" while out interviewing, but the stories they wrote were heart-warming "warmth." In the season of electricity shortages in major Central Asian cities, green energy technology from China has added warmth to the lives of local people and boosted confidence in urban development.

In recent years, under the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, the China-Central Asia mechanism has operated smoothly, economic and trade cooperation has moved towards new and better directions, and the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has deepened and become more practical. It is particularly worth mentioning that "green" has become a new background color for China-Central Asia cooperation. On the list of achievements of the Second China-Central Asia Summit, green minerals, green infrastructure, green technology, and clean energy were mentioned many times. The potential for green cooperation between China and Central Asian countries continues to be released, activating new momentum for sustainable development and adding vigorous vitality to building a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future.

China and Central Asia have compatible concepts and complementary advantages in carrying out green cooperation, which conforms to the global trend of green development and is a microcosm of China's promotion of global sustainable development. China promotes the Global South to move towards new and green directions with practical actions, jointly pursues the dream of "countries building green homes," and works together to create more green development miracles.

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Sanae Takaichi's "Dialogue" Call Lacks Sincerity (International Forum)

By: 冈本厚

Is Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) sincerely seeking dialogue, or is she intending to create a negative impression both domestically and internationally that "China refuses dialogue"? If it is the latter, then her so-called "dialogue" lacks any sincerity.

Shortly after Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) became the Prime Minister of Japan last October, she stated during a Diet (国会) debate that a "Taiwan emergency" could constitute a "survival-threatening situation" for Japan, causing a great uproar. Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) should be held responsible for the tensions caused by her rash remarks.

Despite having held important positions such as Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Minister in charge of Economic Security, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) lacks experience as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Documents disclosed by Kiyomi Tsujimoto (辻元清美), a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (日本立宪民主党), revealed that Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) statements regarding Taiwan were not included in the pre-prepared answer key materials of the Cabinet (内阁). In other words, the remarks were likely Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) personal improvisation. Listening to and adopting the advice of professionals on matters she is unfamiliar with, and maintaining caution in her words and actions, is the code of conduct that a wise politician should have. Moreover, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is in the highest position of the Japanese administrative system, and the weight of her words is by no means comparable to that of ordinary politicians.

After China expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) frequently mentioned "dialogue," repeatedly claiming to be "open to" conducting dialogue with China. The key question is: Is Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) sincerely seeking dialogue, or is she intending to create a negative impression both domestically and internationally that "China refuses dialogue"? If it is the latter, then her so-called "dialogue" lacks any sincerity.

Combining Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) various actions since taking office, it is not difficult to see that, for her, Japan-China dialogue is nothing more than a political stage for her to promote her own "tough on China" stance to the Japanese public. This has also caused China's trust in her to drop to freezing point. Faced with such a false call for "dialogue," which country would be willing to respond?

From interactions between countries to exchanges between people, dialogue is essential. The lack of dialogue can breed prejudice and even lead to violence and war. However, the premise of dialogue is to maintain respect for others and to hold an attitude of mutual understanding. The essence of diplomacy is not simply venting personal opinions and ideas. In intense diplomatic settings, if a country cannot obtain the basic trust of the other party in inter-state dialogue, and then conduct frank exchanges, it cannot be called true diplomacy.

As Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has clearly failed to understand the political cornerstone of Japan-China relations—the positions and spirit clearly defined in important political documents, including the Japan-China Joint Statement (日中联合声明)—and has also ignored the unremitting efforts made by insightful people from both sides to maintain bilateral relations for more than half a century since the normalization of diplomatic relations between the two countries. On the one hand, Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) remarks have angered China, which has affected exchanges and cooperation between the two countries. On the other hand, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is also using a tough stance toward China to increase her own approval ratings. However, if this confrontation further escalates, there are great risks for both countries. How to break the current deadlock? Both sides should adhere to principles, respect each other, gather wisdom, and resolve disputes, and the people of both countries should also play a constructive role in this. This is the right path to build a dialogue platform and promote the easing of relations. I sincerely hope that Japan-China relations will return to the right track.

(The author is the former editor-in-chief of the Japanese magazine "Sekai (世界)" and the former president of Iwanami Shoten (岩波书店).)

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Connected by Mountains and Seas, Hand in Hand to Create the Future (Ambassador's Notes: Seventy Years of Solidarity, Together Towards Modernization)

By: 于敦海

This year, February 10th marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Nigeria. From the formal establishment of diplomatic relations in 1971 to the establishment of a strategic partnership in 2005, and then to the upgrade to a comprehensive strategic partnership in 2024, China-Nigeria relations have achieved leapfrog development. Over the past 55 years, China and Nigeria have always respected each other and treated each other as equals, forging a path of joint self-improvement and win-win cooperation.

China and Nigeria are good friends who trust and help each other. Under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, exchanges between the two sides at all levels and in various fields are frequent, strategic mutual trust is continuously consolidated, and they have always firmly supported each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. China firmly supports Nigeria's efforts to safeguard national unity, peace, stability, and social harmony, and supports Nigeria in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs. Nigeria firmly adheres to the one-China principle, appreciates China's responsibility as a major country and its leadership, and thanks China for its strong support for Nigeria's economic and social development. The two sides work closely together on the international and regional stage to jointly safeguard the common interests of developing countries and become an important force for unity and cooperation among countries of the Global South.

China and Nigeria are good partners for mutual benefit and win-win cooperation. China and Nigeria have complementary economic advantages and needs, and pragmatic cooperation is full of resilience and vitality, with fruitful cooperation in areas such as economy and trade, finance, manufacturing, infrastructure, and talent cultivation. A series of landmark cooperation projects, such as the Lekki Deep Sea Port, the Zungeru Hydropower Station, the AKK natural gas pipeline, and the Abuja Greater Water Supply Project, have injected strong momentum into Nigeria's economic and social development. In 2025, the bilateral trade volume between China and Nigeria exceeded US$28 billion, an increase of over 28% year-on-year; China's direct investment in Nigeria was US$690 million, an increase of 103% year-on-year. Nigeria remains China's largest engineering contracting market, second-largest export market, and major investment destination in Africa. In recent years, the two countries have jointly implemented a large number of demonstrative and strategic cooperation projects within the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (中非合作论坛), continuously creating new growth points for cooperation.

China and Nigeria are good brothers with close people-to-people bonds. Cultural exchanges between the two countries are wonderful and colorful, and interactions in the fields of education, culture, art, youth, and women are increasingly deepening. The two sides jointly hold a series of brand activities such as "Happy Chinese New Year (欢乐春节)," "A Shared Moment (天涯共此时)," "China-Nigeria Film Festival (中尼电影节)," and "China-Nigeria Culture and Tourism Festival (中尼文化和旅游节)," which subtly nurture people's hearts like a spring breeze, and continuously promote the connection of hearts, the integration of emotions, and the gathering of strength between the people of the two countries. Traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts are very popular in Nigeria, learning Chinese has become a trend, and the number of Nigerian students studying in China has exceeded 5,000 for many consecutive years. Two universities in Nigeria have established Confucius Institutes, 15 "China Corners" have been set up in public high schools in Abuja (阿布贾), and the audience of the "Hello! China (你好！中国)" program on the Nigerian Federal Radio Corporation has exceeded 7 million, and these exchanges and cooperation have built bridges of friendship between the people of the two countries.

Civilization exchange and mutual learning are the inexhaustible driving forces for promoting human civilization progress and world peace and development. Chinese civilization has continued for five thousand years, nurturing the broad wisdom of "beauty in each, shared by all (美美与共), a world of great harmony (天下大同)"; Nigeria's diverse ethnic cultures blend together, painting a magnificent picture of "diversity in unity, harmonious coexistence." The spiritual core and cultural heritage of "harmony without uniformity, inclusiveness and symbiosis" are the solid foundation for the enduring friendship between the two countries. Recalling the glorious years of the past, China and Nigeria have jointly forged a deep friendship that transcends mountains and seas, written a splendid chapter of common development, and set a successful example of South-South cooperation. Standing at a new historical starting point, the China-Nigeria comprehensive strategic partnership is moving forward with vigor, ushering in unprecedented broad prospects and opportunities of the times.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of diplomatic relations between China and Africa and the "China-Africa Year of People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges (中非人文交流年)." China and Nigeria will take this as an opportunity to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, work together to promote the modernization process, build a high-level China-Nigeria community with a shared future, seek benefits for the people of the two countries, add new color to China-Africa cooperation, seek common ground for the people of the world, and make greater contributions to promoting the construction of a human community with a shared future.

(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria) (中国驻尼日利亚大使)

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Wang Yi to Attend the First Senior Officials' Meeting of APEC 2026

The People's Daily, Beijing, February 9th (Reporter Cui Qi (崔琦)) - A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 9th that Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will attend the opening ceremony of the first Senior Officials' Meeting of the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Guangzhou (广州) on February 10th and deliver a speech.

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State Councilor Shen Yiqin to Attend the Opening Ceremony of the Milan Winter Olympics

This newspaper Milan, February 9th (Reporters Xie Yahong (谢亚宏) and Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳)) On the evening of February 6th, local time, the 25th Winter Olympic Games opened in Milan, Italy. State Councilor Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) was invited to attend the opening ceremony.

Before the opening ceremony, Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) had a cordial conversation with Italian President Mattarella (马塔雷拉), conveyed the cordial greetings of President Xi Jinping (习近平), wished the Milan Winter Olympics a complete success, and expressed gratitude to the Italian side for the reception arrangements for the Chinese sports delegation. Mattarella (马塔雷拉) asked Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平), expressed his hope that Chinese athletes would achieve ideal results, and thanked the Chinese government for its valuable support for the Milan Winter Olympics.

On February 7th, Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) met with International Olympic Committee President Coventry (考文垂), stating that China is willing to continue to deepen high-level cooperation with the International Olympic Committee, promote world peace and development through sports, and promote the building of a human community with a shared future. Coventry (考文垂) thanked the Chinese government for its firm support and important contributions to the Olympic cause, and looked forward to continuing close cooperation with China to practice and promote the Olympic spirit, and jointly inject more positive energy into the current world of intertwined changes and chaos.

During her stay in Italy, Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) visited the Chinese sports delegation, conveyed the cordial care and best wishes of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and encouraged everyone to carry forward the Chinese sports spirit and the Beijing Winter Olympic spirit, 顽强拼搏 (wán qiáng pīn bó - "tenacious struggle," to fight bravely and persistently) and win glory for the country, demonstrating the vigorous, confident, and sunny spirit of Chinese youth in the new era. Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) also visited the "China House" and watched the figure skating competition.

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APEC "China Year": First Business Event Held in Indonesia

This newspaper reports from Jakarta on February 9th (Reporter: Cao Shiyun (曹师韵)) From February 7th to 9th, the first meeting of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) for 2026 was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, hosted by a Chinese business delegation led by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会). This is the first major business event of the APEC "China Year." More than 200 people, including senior officials from 21 APEC economies, representatives and incoming representatives of the Business Advisory Council, and experts, attended the meeting.

Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto (艾尔朗加·哈尔塔托) highly praised the key role of the business community in promoting Asia-Pacific regional cooperation in his opening speech. He wished the APEC "China Year" a complete success and expressed his expectation to meet with all parties in Shenzhen (深圳), joining hands to inject strong impetus into regional common prosperity.

Ambassador Chen Xu (陈旭), Chairman of the 2026 APEC Senior Officials' Meeting, comprehensively introduced China's overall considerations for the APEC "China Year" at the meeting, and encouraged the Business Advisory Council to focus on pragmatic cooperation and contribute high-quality results to the Leaders' Meeting.

During the meeting, Asia-Pacific business representatives conducted in-depth exchanges on four key areas: regional economic integration, sustainable development, digital innovation, and connectivity. They put forward a number of constructive proposals, and determined "openness, connectivity, and collaboration" as the annual theme, calling on the Asia-Pacific region to maintain market openness, accelerate the process of economic integration, and strengthen innovation cooperation. At the meeting, the Connectivity Working Group, which was re-established at the initiative of China, received widespread support from all parties.

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2026 "Happy Chinese New Year" series of events held in Madrid, Spain

This newspaper reported from Madrid on February 9th (Reporters Yan Huan (颜欢) and Xu Hailin (许海林)) The 2026 Spanish "Happy Chinese New Year" series of events was held on the 8th in the capital, Madrid (马德里). The series of events included the "Taste of China" reception and the "Happy Chinese New Year" concert, as well as a cultural and creative exhibition. From the Year of the Horse lanterns to intangible cultural heritage experiences, from Chinese opera to antique-style cultural creations, the series of events used the Spring Festival as a carrier to vividly showcase the rich connotations of cultural exchange and mutual learning between China and Spain, injecting momentum into promoting mutual understanding between the two peoples. As an important brand activity for cultural exchanges between the two countries, "Happy Chinese New Year" has been held in Spain for 15 consecutive years.

Gao Zheng (高政), Deputy Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism (中国文化和旅游部), said that civilization dialogue is an important part of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Spain. In recent years, China has continued to facilitate personnel exchanges. In 2025, more than 210,000 Spanish citizens visited China, and more than 800,000 Chinese citizens visited Spain, both reaching record highs.

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Reforms to the economic system unleash strong vitality for high-quality development

By: 金 轩

Developing questions and using reform to answer them. Currently, the giant ship of the Chinese economy is sailing towards the vast ocean, which contains strategic opportunities but is also full of uncertain and unpredictable factors. How can we set sail and break the waves, and achieve steady and long-term progress on the path of high-quality development? The answer is clear and affirmative: only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, and only reformers and innovators win. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) made strategic arrangements for deepening economic system reform, which is based on promoting the long-term, steady, and sound operation of the macro economy, and is also committed to allowing thousands of industries and hundreds of millions of people to feel real changes and reap real benefits.

We must seek vitality from a unified national market and continue to stimulate the advantages of a super-large-scale market. In today's world, the scarcest resource is the market. Based on our own efforts to build a unified large market, and to open up all links of production, distribution, circulation, and consumption, we will further leverage the advantages of scale, reduce transaction costs, amplify innovation returns, provide a broad stage for fair competition for enterprises, and provide consumers with more and better choices; it will also further enhance the resilience of the national economic cycle system, optimize the allocation of resources on a larger scale, and form a strong attraction to global factor resources. In recent years, the "four beams and eight pillars" of the unified national market have been basically established, and the role of the super-large-scale market in gathering resources, expanding domestic demand, and encouraging innovation has been better played. For example, in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region, an increasing number of enterprises have changed their place of registration through "one-click migration," and cross-regional registration is no longer a matter of "running back and forth" or "running to multiple locations"; for example, in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, the coverage of the service of returning and exchanging goods without reason in different places and stores is becoming wider and wider, and the consumer shopping experience is more comfortable. Next, we will formulate regulations on the construction of a unified national market, issue a list of matters that hinder the construction of a unified national market, and improve the fiscal and taxation system, statistical accounting system, and assessment and evaluation system that are conducive to market unity, which will promote the orderly flow and efficient allocation of commodity factor resources on a larger scale, improve the efficiency of the national economic cycle, promote the transformation of China's market from large to strong, and inject surging power into strengthening the domestic major cycle.

We must seek vitality from adhering to the "two unwavering commitments" and continue to stimulate the endogenous driving force for the development of various business entities. Economic vitality depends on enterprises. We adhere to the "two unwavering commitments," paying attention to giving play to the "pillar" role of state-owned enterprises in areas related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy, and also paying attention to giving play to the "fresh force" role of private enterprises in stabilizing growth, promoting innovation, and increasing employment, achieving the effect of "1+1>2." Of course, we must also be soberly aware that the complex and severe external environment has brought tremendous pressure to enterprises in opening up markets, domestic effective demand still needs to be further boosted, and some industries are facing the pain of transformation. But these are all problems in development and transformation. Facing the challenges head-on, we are full of confidence and have abundant methods. The confidence lies in the strong and effective leadership of the Party Central Committee and the broad space for China's economic growth, with the superimposed effects of a super-large-scale market, a complete industrial system, and abundant human resources. The method lies in the fact that we have a complete set of scientific and complete, targeted reform measures and policy toolboxes. Formulating and implementing a plan to further deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, implementing the guiding system for the optimization and structural adjustment of the state-owned economy layout, improving the supporting laws and regulations and policies for the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, and improving the long-term mechanism for private enterprises to participate in the construction of major national projects, etc., to promote the mutual complementation and respective strengths of various ownership economies, will surely stimulate and protect the endogenous driving force and innovation vitality of various business entities, and transform potential advantages into development advantages.

We must seek vitality from the market-oriented allocation of factors and continue to dredge the blood vessels and meridians for high-quality development. Factors are the basic "raw materials" for economic development. China's economy is shifting to a stage of high-quality development, and there is an urgent need to continuously improve total factor productivity through factor market-oriented reforms and promote quality changes, efficiency changes, and power changes in development. In short, it means that talent mobility will be freer, financial support for the real economy will be more convenient, technological innovation will be rewarded more generously, the digital economy will have broader prospects, and the channel for green electricity from western power plants to be "shipped" to eastern enterprises to be "signed for" will be smoother, and so on. In 2025, the State Council (国务院) approved the launch of comprehensive reform pilots for market-oriented allocation of factors in 10 regions, which will open a breakthrough and open up experimental fields for promoting factor market-oriented reforms at the national level. As the reform process deepens, the potential of various factors will be more fully explored and efficiently utilized, the "fuel" supply quality of the development engine will be higher, the combination methods will be richer, the transaction costs will be lower, total factor productivity will be further improved, and the stamina of our development will become stronger and stronger, and the ladder to the high end of the value chain will be more solid.

Practice tells us that to do a good job in economic work under the new situation, we must adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation, implement precise policies to smooth out short-term fluctuations, and deepen reforms to achieve long-term empowerment. From dredging the "Ren and Du meridians" of the economic cycle to irrigating the "fields of hope" of business entities, and then to optimizing the "source of living water" for factor allocation, further comprehensively deepening reforms with economic system reform as the traction will surely transform the huge potential of China's economy into an unstoppable and powerful driving force for high-quality development.

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Grappling with Data to Protect the Ecology of the Plateau (Putting Ideas into Practice and Showing Responsibility: Stories of NPC Deputies and CPPCC Members Fulfilling Their Duties and Working Together to Start a New Journey)

By: 本报记者 乔 栋

The Wudaoliang (五道梁) area of Kekexili (可可西里) in winter has brown grasslands and is surrounded by snow-capped mountains.

In the "Qinghai Ecological Window" of the Qinghai Provincial Ecological Environment Monitoring Center (青海省生态环境监测中心), the vast Sanjiangyuan (三江源) area is displayed in panoramic view on a large digital screen. According to Xu Qingmin (许庆民), Deputy Director of the Qinghai Provincial Ecological Environment Monitoring Center (青海省生态环境监测中心) and a deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表), monitoring data is very important. With a background as a technician, he spends years verifying data on the ground and grappling with it.

In the process of implementing the integrated protection and restoration project of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands in the Huangshui River (湟水) Basin, Xu Qingmin (许庆民) thought: "If data from various departments could be shared in a timely manner, many potential problems could be discovered. For example, by monitoring relevant indicators, the forestry and grassland departments can analyze the recovery of soil erosion, and the ecological departments can obtain information on the reduction of pollutant concentrations in cross-sections. After intelligent analysis and integration, these scattered data can provide valuable guidance for the next step of work."

Establishing a real-time, shared, and unified standard ecological monitoring data system is unprecedented on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原). Last year, Xu Qingmin (许庆民) visited Shandong (山东), Jiangsu (江苏), and other provinces to learn from advanced experiences, which also set the direction for his suggestions at this year's Two Sessions: to explore and promote the construction of a big data center for the national ecological security barrier in Qinghai (青海国家生态安全屏障大数据中心).

Visiting the Meteorological Bureau (气象局) and inspecting on-site measurement records at stations – the trend of warming and humidification on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原) places higher demands on monitoring. It is important to know how much the average annual temperature has increased and how much the average annual rainfall has increased. Visiting the Data Bureau (数据局) and consulting experts – which departments' data can be sorted and integrated to build a big data center for the ecological security barrier, and how to build the underlying data platform? These questions are forcing Xu Qingmin (许庆民) to constantly grow.

Xining (西宁), Qinghai (青海) once had "Eight Ancient Scenic Spots," one of which was "Northern Mountain Mist and Rain" (北山烟雨). Since the relay greening of the North and South Mountains (南北山) in Xining (西宁) and the implementation of the Huangshui River (湟水) Basin project, the Northern Mountain Mist and Rain (北山烟雨) has reappeared. At the recent Two Sessions of Qinghai Province (青海省两会), Xu Qingmin (许庆民) attended as a nonvoting delegate. Hearing the delegates talk about this matter, he felt a lot of emotion: "A suggestion is not only paper and words, but can also bring tangible gains to the people."

(People's Daily Online reporter Yang Qihong (杨启红) participated in writing)

Reporter's Notes
Focusing on Ecology Has Become a Conscious Act

In recent years, Xu Qingmin (许庆民) has put forward many suggestions focusing on improving the ecological compensation mechanism for river basins and the ecological protection of Qinghai Lake (青海湖).

"Ecological green" is like the "background color" of his life. Every time he goes out for research, even if he goes to salt lakes or agricultural industrial parks, he will focus on understanding energy conservation, carbon reduction, and non-point source pollution control. Focusing on ecology has become a conscious act for him.

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Bridging Industry, Academia, and Research: Exploring New Paths (Practical Action Demonstrates Responsibility; Working Together to Start a New Journey - Stories of NPC Deputies and CPPCC Members Fulfilling Their Duties)

By: 本报记者 王永战

"We need to pay more attention to the operational efficiency and actual effects after the completion of data infrastructure such as computing power centers." At the Big Data Research Institute of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (西南财经大学) in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), a discussion was in full swing. At the beginning of the discussion, Kou Gang (寇纲), member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and Dean of the Big Data Research Institute of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (西南财经大学大数据研究院院长), pointed out the theme of the meeting.

A conference table, a projector, a few swivel chairs, and everyone sitting around analyzing data and refining viewpoints... Such discussions are held every week. "It is crucial to integrate industry, academia, and research. We are stepping up cooperation with relevant institutions and constantly exploring new technical solutions," said Kou Gang (寇纲).

Since serving as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Kou Gang (寇纲) has put forward many suggestions focusing on the development of the digital economy.

"We found in our previous research that many local governments have introduced artificial intelligence industry development plans, and some places have seen a phenomenon of blindly following the trend of investment," said Kou Gang (寇纲). Lack of argumentation and duplicate construction can easily lead to project failures.

In response, Kou Gang's (寇纲) team formulated relevant recommendations on regulating computing power investment and subsidies, proposing that "involution" competition should be avoided. The relevant content was also included in the *Government Work Report*. "As a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), I am particularly pleased to see my suggestions being absorbed and adopted," said Kou Gang (寇纲).

Deeply involved in the digital economy, Kou Gang (寇纲) has also focused his vision on areas such as technology finance and green finance.

Going to other places for research, analyzing corporate needs, discussing technology applications... Since last year, the team has been exploring the interconnection of corporate electricity-carbon account data with financial institutions to form a corporate electricity-carbon credit system. "By promoting the interconnection of corporate electricity-carbon account data and financial institution information, we are forcing carbon emission control," Kou Gang (寇纲) introduced.

"We must continue to conduct in-depth research, sort out problems and put forward suggestions in areas such as corporate technological innovation and improving the governance system, and help the development of emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and big data," said Kou Gang (寇纲).

Reporter's Notes

Solving Real Problems in Practice

In the practice of serving enterprises, Kou Gang's (寇纲) team discovers problems at the front line, seeks solutions to problems at the front line, formulates policy recommendations, and promotes the accelerated integration of the digital economy and the real economy.

Practice proves that to solve real problems, it is necessary to put forward genuine problem-solving suggestions. Only through in-depth investigation and research can more practical and effective suggestions be generated.

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Reading Unhindered, Fragrant Books Reach Afar (Sounding the Ground: High-Quality Handling of CPPCC Proposals)

By: 本报记者 易舒冉

Protecting the reading rights of visually and hearing-impaired groups is an integral part of promoting national reading.

During the 2025 National People's Congress (全国两会), the China Association for Promoting Democracy (民进中央) submitted a proposal entitled "Proposal on Protecting the Reading Rights of Visually and Hearing-Impaired Groups," which attracted widespread attention. "We found in our research that public cultural service institutions such as libraries provide fewer reading resources for visually and hearing-impaired groups, and there is a relative lack of compound talents who understand publishing laws, technology, and, more importantly, disabled groups," said Duan Yanwen (段艳文), Secretary-General of the Publishing and Media Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (民进中央出版和传媒委员会), who participated in the completion of the proposal.

The China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残疾人联合会), which is responsible for taking the lead in handling the proposal, attached great importance to it, repeatedly communicating with relevant departments on the relevant issues and suggestions in the proposal, and responding to them one by one. Relevant officials from the China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残疾人联合会) said that they will continue to promote barrier-free reading into the public cultural service system and carry out in-depth barrier-free reading promotion and reading tutoring activities; promote the creation of a large number of professional and volunteer teams for barrier-free reading services.

On February 1 this year, the "National Reading Promotion Regulations" (全民阅读促进条例) came into effect, encouraging the provision of barrier-free format publications in legal form and supporting the construction of barrier-free facilities for national reading.

"Seeing the suggestions on paper transformed into a force for promoting development will inspire us to continue to put forward high-quality proposals accurately from the needs of development, the expectations of the people, and our professional strengths," said Duan Yanwen (段艳文).

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Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and other charges

Hong Kong, February 9th (Reporter Chen Ran (陈然)) Anti-China disrupt Hong Kong element Jimmy Lai (黎智英) and three companies of Apple Daily (苹果日报) were sentenced on February 9th in Hong Kong for violating the Hong Kong National Security Law and other offenses. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) High Court sentenced Jimmy Lai (黎智英) to 20 years in prison for two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications.

In this case, the four defendants, Jimmy Lai (黎智英), Apple Daily Limited (苹果日报有限公司), Apple Daily Printing Limited (苹果日报印刷有限公司), and Apple Daily Internet Limited (苹果日报互联网有限公司), were charged with one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications and one count of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. Jimmy Lai (黎智英) was also separately charged with one count of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces.

The case officially began on December 18, 2023, and was heard by three designated judges of the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法). By June 11, 2024, the prosecution had formally completed its presentation of evidence, and the court ruled on July 25 that all charges had a case to answer. Jimmy Lai (黎智英) began testifying on November 20, 2024, and concluded in March 2025. From August 18 to 28, 2025, all parties made closing arguments.

On December 15, 2025, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) High Court ruled that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) was guilty of two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications. The mitigation hearing for the defendants in the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case was held on January 12, 2026, and completed on the 13th.

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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Answers Reporter's Question on Anti-China Disruptor of Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai, Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 9th (Reporters Cao Jiayue (曹嘉玥) and Dong Xue (董雪)) The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region High Court announced on the 9th that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) was sentenced to 20 years in prison for two counts of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and one count of conspiracy to publish seditious publications. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) said at a regular press conference that day that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) was the main planner and participant in a series of anti-China and destabilizing Hong Kong events. His actions seriously impacted the bottom line of the "One Country, Two Systems" principle, seriously endangered national security, and seriously damaged Hong Kong's prosperity and stability and the well-being of its citizens, and he should be severely punished by law.

Lin Jian (林剑) said that Hong Kong is a society ruled by law, and the SAR's judicial organs perform their duties in accordance with the law, maintain the authority of the law, and defend national security, which is reasonable, justifiable, and lawful, and brooks no criticism. The Central Government firmly supports the SAR in safeguarding national security in accordance with the law and punishing criminal acts that endanger national security.

Lin Jian (林剑) said that practice has proven that the better the Hong Kong National Security Law is implemented, the more stable and secure Hong Kong society will be, the more the rights and freedoms of the vast majority of Hong Kong residents will be guaranteed, the brighter Hong Kong's "golden signboard" will be, and the more stable and long-term the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" will be.

"Jimmy Lai (黎智英) is a Chinese citizen. The relevant judicial case is purely an internal affair of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. We urge relevant countries to respect China's sovereignty, respect the rule of law in Hong Kong, and refrain from making irresponsible remarks on the handling of judicial cases in the SAR, and not to interfere in Hong Kong's judiciary or interfere in China's internal affairs in any form," said Lin Jian (林剑).

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Jimmy Lai's Severe Punishment Demonstrates the Rule of Law and Upholds Justice

This newspaper reported from Beijing on February 9th (Reporter Jiang Lin (江琳)) The WeChat official account of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Central Committee published an article on Hong Kong and Macao affairs on the 9th, titled "Jimmy Lai's Severe Punishment Demonstrates the Rule of Law and Upholds Justice." The full text is as follows:

On February 9th, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) High Court sentenced Jimmy Lai (黎智英), who had previously been convicted of conspiring to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious publications, to 20 years in prison in accordance with the law. This sentence solemnly and powerfully declares: Whoever dares to challenge the laws safeguarding national security will surely be severely punished.

The sentencing of Jimmy Lai (黎智英) fully reflects the firm will of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) to safeguard national security and powerfully demonstrates the spirit of the rule of law. National security is a top priority. The crimes committed by Jimmy Lai (黎智英) are serious crimes anywhere in the world. The more than 150 days of trial in the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case revealed that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) not only openly solicited foreign forces to interfere, claiming that he "very much wants foreign influence on us," "very much needs foreign forces to support us," and "fight for the United States," but also supported and funded relevant organizations to conduct international lobbying, begging foreign forces to sanction China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区). Jimmy Lai (黎智英) also manipulated public opinion tools, wantonly inciting hatred of the Central Government (中央政府) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) government in Hong Kong society, inciting citizens to illegal resistance, and inciting violence. These actions and activities seriously violate the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法) and relevant Hong Kong laws, seriously challenge the bottom line of the "One Country, Two Systems" ("一国两制") principle, seriously impact the constitutional order of the Special Administrative Region (特区), and seriously undermine Hong Kong's prosperity and stability. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) court convicted Jimmy Lai (黎智英) based on facts and the law, confirmed that he was the mastermind of the crimes involved, and imposed a fair sentence in accordance with the law based on the severity of his crimes, which is an inevitable requirement for implementing the rule of law. It should also be pointed out that the trial of the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case was open and transparent, the procedures were rigorous, the defendant's litigation rights were protected in accordance with the law, and the court conducted independent trials without any interference, demonstrating the maturity, resilience, and unimpeachable credibility of Hong Kong's rule of law.

The sentencing of Jimmy Lai (黎智英) fully reflects the Hong Kong society's shared hatred of the chief culprits of anti-China and Hong Kong disruption, and powerfully upholds public justice. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) court pointed out in the verdict of the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) was willing to sacrifice the interests of the country and Hong Kong citizens in order to achieve his goals. People have long recognized that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) has never been a so-called "fighter for freedom, democracy, and human rights," but a chief culprit and traitor who harms the fundamental interests of the country and the well-being of Hong Kong citizens. As the main planner, organizer, and participant of a series of anti-China and Hong Kong disruption activities, Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) evil deeds have caused profound harm to Hong Kong and the country. In particular, his behind-the-scenes promotion of the "amendment turmoil" into a Hong Kong version of the "color revolution" caused Hong Kong to once be rampant with "Hong Kong independence," rampant with "black violence," and rampant with "mutual destruction" (揽炒 (lǎn chǎo - "embrace stir-fry," a strategy of mutual destruction or scorched earth)), seriously damaging social order and the rule of law, seriously harming economic development and people's well-being, seriously damaging international image and competitive advantages, and seriously poisoning moral civilization and the younger generation, leaving Hong Kong almost in an abyss of eternal doom. Hong Kong society will never forget this profound pain. Now that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) has finally been severely punished, it once again confirms a warning: justice may be late, but it will never be absent.

We firmly support the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) in fulfilling its constitutional responsibility to safeguard national security and fully and accurately implementing the laws safeguarding national security. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (香港特区) law enforcement, prosecution, and judicial organs are fearless, dedicated, and steadfast in safeguarding national security and the rule of law. All acts and activities that endanger national security will be punished, all tricks to obstruct the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) from safeguarding national security will be futile, and all attempts to undermine Hong Kong's progress from governance to prosperity and to contain China by disrupting Hong Kong will be defeated!

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Punishing Jimmy Lai according to law is a fitting punishment, upholding the rule of law, and safeguarding well-being.

This newspaper reported from Hong Kong on February 9th (Reporter Wang Yao (王尧)) A spokesperson for the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) issued a statement on the 9th, firmly supporting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) in fulfilling its constitutional responsibility to safeguard national security, firmly supporting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) in safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests, punishing criminal acts and activities endangering national security in accordance with the law, and firmly supporting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) judiciary in making a fair sentence on Jimmy Lai (黎智英), the chief culprit of anti-China riots in Hong Kong, for conspiring to collude with external forces to endanger national security and other crimes.

The spokesperson stated that the sentence fully demonstrates judicial justice and the authority of the rule of law. The 855-page conviction ruling previously announced by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) judiciary shows that Jimmy Lai (黎智英) is the "mastermind" of the anti-China rioting gang in Hong Kong. The evidence is conclusive and his crimes are heinous. Moreover, he did not stop after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法), and continued to engage in criminal activities during bail and remand, and refused to plead guilty during the trial. We have noticed that Hong Kong residents have not forgotten Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) manipulation of public opinion tools to arbitrarily "brainwash" people, have not forgotten Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) instigation of violence and incitement to "burn together" and "private settlement," have not forgotten Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) public clamor to "fight for the United States," and have not forgotten Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) coordination with external forces to instigate a "color revolution," pushing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) into an extremely dangerous situation. Today, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) judiciary has punished Jimmy Lai (黎智英) and other criminals in accordance with the law, effectively safeguarding national security, effectively demonstrating the spirit of the rule of law, and receiving unanimous support from all sectors of Hong Kong society and the general public. Some citizens expressed their views online, believing that "this is the best New Year gift for Hong Kong."

The spokesperson pointed out that the sentence fully reflects the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (香港特区) firm determination and strong will to punish criminal acts and activities endangering national security in accordance with the law. In the process of the lawful trial and fair adjudication of the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case, some politicians in the United States and the United Kingdom disregarded the basic norms of international relations, disregarded the severe laws and harsh punishments set by their own countries in terms of national security, disregarded the conclusive evidence in the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case, colluded with anti-China rioters who had fled overseas, openly supported, shielded, beautified, interfered, and exerted pressure on Jimmy Lai (黎智英), attempted to exonerate him from his crimes, and grossly interfered in China's internal affairs and Hong Kong's judiciary, fully exposing their barbaric nature and "double standards." Facts have once again proved that the external forces and the despicable tricks of the anti-China rioters are ultimately 枉费心机 (wǎng fèi xīn jī - "futile scheming," to waste efforts on a futile plan) and 竹篮打水 (zhú lán dǎ shuǐ - "drawing water with a bamboo basket," a complete waste of effort). In the process of the trial of the Jimmy Lai (黎智英) case, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) government firmly safeguarded national security and strongly condemned and sternly refuted the external forces' gross interference, attacks, and smears. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) judiciary, fearless of interference and intimidation, conducted a fair trial and sentenced Jimmy Lai (黎智英) in accordance with the law, resolutely defending the spirit of the rule of law and judicial justice.

The spokesperson emphasized that the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" ("一国两制") has entered a new stage. Under the escort of laws such as the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法) and the "Safeguarding National Security Ordinance" (《维护国家安全条例》), the governance effectiveness of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) has been continuously improved, the economy and people's livelihood have been continuously improved, the pace of integrating into and serving the overall national development has been fully accelerated, the international community's recognition has become more widespread, high-quality development has opened a new chapter, and a new step has been taken from governance to prosperity. We will, as always, support the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) in preventing, stopping, and punishing acts and activities endangering national security in accordance with the law, defend the upright and harmonious social atmosphere in Hong Kong, and promote Hong Kong's long-term prosperity and stability.

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Resolutely Support the Hong Kong SAR's Lawful Sentencing of Jimmy Lai, the Chief Culprit of Anti-China Disruptive Activities in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-based newspaper reported on February 9th (Reporter Li Xia (李霞)) that the spokesperson for the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (中央人民政府驻香港特别行政区维护国家安全公署) stated on the 9th that they firmly support the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (香港特别行政区) judicial organs in making a sentencing ruling on the Lai Chi-ying (黎智英) case in accordance with the law, and punishing Lai Chi-ying's (黎智英) criminal acts of colluding with foreign or external forces to endanger national security. The sentencing result demonstrates the authority of the rule of law under the National Security Law (国安法) and safeguards the spirit of the rule of law in Hong Kong.

The spokesperson pointed out that 156 days of public hearings, 2,220 pieces of evidence and over 80,000 pages of documents were fully presented to the court, and 14 prosecution witnesses testified in court and were subjected to careful questioning. Lai's (黎) criminal facts of colluding with external forces to endanger national security are clear, the evidence is solid and sufficient, the procedures are open, transparent, rigorous, compliant, fair and just, Lai's (黎) various legitimate rights have been guaranteed, and the 855-page conviction verdict is based on clear evidence. The trial process fully demonstrates that Lai Chi-ying (黎智英) is the main planner and participant in a series of anti-China and Hong Kong-disrupting events. He has long manipulated public opinion tools to create and spread rumors, incite opposition, incite hatred, glorify violence, and even clamor for "fighting for the United States." He is an agent and pawn of external anti-China forces, the mastermind behind the "Extradition Bill Incident" ("修例风波"), a veritable leading criminal of anti-China and Hong Kong disruption, and the mastermind of three charges, including conspiring to collude with external forces to endanger national security. His actions seriously endanger national security, seriously challenge the constitutional order of the Special Administrative Region, seriously damage Hong Kong's prosperity and stability and the well-being of its citizens. His crimes are serious and he should be severely punished in accordance with the law. Lai Chi-ying's (黎智英) so-called health problems and detention treatment problems are not in accordance with the facts, cannot stand the test of evidence, and are not factors to mitigate punishment. Lai's (黎) lawyers stated in court that they had no complaints about Lai's (黎) treatment during detention. The sentencing result in Lai's (黎) case is commensurate with the crime.

The spokesperson stated that it is the responsibility of any country or region in the world to safeguard national security in accordance with the law and severely punish criminal acts that endanger national security. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) punishes criminals who endanger national security in accordance with the law, defends the dignity of the rule of law, and safeguards judicial justice. It is based on the law and justified. Individual Western politicians ignore their own strict laws in safeguarding national security, ignore the ironclad evidence and serious crimes in the Lai Chi-ying (黎智英) case, and openly support Lai (黎) under the guise of "human rights" and "freedom," threatening sanctions and rudely interfering in Hong Kong's judiciary. After Lai Chi-ying (黎智英) was convicted, he still clamored for "immediate and unconditional release," fully exposing his hypocritical "double standards" of brutally trampling on the spirit of the rule of law and undermining Hong Kong's judicial independence, and confirming his deep collusion with Lai Chi-ying (黎智英). Their despicable intentions to use the Lai Chi-ying (黎智英) case to undermine Hong Kong's rule of law environment and foundation, and to interfere with Hong Kong's good situation of moving from governance to prosperity, will only arouse the Hong Kong society's 同仇敌忾 (tóng chóu dí kài - "common hatred enemy sigh," united hatred against the enemy) and is destined to end in failure.

The spokesperson emphasized that safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests is the highest principle of the "One Country, Two Systems" ("一国两制") policy. The Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong (驻港国家安全公署) will, as always, firmly perform its duties, resolutely prevent, stop, and punish all acts and activities that endanger national security, firmly support the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) in fully and accurately implementing the Hong Kong national security legal system, firmly support the Special Administrative Region's (特区) judicial organs in performing their duties of safeguarding national security impartially, selflessly, and fearlessly, and work with the Special Administrative Region (特区) to resolutely and effectively prevent, block, and contain any external forces' attempts to interfere, and fully protect the steady and long-term development of "One Country, Two Systems" ("一国两制").

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Jimmy Lai's Heinous Crimes Heavily Punished, Demonstrating the Rule of Law

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) High Court of First Instance on the 9th of February sentenced Jimmy Lai (黎智英) and the other 8 defendants, as well as the 3 companies related to Apple Daily (苹果日报), who were convicted of a total of 3 counts of endangering national security. Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) total sentence in this case is 20 years, while the remaining 8 defendants were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 6 years and 3 months to 10 years. The 3 related companies of Apple Daily (苹果日报) were each fined HKD 3,004,500.

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) John Lee (李家超) stated that Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) heavy sentence of 20 years in prison demonstrates the rule of law, upholds justice, and is extremely gratifying. Jimmy Lai (黎智英) has long used Apple Daily (苹果日报) to poison citizens, incite hatred, distort facts, deliberately create social divisions, glorify violence, openly beg external forces to sanction China (中国) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区), sacrifice the well-being of the people, betray the country and harm Hong Kong (香港), damage the interests of the country and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区), with numerous crimes and deserving punishment. The case is irrefutable, confirming Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) role as the mastermind behind anti-China (反中) and Hong Kong (香港) chaos, and his behavior is despicable and shameless.

John Lee (李家超) stated that the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法) demonstrates the role of a 定海神针 (dìng hǎi shén zhēn - "sea-pacifying divine needle," a metaphor for something that stabilizes a situation), warning those who endanger national security that they cannot escape the law and will be severely punished according to the law. The Special Administrative Region (特区) will continue to steadfastly safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests.

John Lee (李家超) stated that the court's heavy sentences on Jimmy Lai (黎智英) and the defendants in accordance with the law demonstrate the rule of law and justice, but Hong Kong (香港) society has already paid a heavy price. As of the end of last year, more than 2,400 people have borne legal consequences for crimes committed during the "black violence" (黑暴) period, which shows that Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) gang and Apple Daily (苹果日报) are 恶贯满盈 (è guàn mǎn yíng - "evil deeds fill the measure," extremely wicked; full of iniquity).

A spokesperson for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) Government stated that Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) malicious plot spanned before and after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law (香港国安法), with the aim of colluding with external forces to harm the interests of China (中国) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区), and the interests of citizens. He shamelessly acted as a pawn of external forces, endangering national security.

The spokesperson stated that the Special Administrative Region (特区) Government will confiscate property related to Jimmy Lai's (黎智英) crimes in accordance with the law. The Special Administrative Region (特区) will steadfastly safeguard national security, ensure the legitimate rights and interests of Hong Kong (香港) citizens, and fully prevent, stop, and punish acts and activities that endanger national security.

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China's Transportation: "Vastness" and "Precision" (Commentary)

Interviewees:
Li Zheng (李拯), *People's Daily* commentator
Chen Jing (陈璟), Chief Engineer of the Planning Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部规划研究院)

Li Zheng (李拯): Recently, the concept of "happy commuting" has attracted attention. The recently released "2025 China Major City Commuting Monitoring Report" shows that by the end of 2024, the proportion of happy commutes within 5 kilometers in major cities reached 52%, and the average proportion of commutes within 45 minutes reached 77%, with continuous improvement in commuting convenience. Happy commuting reflects the livability of a city and embodies the value orientation of "people's city for the people."

Chen Jing (陈璟): In recent years, the speed of transportation has "outrun" the speed of urban expansion. This not only reflects the resilience and vitality of urban transportation but also reflects the change in development concepts. For example, Shenzhen (深圳) organically combines urban construction and rail transit, with the highest density of subway lines in the country carrying more than 3.2 billion passengers per year. The denser and more optimized urban transportation network makes the city run more efficiently and makes people's lives better.

Li Zheng (李拯): The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests strengthening the interconnection of regional infrastructure. Looking at the region beyond the city, the intercity transportation network has become increasingly dense in the past five years. For example, the Beijing-Hebei (京冀) bus lines make cross-province commuting more convenient, and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道) greatly improves commuting efficiency in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区). Implementing major regional strategies requires promoting the flow of factors through transportation interconnection.

Chen Jing (陈璟): Without the integration of transportation, there is no integration of the region. Take the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) as an example. The three regions work together to open up "major arteries," smooth "microcirculation," and weave a dense "travel network," making the "same city effect" more obvious and "cross-province commuting" more convenient. Transportation is not only a connecting link but also a carrier for the flow of factors. Transportation integration has brought a new model of "Beijing-Tianjin (京津) research and development, Hebei (河北) transformation" on the supply side, and has also spawned consumption growth points such as "weekend travel" and "leisure economy" in the three regions on the demand side.

Looking at the whole country, the comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network in key areas is accelerating its improvement, urban agglomerations on rails are accelerating their formation, and major cities in the region are achieving 2-hour accessibility. The integrated transportation network is smoothing the meridians and blood vessels for the implementation of major regional strategies.

Li Zheng (李拯): Looking at the whole country beyond the region, the transportation connections between regions are also becoming closer. For example, the recent direct high-speed rail connection between the revolutionary holy land Yan'an (延安) and Zunyi (遵义) provides new opportunities for the coordinated development of red cultural tourism and the regional economy. How can we enhance transportation connections between regions, eliminate regional barriers for a unified large market, and achieve a "1+1>2" effect in various regions?

Chen Jing (陈璟): On the more than 9.6 million square kilometers of land, enlivening the "chess game" of coordinated regional development means that the layout of the transportation network affects the whole body. For example, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) significantly shortens the transportation time of goods from southwestern provinces to international markets through multimodal transport such as railways, highways, and waterways, making the inland hinterland an open frontier. From the perspective of a unified national market, transportation can not only compress the distance of time and space but also reshape comparative advantages and stimulate development vitality.

At present, China's comprehensive transportation corridor pattern running from east to west and north to south has been formed and is continuously optimized. The completion rate of the "6 axes, 7 corridors, 8 channels" national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network backbone exceeds 90%, of which 6 main axes organically connect the eastern, central, and western regions and the three major power source areas, laying a solid foundation for a unified national market.

Li Zheng (李拯): To build a strong country, transportation must lead the way. Improving the modern comprehensive transportation system, strengthening cross-regional overall planning and integrated connection across modes, and strengthening coverage and accessibility guarantees in weak areas are crucial to supporting high-quality development.

Chen Jing (陈璟): I still remember that at the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said earnestly during his inspection in Tibet (西藏): "The national transportation map is like a painting. The central, eastern, and northeastern regions of China are all meticulous brushwork, and the western region has too much blank space. In the future, we must add a few strokes to make the transportation of beautiful China even more beautiful."

Focus on "coordination," continue to increase investment in transportation infrastructure in weak areas such as the western region and border areas, strengthen network coverage and accessibility guarantees, promote the accelerated filling of transportation "blanks" in the western region, and improve the coordinated development level of transportation in the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions.

Focus on "refinement," in the context of the basic establishment of the macro transportation pattern, continuously enrich the capillaries of the transportation network, so that "four good rural roads" are built to the village and connected to industrial parks, making the connection between geographical units more multi-dimensional and rich.

Focus on "service," accelerate the connection of comprehensive transportation corridors, build a multi-level integrated national comprehensive transportation hub system; promote the updating and digital and intelligent transformation of existing transportation infrastructure with "artificial intelligence + transportation"; and provide new service experiences with new models such as cultural tourism special lines and silver-haired special trains, moving from hard connectivity to excellent service...

Li Zheng (李拯): General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Building a safe, convenient, efficient, green, economical, inclusive, and resilient sustainable transportation system is an important measure to support and serve the high-quality development of the economy and society and realize the beautiful vision of 'people enjoying their travel and goods flowing smoothly.'" The road that continues to extend to the distance opens up the operation of the city, connects the integration of urban and rural areas, connects the interaction of regions, carries people's imagination of "poetry and the distance," and also presents the infinite possibilities of Chinese-style modernization. China's transportation can not only "achieve breadth," realizing east-west mutual assistance and north-south coordination, but also "exhaust the subtle," drawing a "meticulous brushwork" on this land, providing strong support for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

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Solidifying the "Second Pillar" of Pension Insurance (Micro Perspective)

By: 韩春瑶

Adhering to reform and innovation, continuously addressing shortcomings and strengthening weaknesses, and weaving a tight and secure elderly care security network will surely allow hundreds of millions of elderly people to enjoy a happy and fulfilling later life.

Mr. Su from Zhejiang (浙江) has been retired for 4 years. In addition to his basic pension, he also receives thousands of yuan in enterprise annuity each month. "I receive it monthly after retirement, and the remaining money continues to be invested in the account. The long-term accumulation is quite considerable." This steady "extra meal" provides an additional layer of security for his later years.

Enterprise annuity is a supplementary pension security established by enterprises and individuals in addition to the basic pension insurance for employees, and is known as the "second pillar" of the pension insurance system. The recently issued "Opinions on Further Improving Enterprise Annuity Work" proposes expanding the coverage of the enterprise annuity system, simplifying the establishment procedures, and promoting the safe and standardized operation of funds, so that more employees can enjoy this pension security.

Enterprise annuity is not a new thing. As of the third quarter of 2025, 175,000 employers nationwide have established enterprise annuities, with more than 33.32 million participating employees and accumulated funds exceeding 4 trillion yuan. However, compared with the basic pension insurance covering more than 1 billion people, the coverage of enterprise annuity is still insufficient.

Where is the problem? High threshold, complicated procedures, and heavy burden. Many small and micro enterprises have the will but not the power, and can only 望“金”兴叹 (wàng “jīn” xīng tàn - "gaze at gold and sigh," to sigh at the sight of something desirable but unattainable). From stipulating flexible selection of contribution ratios or amounts within the contribution limit, to promoting a simplified template for enterprise annuity plans, to selecting some qualified parks to carry out pilot projects to expand enterprise annuity coverage... A series of new measures working together are conducive to enhancing the inclusiveness, flexibility, and convenience of the enterprise annuity system.

Good policies must take root and bear fruit, and the key lies in adapting to local conditions. Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北) took the lead in launching a "enterprise annuity automatic enrollment mechanism" nationwide, allowing enterprises to start with a "small scope and low proportion," and also linking annuity contributions to settlement points. As of now, the number of employers establishing enterprise annuities locally has quadrupled compared to the end of 2024. Lingang New Area (临港新片区) in Shanghai (上海) launched a "regional talent enterprise annuity plan," providing financial subsidies to participants, giving enterprises a new tool for attracting and retaining talents. Aiming at the needs of enterprises and introducing supporting policies to guide them will open up new paths for expanding the scope of enterprise annuities.

Enterprise annuity is the pension money of employees, and maintaining and increasing its value is crucial. Improving the long-term performance evaluation mechanism will help guide fund investment in long-term tracks such as technological innovation and green transformation, which will not only inject patient capital into the capital market, but also feed back pension security by sharing the dividends of development. For professional pension insurance companies, the continuous expansion of long-term capital scale is not only a rare development opportunity, but also a test of their comprehensive service level and professional capabilities.

It should also be seen that the expansion of enterprise annuity cannot be achieved overnight. Problems such as cost pressure, lack of awareness, and regional differences remain to be solved. Some enterprises believe that "it is better to do less than to do more," some employees "know the name but not the meaning" of annuity, and some local supporting measures have not kept up. In the future, it is still necessary to continue to optimize fiscal and tax incentive policies, improve the convenience of annuity transfer and continuation, and encourage financial institutions to develop more standardized and low-cost service solutions suitable for enterprises, so that the "seeds" of annuity can take root and sprout in more "soil."

People's livelihood is no small matter, and every branch and leaf is always concerned. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to accelerate the development of a multi-level and multi-pillar pension insurance system. At the end of 2025, the population aged 65 and above in China exceeded 220 million, accounting for 15.9% of the total population. To cope with the challenge of further deepening aging in China, the construction of the pension security system brooks no delay. From improving and implementing the national overall planning system for basic pension insurance, to further expanding the coverage of enterprise annuity, to enriching individual pension products... Adhering to reform and innovation, continuously addressing shortcomings and strengthening weaknesses, and weaving a tight and secure elderly care security network will surely allow hundreds of millions of elderly people to enjoy a happy and fulfilling later life.

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Such Dreams Resonate Powerfully (Heartwarming News & Hot Takes)

By: 琼达卓嘎

When every child's potential is fully "seen" and carefully nurtured, the light of education can illuminate the farthest corners, converging into the most solid and warmest force for national development.

[Person] Gu Sangquzhen (古桑曲珍)
[Story] Gu Sangquzhen (古桑曲珍) is a teacher at the Shannan Special Education School (山南市特殊教育学校) in the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区). In 2010, she voluntarily transferred from a regular middle school to a special education school. With more than a decade of unwavering dedication, she has used dance to open a window to the world for hearing-impaired children. "They can't hear, but they can feel," she says. In her eyes, dance is a bridge of aesthetic education that can satisfy children's desire for beauty and pursuit of it.
[Commentary]
How do hearing-impaired children learn to dance? Using the frequency of flashing mobile phone lights to indicate beats; guiding with eye contact, gently touching with fingertips, and adjusting angles hand-by-hand; playing the sound system close to the wooden floor, letting the children feel the vibrations through their bare feet... Without shirking hardship or growing weary, through Gu Sangquzhen's (古桑曲珍) efforts, musical rhythm becomes tangible and accessible even in a silent world. When the children dance accurately and gracefully to the music, it is not just a dance class, but a profound life lesson: sound cannot be heard, but the beauty of music can be transmitted, and life opens up a new channel—to feel, to resonate, to express.

The significance of special education lies precisely in this. Holding such a belief, Gu Sangquzhen (古桑曲珍) leads the children to write a different answer sheet with tenacious will. The initially restrained children slowly become confident and sunny; the school establishes the "Ganglamedo" (岗拉梅朵) Disabled Persons Art Troupe, winning many championships in competitions; some students enter the affiliated school of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe (中国残疾人艺术团) to study, and others are admitted to the Dance Performance major of the Changchun University of Special Education (长春大学特殊教育学院). Each story records how dreams break free from the shackles of "impossible" and shine into reality. The transformation of the children also confirms that education should be accessible to all, and tailored to individual talents. The meaning of education is to help every life find its own language and brilliance.

Enabling children with disabilities to receive equal access to quality education and achieve self-development is not only a requirement of educational equity but also a reflection of social warmth. In recent years, China's special education has made considerable progress. From increasing financial support for special education schools with real money, to assistive technologies constantly eliminating learning barriers, and to the quiet transformation of social attitudes, care and inclusion are increasingly becoming a consensus. More and more children with disabilities "have access to education" and "learn well," regaining self-esteem and confidence, acquiring a skill, expanding channels for social participation, and enhancing their ability to participate in society.

If the improvement of systems and technologies has built a platform for students with disabilities to receive education, then special education teachers are the key bridge connecting the "last mile." They are not only disseminators of knowledge but also translators of the soul and prospectors of potential. It is precisely because Gu Sangquzhen (古桑曲珍) firmly believes that "children cannot hear, but they can feel" and is committed to discovering the shining points of children that they are no longer limited by hearing impairment. Shifting the focus from defect compensation to advantage development, from sympathetic care to companionship and growth, the trust and patience contained therein is a powerful educational force in itself. Continuously expanding the ranks of special education teachers and improving their professional level, under the nourishment of education for all and teaching according to aptitude, children will surely open up a broader world of growth.

When children dance on the stage, we are moved by the millions of repetitions they have paid to master a movement, shocked by the resilience they show in the face of difficulties, and even more see the vigorous power of yearning to grow upward. This is a cry from the silent world, and dreams resonate powerfully. When every child's potential is fully "seen" and carefully nurtured, the light of education can illuminate the farthest corners, converging into the most solid and warmest force for national development. This is not only the direction of special education but also should become the direction for the continuous progress of the entire society's view of education, talent, and development.

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Grasping the Specific is Grasping Implementation (Perspective)

By: 金之平

Recently, two reports from Tianjin (天津) concerning revitalization have prompted deep thought.

One involves introducing biomedical companies into idle buildings. The service team not only renovated spaces according to demand but also proactively sorted out policy lists for approvals, talent, and other areas. They followed up on the registration process, which the companies were unfamiliar with, throughout the entire process, making people exclaim that it was worry-free.

The other is the launch of a "productivity map," which presents information on key industries, enterprises, and innovative resources in a dynamic and visual way. When companies set conditions, the system matches existing resources, and even the surrounding transportation, medical, and other supporting facilities are clear at a glance.

The common point of the two cases is that they are doing very specific things, and they are all advancing on the basis of understanding the situation. When the general direction of the work is correct and the focus is clear, while being meticulous and appropriate in the operation, accurately identifying the problems and putting forward practical countermeasures, the more specific, the more confident you are.

Specificity is linked to reality, and grasping specificity means grasping implementation, which tests the ability of the front line to solve problems. Still taking revitalization as an example, on one hand, some old factories, buildings, etc., are not being fully utilized, and on the other hand, some enterprises are facing bottlenecks in increasing capital and expanding production. How to solve the problem of information asymmetry? The reasons for the idle resources and assets are different, and the needs have individual differences. How should we do a good job of "activating" on the basis of "revitalizing"? The answer lies in facing the contradictions directly. Ask a few more "whys," make good use of investigation and research as a "family heirloom," understand the real demands of enterprises and grassroots, and take solving problems as the focus and breakthrough point of work, and the effect will be immediate.

Specificity is related to objectivity, but whether it can be grasped firmly and to the point is often determined subjectively. Recently, I saw a report: the Deputy Director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Dongcheng District (东城区人社局) in Beijing (北京) followed delivery riders to deliver food, personally experiencing the anxiety of "relying on orders for food"; and went deep into the back kitchen to understand the grievances of merchants being urged to place orders and the difficulty in determining responsibility for meal damage. Based on this, the research team formed a report, locking in problems such as "slow food preparation leading to overdue fines" and "difficulty in determining responsibility for meal damage." Subsequently, through the three-level linkage of "city-district-street," platform representatives were allowed to face riders and merchants, promoting the pilot "smart food preparation grid," optimizing algorithms, and canceling partial overdue deductions. Such achievements are obtained through solid work. Imagine, if the research is satisfied with seeing the problem, stops at hovering around the periphery of the crux, only seeks to do it, not to do it well, what will be the result?

In the final analysis, grasping specificity emphasizes "reality." Ensuring the implementation of goals and tasks requires a sense of the overall situation and execution, as well as a delicate sense of precise policy implementation. Truly being pragmatic provides the source and support for confidence.

(Excerpted and compiled from *Tianjin Daily* (天津日报), original title: *The More Specific, The More Confident*)

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The "wait for the storm to pass" mentality is undesirable.

By: 竹圆圆

"Let's drink after the end of the year," "Let's meet when the heat dies down"... In reality, one can sometimes hear some Party members and cadres exchanging such pleasantries in response to inappropriate invitations. Behind these words, there may be considerations of polite refusal, but there is also no shortage of people harboring a wait-and-see mentality of "avoiding the limelight." Some even regard Party discipline as a 一阵风 (yī zhèn fēng - "a gust of wind," a temporary phenomenon), waiting for an opportunity to "return to their old ways."

A single sentence, "wait for the heat to die down," exposes three alarming mentalities. First, the侥幸心理 (jiǎo xìng xīn lǐ - "lucky mentality," a gambling mentality of taking chances). They mistakenly believe that supervision and inspection are routine operations during festivals, and as long as they get through it, everything will be fine. Second, the随大流 (suí dà liú - "follow the crowd," conformist mentality). They regard violating regulations on eating and drinking as a standard feature of social interaction, and view banquets and dinner parties as a bond for maintaining relationships, believing that not drinking and eating means being out of touch. Third, the打擦边球 (dǎ cā biān qiú - "play the edge ball," opportunistic mentality of skirting the rules). They always think that as long as they are not caught in the act, as long as the occasion is hidden and the methods are innovative, they can "land safely."

Regardless of which one, the essence is a lack of understanding of the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation (八项规定) spirit of the Central Committee, and turning a deaf ear to the strong signal that "discipline will become stricter as time goes on."

The opening for style problems often quietly breaches the dam from a single fluke, a single blind obedience, and a single speculation. From exchanging toasts to asking for favors, from accepting banquets to accepting gifts and money, the chain from style to corruption is clearly visible. Seemingly ordinary eating, drinking, and greetings can easily become a "source of pollution" that corrodes the original intentions of cadres and corrupts the Party's style and political atmosphere.

The sword of rectifying conduct and enforcing discipline has never been sheathed, and the determination to fight corruption has never wavered. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (二十届中央纪委五次全会) made further arrangements for this, emphasizing the need to "continue to resolutely curb hedonism and extravagance, and deepen the rectification of prominent and frequently occurring problems such as eating and drinking in violation of regulations, and giving and receiving gifts and money in violation of regulations." This releases a clear and strong signal: the construction of conduct and the fight against corruption are by no means 一阵风 (yī zhèn fēng - "a gust of wind," a temporary phenomenon), but a long-term battle with no end and always on the road. Any act of harboring侥幸心理 (jiǎo xìng xīn lǐ - "lucky mentality," a gambling mentality of taking chances) and attempting to "avoid the limelight" or "exploit loopholes" will inevitably be severely investigated and punished, and pay the due price.

At the same time, governance methods are also advancing with the times. From close surveillance and secret visits focusing on annual festivals and holidays, to using big data to carry out supervision of "three public" expenditures; from "reporting via QR code" to help the masses supervise unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around them, to promoting the joint investigation and treatment of style and corruption... The supervision network is becoming increasingly dense, the penetration is becoming stronger and stronger, and the hidden and mutated "four winds" problems are becoming increasingly difficult to hide.

When the atmosphere is clear, the spirit is upright; when the spirit is upright, the hearts are united; when the hearts are united, things are accomplished. Style problems are stubborn and recurrent. Only by implementing normalized supervision in a practical manner, focusing not only on high-incidence nodes of style problems such as holidays, but also not relaxing daily supervision, not only cracking down hard on obvious problems, but also accurately treating hidden and mutated phenomena, and uniting the forces of mass supervision, public opinion supervision, and technological supervision, can we continuously eliminate the soil that breeds corruption.

When "having awe in one's heart, being cautious in one's words, and stopping in one's actions" is internalized as the daily habits and political consciousness of Party members and cadres, those fantasies of "avoiding the limelight" will naturally lose their market, and a clean and upright atmosphere will surely become more abundant.

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Photo Story

In 2025, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 50.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 3.7%; the contribution rate of consumption to economic growth reached 52%. With the vigorous advancement of special actions to boost consumption and the in-depth implementation of trade-in policies for consumer goods, the potential for consumption has been continuously released, the trend of consumption upgrading is obvious, and the transformation and upgrading of industries has accelerated. China's super-large market advantages are constantly highlighted, injecting strong impetus into high-quality economic development.

This is precisely:

Consumer policies release dividends,
Helping to promote industrial upgrading.
Supply and demand advance side by side,
A better life is more pleasant.

Zhi Yanwen (郅延文)

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Three-Year Action Plan for Revitalizing Drama Released

The Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and other four departments recently jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Revitalizing Drama (2026-2028)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").

The Plan adheres to Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its fundamental guideline, deeply studies and practices Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, and clarifies the overall requirements for the three-year drama revitalization: continuously enhancing the vitality of drama innovation and creation, significantly improving the quality of plays, and introducing a number of excellent drama works; continuously expanding the drama talent pool, with young leading talents emerging one after another; forming a relatively complete drama creation service, guidance, and organization work mechanism, significantly improving the industry ecology, and continuously enhancing the people's satisfaction and sense of gain.

The Plan puts forward specific measures in seven major aspects, including supporting the development of drama troupes, improving the quality of play creation, enhancing the effectiveness of work evaluation and funding support, consolidating the foundation for drama talent team building, promoting the quality and quantity of drama performances, strengthening drama protection and inheritance, and strengthening drama popularization, promotion, and exchange.

Relevant officials from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) stated that in recent years, the publicity and cultural departments have deeply studied and practiced Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, adhered to the combination of producing results and producing talents, and connected grasping works with grasping the environment, striving to improve the guidance mechanism for creation and production, and a number of young drama creation and performance talents and excellent drama works have emerged. Various drama activities have been vigorously carried out, the vast number of literary and art troupes and drama workers have burst forth with innovation and creation vitality, the overall development ecology of the drama industry has gradually improved, and the spiritual and cultural needs of the people have been better met.

The drama industry also faces some urgent problems to be solved. For example, there are not enough high-quality masterpieces; the talent cultivation, selection, and incentive mechanisms need to be improved; and the exemplary guiding role of drama awards and performances needs to be optimized. In order to further improve the drama industry ecology, guide local publicity and cultural authorities and literary and art troupes to effectively promote the creation of high-quality drama, cultivate and create leading figures who can shoulder important responsibilities, and continuously do a good job in the protection and inheritance of opera genres, and focus on promoting the high-quality development of the drama industry, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联) jointly issued the Plan, making specific arrangements for the drama revitalization work.

Relevant officials from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) pointed out that the key tasks proposed in the Plan closely focus on producing works and producing talents. In the process of implementation, it is necessary to base on play creation, focus on high-quality creation, and introduce more excellent works. It is necessary to follow the laws of art, pay attention to protection and inheritance, adhere to adapting measures to local conditions, and ensure that the key tasks of the Plan are implemented effectively.

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Answering Questions from Reporters on the "Three-Year Action Plan for Revitalizing Drama (2026-2028)"

By: 新华社记者 白 瀛

In recent days, the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and other five departments jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Drama (2026-2028)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). Recently, responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) answered reporters' questions on the background, main ideas, key tasks, and work requirements of the Plan.

Q: Please introduce the background of the Plan's introduction.

A: The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the development of literature and art. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has delivered important speeches and made important instructions and approvals on literary and artistic work on many occasions, requiring "respecting and following the laws of literature and art, and forming a vivid situation of continuous production of excellent works and talents through deepening reforms, improving policies, and improving systems." In recent years, the General Secretary has also successively replied to teachers and students of the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (中国戏曲学院), artists of the China National Theatre (中国国家话剧院) and the China Oriental Performing Arts Group (中国东方演艺集团), and young art workers of the China National Peking Opera Company (国家京剧院), requiring them to "carry forward excellent traditions, adhere to integrity and innovation," and "create more outstanding works worthy of the times and the people."

Drama is a comprehensive stage art that integrates various art forms. Developing the drama industry is an important part of inheriting and promoting outstanding Chinese traditional culture, and it is also an important part of building a strong socialist cultural country. The "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Prospering and Developing Socialist Literature and Art" (《中共中央关于繁荣发展社会主义文艺的意见》) and the "Opinions on Implementing the Project for the Inheritance and Development of Outstanding Chinese Traditional Culture" (《关于实施中华优秀传统文化传承发展工程的意见》) have both put forward requirements for revitalizing drama. In recent years, the propaganda and cultural departments have deeply studied and practiced Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Culture, adhered to the combination of producing results and producing talents, and the integration of grasping works and grasping the environment, and strived to improve the guiding mechanism for creation and production. A number of young drama creation and performance talents and excellent drama works have emerged, various drama activities have been vigorously carried out, the vast number of literary and art troupes and drama workers have burst out with innovative and creative vitality, the overall development ecology of the drama industry has gradually improved, and the spiritual and cultural needs of the people have been better met.

The drama industry is also facing some urgent problems to be solved. For example, there are not enough high-quality masterpieces; the talent training, selection, and incentive mechanisms need to be improved; and the guiding role of drama awards, performances, and demonstrations needs to be optimized. In order to further improve the ecology of the drama industry, guide local propaganda and cultural authorities and literary and art troupes to effectively promote the creation of high-quality drama, cultivate leading figures who can shoulder the burden, and continue to do a good job in the protection and inheritance of opera genres, and focus on promoting the high-quality development of the drama industry, the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联) jointly issued the Plan, making specific arrangements for the revitalization of drama.

Q: What are the main ideas of the Plan?

A: The Plan takes Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the fundamental guideline, deeply studies and practices Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Culture, continuously improves the service, guidance, and organization mechanisms for literary and artistic creation and production, creates a good cultural ecology, and enhances cultural original capabilities. First, adhere to respecting the laws. Focusing on improving the quality of drama creation, cultivating outstanding young talents, and expanding the influence of performance activities, effective measures are proposed that conform to the laws of artistic creation, talent cultivation, and management. Second, adhere to problem orientation. Focusing on the outstanding problems faced by the drama industry, targeted and highly operable measures are proposed. Third, adhere to encouragement and support. Increase policy support and inheritance protection, encourage innovation and creation, support social forces to participate, and promote the revitalization of drama.

Q: What key tasks and work goals does the Plan propose?

A: The Plan has a total of 24 measures in 7 aspects. First, support the development of drama troupes. Give policy support to troupes, continue to deepen reforms with classified policies, support the development of grassroots troupes, and cultivate outstanding troupe management talents. Second, improve the quality of drama creation. Stimulate creative vitality, encourage troupes to establish creation rooms, establish and improve the script argumentation mechanism, establish a full-process creation guidance mechanism, and build a script collection and promotion platform. Third, improve the effectiveness of work evaluation and funding assistance. Give full play to the guiding role of awards, strengthen the construction of drama theory and criticism, and improve the effectiveness of the use of funds for drama creation and performance. Fourth, consolidate the foundation for the construction of the drama talent team. Implement the growth plan for outstanding young drama talents, increase support for local creative talents, continue to carry out the "Famous Artists Passing on Skills" work, and strengthen and improve drama education. Fifth, promote the improvement of the quality and quantity of drama performances. Continue to polish the brands of exhibitions and festivals, and promote high-quality drama resources to reach the grassroots level directly. Sixth, strengthen the protection and inheritance of drama. Establish a classic repertoire library, rescue, protect, and revitalize precious historical materials, and implement a protection plan for opera genres. Seventh, strengthen the popularization, promotion, and exchange of drama. Expand the ways of drama communication, cultivate young drama audiences, and strengthen international drama exchange and promotion. By solidly promoting the above key tasks, the innovation and creation vitality of drama will be continuously enhanced, the quality of dramas will be significantly improved, and a number of excellent drama works will be launched; the drama talent team will continue to grow, and young leading talents will continue to emerge; a relatively complete drama creation service, guidance, and organization work mechanism will be formed, the industry ecology will be significantly improved, and the people's satisfaction and sense of gain will be continuously enhanced.

Q: What work requirements should be grasped in the process of implementing the Plan?

A: The key tasks proposed in the Plan are closely focused on producing works and producing talents. In the implementation process, the following work requirements should be grasped. First, base on drama creation. Focus on the creation of high-quality products and launch more excellent works. Encourage creators to give full play to their subjective initiative, mobilize life accumulation, and stimulate their creative vitality. In particular, it is necessary to highlight "script first" and strengthen the argumentation and polishing of the script. Second, follow the laws of art. The propaganda and cultural authorities should focus on ideological guidance, policy guarantees, and the creation of a creative environment; creators should adhere to the principle that time serves quality and treat creation with excellence; troupes should strengthen creative argumentation and guidance, and pay attention to the matching degree between the subject matter of the drama, the characteristics of the genre, and the art form to ensure the excellent quality of the newly created drama. Third, pay attention to protection and inheritance. It is necessary to protect and inherit local opera genres with strong measures, and earnestly do a good job in rescuing, protecting, and revitalizing precious historical materials. Increase the cultivation and selection of local drama creation and performance talents. Fourth, adhere to adapting to local conditions. Drama has relatively independent and unique industry attributes. The styles, characteristics, work foundation, and development models of each region and genre are different. It is necessary to do what is possible, find the entry point, and explore different methods and paths according to local conditions to ensure that all tasks match their own reality.

Q: How to ensure that the key tasks of the Plan are implemented effectively?

A: The revitalization of drama involves a wide range of areas and a long cycle, requiring all parties to work together in the same direction and persevere. First, strengthen deployment and promotion. Strengthen policy interpretation and work deployment, guide all localities to accurately grasp the important significance, key tasks, and relevant requirements of the drama revitalization work, formulate specific measures in accordance with the division of responsibilities, and strengthen policy implementation. Second, increase resource guarantees. Propaganda, culture and tourism, education, finance, literary and art federations, and other departments at all levels should actively support the revitalization of drama, create a good environment, provide convenient conditions, incorporate the revitalization of drama into the overall plan for economic and social development, and actively support it through existing funding channels. Third, gather the strength of all parties. In the process of work, pay attention to overall coordination, and strengthen linkage and cooperation between party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, private troupes, media organizations, and people from all walks of life to form a joint working force. Fourth, strengthen publicity and promotion. Combining the implementation process and effect, select and promote a number of excellent cases of drama revitalization work, guide the media to carry out publicity and reports, and give play to the role of demonstration and leadership. Fifth, grasp the implementation of the work. The propaganda departments of all localities should, in conjunction with the culture and tourism, literary and art federations, and other departments and units, summarize experiences, identify problems, and guide work in a timely manner to ensure that all measures are implemented effectively.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 9)

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China Association for International Friendly Contact Holds Member Representative Assembly and 4th First Council Meeting in Beijing

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 9th. The China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC) Members' Representative Assembly and the First Meeting of the Fourth Council were held in Beijing (北京) on February 9th. Xiao Jie (肖捷), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the CAIFC, attended the meeting.

The meeting reviewed and summarized the achievements and experiences of the Third Council of the CAIFC, and planned the work of the Fourth Council of the CAIFC. The meeting voted and approved matters such as the leadership of the Fourth Council of the CAIFC, council member units, newly added group members, and newly established professional committees.

The CAIFC was established in October 2005 and is a Chinese social organization consortium specializing in international exchange and cooperation.

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Central government to support the construction of traditional village characteristic protection areas.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on February 9th (Reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)) The General Office of the Ministry of Finance (财政部) and the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房和城乡建设部) recently jointly issued a notice on carrying out the construction of characteristic protection areas for traditional villages, clarifying the construction themes supported by the central government finance, subsidy standards, and other matters.

According to the notice, from 2026 to 2028, the central government finance will arrange subsidy funds in three batches to support some counties (cities, districts, banners, hereinafter collectively referred to as counties) with good basic conditions, high enthusiasm, and prominent characteristics to carry out the construction of characteristic protection areas for traditional villages with corresponding themes, create a series of excellent national-level cultural brands, promote the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional culture, and allow the Chinese civilization rooted in agricultural civilization to continue to flourish.

According to the notice, the central government finance will provide fixed subsidies to the selected counties, with a subsidy standard of 50 million yuan for each county, and the funds will be allocated in two years. The central government financial funds can be used to support the protection and repair of public traditional buildings, the inheritance of traditional architectural construction techniques, and the cultivation of traditional building craftsmen; to explore and inherit local characteristic cultures, local customs, ancestral family precepts, folk arts, and other historical and cultural resources, and compile village histories and village chronicles; to carry out digital protection; to implement landscape improvement and optimize the public environment of traditional villages; to improve infrastructure and public service facilities closely related to the construction of characteristic protection areas for traditional villages; and to develop characteristic industries in accordance with local conditions.

The two departments emphasized that the central government financial funds must not be used for image projects such as "**栽盆景、搭风景**" (zāi pén jǐng, dā fēng jǐng - "planting potted landscapes and building scenery," superficial projects that lack substance), adhere to the principle of not engaging in large-scale demolition and construction, pay attention to the local flavor, and retain the rural style. Relevant counties should coordinate the use of central and local related funds to avoid being comprehensive in all aspects and "**撒胡椒面**" (sǎ hú jiāo miàn - "sprinkling pepper powder," spreading resources thinly without focus).

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"Beijing Charm Villages" Co-creation Program Launched

Beijing, February 9th (Reporter Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)) The launch event for the "Charming Beijing Villages" Co-creation Program was recently held in Zhangjiawan Design Town (张家湾设计小镇), Beijing Municipal Administrative Center. The conference was guided by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources (北京市规划和自然资源委员会), the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (市农业农村局), and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (市文化和旅游局), and hosted by the "Charming Beijing Villages" Co-creation Alliance.

The "Charming Beijing Villages" Co-creation Program is based on the capital's talent, resource, and technological advantages. By guiding the deep participation and joint practice of diverse entities, it promotes the shaping of "Charming Beijing" through "co-creation" practices, explores implementation paths for rural revitalization with capital characteristics, and promotes the creation of a batch of "Charming Beijing Villages" practice models that highlight the charm of the ancient capital, are rich in contemporary characteristics, and showcase ecological beauty. The co-creation program establishes a work promotion mechanism with the "Charming Beijing Villages" Co-creation Alliance as an important carrier, widely absorbing all parties' strengths and linking all parties' resources.

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Sun, the Workshop Foreman's "Iron Feet" (New Year Visits to the Grassroots)

By: 本报记者 杨 迅

The rain in Xupu (溆浦), Hunan (湖南), started in the early hours of the morning and lasted all night.

"It is **事不宜迟** (shì bù yí chí - "the matter brooks no delay," it's urgent and should be done immediately), go to the No. 4 tunnel entrance of Xuefeng Mountain (雪峰山) to check immediately!" At 8 a.m., Sun Tong (孙桐) frowned and decided to inspect in the rain.

Sun Tong (孙桐) is the foreman of the Xupu South (溆浦南) Road and Bridge Inspection Work Area of the Changsha (长沙) High-speed Railway Works Section of the China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路广州局集团有限公司). "It has been raining in the mountains for several hours. I won't feel at ease unless I go to the site to take a look."

At about 8 o'clock, the reporter and Sun Tong's (孙桐) party put on their raincoats and drove towards the deep mountains.

The mountain road was muddy. Although the car was equipped with anti-skid chains, it could not move at full speed. The usual 15-minute drive took half an hour.

Arriving at the bridge connecting Xuefeng Mountain (雪峰山) Tunnel No. 3 and Tunnel No. 4, mist rose in the valley, and the visibility was only about 10 meters.

The flood control point at the top of the entrance of Xuefeng Mountain (雪峰山) Tunnel No. 4 is one of the key flood control areas of Hunan (湖南) high-speed railway. According to the division of labor, Deputy Foreman Long Bo (龙波) and bridge and tunnel worker Tang Yuelin (唐岳林) went up the mountain to check.

It started to rain again. The steps up the mountain were extremely narrow, but the slope was as high as 60 degrees. In addition, there was a lot of moss, and it was difficult for the reporter to take each step, but Long Bo (龙波) and Tang Yuelin (唐岳林) were used to it and moved freely, and stopped from time to time to check the slope protection net.

At 80 meters above the tunnel entrance, a ditch meandered by. A dead tree fell on the protection net of the ditch, and many dead branches lay across the center of the ditch. "Lift hard!" Everyone worked together to lift the dead tree to a safe place, then picked up iron shovels and cleaned the dead branches in the ditch. "This ditch is more than 1 meter deep. If it is blocked for a long time, it is easy to cause mountain collapse, which may affect the safety of high-speed rail operation," Long Bo (龙波) introduced.

Sun Tong (孙桐) learned that the danger on the mountain had been eliminated, so he took Wu Leqi (邬乐琦) and Hu Ao (胡澳) from another group to continue patrolling by the stream in the canyon between the two tunnels. "Now the stream at the bottom of the valley is shallow, and you can wade through it in rain boots. But during the flood season, the water here is two or three meters deep. Once it comes into contact with the warning line at the bottom of the tunnel connecting bridge, we have to keep a close eye on whether the flood discharge channel in the canyon is clear," Sun Tong (孙桐) said. "If the channel is blocked, it must be dredged quickly to ensure that the bridge beams and supports are not scoured by the water."

During this year's Spring Festival travel season, the China Railway Guangzhou Bureau (国铁广州局) expects to operate more than 100 pairs of high-speed trains on the Shanghai-Kunming (沪昆) high-speed railway within its jurisdiction every day, and expects to transport more than 100,000 passengers per day. "Once the level 3 emergency response for flood control is activated, or it continues to rain like today, we have to rush back to the work area to patrol the mountain no matter where we are," Sun Tong (孙桐) said. "During the Spring Festival travel season, so many people take the high-speed train, and our duty is to protect the safety of the high-speed train and passengers."

The average age of the employees in the Xupu South (溆浦南) Road and Bridge Inspection Work Area is less than 29 years old. In the 44-kilometer line under the jurisdiction of the work area, there are 7 bridges and 7 tunnels. They are rooted in the depths of the mountains all year round. Their daily work is to climb mountains and ridges, walk on the edge of cliffs; go deep into the bottom of the valley, wade through rivers to dredge them, and carefully do the maintenance of these bridges and tunnels and the inspection of the mountains and valleys along the line to protect the safety of the high-speed rail.

At noon, the group dragged their tired bodies back to the work area. The reporter remembered what Sun Tong (孙桐) said: "High-speed rail bridge and tunnel workers must have a pair of 'iron feet' to **跋山涉水** (bá shān shè shuǐ - "climb mountains and wade through water," to travel over mountains and rivers; to go through all kinds of hardships) to ensure safety."

(Zeng Yong (曾勇) participated in the writing)

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Working late into the night, oil extraction in full swing.

CNOOC Jinzhou 23-2 Oilfield (中国海油锦州23—2油田) is located in the northern Liaodong Bay (辽东湾) of the Bohai Sea (渤海) in China, and it is China's first offshore multi-layered heavy oil thermal recovery oilfield.

In recent days, the Liaodong Bay (辽东湾) of the Bohai Sea (渤海) has been swept by bitter cold winds and piled up with sea ice. The minimum temperature in the waters near the Jinzhou 23-2 Oilfield (锦州23—2油田) can reach minus 25 degrees Celsius. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the oilfield staff stuck to the front line of production to ensure the efficient and stable development of the oilfield.

The picture shows the Jinzhou 23-2 Oilfield (锦州23—2油田) platform brightly lit under the night.

Photo by Zhang Wujun (张武军), reporter of this newspaper.

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Ministry of Emergency Management Deploys Work on Preventing and Responding to Accidents and Disasters Before and After the Spring Festival

This newspaper reported from Beijing on February 9th (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)): On February 9th, the Ministry of Emergency Management redeployed and re-implemented measures for accident and disaster prevention and response during the Spring Festival.

The meeting emphasized that major incidents and significant accidents have occurred frequently recently. It is imperative to implement practical and effective hard measures to strictly prevent and control safety risks in key areas. It is necessary to improve political standing, enhance sensitivity, deeply learn from recent accident lessons, 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "infer the rest from one fact," draw inferences about other cases from one instance), and grasp the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers. We must earnestly ensure that prevention work is sufficient, solid, and in place, and resolutely prevent and curb major and extraordinarily serious accidents. It is necessary to enhance the ability to discover problems and eliminate risks in a timely manner, comprehensively use human, physical, and technical prevention measures to discover and deal with illegal and irregular behaviors in safe production early, and earnestly eliminate accident hazards in the bud. Focusing on the safety of the Spring Festival and Spring Festival travel season, promote relevant departments to strengthen safety supervision of road traffic, railway aviation, passenger terminals, and other transportation, do a good job in fire and stampede risk management in popular scenic spots, folk venues, large-scale activities, and other densely populated places, and continue to grasp the whole-chain safety management of fireworks and firecrackers production, operation, transportation, storage, and setting off. It is necessary to urge high-risk enterprises such as mines, dangerous chemicals, and industrial and trade enterprises that do not stop work during the Spring Festival holiday to have technical and management personnel on duty and fulfill their responsibilities, and strictly approve hot work and inspection and maintenance. Promote relevant departments to continue to strengthen the investigation and rectification of risk hazards in the fields of gas, fishing vessels, and special equipment.

The meeting required that we do a good job in winter and spring assistance and help disaster-stricken people spend the winter warmly with heart and affection, urge local authorities to distribute the central winter and spring assistance funds as soon as possible, re-investigate the housing, heating, and other conditions of disaster-stricken people, and quickly verify and resolve problems found in a timely manner. It is necessary to work with relevant departments to continuously conduct consultation and judgment on disaster risks during the Spring Festival, guide and urge high-risk areas to strengthen emergency preparedness, pre-position rescue forces and materials, and ensure timely and efficient response and disposal in the event of emergencies.

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How Should Outstanding Engineers Be Trained? (Policy Q&A: Addressing Concerns)

By: 本报记者 吴 丹 吴 月

Reader Concerns

I am a university student and aspire to become an engineer in the future. I've heard that the country is promoting the reform of cultivating outstanding engineers and has established a number of outstanding engineer colleges. What other new measures are being taken for the reform of cultivating outstanding engineers? How can I better match what I learn with the needs of engineering practice?

Outstanding engineers are high-level talents who support and serve the construction of a modern industrial system and are an important part of the national strategic talent force. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal states: "Cultivate and create more strategic scientists, leading science and technology talents, outstanding engineers, master craftsmen of the nation, and highly skilled talents of various types."

"China is a major country of engineers and has built the world's largest engineering education system. The key to realizing the transformation from a major country of engineers to a strong country lies in cultivating and strengthening the force of top-notch talents, and a super-conventional training mechanism must be established," said Wu Gang (吴刚), Director of the Department of Degree Management and Postgraduate Education of the Ministry of Education (教育部).

What is meant by "super-conventional"? Wu Gang believes that three principles should be followed: adhering to the institutional advantages and organizational advantages of "concentrating efforts to accomplish big things" as an important basis for reform, adhering to serving national strategies as a clear orientation for reform, and adhering to the deep integration of industry and education and breaking the gap in talent cultivation as a key breakthrough for reform.

Since 2022, the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), and other 9 departments have launched a special pilot project for the reform of cultivating engineering master's and doctoral students. At present, nearly 26,000 engineering master's and doctoral students have been jointly recruited and cultivated by universities and enterprises, and more than 2,000 of them have graduated and started working, realizing for the first time the organized, systematic, and large-scale joint cultivation of engineering master's and doctoral students by universities and enterprises.

Specifically, it is necessary to build a new talent cultivation platform with deep integration of industry, academia, and research. At present, 50 National Institutes of Excellent Engineers (国家卓越工程师学院) have been built, 4 National Institutes of Excellent Engineers Innovation (国家卓越工程师创新研究院) have been built in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), and 50 universities, enterprises, and national laboratories have been supported to jointly establish the China Excellent Engineers Cultivation Consortium (中国卓越工程师培养联合体).

Introduce enterprise innovation resources, jointly enroll students by universities and enterprises, cultivate them through alternating work and study, and make students' entry into enterprises for practice a necessary part. Among them, engineering master's students should practice in enterprises for no less than 1 year, and engineering doctoral students should practice for no less than 2 years, so that students can study real problems in real environments and forge real skills.

Focusing on the ability requirements of outstanding engineers, promote universities and enterprises to strengthen the key elements of talent cultivation. In terms of topic research, enterprises refine topics from the front line of the industry as the main source of research and engineering practice topics for engineering master's and doctoral students; in terms of curriculum system, universities and enterprises create more than 200 courses in key fields and launch them on the National Smart Education Platform (国家智慧教育平台); in terms of faculty, enterprises select and recommend more than 13,000 enterprise mentors and front-line chief engineers, and universities promote more than 300 internal mentors to take temporary positions in enterprises; in terms of practice platforms, universities and enterprises jointly build more than 300 engineer technology centers to provide students with more opportunities to contact actual engineering scenarios.

In terms of evaluation mechanism reform, solving practical engineering problems is taken as the main standard for degree evaluation. Supporting engineering master's and doctoral students to apply for degrees with practical achievements such as product design and major equipment, and more than 60 engineering master's and doctoral students have obtained degrees with practical achievements.

In terms of employment services and career development guidance, universities and enterprises work together to strengthen the rapid and accurate supply of talents. Enterprises adopt methods such as early signing, exemption from probation period, and conversion of seniority to support students to stay in enterprises for employment and development. The proportion of the first 2,000 engineering master's students who stayed in key enterprises in this field for employment reached 81%. Zhejiang (浙江), Guangdong (广东), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Jiangsu (江苏) and other places have also taken the lead in realizing seamless connection between talent cultivation and engineer title evaluation, and more than 1,100 engineering master's graduates have directly obtained engineer title certificates.

"In the next step, we will promote the reform of cultivating outstanding engineers to shift and upgrade to establishing standards, dynamic optimization, quality improvement and capacity expansion." The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education (教育部) said that in the future, the reform of cultivating outstanding engineers will be advanced in depth, pilot certification of outstanding engineer colleges will be carried out, the mechanism of deepening industry-university-research cooperation will be promoted, and provinces will be supported to build more outstanding engineer colleges focusing on the needs of regional industrial development. In addition, the reform of cultivating outstanding engineers will be used as a traction to drive the overall transformation of higher engineering education, pilot the design and connection mechanism of undergraduate and postgraduate integration, and establish an international cooperation mechanism for cultivating outstanding engineers.

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This edition's editors: Guan Xuanyue, Lu Tao, Gao Shang

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The Sweet Taste of Happiness in Ordinary Days (New Year Visits to the Grassroots)

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We jointly create and share a better life," "Firewood, rice, oil, salt, three meals a day, and four seasons, each 'small family' is full of vitality, and China, this 'big family,' will flourish."

Looking back on the past year, the rights and interests of new employment groups have been further guaranteed, age-appropriate renovations have brought convenience to the elderly, and families with children have received an additional 300 yuan in subsidies per month... One practical matter after another for the people's livelihood has made the people's beautiful life more fulfilling. As the Spring Festival approaches, our reporters have gone to Jiangxi (江西), Chongqing (重庆), Tibet (西藏), Gansu (甘肃), Xinjiang (新疆), and other places to get close to the daily lives of people in various regions and feel the happiness in ordinary days.

-- Editor

A Mom's Childcare Ledger
By Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), our reporter

The cold wave has just passed, and the end of the year is approaching. At 4 p.m., Jin Hong (金洪), a resident of Qinting Town (琴亭镇), Lianhua County (莲花县), Pingxiang City (萍乡市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), rushed to the childcare center in the county's Maternal and Child Health Hospital as usual.

Pushing open the heavy door, accompanied by the babbling of babies, a warm atmosphere instantly filled her face. A dozen babies in the "Miaomiao Class" are playing with building blocks under the care of teachers, and red window grilles reflect their tender faces.

"Jiali's mom is here!" Teacher He (贺老师) in the class greeted her, holding a little girl with braids.

Here, each class not only has experienced early childhood teachers, but is also equipped with a pediatrician nurse. Detailed checks every morning and health observations in the afternoon are never interrupted.

"If a child coughs or has a poor appetite, they can get timely care here. A few days ago, during the afternoon check, the nurse found that a child's forehead was a little hot and immediately contacted the parents. We directly helped them register and went to see the doctor in the outpatient building across the corridor, without any delay," said Peng Fenfen (彭芬芬), head of the childcare center.

Jin Hong's reasons for choosing this place are very practical: first, it is convenient, and second, it is affordable.

"It's close to home, just a few minutes' walk. The monthly childcare fee is 1350 yuan, the government subsidizes half, and I can also use the 200 yuan childcare consumption voucher issued by Jiangxi Province (江西省), so I only need to pay 475 yuan myself." She calculated as she spoke, "The childcare fee for my first child, plus milk powder and diaper money, is just over 1000 yuan a month; my youngest child is 10 months old, and sending the older one to childcare allows me to free up my hands to take care of the younger one. When the younger one turns 1 year old, I will send him here too, so I can take care of the family business!" Her careful calculations are full of expectations for the future.

Yang Hai (杨海), a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Lianhua County (莲花县) Health Commission, introduced that the county has built 1060 childcare places, but it will take time to fill them. "Some families are used to having the elderly help take care of the children, and some are still waiting and seeing. What we can do is to do a solid job in providing services and explain the policies clearly so that everyone can get real benefits."

"When I was pregnant with my second child, the fetal position was incorrect, so I had to have a C-section, but we spent less money than when my first child was born naturally!" Jin Hong (金洪) said.

Since 2024, Jiangxi Province (江西省) has optimized its fertility policy: there are more free screening programs, and the reimbursement ratio for maternity hospitalization expenses has also increased. In October last year, the Lianhua County (莲花县) Maternal and Child Health Hospital added four free services, including mid-pregnancy Down syndrome screening, to the original eight free birth defect prevention programs.

"That's right! I just received the childcare subsidy issued by the relevant departments last month." Jin Hong (金洪) said that by the end of 2025, both children received a childcare subsidy of 300 yuan per month, "This 7200 yuan will be used to buy some new clothes and shoes for the children, and the rest will be used to subsidize the family."

By the end of 2025, Lianhua County (莲花县) had cumulatively distributed more than 19 million yuan in childcare subsidies; the network of inclusive childcare services basically covers all major communities in the county.

A Comfortable New Year in a New Home
By Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧), our reporter

In a new residential area in Razê County (拉孜县), Shigatse City (日喀则市), Tibet (西藏), resident Qusang (曲桑) is busy preparing for the New Year. Inside the house, the table is full of various Tibetan pastries and snacks, filled with the atmosphere of the New Year.

"The Lunar New Year and the Tibetan New Year are approaching, and we have thoroughly cleaned the inside and outside of our new home, so we can have a comfortable New Year," she said.

2025 was a year full of turning points for Qusang (曲桑).

At the beginning of the year, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Dingri County (定日县), and her village, Qiugu Village (秋古村), was completely destroyed. Her family lived in disaster relief prefabricated houses for a time, and life seemed to have lost its direction.

Fortunately, the overall relocation plan for Qiugu Village (秋古村) was accelerated after the earthquake, and her family could directly move into the new resettlement site located in Razê County (拉孜县).

Compared with her former home, the changes are earth-shattering. The former Qiugu Village (秋古村) was located in the Gacuola Mountain (嘉措拉山). Not only were the houses old, but the distance to the county seat was also very far, and the development of the village was limited for a long time. Now, this Tibetan-style courtyard located on Yangpu Road (杨浦路) in Razê County (拉孜县) uses real stone paint on the facade. It not only uses solar heating instead of burning cow dung for heating, but also implements smart community construction, covering parking, security, and other projects. The seismic resistance of the houses reaches level 8.

In the morning, her husband, Pingcuo Ciren (平措次仁), walks to work in the county. With the help of relevant departments, he found a job as a security guard in a bank in the county.

In the past, Pingcuo Ciren (平措次仁), who made a living by herding, needed to take care of livestock in the pasture all day long. "The summer pasture is far from home, and I often can't go home for several months." At that time, he and his wife and children could not reunite for a long time, but they had to persevere for the sake of the family's livelihood.

Now, the cattle and sheep belong to the cooperative, and it is more convenient to work in the new home. "Life with my wife and children every day is great," he said.

Because there are still some supporting facility construction projects nearby, Qusang (曲桑) also goes out to work from time to time. The supporting facilities around the new residence give priority to solving the employment of relocated people, and Qusang (曲桑) has work to do at her doorstep. Now, with work and the collective economy, Qusang's (曲桑) family's annual income has reached 80,000 to 90,000 yuan.

"Currently, 18 households and 82 villagers in the new Qiugu Village (秋古村) residence have moved into their new homes. We not only want them to live in peace in their new homes, but also hope that they can live and work in peace in their new homes," said E Haixin (鄂海昕), deputy director of the Razê County (拉孜县) Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.

Qusang's (曲桑) family of five lives in a brand-new resettlement house, and their life is happy and harmonious. Qusang (曲桑) is full of expectations for the future: "A better life is becoming a reality step by step through hard work."

Old House Renovation is More Suitable for the Elderly
By Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰), our reporter

The afternoon sun shines into the living room, and Shang Wen (尚文), 63, is carefully wiping the new coffee table with a rag.

His son called on video: "Dad, how is the new furniture?" Shang Wen (尚文) smiled and turned the camera to the coffee table: "Don't worry, it's very good to use! Look at this height, I don't have to bend over to get things while sitting."

"My wife and I have lived in this house for 26 years," Shang Wen (尚文) said, "As we get older and our legs and feet are not as flexible, my son often worries that we will accidentally fall. My son likes to study smart homes and things like that, saying that they are especially suitable for the elderly, and he also wants to install them for us. But we have been frugal all our lives and don't want to spend this money."

The staff of Nanshaomen Community (南稍门社区), Jiuquan Road Street (酒泉路街道), Chengguan District (城关区), Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu (甘肃) dispelled the doubts of Shang Wen (尚文) and his wife. They came to their home to explain the Gansu Province (甘肃省) consumer goods trade-in home age-appropriate renovation subsidy project. The subsidy was large, and the old couple were moved.

The renovation lasted for more than 6 months, selecting products, installing and debugging... As the Spring Festival approaches, the old house has a new look, and the family is especially happy.

"In fact, not only has the inside of the house changed, but the houses in our old community have also had external wall insulation done, and the house can be two or three degrees warmer in winter. The heating has also been changed to one valve per household, and you can control how much you use and how warm you want it. With such a renovation inside and out, the house is much more comfortable to live in," Shang Wen (尚文) said.

On the balcony, freshly washed sheets are drying on the smart lifting clothes rack. "In the past, I had to step on a stool to dry clothes, and my son was worried. Now, with a shout, the clothes pole can be raised and lowered. It's just right to wash and dry all the clothes these days and welcome the New Year brightly."

The "shout" in Shang Wen's (尚文) mouth is behind a set of smart home voice control systems. In addition to the clothes rack, the lights in the whole house can also be controlled by voice.

Shang Wen (尚文) calculated an account: the total cost of the renovation of the entire house was 35,930 yuan, and according to the subsidy standard of no more than 30% of the actual sales price, the subsidy amount reached 10,779 yuan. "Just one smart toilet saved more than 600 yuan," Shang Wen (尚文) said.

From the living room to the bathroom, every subtle change makes the daily life of the old couple more comfortable. The past tiles were slippery when wet, and they were always careful when taking a bath, "Now, stepping on the brand-new non-slip floor tiles, I feel much more at ease," Shang Wen (尚文) said.

Speaking of these changes, Shang Wen (尚文) said with emotion: "At that time, Xiao Yang (小杨) from the street told us, 'Preventing falls is saving a lot of money.' Now it seems that this is indeed the case. Now, I'm just looking forward to my son and daughter-in-law coming back to spend a happy reunion year in our safer and warmer home!"

Village Broadcaster Brings Good Products from Volcano Township
By Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), our reporter

"Family members, look at the texture of this black pork. Our pigs are all fed with pure grains!"

In front of the camera, Chen Bangqun (陈帮群), a villager from Maigan Village (桅杆村), Xinsheng Town (新胜镇), Tongnan District (潼南区), Chongqing (重庆), held up a piece of fresh black pork and smiled sincerely.

A long bench, with sausages, bacon, and corn on it, and her own tile-roofed house in the background - without gorgeous decorations, this is her live broadcast room. Just a year ago, this rural sister knew nothing about live broadcasting. Now, she is a "village broadcaster" that Tongnan District (潼南区) is focusing on training.

The turning point occurred in May 2025. Tongnan District (潼南区) launched the "Tongnan Village Broadcasting" brand plan, on the one hand, to find out the family background of agricultural and special products in the whole district; on the other hand, to absorb planting experts, grass-roots cadres, and returning young people to form a diversified village broadcasting talent team.

Chen Bangqun (陈帮群) is one of them.

In June 2025, Chen Bangqun (陈帮群) joined the Tongnan District (潼南区) "Village Broadcasting Alliance" and began a 7-month professional training. The training started with teaching how to build an account, including shooting, editing, and live broadcasting skills. In the first month of the broadcast, the online tutor accompanied her to broadcast live every day, helping to adjust the camera angle and improve the picture. Chen Bangqun (陈帮群) remembers: "The teacher told me to move the camera down a little and write the price on the grapefruit peel - these details are especially useful."

From single-digit viewers to two or three hundred people online at the same time, Chen Bangqun (陈帮群) slowly grew up in professional training. In December 2025, Chen Bangqun (陈帮群) was selected as one of the "Top Ten Village Broadcasters in Tongnan (潼南)".

For individual anchors like Chen Bangqun (陈帮群), Tongnan District (潼南区) has tailored a support "policy package": they can apply for an entrepreneurial guaranteed interest-subsidized loan of up to 100,000 yuan for expanding breeding or upgrading live broadcast equipment; after the monthly live broadcast time and sales reach the standard, they can also receive a traffic subsidy of 1,000 yuan...

The lively scene on the screen has been realistically transformed into the income of the villagers. In Yanzhai Village (严寨村), Baolong Town (宝龙镇), the 6-person live broadcast team led by Ou Min (欧敏), the secretary of the village Party branch, completed more than 20 agricultural assistance live broadcasts last year, with a turnover of more than 50,000 yuan.

Once the sales channels for good products from the mountains and villages are opened, the sleeping land is also awakened. In Taiping Village (太平村), Taian Town (太安镇), 600 acres of idle land in the village have been replanted with rapeseed and rice. The village is planning to build a processing workshop to develop deep-processed products such as rapeseed oil and ecological rice, which can bring new employment opportunities to the villagers.

As of now, Tongnan District (潼南区) has carried out 21 training sessions at different levels and categories, covering more than 1,700 people, and has cultivated more than 100 "village broadcasters". According to statistics, the plan directly drove 363 villagers to achieve flexible employment, with an average annual increase in income of about 20,000 yuan; indirectly drove more than 3,700 people to work in planting, processing, packaging, logistics, and other industries.

Vegetable and Fruit Greenhouses Built on the Gobi Desert
By Li Yanan (李亚楠), our reporter

In Airechak Village (艾热恰克村), Koyiqi Township (阔依其乡), Moyu County (墨玉县), Hotan Prefecture (和田地区), Xinjiang (新疆), although the winter is cold, Abulim Tursonkurban (阿卜力克木·图尔荪库尔班) in the greenhouse is wearing thin clothes, and his nose is sweating.

"These seedlings are very precious, and they can make money if they are taken care of," Abulim (阿卜力克木) carefully pulled out the weeds next to the eggplant seedlings. "In the past, growing wheat didn't bring in much income. I wanted to go out to work, but there was no one to take care of the children," said Abulim (阿卜力克木), 34.

In 2025, the construction and recruitment of the 10,000-mu Gobi (Desert) Modern Facility Agriculture and Supporting Construction Project of the Moyu County (墨玉县) Modern Agriculture Industrial Park started. Abulim (阿卜力克木) and his wife signed up without hesitation when they saw that it was close to home. "At first, it was 3,000 yuan a month, and both of us could get employed, and life suddenly became easier," Abulim (阿卜力克木) said. In addition to building greenhouses, he also learned planting techniques from technicians. At the beginning of this year, the greenhouses began trial planting, and he became the leader of a small class, leading 10 workers to be responsible for 19 greenhouses, and his monthly salary also increased to 3,500 yuan.

750 high-standard solar greenhouses are neatly arranged. Yang Fan (杨帆), the person in charge of the project, introduced that these greenhouses are currently being put into use one after another, mainly planting vegetables, Chinese herbal medicines, and berry fruits.

Abulim (阿卜力克木), who manages 19 strawberry greenhouses, often "slacks off" with his mobile phone, "This small program can clearly see the temperature, humidity, and crop growth in each greenhouse. With a light tap on the screen, the greenhouse quilt automatically rises and falls, and drip irrigation accurately waters the plants. This is much easier than farming by myself."

What makes Abulim (阿卜力克木) even happier is that with the improvement of later management technology, he can also contract greenhouses himself, "I have calculated that contracting five or six greenhouses will not be a problem to earn 100,000 yuan a year."

What are your plans for making money this year? Abulim (阿卜力克木) had already planned it: "In addition to daily expenses, all the wages are saved. I want to buy a house in Moyu County (墨玉县) to provide a good environment for my children."

Like Abulim (阿卜力克木), many people have made money. The project has absorbed more than 1,000 people during the construction period, and everyone has achieved stable income increase at their doorstep.

As of the end of 2025, the desert facility agriculture planting area in Hotan Prefecture (和田地区) was 26,400 mu, with 36,100 greenhouses, with an annual output of 220,000 tons of vegetables and an output value of 1.043 billion yuan. In 2025, nearly 3,000 new and renovated greenhouses were built, and overseas warehouses were also established to help characteristic agricultural products set sail overseas.

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The warmth of "small homes" fuels a new atmosphere for the "big family" (nation).

By: 王 博

As the morning light dawns, wisps of smoke rise from farmhouses in the countryside; as night falls, countless lights illuminate the streets and alleys of the city. This is the most simple and unadorned warmth of every "small family" and the most vivid expression of the "big family."

The prosperity of the "big family" underpins the thriving of the "small family." This underpinning is the friendliness of the city, the stability of society, and the development of industry. Qu Sang (曲桑), a resident of the disaster area, moved into a new house after the earthquake; the two children of Jin Hong (金洪) and his wife are growing up healthy; the life of Shang Wen (尚文) and his wife is becoming more and more comfortable... Ordinary people have a secure life and can live in peace, which is a solid support for the "small family." The promise of ensuring that "everyone has access to childcare, education, employment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and assistance" is put into practice, and the daily necessities of ordinary life will be filled with the fragrance of happiness.

The thriving of the "small family" accumulates strength for the prosperity of the "big family." Everyone striving for their respective dreams is participating in the growth of the "big family." Abulim (阿卜力克木) is living a good life relying on the greenhouse at his doorstep; Chen Bangqun (陈帮群) not only found personal value through live streaming e-commerce but also led the whole village to increase income and become rich... From sanitation workers sweeping the streets at dawn to scientific researchers working hard late at night; from villagers dealing with seedlings and land to office workers shuttling between offices and commutes... Everyone is living earnestly and dedicating themselves silently, which is a tiny force for development. These trickles will eventually converge into a surging river that promotes social development.

The "small family" is warm and vibrant, and the "big family" has a new atmosphere. Looking at China (中国) today, from the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside to urban renewal, from technological innovation to cultural prosperity, every progress of the "big family" is creating a broader sky for the "small family," and every effort of the "small family" is adding glory to the blueprint of the "big family." This virtuous interaction promotes the entire society to be better and better, and also allows the dividends of development to trickle down to every family, nourishing countless dreams to take root and sprout.

The so-called "big family" is just the countless "small families" standing side by side. We strive hard to add more warmth and hope to every ordinary day, and then gather into a warm current of the times, stimulating more vigorous power for the progress of the times.

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Editor in Charge for This Edition: Song Yu, Liu Juanxi, Wang Bo, Zhang Zhiqi

This issue coordinated by: Zhang Yanchun (张彦春), Kang Yan (康岩)
Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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An Acceleration of Scientific and Technological Innovation: A Deep Dive into Annual Data, Starting with 0.44 Percentage Points

By: 谷业凯

In 2025, China's total social expenditure on research and experimental development reached 3.9262 trillion yuan, with the intensity of R&D expenditure reaching 2.8%, an increase of 0.11 percentage points over the previous year. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's total social R&D expenditure increased by an average of 10% annually, and the intensity of R&D expenditure increased by 0.44 percentage points.

Total social R&D expenditure is not only an important component of a country's and region's science and technology investment, but also a key indicator to measure its emphasis on innovation, and can also reflect the overall level of scientific and technological development and innovation competitiveness from the side.

From breaking through 1 trillion yuan in 2012, 2 trillion yuan in 2019, to 3 trillion yuan in 2022, and then approaching 4 trillion yuan in 2025, the steadily increasing R&D expenditure has effectively stimulated the innovation and creation vitality of the whole society and powerfully promoted high-quality development.

Looking at the macro level, through the R&D expenditure intensity index, we can observe China's "position" in the global innovation landscape.

The intensity of R&D expenditure, that is, the proportion of total social R&D expenditure to gross domestic product (GDP). The average R&D expenditure intensity of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries has long been regarded as the "baseline" of global innovation. In 2012, China's R&D expenditure intensity was 1.91%. In 2025, this indicator increased to 2.8%, exceeding the average level of OECD countries for the first time. China has entered the ranks of advanced countries in the world in terms of science and technology investment, and has transformed from a technology follower to an important contributor to global innovation.

Looking at the details, through the changes in the structure of science and technology investment, we can perceive China's "direction" in the layout of scientific and technological innovation.

Among the total social R&D expenditure, the expenditure on basic research has grown rapidly, accounting for 7.08% in 2025, a record high, reflecting China's optimization towards a higher quality and more sustainable direction, and also profoundly reflecting China's strategic consideration of consolidating the foundation and laying out the long-term in scientific and technological innovation. In 2012, China's basic research expenditure was only about 49.9 billion yuan, and it is expected to exceed 300 billion yuan in 2025, with an average annual growth of nearly 15%. With continuous and high-intensity support, a number of large scientific devices and major scientific and technological infrastructure have been deployed and constructed, high-level teams have been formed at an accelerated pace, and major original achievements have emerged continuously, consolidating the foundation for high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.

Focusing on strategic directions, concentrating resource advantages, and comprehensively shaping development advantages with high-intensity, high-density, and high-efficiency investment. This approach has an image metaphor - "pressure-type investment." China's strategic determination and institutional advantages in scientific and technological innovation are gradually emerging, and the key point is to take scientific and technological investment as the traction to better integrate and optimize the scientific and technological resources of the whole society, and drive the vigorous development of R&D activities in the whole society.

High-intensity investment brings high-output returns, and "pressure-type investment" allows scientific and technological innovation to run out of "acceleration."

From new explorations in basic research to new breakthroughs in key core technologies, from the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation to the wide-ranging implementation of people-benefiting achievements, the achievements of scientific and technological innovation can be described as "going to heaven, entering the earth, and going to the sea." Like artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, etc., are not only investment-intensive and fruitful fields, but also industrial trends. They drive the cultivation and growth of "new" momentum and inject strong impetus into the modernization of the industrial system.

At the same time, it must also be seen that China's science and technology investment still has problems such as regional and industrial imbalances, the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation needs to be strengthened, and the efficiency of achievement transformation needs to be improved. Breaking the "two skins" of science and technology and the market, efficiently transforming high investment into patents and products, and cultivating and strengthening new quality productivity are still key issues.

Facing the future, it is necessary to further improve the multi-level and multi-channel investment system, improve the efficiency of the use of R&D funds, promote the transformation of R&D expenditure intensity into innovation effectiveness, and open up the transformation channel from the laboratory to the market, so as to accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and lay a more solid foundation for promoting the construction of a strong science and technology country.

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Over 300 Robot Companies Gather in Beijing E-Town

By: 本报记者 王昊男

Gathering more than 300 related enterprises, with the robot industry chain exceeding 100 billion yuan in scale... Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (北京亦庄), why are so many robot companies clustering here?

In 2025, two competitions were particularly impressive: In April, the world's first humanoid robot half-marathon was held in Yizhuang (亦庄); in November, the inaugural China (International) Robot Debate Competition finals were unveiled in Yizhuang (亦庄).

The two events, one "martial" and one "literary." "Rather than competitions, they are more like scientific experiments and technology verifications," said Cai Jizheng (蔡继征), Director of the Robot and Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Bureau of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (北京经济技术开发区). He explained that humanoid robots integrate advanced technologies such as embodied intelligence, high-end manufacturing, and new materials. The "brain" (perception, cognition, and decision-making), "cerebellum" (motion control), and "limbs" (body hardware) are its core technology directions. "We are using a dense layout of 'monthly events' to promote technology through competitions and gather energy through competitions."

Enterprises are "voting with their feet," and policy is the primary attraction. In August 2025, Yizhuang (亦庄) released the "Ten Articles on Embodied Intelligence Robots": issuing 100 million yuan in "data vouchers" annually, reducing costs with "prototyping vouchers," providing sales subsidies for humanoid robots... Every article is hardcore, covering the entire chain of data, scenarios, research and development, and sales.

More crucial are the scenarios. In February 2025, a special recruitment announcement—the "Beijing Yizhuang (北京亦庄) Robot Nine Benchmark Scenario Opportunity List"—was released by the robot "Tiangong (天工)": officially and comprehensively opening up Yizhuang New Town (亦庄新城) scenario resources, releasing over 10,000 units and nearly 5 billion yuan in embodied intelligence robot application opportunities within two years, of which over 1,000 units are humanoid robot demands.

Scenario opening is not limited to the list. Cai Jizheng (蔡继征) introduced that, taking Yizhuang New Town (亦庄新城) as the carrier, Yizhuang (亦庄) is implementing an embodied intelligence social experiment plan, allowing robots to learn in the real world. "Currently, over 40 real scenarios such as supermarkets, pharmacies, hotels, and warehouses have been opened, forming a batch of million-level high-quality autonomous embodied intelligence datasets."

Being designated as Beijing's (北京市) only future industry innovation base for humanoid robots, constructing Beijing's (北京市) first flexible and agile manufacturing platform for robots, establishing Beijing's (北京市) first pilot verification platform for humanoid robots, laying out a 250,000-square-meter Beijing Robot Industry Park (北京市机器人产业园), supporting the landing of a 10 billion yuan robot industry fund, and creating an embodied intelligence robot 4S store... By building platforms, gathering elements, and constructing an ecosystem, Yizhuang (亦庄) has basically formed an industrial chain covering core components, complete machine manufacturing, system integration, and scenario solutions, creating a "1+6" industrial system of "core components + humanoid, industrial, special, medical, collaborative, and logistics robots."

"We will continue to strengthen future industries such as embodied intelligence," said Kong Lei (孔磊), Secretary of the Working Committee of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (北京经济技术开发区) . In the next two years, Yizhuang (亦庄) has clear goals: by the end of 2027, to create no less than 10 benchmark intelligent scenario complexes, promote the application of 100 vertical models, and gather 1,000 core enterprises in the artificial intelligence industry chain.

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50 Million Yuan: This Startup Dares to Invest in R&D

By: 本报记者 李家鼎

In the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津市东丽经开区), in the R&D laboratory of Tianjin Easy-Tech Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (天津易科奇通信技术有限公司), the company's General Manager, Liu Sibai (柳斯白), is intently watching the computer screen. As the data fluctuates, the verification instrument beside him lights up green, and Liu Sibai (柳斯白) breathes a sigh of relief.

"What is being verified is a key data point in the 'Key Technology Research of Space-Air-Ground Integrated Broadband Communication Network System' project. Multiple successful verifications prove that the research and development direction is correct," said Liu Sibai (柳斯白), adding that this project received 500,000 yuan in funding support from the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (天津市科技局).

"From the beginning of our business, we have set our sights on the commercial satellite communication and 5G solution tracks. For technology-based start-ups, it is important to build a solid technical foundation, but even more important is to have sustained, high-intensity R&D investment," said Liu Sibai (柳斯白).

A few years ago, a flexible integrated platform payload product developed by the company was successfully trial-produced. "Traditional payloads are composed of multiple chips and generally weigh more than 30 kilograms, while we use a domestic SoC (System on Chip) to integrate all functions, reducing the payload weight to less than 10 kilograms," said Liu Sibai (柳斯白). In the commercial aerospace field, every kilogram reduction in payload weight means a significant reduction in launch and maintenance costs.

However, the purchaser had doubts: "The solution is very innovative, but lacks evidence to support it. How can the reliability of the equipment be guaranteed?"

The only way to dispel doubts is to make one's own products more robust. Buy new instruments and equipment, recruit top talent in the industry, repeatedly trial-produce samples... In the end, the company used detailed data to prove the stability of the product in extreme environments and the feasibility of the original design logic.

"High investment does not necessarily mean high returns, but no investment certainly means no returns," Liu Sibai (柳斯白) said. In the past three years, the company has invested a total of 50 million yuan in R&D, and the proportion of R&D investment in total revenue has always remained above 60%.

Hard-core technology products quickly attracted market attention. "For hard-tech projects, we value their technological barriers and long-term development potential more than short-term profit returns," said Li Shuang (李爽), Chairman and General Manager of Zhongli (Tianjin) Industrial City Integration Development Fund Management Co., Ltd. (中丽（天津）产城融合发展基金管理有限公司). In 2025, Zhongli Fund (中丽基金) injected 25 million yuan in equity investment, successfully leveraging 30 million yuan of social capital to follow up with investment.

With the injection of patient capital, the company accelerated product research and development and optimization, and the road to development became wider and wider.

"The company has the confidence to continue to increase R&D investment, which is inseparable from the guidance and incentives of policies." Liu Sibai (柳斯白) calculated an account. Taking 2025 as an example, the company's R&D investment exceeded 20 million yuan. As a high-tech enterprise, it can enjoy a 100% additional deduction ratio. If all expenses are capitalized, it is expected to save about 3 million yuan in taxes.

"In recent years, we have continued to increase our support for enterprise R&D investment and R&D institution construction," said Ding Yanwen (丁彦文), Deputy Director of the Policy and Regulations Division of the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (天津市科技局政策法规处). In 2025, the project to support enterprises to strengthen R&D capabilities provided a total of 170 million yuan in financial support funds for 149 enterprise scientific research projects.

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Strawberries Sold "Individually" Here (High-Quality Development on the Front Lines: Treasures of a Small City)

By: 本报记者 马睿姗

How long does it take for strawberries from greenhouses in Jiang County (绛县), Yuncheng (运城), Shanxi (山西) to go from being picked to being displayed on the shelves of supermarkets in Dubai (迪拜), United Arab Emirates (阿联酋)? The answer is 48 hours.

In the early morning, in the selenium-rich strawberry industrial park greenhouses in Dajiao Town (大交镇), Jiang County (绛县), fruit farmers are busy selecting plump and round fruits, gently placing them one by one into the sponge supports of the cargo trays. 500 meters away, inside Shangyuan Agriculture Co., Ltd. (尚源农业有限公司) in Jiang County (绛县), workers meticulously pack the strawberries and connect via video with the Yuncheng Customs Inspection Center (运城海关查检中心) to complete unpacking sampling and quality verification in half an hour. The strawberries are transported via cold chain to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (西安咸阳国际机场) in Shaanxi (陕西) and then flown directly to Dubai (迪拜). 48 hours later, the strawberries are on supermarket shelves, with a 300-gram tray of 9 strawberries selling for 40 dirhams, equivalent to about 75 yuan, and are quickly snapped up.

Jiang County (绛县) has a suitable soil pH and is rich in selenium. The "seven mountains, two ridges, and one river" (七山两岭一分川) terrain creates a unique cool climate with a large temperature difference between day and night, which is conducive to sugar accumulation in fruits. In Dajiao Town (大交镇), strawberry cultivation has been going on for more than 40 years and has a good industrial foundation.

Good fruit, but once could not sell for a good price. "When the strawberries ripened, we just waited for the fruit vendors to come to collect them." Cheng Shangyan (程尚燕), deputy secretary of the Party branch of Dajiao Village (大交村), Dajiao Town (大交镇), and head of the Jiang County Huiyang Strawberry Planting Cooperative (绛县浍阳草莓种植合作社), recalled, "At that time, we mainly sold in the province, and the furthest we sold was to Beijing (北京)."

Live streaming to help farmers brought a turning point. In 2022, affected by the epidemic, offline physical sales were hindered, and a large number of strawberries were unsalable. Seeing the fruit farmers losing money every day, Zhang Chengyun (张成蕴), deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Dajiao Town (大交镇), was anxious. He opened accounts on major social media platforms overnight with the village cadres, moved benches, set up mobile phones, and started live streaming in the strawberry fields. In more than 3 years, they have gained more than 300,000 fans across the network.

In June 2025, Zhang Chengyun (张成蕴) received a cooperation invitation from Wang Yaohong (王耀宏), general manager of Shanxi Guofu E-commerce Co., Ltd. (山西国富电子商务有限公司), in the account backend. Wang Yaohong (王耀宏) has been engaged in Yuncheng (运城) fruit export trade for a long time. He accidentally came across the live stream, saw the quality of the strawberries, and after comprehensively considering the industrial base and planting scale, chose to cooperate with Jiang County (绛县).

To open up overseas markets, meeting quality standards is the hard truth. "A good seedling is half the crop, and good seedlings bring seventy percent of the harvest." Strawberry seedlings are like the "chips" of the strawberry industry, playing a key role in ensuring yield and quality. In the Jiang County Huiyang Strawberry Planting Cooperative (绛县浍阳草莓种植合作社), a row of white and pink strawberries are placed on the table, with a sweet taste. "This is Fenyu No. 2 (粉玉二号), a high-quality variety newly introduced in the past two years. We have been using hybridization, induced mutation and other technical means to cultivate new varieties that adapt to the local climate and soil conditions," said Cheng Shangyan (程尚燕).

In order to improve seedling technology, Jiang County (绛县) has specially built strawberry seedling sheds, actively cooperated with the Fruit Tree Research Institute of Shanxi Agricultural University (山西农业大学果树研究所) to jointly carry out new variety selection and breeding experiments, and organized strawberry expert teams to enter the sheds and households to provide guidance, teaching young growers hand-in-hand to identify the quality of seedlings, and adopting soilless cultivation and high-ridge semi-substrate innovation models, which not only improve production and quality, but also drive rural sightseeing and picking.

With careful cultivation, the strawberry garden in Dajiao Village (大交村) successfully obtained the "international pass" for strawberries to "fly" abroad, and obtained the registration conditions for orchards of fresh fruits for export. At the end of December 2025, the first batch of 180 kilograms of strawberries tested successfully arrived at Dubai (迪拜) supermarkets, and the inspection showed that the cargo loss did not exceed 3%, laying the foundation for subsequent large-scale exports.

"After the export of strawberries, the biggest change is that they are sold 'by the piece' instead of 'by the basket'. The prices in the Middle East market are stable, and the fruit farmers are more confident, and the planting and management are more refined," said Cheng Shangyan (程尚燕). More than 700 farmers have joined the standardized production team, and more than 1,000 women in the surrounding area have achieved employment at their doorsteps. Jiang County (绛县) has built more than 800 standardized greenhouses, with a planting area of more than 2,600 mu, an annual output of more than 8,000 tons of strawberries, and an annual output value of nearly 200 million yuan.

Before the Spring Festival, Cheng Shangyan (程尚燕) received cooperation intentions from Saudi Arabia (沙特阿拉伯), Malaysia (马来西亚) and other places. At the same time, orders for sales to many provinces in China before the festival have also increased by 30%, and fruit farmers are very busy. "In the future, we will continue to develop order-based agriculture, rely on the strength of university research institutes, build a thousand-mu strawberry research and study base, continue to deepen the collaborative innovation of industry, academia and research, open up broader overseas markets, and allow consumers at home and abroad to eat Jiang County (绛县) strawberries of better quality," said Cheng Shangyan (程尚燕).

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Car trade-ins generate over 50 billion yuan in sales this year.

This newspaper Beijing (北京) February 9th (Reporter Wang Ke (王珂)) According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部): As of February 5th, 335,000 applications for the 2026 car trade-in subsidy program have been received, driving new car sales of 53.77 billion yuan. This has powerfully promoted the development of the automotive market and the recycling of resources, and promoted industrial quality improvement, upgrading, and green transformation. In January, the average price of new cars participating in the trade-in program exceeded 160,000 yuan, a significant increase compared to the previous year. 659,000 vehicles were recycled nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 50.2%.

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Tax breaks for returned cross-border e-commerce export goods

This newspaper Beijing (北京), February 9th (Reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)) -- Recently, the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), and the State Taxation Administration (税务总局) jointly issued the "Announcement on Tax Preference Policies for Cross-border E-commerce Export Returned Goods." The announcement stipulates that for goods (excluding food) declared for export under the cross-border e-commerce customs supervision codes (1210, 9610, 9710, 9810) from January 1, 2026, to December 31, 2027, and returned to China in their original state due to slow sales or returns within 6 months from the date of export, import tariffs and import value-added tax and consumption tax will be exempted; export tariffs already levied at the time of export will be refunded; and value-added tax and consumption tax already levied at the time of export will be implemented with reference to relevant tax regulations for returned domestic sales goods.
The above four customs supervision method codes refer to "bonded online shopping import," "direct purchase import," "cross-border e-commerce B2B direct export," and "cross-border e-commerce export overseas warehouse," respectively. The announcement continues to implement tax preference policies for cross-border e-commerce export returned goods, aiming to further reduce the export return costs of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, reduce their worries, and actively support the development of new foreign trade business formats.

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Most multinational corporations list China as a primary investment destination.

According to the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will steadily move towards high-quality development, continue to expand high-level opening up, firmly safeguard the multilateral trading system, strengthen equal and mutually beneficial economic and trade relations with various countries, and provide good expectations for the long-term development of foreign-invested enterprises in China.

Since 2026, leaders of several countries have led delegations to visit China, further deepening understanding and mutual trust, opening up broad space for bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and enhancing the confidence of multinational corporations in investing in China and deeply cultivating the Chinese market. In 2025, South Korea's (韩国) manufacturing investment in China increased by 14.1% year-on-year, Canada's (加拿大) high-tech industry investment in China increased by 11.7% year-on-year, Finland's (芬兰) manufacturing investment in China increased by 21.7% year-on-year, and the United Kingdom's (英国) investment in China increased by 15.9% year-on-year. Recent survey reports from the Canada China Business Council (加中贸易理事会), the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (中国欧盟商会), the British Chamber of Commerce in China (中国英国商会), and the American Chamber of Commerce in China (中国美国商会) show that most multinational corporations still list China as a major investment destination and continue to increase investment.

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Guangdong Virtual Power Plant Development Enters Market-Oriented Acceleration Period

By: 本报记者 程远州

Guangdong's first batch of power generation virtual power plants – five virtual power plant trading units from Shenzhen (深圳), Foshan (佛山), Zhongshan (中山), and other places, with a total capacity of approximately 33 megawatts – recently formally participated in the spot electricity market trading through a quotation-based approach.

"A virtual power plant is not an actual power plant, but a platform or network for managing and dispatching distributed energy resources," explained Zhao Ruifeng (赵瑞锋), manager of the Automation Department of the Guangdong Power Grid Electricity Dispatch and Control Center. "Virtual power plants aggregate electricity loads scattered throughout the grid, such as charging piles, air conditioners, energy storage stations, and distributed new energy sources, and participate in electricity market transactions as a whole, achieving optimal resource allocation through market mechanisms."

According to the "Implementation Plan for Virtual Power Plants in Guangdong Province to Participate in Electricity Market Transactions," load-type virtual power plants aggregate all electricity from users with adjustable capacity and register in the market as electricity users. Power generation virtual power plants aggregate distributed photovoltaic, decentralized wind power, and distributed independent energy storage resources with independent grid connection gateways, and register in the market as power generation projects as trading units.

For example, in Beijiao Town (北滘镇), Shunde District (顺德区), Foshan City (佛山市), a rooftop photovoltaic power generation project with a total area of approximately 47,000 square meters in an industrial park was aggregated into a 10-megawatt trading unit and participated in this transaction through a virtual power plant. "In the past, the electricity generated was mainly for the park's own use. Now, it can enter the spot electricity market, providing more flexible value space," said Chen Tao (陈涛), general manager of the Platform Business Department of Guangdong Power Grid Energy Investment Company.

"This transaction signifies that Guangdong has achieved full voltage level new energy access to the market. Virtual power plant operators and aggregated resources that meet market access conditions are no longer passively managed objects of the power grid, but have become operating entities that actively respond and participate in balancing under the guidance of price signals," introduced Cai Qiuna (蔡秋娜), senior manager of the Spot Market Management Department of the Power Dispatch and Control Center of Guangdong Power Grid Company of Southern Power Grid. Guangdong's 110 kV and above new energy sources fully participate in the market directly through quotation-based approach, while distributed new energy sources below 110 kV appear in the spot market as power generation virtual power plants. The total scale of new energy sources directly entering the market in the province exceeds 33 million kilowatts, accounting for approximately 40% of the province's total installed capacity of wind power and photovoltaic.

"We are continuously building a virtual power plant industrial ecosystem with rich levels and orderly connections, connecting policies and market mechanism implementation upstream, strengthening virtual power plant system access support downstream relying on market operation institutions and power grid enterprises, and gathering diverse operating entities including comprehensive energy service providers, photovoltaic developers, energy storage operators, and digital service providers downstream," introduced Liang Zhiyuan (梁志远), specialist of the Business Section of the Marketing Department of Guangdong Power Grid. Guangdong has completed the review and public announcement of four batches of 47 virtual power plant operators.

Data shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangdong Province's installed new energy capacity increased by 4.6 times, accounting for approximately 66% of the province's newly added power sources. With the rapid development of new energy, various regions are actively building virtual power plant ecosystems. Guangdong's virtual power plant development has entered a period of accelerated marketization, and a virtual power plant industry value chain covering "mechanism design - system support - resource aggregation - operation services - ecological supporting" is taking shape. As massive distributed power generation and load resources are efficiently aggregated, a new electricity market ecosystem of "source-load interaction and supply-demand coordination" will be rapidly cultivated and strengthened, providing solid support for building a new power system.

(Ouyang Yixue (欧阳逸雪) and Wen Cun (温存) participated in writing)

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Editors of this page: Wu Yan, Lin Ziye, Han Wenrong

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Promoting a World Modernization Featuring Peaceful Development, Mutually Beneficial Cooperation, and Common Prosperity (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

By: 徐秀军

Modernization is the trend of human social development and the goal pursued by all countries in the world. Today, the modernization process of human society has once again come to a historical crossroads. What kind of modernization does the world need today? How can modernization be achieved? A series of questions about modernization are placed before humanity. The fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" systematically elaborates on "Working Together to Promote Modernization and Achieve Common Prosperity" as a special chapter, which focuses on demonstrating General Secretary Xi Jinping's in-depth thinking and scientific answers to the questions of modernization based on the general trend of historical development and the development demands of various countries.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Strive to promote a world modernization featuring peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity." The world modernization of peaceful development abandons the old logic of achieving modernization through war, colonialism, and plunder, adheres to achieving national development through its own efforts in a peaceful international environment, and creates a peaceful international environment through its own development; the world modernization of mutually beneficial cooperation transcends the old thinking of zero-sum games, creates common opportunities in openness and inclusiveness, responds to common challenges in synergy and linkage, and jointly shapes new drivers of global development; the world modernization of common prosperity is committed to narrowing the development gap between different countries and different groups, so that development results can benefit the people of all countries more fairly, and breaking the pattern of benefit distribution in which modernization results are exclusively enjoyed by a few countries and groups. This new paradigm of modernization, with peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity as its core connotation and building a community with a shared future for mankind as its goal, is a major innovation in theory and practice and an inevitable trend of historical development.

Shaping a Modernization Paradigm that Conforms to the Trend of History

After the Industrial Revolution, Western countries, represented by the United Kingdom, took the lead in entering the era of mechanized production, thereby creating a brilliant industrial civilization and huge material wealth, and promoting the development and progress of human society. Marx and Engels highly praised this history in the "Communist Manifesto," pointing out: "The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." Starting with the Industrial Revolution, Western countries accelerated onto the path of modernization characterized by industrialization, urbanization, democratization, and secularization.

Due to the first-mover advantage in the modernization process, Western countries, with their powerful capital and military power, launched colonial expansion and plunder full of violence and bloodshed on a global scale, and gradually built a world colonial system. By the beginning of the 20th century, the world was basically divided up by imperialist countries. As Lenin pointed out: "Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the people of the world by a handful of 'advanced' countries," which means that the vast majority of countries and regions have been reduced to colonies and plundering objects of Western countries, and are firmly bound to the low end of the international division of labor and industrial chain.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "Jointly Pursuing Modernization Dreams by China and Africa": "Achieving modernization is the inalienable right of all countries in the world." In "Working Together on the Road to Modernization," he pointed out: "Developing countries have the right and ability to independently explore modernization paths with their own characteristics based on their own national conditions." Since World War II, few developing countries have joined the ranks of developed countries, and some developing countries with good development momentum have fallen into the "middle-income trap." Faced with the important opportunities brought about by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the vast number of developing countries and countries of the Global South cannot help but ask: "Is modernization only a 'patent' of Western countries?" The answer is obviously no. World modernization is not and should not be the modernization of a few people. The fact that the vast majority of developing countries, which account for the majority of the world's population, find it difficult to obtain "admission tickets" to modernized countries precisely proves the hypocrisy of Western modernization, the deceptiveness of Western modernization discourse, and the unsustainability of the Western modernization path. The inherent exclusivity, expansionism, and contradiction-shifting characteristics of Western modernization have become the historical root of many structural crises in the world.

The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century. Peace deficits, development deficits, security deficits, and governance deficits are intertwined, becoming common challenges facing all mankind, leading to a significant increase in unstable, uncertain, and unpredictable factors in the world modernization process. At present, major-country geopolitical games are intensifying, economic globalization is encountering headwinds, unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, the global economic recovery is weak, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient global development is becoming increasingly prominent, and global sustainable development is facing new bottlenecks. The United Nations' "Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025" shows that overall progress on the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is slow. Among the 139 specific indicators that can be assessed based on global trend data since the 2015 baseline, 48% of the targets have only shown slight improvement or have completely stalled, and 18% of the targets have regressed to below the 2015 baseline. At the same time, the global governance system has failed to fully reflect the profound changes in the world's political and economic landscape. Reforms of major international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund are lagging behind, and the authority and effectiveness of multilateral mechanisms are being challenged. In multilateral platforms such as the G20, it is becoming increasingly difficult for members to gather the strength and consensus to address global problems and challenges, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to take global actions to safeguard common interests.

The increasing number and severity of global challenges indicate that Western countries are finding it difficult to find a way out of solving many problems of modernization by relying on their own strength. In the era of economic globalization in which countries are highly interdependent, no country can be immune to global challenges. Behind a series of severe challenges is the reflection that Western modernization, which one-sidedly pursues its own development, has been unable to adapt to the needs of the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "Working Together on the Road to Modernization": "Modernization is not a 'patent' of a few countries, nor is it a 'single-choice question' of either/or." More and more countries are strongly demanding to change the situation in which a few countries monopolize the right to define and discourse on modernization, and are striving to seek a modernization path that can both achieve their own development and maintain their own independence and cultural characteristics, which has spawned an urgent need for diversified and inclusive modernization discourse, and also provided soil for the proposal of a new type of modernization paradigm featuring peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity.

Building a New Type of International Relations with Win-Win Cooperation as the Core

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "Working Together on the Road to Modernization": "Any country pursuing modernization should adhere to the concept of unity and cooperation and common development, and take the road of joint construction, sharing, and win-win." Different from modernization that is self-serving or even beggar-thy-neighbor, the world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity reflects the interdependent, mutually promoting, and mutually achieving relationship of various countries in the modernization process. This is a profound transformation of the modernization paradigm, which essentially requires all countries to jointly build a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, fairness and justice, and win-win cooperation, and jointly promote the world modernization process.

Mutual respect is the political prerequisite for world modernization. As the primary principle of a new type of international relations, mutual respect is a change to the traditional international order based on hierarchy and hegemony. It emphasizes that sovereign equality is not only a legal principle, but also a principle of interaction, recognizing and respecting the diversity of civilizations, the differences in social systems of various countries, and the right to independently choose the path of development. Western modernization is often accompanied by the export of political and economic models and ideological interference, which has historically led to the development paths of many countries being dominated by a single model. In fact, modernization is a pluralistic process, and the logic of hegemony must be fundamentally abandoned. The choice of modernization path should be based on the autonomy and voluntariness of various countries. Only by building a new type of international relations based on mutual respect can the autonomy of various countries be guaranteed, creativity be stimulated, and various countries can combine their own culture and national conditions to explore and establish a modernization path that meets their own actual conditions.

Fairness and justice are the order guarantee for world modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "The Concept of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind is the Best Inheritance, Promotion, and Sublimation of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence": "Without fairness and justice, power politics will run rampant, and the law of the jungle will prevail." In order to ensure that the fruits of modernization benefit all countries in the world, rather than being monopolized by a few countries, fairness and justice must be taken as the value of modernization. Regardless of size or strength, all countries should have equal rights in the formulation of international rules, enjoy equal opportunities in the global development process, and receive fair treatment in the maintenance of core interests. For a long time, the unjust and unreasonable international political and economic order built by Western countries has led world modernization into a path of development imbalance and unrest. Only by building a new type of international relations based on fairness and justice can we find the "greatest common divisor" for promoting modernization in the international community, gather the broad strength for promoting modernization, and avoid some countries and groups from "falling behind" in the modernization process.

Cooperation and win-win are the continuous driving force for world modernization. As the core of a new type of international relations, cooperation and win-win advocate open cooperation, which not only continuously creates new and larger cakes of common interests, but also ensures that all parties can share the fruits of development together, and thereby promote common development and prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in "Jointly Pursuing Modernization Dreams by China and Africa": "Mutually beneficial cooperation is the sunny road that conforms to the long-term and fundamental interests of all countries." Cooperation and win-win not only emphasize the aggregation effect of "one plus one greater than two" through cooperation, giving birth to new development opportunities, but also take win-win as the foothold of cooperation, providing stable and continuous impetus for cooperation. Only by building a new type of international relations based on cooperation and win-win can all participants obtain tangible benefits from the modernization process, and continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of modernization development.

In short, mutual respect lays the basic premise for international exchanges, fairness and justice establish the core values of international exchanges, and cooperation and win-win set the ways and goals of international interaction. The new type of international relations with win-win cooperation as the core provides the international relations foundation and international environment guarantee for world modernization to gather synergy, and injects more certainty, stability, and predictability into the world modernization process.

Promoting World Modernization with High-Quality and Sustainable Development

In recent years, the pursuit of high-quality and sustainable development has become the consensus of more and more countries, which is also the only way to achieve the world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity. Looking back at history, the modernization path taken by Western countries is essentially a linear path of "pollute first, treat later" and "high carbon first, then decarbonize." This path was formed under specific historical conditions, bringing huge ecological and environmental damage and irreversible climate problems. In today's era, the global ecosystem is increasingly fragile, extreme weather events occur frequently, and the climate crisis continues to intensify. For the vast number of late-developing countries, Western modernization is not only impossible to replicate, but also an impassable road. Therefore, we must explore a high-quality and sustainable modernization path. This path is a fundamental transcendence of the traditional development model, which means shifting from the past pursuit of speed and scale of "having or not" to the pursuit of efficiency, quality, and sustainability of "good or bad." This is an intensive growth, with innovation-driven, green and low-carbon, inclusive and shared, and safe and controllable as the core, committed to achieving the coordinated progress of economic growth, ecological protection, and the comprehensive development of people.

Taking innovation-driven as the core driving force of development and consolidating the foundation of world modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "Working Together to Promote Inclusive and Inclusive Economic Globalization": "We must seek productivity from scientific and technological innovation, give full play to the enabling role of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and inject strong impetus into the world economy with a new round of technological revolution." Different from development that relies on resource factor inputs, innovation-driven development relies on the dual wheels of technological innovation and institutional innovation. This includes not only the exploration of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and new energy, but also the cultivation of new formats and new models that meet the requirements of sustainable development. By building an open and inclusive innovation ecosystem and strengthening international scientific and technological cooperation, late-developing countries can cross the locking effect of traditional technological paths and ultimately achieve modernization.

Taking green and low-carbon as the universal form of development and painting the background color of world modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "Jointly Pursuing Modernization Dreams by China and Africa": "Green development is a clear sign of modernization in the new era." In today's era, green and low-carbon is not an option in the modernization process, but a must-answer question to address the global ecological crisis, and it is the inevitable requirement and universal form of world modernization. Green and low-carbon development requires the deep integration of the concept of ecological civilization into the entire process of development. All countries should work together to promote the fundamental transformation of the energy structure, develop a circular economy, and advocate green and low-carbon lifestyles. Painting the background color of modernization with green and low-carbon development is the common responsibility and responsibility to protect a livable planet for all mankind.

Taking inclusive sharing as the goal and demand of development and clarifying the direction of world modernization. The ultimate goal of modernization is to achieve the comprehensive development of people. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in "Working Together on the Road to Modernization": "We must adhere to sharing opportunities and creating the future together, jointly make the 'cake' of human society modernization bigger, and strive to make the fruits of modernization benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly, and resolutely oppose maintaining their own development 'privileges' by suppressing and containing the modernization of other countries." If the fruits of modernization are only enjoyed by a few countries or a few classes, then this modernization is not only unsustainable, but also full of risks. From a global perspective, inclusive sharing mainly means opposing unilateralism and protectionism, promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, and allowing the modernization promoted by all countries to develop in the direction of inclusive growth and common prosperity.

Taking safety and controllability as the basic guarantee for development and escorting the world modernization process. At present, mankind is in a highly interdependent and uncertain world, which brings many risks and challenges to the modernization of various countries. Safety and controllability does not mean closing the country to the outside world, but to enhance the resilience and risk resistance of its own development in open cooperation. It requires all countries to work together to establish a diversified and stable international cooperation network, maintain the smooth and safe global industrial chain and supply chain, jointly respond to traditional security and non-traditional security threats, and escort the long and arduous world modernization process.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in "Transforming the Concept of Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind into Action and Turning the Vision into Reality": "What the people of all countries expect is not a 'new Cold War' or a 'small circle,' but a world of lasting peace and universal security, a world of common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and a clean and beautiful world. This is the logic of historical progress and the trend of the times." The path of modernization is pluralistic, but peaceful development is the common theme, mutually beneficial cooperation is the fundamental way, and common prosperity is the goal and vision. The world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity is China's summary of its own development experience, and it is also a profound reflection on where human modernization is going. It clearly points out the direction towards a better world and contributes unique Chinese wisdom to the overall evolution of human civilization. Only by establishing the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind can we achieve peaceful coexistence, complementary advantages, and coordinated development among countries. China has proposed the "Belt and Road" initiative (一带一路) and regards it as a practical platform for building a community with a shared future for mankind, adhering to joint consultation, joint construction, and sharing, and continuously strengthening the alignment of development strategies with co-construction countries, and taking the road of world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity. At the same time, China has proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, providing a feasible "toolbox" for promoting the world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity. China continues to provide new opportunities for world development with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization, and works with all countries to strive to achieve the world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity, so as to better benefit the people of all countries.
(The author is a researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).)

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Growing Through Upholding Integrity and Pursuing Innovation (Thought & Perspective)

By: 王 崧

Building a team of young cadres who are politically strong, highly skilled, and capable of shouldering the great responsibility of national rejuvenation is a key support for advancing Chinese-style modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Only by adhering to the right path can we avoid losing our way and making subversive mistakes, and only through innovation can we grasp the era and lead the era." Faced with the accelerating evolution of the world's unprecedented changes in a century and the arduous and heavy tasks of domestic reform and development, young cadres must deeply grasp the dialectical unity of adhering to the right path and innovation, overcome cognitive biases, enhance political literacy, and enhance practical skills in the unity of knowledge and action, and both anchor the direction and consolidate the foundation in the tide of the times, and forge ahead and open up new situations.

Adhering to the right path means adhering to the original aspiration and mission, protecting the foundation of the cause, and is the fundamental prerequisite for doing things and starting a business to go steady and far. The key to adhering to the right path lies in the continuous nourishment of ideals and beliefs and the repeated tempering of political capabilities. From Chen Shuxiang (陈树湘), who "severed his intestines to show his ambition," to Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄), who "lived in the sand dunes and died in the sand dunes," history tells us that firm ideals and beliefs are an important force for overcoming all difficulties and obstacles. Young cadres should master the positions, viewpoints, and methods that run through them in deeply studying and understanding the Party's innovative theories, draw spiritual motivation from the advanced deeds of outstanding Communists, and constantly consolidate the foundation of faith and replenish the calcium of the spirit. Firm ideals and beliefs must be tempered in practice. Young cadres should take the initiative to go to the main battlefield of reform and development, the front line of serving the masses, and the forefront of project construction to broaden their horizons and hone their talents, and constantly enhance their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution in the practical battle of responding to major challenges and solving major problems, so as to ensure that they can stand firm, be reliable, and be trustworthy at all times.

Innovation is about creating methods and paths, solving development problems, and is the inevitable requirement for doing things and starting a business to open up new situations. The vitality of innovation stems from the deep soil of adhering to the right path and is achieved through the exploration and breakthrough of practice. Young cadres must deeply realize that innovation is by no means unconventional and innovative that deviates from reality, but a creative implementation under the premise of adhering to principles and grasping laws. We must take root in the front line, face problems directly, and on the basis of finding out the truth and grasping the essence, put forward new ideas, new methods, and new measures that are pragmatic, effective, and targeted, boldly explore within the framework of principles, actively act under the premise of complying with rules and disciplines, and constantly open up broad space for the development of the cause.

To make adhering to the right path and innovation truly become the inherent qualities and conscious pursuit of young cadres, it is also necessary to establish and form an institutional environment and cultural atmosphere that are adapted to it. We must grasp the dialectical relationship between strict management and deep love, encouragement and restraint. Strict management is reflected in daily life, focusing on grasping early and small, preventing micro and gradual, and helping young cadres build a solid ideological defense line and guard the bottom line of integrity; deep love should be put into practice, with clear political guidance, a platform for work, guaranteed treatment, and timely psychological care. At the same time, we must clearly establish a work orientation that values practical results and responsibilities. Optimize the assessment and evaluation system, refine and form multi-dimensional scientific evaluation indicators, which not only look at the political performance of adhering to the right path, but also look at the actual contribution of innovation. Unblock the growth channels for outstanding young cadres, build platforms and ladders for young cadres who have experienced rich practical training and have potential, let them strengthen their bones and grow their talents in key and challenging positions, and promote the formation of a good environment that advocates responsibility, emphasizes practical work, and encourages innovation.

To encourage young cadres to temper and grow in adhering to the right path and innovation, the key lies in unifying the three levels of Party spirit training, practical training, and institutional guarantees to form a joint force. Transform the requirements of adhering to the right path and the enterprising requirements of innovation into specific benchmarks and practical measures in the entire chain of cadre "selection, education, management, and use," systematically help young cadres temper their political character of loyalty to the Party, enhance their spiritual strength of being determined to innovate, and develop the hard skills to be able to shoulder heavy responsibilities, forge a team of young cadres who are adapted to the development requirements of Chinese-style modernization and fully trusted by the Party and the people, and promote the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation to go steady and far in adhering to the fundamentals and maintain vitality forever in pioneering and enterprising.

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Cultivating and Promoting Role Models to Advance Moral Education in Universities

By: 邹宏如

Upholding morality and cultivating people is the fundamental task of education and the foundation upon which universities are built. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must adhere to upholding morality and cultivating people as the central link and integrate ideological and political work throughout the entire process of education and teaching." How to explore and form effective practical paths and long-term mechanisms to implement this fundamental task in detail is an important issue facing higher education. Systematically and scientifically promoting the cultivation, selection, and promotion of advanced models of upholding morality and cultivating people is not only a key measure to strengthen and improve ideological and political work in universities, but also an important means to deepen "Three All Education" (全员育人, 全程育人, 全方位育人 - all-round education, all-process education, all-dimensional education) and improve the quality of talent cultivation. It is of far-reaching strategic significance for consolidating the foundation of the spirit and cultivating new people of the era. Universities must consciously stand at the political height of cultivating people for the Party and talents for the country, and with a high sense of responsibility and systematic thinking, deeply integrate this work into all aspects of running schools and cultivating talents, so that the light of role models shines brightly and the power of role models continues, gathering a strong spiritual force for cultivating new people of the era who can shoulder the great task of national rejuvenation.

The cultivation, selection, and promotion of advanced models are based on the dialectical relationship between people and the environment. Advanced models create a good ideological and political education environment, and a good ideological and political education environment further cultivates advanced models. It is rooted in the laws of education, the laws of ideological dissemination, and the laws of organizational behavior, and has a profound theoretical foundation and practical necessity. This is an inherent requirement to follow the laws of education and promote the all-round development of people. The goal of education is to cultivate socialist builders and successors who develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and practically. Cultivating and selecting advanced models helps to concretize the Party's education policy and talent goals, providing teachers and students with "vivid teaching materials" that can be learned from, and effectively enhancing the appeal and persuasiveness of education. This is an effective way to run the "Great Ideological and Political Class." Advanced model education transcends one-way theoretical indoctrination, cleverly integrating value guidance into storytelling. By discovering and telling the stories of people around them, it enhances the emotional resonance and ideological identity of teachers and students, guiding them to consciously promote ideological internalization and behavioral transformation in observation and reflection, and realize intellectual enlightenment and heart nourishment. This is a cultural engine for shaping excellent school spirit and improving the quality and efficiency of university management. Advanced models embody the spirit and educational philosophy of the university. The process of cultivating, selecting, and promoting advanced models is actually a process in which universities actively cultivate and disseminate campus spirit, which helps to build a good teaching style, school spirit, and learning style. It has a fundamental and lasting impact on internal cohesion, external image building, and creating a campus ecology that respects excellence and learns from the virtuous. This is a realistic need to cope with a complex public opinion environment and consolidate and expand mainstream ideological public opinion. At present, social thoughts are intertwined and the way information is disseminated is undergoing profound changes. Advanced models have authenticity and a sense of closeness, which can effectively narrow the distance between theory and reality, enhance ideological resonance and emotional identity, and provide a solid support for cultivating and practicing socialist core values.

To better promote the cultivation, selection, and promotion of advanced models, we must clarify the functional positioning and continuously optimize the practical path.

Clarify the functional positioning and give full play to the multi-dimensional empowering effect of advanced models on upholding morality and cultivating people. Systematically promoting the cultivation, selection, and promotion of advanced models can comprehensively empower the practice of upholding morality and cultivating people from multiple dimensions such as value guidance, cultural immersion, environmental shaping, and radiation influence. At the value guidance level, concretize the standard of "morality." Advanced models are the personified carriers of mainstream values. They integrate the cultivation and practice of socialist core values into their daily study, work, and life, vividly interpreting the value connotations of patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness with concrete actions, setting a clear and perceptible life model for young students, and powerfully answering the fundamental question of "what kind of person to become." At the cultural immersion level, expand the education path. The vitality of advanced models lies in the fact that their demonstration effect can run through the entire process of education and teaching. Their growth trajectory, struggle experience, and mental journey can provide students with cognitive inspiration, emotional motivation, and behavioral demonstration, promote the deepening of the education process from one-way transmission to interactive inspiration and self-education, subtly shape students' behavior and character, and stimulate students' internal motivation for growth. At the environmental shaping level, cultivate excellent "growth soil." Continuously cultivating, selecting, and promoting advanced models is a positive way to build campus culture. It can continuously inject positive energy into campus culture, subtly optimize school spirit, teaching style, and learning style, and form a strong atmosphere of advocating practical work and learning from advanced models. At the radiation influence level, lead social trends. The influence of advanced models can transcend campus boundaries. The touching deeds of outstanding teachers, students, and alumni are widely disseminated in society, which can vividly demonstrate the university's spiritual temperament and social contribution, realize the positive nourishment of university education results to social culture, and earnestly fulfill the university's cultural mission of serving society and leading the trend.

Optimize the practical path and build a long-term working mechanism integrating "selection, cultivation, promotion, and use." The university Party committee should strengthen top-level design, deeply integrate the cultivation, selection, and promotion of advanced models into "Three All Education," and focus on building a long-term working mechanism of coordinated linkage of "discovery, cultivation, promotion, and use." Strengthen systematic planning and gather working synergy. Adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, and establish and improve a working mechanism of unified leadership by the Party committee, coordinated coordination by the propaganda department, and coordinated linkage by other relevant departments and Party organizations of various departments. It can be used as an important content of the assessment and evaluation of Party building and ideological and political work to ensure effective integration of resources and implementation of responsibilities. Improve the selection mechanism to ensure that the typical stands firm. Establish a hierarchical and classified, dynamically updated advanced model reserve. Adhere to the equal emphasis on political standards and practical results, and pay attention to the recognition of teachers and students. Strictly standardize the procedures of recommendation, inspection, evaluation, and publicity to ensure that the advanced typical deeds selected are true, representative, and can stand the test of time and practice. Innovate the communication paradigm and enhance the appeal and leadership. Conduct in-depth research on the laws of information dissemination in the all-media era, and accurately grasp the psychological needs of young students. Comprehensively use various carriers such as newspapers, networks, terminals, microblogs, and screens, and actively adopt various forms such as micro-interviews, immersive reports, and literary and artistic creations to carry out interactive, narrative, and scene-based publicity, and focus on telling warm, in-depth, and resonant model stories, so that advanced models are approachable, respectable, and learnable. Improve the long-term mechanism and promote sustainable development. Avoid the tendency of "emphasizing selection and neglecting cultivation, emphasizing commendation and neglecting care," and consolidate the mechanism guarantee for advanced models in terms of honor incentives, professional development, and life care, and build a platform for them to play a greater role. Encourage advanced models to participate in ideological and political theory course teaching, theme Party and League Day activities, and new student enrollment education, forming a virtuous circle of "**选树一个、带动一片、影响一代**" (xuǎn shù yī gè, dài dòng yī piàn, yǐng xiǎng yī dài - "select one, drive a group, influence a generation," meaning to use the example of one person to inspire many others), so that the light of role models continues to illuminate the campus.

(The author is the Party Secretary of Xiangnan University (湘南学院))

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"That's the way it's always been done" doesn't work anymore, innovate! (New Observations on Cadre Conduct: Exploring Work Style on the Front Lines)

By: 本报记者 田先进

At a little after 3 a.m., before dawn, Sister Liu (刘大姐), who lives in Yangba Village (杨坝村), Huashan District (花山区), Ma'anshan (马鞍山), Anhui (安徽) Province, got up early. After a quick wash, she busied herself carrying baskets of vegetables from her garden onto an electric tricycle. She set off promptly at 4 a.m., arriving at the Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) temporary farmers' market before 5 a.m., set up her stall, and waited quietly for customers.

Sister Liu (刘大姐), who is 60 years old this year, has been selling vegetables for more than 20 years. In previous years, she sold vegetables near Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷), always playing "guerrilla warfare" to avoid the urban management officers. "At that time, everyone put their vegetables on the main road of Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷), which greatly affected traffic. As soon as the urban management officers stopped us, we ran everywhere," said Sister Liu (刘大姐). "Now it's better, with a fixed sales area, it's convenient for the people to buy vegetables, and our business is getting better and better."

Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) is located in Hudonglu (湖东路) Subdistrict, Huashan District (花山区), Ma'anshan (马鞍山) City, about 800 meters long and no more than 7 meters wide, connecting the two prosperous roads of Hudong Middle Road (湖东中路) and Jiashan Road (佳山路) in the city center, making transportation very convenient. Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) is surrounded by residential areas such as Dabeizhuang (大北庄), with a large population and high travel demand.

From the perspective of urban management staff, this is a "different" story. "In the past, there was a Jiashan Road (佳山路) farmers' market nearby. After it was demolished a few years ago, some vegetable farmers regarded Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) as a gathering point for selling vegetables. As the number of vegetable farmers increased, the phenomenon of occupying the road for business became more and more common," said Meng Fanqiao (孟凡乔), director of the Urban Appearance and Order Management Center of Ma'anshan (马鞍山市市容秩序管理中心). "Seeing the vegetable farmers putting their vegetables on the main road, the shops at the bottom of the Dabeizhuang (大北庄) residential area also put their stalls and goods on the main road."

Every morning, traffic jams, difficulty in traveling, a dirty and messy environment on the road, constant complaints from residents of the residential area, and heavy tasks for sanitation workers.

Faced with the new situation, the urban management department was still using the old methods at that time, sending more urban management team members to the scene to patrol and not allowing them to occupy the main road. "But there were too many people, and we couldn't manage them at all," said Wei Mingqing (魏明青), captain of the Urban Management Law Enforcement Team of Hudonglu (湖东路) Subdistrict. "There were even cases where the alley was too crowded and the urban management team members couldn't squeeze in. Long-term persuasion didn't work, and conflicts and disputes arose between merchants, vegetable farmers, and urban management officers."

How to manage it? Some team members were also confused: "It's always been like this" "It's always been implemented like this"... According to past governance experience, either guide the vegetable farmers to another regular farmers' market in the surrounding area, but that would require residents of the residential area to walk more to buy vegetables, and the vegetable farmers' business would also be affected; or not allow the vegetable farmers to set up stalls, but this would affect the vegetable farmers' livelihoods.

"'The way it has always been' doesn't work, so innovate, it must change!" Faced with the dilemma, the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) City Urban Management Department was determined to change its thinking. Meng Fanqiao (孟凡乔) and his colleagues went to the Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) site for observation for several consecutive days. After returning, they held a meeting to discuss it. It was finally decided to borrow the concept of "tidal lanes" from the transportation department to set up "tidal stalls," that is, to delineate the scope of operation in a specific area, allowing mobile vendors to operate at a fixed time and place, and immediately close the stalls when the time comes, returning the road to the people.

"On the north side of Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷), under Building 85 of Dabeizhuang (大北庄), there is a sidewalk that is usually occupied by bicycles, etc. We cleaned it up and used it as a 'tidal stall' for vegetable farmers, called the Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) temporary farmers' market," said Meng Fanqiao (孟凡乔). "Every day from 5 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., vegetable farmers are allowed to set up stalls here. If there are elderly vegetable farmers who have not finished selling, they can extend it to 9 a.m. When the time comes, they have to close their stalls."

In April 2024, the Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) "tidal stalls" were officially put into use. As soon as they heard that there were fixed stalls and they were nearby, the vegetable farmers took the initiative to move there. Immediately afterwards, the bottom merchants also stopped occupying the road for business. The current Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷) is both smooth and clean.

Gong Jiazhen (龚家震), deputy director of the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) City Urban Management Bureau, introduced that based on the successful experience of Huangmeixiang (黄梅巷), the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) City Urban Management Bureau scientifically plans and builds more "tidal stalls" according to the actual conditions. As of now, Ma'anshan (马鞍山) City has set up a total of 116 "tidal stalls," benefiting nearly 2,000 business households.

The same governance wisdom is also reflected in the creation of "quality night markets."

At 7 p.m., the reporter walked into the Tiyulu (体育路) night market located in the Huoli (霍里) Subdistrict of Huashan District (花山区). A burst of fragrance came to his face, and specialty food shops were lined up in order, with many customers shopping. The road surface here is almost free of garbage and oil stains, and the night market door heads and stall signs are also very design-oriented.

Huang (黄), the operator of the "Baoning Handmade" shop, is from Henan (河南) and came to Ma'anshan (马鞍山) City to do business a few years ago. "In the past, we set up stalls on both sides of Tiyulu (体育路), exposed to the wind and sun. Now that we have moved into the night market, the environment is better, the traffic is greater, and our income is also rising steadily," Huang (黄) said with a smile.

Because of the large consumption demand of college students and surrounding people, snack vendors gradually gathered on Tiyulu (体育路) on the north gate of the Xiushan (秀山) campus of Anhui University of Technology (安徽工业大学) in previous years. "There were more than 30 in the beginning, and later there were more than 300 at most, which seriously blocked traffic, polluted the environment, and also affected the water quality of the nearby Cihu River (慈湖河)," recalled Zhang Jianping (张建平), secretary of the Party Working Committee of Huoli (霍里) Subdistrict. Due to irregular management, there were constant complaints, and friction often occurred between vendors.

"The reason why this stubborn problem has existed for many years and cannot be eradicated is that opinions vary," Zhang Jianping (张建平) told reporters. Some people suggested directly banning the stalls, some departments suggested strengthening management in situ, and others believed that they should be moved to a distance, but these solutions all had disadvantages.

The problem is becoming more and more prominent, what to do? "'Old methods don't work, so we have to think of new methods.'" Zhang Jianping (张建平) took the subdistrict cadres to walk around Tiyulu (体育路) whenever they had time. A parking lot at the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) Olympic Sports Center caught his attention.

"This parking lot usually doesn't have much demand for parking, and it's very close to the north gate of the school, so it's very convenient for students to walk there. Can we build a centralized night market for merchants here?" Zhang Jianping (张建平) told reporters, but the parking lot is not managed by the subdistrict, but by a state-owned enterprise in the city.

"At that time, there were 10 plans for the location of the night market, but transforming the parking lot was the best solution," Zhang Jianping (张建平) made up his mind, reported it layer by layer, and finally the city leaders adopted Zhang Jianping's (张建平) suggestion after conducting on-site research.

For the investment and management of the night market, many places will attract external funds and find external companies to operate. "The subdistrict and the village know the current situation of the night market better, and the village also has certain financial resources. We applied for investment management," said Zhang Jianping (张建平). Breaking with convention, Huoli (霍里) Village of Huoli (霍里) Subdistrict established a village collective economic company to be responsible for the operation of the Tiyulu (体育路) night market.

The company hardened the ground, laid pipelines, built sheds and pavilions through bidding procedures, and selected construction units with construction qualifications... After the Tiyulu (体育路) night market was built and put into operation, there were 283 fixed storefronts and 20 temporary stalls, ensuring that all the original vendors could move in.

In order to allow merchants to settle down in the night market with peace of mind, the subdistrict formulated preferential policies for site rents, set up joint law enforcement posts, divided 7 grids, arranged staff to be stationed on duty every night, and actively provided relevant services. At the same time, the night market also carried out folk custom performances, talent shows and other activities, and opened a trendy play project experience area to attract traffic. Since its completion, the average daily traffic of Tiyulu (体育路) night market has reached 7,000 people, effectively driving the surrounding employment and entrepreneurship. This former spontaneously formed gathering place for mobile stalls has completed the transformation from "dirty, chaotic and poor" to "refined, excellent and beautiful" under scientific planning and careful operation.

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Experience should not become a rope that ties our hands (Editor's Note)

By: 徐雷鹏

"That's always been the case" - when this phrase comes from the mouths of some cadres, it often means that their thinking has quietly ground to a halt. Some cadres are content with the status quo and lack a sense of initiative, while others are afraid of taking risks, refusing to act if there is "no precedent," bypassing contradictions when they encounter them, and retreating when they encounter difficulties, treating "no accidents" as their greatest pursuit. "That's always been the case" then becomes a panacea excuse.

On the road of reform, the worst thing is when cadres only recognize the old road. Times are developing, and problems are changing. If you are still clutching a "navigation map" from many years ago, the possibility of getting lost is very high. The solution may be to reserve a little "thought" for "that's always been the case": Is this approach still useful today? Is there a better possibility? When we regard "no precedent" as the starting point rather than the end point of exploration, the outline of a new road will gradually become clear.

Change requires courage, but also soil. To encourage innovation, we must tolerate trial and error; to promote practical work, we must make those who are perfunctory unable to sit still. When the mechanism supports those who want to do things and cheers for those who accomplish things, and makes "drifting along" less easy, the ineffective idling of the "old way" will naturally decrease.

Development is a long-distance race with no end, and experience should not become a rope that binds hands and feet. For difficult problems for which there are no ready-made answers and no past experience to follow, we must dare to take the initiative to open up the situation and boldly create precedents, so that we can find new solutions in continuous exploration.

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Procuratorates Handle Over 24,000 Public Interest Litigation Cases Related to Food and Drug Safety

This newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on February 9th (Reporter Ni Yi (倪弋)) - This reporter learned on the 9th from the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院): In January 2025, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) deployed and launched the "Food and Drug Safety Public Interest Litigation Supervision Campaign." Procuratorial organs at all levels have given full play to the functional role of public interest litigation procuratorial work. From January to November 2025, a total of 24,029 public interest litigation cases concerning food and drug safety were filed, accounting for 19% of the total number of public interest litigation cases, achieving significant results.

"Currently, the fundamental reason why the quality of fresh food on community group buying platforms is difficult to control and consumers have no recourse for complaints is that platform enterprises, as the leaders and actual controllers of the food sales chain, evade their own civil legal responsibilities through standard contract terms, transferring the contractual obligations and legal responsibilities of the product seller to offline suppliers. Because offline suppliers do not establish a substantial transaction relationship with consumers, it leads to difficulties for consumers in protecting their rights." Zhang Xueqiao (张雪樵), Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), stated that the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) held a public hearing, and on the basis of accurately grasping the substantial civil legal relationship between platform enterprises and consumers in accordance with the Civil Code, guided the local procuratorial organs to file 93 civil public interest lawsuits against the illegal acts of relevant platforms and issued 89 announcements, advocating that relevant platform enterprises modify illegal clauses in standard contracts in accordance with the law.

After the announcement was issued, many leading platform enterprises took the initiative to promise to fulfill the primary responsibility and ultimate guarantee responsibility to consumers for food quality and safety, and strictly regulate various standard contract terms in accordance with laws and regulations such as the Civil Code, and strengthen self-discipline management.

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Xinjiang posthumously confers the title of "Outstanding Communist Party Member of the Autonomous Region" on Comrade He Jiaolong

Urumqi, February 9th (Reported by Jiang Yunlong (蒋云龙)) The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共) recently decided to posthumously award Comrade He Jiaolong (贺娇龙) the title of "Outstanding Communist Party Member of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区优秀共产党员)." Before her death, He Jiaolong (贺娇龙) was the Director of the Autonomous Region's Agricultural Product Brand Construction and Production-Sales Service Center (自治区农产品品牌建设与产销服务中心) (Autonomous Region's Agricultural Foreign Cooperation Center (自治区农业对外合作中心)). She had been awarded honors such as Autonomous Region Advanced Worker (自治区先进工作者) and National March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter (全国三八红旗手). On January 11th, He Jiaolong (贺娇龙) accidentally fell from a horse during pre-shooting for an agricultural product e-commerce sales event in Bole City (博乐市). Despite all-out rescue efforts, she unfortunately passed away on January 14th.

Comrade He Jiaolong (贺娇龙) was loyal to the Party, firm in her beliefs, full of enthusiasm for her career, and deeply affectionate towards the people. She actively practiced the mass line, spoke for Xinjiang (新疆), and benefited the people. On the vast land of Xinjiang (新疆), she wrote the Communist Party member's answer to the times of "achieving political achievements for the people and achieving political achievements through hard work," making outstanding contributions to promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, promoting the integration of culture and tourism, and enhancing national unity.

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Gaode Taxi summoned for inadequate management and suppressing fares

This newspaper reported from Beijing on February 9th (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)) - The inter-ministerial joint conference office for collaborative supervision of new forms of transportation recently held a meeting with Gaode Taxi (高德打车). The meeting pointed out prominent issues with Gaode Taxi (高德打车), such as inadequate management of cooperative online ride-hailing platforms, suppressing fares, and improper emergency handling. Gaode Taxi (高德打车) was requested to take targeted measures to ensure comprehensive rectification and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the driver community.

The meeting requested the strengthening of supervision and management of cooperative online ride-hailing platforms. It urged cooperative platform enterprises to maintain relatively stable business strategies and strengthen monitoring and early warning of abnormal fluctuations in prices and income. It also urged them to earnestly implement public commitments to reduce commissions (fees) and ensure reasonable income for drivers. They should strengthen the review and management of connected online ride-hailing platforms, vehicles, and drivers, and continuously improve the level of compliance. They should strengthen order traceability monitoring and management to prevent orders from being resold and commissions being extracted at each level. They should ensure smooth channels for expressing demands and quickly respond to and address various demands and problems reflected by drivers. They should fulfill the responsibility of being the first point of contact and the responsibility of advance compensation in accordance with the law. They should strengthen traffic safety management and educate and guide practitioners to drive safely and legally. They should improve drivers' safe driving and emergency handling capabilities, and make every effort to ensure safe production and service guarantee during the Spring Festival travel season.

Gaode Taxi (高德打车) stated that it will strictly implement the requirements of the meeting, learn from the lessons, make up for shortcomings, 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "infer the rest from one instance," learn by analogy), comprehensively rectify, further enhance risk awareness, earnestly fulfill corporate responsibilities, operate in accordance with laws and regulations, resolve conflicts and problems in a timely manner, maintain a fair and competitive market order, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the driver community.

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Joint Sino-Myanmar-Thai crackdown on gambling and fraud compounds in Myawaddy, Myanmar achieves initial success

Beijing, February 9th (Reported by Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) According to the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), public security organs in Shandong (山东) and Guangxi (广西) recently organized police forces to escort more than 1,500 criminal suspects captured in the recent joint China-Myanmar-Thailand operation to clear out the gambling and fraud industrial park in Myawaddy (妙瓦底), Myanmar, back to China. As of now, more than 630 related buildings in the Myawaddy KK Park (妙瓦底KK园区) have been completely demolished, and all relevant criminal suspects involved in telecom fraud have been escorted back to China. The joint clearing operation has achieved initial success.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) stated that public security organs will continue to deepen international law enforcement cooperation, promote more joint strike and clearing operations, resolutely eradicate criminal dens, make every effort to hunt down criminal suspects, and continuously consolidate and expand the results of the crackdown and governance.

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Driver's Home Filled with Festive Atmosphere

In recent years, during every traditional festival, volunteers from Genglou Subdistrict (更楼街道), Jiande City (建德市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) organize activities at the "Driver's Home" to allow truck drivers and other migrant workers who are away from home year-round to feel warmth.

The photo shows February 9th, nearing the Lunar New Year, at the Driver's Home in Genglou Subdistrict (更楼街道), Jiande City (建德市), truck drivers and other migrant workers participating in the "Running Thousands of Miles, Happy Family" reunion New Year's Eve dinner event.

Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yu (徐昱) photographed.

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Editors of this page: Ji Jianming, Xu Leipeng, Chi Jiarui

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Successfully Hold the "China-Russia Year of Educational Exchange" to Support and Lead High-Level Development of Educational Cooperation Between the Two Countries

By: 怀进鹏

This year marks the beginning of China's "15th Five-Year Plan," as well as the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Russia strategic partnership of coordination and the 25th anniversary of the signing of the "China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation." When exchanging New Year's greetings, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin announced that the two countries would hold the "China-Russia Year of Education" in 2026-2027, providing fundamental guidance for both sides to strengthen practical cooperation in the field of education, deepen cultural exchanges and people-to-people connectivity, help the two countries develop and revitalize, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Currently, China-Russia relations have reached an all-time high and continue to develop steadily and comprehensively. The education departments of the two countries adhere to the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy and continue to deepen educational cooperation. The exchange of students between China and Russia has accelerated, with the scale of two-way study abroad exceeding 80,000, providing solid talent support for cooperation between the two countries in various fields. Chinese and Russian universities are actively exploring new models of cooperative education, and have established more than 150 cooperative education institutions and projects. The world's first Luban Workshop (鲁班工坊) introducing China's 5G technology has been established in Moscow, realizing complementary advantages in educational resources and the common improvement of educational levels. Fifteen alliances of similar universities in China and Russia bring together more than 800 universities to carry out joint scientific research and collaborative innovation in the fields of basic science and cutting-edge technology, achieving a series of internationally influential scientific research results. The enthusiasm for Chinese-Russian language exchange continues to rise. Confucius Institutes (孔子学院) and Confucius Classrooms (孔子课堂) in Russia had 27,000 students last year and held more than 1,200 cultural activities of various types. Russian language teaching is booming in China, with 185 universities in China offering Russian majors. The China-Russia Middle School Alliance brings together more than 140 middle schools, and academic and sports exchanges between young people from both sides are rich and colorful, and the breadth and depth of educational cooperation between the two countries are constantly expanding.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) proposed expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and creating a new situation of win-win cooperation. Standing at a new historical starting point, holding the "China-Russia Year of Education" is just in time. China and Russia have a 20-year tradition of holding theme years, and both sides have worked together to improve institutional mechanisms, continuously enrich the content of cooperation, and enhance people's well-being, and the people of the two countries are getting closer and closer. This is the tenth national-level theme year between the two countries, and also the first education theme year. It is an important strategic deployment made by the heads of state of the two countries based on the present and facing the future. It is an important task to serve national development and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. It is a practical measure to inherit friendship from generation to generation and tighten cultural bonds. It is also a powerful action to promote solidarity and cooperation in the Global South and set an example of major-country relations. Successfully holding the "China-Russia Year of Education" will be conducive to deepening practical cooperation between the two countries in various fields, further promoting the development of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era, and will also be conducive to China's education participating in the improvement and innovation of the global education governance system, providing important support for the implementation of the global governance initiative.

The two-year "China-Russia Year of Education" is another new journey for China-Russia cultural exchange and cooperation. We will work with the Russian side to promote collaborative education, collaborative scientific research, and collaborative governance, and promote the development of China-Russia educational cooperation towards higher quality and higher levels.

First, we will deeply cultivate educational cooperation and improve the collaborative education system. We will focus on improving the quality and efficiency of education and create a new pattern of educational cooperation covering all academic stages and broad fields. In the field of basic education, we will deepen the pairing of sister schools, further enrich the content of cooperation of the China-Russia Middle School Alliance, and share experience in education reform. In the field of higher education, we will support the high-quality development of Chinese-Russian cooperative education institutions, enrich the content of cooperative education projects, further expand the scale of two-way study abroad, and strengthen the joint training of professional talents. In the field of vocational education, we will promote the construction of Luban Workshops (鲁班工坊) and jointly cultivate technical and skilled talents that meet the industrial needs of the two countries. Taking projects as the starting point, we will jointly build a collaborative education system covering basic education, higher education, and vocational education.

Second, we will strengthen scientific research collaboration and build a joint innovation platform. We will closely focus on the economic and social development needs of both sides and deepen collaborative innovation in industry, academia, and research. Relying on platforms such as the China-Russia Basic Science Research Institute, we will focus on basic disciplines, emerging disciplines, and interdisciplinary fields to carry out joint scientific research and cultivate innovative talents in scientific and technological innovation. We will give play to the agglomeration effect of the China-Russia University Alliance of the same type, promote the opening and sharing of scientific research facilities and the transformation and application of academic achievements in similar fields. We will encourage young Chinese and Russian scientific research talents to visit and study each other, jointly carry out subject research, and promote the collision and integration of innovative ideas through academic exchange forums, scientific research achievement conferences and other platforms, and jointly improve the scientific research and innovation capabilities and international competitiveness of the two countries.

Third, we will deepen mutual learning in governance and improve the level of education modernization. We will uphold the concept of mutual learning and mutual reference and promote the modernization of the education governance system and governance capabilities. In the China-Russia Committee on Humanitarian Cooperation, the Education Cooperation Sub-Committee and other levels of dialogue mechanisms, we will jointly set agendas, exchange experiences, build consensus, and jointly study measures. The two sides will jointly respond to the challenges of the digital and intelligent era and promote the joint construction and sharing of educational resources. We will further improve the mutual recognition mechanism for academic qualifications and degrees, optimize the service management policies for international students, and provide high-quality service guarantees. We will actively participate in global education governance, learn from each other's education governance experience, combine our respective education comprehensive reform practices, jointly explore education governance paths that meet the requirements of the new era, and will also continue to strengthen constructive cooperation in multilateral mechanisms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) and BRICS countries (金砖国家) to build a more just and reasonable global governance system.

Fourth, we will cultivate humanistic feelings and consolidate the foundation of friendship from generation to generation. We will take the "China-Russia Year of Education" as a new starting point, run the concept of integrated development of education, science and technology talents throughout the theme year, strengthen cultural exchanges by expanding the depth of educational cooperation, and release the potential of educational cooperation by broadening the breadth of cultural exchanges. We will continue to run various brand activities for cultural exchanges, so that the people of the two countries can enhance understanding and forge friendships through personal interaction. Through cooperation in the field of education, we will give play to the "leading goose" effect, drive in-depth cooperation in the fields of science and technology, culture, health, sports, tourism, media, film, archives, youth, women, etc., widely launch collaborative exchange platforms between schools and localities, and schools and enterprises, promote the integrated development of educational exchanges and cultural fields, and create a good atmosphere in which the whole society pays attention to, supports, and participates in China-Russia cultural exchanges.

The curtain has been raised on the "China-Russia Year of Education." This is a milestone in educational cooperation between the two countries and a major event in the development of relations between the two countries. We firmly believe that under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, through the joint efforts of the education departments and people from all walks of life of both sides, China-Russia educational cooperation will surely achieve fruitful results, will surely vigorously consolidate the foundation for the high-quality development of China-Russia relations, serve the development and revitalization of the two countries, and will also inject more stability and positive energy into the world intertwined with changes and chaos, and write a new chapter in education for the better benefit of the people of the two countries and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

(The author is the Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Education (教育部党组书记、部长))

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2026 Chinese New Year Film Lineup Released

Beijing, February 9th (Reported by Liu Yang (刘阳)) The 2026 Spring Festival film list release conference, hosted by the National Film Administration (国家电影局), was held in Beijing (北京) on the 9th. The main creators of the film crews of the major films to be released during the Spring Festival gathered to promote the highlights of the films.

The films released during the Spring Festival are diverse in genre and subject matter, covering comedy, action, animation, science fiction and other types. "Silent War" tells the story of a national security team launching an operation against an important intelligence leak, staging a silent contest; "Blades of the Guardians: Desert Odyssey" presents the journey of a desert镖客 (biāo kè - escort) entrusted to escort a mysterious person back to Chang'an (长安), overcoming numerous crises along the way; "Pegasus 3" focuses on the theme of the final Bayinbrook Rally, with racers facing new challenges; "Starlight Dreams" unfolds a 脑洞大开 (nǎo dòng dà kāi - "brain hole wide open," imaginative and creative) dream adventure.

The press conference also promoted the "Film+" series of activities and film benefit policies for the people. On the same day, the main Spring Festival films officially started pre-sales.

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Gansu "High-Speed Rail Mobile Museum" Sets Off

This reporter Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰) reports from Lanzhou (兰州) on February 9th: At 10:38 AM on February 9th, the G848 train departed from Lanzhou West Station (兰州西站) heading towards Guangzhou South Station (广州南站), embarking on a journey of over 2000 kilometers to spread Longyuan (陇原) culture amidst the Spring Festival travel rush.

This train is a fully connected carriage "High-speed Rail Mobile Museum" jointly created by China Railway Lanzhou Bureau (国铁兰州局), Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (甘肃省文化和旅游厅), and Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau (甘肃省文物局), with the theme of "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping · Dynamic Longyuan," and will be on display for 30 days.

The "High-speed Rail Mobile Museum" is laid out with the characteristic of "one carriage one museum, one carriage one theme," "moving" 9 museums such as Dunhuang Research Academy (敦煌研究院), Gansu Provincial Museum (甘肃省博物馆), and Gansu Jian牘 Museum (甘肃简牍博物馆) onto the train. The Dunhuang Research Academy carriage incorporates elements of flying Apsaras murals and Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) painted sculptures into the design of the carriage wall panels, luggage racks, and small table panels; the Gansu Provincial Museum carriage focuses on "Bronze Running Horse · Longyuan Treasures," comprehensively displaying the cultural relic details and historical heritage of the bronze running horse, painted pottery, and other treasures of the museum... There are also 22 professional commentators on the train providing mobile explanations, simultaneously carrying out activities such as cultural relic promotion and mural printing.

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Notification Regarding the Investigation and Handling of the Incident Involving the Nanjing Museum's "Spring in Jiangnan" Scroll Appearing in the Auction Market Released

Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing (南京) February 9th (Reporters Ling Junhui (凌军辉) and Jiang Fang (蒋芳)) -- Recently, the "Nanbo (南博) *Jiangnan Spring* Scroll Appears in Auction Market" incident has aroused widespread social concern. Under the guidance of the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) working group, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee (江苏省委) and Provincial Government (省政府) investigation team conducted a comprehensive and in-depth investigation into the management of donated cultural relics related to the Nanjing Museum (南京博物院), and released a notice on the investigation and handling situation on the 9th.

The investigation team went to 12 provinces (municipalities directly under the central government) to investigate and collect evidence, interviewed more than 1,100 cadres, employees, and the public, reviewed more than 65,000 archival materials, collected more than 1,500 pieces of various documentary evidence, and organized the comparison of 30,255 pieces of calligraphy and painting cultural relics. They comprehensively traced the whereabouts of the five paintings donated by Pang Zenghu (庞增和), including the *Jiangnan Spring* Scroll collected by Nanbo (南博), and thoroughly investigated suspected dereliction of duty and other violations of discipline and law in the allocation and circulation process of the paintings.

After investigation, it was found that in the process of allocating and circulating paintings such as the *Jiangnan Spring* Scroll, the former Provincial Department of Culture (原省文化厅), Nanbo (南博), and the former Provincial Cultural Relics General Store (原省文物总店) violated relevant regulations on cultural relic management, illegally applied for and approved the allocation of cultural relics, and sold them without authorization, causing the loss of cultural relics, which had a negative social impact and must be dealt with seriously.

As of now, three paintings, the *Jiangnan Spring* Scroll, *Imitation of Beiyuan Landscape Axis*, and *Double Horse Axis*, have been recovered and stored in the Nanbo (南博) calligraphy and painting special vault. The *Landscape Axis in Color* is still stored in the Zhongshanmen (中山门) warehouse of Nanbo (南博) and has never been circulated. The *Pine Breeze Xiaosi Map Axis* is still being tracked down with all efforts.

After investigation, during his tenure as Executive Deputy Director of Nanbo (南博), Xu Huping (徐湖平) failed to perform the appraisal and review procedures as required, and illegally approved the application for allocating calligraphy and paintings such as the *Jiangnan Spring* Scroll to the General Store. During his tenure as the legal representative and manager of the General Store, Xu Huping (徐湖平) still agreed to the General Store selling relevant cultural relics after the national administrative department clearly prohibited the unauthorized sale and disposal of museum collections. He turned a blind eye to and failed to supervise and inspect the internal management chaos of the General Store, such as the inconsistency between accounts and goods, the combination of positions that should have been separated, and the lack of supervision and restriction, which is suspected of serious dereliction of duty. In addition, during his tenure as Executive Deputy Director and Director of Nanbo (南博), Xu Huping (徐湖平) should be held primarily responsible for the lack of cultural relic management, especially the management system for donated cultural relics, and the failure to implement the system in Nanbo (南博). Xu Huping (徐湖平) is also suspected of other serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervision investigation by the discipline inspection and supervision organs.

Zhang (张), an employee of the Nanbo (南博) Cultural and Creative Department, during his tenure as the custodian and salesperson of the calligraphy and painting warehouse of the General Store, used his position to manage state-owned assets, violated regulations, privately traded cultural relics, and obtained illegal benefits, which is suspected of serious dereliction of duty. Currently, Zhang (张) and related personnel are undergoing supervision investigation by the supervisory authority.

In addition, the investigation team seriously investigated and dealt with 24 people from the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (江苏省文旅厅), the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage (省文物局), Nanbo (南博), the General Store, and functional departments in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, and transferred those suspected of crimes to judicial organs. The results of the handling were announced in a timely manner.

It is reported that the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee (江苏省委) and Provincial Government (省政府) ordered Nanbo (南博) to deeply learn from the lessons and conduct in-depth reflection and rectification. At the same time, they ordered the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (省文旅厅) and the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Heritage (省文物局) to adhere to problem orientation, 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "infer the rest from one case," draw inferences about other cases from one instance) and carry out special governance of the safety management of cultural relics in state-owned museums throughout the province. The scope of investigation will be further expanded to state-owned libraries, art galleries, and other units, strengthening the education, management, and supervision of practitioners, severely cracking down on cultural relic crimes, and effectively safeguarding national cultural relic security.

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Xinjiang Culture and Tourism AIGC Promotional Video Creation Competition Awards Ceremony Held

This newspaper Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), February 9th (Reporter Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)) -- The "Let's Go Xinjiang (新疆)" 2025 Xinjiang (新疆) Culture and Tourism AIGC Promotional Video Creation Competition, sponsored by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Department of Culture and Tourism, recently concluded. Among the 214 entries, 17 winning works such as "The Wind Comes from Tianshan (天山)" were produced.

As the first large-scale innovative competition in the Xinjiang (新疆) cultural and tourism field focusing on AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content), the Xinjiang (新疆) Culture and Tourism AIGC Promotional Video Creation Competition has attracted extensive participation from technology creators, digital artists, and cultural and tourism enthusiasts across the country since its launch in July 2025, with online dissemination exceeding 30 million views.

Relevant officials from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Department of Culture and Tourism stated that this competition not only encouraged technological and artistic innovation, but also proactively embraced the digital age, and opened a new window full of possibilities for telling the story of Xinjiang (新疆).

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Yulin, Shaanxi: Comprehensive Cultural Tourism Unfolds a New Vision for the Millennial Camel City

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yulin City (榆林市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), adhered to the concept of "culture as the soul, tourism as the engine," deeply cultivating four major areas: public cultural services, intangible cultural heritage inheritance, cultural and tourism integration, and cultural and tourism brand building. This allows the millennium-old cultural heritage to complement modern tourism, and the city's image becomes more three-dimensional and vivid through cultural immersion.

Public Culture as Foundation: Inclusive Services Warm Hearts
Public cultural services are the foundation of urban cultural and tourism development. Yulin (榆林) has taken the construction of a "15-minute cultural circle" as a starting point, weaving a dense network of cultural benefits for the people, allowing citizens and tourists to share cultural dividends. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yulin (榆林) continued to improve public cultural service facilities, building 53 urban study rooms, 443 "library and cultural center" branches, and 3403 grassroots comprehensive cultural service centers, making cultural services readily available. The Yulin City Library (榆林市图书馆), with 64,800 square meters and a collection of 1.1 million books, has more than 3,500 reading seats. Since its opening in April 2024, it has received a total of 3.92 million readers, lent out 1.4 million books, and held 878 cultural activities, attracting 980,000 participants, becoming the "spiritual granary" of citizens.
The Yulin City Cultural Center (榆林市文化馆) aims to "make the cultural center a lifelong aesthetic education school for the people," offering 41 public welfare courses, achieving "training every day, performances every week." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the city carried out more than 10,000 benefit-the-people performances such as "Opera Enters the Countryside," benefiting more than 70 million people. Yulin (榆林) has built a solid foundation for cultural and tourism development with inclusive and shared public cultural services, allowing the fragrance of culture and books to permeate thousands of households.

Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance: Millennium-Old Culture Renews its Glory
As an important part of the national-level Shaanbei Cultural Ecological Protection Zone (陕北文化生态保护区), Yulin (榆林) regards the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage as a key code for cultural and tourism development, allowing ancient skills to be revitalized through upholding tradition and innovation. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yulin (榆林) continued to improve the intangible cultural heritage protection mechanism, issuing a number of protection and management measures. The city has built 1 municipal-level intangible cultural heritage comprehensive exhibition hall, 1 Shaanbei Folk Song Museum (陕北民歌博物馆), 7 comprehensive intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls, 9 special intangible cultural heritage halls, 10 independent exhibition halls, and 159 intangible cultural heritage inheritance centers (sites) at the county level and above, forming a multi-level display matrix.
Living inheritance allows intangible cultural heritage to integrate into the daily life of citizens. In schools, intangible cultural heritage characteristic courses are very popular; in museums and cultural centers, intangible cultural heritage experience and exchange activities emerge one after another; online, intangible cultural heritage inheritors frequently "break the circle"; in scenic spots, skills such as dough figurines, stone carvings, and paper-cutting are readily available, and Shaanbei folk songs and storytelling are performed in turn... Yulin (榆林) innovates the "intangible cultural heritage + festivals," "intangible cultural heritage + tourism," and "intangible cultural heritage + rural revitalization" models, successfully holding the first China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Annual Meeting and the National Yangko Performance, making intangible cultural heritage a "traffic code" to attract tourists.

Deep Integration of Culture and Tourism: All-Area Experience Attracts Visitors
Yulin (榆林) reshapes the industrial pattern with the concept of "all-area tourism," realizing the upgrade from "scenic spot tourism" to "all-area experience." Taking Yulin Ancient City (榆林古城) as the center, it forms three cultural tourism belts along the Yellow River (黄河), along the Great Wall (长城), and along the "Route of Transferring Battles in Northern Shaanxi (转战陕北线路)," connecting 75 national A-level tourist attractions, including 21 4A-level tourist attractions, ranking first in the province in terms of quantity. Supporting facilities are upgraded simultaneously, with 31 star-rated hotels, 67 travel agencies, and 2 national Class C tourist homestays optimizing services; the number of high-speed train services is increased, tourist special lines are optimized, and a smart tourism service platform is fully covered, creating a convenient and comfortable travel experience for tourists.
Cultural relic protection and tourism development complement each other. Yulin Ancient City (榆林古城) follows the principle of "restoring the old as old," completing the renovation of ancient buildings and the upgrading of infrastructure, and was rated as a national-level tourist leisure block; Shimao Ruins (石峁遗址) was listed as a national archaeological site park, and a number of museums were built and opened; Bilinwan Ski Resort (碧麟湾滑雪场), Bulanghe Desert Ice and Snow Park (补浪河大漠冰雪园) and other new scenes continue to emerge, enriching the supply of tourism products. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yulin (榆林) received a total of 170 million domestic tourists, realizing a tourism revenue of 103.417 billion yuan, and the cultural and tourism economy has become a strong engine for high-quality development.

Building Cultural and Tourism IPs: City Name Cards Light Up
Yulin (榆林) is building two major cultural and tourism IPs, "Celebrating the New Year in Northern Shaanxi Yulin (陕北榆林过大年)" and "Cool Yulin (清爽榆林)," forming an all-season tourism pattern of "winter and spring folk customs, summer and autumn summer resorts."
"Celebrating the New Year in Northern Shaanxi Yulin (陕北榆林过大年)" deeply explores the core of folk culture, creating a complete chain of "folk performance + immersive experience + festival consumption." In 2025, the National Yangko Performance attracted 39 domestic and foreign teams and more than 3,000 actors, with more than 600,000 people watching the performance on site and more than 70 million people watching the live broadcast online; the 2026 event will integrate technological elements such as robot Yangko teams and thousands of drone performances, allowing traditional folk customs to be revitalized.
"Cool Yulin (清爽榆林)" undertakes the summer cultural and tourism demand, with "summer resort + leisure" as the main positioning, relying on Yulin's (榆林) cool summer climate advantages and rich ecological landscape to build a diversified product matrix. After 10 years of deep cultivation, "Cool Yulin (清爽榆林)" has developed from a single sandy summer resort activity to an all-area cultural and tourism event throughout the summer and autumn seasons, covering diverse content such as intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, sports events, music festivals, and rural experiences, forming an all-area linkage pattern of "main venue + twelve counties and cities."
Today's Yulin (榆林) has not only the hard-core strength of an energy base, but also the humanistic charm of cultural tourism. Standing at a new starting point, Yulin (榆林) will continue to deeply cultivate its cultural foundation, promote the deep integration of culture and tourism with ecology, sports, and technology, and the millennium-old camel city will show the world a new image of the frontier fortress that "has both historical temperature and contemporary vitality" with a richer cultural heritage and a more vivid tourism experience.

Data source: Publicity Department of the Yulin Municipal Committee of the CPC (中共榆林市委宣传部)
Yulin Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism (榆林市文化和旅游局)

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This edition's editors: Cao Yiqing, Dong Yingxue, Zhao Shuaijie

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Accompanying moments of reunion, illuminating the light of dreams.

The seasons change, and the Bingwu year of the Horse is approaching. Amidst the festive and joyous atmosphere of welcoming the Spring Festival, the bright blue of Yanghe Dream Blue is particularly dazzling. This year marks the seventh consecutive year that Yanghe Dream Blue M6+ has been the time announcement partner for the China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) Spring Festival Gala. On this year's Lunar New Year's Eve, at the two key time announcement moments of 8 PM and 12 AM, it will join Chinese people around the world in celebrating reunion and ushering in the New Year.

The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. As a time-honored Chinese brand, Yanghe Liquor (洋河酒) has also been accompanying consumers in celebrating the Spring Festival in recent years: in the lively atmosphere, the mellow aroma of liquor brewed using the Yanghe Liquor Brewing Technique (洋河酒酿造技艺), a national intangible cultural heritage, showcases a profound historical and cultural heritage; it has launched New Year gift boxes incorporating zodiac paper-cutting elements, supported shadow puppet performances, and appeared in local folk cultural activities such as the Qinhuai Lantern Fair (秦淮灯彩); before this year's Spring Festival, Yanghe Co., Ltd. (洋河股份) launched the "Yanghe 'Biao' Fortune, Full Horsepower" opening-lid lottery event, giving consumers the opportunity to win Yanghe Golden Horse Galloping Zodiac Liquor, and Dream Blue limited gift boxes incorporating "couplets" and "Fu characters" design elements... Yanghe Co., Ltd. continues to enrich the New Year customs experience and deeply integrate into the "New Year flavor" full of intangible cultural heritage memories.

From Lunar New Year's Eve 2020 to 2025, the blessing "Yanghe Dream Blue M6+ wishes Chinese people around the world a happy Spring Festival" has witnessed thousands of reunion moments, and also pays tribute to those who stick to their posts during the Spring Festival, using long-term companionship to interpret the brand cultural core of "Our Dream, the Dream of the Times." This year's Lunar New Year's Eve, Yanghe Dream Blue will continue this New Year's companionship with more creative forms and deeper emotional expression.

The time announcement blessing for seven consecutive years is not only a mark of time, but also a continuation of Yanghe's dream. Yanghe Co., Ltd. has long adhered to the public welfare practice of national brands, adding color to the dreams of the great country and small families with practical actions. It has built a brand cultural strategy of "Marching into the Deep Blue, Aspiring to the High Skies, Pursuing Dreams in the Azure Sky," and continues to support the construction of a strong aerospace country and a strong maritime country with public welfare actions, supporting the pursuit of dreams in the stars and the sea; it has established the "Dream Blue Public Welfare Fund" and carried out the "Dream Blue Handmade Class Scholarship to Help Students Realize Their Dreams Public Welfare Trip" activity. For more than 20 years, its scholarship footprints have spread across the country, helping outstanding students to shine in their lives and realize their dreams.

Small family reunion, big family dream come true. This year's Lunar New Year's Eve, let us meet again, in the company of Yanghe Dream Blue's punctual time announcement, to celebrate the Spring Festival, appreciate the beauty of reunion, and look forward to the blooming of dreams in the new year.

Data source: Yanghe Co., Ltd. (洋河股份)

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Falling and getting back up is a skier's instinct (Olympic Perspective)

By: 本报记者 陈晨曦 曾华锋 王 亮

There was no frustration, only the smile after conquering oneself. Local time February 9th, Gu Ailing (谷爱凌), who had just stepped down from the freestyle skiing women's slopestyle podium at the Milan Winter Olympics, was surrounded by surprises. The organizing committee specially arranged for Gu Ailing's friends, who were cheering for her at the venue, to have a video call with her. Gu Ailing was momentarily speechless and excitedly showed her friends the silver medal she had just won. This is also her fourth medal and second silver medal in two Winter Olympics.

Gu Ailing's first Winter Olympics silver medal was also won in the slopestyle event. Four years ago at the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), she lost to Swiss athlete Mathilde Gremaud by 0.33 points. This time, she finished second to Mathilde by almost the same slight margin, winning the silver medal.

"I did my best set of moves in the competition today, and Mathilde also completed her best set of moves in the second round. I think today's competition was very successful, because it's not just about constantly challenging myself, but also constantly challenging the limits of this sport," said Gu Ailing.

To be able to stand on the Winter Olympics stage again, Gu Ailing has experienced a lot in the past year. Injuries once made her doubt herself. Starting with a serious fall in early 2025, various injuries followed her like a shadow. Enduring the injuries, Gu Ailing began 10 hours of high-intensity rehabilitation training every day. Her method of relieving stress is also very unique. When she is stressed, she sets a 5-minute countdown on her phone, and cries out all her grievances or anxieties in these 5 minutes. After releasing the pressure, she immediately throws herself into training, using extreme self-discipline to fight against injuries, gradually rebuild body trust, and restore her competitive state.

However, her condition after returning from injury was not ideal. In the Stubai Slopestyle World Cup in November 2025, she failed to qualify for the final. The outside world was full of doubts about her Winter Olympics prospects.

In freestyle skiing, an extreme sport, getting up after falling has almost become an instinct. "Skiing is not who I am, but what I do. It makes me feel most alive because it embodies all the values I use to measure myself - resilience, pursuit of excellence, challenging human limits, and inspiring others in my own way," said Gu Ailing. At the Winter Olympics, she once again proved herself. "Either don't compete, but once you compete, you must go all out. Even if you are in a situation that seems impossible to win, you must dare to try. As long as you do the moves perfectly, you have a chance to get the results you want," said Gu Ailing.

Equally daring to try was Liu Mengting (刘梦婷), who entered the final in her first Winter Olympics. In the first round, she completed the most difficult set of moves in her career: "With the difficulty of my first jump, even if I succeeded, it might not change anything. But after I really succeeded, I wanted to challenge new difficulties and compete with these world-class players."

Like the qualifying round, Liu Mengting decided to try new moves in the last two rounds that she had never done during training. "Unfortunately, there were some mistakes in the last two rounds." In the end, Liu Mengting finished fifth. "I am very satisfied that I can safely complete the competition and fully demonstrate my moves in my first Olympic Games," said Liu Mengting.

Before the competition, Han Linsan (韩林杉), a Chinese team athlete who qualified for the final, had already entered the venue to warm up, but unfortunately withdrew from the competition because he hit his knee again during training, which he had injured in the qualifying round. "The fact that our Chinese team had 3 athletes in the final proves the progress of China in this event, and shows that our training methods, training modes and training goals are correct."

Han Linsan, who missed the competition due to injury, did not succumb to the injury. "My injury has not yet been clearly diagnosed and needs further observation. My biggest wish now is not to affect the Big Air competition later. I long to go all out again in the best condition." Although the competition has come to an end, the instinct to get up after falling has been presented in Gu Ailing's rebirth, Liu Mengting's daring to fight, and Han Linsan's perseverance despite injuries. In them, shines the moving light of Chinese athletes' courage and determination.

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Cherish the Less Glaring Breakthroughs (Winter Olympics Observations)

By: 刘硕阳

After leading the Japanese team's athlete across the finish line, an excited Liu Hanbin (刘瀚彬) repeatedly pumped his fists in celebration. In the men's 5000m speed skating competition at the Milan Winter Olympics, which concluded on the afternoon of February 8th local time, this 19-year-old Chinese athlete ultimately finished in seventeenth place. This ranking is the best result for the Chinese team in this event at the Winter Olympics.

Since the opening of this Winter Olympics, Chinese athletes have been making breakthroughs on the field. Su Yiming (苏翊鸣) withstood the pressure to collect three medals of different colors in two Winter Olympics, Zeng Ping (曾坪) created the best Winter Olympics result for the Chinese team in the women's individual normal hill ski jumping, and 3 athletes entered the final of the women's freestyle skiing slopestyle event... Among these, there are dazzling medals, and more are the seemingly less dazzling improvements in rankings, but no matter the size of the breakthrough, each one is especially worth cherishing.

Breakthroughs stem from long-term accumulation. 罗马不是一日建成的 (Luómǎ bùshì yīrì jiànchéng - "Rome wasn't built in a day," great achievements require long, sustained effort). This proverb related to the host of this Winter Olympics is also a portrayal of the development of many winter sports in China. Compared with summer sports, China's ice and snow sports started late and at a low level, and catching up and climbing requires more patience and accumulation. 19-year-old Han Linshan (韩林杉) surprised everyone in the qualifying round. In her opinion, frequent participation in competitions in recent years has accumulated experience for her. Being "well-informed" about ski parks around the world is a major reason for her stable improvement in performance and breakthrough in results.

Breakthroughs also motivate Chinese ice and snow athletes to continue to forge ahead. Before Liu Hanbin (刘瀚彬) took the stage, Chinese athletes had not been able to reach the stage of the men's 5000m speed skating at the Winter Olympics for nearly 20 years. From the Asian Winter Games runner-up to breaking the national record, and then to creating the best Winter Olympics result for Chinese athletes in this event, Liu Hanbin (刘瀚彬) said, "I think we will soon be able to connect with the world."

逆水行舟，不进则退 (nì shuǐ xíng zhōu, bù jìn zé tuì - "rowing upstream, not to advance is to retreat," one must keep forging ahead or be left behind). In today's rapidly developing winter sports, continuous breakthroughs are also a requirement for Chinese ice and snow sports to catch up with the world's advanced level. In the 4 years between the two Winter Olympics, the difficulty of the men's snowboard big air event has been "upgraded" several times. As the defending champion, Su Yiming (苏翊鸣)'s ability to maintain a world-class level amidst the "encirclement" of young athletes is also a breakthrough for himself. From a macro perspective, the Winter Olympics are constantly developing and changing, the setting of events is frequently adjusted, and the competition between the delegations is becoming increasingly fierce, all of which require the Chinese team to dare to face difficulties and show the courage to challenge themselves.

One breakthrough after another, whether large or small, marks a period of development in China's ice and snow sports, and also witnesses the firm footsteps of Chinese ice and snow athletes moving forward. Therefore, please cherish every breakthrough of the athletes on the field, even if they may seem a little less dazzling.

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Excitement and Surprises on the Speed Skating Rink

By: 本报记者 刘硕阳

More than an hour before the start of the competition, the subway to the Milan Speed Skating Oval was already packed with spectators, and the subsequent competition certainly lived up to their enthusiasm.

In the men's 5000m speed skating event of the Milan Winter Olympics held on the afternoon of February 8th, local time, Norwegian star Sander Eitrem won the championship, improving the record set by Swedish athlete van der Poel at the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会) by nearly 5 seconds.

This is not the first Winter Olympics record to be born at the Milan Speed Skating Oval. In the women's 3000m speed skating competition the day before, Italian athlete Francesca Lollobrigida "set a new record" at this Winter Olympics. Chinese athletes Liu Hanbin (刘瀚彬) and Yang Binyu (杨滨瑜) both ranked seventeenth in their respective events. Among them, Liu Hanbin overtook the Japanese athlete in the second half of the fourth group of the men's 5000m speed skating, and was the first to reach the finish line, creating the best Winter Olympics result for Chinese athletes in this event.

Witnessing the birth of two Winter Olympics records on the spot allowed Liu Hanbin and Yang Binyu, who were on the Winter Olympics stage for the first time, to experience the gap, and also inspired them to continue to work hard. "Being able to lead the same group of opponents to reach the finish line is already a big surprise." Liu Hanbin successively broke the national records for the men's 10000m and men's 5000m speed skating last year. In his opinion, improvements in training methods have helped him make significant progress.

Speaking of future goals, "Naturally, it's a medal!" Liu Hanbin's words were firm and sincere.

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Slope Style: How to Score High (Winter Olympics in a Nutshell)

The slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics combines both entertainment and competition. Athletes traverse a course filled with various obstacles (rails, jumps, etc.), independently choreographing their routes and completing technical maneuvers. Judges score based on the difficulty, creativity, and fluidity of the maneuvers.

Slopestyle courses generally feature 3-4 jump sections and 3-4 feature sections (rails, boxes, walls, etc.). Competitors must integrate jumping and feature techniques in a single run. The total score for the slopestyle event is 100 points. In the preliminary rounds, the best score from the athlete's two runs is usually selected as the final score, while in the finals, the best score from three runs is selected.

In major competitions such as the World Cup, World Championships, and Olympic Games, judges often score each feature section, and the sum of the scores for each section constitutes the segment score. Diversity and innovation in maneuvers are key to achieving high scores, requiring the integration of regular and switch stances, different rotations, and grab techniques, while avoiding repetition of single maneuvers. Original maneuvers or unique styles can earn progressive bonus points. At the same time, maintaining a consistent speed throughout the run and smoothly linking features and jumps can enhance the judges' overall impression of the athlete. In general, completion is fundamental; precise takeoffs, proper grabs, and landings without hand touches or wobbles are hard indicators. If mistakes occur, significant point deductions will be incurred.

(Reported by Wang Liang (王亮), this newspaper)

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Brand popularity reflects innovative vitality (Winter Olympics Notes)

By: 本报记者 巩育华

In February, in Milan (米兰), as the Olympic flame of the Winter Olympics illuminated the snowy peaks of the Dolomites (多洛米蒂山), this ancient European city not only welcomed the world's top winter athletes but also became a window to feel the pulse of the global economy.

Although this Winter Olympics is not hosted by China, "Chinese elements" are everywhere. Strolling inside and outside the venues, many Chinese brands are witnessing the development of China's sports industry, demonstrating China's innovative vitality and cultural confidence to the world.

Chinese ice and snow equipment is highly sought after. In the intense cross-country skiing competition, over 70% of the carbon fiber ski poles in the athletes' hands come from Fujian (福建) enterprise Pier Fiber (彼尔纤维), attracting athletes from many countries to "vote with their feet" due to their lighter weight, higher strength, and lower wind resistance. Products from Shanghai Youtu (上海悠途), Hangzhou Tituo (杭州体拓), and other companies are sold to many countries and regions such as the United States (美国) and the United Kingdom (英国). Tanbor (坦博尔), an enterprise from Qingzhou (青州市), Weifang (潍坊), Shandong (山东), not only serves some teams of the Chinese sports delegation but also provides competition and training uniforms for the Austrian (奥地利) national snowboard team. At the opening ceremony, Chinese sports brands such as Anta (安踏), Li Ning (李宁), and Peak (匹克) appeared one after another, triggering "attention" and praise on social media.

In professional competitions, victory or defeat often depends on the slightest margin. In the past, the high-end ice and snow equipment market was long monopolized by foreign brands. In recent years, Chinese companies have made breakthroughs, from improving the precision and toughness of composite materials to developing "black technology" warm fabrics. With excellent craftsmanship and supply chain resilience, they have become a trusted choice for professional events, demonstrating the transformation of Chinese manufacturing from "quantity" to "quality."

In the details, we see the footprints of manufacturing upgrades.

If equipment is the physical support, technology is the invisible wing. Walking into several venues of the Milan (米兰) Winter Olympics, the ultra-high-definition large screens provided by the Chinese company TCL (TCL) remain colorful in low-temperature environments, accurately capturing the moment when ice blades cut across the ice surface. In the invisible "cloud," a relay race of technology is also underway. As a global partner of the Olympics, Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) relies on powerful computing power and artificial intelligence algorithms to generate "bullet time" effects, allowing global audiences to enjoy the athletes' takeoffs and rotations from 360 degrees.

From basic hardware to broadcasting technology and traffic scheduling, Chinese companies provide not only equipment but also a complete set of efficient and intelligent solutions, injecting innovative vitality into the century-old Olympics.

Beyond the "cloud," we are also witnessing the wisdom of technology empowerment and green development.

The most impressive scene appeared near the Milan Cathedral (米兰大教堂). Next to this Gothic building, BYD's (比亚迪) modern showroom is very eye-catching. Inside the store, customers are constantly consulting with the staff or sitting in the cockpit to explore. On the streets of Milan (米兰), one can often see new energy vehicles of Chinese brands shuttling back and forth. In Europe (欧洲), the birthplace of the automotive industry, Chinese new energy vehicles are integrating into local life as rising stars.

A set of data can confirm this – in 2025, China's new energy vehicle exports reached 2.615 million units, a year-on-year increase of 100%. China's automotive industry is moving towards green development, injecting key momentum into the global automotive industry's green transformation.

From the carbon fiber technology of a ski pole to the global computing power of a "cloud," and then to the green development of a car... Through the window of the Winter Olympics, Chinese brands that empower both inside and outside the venues are showing the world the vitality of China's economy. This vitality, like a great river surging endlessly, flows into the sea of the world economy, stirring up layers of waves.

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This edition's editors: Lin Lin, Gao Ji, Wang Zhe

Layout Design: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Working Together to Enhance Highlights and Improve Sense of Gain (Beautiful China: Focusing on Ecological Collaborative Governance)

By: 本报记者 邵玉姿

The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal suggests strengthening the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, the synergy of multi-pollutant control, and the synergy of regional governance.

To improve the collaborative protection mechanism for the ecological environment in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, to deepen cross-provincial water protection cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta, to strengthen the comprehensive management of the nearshore sea areas of the Pearl River Estuary in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area... Starting today, this edition launches a series of reports on "Beautiful China: Focusing on Ecological Collaborative Governance" to see how various regions deepen mechanism innovation, explore ecological co-construction, and write new chapters of cooperation in the practice of building a pioneering area for a beautiful China.

--Editor

The Yanshan Mountains stretch across the northern part of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and the Taihang Mountains lean against the west side of the three places; the Haihe River system nourishes the three places, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal stretches for hundreds of kilometers... Connected by mountains and rivers, and adjacent to each other geographically, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is not only an economic community, but also an ecological community.

Establishing special working groups, formulating and issuing collaborative work rules, establishing consultation and negotiation mechanisms, building exchange and cooperation platforms... As Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development enters its twelfth year, the three regions are promoting ecological collaborative governance, turning "pollution pain points" into "ecological highlights," and helping the people of the three regions share a sense of ecological gain with blue skies, green land, and clear waters.

A Clear Wave Nourishes Three Places
Collaborative Governance of Cross-Border Rivers

The blue sky is reflected on the water surface, and flocks of migratory birds play and rest... Just after the beginning of spring, the gurgling clear water of the Chaobai River flows to the distance.

The Chaobai River is a cross-border river, flowing from Tongzhou District (通州区), Beijing (北京) through the three northern counties of Langfang City (廊坊市), Hebei (河北), and joining the Yongding New River (永定新河) in Tianjin (天津). The Langfang section is 61.3 kilometers long, of which the boundary river section with Tongzhou District (通州区), Beijing (北京) on the left and right banks is as long as 40 kilometers.

Standing to observe the water quality, bending down to check whether there are traces of sewage discharge on the bank slopes, and cleaning up floating objects on the water surface in a timely manner... In Langfang (廊坊), at the confluence of the Chaobai River (潮白河) and the Niumutun Diversion River (牛牧屯引河), Zhou Haiyang (周海洋), director of the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Center of the Langfang Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (廊坊市生态环境局), is inspecting along the river patrol trail.

"Every month, the bureau will send professional technicians to sample and monitor the basin. We will share the test data of the water samples in the work group simultaneously, and jointly analyze it with the ecological environment departments and water conservancy departments of the three northern counties and Tongzhou District (通州区), Beijing (北京)," said Zhou Haiyang (周海洋).

In the past, the governance of the river sections bordering the three regions was a problem due to differences in the local governance models of the three regions of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), inconsistent standards caused by administrative barriers, and insufficient joint governance efforts; with the continuous deepening of regional coordinated development, the three regions have established a regular joint consultation mechanism to achieve basin collaborative governance.

The Chaobai River (潮白河) is a microcosm of collaborative water management.

"We actively connect with upstream Beijing (北京) and downstream Tianjin (天津) and other places to jointly discuss the water quality and quantity changes of cross-border rivers, carry out joint law enforcement, hidden danger investigation, emergency response and other actions, and build a joint prevention and control system for sudden water pollution incidents in the upstream and downstream of the basin," Zhou Haiyang (周海洋) introduced. Under collaborative governance, the water quality of cross-border sections such as the Chaobai River (潮白河) has improved significantly. In 2025, the water quality of national surface water assessment sections such as the Sangzihongqi Sluice (桑梓红旗闸) of the Ju River (泃河), the Wucun (吴村) of the Chaobai River (潮白河), and the Tumenlou (土门楼) of the North Canal (北运河) all reached or were better than the Class III surface water standards.

"The three places working together is really effective! In the past, there were many weeds by the river, and the river water was relatively turbid. Now, not only is the river water clearer and there are more fish, but also trails have been built on both sides, which is very comfortable for walking." As a native of Langfang (廊坊), Wang Li (王力), 53, is very happy to see the Chaobai River (潮白河) becoming more and more beautiful every day.

Not only the Chaobai River (潮白河), but also cross-border rivers such as the Luan River (滦河) and the Yongding River (永定河) have achieved collaborative protection. In 2024, the water quality of cross-border sections such as the Chao River (潮河), Bai River (白河), Sha River (沙河), and Li River (黎河) reached Class II or above.

Green Travel Integrated into Life
Expanding Regional Carbon Benefit Scenarios

At 8:00 a.m., at the Beiguo Mall Station (北国商城站) of Shijiazhuang (石家庄) Metro Line 1 in Hebei (河北), citizen Hu Kaiqi (胡凯琦) took out his "Yanzhao Tong" (燕赵通) transportation card and gently placed it close to the gate machine. With a "beep" sound, Hu Kaiqi (胡凯琦) not only successfully exited the station, but the "Carbon Benefit Yanzhao" (碳惠燕赵) mini-program in his mobile phone was also updated simultaneously - this subway trip accumulated 1.75 carbon points, reducing carbon emissions by 174.8 grams.

In order to encourage the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to carry out various forms of carbon benefit activities and mobilize the power of the whole society to voluntarily participate in carbon emission reduction, in October 2024, the three regions of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) implemented the "Carbon Benefit Project Emission Reduction Calculation Technical Specification Low-Carbon Travel" standard, which is also the first regional emission reduction calculation technical document in the field of low-carbon travel carbon benefits in China. In December of the same year, the Shijiazhuang (石家庄) carbon benefit platform "Carbon Benefit Yanzhao" (碳惠燕赵) mini-program was launched and operated. Residents can register and open their own exclusive carbon point accounts on the mini-program and bind them to the "Yanzhao Tong" (燕赵通) transportation card. When using the "Yanzhao Tong" (燕赵通) transportation card to take buses or subways, the "Carbon Benefit Yanzhao" (碳惠燕赵) mini-program will automatically record and collect the corresponding travel data, calculate the carbon emission reduction of this trip synchronously, and obtain the corresponding carbon points.

"'Carbon Benefit Yanzhao' (碳惠燕赵) mini-program realizes the digital recording and quantitative management of residents' green behaviors, forming a transparent and integrable carbon benefit voluntary emission reduction measurement system and rights exchange mechanism," said Chen Yuanyuan (陈园园), a cadre of the Comprehensive Department of the Hebei Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (河北省生态环境厅). When the carbon points accumulated by residents reach a certain amount, they can also be exchanged for various green rights such as bus and subway electronic tickets, shared bicycle coupons, green financial rights, and green product coupons.

"Taking the subway and bus is not only economical and convenient, but also contributes to low-carbon travel. Every time I see the points increase, I feel particularly meaningful." Since the launch of the mini-program, Hu Kaiqi (胡凯琦) has insisted on green travel. Previously, he also exchanged his accumulated carbon points for a canvas bag. In Shijiazhuang (石家庄), more and more citizens like Hu Kaiqi (胡凯琦) are gradually integrating "carbon reduction" into their daily lives.

"We will strive to expand the carbon benefit scenarios in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, study the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional carbon benefit standards for different scenarios, and further promote green and low-carbon development," said Chen Yuanyuan (陈园园).

Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Land Greening
Continuously Weaving a Dense Ecological Barrier

In the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm (塞罕坝机械林场) in Hebei (河北), the snow has not melted, and the continuous forest sea stretches to the sky. Forester Zhou He (周赫) went up the mountain with his colleagues early in the morning.

"The new year's tree planting season is coming soon, and now is the time to prepare." While Zhou He (周赫) was carrying out routine patrols, he repaired the damaged protective fence in a timely manner. "In recent years, the forest farm has mainly focused on afforestation on stony sunny slopes and under the forest canopy. It is difficult to plant trees on 'stone mountains', and there are many restrictions on land preparation under the forest canopy, but we have to work hard to gnaw down on these 'hard bones'."

"The survival rate and preservation rate of afforestation on 106,000 mu of stony mountains have reached more than 95% and 85% respectively." Yu Shitao (于士涛), director of the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm (塞罕坝机械林场), said that the forest coverage rate of the forest farm will increase to 84% in 2026, and the timber storage per unit area will increase to 142 cubic meters per hectare.

Expanding green is not only the "mission" of Saihanba (塞罕坝).

In the Bashang area (坝上) in the north, Zhangjiakou (张家口) and Chengde (承德), located on the southern edge of the Hunshandake Sandy Land (浑善达克沙地), are deeply advancing the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project (三北防护林体系工程) and the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Control Project (京津风沙源治理工程) to build a sand prevention line for Beijing (北京) and Tianjin (天津);

In the Taihang Mountains (太行山) in the west, Xingtai (邢台), Handan (邯郸) and other places are focusing on the ecological restoration of stony mountains, comprehensively promoting the Taihang Mountain Greening Project (太行山绿化工程), covering barren hills with green, and cumulatively increasing green by more than 10 million mu;

In the North China Plain, Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) is practicing the concept of "planting green before building the city", promoting the construction of the Millennium Forest (千年秀林) with high standards, adopting the near-natural forest model of "different ages, multiple layers, and mixed planting", building 483,000 mu of the Millennium Forest (千年秀林), with a forest area of 743,000 mu, and the forest coverage rate has jumped from 11% before the establishment of the New Area to 35.1%...

"This year, we will vigorously create mixed forests and promote the model of introducing trees into shrubs to build a healthy and stable forest ecosystem of trees and shrubs mixed together, and comprehensively promote sustainable forest management." Wang Zhong (王忠), Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Hebei Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau (河北省林草局), said that in the future, more attention will be paid to improving quality, revitalizing industries, and benefiting the people, expanding the transformation path of "Two Mountains" (绿水青山就是金山银山 (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains," lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets)), and making the continuous green a common ecological benefit for the three regions of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北).

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Fragrant cured meat, where does the flavor come from? (Telling you about nature)

By: 汪雪娇

The vast majority of cured meat products undergo a fermentation process, forming unique flavor profiles due to differences in raw materials, processes, and regional microbial communities.

As the Spring Festival approaches, many families are drying cured meats, sausages, and salted fish on their balconies, creating a festive atmosphere. Do you know how these common cured meat products come about?

Generally speaking, cured meat products mainly include various categories such as ham (such as Jinhua Ham (金华火腿) and Xuanwei Ham (宣威火腿)), cured meat, salted meat, and sausages (such as Cantonese sausage and Sichuan sausage). In addition, cured aquatic products such as stinky mandarin fish are also an important branch. From a production process perspective, the vast majority of cured meat products undergo a fermentation process – a biochemical process jointly performed by microorganisms, enzymes, and time.

When cured meat products are hung in a low-temperature, dry environment, the high-salt, low-water activity environment gradually formed on the surface inhibits spoilage bacteria, but creates fermentation conditions for specific Staphylococcus, yeast, Penicillium, Aspergillus, and other microorganisms. These invisible "flavor engineers" decompose proteins and fats in meat through secreting proteases, lipases, and other enzymes. Proteins are degraded into flavorful substances such as peptides and amino acids, which can be further converted into aroma precursors such as aldehydes and ketones; fats are hydrolyzed and oxidized to generate abundant volatile flavor substances, and undergo esterification reactions to form ester compounds with fruity sweetness and wine aroma.

Different types of cured meat products form unique flavor profiles due to differences in raw materials, processes, and regional microbial communities. Ham products are dominated by aldehydes and alcohols, emitting aromas similar to nuts or green grass; Cantonese sausages add alcohol, with prominent esters and a sweet and mellow flavor; Sichuan sausages blend spices and fermented flavors, with a spicy and rich taste; the key to smoked cured meat lies in phenolic substances such as guaiacol and eugenol produced during the smoking process, which impart a unique smoky aroma...

These traditional production processes contain the simple wisdom of regulating microorganisms through salt, humidity, and temperature, which highly coincides with the modern food fermentation concept of "using beneficial bacteria to shape flavor."

How to choose high-quality cured meat products? Observe the color: the surface should be dry, the fat should be naturally milky white, and the lean meat should be dark red and uniform; smell the aroma: it should have a mellow and natural cured aroma, without any off-putting odors; examine the texture: the meat should be firm and elastic, with a slightly oily and moist surface that is not sticky to the touch; check the label: it is advisable to choose regular products with complete packaging and information.

(The author is an associate professor at the Faculty of Food Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology (昆明理工大学) in Yunnan Province (云南省). This article was compiled and edited by Yang Wenming (杨文明), a reporter from this newspaper.)

Email for topic suggestions: rmrbsstb@peopledaily.cn

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First national spring survey and monitoring completed.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on February 9th (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)): The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) that in order to fill the gap in the water resources survey, monitoring, and evaluation system regarding springs, in 2025, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) will complete the first national spring survey and monitoring work, compile a national spring survey and monitoring work report, and the spring survey and monitoring work will have a smooth start.

Springs are natural outcrops of groundwater and one of the characterization factors for measuring the health of regional aquatic ecosystems. In recent years, springs that had dried up in many parts of the country have resurfaced, and the comprehensive management of groundwater over-extraction has achieved significant results, and the ecological environment of rivers and lakes has been significantly improved. On the basis of conducting preliminary research on spring surveys and monitoring in 2023, in 2025, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) strengthened organizational leadership, compiled technical requirements, implemented task assignments, and organized field surveys of springs, karez wells, and underground dark rivers across the country. It selected 463 springs, karez wells, and underground dark rivers to be included in the survey directory, and carried out monitoring of indicators such as flow, water temperature, pH value, turbidity, color, and electrical conductivity, laying a working foundation for strengthening the sustainable protection and management of springs. In the next step, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) will seize the time to study and establish a sound system for spring survey, monitoring, and evaluation, accelerate the improvement of the spring area monitoring station network, and promote the transition of spring survey and monitoring to a routine state.

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Fragrances smell nice, but be aware of "hidden pollution"

By: 本报记者 巨云鹏

Fragrances are increasingly common in daily life. Many people place them in public places such as shopping malls and hotels, as well as in bedrooms and bathrooms at home. But can inhaling too much fragrance affect human health?

At the end of January, the group standard "Limit of Harmful Substances in Daily Fragrances" released by the Shanghai Indoor Environment Purification Industry Association (上海市室内环境净化行业协会) came into effect, attracting attention. To this end, reporters interviewed relevant experts and association leaders.

"When daily fragrances are used in enclosed environments, the main risk substances of concern include total volatile organic compounds, benzene series compounds, aldehyde and ketone compounds, especially formaldehyde," said Wang Lina (王丽娜), a researcher at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University (复旦大学). "If these substances accumulate in poorly ventilated environments, they can cause varying degrees of health damage to the respiratory and nervous systems."

In the process of formulating the group standard "Limit of Harmful Substances in Daily Fragrances," the Shanghai Indoor Environment Purification Industry Association (上海市室内环境净化行业协会) and Wang Lina's (王丽娜) team conducted experiments on many commercially available fragrance products. The results showed that some products meet the requirements according to production standards, but when simulating the volatilization scenario of fragrances in a real breathing environment, it was found that even products that meet the requirements can produce environmental pollutants during use.

Wang Lina (王丽娜) explained that many solvent components in fragrances are compliant and non-toxic, but when they are atomized or heated, they are instantly converted into a gaseous state, causing the total volatile organic compound value in the space to exceed the standard.

"Also, room temperature stability does not equal high temperature stability. Car fragrances or heaters operate at higher temperatures, and some components may undergo thermal degradation under heating conditions, releasing small molecule irritant gases such as aldehydes and ketones," said Wang Lina (王丽娜).

Wang Fang (王芳), Secretary-General of the Shanghai Indoor Environment Purification Industry Association (上海市室内环境净化行业协会), has been paying attention to the "invisible pollution" caused by fragrance volatilization since 2023, and has promoted dozens of industry seminars, gradually clarifying the need to improve the overall healthy development of the fragrance industry through standard leadership.

Wang Fang (王芳) introduced that the "Limit of Harmful Substances in Daily Fragrances" group standard released this time mainly stipulates the release amount of volatile substances such as total volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, xylene, PM2.5, etc. within a certain time and space, as well as the content of 5 heavy metal substances such as chromium, lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury in a certain unit volume. "Meeting the release standards in actual use ensures that consumers can enjoy the pleasure of fragrances while also ensuring respiratory health."

Wang Lina (王丽娜) said that she hopes that through the formulation of standards, the production side will be prompted to improve carrier technology and formula stability from the source, providing the market with a scientific yardstick for measuring "dynamic safety," and effectively blocking the risk path of "compliant products" being converted into "invisible sources of pollution" in specific environments, "and ultimately achieving the transition from product safety to environmental health."

Wang Fang (王芳) introduced that the "Limit of Harmful Substances in Daily Fragrances" group standard released this time has been uploaded to the National Group Standard Information Platform (全国团体标准信息平台), which will provide reference and guidance for related work across the country. "The association will also evaluate and label fragrance products that meet this standard, so that consumers can see at a glance when purchasing and choose healthier fragrance products."

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Old Mine Transforms into Sea of Flowers

Chengdong Village (城东村), Eshan Town (峨山镇), Fanchang District (繁昌区), Wuhu City (芜湖市), Anhui Province (安徽省), was once the site of an abandoned mine. The local government carried out ecological restoration and economic forest planting, improving the ecological environment while promoting the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism to boost rural tourism, lead villagers to prosperity, and help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. The picture shows red plum blossoms blooming on the restored hillside.

Photo by Xiao Benxiang (肖本祥) (Image China (影像中国))

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Ministry of Natural Resources and National Forestry and Grassland Administration Report Typical Cases of Violations of Laws and Regulations

Beijing, February 9th (Reporter Chang Qin (常钦)) - This reporter learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部): The Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局) reported eight typical cases of illegal and irregular activities in the fourth quarter of 2025.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局) found that some localities had problems such as illegal land occupation destroying cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, developing and constructing in violation of territorial space planning, and destroying forests and grasslands to damage the ecology. The circular requires all localities to standardize daily management, improve management policies, improve long-term mechanisms, strengthen supervision of administrative actions, implement control lines such as optimizing cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, ecological protection red lines, and urban development boundaries, implement differentiated and refined land use controls by zone and category, and strictly adhere to the red line for cultivated land protection, the red line for ecological protection, and the bottom line of laws and regulations, so as to better coordinate development and security and promote high-quality development.

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Editor in Charge for This Edition: Zhang Ye, He Yuche, Zhang Yifu

Layout Design: Zhang Danfeng (张丹峰)

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Attempting to advance military expansion will lead Japan down an extremely dangerous path. (International Perspective)

By: 本报记者 刘文璋 刘仲华

In the Japanese House of Representatives election held on February 8th, the ruling coalition led by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) won a majority of seats, sparking strong concerns from all parties about whether Japan can continue to adhere to its position as a peaceful nation. Since taking office, Takaichi has continuously made erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan and has been trying to promote Japan's "re-militarization." Recently, she claimed that she intends to incorporate the Self-Defense Forces into the constitution, without concealing her dangerous intention to strengthen Japan's military power and break through the post-war peaceful system, which has been strongly criticized by people of insight from all walks of life in Japan and the international community. Many parties have urged the Japanese government to deeply reflect on its history of aggression, listen to the voices of peace and anti-war from the domestic people and the international community, adhere to the path of peaceful development, and gain the trust of Asian neighbors and the international community with practical actions.

"Seeking to expand military preparations to drive economic growth is a dangerous and erroneous strategic judgment."

"The *Joint China-Japan Statement* has already clarified the one-China principle, and the Japanese government clearly stated in the statement that Taiwan is an inseparable part of the People's Republic of China." Akishige Ito (伊藤彰信), chairman of the Japan-China Workers Exchange Association, said that Takaichi's erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan violate the *Joint China-Japan Statement*, directly negate the political foundation of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China, and seriously damage China-Japan relations. "The Takaichi government's excuse of promoting weapons research and development, production, and export to seek military expansion and preparations to drive economic growth is a dangerous and erroneous strategic judgment," said Akishige Ito (伊藤彰信).

"Under the one-China principle, the so-called 'Taiwan emergency' is itself a pseudo-proposition and has no legal basis." Masakatsu Adachi (足立昌胜), professor emeritus at Kanto Gakuin University (日本关东学院大学), said, "Takaichi's erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan were deliberate despite knowing the risks, and are an interference in China's internal affairs, nakedly exposing her true intention to promote military expansion. The Prime Minister should immediately withdraw the erroneous remarks and apologize to China." Masakatsu Adachi (足立昌胜) believes that Takaichi's series of erroneous words and deeds have aroused strong opposition from China, but the Japanese government has not effectively responded. He called on the Prime Minister's Office personnel, including Takaichi, and all members of the Diet to re-study Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution with a pious attitude.

"Prime Minister Takaichi's remarks about a 'Taiwan emergency' are very outrageous. A series of international legal documents after World War II have made it clear, and the international community has long recognized the one-China principle, and Japan should not make irresponsible remarks about this." Hidenobu Kanazawa (金泽秀信), a Tokyo citizen who participated in the protest rally, told reporters, "Takaichi is also trying to amend the constitution and attempting to promote military expansion, which will lead Japan onto an extremely dangerous path. She thinks of war too simply and does not understand the horror of war at all. This is a dangerous move that completely forgets the lessons of history."

"The political and public opinion atmosphere in Japan shows alarming signs of historical regression."

"Resolutely oppose the Takaichi government's relaxation of restrictions on weapons exports and amendment of the constitution. This is 倒行逆施 (dào xíng nì shī - "act in opposition to moral principles," to go against the tide of history; to act perversely). " Okawa (大川), a Tokyo citizen who participated in the protest rally, told reporters, "Constitutional revision will inevitably destroy peace, and its purpose is to make Japan a country capable of participating in war."

Yuko Tanaka (田中优子), professor emeritus at Hosei University (日本法政大学), said: "The Takaichi government is trying to comprehensively promote the strengthening of defense capabilities by revising the 'Three Security Documents', increasing defense spending, and relaxing restrictions on weapons exports. Japan is facing a crisis of gradually sliding into the abyss of militarism."

Kanako Takayama (高山佳奈子), a professor at Kyoto University (日本京都大学), said that Takaichi's erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan contradict her claim that the Japanese government has not changed its existing position. The ambiguous and evasive statements are misleading public opinion and damaging Japan's international credibility.

"The current political and public opinion atmosphere in Japan shows alarming signs of historical regression." Kumiko Haba (羽场久美子), professor emeritus at Aoyama Gakuin University (日本青山学院大学), said that some Japanese media deliberately incite the "China threat theory" and have become mouthpieces for the Takaichi government to instigate war, selectively silencing themselves on major principles and key facts, objectively playing a role in fueling the flames.

"If we forget the past, we cannot learn from it, and the unfortunate history may repeat itself."

"Takaichi's remarks regarding Taiwan are completely inappropriate, lack legitimacy, and will only exacerbate regional tensions and increase the risk of conflict. We are witnessing the continued deterioration of the current international order, and Takaichi's erroneous words and deeds are fueling this trend and may cause irreversible damage." Angelo D'Orsi, an Italian scholar, recently wrote in the media criticizing Takaichi's erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan for undermining regional peace and stability and violating international law, urging the international community to take a unified opposition stance. "Asian countries and the international community must resolutely oppose this trend."

"Takaichi's erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan have created regional tensions at the level of real politics, and even more exposed Japan's fundamental lack of facing up to historical issues and insufficient reflection." Volker Tschapke, honorary chairman of the Prussian Society of Berlin, Germany, said that Japan's history of launching a war of aggression has brought profound disasters to the people of Asian countries. Japanese right-wing politicians have failed to face up to and reflect on history, admit their mistakes, and assume responsibility. Instead, they openly discuss promoting military expansion, which is an extremely irresponsible practice that undermines peace and stability in East Asia.

Kwon Ki-sik (权起植), chairman of the Korea-China City Friendship Association, once visited the site of Unit 731 of the invading Japanese army in Harbin (哈尔滨市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省). He said: "The anti-human crimes committed by the invading Japanese army are irrefutable and cannot be denied. To this day, Japanese right-wing forces are still trying their best to deny or even downplay and beautify their acts of aggression. Asian countries should strongly condemn and jointly respond to this. If we forget the past, we cannot learn from it, and the unfortunate history may repeat itself."

Bruno Guigue, a French expert on international political issues, believes that Takaichi's erroneous remarks regarding Taiwan not only violate international law and the one-China principle, but also violate the spirit of pacifism embodied in Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, shaking the collective security architecture established since the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War. In fact, this position continues the long-standing route of Japanese conservative forces attempting to deconstruct the peace constitution and promote "re-militarization." Japanese right-wing forces are trying to exonerate Japan's history of aggression through historical revisionist practices, such as visiting the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社) and revising textbooks. "Takaichi's erroneous words and deeds are a disastrous provocative approach and revisionist attempt, which will bring a huge threat to peace in the entire region," Guigue said.

(Reporters Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨) and Zhao Hongsheng (赵宏笙), an intern, participated in the writing of this report)

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If Japan's far-right forces misjudge the situation and act recklessly, they will inevitably be met with a head-on blow.

This newspaper reported from Beijing on February 9th (Reporter Cui Qi (崔琦)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) stated on the 9th that the lessons of the past are not far away and must be heeded. If Japan's far-right forces misjudge the situation and act recklessly, they will inevitably be resisted by the Japanese people and met with a head-on blow from the international community.

At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: On February 8th, in the Japanese House of Representatives election, the Liberal Democratic Party won an overwhelming victory, and Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is expected to continue in power. What kind of foreign policy does China hope the new government led by Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) will pursue?

Lin Jian (林剑) said that elections are Japan's domestic affairs, but this election reflects some deep-seated and structural problems, as well as trends, movements, and tendencies, which are worthy of deep thought by people of insight in all sectors of Japan and the international community. "殷鉴不远 (yīn jiàn bù yuǎn - "the object lesson is not far off," the lessons of the past are not far away); 不可不察 (bù kě bù chá - "cannot but observe," one must pay attention to the lessons of the past). We urge the Japanese ruling authorities to face up to, rather than ignore, the concerns of the international community, to follow the path of peaceful development rather than repeating the mistakes of militarism, and to abide by the four Sino-Japanese political documents rather than betraying their trust. If Japan's far-right forces misjudge the situation and act recklessly, they will inevitably be resisted by the Japanese people and met with a head-on blow from the international community."

"China's policy towards Japan has always maintained stability and continuity and will not change due to a certain election in Japan," Lin Jian (林剑) said. China once again urges Japan to withdraw Takaichi's (高市) erroneous remarks concerning Taiwan and to take practical actions to demonstrate its basic sincerity in maintaining the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations.

"We also want to solemnly warn the Japanese ruling authorities that the Chinese people's determination to safeguard national core interests is unwavering, their determination to defend the achievements of victory in World War II and the post-war international order is unwavering, and their determination to counter and defeat all kinds of anti-China forces' provocations and reckless actions is unwavering," he said.

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Japan should be prudent in its words and actions regarding sensitive historical issues such as the Yasukuni Shrine, and thoroughly break with militarism through concrete actions.

Beijing, February 9th (Reporter Cui Qi (崔琦)) Regarding the remarks made by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) concerning the Yasukuni Shrine, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) stated at a regular press conference on the 9th that Japan should face up to and reflect on its history of aggression, exercise caution in its words and actions on major historical issues such as the Yasukuni Shrine, avoid 重蹈覆辙 (chóng dǎo fù zhé - "repeat the same mistake," to follow the same disastrous road; to repeat a mistake), and thoroughly break with militarism through practical actions.

Lin Jian (林剑) stated that the Yasukuni Shrine is a spiritual tool and symbol of Japanese militarism's launching of external wars of aggression, and enshrines 14 Class-A war criminals who bear serious responsibility for the wars of aggression. The essence of the Yasukuni Shrine issue is whether Japan can correctly understand and deeply reflect on the history of aggression by Japanese militarism, which concerns human conscience, the political foundation of Sino-Japanese relations, and Japan's national credibility.

"Forgetting history means betrayal, and denying guilt means repeating the crime," Lin Jian (林剑) said. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials. In this special year, Japan should especially face up to and reflect on its history of aggression, exercise caution in its words and actions on major historical issues such as the Yasukuni Shrine, avoid 重蹈覆辙 (chóng dǎo fù zhé - "repeat the same mistake," to follow the same disastrous road; to repeat a mistake), and thoroughly break with militarism through practical actions.

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Global Scan

The 62nd Munich Security Conference to Focus on "Disruptive Politics" Impacting the International Order

According to Xinhua News Agency Berlin (北京) February 9th (Reporters Zhang Yirong (张毅荣) and Li Chao (李超)), the Munich Security Conference (慕安会) organizers released the "2026 Munich Security Report" in Berlin (柏林), Germany (德国) on the 9th, arguing that the world has entered an era of "disruptive politics," where complete disruption has become mainstream, and the international order is being destroyed.

The theme of this year's report is "Being Destroyed," which aims to set the agenda for the upcoming 62nd Munich Security Conference (慕安会). The report argues that complete disruption has replaced prudent reform and policy correction as the mainstream today. The intention of the current U.S. (美国) government to break free from the constraints of the existing order is the most prominent.

Wolfgang Ischinger (沃尔夫冈·伊申格尔), Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (慕安会), said in the foreword to the report that this year's Munich Security Conference (慕安会) has attracted attention not only because many conflicts and crises dominate the global agenda but also because of the changing role of the United States (美国) in the international system. The report states, "In many Western societies, political forces that tend to disrupt rather than reform are growing." Their destructive agenda is based on widespread public disappointment with the performance of Western democratic mechanisms and a loss of trust in substantive reforms and political course corrections. "But it is not clear whether this disruption will truly pave the way for policies that enhance public safety, prosperity, and freedom." The report says that people may see a world shaped by transactional agreements rather than principled cooperation, by private interests rather than public interests, and by regional hegemony rather than universal norms.

U.S. (美国) Lawmakers: Allegations of Russian (俄罗斯) and Chinese (中国) Ships Everywhere in Greenland (格陵兰岛) "Are Untrue"

Xinhua News Agency Nuuk (努克), Greenland (格陵兰岛) February 9th (Reporters Yao Yulin (姚雨璘) and Zhang Yuliang (张玉亮)) A visiting delegation of U.S. (美国) congressmen said at a press conference in Nuuk (努克), the capital of Greenland (格陵兰岛), on the 9th, in response to questions from Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporters, that U.S. (美国) President Trump's previous claim that Greenland (格陵兰岛) was "full of Russian (俄罗斯) and Chinese (中国) ships" was "untrue."

Angus King (安格斯·金), an independent senator from Maine (缅因州) and leader of the delegation, said that based on the team's observations during their visit to Greenland (格陵兰岛) and information provided by the Danish (丹麦) Arctic Joint Command, Trump's claims that Greenland (格陵兰岛) was "full of Russian (俄罗斯) and Chinese (中国) ships" and that local defense relied mainly on "dog sleds" were both "untrue." He said that Greenland's (格陵兰岛) defense is solid and is being strengthened.

Lisa Murkowski (莉萨·穆尔科斯基), a Republican senator from Alaska (阿拉斯加州) and another leader of the delegation, said that Trump's recent remarks about "buying the island" and threats have hurt the people of Greenland (格陵兰岛), eroding and weakening trust between the two sides.

The delegation, which included members of both the Republican and Democratic parties, arrived in Nuuk (努克) on the afternoon of the 7th, aiming to "repair relations" and "rebuild trust" with Denmark (丹麦) and Greenland (格陵兰岛).

EU (欧盟) Condemns Israel (以色列) for Strengthening Control over the West Bank (约旦河西岸)

Xinhua News Agency Brussels (布鲁塞尔) February 9th (Reporters Ding Yinghua (丁英华) and Zhang Zhaoqing (张兆卿)) A European Commission (欧盟委员会) spokesperson condemned Israel's (以色列) recent introduction of new measures to strengthen control over the West Bank (约旦河西岸) and "pave the way" for the expansion of settlements on the 9th.

European Commission (欧盟委员会) spokesperson Anouar El Azhari (阿努瓦尔·埃尔·阿努尼) said at a press conference that the EU (欧盟) condemns the recent decision by the Israeli (以色列) Security Cabinet to expand its control over the West Bank (约旦河西岸), calling it "another step in the wrong direction."

According to multiple Israeli (以色列) media reports on the 8th, Israeli (以色列) Defense Minister Katz (卡茨) and Finance Minister Smotrich (斯莫特里赫) announced that the Israeli (以色列) Security Cabinet had approved a series of measures aimed at simplifying the process for Jewish settlers to purchase land in the West Bank (约旦河西岸), including abolishing the "ban on the sale of land to non-Muslims" decree issued during Jordan's (约旦) control of the West Bank (约旦河西岸) and canceling special transaction permits issued by the Israeli (以色列) Civil Administration.

Chairman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (伊朗原子能组织)——

If All Sanctions Are Lifted, Iran (伊朗) Can Dilute Its Enriched Uranium

Xinhua News Agency Tehran (德黑兰) February 9th (Reporters Chen Xiao (陈霄) and Shadati (沙达提)) Iranian (伊朗) local media reported on the 9th that the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (伊朗原子能组织), Eslami (伊斯拉米), said that if all sanctions against Iran (伊朗) could be lifted, Iran (伊朗) could dilute its enriched uranium.

According to reports, in response to whether it is possible to dilute enriched uranium with a purity of 60%, Eslami (伊斯拉米) said that it depends on whether the other party "offers to lift all sanctions in exchange." Eslami (伊斯拉米) also said that International Atomic Energy Agency (国际原子能机构) inspectors have inspected nuclear facilities in Iran (伊朗) that have not been attacked, and will conduct inspections of other facilities in the coming days.

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Vietnam Promotes Industrial Diversification

By: 本报记者 白晓川

Data recently released by the General Statistics Office of the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam shows that Vietnam's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 8.02% year-on-year in 2025. Against the backdrop of a general global economic downturn, the Vietnamese economy has demonstrated resilience.
Vietnam has been working hard to promote the diversification of its industries, especially the export sector, which has performed brilliantly. Relevant data show that Vietnam's total import and export value in 2025 increased by 18.2% year-on-year, with a total trade volume of over 930 billion US dollars, maintaining a trade surplus for many consecutive years. The rapid development of export-oriented processing and manufacturing industries, mainly in electronics and textiles, has helped Vietnam rank among the top 20 trading nations in the world. Last year, Vietnam further relaxed the standards for spot import and export, implemented preferential tax incentives for imports, and simplified tax refunds. Spot import and export were included in the 0% VAT application scope, and high-tech and other key encouraged industry projects can enjoy tax incentives after approval and certification.
In order to further attract foreign investment, the Vietnamese government has promoted the implementation of measures such as simplifying administrative procedures, increasing business freedom, and lowering investment thresholds. After the revision of the "Investment Law", most industries implement the principle of "establishing a company before obtaining a license," which significantly reduces the entry threshold, but at the same time retains the approval procedures for investment proposals in some sensitive areas. According to statistics, as of December 31, 2025, the actual amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam reached 27.62 billion US dollars, an increase of 9% year-on-year, a new high since 2021. Processing and manufacturing remains the core area for attracting foreign investment, accounting for 82.8% of the actual amount of FDI, with Singapore (新加坡), China (中国), and Sweden (瑞典) being the main sources of investment.
The recovery of the service sector and other fields provides an important impetus for the Vietnamese economy. The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam (越南工贸部) and other departments jointly promoted the expansion of the market share of domestic brands, and took various measures to boost domestic demand and stimulate consumption. According to a report by the Ministry of Finance of Vietnam (越南财政部), the growth rate of Vietnam's service industry in 2025 was 8.62%, and its contribution to the country's GDP reached 51.08%. The surge in the number of international tourists has further boosted the recovery of the service industry. Vietnam received more than 21.2 million international tourists in 2025, an increase of 20.4% year-on-year, a record high. Among them, the number of tourists from China (中国), Russia (俄罗斯) and other countries has rebounded significantly. The increase in domestic consumption and international tourists has driven the development of transportation, catering, retail, and logistics warehousing industries, significantly boosting employment.
With the gradual release of market development vitality and the deepening of system reforms, Vietnam's export-driven economy, while accelerating its development, still faces many challenges, including how to effectively respond to international market uncertainties, break through infrastructure bottlenecks, and promote industrial innovation and upgrading, and gradually achieve the transformation from "OEM" to "innovation." In order to change the pattern of export dependence on the European and American markets, Vietnam has formulated relevant policies to encourage traditional advantageous industries and enterprises such as agricultural products and textiles and clothing to explore emerging markets such as India (印度), Africa (非洲), and Latin America (拉美), reduce dependence on traditional markets, and focus on promoting the increase of raw material self-sufficiency rate, increase investment in the development of automation technology, etc., to further enhance the international competitiveness of Vietnamese export products.

(Reported by the Hanoi (河内) office of this newspaper on February 9)

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European Nations Strengthen Cross-Border North Sea Wind Power Grid Construction

By: 本报记者 刘 赫

The third North Sea Summit, recently held in Germany, adopted the "Hamburg Declaration." Representatives from Germany (德国), Belgium (比利时), Denmark (丹麦), Ireland (爱尔兰), Norway (挪威), and other countries reached several consensuses on cross-border cooperation and joint development of European energy supply. All parties involved emphasized their commitment to strengthening cooperation in building a cross-border North Sea wind power network, striving to make the North Sea the largest green energy base in Europe, and aiming to achieve a combined installed capacity of 100 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2050, equivalent to providing clean electricity to more than 140 million households.

Currently, the world's geopolitical landscape is undergoing dramatic changes, and ensuring the stability and security of the energy supply chain has become a strategic priority for European countries. The North Sea is a strategic sea area connecting Northern Europe, Western Europe, and the United Kingdom: it connects Germany (德国), Denmark (丹麦), and other manufacturing-intensive industrial centers to the east, connects the United Kingdom and other economies with strong energy consumption demands to the west, and extends north to Norway (挪威) and other regions with great energy supply potential, naturally forming a "production-transmission-consumption" chain. The North Sea has stable and predictable wind resources, high electricity load and strong absorption capacity in surrounding countries, relatively controllable transmission costs, and cross-border conditions, making it a realistic condition for large-scale, transnational collaborative development. The North Sea has thus become an important strategic fulcrum for Europe to leverage its future energy system.

As a major energy-consuming country, Germany (德国) has high hopes for the development of North Sea wind power. After Germany (德国) bid farewell to coal and nuclear energy, the green electricity gap has brought huge cost pressures to pillar industries such as chemicals and automobiles, and high energy prices have restricted the competitiveness of manufacturing. The Bornholm Island (博恩霍尔姆岛) energy project jointly promoted by Germany (德国) and Denmark (丹麦) has become a major highlight. This cross-border wind power project plans to transmit North Sea wind energy to the power grids of Germany (德国) and Denmark (丹麦) through submarine high-voltage cables, building a regional energy interconnection hub, which is expected to provide reliable electricity for about 3 million households. Dan Jørgensen (拉尔斯·奥高), the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities, said: "The Bornholm Island (博恩霍尔姆岛) energy project proves that large-scale cross-border cooperation in the development of clean energy is feasible, and the two countries have joined hands to enter a new stage of interconnection and energy security sharing."

The United Kingdom has also just completed the largest offshore wind power auction in European history, allocating 8.4 gigawatts of installed capacity, which is expected to leverage approximately £22 billion in private investment. Ed Miliband (米利班德), the UK's Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, said that by promoting the development of clean energy, the UK has reduced its dependence on traditional fuels, has more energy sovereignty, and safeguards national interests.

Experts believe that European countries' desire to seek a safe, sustainable energy supply and achieve energy autonomy is more urgent than ever. Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, European countries have replaced some of their lost Russian natural gas supplies with US liquefied natural gas and have been under pressure to increase purchases. The International Energy Agency (国际能源署) predicted in its recently released "Gas Market Report Q1 2026" that Europe's liquefied natural gas imports in 2026 are expected to exceed 185 billion cubic meters, setting a new historical record. Dan Jørgensen (丹·约恩森), the EU Commissioner responsible for energy affairs, said that Europe does not want to "replace one dependence with another." Katharina Reiche (卡特琳娜·赖歇), the German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, said that the North Sea is not only about energy, but also about European economic and strategic security. "Only by continuously promoting offshore energy construction and achieving intelligent interconnection can Europe reduce its external dependence and enhance its own resilience." An article on the website of the British "Financial Times" (英国《金融时报》) analyzed that the United States' unilateral approach on issues such as Greenland (格陵兰岛) has further prompted European countries to cooperate to accelerate energy independence and reduce structural dependence on external powers.

According to the plan, the countries around the North Sea strive to increase the installed capacity of offshore wind power to 120 gigawatts by 2030 and to 300 gigawatts by 2050. However, judging from the current progress, the realization of this goal faces considerable resistance. This summit further refined the paths to promote the accelerated implementation of projects through EU budget guarantees, optimized bidding processes, the establishment of subsidy mechanisms, and simplified approval procedures. According to media reports, by 2030, Europe is expected to invest approximately 9.5 billion euros in the North Sea offshore wind power supply chain, focusing on supporting wind power technology research and development, equipment manufacturing, and related infrastructure development; by 2050, approximately one-third of the offshore power generation in the North Sea region will come from transnational cooperation, which is expected to create more than 90,000 new jobs and bring approximately 1 trillion euros in economic benefits.

Some analysts also pointed out that European offshore wind power development projects have large investment scales and long cycles, and also face problems such as supply chain tensions, rising raw material costs, and technical bottlenecks, while the national conditions of relevant countries are different, and political games, local public opinion, and environmental disputes may affect the subsequent promotion of projects. Judith Kirton-Darling (朱迪思·柯顿·达琳), Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation, said that Europe's efforts to accelerate energy autonomy still require countries to ensure the construction of a long-term stable policy environment, introduce strong industrial support policies, and provide sustainable investment guarantees.

(Reported from Berlin (柏林) on February 9 by this newspaper)

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AI Empowers Educational Innovation and Promotes High-Quality Development of Higher Education

The People's Daily 2025 University Presidents Forum, themed "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Educational Innovation and Promoting High-Quality Development of Higher Education," was recently held in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西). Guests from over a hundred universities across the country focused on topics such as "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Education and Teaching Reform," "Promoting a Virtuous Cycle of Education, Science, Technology, and Talent," and "Accelerating the Construction of a New Educational Form for the Intelligent Era" for discussion and exchange.
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　　Ensuring Artificial Intelligence Technology Serves People
　　Guan Peijun (管培俊), Vice President of the China Association of Higher Education
　　Currently, artificial intelligence is reshaping education in unprecedented breadth and depth. Facing this historic opportunity, higher education must proactively seek change and respond scientifically, be people-oriented, and create a new smart education ecosystem of human-machine collaboration and ethical good.
　　The core of grasping strategic opportunities lies in achieving a leap from simple technology application to promoting systemic educational change. It is necessary to promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence into education and teaching, accelerate the development of more personalized, inclusive, flexible, and creative lifelong education, and cultivate more high-quality talents and top innovative talents; promote artificial intelligence to empower scientific research, transform research paradigms, and accelerate scientific research innovation; and promote artificial intelligence to empower education governance, and promote the modernization of the education governance system and governance capabilities.
　　The humanistic temperature and emotional connection of education can never be replaced by technology. The key to shaping a new education ecosystem is to adhere to the essence of education from a humanistic perspective and apply artificial intelligence with a scientific attitude. We must adhere to the principle of ethical norms first, be highly vigilant about algorithmic biases, pay attention to data security, formulate and improve ethical guidelines, prevent the risk of technology abuse, and avoid widening the digital divide. We must always adhere to the dominant position of people and emphasize the irreplaceable nature of education and teachers. We must closely integrate science education with humanities education, improve the level of human-machine collaboration, and ensure that technology serves the comprehensive development of people.

　　Promoting the Digital and Intelligent Upgrade of Traditional Engineering
　　Lei Ming (雷鸣), Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tianjin University (天津大学)
　　The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made strategic arrangements for Digital China. Tianjin University (天津大学) adheres to the concept of "from the future to the future," proactively judges the new requirements of future technology for talent literacy, empowers the transformation of higher engineering education with artificial intelligence, and cultivates outstanding engineering talents who can adapt to and lead the future.
　　Reshape the literacy map of higher engineering talents. Construct a three-dimensional map of "knowledge-ability-value" for engineering talents in the intelligent era, and fully integrate AI literacy into talent cultivation. Reshape the teaching mode of higher engineering education. Transform the "teaching and learning" mode and the "learning and application" method, and comprehensively upgrade elements such as courses, textbooks, and scenarios. Build a smart education and teaching center, promote the reshaping of the "teacher-student-machine" teaching form, systematically construct a three-layer intelligent curriculum system, create digital textbooks with originality and independent knowledge system, build smart classrooms, future learning centers, and innovation factories, and create an immersive education environment. Reshape the ecological layout of higher engineering disciplines. Proactively lay out artificial intelligence discipline clusters, and focus on building national-level colleges such as artificial intelligence, network security, and characteristic software. Proactively lay out disciplines and majors in the digital and intelligent field, use artificial intelligence as an engine to promote the digital and intelligent upgrade of traditional engineering, promote the cross-integration of "intelligence+" disciplines, and focus on building new quality training directions such as quantum technology and brain-computer interfaces.
　　At a new starting point, Tianjin University (天津大学) will continue to innovate the digital and intelligent development of engineering education and make new contributions to building a strong country in education and technology and promoting Chinese-style modernization.

　　Promoting the Cultivation of Top Innovative Talents with Artificial Intelligence
　　Hu Jun (胡俊), President of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学)
　　The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学) actively seizes the opportunities of the times and writes an innovative answer to the transformation of higher education.
　　Serve national strategies and regional economic and social development, and explore new paradigms for talent cultivation that meet the needs of the times. Based on the new development stage, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学) actively participates in the "No. 1 Innovation Project" of new quality productivity represented by artificial intelligence of the Sichuan (四川) Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, takes the lead in building the Sichuan Provincial Artificial Intelligence College (四川省人工智能学院), promotes the "Seven Ones Project" of artificial intelligence, and establishes a new paradigm for the cultivation of top innovative talents of "basic, cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, challenging and personalized." Expand multi-dimensional training paths, focus on thinking and ability improvement, and consolidate the foundation for talent growth. The school builds a full-coverage "AI-3S" artificial intelligence curriculum system to strengthen students' artificial intelligence literacy. Set up 8 artificial intelligence professional education brand courses, create "Tianfu Artificial Intelligence Class (天府人工智能班)" across schools, colleges, and majors, open artificial intelligence micro-majors, comprehensively promote the cultivation of "artificial intelligence+" compound talents, and form a new pattern of multi-level top innovative talent cultivation. Break down the barriers of colleges and disciplines to cultivate leading science and technology talents. Focus on the key core areas of electronic information and implement the "ECE Leadership Program" to "cultivate great talents with great scientific research."
　　The prosperity of education leads to the prosperity of the country, and the strength of talent leads to the strength of the country. The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学) actively explores new paradigms for the cultivation of top innovative talents and contributes to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

　　Realizing the Integration of Education, Science, Technology, and Talent
　　Liu Bo (刘波), President of China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) (中国矿业大学（北京）)
　　Realizing the integration of education, science, technology, and talent is an important proposition for the high-quality development of higher education.
　　The primary task of integration is to break down boundaries and unite efforts. Universities need to establish systematic integration mechanisms and actively integrate into the overall national strategy. China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) (中国矿业大学（北京）) closely focuses on the "dual carbon" goal and energy security needs, upgrades traditional advantageous disciplines, adds urgently needed majors such as artificial intelligence and new energy science and engineering, promotes the precise connection between discipline layout and industrial needs, and serves the development of key minerals. The key to integration lies in mechanism innovation and path coordination. Build an ecosystem of deep integration of government, industry, academia, research, and application, and strive to achieve the organic connection of the talent chain, innovation chain, and industrial chain. China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) (中国矿业大学（北京）) cooperates with institutions such as the National Energy Group (国家能源集团) and the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院过程工程研究所) to jointly build 178 "Science and Technology Mining Farm" innovation practice bases, hire more than 500 off-campus mentors, and create a talent training platform of "ideological and political education + innovation practice + internship and training + talent employment" to cultivate top innovative talents with both solid foundation and practical ability. The foundation of integration lies in creating an ecosystem and stimulating vitality. Universities should become fertile ground for supporting scientific and technological talents to "take the lead," providing both hard support for cutting-edge research and deepening the reform of the scientific research management system, implementing the requirements of "delegating power, streamlining administration, and optimizing services," and supporting young scholars to devote themselves to long-term basic research.
　　Only by promoting integration and truly forming a "**一盘棋**" (yī pán qí - "a game of chess," a coordinated effort), can we release the aggregation effect.

　　Deeply Integrating Artificial Intelligence into the Entire Process of Talent Cultivation
　　Shi Yuanchun (史元春), President of Qinghai University (青海大学)
　　Qinghai University (青海大学) deeply integrates artificial intelligence technology into the entire process of talent cultivation, improves teachers' abilities, supports personalized learning, and explores a characteristic development path of artificial intelligence empowering education and teaching that is in line with the actual situation of western universities.
　　In terms of training programs, the school upgrades the "Artificial Intelligence General Knowledge" compulsory course for the whole school; launches "AI+X" micro-majors such as "Intelligent Manufacturing" and "Smart Geology" to help students quickly master AI application skills in specific fields; launches artificial intelligence minor majors for the whole school without threshold; and establishes a "major + minor + micro-major" model of "major + AI" training system to ensure that every student can receive AI education.
　　In terms of cultivating top innovative talents, the school recruits students from the whole school to form AI top innovative virtual classes through the method of "promoting construction through competition." The virtual class student teams won the first prize in the finals of the 2025 World University Supercomputer Competition and the third place in the 2025 Second Tsinghua University Supercomputing Competition.
　　The focus of AI empowering teaching lies in the transformation of classroom teaching. The school introduces and cultivates talents in parallel. On the one hand, it supports teachers to adopt AI to improve and transform courses through teaching reform projects; on the other hand, it introduces high-level AI-empowered courses: relying on the counterpart support resources of Tsinghua University (清华大学), it adds compulsory information literacy courses in general courses of various majors, opens 20 Tsinghua "Clone Class" courses synchronously in different places, introduces 8 Tsinghua University (清华大学) AI pilot courses and synchronously shares 36 AI courses, and creates a new paradigm of AI education of "Tsinghua Standard + Qinghai University Characteristics."

　　Embracing Artificial Intelligence and Creating a New Paradigm of Teaching and Scientific Research
　　Xiao Jianzhuang (肖建庄), President of Guangxi University (广西大学)
　　Artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the pattern of social development and bringing historic opportunities to higher education. Guangxi University (广西大学) actively embraces artificial intelligence and is committed to creating a new paradigm of AI-empowered teaching and scientific research.
　　First, strengthen top-level design and build an "artificial intelligence+" innovation ecosystem. Establish an Artificial Intelligence College to serve the industrial model of "R&D in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou + Integration in Guangxi + Application in ASEAN." Lay out interdisciplinary directions such as AI+Science, AI+Agriculture and Health, and AI+Humanities and Social Sciences, promote the construction of the Guangxi Higher Research Institute of the Ministry of Education (教育部广西高等研究院), and strive to produce iconic achievements in key fields such as smart agriculture and intelligent manufacturing. Second, deepen teaching reform and promote the full-chain integration of AI and talent cultivation. Optimize the professional layout and add majors such as artificial intelligence. Revise the curriculum system and build smart courses and digital textbooks. Implement the "Smart Teacher Training Program" to focus on cultivating compound talents with innovative spirit, practical ability, and digital literacy. Third, give full play to regional advantages, serve Guangxi's (广西) economic development with organized scientific research, empower the intelligentization of traditional manufacturing, build "digital sugarcane fields," and promote intelligent breeding. Preside over the formulation of local standards for corpus annotation and consolidate the data foundation for regional digital industries.
　　Facing the future, the school will firmly root itself in the land of Bagui (八桂), inherit the "Three Pinyin" spirit, deepen the cross-integration of "artificial intelligence+," explore the new connotation of the "Three Meetings" of "knowing how to teach, knowing how to learn, and knowing how to work," promote the mastery of new technologies by all staff, and create a new paradigm of education.

　　Exploring the Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Education and Teaching
　　Guo Yong (郭勇), Secretary of the Party Committee of Sichuan Normal University (四川师范大学)
　　Artificial intelligence, with its powerful data processing and algorithm capabilities, shows significant advantages in the teaching process. Sichuan Normal University (四川师范大学), combined with educational concepts such as gradual progress, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, mutual teaching and learning, and applying what they have learned, actively carries out practical exploration of the integration of artificial intelligence and education and teaching.
　　First, build a foundation with general knowledge and construct a full-discipline AI literacy system. Create an integrated curriculum of "IT foundation-AI technology-interdisciplinary application," and open 19 AI courses; open a "Digital Intelligence Innovation Education" micro-major, and promote the "learning by doing + project-based" model. Second, improve the quality of classrooms and create an intelligent closed loop of "teaching-learning-evaluation." On the teacher side, create "intelligent dual-teacher classrooms," where AI teaching assistants undertake the tasks of answering questions and retrieving resources, reducing burden and increasing efficiency; on the student side, rely on the smart learning cloud platform to promote knowledge construction and personalized learning; on the evaluation side, develop the "Flipped Classroom 2.0" system to realize intelligent grouping and real-time mutual evaluation. Third, solve problems through practice and promote AI achievement transformation and collaborative education. Introduce micro-teaching "AI students" for normal students, empower teaching skills training with technology, develop more than 80 AI intelligent bodies covering the entire chain of teaching, and independently develop 210 AI-assisted teaching instruments. Fourth, improve service efficiency and build an open ecosystem radiating to the west. Hold 9 special training sessions on "Artificial Intelligence Reshaping Teaching Power," and train more than 3,000 grassroots teachers. Relying on projects such as "Belt and Road" education cooperation, promote AI education resources to more than 30 countries.

　　Building a New Model of Financial Talent Cultivation in the Intelligent Era
　　Hong Junjie (洪俊杰), President of Shandong University of Finance and Economics (山东财经大学)
　　The deep integration of artificial intelligence and education is not only an inherent requirement for the high-quality development of education itself, but also an inevitable choice for serving national strategies, connecting with industrial needs, and cultivating new people of the times.
　　Traditional financial education focuses on the systematic teaching of professional knowledge, while in the intelligent era, technologies such as data processing and algorithm analysis have become basic tools for financial work, and a single knowledge structure is difficult to cope with complex economic and financial scenarios. Shandong University of Finance and Economics (山东财经大学) aims to cultivate new financial talents with five abilities of "learning ability, innovation ability, adaptability, integration ability, and autonomy ability," and released and implemented the AI-PAI new financial talent cultivation implementation plan based on the above "five abilities" goals, proactively adjusted the discipline layout, promoted the deep integration of traditional disciplines such as economics and management with big data and artificial intelligence, transformed the curriculum system, added cutting-edge courses such as data science and algorithm ethics, and cultivated students' ability to use new technologies to solve complex problems in the financial field.
　　The school insists on taking intelligent good as the "lifeline" of educational transformation in the intelligent era, and strives to grasp the balance between technology empowerment and value leadership. On the one hand, it establishes clear ethical norms and boundary constraints, resolutely prevents problems such as algorithm bias and over-reliance on AI, and eliminates the phenomenon of "technology replacing thinking"; on the other hand, it makes good use of AI, focuses on the pain points and difficulties of education and teaching to accurately empower, and uses AI technology to optimize personalized teaching plans, etc., so that technology becomes a "good helper" for improving quality and efficiency.

　　Cultivating Compound Top Innovative Talents with "Digital Intelligence Empowerment"
　　Fang Fang (方方), Standing Committee Member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Peking University (北京大学)
　　Universities must take on the role of pioneers in building a strong country in education. In recent years, Peking University (北京大学), based on its own disciplinary advantages, has created a four-in-one and mutually supportive training system of "general knowledge, profoundness, intersection, and digital intelligence" to cultivate compound top innovative talents with "digital intelligence empowerment."
　　First, strengthen strategic leadership and systematic layout. In recent years, Peking University (北京大学) has continued to promote top innovative talent cultivation projects such as the "Turing Class" and the "General Artificial Intelligence Experimental Class," led 32 universities around the world to establish the "International University Alliance for Digital Intelligence Education Development," and formed the "School of Scientific Intelligence" to lead the transformation of talent cultivation paradigms with the transformation of scientific research paradigms.
　　Second, deepen discipline construction and training reform. Vigorously promote "AI+X," open 7 interdisciplinary professional directions, 2 interdisciplinary projects, and a number of "major + AI" courses, open nearly 30 general elective courses for all students, and guide students to carry out personalized expansion learning according to their own development needs.
　　Third, promote AI technology to empower the entire teaching process. Vigorously promote technology empowerment and method innovation in the teaching process, and launch more than 20 intelligent tools such as the "Peking University Wenxue Intelligent Learning Platform" and the "Financial AI Assistant."
　　Fourth, improve the literacy of teachers and students and standardize construction. Require teachers to clarify the AI usage norms of courses, guide students to abide by academic integrity, and strengthen critical thinking. Systematically carry out research on student AI literacy frameworks, AI teaching application boundary guidelines, etc.

　　Building a Multi-Level AI General Knowledge Education System
　　Shi Zongkai (史宗恺), Deputy Director of the University Affairs Committee of Tsinghua University (清华大学)
　　Tsinghua University (清华大学) takes artificial intelligence empowering education and teaching as an important exploration to reshape the form of the university and promote high-quality development, and is committed to building a new intelligent education ecosystem.
　　Help learning with intelligence and reshape the teaching paradigm. Tsinghua University (清华大学) vigorously builds pilot courses for artificial intelligence empowering teaching, expanding from the first batch of 8 courses to 402 courses in the whole school, serving nearly 9,000 teachers and students; develops ten application scenarios such as "AI Learning Companion" and "AI Lecture Companion" to break the boundaries of traditional classrooms; establishes Wucheng College (无穹书院) to build a multi-level AI general knowledge education system, focusing on student literacy cultivation. Improve quality with intelligence and consolidate the digital base. Tsinghua University (清华大学) lays out a discipline knowledge engine, transforms general large models into "discipline specialists" with deep professional literacy, which has been implemented in multiple disciplines and jointly built and shared with 80 universities across the country; the school implements the "Computing Power Support Program" to issue computing power coupons to each student, providing solid support for the cultivation of top innovative talents. Benefit the people with intelligence and demonstrate responsibility. Tsinghua University (清华大学) always pays attention to the public welfare and inclusiveness of educational resources. Relying on Xuetang Online and "Rain Classroom" and "Clone Class," the school transmits high-quality AI courses and teaching models to universities in the central and western regions in real time, benefiting millions of people; initiates the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance, and actively contributes Chinese intelligent education solutions to the world.
With intelligence aiding learning, reshape the teaching paradigm. Tsinghua University vigorously promotes the construction of AI-empowered teaching pilot courses, expanding from the initial 8 courses to 402 courses across the university, serving nearly 9,000 teachers and students; develops ten application scenarios such as "AI Learning Companion" and "AI Lecture Companion" to break the boundaries of traditional classrooms; establishes Wuqiong College to build a multi-level AI general education system, focusing on cultivating students' qualities. With intelligence improving quality, consolidate the digital foundation. Tsinghua University is laying out a disciplinary knowledge engine, transforming general large models into "disciplinary specialists" with profound professional qualities, which have been implemented in multiple disciplines and shared with 80 universities nationwide; the university implements the "Computing Power Support Program" to issue computing power coupons to each student, providing solid support for the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents. With intelligence benefiting the people, demonstrate responsibility and commitment. Tsinghua University always emphasizes the public welfare and inclusiveness of educational resources. Relying on XuetangX and "Rain Classroom" and "Cloned Class," the university transmits high-quality AI courses and teaching models to universities in the central and western regions in real-time, benefiting millions of people; it initiated the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance, actively contributing Chinese wisdom education solutions to the world.

Facing the future, Tsinghua University (清华大学) will continue to use artificial intelligence as an engine to drive innovation in educational concepts, models, and systems.

Consolidate the Foundation for Cultivating Digital and Intelligent Talents
Liu Ting (刘挺), Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学)

As the wave of artificial intelligence surges, Harbin Institute of Technology (哈尔滨工业大学) proactively recognizes, responds to, and seeks change, constantly exploring new paradigms for AI-empowered education and teaching reform. Currently, education is shifting from mastering knowledge and tools to integrating and applying knowledge to solve problems and cultivating innovative abilities. Artificial intelligence enables education to achieve both scale and personalization simultaneously, and also triggers major changes in the education system and talent cultivation paradigms.

Artificial intelligence drives the adjustment of professional, disciplinary, and curriculum systems. The university established the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, established the School of Artificial Intelligence and the first-level interdisciplinary subject of Intelligent Science and Technology, was approved as a national AI industry-education integration innovation platform, and has been selected as a typical application scenario of the Ministry of Education's "Artificial Intelligence + Higher Education" three times in a row. Currently, 101 related courses have been built, 141 AI-empowered curriculum teaching reform projects have been established, and 127 new undergraduate "AI + Professional Field Courses" special courses will be added in 2025, continuously consolidating the foundation for cultivating digital and intelligent talents.

Artificial intelligence empowers the entire process of education and teaching. Harbin Institute of Technology (哈工大) enhances teachers' qualities through a series of training programs, creates AI smart courses to cultivate students' thinking, and relies on disciplinary large models to assist personalized learning and interdisciplinary research, and offers cutting-edge artificial intelligence practice courses. At the same time, it empowers ideological and political education with digital intelligence, and launches intelligent entities such as "AI Counselor" and "AI Employment Recommendation Officer" to provide students with life services, academic guidance, and more.

Harbin Institute of Technology (哈工大) will focus on the needs of the country and continue to deepen the reform of education and teaching paradigms.

Drive Full-Chain Innovation in Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence
Qian Haihong (钱海红), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Fudan University (复旦大学)

Fudan University (复旦大学) drives full-chain innovation in teaching and learning with artificial intelligence, systematically building a coordinated development system of "AI-assisted learning, AI-assisted teaching, AI-assisted evaluation, and AI-assisted innovation," and focusing on creating a new AI education paradigm of "four-intelligence coordination."

"AI-assisted learning" empowers students' all-round development. 116 "AI Big Courses" are offered to all students, making AI literacy a "basic equipment" for students; 41 "X+AI" double bachelor's degree programs are established, and 10 first-level discipline "X+AI" master's and doctoral double degree programs are laid out, forming a three-dimensional training channel connecting undergraduate and postgraduate studies. "AI-assisted teaching" enhances teachers' teaching ability. Intelligent entities such as "Excellent Teacher Growth AI Assistant" and "Smart Course Evaluation AI Assistant" are developed to support 89 AI teaching reform projects and build 106 AI teaching innovation cases, effectively enhancing teachers' sense of gain. "AI-assisted evaluation" ensures teaching quality. A "Teaching Quality Comprehensive Evaluation Department Driving Cabin" is established, connecting data from 16,000 courses in 360 smart classrooms, automatically generating teaching diagnosis reports, and helping to improve teaching quality. "AI-assisted innovation" builds a co-creation ecosystem for teachers and students. 140 "Teacher-Student Co-creation Intelligent Teaching and Learning Special Projects" are established to support undergraduates and high-level teachers to carry out interdisciplinary innovative research.

The deep integration of AI and education requires conceptual innovation, technological empowerment, and open collaboration. Fudan University (复旦大学) will actively explore new paths for high-quality development of higher education in the intelligent era, and contribute to building a strong country in education, science and technology, and talent.

Devote Efforts to Cultivating Talents Serving National Needs
Sun Litao (孙立涛), Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Southeast University (东南大学)

In the intelligent era, universities must jump out of the traditional talent cultivation framework, not only strive to be leaders in scientific and technological innovation and pioneers in educational reform, but also devote efforts to cultivating new talents of the era who can master cutting-edge technologies, serve national needs, and adhere to the bottom line of humanities.

In the process of digital transformation of higher education, Southeast University (东南大学) is based on its own characteristics and builds a development pattern driven by both digital transformation and quality improvement. The university has built a localized artificial intelligence school-level computing power platform, running through the entire construction process with independent control; released the "Faheng—R1" reasoning large model in the legal vertical field and the "Wenda" system-level ethical vertical domain large model, and promoted the deep integration of artificial intelligence into discipline construction, forming a complete ecosystem of "computing power—model—application."

Facing the future, the university will uphold the concept of openness, collaboration, co-construction, and sharing, and continue to create a new situation of high-quality development. First, adhere to the people-oriented approach to education, promote the cross-regional sharing of curriculum resources, practice platforms, and faculty, and cultivate compound talents with solid professional skills, outstanding innovation capabilities, profound humanistic qualities, and a strong sense of social responsibility; second, strengthen collaborative innovation, break down barriers between schools, enterprises, and disciplines, form interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and inter-regional innovation consortia, and jointly solve major problems in the field of artificial intelligence; third, adhere to "AI for good," integrate ethics education into the entire process of talent cultivation, make the concept of good a conscious thought and action of teachers and students, and guide artificial intelligence to always develop in the direction of serving human well-being and promoting social progress.

Promote Supply-Side Reform of Talent Cultivation with a Future-Oriented Vision
Li Zhiyong (李智勇), Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Xiamen University (厦门大学)

The question facing universities today is "how to use AI well," and they must face the challenges, seize the opportunities, and promote the supply-side reform of talent cultivation with a future-oriented vision.

It is necessary to grasp the "time and trend" and build a new teaching model of "teacher-machine-student" ternary collaboration. Xiamen University (厦门大学) deepens the promotion of "three transformations," namely, from teacher-centered to student-centered, from teaching-centered to learning-centered, and from unified model training to personalized needs training, actively implements three "fully open" - fully open transfer of majors, course selection, and teacher selection, develops the intelligent learning companion "Xiaodong," builds a diversified AIGC support base, and provides teachers and students with the "Xiamen University Zhiyun" personal AI suite service, comprehensively creating a new smart teaching ecosystem.

It is necessary to focus on "quality and efficiency" and build a linkage collaboration that promotes practical innovation. Xiamen University (厦门大学) promotes "AI+X" micro-majors and AI minor majors, and implements special projects such as the "Scientific Research Climbing Plan"; explores the implementation of a joint training mechanism of "customized training + project collaboration + joint laboratory," actively carries out school-enterprise joint co-creation, and guides students to practice with problems and innovate around needs.

It is necessary to highlight "breaking and establishing" and build a global cooperation network with a wider field, deeper level, and higher quality. Xiamen University (厦门大学) has established an overseas branch in Malaysia, vigorously promoted the construction of the China-Malaysia International Institute of Higher Education, integrated resources, and built an international collaborative channel for scientific and technological innovation, talent gathering, teaching practice, and achievement transformation.

Create a New Pattern of Forward-Looking and Leading Disciplinary Development
Xu Yong (许勇), Vice President of South China University of Technology (华南理工大学)

To promote a virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent, it is necessary to be guided by the needs of regional high-quality science and technology and create a new pattern of interdisciplinary integration, forward-looking, and leading disciplinary development.

South China University of Technology (华南理工大学) explores a rapid layout mechanism for urgently needed disciplines and majors. First, it builds a linkage mechanism for the setting of disciplines and majors guided by industrial needs, focusing on the needs of major national strategies and the construction of a modern industrial system in the Greater Bay Area, and strives to promote the deep integration of disciplines and majors with industrial development. Second, it systematically promotes the construction of an incubation mechanism for emerging interdisciplinary majors, builds an incubation support platform, and improves the management and operation mechanism.

In order to quickly improve the organizational and training capacity of high-level talents in the field of low-altitude economy, South China University of Technology (华南理工大学) extraordinarily laid out the interdisciplinary subject of "Low-Altitude Technology and Engineering" doctoral degree authorization, aiming to accelerate the training of a group of high-level talents with research and development capabilities and innovative spirit, and achieved "same-year demonstration, same-year approval, and same-year enrollment" for the degree program.

In the process of rooting in the Bay Area and building a world-class university, South China University of Technology (华南理工大学) always regards talents as treasures, deeply implements the strategy of strengthening the university with talents, vigorously promotes the "Faculty Leap Action," implements the "Talent Cultivation and Introduction Doubling Plan" with high specifications, and continues to deepen the full-chain reform of the classified employment system and the postdoctoral leap action. Increase the stable support for early-career young scientific and technological talents and establish a talent cultivation system with school characteristics.

Write a New Chapter in the Integrated Development of Education, Science and Technology, and Talent
Ma Bohu (马博虎), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学)

As an important combination point of science and technology as the primary productive force, talent as the primary resource, and innovation as the primary driving force, universities must "look at education beyond education" and write a new chapter in the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent.

Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学) actively integrates into national strategies, local development, and industrial innovation, and strives to break down institutional and mechanism barriers. Relying on the China Western Science and Technology Innovation Port, the school implements the "6352" project, explores the "1121" in-depth industry-education integration model, and encourages the establishment of in-depth school-enterprise integration research and development centers with enterprises as the main body of technological innovation decision-making, research and development investment, scientific research organization, and achievement transformation. Currently, it has signed contracts with 255 leading enterprises and jointly built 100 in-depth integrated innovation consortia to solve more than 3,100 technical problems for enterprises.

The school adheres to the integrated deployment of colleges, research institutes, and incubators, and establishes a major in energy storage science and engineering around national strategic needs. It builds a mechanism of "enterprises posing questions, schools and enterprises jointly refining topics, unveiling the list to take the lead, and teachers and students jointly answering questions." In 2022, it launched the "Hundred Thousand Ten Thousand Excellent Engineering Talent Training" program, which currently has more than 1,000 enterprise mentors and more than 2,300 engineering master's and doctoral students.

In supporting scientific and technological talents to "take the lead" and "play the leading role," Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) deepens the reform of talent evaluation and scientific and technological evaluation, highlighting the guidance of quality, contribution, and effectiveness. In addition, the school has built a model of "school recruitment, enterprise supply, government assistance, collaborative use, and multi-party win," and has introduced more than 400 talents for school recruitment and shared use, effectively alleviating the shortage of high-end research and development talents in enterprises.

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When "America First" Meets Europe's "Strategic Autonomy" (Authoritative Forum)

At the beginning of the new year, the United States and Europe have been in constant friction over the Greenland issue, bringing new uncertainties to the transatlantic relationship. In December of last year, the United States released a new version of the National Security Strategy report, which re-"defined" Europe in a strongly ideological tone, and also embodied the problems of the US-Europe relationship in recent years in an acute way in official documents for the first time.

The world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century. The United States adheres to its own priorities, Europe's sense of insecurity is increasing, and the road to strategic autonomy is long. This issue invites three experts from Europe and the United States to deeply analyze the current situation and development trend of the transatlantic relationship.

Klaus Larres (American Wilson Center's Global Europe and Kissinger Institute on China and the United States)
Pascal Boniface (Director of the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs)
Helga Zepp-LaRouche (Founder and Chairman of the German Schiller Institute)

The Transatlantic Relationship is at its Most Vulnerable Period in History
Europe has repeatedly chosen to back down from the United States' toughness, fantasizing that the United States can change its mind. But the fact is that the weaker Europe shows, the stronger the United States becomes.

Klaus Larres: From the release of the US National Security Strategy report at the end of last year to the just-concluded World Economic Forum 2026 Annual Meeting, it is not difficult for us to find that the transatlantic relationship is in trouble and is at its most vulnerable period in history. The rift between the United States and Europe is regarded as a potential turning point in the development of the transatlantic relationship. In previous years, due to the highly consistent positions of the United States and Europe on the Ukraine issue, the transatlantic relationship was once very close, and its closeness was even unprecedented for a long time. At present, although the Greenland issue seems to have been "resolved" after a game, the tense situation between the United States and Europe has not been effectively alleviated. Differences in positions on the Ukraine issue and different views on trade issues still need to be resolved urgently.

Pascal Boniface: The European-American alliance took shape after the end of World War II. This relationship is rooted in common values, including liberal democracy, market economy, multilateralism, etc., and is more based on common political interests, including resisting the expansion threat of the Soviet Union. Today, these two pillars no longer exist or exist only in name. The US military operations against Venezuela openly challenge the norms of international law and are hostile to the multilateral international system represented by the United Nations, which is completely contrary to the position that Europe has always adhered to. The United States portrays Europe as an opponent born solely to "exploit the United States" and goes against its European allies on the Ukraine issue, but Europe is trapped in inertia and unwilling to face reality, and repeatedly chooses to back down from the United States' toughness, fantasizing that the United States can change its mind. But the fact is that the weaker Europe shows, the stronger the United States becomes.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: The United States openly pursues the principle of "might makes right" (强权即公理 - qiáng quán jí gōng lǐ - "might is justice," the belief that power determines what is right), although this has long been reflected in its military operations against countries such as Panama, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, but now the United States no longer even tries to place similar actions within the framework of the so-called "rules-based international order" for justification. After the end of the Cold War, European countries have continuously transferred power to supranational bureaucratic institutions, such as being almost completely dependent on the US-led NATO on security issues. Europe once hoped to cope with the international landscape after the disintegration of the Soviet Union by building a unipolar order, but the unipolar order has led the United States to the "imperial model." At present, facing the dual advantages of the United States in economy and military, Europe is in a dilemma, let alone defending its own interests.

The Intensified Rift Reflects a Fundamental Shift in Strategic Positioning
The US government's policy logic no longer has "allies" or "partners," but is simplified into opponents that must be suppressed or vassals that can be exploited for benefits.

Klaus Larres: The US government pursues the "America First" policy and seeks unilateral interests, which makes the transatlantic relationship face various challenges and difficulties. I think there are no fundamental contradictions between the United States and Europe. The two sides are both allies and competitors. It is normal for American companies to compete with European companies in international trade, which is beyond reproach. Europe's strategic autonomy should not be limited to the economic aspect, but more importantly, the military and security aspects. Although the United States does not want Europe to completely separate from the transatlantic alliance and become independent, it hopes that Europe will greatly enhance its military strength and further reduce its dependence on the United States in security affairs.

Pascal Boniface: Ignoring international law and using power to impose its will on allies and opponents is not new to the United States. Now, the US government's policy logic no longer has "allies" or "partners," but is simplified into opponents that must be suppressed or vassals that can be exploited for benefits. Europe's thinking is still stuck in the old framework, believing in the "naturally formed community of interests on both sides of the Atlantic." In the past 80 years, Europe has become accustomed to living in this illusion of the "Western world," and although this illusion is being broken by the United States, Europe cannot face the reality that the old order has come to an end, and lacks sufficient confidence to participate in building a new order.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: The root cause of the problems in the transatlantic relationship lies in the fact that both Europe and the United States have abandoned their respective traditions. The US Constitution clearly stipulates that the government has an obligation to seek public interests for the people, but this purpose has long been replaced by unilateralism. Europe has also deviated from its humanistic tradition, and instead has taken neoliberalism, which takes "anything is possible" as its core logic. Europe needs to regain its spiritual heritage such as the Italian Renaissance and German classical culture. The United States also needs to regain its founding principles, as US Sixth President Adams (亚当斯) said: The mission of the United States is not to hunt down enemies abroad, but to take care of the well-being of its own people.

Whether the Relationship Can Be Improved Must Be Examined in the Context of the Transformation of the Times
The United States believes in the logic of strength first. The true meaning of maintaining the balance of the US-Europe relationship is not to succumb to threats, but to resolutely respond to challenges.

Klaus Larres: If the transatlantic relationship breaks out in a crisis, it will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the international landscape. The close relationship between the United States and Europe has shaped the post-war international landscape to a certain extent. If the US-Europe alliance really comes to the point of parting ways, the strength of the United States will be greatly weakened, and the strength of Europe will also suffer heavy losses. I am cautiously optimistic about the transatlantic relationship, although I am not entirely sure about its prospects. It is true that there are many problems between the United States and Europe that need to be solved urgently, and the negative views of the United States on European internal affairs will not be eliminated for the time being. But to a large extent, the dominance of the US-Europe relationship is still in the hands of the US government. If the voices within the US government that advocate cooperation with Europe can prevail, the US-Europe relationship will naturally usher in a turnaround.

Pascal Boniface: Europe must face the challenges launched by the United States and build a new pattern that is beneficial to itself. Although dependence on the United States has become a habit, and the Ukraine issue has further solidified this dependence mentality, Europe has 450 million consumers, huge market potential, and many industrial advantages. Since the United States believes in the logic of strength first, then the true meaning of maintaining the balance of the US-Europe relationship is not to succumb to threats, but to resolutely respond to challenges.

Helga Zepp-LaRouche: The question of whether the US-Europe relationship can be improved must be examined in the context of the transformation of the times. The current international situation is unprecedentedly complex. The future direction of the US-Europe relationship essentially depends on the establishment of a new type of security and development architecture at the global level, which must take into account the interests and security concerns of all countries at the institutional level. Only by actively adapting to this new architecture can Europe and the United States promote the restoration and development of their relationship.

In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia (《威斯特伐利亚和约》) established the principles of equality and sovereignty, laying an important foundation for the modern international relations system. This principle emphasizes that the stability of international relations depends on the balanced consideration of the interests and legitimate concerns of all countries. The future global new security and development architecture must be based on the indivisibility of security. This transformation is in line with the fundamental interests of mankind and is also the common aspiration of the vast majority of countries in the world today.

(Reporters Liu Zhonghua (刘仲华), Li Zhiwei (李志伟), Shang Kaiyuan (尚凯元), and Chen Shangwen (陈尚文) of this newspaper interviewed and compiled)

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A Troubled Partnership: Major Rifts Reemerge (International Observation)

By: 陈文鑫

The transatlantic relationship is undergoing the most profound rupture since World War II. At last year's 61st Munich Security Conference, the U.S. side vehemently criticized Europe for its "regression" in freedom of speech and democracy, claiming that Europe's "real threat comes from within," which was seen as a sign of a "major turning point in U.S.-Europe relations." At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 held in January this year, the U.S. again spoke disrespectfully of Europe, further exposing the rift in U.S.-Europe relations.

The rupture in the transatlantic relationship reflects the profound changes in the international landscape. The world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, and the overall decline of Western countries and the collective rise of Southern countries are prominent features. Looking at the themes of the Munich Security Conference in recent years—"Post-Truth, Post-West, Post-Order" in 2017, "Westlessness" in 2020, and "Multipolarity" in 2025—one can see the unease and anxiety of the West, especially Europe. In the past, Western countries could easily obtain monopoly profits by virtue of their dominant position in the global economy and their monopoly in science and technology, finance, and other fields, so the inherent contradictions between the U.S. and Europe were to some extent concealed. Now, against the background of the overall decline of the West, the contradictions and frictions between the U.S. and Europe are frequently highlighted.

A major reason for the U.S.'s new National Security Strategy report to belittle Europe is Europe's "economic recession" and "the continuous decline in its share of global GDP." U.S. officials are accustomed to viewing Europe from the perspective of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. During the period of U.S. hegemonic strength, the U.S. could allow European allies to "free ride." But now, "the era of the United States single-handedly supporting the global order like Atlas has ended," and it is demanding "responsibility sharing and responsibility transfer," that is, letting European countries bear "primary responsibility" for their own security, while wielding tariff sticks against European allies without any leniency.

The rupture in the transatlantic relationship also lies in the divergence of common values, security concepts, and views on order between the two sides.

First, the long-term common value bond between the U.S. and Europe is facing rupture. The U.S. government is anti-immigrant, skeptical of climate change, and against diversity, equality, and inclusion. In its view, Europe is "deviating from the most basic values" and has become a fortress of "catastrophic ideologies" such as climate change, and even a decadent place of "civilizational decline." The U.S. has threatened to "cultivate forces within European countries to resist the current development trajectory." A major rift has appeared in the "value-based alliance" between the U.S. and Europe.

Second, the common security concepts between the U.S. and Europe are accelerating their split. The U.S. and Europe's perceptions of threats are increasingly divergent, and their perceptions of collective defense have also begun to waver. The U.S. has even called NATO "obsolete" and once threatened to seize Greenland by force, which is a subversion of NATO itself.

Third, the common view of order between the U.S. and Europe is tending to disintegrate. The U.S. government adheres to the logic of "America First," emphasizes focusing on "core national interests," and continues to "withdraw from groups" on a large scale. The so-called "liberal international order" jointly maintained by the U.S. and Europe after World War II has collapsed.

Where the transatlantic relationship will go in the future is still unknown. Historically, there have always been disputes in U.S.-Europe relations. In the 1960s, U.S. politician Kissinger defined U.S.-Europe relations as a "troubled partnership." After the end of the Cold War, the U.S.-Europe transatlantic "special relationship" also once wavered due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a common threat. It is still difficult to determine whether the current rupture in U.S.-Europe relations is a short-term phenomenon or a long-term trend. But what is certain is that, at least during the term of the current U.S. administration, the rift between the U.S. and Europe will be difficult to bridge.

(The author is the Director of the Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (中国现代国际关系研究院) )

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Transatlantic Relations Gravely Unequal (Opinion)

The new U.S. National Security Strategy report states that Europe is facing a "grim prospect of civilizational demise" due to the neglect of Western values and "loss of national identity" caused by immigration and other issues. The way the new U.S. administration views U.S.-Europe relations from a "civilizational" perspective is fundamentally different from previous U.S. administrations. This report marks "the end of the transatlantic alliance based on liberal values."
　　——Liana Fix, Fellow for European Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations

The current U.S. administration no longer considers Europe to be part of the core interests of the United States, nor does it regard Europe as a usable asset to achieve other priorities. Europe has become increasingly irrelevant to the United States.
　　——Leonardo Schuette, Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The U.S. government's actions have, to some extent, exacerbated the rift in transatlantic relations, but the deeper root of this rift lies in the deeper structural contradiction between the U.S.'s "America First" concept and Europe's pursuit of "strategic autonomy." The former adheres to unilateral interests above all else, with maintaining U.S. dominance as its core, while the latter emphasizes multilateralism and sovereign independence, striving to reduce dependence on external powers. Differences between the two sides were already apparent before 2025. The U.S.'s attitude towards European integration has always been ambiguous: when integration has positive significance for it, the U.S. takes a supportive attitude; once it weakens U.S. influence, it is regarded as a risk.
　　——Sari Arho Havrén, Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute

Whether or not the U.S.'s remarks about "taking over" Greenland are put into practice, they highlight a strategic ambiguity or uncertainty that exacerbates European anxiety and unease: the United States, as a core member of the transatlantic alliance and a key guarantor of European security, openly declared that it wanted to acquire a territory located in the core of the European-Atlantic region. For some European countries, this event highlights the ongoing contradictions between power politics, the framework of sovereignty, and the operation of alliances.

Transatlantic relations themselves have serious inequalities. Europe is heavily dependent on NATO for security and defense, and NATO's capabilities and strategic direction are dominated by the United States. This structural dependence makes it difficult for Europe to have much political room for maneuver when expressing reservations about the actions of this major security ally. The unbalanced and asymmetrical relationship between the U.S. and Europe makes it difficult for Europe to articulate an independent and consistent position.
　　——Pierre Picard, Professor at the University of Paris VIII

The U.S. government uses tariffs as a means to achieve its goals, and Europe can no longer tolerate this behavior. The tariff issue is no longer just a trade policy issue; this move by the U.S. further damages its already severely damaged credibility. The EU must make a firm and strong response and not allow the U.S. to manipulate it.
　　——Wolfgang Weber, CEO of the German Association for Electrical and Digital Industries

"Security depends on the U.S." has become the biggest weakness in European defense. Europe needs to develop "pan-European capabilities" and should build a "European pillar" within the NATO framework. The U.S.'s seizure of Greenland by force would be a fatal blow to NATO and would seriously damage transatlantic relations. This kind of move would trigger a very negative reaction among the European people.
　　——Kubilius, a senior EU official responsible for defense

The U.S. has been trying its best to prevent Europe from becoming a truly powerful pole, using its dependents within the EU to force European countries to engage in "suicidal" competition. The U.S. has also done everything possible to prevent the establishment of European political integration.

The new U.S. administration has simply made clear to ordinary people a fact that senior politicians have long known: the U.S. is not an ally, but a "suzerain state."
　　——Jacques Attali, the first President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

A Pew Research Center survey shows that between 2024 and 2025, Europeans' favorability towards the U.S. declined by 12.9%. Many Europeans now see the U.S. as a "necessary partner" rather than a trustworthy ally. And Europe is not the only region experiencing a crisis of trust in the U.S. Countries around the world—especially U.S. allies—are dealing with the same problems and dilemmas. Some countries have witnessed the politicized use of tariffs, while others have felt the betrayal of major security providers, and even face the threat of territorial plunder. Some countries have already taken steps to adapt to the era of declining U.S. credibility—which has important lessons for Europe.
　　——Giuseppe Spatafora, Researcher at the European Union Institute for Security Studies

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This edition's editors: Han Bingchen, Wang Xiaobo, Chen Shangwen, Kang Jie

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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A Touch of Warmth, A Journey of Companionship (New Year Visits to the Grassroots: Frontline Observations)

As the Spring Festival approaches, the atmosphere of the New Year is becoming increasingly strong, and the pulse of "China on the Move" is becoming more vigorous. Among the endless stream of people, there are mobile party members.
In recent days, reporters from this newspaper followed in the footsteps of mobile party members, from their familiar hometowns to the other places where they work hard, from the transportation hubs they pass through to the community stations where they are rooted, listening to their stories, recording their voices, and feeling the warmth that the party organization brings to mobile party members. Along the way, we have witnessed: wherever mobile party members are, the care of the party organization covers them, and wherever there is the warmth of "home."
——Editor

Yumin Village (裕民村), Dapo Town (大坡镇), Xishui County (习水县), Zunyi City (遵义市), Guizhou Province (贵州省)—

A symposium, energizing!
By Su Bin (苏滨), reporter of this newspaper

"Happy New Year to everyone! As before, please feel free to speak your mind." One day in December, the party member activity room of the village committee in Yumin Village (裕民村), Dapo Town (大坡镇), Xishui County (习水县), Zunyi City (遵义市), Guizhou Province (贵州省) was full of people. Yuan Guohua (袁国华), the secretary of the village party branch, made a brief opening.

Mu Xinjian (穆新建), a 36-year-old returning mobile party member, took the lead in speaking: "Our village has little arable land and a lot of forest land. We rely on the mountains for a living, so we must change the way we 'eat.' Some companies are renting land in our village to grow Chinese medicinal materials and have already cultivated 30 mu of seedlings. We can grow them together."

"If we can grow Chinese medicinal materials, we can easily earn more than 10,000 yuan per mu," "We can cooperate with enterprises first to understand the technology and the market"... His words sparked a lively discussion. Yumin Village (裕民村) has thousands of mu of rice fields. In the past two years, with the suggestion of mobile party members, the economic benefit per mu has increased to 3,000 yuan by developing the "rice + fish" and "rice + duck" models.

Having been away from home for many years, how can he still "know everything" about the development of the village? Mu Xinjian (穆新建) revealed the secret: the village implements a special contact system for all 11 mobile party members, regularly understanding their work and life, and introducing the latest developments in the village.

Xishui County (习水县) is a major county for labor export, with 110,000 people working outside the province and more than 1,400 mobile party members. "Many mobile party members are middle-aged and young people. They are educated, capable, knowledgeable, and enterprising. Rural revitalization cannot do without them," said Xie Kuan (谢宽), Minister of the Organization Department of the Xishui County (习水县) Party Committee.

That afternoon, Yuan Guohua (袁国华) convened the village committee members to jointly study the 7 suggestions collected at the symposium. "The village's primary school has been moved to the town, and the teaching building is just idle. It's suitable to set up a bacon processing factory!" Everyone discussed and quickly decided on a plan, which was promoted and implemented by the support cadres.

Yuan Guohua (袁国华) smiled happily: "Such a symposium is not just for show, but for practical measures and results. It's energizing!"

Shanghai Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub Party-Masses Service Center—

A pioneer team, considerate!
By Tian Hong (田泓), reporter of this newspaper

Spacious sofa chairs, neat bookshelves, and the aroma of coffee wafting from the coffee bar from time to time. Early in the morning, the Shanghai Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub Party-Masses Service Center was already full of passengers resting and charging their devices.

The Hongqiao Hub (虹桥枢纽) is an important distribution center for passengers traveling to and from Shanghai (上海) during the Spring Festival travel season, welcoming and sending off more than 1.1 million passengers every day. "This year is the first time the center has welcomed the Spring Festival travel peak after its renovation. We have made full preparations and extended our operating hours. The mobile party members working in the hub are a pioneer team. Together, we will protect everyone's way home!" said Fu Zhimeng (付志盟), secretary of the Minhang (闵行) Regional Party Branch of the Hongqiao Hub (虹桥枢纽).

"From the exit of Hongqiao Railway Station (虹桥火车站) to the National Exhibition and Convention Center (国家会展中心), the shuttle bus takes 12 minutes. I know every node in the hub like the back of my hand. I guarantee that I can answer any passenger's questions accurately!" Tong Jiye (童继业), a mobile party member with 30 years of party membership, is the general manager of a business travel service company in the hub. The company's main business is shuttle bus service in the hub. "Combining the needs of special groups such as the elderly, young, sick, and disabled, we provide free shuttle service. During this year's Spring Festival travel season, we will also be on standby at any time during the peak of passenger return to help evacuate passengers."

"Happy New Year, here's a 'Fu' (福) for you!" On February 2, the first day of the Spring Festival travel season, party member volunteers set up a small table at the entrance of the center to write "Fu" characters on the spot; on the "Galloping Horse Stepping on Happiness" blessing wall, passengers wrote down their New Year wishes...

Now, under the guidance of the party branch, a group of mobile party members working in the hub have actively taken action, claiming volunteer service posts, participating in large passenger flow service guarantees, and becoming an important force in ensuring the hub.

In a convenience store in the Hongqiao High-speed Railway (虹桥高铁) area, Kong Xiangguang (孔祥广), a mobile party member, was busy with the store clerk, carefully arranging the goods on the shelves, "The busier we are, the more we cannot lower our service standards!"

"Having worked in the Hongqiao Hub (虹桥枢纽) for so many years, I have long regarded this place as my home," said Kong Xiangguang (孔祥广). "The Spring Festival travel season is a major event for Chinese people to reunite. It is our bounden duty to ensure that every passenger embarks on a safe journey home!"

Gudu Street (古渡街道), Qindu District (秦都区), Xianyang City (咸阳市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省)—

A group of new helpers, thumbs up!
By Zhang Danhua (张丹华), reporter of this newspaper

"Master, have a cup of hot water to warm up!" On the eve of the Spring Festival, the "Knight Station" general station in Swiss City (瑞士城), Gudu Street (古渡街道), Qindu District (秦都区), Xianyang City (咸阳市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省) was warm and cozy. Delivery rider He Zhaohui (何昭辉) stopped his car and took off his helmet covered with cold air.

Gudu Street (古渡街道) has built three-level service stations in areas where couriers and delivery riders are concentrated, such as streets, business districts, and communities. As the Spring Festival approaches, the stations have also added emergency medicines, warm supplies, and extended the hot water supply time.

Serving people with warmth and exchanging sincerity for sincerity. As the New Year approaches, many new employment groups, especially party members among them, either stick to their posts or participate in community volunteer services, sending out their warmth. "I used to think that delivering express delivery was just a job to make a living, but now I can contribute to the community, and I feel proud to talk about it," said Wei Botao (魏勃涛), a mobile party member and courier.

Once, Wei Botao (魏勃涛) found a flying wire charging in Ruiquan Jiayuan (瑞泉佳园) community while delivering express delivery, which posed a safety hazard, and immediately reported it to the community. Community workers and the property service company of the community went to the scene in time to deal with it. This time, he plans to stay in Xianyang (咸阳) for the New Year and has also signed up for community volunteer service activities during the Spring Festival.

Now, delivery rider Liu Yao (刘尧) is not only a regular visitor to the station, but also joined the station's "Little Brother Pioneer Team." Whenever he has time, he participates in community safety hazard investigation and has become a well-known "Living Lei Feng (活雷锋)."

Once, he picked up a leather bag containing a mobile phone, ID card, and thousands of yuan in cash while delivering food and contacted the community grid member as soon as possible to return it to the owner. "I didn't think too much at the time, I just felt that the owner must be very anxious." Liu Yao (刘尧) was a little shy, "The station has done so much for everyone, and everyone wants to do more meaningful things."

Warmth turns into a joint force moving in the same direction. Hao Genbao (郝根宝) has been engaged in the express delivery industry for 10 years. He works diligently and often provides free haircuts for his colleagues. After learning about the situation, the station staff took the initiative to contact him. "I didn't expect that our couriers could also receive the attention of the party organization." Recently, Hao Genbao (郝根宝) submitted an application to join the party, "We 'urban ferrymen' must also find the direction of our efforts!"

Historical Block Community (历史街区社区), Pingjiang Street (平江街道), Gusu District (姑苏区), Suzhou City (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省)—

A reunion dinner, heartwarming!
By Bai Guangdi (白光迪), reporter of this newspaper

On a cold night, the activity room in the Historical Block Community (历史街区社区), Pingjiang Street (平江街道), Gusu District (姑苏区), Suzhou City (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) shone brightly.

"Aunt Wang (王阿姨), is the dough ready?" Chen Meizhen (陈梅珍), a 62-year-old party member, shouted while mixing the meat filling. Outside, five rows of lanterns were strung up in the small courtyard, and Spring Festival couplets and "Fu" characters had already been pasted.

Pingjiang Street (平江街道) belongs to the old city area, and there are many migrant workers in the jurisdiction, many of whom are party members. In recent years, the Organization Department of the Gusu District (姑苏区) Party Committee has relied on street communities, park buildings, industry associations, etc. to promote the establishment of mobile party member organizations and regularly contact and serve mobile party members in the jurisdiction.

This time, the community party committee invited party members from several mobile party member branches around, such as takeaway and chauffeur services, to participate in the "Winter Night Canteen," and also attracted many people to help. "They always lend a hand when the community needs anything. The New Year is coming soon, and we also want to do something for them," said Liu Juan (刘娟), secretary of the Historical Block Community (历史街区社区) Party Committee.

As the time approached 9 p.m., the mobile party members participating in the event arrived one after another.

In front of the long table, the proofed dough, the seasoned meat filling, and the made bean paste were lined up. Everyone chatted about the New Year customs of their respective hometowns while making dumplings: "My family eats dumplings for the New Year," "We eat bean paste filling there"... Before long, the table was filled with snow-white dumplings.

In the calligraphy activity room, chauffeur Li Peng (李朋) picked up a "Fu" character: "Uncle Chen (陈叔), you write so well, can I take it back?"

"Take it, it's a 'Fu' character for you!" Chen Yunjiang (陈云江), a 75-year-old party member, said with a smile, "Many elderly people in our community need help with things like picking up express delivery, delivering medicine, and moving heavy objects, and they usually help us."

In a corner next to him, Wang Zhanguo (王战国), a mobile party member and Dingdong Maicai (叮咚买菜) deliveryman, buried his head and wrote carefully on a postcard: "I won't be going home for the New Year this year. My parents are getting old and always worry about me." He wrote two in a row, preparing to send them back to his hometown in Shandong (山东). "I hope the two elders are healthy and have a prosperous Year of the Horse," he murmured and gently closed the postcard.

"Here come the dumplings!" The steaming dumplings were brought to the table. "It's not only warm for the stomach, but also heartwarming!" Wang Zhanguo (王战国) gave a thumbs up.

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A Solid Foundation (Brief Commentary)

By: 吴储岐

"The Party organization has given me hope in life!" In a rented room in Beijing (北京), He Libing (贺礼兵), a mobile Party member from Suining (遂宁), Sichuan (四川), said these words with particular emotion. Previously, after an accident and being bedridden, he was worried for a time. Unexpectedly, a phone call to the Party branch brought a swift response from the Suining (遂宁) mobile Party member management system: the North China and Northeast China Regional Party Committee took the lead in coordination, and a Party member lawyer provided free assistance, securing him 328,000 yuan in compensation.

This warmth is no accident. In the past, "lost contact Party members" and "pocket Party members" were a pain point in the education and management of mobile Party members – separated by mountains and seas, information disconnected, organizational life "stalled," and difficult demands "helpless." Now, this situation is changing.

The key to solving the problem lies in the word "service." In November 2024, the General Office of the Central Committee issued the "Opinions on Further Strengthening and Improving the Management of Mobile Party Members," which put forward clear measures for grasping the daily education and management of mobile Party members: adhere to the combination of spiritual encouragement, humanistic care, and material assistance, and provide assistance for mobile Party members' entrepreneurship, employment, skills training, and rights protection.

Policies have warmth, and implementation shows more sincerity. In fact, many mobile Party members have very simple expectations: to have someone help in times of urgency and difficulty, and someone to care for them in times of cold and warmth. Nowadays, more and more Party organizations integrate management into service and promote action through service. Like He Libing (贺礼兵), how can one not feel warm in their heart when a call for help brings support from thousands of miles away?

The organization warms people's hearts with sincerity, and mobile Party members also repay their original intentions with responsibility. Nowadays, many Party members who venture out become a link connecting other places with their hometowns, giving back to their hometowns and helping development. Ji'an City (吉安市), Jiangxi (江西) Province, has built a stage for mobile Party members to return to their hometowns to take office, start businesses, and revitalize industries; Qiaocheng District (谯城区), Bozhou City (亳州市), Anhui (安徽) Province, invited 21 mobile Party members to serve as "hometown promotion officials," and successfully introduced a number of industrial projects with their contacts and vision...

As the year draws to a close and the lights are warm, every mobile Party member remembers that their bags are filled with the organization's concern. No matter how far you go or where you go, this is always the most solid support.

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Nurturing the Industrial Ecosystem with a "Living Spring" of Talent

By: 本报记者 李林蔚

"To recruit workers, government departments organized us to go to Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (西北农林科技大学) and Jiangnan University (江南大学) at the first time." Xie Qiang (谢强), marketing director of Qiandaohu Whiskey Co., Ltd. (千岛湖威士忌酒业有限公司) in Chun'an County (淳安县), Hangzhou (杭州) City, Zhejiang Province (浙江省), praised the talent recruitment service.

In recent years, Chun'an County (淳安县) has adhered to the layout of the talent chain around the industrial chain. By deepening the joint education of schools and enterprises, building a public training base for vocational skills, and building a human resources docking platform, 2,569 college students were introduced in 2025.

It is necessary to introduce, cultivate, and retain talents. Chun'an County (淳安县) strives to build a talent support system that matches industrial development, promotes the tilt of talent policy resources towards the main economic platform and leading industries, and also includes majors such as brewing engineering, grape and wine engineering into the directory of urgently needed and scarce majors, so that talents in related fields can be included in the county-level high-level talent service category.

"With the guidance of experts, we have accurately identified the pain points in the 'under-forest planting - harvesting management - processing and production' chain, and further improved the scientific and technological content and added value of traditional Chinese medicine," said Fang Jiapeng (方加鹏), Secretary of the Yaoshan Township (瑶山乡) Party Committee.

The traditional Chinese medicine industry is a traditional industry in Chun'an County (淳安县). Chun'an County (淳安县) uses the high-quality resources of the provincial "Hope Light" expert assistance group to build a three-level talent echelon of "院士 experts + academic associations + local talents," and through monthly in-depth training, key node tackling, and joint construction of key enterprise projects, it has carried out more than 30 agricultural and enterprise assistance services in 2025, trained more than 500 industrial technical talents, and added 246 backbone talents in traditional Chinese medicine, an increase of 73% year-on-year.

In 2025, Zhejiang Changchun Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江常淳科技有限公司), a high-tech enterprise based in Chun'an (淳安), settled in Zhigu Building (智谷大厦) in Xihu District (西湖区). "At present, our R&D and e-commerce sales team of more than 30 people are working in Zhigu Building (智谷大厦). This layout of 'R&D and live broadcasting in the enclave, and production and manufacturing in the local area' not only provides a better working and living environment for talents, but also attracts and retains more talents for the company," said Li Yang (李旸), product director of Changchun Technology (常淳科技).

Chun'an County (淳安县) is located in the southwest of Hangzhou (杭州) City. In recent years, the county has innovated its system and mechanism, changing from "building nests locally" to "building nests next to phoenixes," and has established "talent enclaves" in Xihu District (西湖区), Qiantang District (钱塘区) and other places in Hangzhou (杭州) City, building a full-chain service system for talent introduction, cultivation, and retention, introducing 10 high-quality talent projects. In 2025, the number of newly cultivated municipal-level high-level talents in the enclave increased by 59% year-on-year.

"The key to promoting high-quality economic development in the county lies in building a virtuous cycle of industry gathering people and people prospering industry," said the relevant person in charge of the Chun'an County (淳安县) Party Committee Talent Office. "In the next step, we will be guided by industrial needs, adhere to the equal emphasis on external talent introduction and local cultivation, and continue to optimize the talent service and support system."

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Collective village funds are by no means personal "ATMs" (Supervisory Post)

"What are the industrial projects you invested in?" "Was there a meeting to discuss it?" "Are there payment vouchers and records?"... Faced with a series of questions from the verification team, Yang Moumou (杨某某) lowered his head in shame.

Previously, the Fengdu County (丰都县) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Chongqing (重庆市) received a problem clue reflecting abnormal funds in a village collective economic organization in Longhe Town (龙河镇). The County Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission immediately established a verification team and went to the field for verification.

By reviewing accounts, checking bank account statements, and interviewing relevant personnel, the verification team discovered that in September 2023, the village joint-stock economic cooperative transferred 300,000 yuan, with the remark "industrial investment," but the recipient was Yang Moumou (杨某某), the then-current village Party branch secretary and village committee director. "I lost money playing mahjong at the time, and I thought about 'borrowing' some money from the village to tide me over, and then I would pay it back when I had money. No one else knew about it," Yang Moumou (杨某某) confessed.

Large expenditures in the village require at least the initiator, the village Party branch secretary and deputy secretary for approval, accounting review, and the village affairs supervision committee director to review and stamp. How did these funds pass the audit? It turned out that Yang Moumou (杨某某) not only controlled the seals of the village committee and the village collective economic organization, but also, for the sake of convenience, had the village Party branch deputy secretary and the village affairs supervision committee director hand over their seals to him, taking care of signing, stamping, and receiving money all by himself.

Ultimately, Yang Moumou (杨某某) was expelled from the Party and sentenced to three years in prison, with a fine of 150,000 yuan.

[Disciplinary Officer's Remarks] In this case, the village cadre controlled the village-level financial approval power, turning collective funds into a personal "ATM," exposing problems such as the individual village cadre's weak awareness of discipline and law, the inadequate implementation of the village-level financial system, and the existence of gaps in the management of village collective "three assets." The rural collective "three assets" are the common "family property" of the villagers. To safeguard the village collective's "money bag," it is necessary to strengthen the integrity awareness of village cadres, build a "firewall" for the system, and weave a tight supervision network for small and micro powers, so that the flow of every collective fund, the change of every asset, and the use of every resource are clear and transparent.

(Reported and compiled by Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), reporter of this newspaper)

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Editor in charge of this edition: Li Linwei

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)

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Authentic Historical Dramas Return, Promising a Bright Future (Upholding "Two Innovations" - Focus on New Era Arts and Literature)

By: 李星文

"The Peace Era" allows us to see the return of authentic historical dramas, the return of classic dramatic tension, and the return of the original intention of creation, which uses history to illuminate the future. Saying that the audience cannot chew on hard dishes, that the market cannot accommodate serious dramas, and that the new generation does not accept classic narratives, these words are all specious.

In the recently released annual drama list, the historical dramas "Ode to the Han Dynasty (Emperor Wu's Chapter)" (《大汉赋（武帝篇）》) and "Ode to the Tang Dynasty: Breaking the Battle Music" (《大唐赋之破阵乐》) appeared together for the fourth time. Compared to previous years, this time the names of the director and screenwriter are written on the poster. Having heard of their names for a long time without seeing their works, it is enough to show the high difficulty of creating serious historical dramas. And each year's poster, each time attracting attention, proves the high expectations of the industry and the audience for serious historical dramas.

Historical drama is the pearl on the crown of Chinese TV drama art, and it is a particularly dazzling genre in the world. On the one hand, the Chinese people have a long tradition of writing history and a profound accumulation of discussing history, and the ideological achievements are voluminous and of high quality and quantity. On the other hand, the Chinese TV drama industry has a group of excellent historical drama creators. Liu Heping (刘和平) and Jiang Qitao (江奇涛) are representatives of screenwriters, Chen Jialin (陈家林) and Zhang Li (张黎) are representatives of directors, Chen Daoming (陈道明) and Chen Baoguo (陈宝国) are representatives of actors, and "Yongzheng Dynasty" (《雍正王朝》), "Kangxi Dynasty" (《康熙王朝》), "Emperor Wu of Han" (《汉武大帝》), and "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" (《大明王朝1566》) are representatives of works.

However, in the past 20 years, excellent historical novels have been lacking. "Zhang Juzheng" (《张居正》) was the winner of the 6th Mao Dun Literature Award in 2005, and since then there have been few widely influential historical novels in the field of serious literature. At the same time, a generation of historical drama creators has grown old, and their creations have gradually fallen into silence, especially works with accurate lines, airtight narratives, and faithful to the spirit of history are relatively rare.

At the beginning of 2026, "The Peace Era" was released, allowing us to see the return of authentic historical dramas, the return of classic dramatic tension, and the return of the original intention of creation, which uses history to illuminate the future.

In the genealogy of Chinese historical dramas, the dynasties with long durations such as the Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties are presented relatively more, while the chaotic times such as the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are depicted relatively less. The unified dynasties highlight the achievements in both civil administration and military affairs, and there are many good materials to choose from; in the chaotic times of war, human lives are as cheap as dirt, and it is difficult to find a handle to get into the play and heroic figures. "The Peace Era" rises to the challenge, starting from the "Later Jin" period, the middle generation of the "Five Dynasties". With Qian Hongchu (钱弘俶), the monarch of the Wuyue Kingdom, Zhao Kuangyin (赵匡胤), the founding hero of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Guo Rong (郭荣), the Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, as the protagonists, it writes about the end of the chaotic world, the process of the world moving towards peace, and the achievements of the three people on the road to unification.

The basic attributes of historical dramas are three: following the historical framework, illuminating the subtle aspects of history, and vividly writing historical figures. The first point refers to the fact that major events are not fabricated, the second point refers to conforming to the laws of rise and fall, and the third point refers to boldly making dramatic assumptions in the dark field of history. The things done by the characters in the play may not have happened, but they could have happened, the so-called probable history. Looking back at the works of the past 10 years according to these three points, only a few works such as "The Advisors Alliance" (《大军师司马懿之军师联盟》), "The Long River" (《天下长河》), and "The Qin Empire III" (《大秦帝国之崛起》) can be called historical dramas and have a greater impact.

This time, "The Peace Era" has new expansions and improvements compared to similar themes, from thematic connotation to dramatic quality, from the textual research of institutions to the production level. A drama should focus on dramatic conflict, and a good play is the first priority. "The Peace Era" has handed in a high score answer sheet in terms of dramatic quality. The play has both old and cunning planning and bloody resistance; both quiet and profound games and passionate speeches. The group portraits of characters it塑造 creates, some can find similar items in past works, and some belong to unique creations. The mixture of classical and vernacular Chinese and the well-documented institutions will bring some viewing thresholds, but real drama viewers do not feel this is an obstacle, but have the fun of "pulling the film" back and forth.

Saying that the audience cannot chew on hard dishes, that the market cannot accommodate serious dramas, and that the new generation does not accept classic narratives, these words are all specious. "The Peace Era" has broken these so-called "laws" and cast a solid anchor for the creation of historical dramas.

The popularity of "The Peace Era" and the substantial progress in the preparation of "Ode to the Han Dynasty (Emperor Wu's Chapter)" (《大汉赋（武帝篇）》), "Ode to the Tang Dynasty: Breaking the Battle Music" (《大唐赋之破阵乐》), "When the Wind Rises: Zhang Juzheng" (《风禾尽起张居正》), and "Unification of the World" (《江山大同》) are gratifying news. However, it should also be seen that the development of historical dramas still faces considerable challenges at present.

First of all, the creation of historical dramas is an overlay of talent-intensive and capital-intensive. The lack of successors to creative talents is an objective reality, and the financial investment required for historical dramas is also a test. Reducing costs and increasing efficiency is the main theme of the drama industry at present, and historical dramas are destined to be projects that cannot be completed with small amounts of funds due to the needs of scenes, costumes, props, special effects, and cycles. Wanting to ensure quality and considering costs, coupled with the collective shift of the audience's aesthetic taste to "short", the original "Ode to the Tang Dynasty: Breaking the Battle Music" (《大唐赋之破阵乐》), which was divided into two seasons with 32 episodes each, has been determined to be 24 episodes, while "Ode to the Han Dynasty (Emperor Wu's Chapter)" (《大汉赋（武帝篇）》) is expected to be around 30 episodes. Compared with the 82 episodes of "Zhenguan Long Song" (《贞观长歌》) and the 58 episodes of "Emperor Wu of Han" (《汉武大帝》), these two projects on the same topic are considered short stories. Shortening the length will inevitably bring changes in the layout and narrative strategy. Once there is a mistake in this road of innovation, the project establishment and production of subsequent similar projects will become more difficult.

Secondly, the public opinion ecology faced by the creation of historical dramas is complex. The traffic-oriented survival of long dramas has led to the need for historical dramas to employ young actors with traffic, and once traffic stars enter the game, the creation and dissemination of the drama will be affected by fan culture. Fans of different stars pull and step on each other, and some dramas have not yet been broadcast, they are labeled as "historical nihilism," and some subtle artistic adaptations are indiscriminately accused of "distorting history," and the platform and the film party cannot argue. The voices of fans are overwhelming, and rational voices are difficult to form a counterattack. This brings risks to the creation of historical dramas.

In 2026, the development of historical dramas will usher in new opportunities. If you want to make long-term progress in the long-term development of historical dramas, there are two things that must be done: one is to carry out well-funded creation under the script-centered system; the other is to effectively manage the phenomenon of bad fan culture and public opinion destroying dramas in an atmosphere that respects the laws of creation. If so, the prospects for historical dramas are promising.

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Listening to Music with the Heart (Insight)

By: 孔祥东

Not long ago, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev (瓦莱里·捷杰耶夫) led the Mariinsky Orchestra to Shanghai (上海) to perform the complete set of Mahler symphonies. I listened for five consecutive days. One scene left a deep impression on me: at the end of "Mahler Nine," for nearly a minute before the conductor lowered his hands, not a single applause erupted, perfectly concluding the entire concert.

As a pianist who has spent most of my life on stage, I have witnessed the profound and moving changes in China's (中国) classical music ecosystem over the past 30 years.

I am often asked why classical music has so many "rules." The attire, the silence, the timing of applause... these etiquettes are by no means intended to build a high wall, keeping the public out. On the contrary, they help us travel through hundreds of years of time, building a bridge for dialogue with those great souls.

Imagine, when a performer's fingertips flow out that moonlight-like sadness in Chopin's nocturne, a sudden cough or a ringing phone is enough to shatter this carefully constructed emotional constellation. Music, especially classical music, is an extremely subtle "art of time." It needs complete space and time to unfold its full spiritual dimension. The pauses between movements are often profound foreshadowing laid by the composer—for example, at the end of the third movement of Beethoven's "Fate Symphony," that breathtakingly long crescendo is precisely to accumulate strength and launch an impact towards the light of the fourth movement. If applause were to sound at this moment, it would be tantamount to closing the book at the climax of the story. These etiquettes are essentially a respect for the life of the musical work, and even more so a safeguard of the sacred contract between the artist and the audience.

For me, these norms are by no means cold dogmas. The core of etiquette is empathy, not constraint. I never demand absolute silence. The rustling of down jackets in winter, the uncontrollable soft coughs, the innocent murmurs of children—these are all the warmth of real life in the concert hall. Sometimes, these subtle sounds make the music even more precious, because it proves that we are jointly experiencing an unrepeatable moment. What moves me most is the moment when the audience is struck by the music to the depths of their souls. I remember once performing the "Yellow River Concerto (黄河协奏曲)," when the last chord fell, the whole audience was silent for two seconds, followed by an overwhelming applause and cheers. Those two seconds of silence were more powerful than any applause, because they represented the shock and aftertaste after being completely conquered by the music. I often say: "I would rather have sincere gaffes than polite indifference."

However, some behaviors do hurt the artist's heart. This does not stem from ignorant disturbance, but from a disregard for art and public space. For example, during the performance of the most delicate movements, recklessly holding up a mobile phone to take pictures, the glaring light and shutter sounds are like rude intruders; or treating the concert as a social venue with background music, talking and laughing loudly throughout the entire process. What is most intolerable is perhaps that kind of "exquisite egoism"—deliberately applauding abruptly in order to show that one "knows the ropes," this performative applause desecrates the music. Behind the behavior, what is missing is the most basic respect for art and for others.

Looking back on the growth path of Chinese (中国) classical music listeners over the years, I am full of hope. More and more young people will listen to the works and read the background in advance, and walk into the concert hall with understanding. In their eyes, there is curiosity, there is desire, and even more a gradually maturing focus. This is a huge leap from "listening to the excitement" to "listening to the subtleties," and then to "listening to the heart."

The ultimate purpose of etiquette is to lead to freedom—allowing us to detach from the daily disturbances and obtain a pure and profound space for soul resonance. So, dear audience, when you walk into the concert hall again, don't be nervous because of the "rules." Please silence your mobile phone, sit comfortably, and then, just open your heart. Let the rules be internalized into a natural habit, and let the external silence guide your internal listening.

Because, the most beautiful applause is not always at the end of the song. It often sounds silently when the music flows, in the moment of throbbing, and echoes forever.

(The author is a pianist)

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Empower Language Literacy

By: 汤拥华

Not long ago, the Ministry of Education (教育部) and seven other departments issued the "Opinions on Deeply Promoting the Inheritance and Development of Outstanding Chinese Language and Culture and Improving the National Language and Culture Literacy," emphasizing "strengthening digital empowerment" and "guiding all people, especially young people, to use artificial intelligence beneficially, safely, and fairly, and to enhance their ability to express themselves, make value judgments, and discern culture." The application of various generative AI products in Chinese language education and learning has both experience and reflection, and needs to be viewed dialectically.

AI empowering Chinese literacy should not be satisfied with "technologizing" Chinese knowledge. In Chinese classrooms, teachers often use AI to generate animation effects to vividly explain a certain knowledge point; they also like to use AI to let the characters in the textbook appear and communicate with students across time and space. While this can help students understand, it may also limit their thinking. It should be seen that Chinese learning is a process of feeling, thinking, and imagining through the medium of language and writing, and an important content of the inheritance of outstanding Chinese language and culture is to carry forward the tacit and generative nature of ideographic characters. The technology that AI is best at may not be the literacy that Chinese language needs most.

AI empowering Chinese literacy should not blindly believe in the "efficiency" of AI ability training. Many primary and secondary school students use AI's modification suggestions to polish their compositions over and over again. They write themselves first, and then let AI polish it, or AI writes first, and then they modify it. After several rounds of repetition, the articles that get high scores from AI rarely have "fatal flaws." The content is appropriate, and the form is also decent, but it always makes people feel that it lacks personality and vitality. The improvement of writing ability has rules to follow, but the "rules" must have openness, and the "methods" must be "living methods." If AI's assistance does not leave space for diversification in themes, subjects, perspectives, and even language, and only conducts internal circulation-style closed training under a set of evaluation criteria, it seems very efficient on the surface, but it is actually full of craftsmanship and not conducive to the improvement of Chinese literacy.

The reason for raising the above questions is to emphasize the unity of instrumentality and humanity. Chinese education should not simply use AI as a tool, but should take the introduction of AI as an opportunity to help schools and even the whole society re-understand the goals and paths of improving Chinese literacy. What kind of knowledge can be easily obtained through AI, and what kind of knowledge must be mastered through repeated memorization and cultural immersion? In the AI era, which Chinese language skills are outdated, which aspects have higher requirements, and which new skills have become necessary? These questions remain to be answered.

At present, AI tools are not yet mature. Chinese education can promote each other with AI research and development, and guide all people, especially young people, to dialectically understand the new experiences brought by AI. While improving the ability to use language and writing, they should continue to think about what it means to be human and what it means to be culture, and gradually form academic literacy, emotional attitudes, and moral cultivation that meet the needs of the times. This not only puts higher demands on Chinese education, but also means a new start for humanities education.

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A Dialogue of Body and Mind Across Time and Space

By: 苏 青

As a classic cultural IP spanning 400 years, Tang Xianzu's (汤显祖) "The Peony Pavilion" (《牡丹亭》) and its theme of profound love, "love arises, and deepens" (情不知所起，一往而深), achieves a dialogue between body and mind across time and space in the dance drama "The Peony Pavilion" (舞剧《牡丹亭》). The dance drama simplifies the original work, condensing the 55 scenes into two parts, "Dream Scroll" (梦卷) and "Painting Scroll" (画卷). It not only elevates the lament of "love difficult to express" (情深难诉) into an expression of love and freedom but also dances out a profound sigh for life in the freehand brushwork and physical tension of neoclassical aesthetics. The work was well-received after its premiere and also gained popularity among young people through the Bilibili New Year's Eve Gala.

The creative team deeply understands the essence of Chinese painting, using painting to create scenery and integrating dance into it, combining poetry, music, dance, and painting. For example, in the scene "Touring the Garden" (游园), rich colors are used. The scarlet of the flower goddess's costume, the deep pink and light pink of Liniang's (丽娘) costume, the goose yellow of Chunxiang's (春香) costume, and the light purple and moon white of the flower fairy's costume are layered upon each other. Large areas of color blocks in the background blend with each other, echoing the spring mood with multiple layers of green, but they suddenly change. In the mottled light and shadow, the images of the changing seasons and ethereal vastness are depicted on the stage.

The stage arrangement of the entire play, while fully considering narration and emotion, secretly conforms to the principles of "near real and far virtual" (近实远虚) and "scattered perspective" (散点透视), combining light and shadow and dynamic lines to construct the artistic conception of the work. In "Touring the Garden" (游园), the flower goddess and Du Liniang (杜丽娘) weave through each other, and the group dance echoes them, sometimes gathering like a cluster of flowers and brocade, and sometimes scattering like rain threads and wind slices. The beautiful spring scenery of "rich rain and thick smoke" (膏雨烟浓) and "a riot of color" (姹紫嫣红 (chà zǐ yān hóng - "gaudy and gorgeous," describing the beauty of flowers in full bloom)) leaps to the eye. The group dance suddenly stills, the shapes are staggered high and low, and together with the modern-style gold brick pink walls on the stage, they create natural images such as "floating觞曲水" (liú shāng qū shuǐ) and "Taihu rockery" (太湖山石) in Tang Xianzu's (汤显祖) original work. When appreciating a series of flowing beautiful scenery, the audience spontaneously feels the immersive feeling of "how can one know the beauty of spring without visiting the garden?" (不到园林，怎知春色如许). The group dances in scenes such as "Portrait" (写真) and "Resurrection" (回生) also complete the connection between traditional and modern aesthetics in the rhythm control and spatial processing of sparseness and density, and the artistic conception is dreamlike, providing a new style for the modern adaptation of traditional classics.

Pas de deux has always been an important criterion for the success of a dance drama, such as the "Balcony Pas de Deux" in "Romeo and Juliet" (《罗密欧与朱丽叶》) and the "Love Pledge Pas de Deux" by the lake in "Swan Lake" (《天鹅湖》). The pas de deux "Dream Interrupted" (惊梦) in "The Peony Pavilion" (《牡丹亭》) is remarkable. The innovative design of the square extended stage pushes the eternal love of Liniang (丽娘) and Mengmei (梦梅) to the audience. The director and dancers' treatment of dramatic tension is restrained and minimalist, structuring the dance segment through blank space and using a few to represent many. Liniang (丽娘) leans back and falls three times, and the double images of virtuality and reality and the projection of red follow-up light represent the union of two hearts; the lifts and fulcrum transitions of the pas de deux are quite difficult, but the dancers' interpretation is very light, rushing to the dream appointment with superb skills, showing the spirit of Chinese classical aesthetics.

From the text "The Peony Pavilion" (《牡丹亭》) to the dance drama "The Peony Pavilion" (《牡丹亭》), from written language to body language, the dance drama inherits Tang Xianzu's (汤显祖) original theme, meaning, and characters, borrows the tune, sound, rhythm, and dialogue of Kunqu Opera (昆曲), and makes beneficial attempts in artistic conception creation, simplicity, and freehand brushwork of time and space. "The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭) has three lives, and the deepest love is the most difficult to express" (牡丹亭上三生路，最是情深难诉), the change in artistic form will inevitably lead to different narrative methods. The dancing "Peony Pavilion" (《牡丹亭》) is striving to find an expression method suitable for the ontology of dance art in "classic original work - dance language - contemporary context," and further condense the structure of the dance drama, give full play to the unique advantages of body language, and let the "supreme love" (至情) spiritual core of the original work gain new vitality in the dance.

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Welcoming Spring in a Warm and Fiery Fusion

By: 张明瑟

Short videos, dramas, live broadcasts, micro-dramas, podcasts... Nowadays, there are many types of online audio-visual content, presenting a magnificent view. The "Vitality Audio-Visual, Myriad Screens Together - 2026 China Online Audio-Visual Ceremony," hosted by the China Netcasting Services Association (中国网络视听节目服务协会) and the China Television Arts Committee (中国电视艺术委员会), selected the best of the best from this "grand view," presenting 40 programs in 4 hours with high density, showcasing the youthful and vibrant nature of online art and literature.

The gala brought together the elite forces of major online audio-visual platforms, creating a batch of highly creative artistic programs. Major audio-visual platforms are not only content carriers but also "product managers" who best understand the tastes of the audience. The main creators of the gala fully utilized this advantage, throwing "prompt words" such as online sensibility, everyday life, and youthfulness to the platforms, which then created content based on their own characteristics. Platforms deeply involved in dramas extracted the core themes of "The Peaceful Years" (太平年), "Small Town, Big Matters" (小城大事), and "Cradle on Horseback" (马背摇篮), creatively writing song and dance programs. Platforms specializing in intangible cultural heritage short videos and live broadcasts vividly showcased the amazing old crafts of Wuqiao Acrobatics, Xiang Embroidery, and Huangyang Wood Carving with ""Skillful Machines"" ("“机”巧") and "Painting Shadows of Passing Years" ("画影流年"). Platforms that have achieved good results in the variety show track cleverly used their respective IPs to incubate lively singing and performing shows such as "Flowers Bloom on the Silk Road" (花开丝路) and "Let's Open the Mic Together" (一起开麦吧). These independent content brands, which have been verified by the audience, gathered together, raising the gold content of the gala and giving a shining footnote to the "Ceremony."

The gala maintained the emotional tone of "warmth + passion," demonstrating the upward and benevolent temperament of online art and literature and the confidence in cultural inheritance. With the fast pace of life, everyone wants to listen to a song, watch a drama, or browse a video to recharge and cheer themselves up. The gala seized this cultural need, uniquely interpreting the heartwarming stories of ordinary people's lives: "The Light in Search" tells the true experiences of Wang Liuyun (王柳云) and other amateur creators "speaking for themselves and shining brightly"; "Sound Life" uses new technologies to help hearing-impaired people leave voice messages in the comments section... This warm current allows ordinary people to be seen and cared for, completing the recognition of their self-worth.

If "warmth" connects to the individual, giving spiritual comfort, then "passion" leads to the greater self, stirring up cultural confidence. In internet popular culture, "passion" is an aesthetic trait that pursues the ultimate, refuses to admit defeat, and is full of vigor, highly matching the acceptance habits of netizens, which has also become a breakthrough for the gala to stimulate emotional resonance. In the creative performance show "Role Activation" (角儿活), the unique skills inherited for hundreds of years, such as Pu Opera's carrying pole skills, Qin Opera's water sleeve skills, and Wu Opera's flag-waving knife skills, hit it off with passionate popular rap, making the ancient opera art full of fashion sense, making people unconsciously hum along and experience the beauty of traditional culture. The scene narration "Guardians of the Forbidden City" (故宫守护者) uses the story of a personified "glazed bottle making a comeback on the exhibition stand" to explain the relocation history of the Forbidden City's cultural relics, demonstrating the Chinese people's unwavering protection of national treasures in the era of war, planting the seeds of cultural inheritance "it's my turn" in the hearts of the audience.

The gala explored the youthful expression of red culture, reflecting the proactive responsibility of online art and literature in continuously improving its artistic pattern. Online art and literature was once labeled as "non-mainstream," seemingly far from revolutionary themes, but in the past two years, many short videos and micro-dramas of this type have achieved impressive levels of creativity and dissemination. Programs such as "Cradle on Horseback" (马背上的摇篮) and "Journey" (征途) brought the dramas and creative techniques that have been tested and recognized by the audience in the past year to the stage. The situational drama "Salute Across Time and Space" pushed the entire gala to a climax: the new recruit returned to the Anti-Japanese War site, and the instructor looked at the children of the future of the motherland, affectionately saying, "You have to go back, back to your own battlefield," making people instantly tear up. The revolutionary spirit thus entered the hearts of the audience, making people want to do their part for the country on their own "battlefield."

The 2026 China Online Audio-Visual Ceremony is like a prism, refracting the shining brilliance of online art and literature. It tells the joys and sorrows of ordinary people in the language of youth, and writes the inheritance and innovation of culture with the ingenuity of craftsmen. In the blending of "warmth" and "passion," it reflects the common hope of thousands of hearts for a better life. Through the gala, we can see the bigger picture. As an important force in the new mass art and literature, online audio-visual will continue to engrave the vigorous spiritual temperament of our era in the digital space.

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Beyond swiftness, more depth and contemplation (Viewpoint)

The appeal of historical costume suspense dramas to audiences naturally lies in the exciting power struggles. To this end, *The Longest Day in Chang'an* boldly "subtracted," weakening or even abandoning the love lines and family lines that are often criticized in similar works, and focusing on the "career line"—strategies and conflicts. By cutting away the extraneous details, the space freed up was used to enrich the supporting characters, fully develop plot twists, and create a suspenseful space of "steep turns in every episode, stories for everyone," ultimately completing the thematic sublimation from revenge to protecting the country. This approach of "only doing the main quest" has been applauded by many viewers, and the ratings are also among the highest.

However, continuously and rapidly throwing out suspense and reversing the plot, with many "hooks," but the response to the suspense is not strong enough. Viewers are often surprised by the "unthinkable," but rarely admire the "so that's how it is." The charm of suspense lies in exploring the subtle and complex aspects of the human heart. *The Longest Day in Chang'an* (长安二十四计), in its swiftness, squeezes the space that characters should have for contemplation in value choices and human nature games, which is a regrettable point.

(Xiao Chenwei (肖晨伟), Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京市))

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