Summary: The article summarizes China's achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, highlighting the leadership of the CCP Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core. It emphasizes the country's economic resilience, technological innovation, and advancements in people's livelihoods, including poverty alleviation and social security. Xi Jinping's focus on "民生为大" (people's well-being as the greatest priority) is underscored through anecdotes of his visits to local communities. The article also mentions China's commitment to global cooperation and multilateralism, referencing Xi Jinping's calls for unity and dialogue over confrontation, particularly in the face of trade disputes, and a meeting with the US president in Busan. Finally, it reaffirms the importance of the CCP's self-revolution and continued efforts to combat corruption.
Summary: The Central Propaganda Department and the National Development and Reform Commission have jointly published "Learning and Answering Xi Jinping's Economic Thought," a book intended to promote deeper study and understanding of Xi Jinping's economic thought. The book uses a Q&A format to comprehensively and accessibly explain the significance, system, core tenets, and practical requirements of Xi's economic theories. Divided into 14 sections with 50 questions, it aims to help party members, cadres, and the public apply these theories to their work. The publication seeks to address theoretical hot spots and social concerns related to economic development. It does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article congratulates the opening of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee's annual session. It highlights the achievements of the past year, including surpassing 140 trillion yuan in GDP, and emphasizes the importance of unity and adhering to Xi Jinping Thought in advancing Chinese-style modernization. The CPPCC is expected to focus on the formulation and implementation of the 15th Five-Year Plan to contribute to this goal. The article stresses the need to strengthen unity among all Chinese people to overcome challenges and achieve the goals of socialist modernization.
Summary: The fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will open on March 4th in Beijing, where members will review the agenda, hear a work report from the Standing Committee, and a report on proposal work since the third session. Wang Huning will present the work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee. Separately, the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) will hold a preparatory meeting to elect the presidium and secretary-general, and to vote on the draft agenda. A press conference will follow, where a spokesperson will answer questions from Chinese and foreign journalists regarding the NPC agenda and work.
Summary: In 2025, the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee focused on implementing the constitution, revising laws related to the economy and society, and strengthening oversight of the government. The NPC Standing Committee designated October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day. Efforts were made to enhance the quality and effectiveness of supervision, including budget reviews and addressing public concerns. The NPC also focused on improving the role of NPC representatives by soliciting feedback on draft legislation. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Since the launch of the study and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, various regions, departments, and units have swiftly deployed and effectively carried out the campaign. The campaign emphasizes that cadres should adhere to seeking truth from facts and serving the people, translating the results of the study and education into practical results for promoting development. The campaign focuses on studying Xi Jinping's important discourses on the correct view of performance, and on integrating study, investigation, and rectification. Various departments have committed to opposing incorrect views of performance and promoting high-quality development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights China's vibrant Lunar New Year celebrations, emphasizing culture, technology, and people-centric governance. Xi Jinping visited Beijing's historical Longfusi Street, emphasizing the organic integration of tradition and modernity. The piece showcased technological advancements, including robotics and AI, noting positive comments from the German Chancellor regarding collaborative driving systems. It also underscored the government's commitment to improving people's livelihoods through community services and social programs.
Summary: NPC spokesperson Liu Jieyi announced the 14th CPPCC's fourth session will commence on March 4th, focusing on contributing to the "15th Five-Year Plan" and high-quality development. The CPPCC will advise on economic and social development, address key issues in modernization, and conduct research to inform the plan's formulation. Liu Jieyi highlighted China's economic resilience and potential despite external challenges, emphasizing the country's commitment to reform and opening up, including the Hainan Free Trade Port. The CPPCC aims to expand international cooperation and mutual benefit, promoting understanding of Chinese modernization. There were no mentions of the United States in this article.
Summary: All delegations attending the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) fourth session have registered, and preparations for the meeting are complete, according to the NPC news center.
Summary: The news center for the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) announced on March 3rd that all delegates from various sectors attending the meeting have registered. Preparations for the conference are now complete. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights the successful implementation of China's "new development concept" through innovative and localized solutions, citing a 4-gigawatt photovoltaic power station built on a former coal mining subsidence area in Ningxia as an example. This project demonstrates a shift from resource depletion to value creation by integrating power generation with agriculture and land remediation. By transforming limitations into opportunities, China is achieving high-quality development and advancing its own model of modernization. The article emphasizes the importance of adapting the new development concept to local conditions for creative implementation.
Summary: Yang Fucai, a rural agricultural supplier in Guizhou province, has seen his business grow by embracing agricultural modernization. He stocks new high-tech fertilizers and seeds, and has invested in a crop-dusting drone to serve local farmers who have small and fragmented lands. Yang attended training organized by the Guiyang Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau to gain a professional drone operator certification. The local government is promoting the integration of technology and mechanization to boost agricultural production.
Summary: Since the launch of the education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, various regions and departments have initiated deployments to guide Party members and cadres to adhere to seeking truth and being pragmatic. The Central Organization Department emphasized thorough study, inspection, and rectification, and the Central and State机关工委 stressed the importance of setting an example and fulfilling the mission of promoting high-quality development through high-quality Party building. Various regions and departments have also expressed their intention to integrate learning with practical work, rectify problems, and establish mechanisms to prevent deviations in the view of performance. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A performance featuring song, dance, opera, and other acts was held in Xianhou Village, Chun'an County, Hangzhou, as part of the "Happy Hangzhou" program leading up to the Lantern Festival. The event, organized by the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department and the Hangzhou Culture, Radio and Television Group, aimed to bring cultural activities to rural areas and meet the needs of local residents. The program included performances such as the opening dance "Phoenix Rising Tide," acrobatics, Sichuan opera, and excerpts from Yue opera. The performance was based on a "public order" model, which allowed the local population to make specific requests of the performance. The villagers expressed their enjoyment and hoped for more such events in the future.
Summary: The article reports on various cultural activities held across different regions in China on March 3rd, celebrating the Lantern Festival. The piece focuses on the festive atmosphere and widespread participation in these events.
Summary: The article reports on international perspectives regarding China's agricultural modernization, highlighting the country's investment in agricultural technology and its localized approach to developing new productive forces in the agricultural sector. Foreign observers praise China's integration of technology like AI and precision agriculture to improve efficiency and sustainability. Several interviewees, including representatives from Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, and Nepal, emphasized the importance of long-term planning, research collaboration, and knowledge sharing. The article also notes China's cooperation with other developing countries in areas such as drip irrigation and drought resistance, aiming to promote global food security through initiatives like the South-South Cooperation projects and the China-Latin America sustainable food innovation center.
Summary: The article asserts that a recent military strike against Iran by the U.S. and Israel, undertaken without UN Security Council authorization, flagrantly violates international law and threatens to plunge the Middle East into deeper conflict. It claims that the U.S. justified the strike based on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons development, while the IAEA refuted evidence of such a program. The article highlights international opposition to the military action, emphasizing the need to uphold the UN Charter and international law. It calls for an immediate cessation of military actions, a return to dialogue and negotiations regarding the Iranian nuclear program, and opposition to unilateral actions that undermine international norms. The article concludes by stating China's commitment to working with the international community to promote peace and stability in the Middle East.
Summary: In a phone call with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated China's consistent position of resolving international issues through dialogue and adherence to the UN Charter. Wang expressed concern over the disruption of Iran nuclear talks, which included Israeli security concerns, and opposed military action by Israel and the U.S. against Iran, emphasizing that force cannot solve problems and calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities. Wang stressed China's impartial stance on Middle East issues and its commitment to promoting de-escalation. Wang Yi also requested Israel ensure the safety of Chinese citizens and organizations in Israel.
Summary: This article summarizes China's achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period (2021-2025) under the leadership of the CCP Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core. It highlights economic resilience, advancements in technology, and improvements in people's livelihoods, including employment and social security. Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of focusing on domestic affairs ("concentrating on managing our own affairs well") and high-quality development. The article mentions Xi Jinping's visits to various regions, including Tibet and Xinjiang, and also touches on China's foreign policy, including its stance on global development and its relationship with the United States, noting a meeting between Xi Jinping and the U.S. president in Busan where Xi stated that "big principles are set, other problems are easy to solve." Finally, it underscores the importance of the CCP's self-revolution in addressing challenges and ensuring the party's continued leadership.
Summary: During the Spring Festival, domestic tourism reached 596 million trips with spending hitting 803.483 billion yuan, both record highs. Individuals like Li Yonghua chose to travel with family, seeking novelty and shared experiences, while others like Qiao Jianheng arranged for families to visit them in their new cities like Guangzhou. Deputies and members of the CPPCC noted that these travel trends reflect economic development, changing consumption patterns, and the desire for quality family time. They also suggest improvements in tourism services and urban governance are needed to accommodate these evolving travel patterns. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A symposium was held in Beijing for the publication of "Xi Jinping Walks Among the People (Volume II)," where State Councilor and All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) President Shen Yiqin delivered a speech. Shen emphasized that the book demonstrates Xi Jinping's people-centric approach and urged attendees to learn from these stories to improve governance and people's livelihoods. She instructed ACWF organizations to study, promote, and utilize the book to strengthen family values and serve women, children, and families. Representatives from the Central Propaganda Department, the Party History and Literature Research Institute, and local ACWF cadres attended the symposium. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's focus on "whole-process people's democracy" as a system that effectively addresses the needs of the people, highlighting examples of local officials responding to citizen concerns raised by representatives at the National People's Congress (NPC). It cites examples of how suggestions from NPC representatives and public consultations have been incorporated into policy-making, from national standards for prepared food to the "15th Five-Year Plan," in order to achieve national prosperity and improve the lives of ordinary people. The article also mentions that a foreign official who attended a public consultation meeting in Zhejiang noted that China's "whole-process people's democracy has a richer and deeper connotation." The congress is thus portrayed as a window into observing Chinese democracy.
Summary: A national "Learning from Lei Feng" campaign for 2026, sponsored by multiple central government bodies, was launched in Fushun, Liaoning. The launch featured performances and displays highlighting Lei Feng's spirit and past achievements in promoting socialist virtues and service to the people. Fushun organized related activities such as volunteer services and exhibitions to engage the public. The campaign will continue nationwide, encouraging participation in volunteer activities and promoting socialist morality. The article did not mention or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the cultural, technological, and people-oriented characteristics of the Chinese New Year, highlighting China's development and resilience. It notes Xi Jinping's emphasis on integrating tradition and modernity, referencing his visit to Beijing's Longfusi area. The piece emphasizes China's technological advancements, with foreign media and analysts noting impressive progress in robotics, and citing the visit of Germany's leader to China to experience technological advances in automobiles. It also touches upon improvements in social welfare and public services, reflecting a focus on people-centric development.
Summary: In 2025, the National People's Congress (NPC) and its Standing Committee focused on upholding the Constitution, revising laws related to the economy and society, and strengthening oversight of legal implementation. They established October 25th as Taiwan Retrocession Day. The NPC also enhanced legal frameworks for private sector development and promoted public awareness of the rule of law. Furthermore, the NPC deputies actively participated in legislative and supervisory work, contributing to the drafting of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
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Summary: In a 2026 Spring Festival gathering, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of maintaining strategic focus and steadily advancing the Party and the nation's cause, accumulating small victories to achieve larger goals. He stressed a phased and solid approach for progress. The data source for this information is the Chinese government website and the National Bureau of Statistics.
Summary: This article emphasizes China's continuous development and unwavering commitment to progress, exemplified by the annual "Two Sessions" (全国两会) and the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. It highlights achievements in food security, domestic demand, and GDP growth, attributing them to internal strength and control over development initiatives. The article also celebrates China's rapid innovation, particularly in AI, robotics, and renewable energy, portraying the country as a leader in technological advancement and green transition, driven by its own needs rather than external pressure. It frames these developments as essential for navigating uncertainties and achieving national rejuvenation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Xi Jinping emphasized the need to focus on economic construction, comprehensively implement the new development concept, and promote sustainable economic and social progress in his explanation of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The article highlights efforts to build a modern industrial system through technological upgrades in traditional industries and the development of emerging sectors, such as AI-driven biotechnology and advanced manufacturing, as well as cultural tourism. Representatives like Wuhan Qi of CITIC Heavy Industries and Dai Lizhong of St. Xiang BioTech, emphasized the importance of innovation and self-reliance in core technologies. The article also mentions efforts to improve market mechanisms and support both public and private sectors, exemplified by the work of Xu Guanju of Transfar Group. Rural revitalization through specialized industries is also examined, with representative Shi Rufei of Liubao Tea Factory detailing efforts to boost farmers' incomes through tea production.
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Summary: The article highlights China's focus on high-quality development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, emphasizing innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and shared prosperity. Innovation is being driven by advancements in embodied intelligence, with companies like Unitree Robotics showcasing advancements in robotics and AI, and representatives calling for improved legal support for AI startups. Representatives like Tan Shuangjian emphasized the coordinated development of regions like Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Li Lan noted that the Alashankou port in Xinjiang has seen increased China-Europe freight train traffic, facilitating trade with countries in Central Asia and Europe, and that customs procedures have been streamlined, including for automobile exports. Zhao Kunyu pointed out the importance of ecological tourism for rural development.
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Summary: This article highlights China's commitment to deepening reform and innovation across various sectors. It details initiatives such as the development of humanoid robots to boost productivity, streamlining business registration processes, and promoting scientific literacy through public outreach. Additionally, the piece emphasizes the importance of green manufacturing in the electric vehicle industry. The article does not explicitly mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article highlights several local initiatives aimed at improving people's livelihoods across China. In Dandong, Liaoning province, investments have improved preschool education. In Tongnan district, Chongqing, a digital initiative, including online access to educational resources, seeks to improve education equity. In Suzhou, Jiangsu province, AI-assisted healthcare is being implemented to streamline medical services for residents. These initiatives, as well as others described in the article, such as elderly care and assistance for vulnerable populations, are framed as efforts to increase people's quality of life.
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Summary: This article focuses on strengthening Party leadership at the grassroots level to improve governance and promote economic development. The articles highlight specific examples, such as how village Party branches in Hunan are revitalizing tourism and how officials in Chongqing are facilitating the sale of pickled mustard tubers through data-driven approaches. Shanghai's efforts to eliminate "toilet-carrying households" demonstrates a commitment to improving living conditions for residents. The reports also discuss the use of technology to reduce burdens on local officials in Zhejiang and anti-corruption efforts in Guangxi.
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Summary: Dalian experienced robust economic growth in 2025, with a GDP increase of 5.7% and significant gains in industrial output, tourism, and foreign investment. The city is focused on becoming a "pioneer zone" for industrial optimization and socio-economic development, as well as a hub for Northeast Asian shipping, logistics, and finance. Key projects like the Jinzhou Bay International Airport and the Changhai cross-sea bridge are underway to bolster infrastructure. To stimulate the economy, Dalian is promoting domestic consumption and encouraging technological innovation in areas like petrochemicals, automobiles, and information technology. Furthermore, Dalian is actively working to improve its business environment and increase international trade.
Summary: This article discusses Midea Group's role as a "chain leader" in fostering industrial cooperation with over 100,000 upstream and downstream partners. The company emphasizes technical collaboration, digital intelligence-driven solutions, green innovation, and joint overseas expansion. The goal is to strengthen the resilience of the industrial chain and advance China's manufacturing sector towards the high end of the global value chain through high-quality development. It aims to contribute to the vision of a strong manufacturing nation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article profiles four representatives and committee members attending the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), highlighting their dedication to grassroots investigation and translating public concerns into policy recommendations. NPC representative Geng Zunzhu focuses on food security and rural revitalization, advocating for infrastructure investment in high-standard farmland. CPPCC member Lian Yuming concentrates on ecological protection in the Sanjiangyuan region, proposing enhanced scientific support for national park management. NPC representative Huang Maoxing emphasizes the importance of digital service trade, while CPPCC member Xu Ling underscores the need for vocational education to adapt to technological advancements. None of the four representatives were reported to have mentioned the United States.
Summary: During the Spring Festival, NPC deputies and CPPCC members conducted grassroots research to understand the needs and concerns of the people. These deputies focused on issues ranging from rural electric grid construction and agricultural product sales to cultural enrichment, elderly care, and community services. By engaging directly with citizens, they aimed to translate public input into practical policy recommendations addressing both immediate problems and future development. The deputies' activities reflect a commitment to incorporating public opinion into governance. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: According to a People's Daily survey conducted from January 12 to February 12, 2026, Chinese internet users are most concerned with "people's livelihood security," "social governance," and "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party" for the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The survey indicated strong support for expanding domestic demand, directing state capital to key industries, and promoting AI applications in healthcare, government, and education. Respondents also expressed concerns about housing, employment, and social governance issues such as grassroots governance, equal access to public services, and online regulation. A significant portion of respondents emphasized the need to maintain high pressure against corruption and improve oversight of disciplinary inspection teams.
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Summary: Yunnan Province in 2025 experienced steady economic growth, with its GDP exceeding 3 trillion yuan and per capita GDP surpassing $10,000. The province shifted its economic drivers towards industrial upgrades and market vitality, as evidenced by increased industrial investment. Yunnan prioritized food security and the development of specialty agriculture, alongside emerging industries like green energy and advanced manufacturing, particularly in strategic materials. It is also focused on improving the business environment to attract investment and expanded external cooperation, which is facilitated by the China-Laos Railway. Yunnan's focus on enhancing people's well-being includes income growth, employment opportunities, and improved public services in healthcare and education.
Summary: Changfeng County in Anhui Province aims to become a "one city, four lands" district, focusing on building a new energy vehicle city, an advanced manufacturing hub, a science and technology innovation center, a leader in reform and opening up, and a coordinated development demonstration area. The county plans to boost its manufacturing, technological innovation, agricultural, and energy sectors. Changfeng will focus on attracting investment in new energy vehicles and related industries, developing advanced manufacturing, and fostering technological innovation through platforms like the Hefei Science and Technology Innovation Center. The county is also deepening reform and opening up, including promoting the development of China-Thailand industrial parks.
Summary: This article emphasizes the intertwined relationship between prioritizing the people ("以人民为中心") and focusing on economic construction ("以经济建设为中心") within the context of Chinese-style modernization. It argues that adhering to both principles is essential for achieving sustainable development and improving the lives of the Chinese people. The author says that economic development should be aimed at meeting people's needs, while people's needs are the main driver of economic growth. The author stresses that adhering to both principles is essential for China's economic and social advancement, especially during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. There is no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: By 2025, Leapmotor became a leading NEV company in China, selling nearly 600,000 vehicles that year. Leapmotor emphasizes "full-domain self-research" focusing on in-house development of key technologies like battery, electric drive, and intelligent driving systems, with R&D accounting for 80% of their staff. Leapmotor established a joint venture, "Leapmotor International" with Stellantis, to expand overseas using Stellantis's existing global network. By 2025, Leapmotor had expanded to 35 countries and regions. Leapmotor also deepened cooperation with FAW Group in 2025.
Summary: Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group is committed to becoming a world-class pharmaceutical and health industry group by focusing on high-quality development and implementing a "dual health" strategy. The company aims to cultivate new quality productive forces and accelerate industrial transformation, upgrading its innovation ecosystem for the "15th Five-Year Plan." Yangzijiang is also expanding into the broader health sector with new health products and exploring digital health city construction. It actively promotes traditional Chinese medicine, establishes standardized planting bases, and strengthens collaboration across the industry chain. The company also seeks to expand its international presence, with exports to over 40 countries and regions.
Summary: This article discusses the cultural significance of the Lantern Festival (元宵节) as depicted in classical Chinese paintings. Experts analyze various paintings from different dynasties, focusing on the symbolism of the moon, lanterns, and traditional performances (百戏). These paintings showcase the customs, beliefs, and social life associated with the festival, highlighting themes of prosperity, harmony, and the connection between heaven and earth. One painting discussed is "Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration," which depicts the emperor and his court enjoying the festival. The article also touches upon the modern interpretation of traditional lantern displays and the importance of maintaining cultural relevance.
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By: 本报记者
The long river of history flows endlessly, and the giant ship of China has sailed through another five years.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" is extremely unusual and extraordinary. The complex and volatile international environment has brought new contradictions and challenges, and changes in the principal social contradiction in our country have brought new characteristics and requirements.
Sailing against the wind and waves, moving steadily and far. Over the past five years, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has observed the situation, analyzed the dangers and opportunities, coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and forge ahead. The "14th Five-Year Plan" has come to a successful conclusion.
Over the past five years, we have jointly witnessed a glorious era: the Communist Party of China celebrated its centenary, the 20th National Congress of the Party drew a grand blueprint for Chinese-style modernization, and the Victory Day parade was grandly held in Tiananmen Square (天安门广场)...
Over the past five years, we have worked together to promote reform and development: China's total economic volume has continuously crossed new thresholds, its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new levels, green mountains and clear waters have become a beautiful backdrop, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security has continued to increase.
The torrent of the times is magnificent; the land of China is thriving. Today's China, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an unstoppable trend.
"Concentrate on Doing Our Own Things Well"
"China's economy has moved forward against pressure, developing towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality." At the end of 2025, at the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) words were meaningful.
This was true in the past year, and it has been true in the past five years. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has seen far ahead, "When is there no difficulty? We overcome them one by one, year after year, and it gets better every year. The Chinese nation has been doing this for more than 5,000 years."
This is composure in the face of wind and rain, and this is profound historical confidence. Faced with various uncertainties brought about by profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, "As long as we maintain strategic focus, move forward firmly step by step, and steadily advance stage by stage, the cause of the Party and the country will surely accumulate small victories into great victories, and our goals will surely be achieved."
Development is the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, and it is the foundation and key to solving all problems in our country.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we adhered to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus, promoted the construction of a unified national market in depth, supported major economic provinces in taking the lead, and adhered to and implemented the "two unswervinglys"... The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core made a series of major decisions and deployments, "Concentrating on doing our own things well," boosting confidence and morale.
It is still remembered that in the second and third quarters of 2024, the growth rate of China's main economic indicators declined, and market expectations weakened. On September 26 of that year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) chaired a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and decisively deployed a package of incremental policies. The key decision at a critical time enabled us to withstand the pressure and stand the test, and the economy rebounded significantly.
Where does the confidence in development lie? Where does the confidence come from? This is inseparable from the four major advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the super-large-scale market, the complete industrial system, and the abundant human resources.
In January 2026, at the opening ceremony of the seminar for major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly: "In recent years, China's economy has overcome difficulties and maintained strong resilience and vitality, and the strategic reliance is the complete industrial system."
All along, our country has insisted on focusing on the real economy in developing the economy, and building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone. It currently has the world's largest, most complete, and most complete manufacturing system. China's economy started with the real economy, and it will also rely on the real economy to move towards the future.
Development is the absolute principle, and high-quality development is the absolute principle of the new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly, "We must better coordinate the effective improvement of quality and the reasonable growth of quantity" and "respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we deeply practiced the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing, and continuously promoted quality change, efficiency change, and power change.
Let's look at "innovation."
Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology that leads a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. In February 2026, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the National Information Innovation Park (国家信创园) in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京), to learn in detail about the innovation and application of information technology, carefully observed the display of scientific and technological innovation achievements such as artificial intelligence and robots, and frequently exchanged ideas with scientific researchers and representatives of technology companies.
A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating. It is not possible without innovation, and it is not possible to innovate slowly. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core regards innovation as the primary driving force for leading development, and deploys "improving the new national system" and "building a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation" to accelerate the promotion of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
Over the past five years, a series of "bottleneck" problems have been overcome, a large number of scientific and technological achievements have been transformed and applied, and China has ranked among the top ten in the global innovation index. Over the past five years, various regions have developed new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, promoted the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, transformed and upgraded traditional industries, accelerated the growth of emerging industries, and made forward-looking arrangements for future industries. The gold content, new content, and green content of development have been continuously improved.
Let's look at "coordination" again.
Beijing (北京) has shifted from "large and comprehensive" to "high-precision and cutting-edge," Tianjin (天津) has consolidated "good development" by "attracting," and Hebei (河北) has achieved "upgrading and jumping" by "receiving," thanks to the in-depth promotion of the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀).
All along, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has devoted a lot of effort to "regional coordinated development," and has chaired a series of symposiums on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast in the new era, deepening the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and promoting the rise of the central region in the new era.
Looking at the big picture, the moves are more precise. Various regions have strengthened the awareness of "one game of chess," correctly handled the relationship between division of labor and cooperation, misalignment and grabbing, optimized resource allocation, and improved overall efficiency, which has not only effectively promoted the solution of the problem of unbalanced development, but also enhanced the systematic ability to cope with risks and challenges.
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Practice has proved that high-quality development is not just an economic requirement, but "a general requirement for all aspects of economic and social development." This urgently requires changing ideas, improving systems and mechanisms, and writing a great article on "upholding integrity and innovation."
July 18, 2024, the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂).
"Passed!"
As soon as the voice fell, applause broke out like a tide - the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee formally adopted the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) explained to the plenary session, using "four urgent needs" to clarify its great significance.
Development raises the topic, and reform makes the article. More than 300 important reform measures have been launched one after another, promoting the socialist system with Chinese characteristics to become more mature and more well-defined, and the foundation for high-quality development is more solid, more resilient, and has higher gold content.
The road ahead cannot be smooth sailing. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly warned: "Further establish the concept that development is the absolute principle, and security is also the absolute principle."
Coordinating development and security is a major principle of our Party in governing the country. In the past 5 years, the annual grain output has always been maintained at more than 1.3 trillion catties; the world's largest power infrastructure system has been built; efforts have been made to resolve risks such as real estate, local debt, and small and medium-sized financial institutions... A set of combined punches has effectively promoted the stable operation of the economy and steady progress.
Looking back on the long journey, the mountains are far away, and looking forward to the future, the trees are full of spring. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are many, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. "Concentrating on doing our own things well," Chinese-style modernization is constantly taking new and solid steps.
"Chinese-style Modernization, People's Livelihood is the Top Priority"
"General Secretary, you are so busy, but you still come to see us. Thank you so much."
"I am busy with these things. The 'major affairs of the country' are the happy lives of the people."
At the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan," in Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited villagers' homes, leaving behind a deeply moving story.
Over the past 5 years, no matter how the situation develops and changes, "Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihood is the top priority" is the people's leader's unwavering original intention. No matter how busy the state affairs are, the General Secretary must take the time to go deep into the grassroots, look at the lives of the people, and ask about the expectations of the masses.
Employment is the most basic livelihood. The more the economic development is under pressure, the more we must try every means to stabilize employment.
In June 2022, at the critical moment for the employment of college graduates, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Yibin University (宜宾学院) in Sichuan (四川).
On the electronic screen, the bar chart of the employment implementation rate of graduates was clearly visible. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully observed and urged "Employment data must be solid and reflect the real situation." Facing the youthful faces, the General Secretary said earnestly: "A happy life is created by labor. Everyone should maintain a simple heart, objectively view personal conditions and social needs, choose occupations and jobs from reality, love labor, be down-to-earth, and grow step by step in practice."
In recent years, the Party Central Committee has closely followed the changes in the situation, stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations. In September 2024, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Implementing the Employment-First Strategy to Promote High-Quality and Full Employment" was released to continuously promote the effective improvement of employment quality and the reasonable growth of quantity.
The numbers are the most convincing: Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," more than 12 million new urban jobs have been added every year, and the scale of employment of people lifted out of poverty has been stable at more than 30 million for five consecutive years. This is not just a number, but the stability of families and the expectations of life.
Thousands of things, in the final analysis, are the things of thousands of households. In recent years, "I have kept the words of the folks in my heart."
"What the people are worried about, I must think about," the urgent and difficult problems of the masses are being solved with heart, affection, and effort.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the world's largest education, medical, and social security system was built; more than 11 million sets (rooms) of various types of affordable housing and resettlement housing for urban villages and urban dilapidated housing renovation were built and raised; the average life expectancy increased to 79 years; the construction of a fertility-friendly society was steadily promoted; the bottom-line guarantee network for people in difficulty was woven more and more tightly... The improvement of life can be touched and seen by the people.
"What the people expect, I must do," the people's yearning for a better life is constantly becoming a reality.
The "second integration" has brought another ideological liberation, "humanistic economics" has been solved in practice, and the background color of cultural benefits for the people is brighter; whole-process people's democracy has been revitalized, and the people's status as masters of the country is more guaranteed; green mountains and clear waters have become the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being, and livable homes can be seen everywhere; "three new" party building has gathered people's hearts, and social work has warmed thousands of families; a civilized and healthy lifestyle has gradually formed, and ice and snow sports have ignited enthusiasm... Life is getting more and more prosperous and of higher quality.
Love is deep, responsibility is earnest, and planning is far-sighted. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) turned his attention to the future.
Pay attention to changes in the population structure, and always care about the "old and the young" -
In Zaolin West Community (枣林西社区), Lanzhou (兰州市), Gansu (甘肃省), he learned in detail about the aging-friendly renovation, and emphasized "Providing for the elderly, providing medical care for the elderly, providing learning for the elderly, and providing entertainment for the elderly. At present, the work for the elderly is only in its initial stage, and it is necessary to continuously enrich, develop, and improve it, and improve the service system and improve the service level."
In a reply letter to the students of Zhijiang Primary School (之江小学) in Jialing District (嘉陵区), Nanchong (南充市), Sichuan (四川省): "Adhere to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, strive to be good young people of the new era who love the Party and the country, are self-reliant and self-improving, and strive to grow into pillars of talent who can shoulder the important task of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation."
Anchor the goal of common prosperity and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas -
When inspecting the New Era Urban Builders and Managers Home (新时代城市建设者管理者之家) in Minhang District (闵行区), Shanghai (上海市), he emphasized that "The city should not only have height, but also have warmth. Our socialism is to take the road of common prosperity."
In the 10,000-mu comprehensive demonstration area for grain production in Xiejiapu Town (谢家铺镇), Dingcheng District (鼎城区), Changde (常德市), Hunan (湖南省), he pointed out that "Let grain planting also be able to get rich, so that the lives of the vast number of farmers will be like sesame flowers blooming higher and higher, and constantly live a happier and better life."
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"The Chinese nation is a big family, and everyone in the family must live a good life."
In 2025, the closing year of the "14th Five-Year Plan," coincided with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) and the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区). Xi Jinping (习近平), as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, led the central delegation to Tibet (西藏) and Xinjiang (新疆) to attend the celebration activities, which was the first time in the history of the Party and the country and was of extraordinary significance.
At the celebration meeting of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), the villagers of Gala Village (嘎拉村), Linzhi Town (林芝镇), Bayi District (巴宜区), Linzhi City (林芝市) came. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the village in July 2021. With the help of policies, this small village with only hundreds of people achieved a tourism income of 3.7 million yuan from the Peach Blossom Festival in 2025 alone, and the happy days are as bright as the blooming peach blossoms.
Today, from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains (天山) to the southwestern border, from the snowy plateau to the grasslands outside the Great Wall, the sense of community of the Chinese nation is constantly being forged, the ethnic regions are creating a new situation of high-quality development, and the people of all ethnic groups are full of joy and anticipation. "Looking at the Big Dipper, you will not get lost, and following the Communist Party will be happy." This is the sincere voice of the Chinese sons and daughters, and it is a deep tribute to this great era.
"Taking the Benefit of the World as the Benefit"
In the early autumn of 2025, the world's attention once again focused on the East.
Iron armor surged, and we vowed "not to let historical tragedies repeat themselves"; the Haihe River (海河) roared, and we called for "working together to move towards a community with a shared future for mankind." When the world is intertwined with chaos and turbulence is intensifying, President Xi Jinping (习近平), with his profound insight of "advancing in the logic of historical progress and developing in the trend of the development of the times," firmly declared that "the noble cause of human peace and development will surely be victorious."
International people highly praised, "Mutual understanding, mutual respect, and cooperation can safeguard the hard-won peace" and "At the crossroads of where mankind is going, China's choice shows the responsibility of a responsible major country."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has always attracted the world's expectations. How to coordinate the two overall situations at home and abroad, and how to create a new situation in the midst of changes, calls for "Chinese wisdom" and "Chinese solutions."
Successively proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative;
Advocating that the "Global South" jointly become a stabilizing force for maintaining peace, a mainstay for open development, a constructive force for global governance, and a promoting force for civilization exchanges;
In April 2025, the first Central Peripheral Work Conference in the history of New China was held. In the same month, President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited three Southeast Asian countries. Faced with the逆流 (nì liú - "countercurrent," an adverse trend) of "decoupling and breaking chains," we uphold the principle that "the closer relatives get, the closer friends get," and achieve a closer handshake...
A series of pragmatic actions clearly show that "China will always be the world's force for peace, stability, and progress."
In recent years, through in-depth strategic communication with leaders of various countries and important speeches at international multilateral summits, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) position is clear: "I have always advocated that history cannot go backwards, it should move forward; the world cannot be divided, it should be united; mankind cannot return to the law of the jungle, it should build a community with a shared future for mankind."
Major-country relations affect the international situation, and we firmly stated, "Dialogue is better than confrontation."
In April 2025, a "storm" of tariff war swept across the other side of the ocean. Our country responded decisively - the door is open for talks; if you fight, we will accompany you to the end. Observers commented that China "maintained its composure, withstood the pressure, and won respect."
In April 2025, a "storm" of tariff wars swept across the ocean. China responded decisively and resolutely: the door is open for talks; if a fight is what they want, then so be it. Observers commented that China "maintained its composure, withstood the pressure, and earned respect."
In October of that year, in Busan (釜山), South Korea, the heads of state of China and the United States held a meeting lasting more than 100 minutes. President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed, "Once the major principles are set, other issues become easier to handle," and "China and the United States can jointly demonstrate the responsibility of major powers and work together to do more great things, practical things, and good things that benefit both countries and the world."
The heads of state of China and Russia made mutual visits in a historic year, the heads of state of China and France discussed global affairs in Dujiangyan (都江堰), Chengdu (成都), and the British Prime Minister visited China again after eight years... Head-of-state diplomacy strategically leads the way, promoting the construction of a major-country relationship pattern characterized by peaceful coexistence, overall stability, and balanced development.
China's determination and responsibility are also reflected in "opening the door wider and wider."
For a period of time, many people have been paying attention to China's market environment and foreign policy, and even believe that "building a new development pattern" means moving towards closure. In response, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has made a series of important deployments and responded to concerns with concrete actions.
Holding the China International Import Expo (进博会), the Canton Fair (广交会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the China International Consumer Products Expo (消博会), etc.; fully "eliminating" foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector; the "Belt and Road" Initiative becoming a popular international public good and cooperation platform; the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) officially launching island-wide customs closure operations, and the free trade pilot zone forming 225 institutional innovation achievements...
From continuing to promote the flow-based opening of goods and factors to paying more attention to institutional opening, this is our strategic measure to smooth the domestic and international dual circulation and firmly grasp the initiative of development in our own hands. It is also the response of a confident, independent, world-minded, open, and inclusive major country to the era of "dismantling walls" rather than "building walls."
"To go with China is to go with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future." In March 2025, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) sincere invitation when meeting with representatives of the international business community injected strong confidence and strength into China's mutually beneficial cooperation with the world.
"Take the people's heart as our heart, and the world's benefit as our benefit."
Modernization is the goal pursued by the Chinese people and the common aspiration of people all over the world. "Chinese-style modernization, as a new form of human civilization, will greatly enrich the garden of world civilizations through mutual learning with other civilizations around the world." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly at the high-level dialogue between the Communist Party of China and world political parties.
This point is particularly vividly reflected in China's cooperation with neighboring and developing countries. Central Asia was once regarded as a "depression of development." In recent years, the China-Central Asia Summit has been held for two consecutive sessions, China and Central Asian countries have deepened and solidified the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," and the four pillars and eight beams of the China-Central Asia mechanism have basically taken shape... Shaking hands with China has opened up a new world of common development, common prosperity, and common prosperity here.
When China is doing well, the world will be better; when the world is doing well, China will be even better.
On the right path of "shared destiny," China always uses the greatest sincerity to unite the progressive forces of the world, makes the greatest efforts to gather the energy of peace and development, and works together to build a civilization garden of self-achievement and mutual achievement, harmony, and common prosperity.
"We must always maintain the sobriety and determination to solve the unique problems of a large party"
Seeking happiness for the people, seeking rejuvenation for the nation, seeking progress for mankind, and seeking harmony for the world—looking back on the "14th Five-Year Plan," the achievements have not come easily. The fundamental reason lies in the leadership and steering of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Practice has once again proved that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The leadership of the Party is directly related to the fundamental direction, future destiny, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese-style modernization.
The more magnificent the cause, the more arduous the challenges, and the more necessary it is to be strong ourselves. In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) warned the entire Party: "As the world's largest Marxist ruling party, if our Party is to always win the people's support and consolidate its long-term ruling position, it must always maintain the sobriety and determination to solve the unique problems of a large party."
This sobriety is a profound insight into risks and tests; this determination is a never-slackening attitude in the examination.
Less than a week after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall and said with deep affection: "This time, I came with the comrades of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to declare that the new central leadership collective will inherit and carry forward the fine revolutionary traditions and work style formed by the Party during the Yan'an period and promote the Yan'an spirit."
In the apple orchard in Nangou Village (南沟村), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully learned about the apple harvest and the development of the local apple industry, and earnestly urged, "The Communist Party is in charge to do things for the people and do a good job of the people's affairs."
Self-revolution is the second answer to the "cave dwelling question." Using self-revolution to temper the original aspiration and mission is a solemn political declaration and a re-mobilization and re-deployment of the entire Party.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thoughts on Party building and important thoughts on the Party's self-revolution, the comprehensive and strict Party governance system has been continuously improved, and various tasks better reflect the characteristics of the times, grasp the laws, and are full of creativity. All regions, departments, and units have focused on further implementing improvements in raising awareness, enhancing Party spirit, regulating the operation of power, strictly supervising discipline enforcement, and fulfilling the responsibility of managing and governing the Party, and unswervingly carrying out the Party's self-revolution to the end.
Taking the "most thorough self-revolution" as an example, deepening the rectification of corruption in key areas, advancing the pursuit of fugitives and the recovery of stolen goods and cross-border corruption governance in depth, focusing on rectifying unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, deeply promoting the joint investigation and treatment of corruption and unhealthy tendencies, and strengthening the construction of clean culture in the new era... A series of thunderous measures fully demonstrate the firm determination to win the tough battle, protracted war, and overall war against corruption.
Self-revolution eliminates unhealthy trends and brings about a clean and upright atmosphere; it corrects stubborn diseases and brings about vigorous vitality.
This is particularly evident in ideological construction.
"Whenever the Party Central Committee makes major decisions and deployments, we call on all Party comrades to strengthen their studies in order to unify the thoughts and actions of the entire Party and gather a strong force to overcome difficulties and forge ahead. This is a successful experience of the Party."
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the Party history study and education, the theme education of studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Party discipline study and education, and the in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation study and education... The vast number of Party members and cadres have unremittingly used the latest achievements of the Party's innovative theories to strengthen their souls, correct their thinking methods, and learn the skills to protect their families.
"Use iron rules to forge a good work style."
2025 is the year of the closing of the "14th Five-Year Plan." At a critical time node, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the entire Party has solidly carried out in-depth study and education on implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation. The vast number of Party members and cadres have promoted learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, and have united their minds and efforts and started businesses with an excellent work style.
Let's turn our attention to more subtle details.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) always keeps in mind the efforts to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on the grassroots: presiding over the democratic life meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the meeting listened to special reports many times; presiding over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the meeting deliberated on the "Several Provisions on Rectifying Formalism and Reducing the Burden on the Grassroots"...
In November 2024, in the Party-Masses Service Center of Siyi Village (四邑村), Panjiawan Town (潘家湾镇), Jiayu County (嘉鱼县), Xianning City (咸宁市), Hubei Province (湖北省), the "List of Items for Serving the Masses" posted on the wall attracted the attention of the General Secretary. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "In the past, we asked the masses to do things more, but now Party members and cadres are doing things and providing services for the masses more. This is a fundamental change."
Practice has repeatedly proved that the more effective the Party's governance, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development.
In today's China, the political ecology is clearer and the atmosphere for doing things is becoming increasingly strong. The vast number of Party members, cadres, and the masses are united and working hard, and the Party's political and organizational advantages are constantly being transformed into surging development advantages.
Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," a new picture is unfolding magnificently.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and with higher standards and more practical measures to promote comprehensive and strict Party governance, a "Marxist ruling party that always walks in the forefront of the times, is wholeheartedly supported by the people, dares to carry out self-revolution, can withstand all kinds of storms, and is full of vigor" will surely unite and lead hundreds of millions of people to create new historical achievements.
(Reporters of this newspaper: Ma Guoying (马国英), Zhang Yang (张洋), Zhang Xun (张璁), Yi Shuran (易舒冉))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3rd (Xinhua) To continuously deepen the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) organized and compiled the book "Learning and Answering Questions on Xi Jinping's Economic Thought" (《习近平经济思想学习问答》) (hereinafter referred to as "Questions and Answers"). It has been jointly published by People's Publishing House (人民出版社) and Xuexi Publishing House (学习出版社) and will be distributed nationwide starting today.
"Questions and Answers" closely follows the practical development pace of economic construction in the new era, focuses on theoretical hotspots and difficulties, responds to social concerns, and comprehensively and systematically, in an easy-to-understand question-and-answer format, demonstrates the great significance, scientific system, core essence, rich connotation, and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought. It helps the broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the public to more deeply study and comprehend the Party's innovative theories, and more consciously use them to arm their minds, guide practice, and promote work. "Questions and Answers" is divided into 14 sections and 50 questions, with rich content, novel forms, illustrations, and easy-to-understand language. It is an important auxiliary reading material for the broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the public to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Economic Thought.
Return to TopWith the spring tide surging, everything takes on a new look. On March 4th, the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Beijing (北京). More than 2,000 members of the National Committee of the CPPCC from 34 sectors, bearing earnest expectations and shouldering glorious missions, offer suggestions and advice for promoting Chinese-style modernization. We express our warm congratulations on the opening of the conference!
The year 2025 was very extraordinary and of great significance in the process of Chinese-style modernization. Facing a complex and volatile international and domestic situation, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and work hard, coordinating the two major situations, domestic and international, unswervingly managing our own affairs well, and responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development. China's economy moved forward against pressure and developed towards new and better directions. The main goals and tasks of economic and social development were successfully completed. The annual gross domestic product (GDP) exceeded 140 trillion yuan for the first time, and the growth rate continued to rank among the top major economies in the world. After five years of arduous struggle, the "14th Five-Year Plan" came to a successful conclusion. China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level. Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps, and a good start has been made in the new journey towards the second centenary goal. These achievements were hard-won and inspiring. They are the result of the united struggle of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, which has further strengthened our determination and confidence in promoting the construction of a strong country and realizing the rejuvenation of the nation.
Bearing in mind the "major affairs of the country" (国之大者), and caring about "the lights of thousands of homes" (万家灯火). Over the past year, the CPPCC has deeply promoted the regular and institutionalized study of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, used the Party's innovative theories to unify thought, will, and action, conscientiously implemented the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, adhered to the two major themes of unity and democracy, focused on consolidating the common ideological and political foundation for unity and struggle, and focused closely on further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting high-quality development to offer advice and suggestions, making new contributions to the development of the Party and the country. The vast number of CPPCC members have consciously devoted themselves to the specific practices of uniting people, providing decision-making consultation, promoting consultative democracy, and participating in national governance, demonstrating their sense of responsibility and commitment with practical actions.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "All the achievements made by the Party and the people are the result of united struggle, and united struggle is the most prominent spiritual symbol of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people." Moving forward in the face of strong winds and waves, and creating brilliance in overcoming difficulties, the Party and the country have achieved new and major achievements, fully demonstrating that the "Two Establishments" have a decisive significance for us to cope with various risks and challenges and promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and fully demonstrating that united struggle is the only way for the Chinese people to create historical achievements. As long as we unite as one and forge ahead under the leadership of the Party, achieve great undertakings with hard work, and win the future with innovation, we will surely be able to continuously create new prospects for the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
The year 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." We must anchor our goals and tasks, strengthen our confidence, take advantage of the momentum, strive to achieve a good start, and continue to write new chapters of Chinese miracles. The more magnificent the goal, the more it is full of risks and challenges, and the more we must strengthen the great unity of the Chinese nation and gather the great strength to overcome difficulties, forge ahead bravely. As the broadest patriotic united front organization, the CPPCC adheres to the organic combination of Party leadership, united front, and consultative democracy, adheres to the nature and orientation of the CPPCC, adheres to serving the center and serving the overall situation, gives full play to the role of specialized consultative bodies, focuses on the formulation and implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, conducts in-depth consultation and deliberation, actively offers suggestions and advice, and carries out democratic supervision, so as to widely gather people's hearts, build consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization, and will surely be able to better shoulder the mission and tasks of the new era. It is expected that the vast number of CPPCC members will play the role of bridges and ties, improve their ability and quality and their ability to perform their duties, and serve and assist the "15th Five-Year Plan" to have a good start with high-quality consultation and deliberation results.
On the journey to realize our dreams, every force gathered together is a torrent surging forward, and every step of trekking added together is an unstoppable pace. Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, work together with one heart and one mind, unite and forge ahead, and strive unremittingly to ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization, and jointly write a magnificent chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
We wish the conference a complete success!
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3rd (Xinhua) The Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will open at 3:00 PM on March 4th at the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京).
At the opening meeting, the CPPCC National Committee members attending the meeting will review and approve the agenda of the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, listen to the work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, and the report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee on the work of proposals since the Third Session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee.
China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) will broadcast live the work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee delivered by Wang Huning (王沪宁) at the opening meeting; Xinhuanet (新华网) will provide online text and picture live broadcast of the opening meeting.
On the morning of the 4th, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人大) will hold a preparatory meeting to elect the presidium and secretary-general of the session, and vote on the draft agenda of the session. After the preparatory meeting, the presidium of the session will hold its first meeting. At 12:00 noon, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress will hold a press conference, where the spokesperson of the session will answer questions from Chinese and foreign journalists on the agenda of the session and related issues of the work of the National People's Congress.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 彭 波
The seasons change, and new chapters are written daily. In 2025, the "14th Five-Year Plan" will come to a successful conclusion; in 2026, the "15th Five-Year Plan" will begin a new phase.
Carrying the people's entrustment and taking solid steps, National People's Congress (NPC) deputies from all regions and ethnic groups gather in Beijing (北京) again this spring to discuss state affairs and jointly plan for development.
Looking back on the past year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the 14th NPC and its Standing Committee have faithfully performed their duties in accordance with the law, closely focusing on the overall work of the Party and the country, adhering to the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being masters of the country, and the rule of law, and have made new progress and achievements in various aspects of legislation, supervision, deputies, foreign affairs, and self-construction, writing a new answer sheet for the high-quality development of NPC work with practical actions.
Fully Leveraging the Important Role of the NPC in Ensuring the Comprehensive and Effective Implementation of the Constitution and Laws
"According to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国宪法), the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress has decided to establish October 25 as Taiwan Retrocession Day (台湾光复纪念日). The state will hold commemorative activities in various forms." This is the common aspiration of all Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, including Taiwan compatriots, and fully reflects the firm will of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) to unswervingly undertake historical missions and unswervingly achieve the complete reunification of the motherland.
The Constitution is the general charter for governing the country and ensuring its stability, and the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution is the primary task and basic work for building a socialist country under the rule of law. The 14th NPC and its Standing Committee have thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on the Constitution, fully leveraging the important role of the NPC in ensuring the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Constitution and laws, improving the institutional system for ensuring the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, continuously improving the level of implementation and supervision of the Constitution, and firmly safeguarding the authority and dignity of the Constitution.
"This law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution." Revising the Deputies Law, the Village Committee Organization Law, and the Urban Residents Committee Organization Law; deliberating on the draft Ecological Environment Code, the draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, and the draft National Development Plan Law... In 2025, the NPC and its Standing Committee accelerated the improvement of the legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution at its core, and high-quality legislation effectively ensured the comprehensive implementation of the relevant systems, principles, and rules established by the Constitution.
The record review system is a constitutional supervision system with Chinese characteristics and an important tool for the Standing Committee of the NPC to strengthen constitutional supervision. In the past year, the Standing Committee of the NPC has conducted active reviews of 2,309 normative documents such as regulations and judicial interpretations submitted for record, and has studied 6,705 review suggestions submitted by citizens and organizations one by one, promptly put forward review opinions, and strived to make every piece of legislation conform to the spirit of the Constitution, reflect the authority of the Constitution, and ensure the implementation of the Constitution.
On December 2, 2025, on the eve of the 12th National Constitution Day, a volunteer Constitution explanation activity was held in the Great Hall of the People (北京人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京).
In what year was the first Constitution of New China formulated? In what year was the current Constitution adopted? Why is National Constitution Day set on December 4? People visiting the Great Hall followed the explanations of the Constitution volunteer explainers from the NPC organs to review the glorious history of the Party leading the people in formulating and implementing the Constitution, and jointly felt the historical achievements made in the construction and implementation of China's constitutional system.
Elementary school student Zhou Zihao (周梓皓) said: "We learned about the Constitution in school. The teacher said that the Constitution protects our country and all of us."
Young worker Hu Jiazhou (胡嘉洲) said: "After I go back, I will study and learn more about the Constitution and laws."
Constitution publicity and education are increasingly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the people's belief in the Constitution and laws is becoming more and more firm.
Holding a symposium on National Constitution Day, organizing state functionaries appointed and decided to be appointed by the Standing Committee of the NPC to take a constitutional oath... The Standing Committee of the NPC conscientiously performs its statutory duties, promotes the orderly development of various undertakings and tasks of the state in accordance with the Constitution and laws, and lays a solid foundation for better playing the important role of the Constitution in governing the country.
Improving the Legal System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with the Constitution at its Core
On January 23, 2026, Dongliujie Primary School (东刘街小学) in Anxin County (安新县), Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北) was particularly lively. Pan Honghao (潘宏豪), the school's deputy principal for the rule of law and assistant prosecutor of the First Procuratorial Department of the Anxin County People's Procuratorate (安新县人民检察院), and his colleagues gave the students a rule of law education class with the theme of "Being Law-Abiding Teenagers." Seeds of the rule of law are taking root and sprouting in the hearts of the children.
"Carrying out rule of law publicity and education for teenagers according to their physical and mental characteristics and growth needs" is a clear requirement of the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law. On September 12, 2025, the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC passed the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law" (中华人民共和国法治宣传教育法) with a high number of votes. For the first time, "Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law" was written into the law, clearly stipulating that rule of law publicity and education should "implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law," and taking the "critical few" and the "future majority" as the key targets of rule of law publicity and education... With both scientific theoretical guidance and complete institutional arrangements and behavioral norms, the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law provides a strong legal guarantee for the continuous and in-depth development of publicity and education on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law.
If good laws are established in the world, the world will be governed. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that to promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislation in accordance with the law, it is necessary to adhere to and improve the legislative work pattern of Party committee leadership, NPC dominance, government reliance, and participation of all parties.
Since the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, the Standing Committee of the NPC has deliberated on 40 draft laws, legal interpretations, and relevant decisions, and passed 24 of them, including the formulation of 6 laws, the revision of 14 laws, the making of 1 legal interpretation, and 3 decisions on relevant legal issues and major issues. The legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution at its core is constantly advancing with the times and improving and developing.
On May 20, 2025, China's first basic law specifically on the development of the private economy, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of the Private Economy" (中华人民共和国民营经济促进法), officially came into effect. For the first time, adhering to the "two unwavering commitments" was clearly defined as a legal system, for the first time the legal status of the private economy was clarified in the law, and for the first time it was clearly stipulated that promoting the sustained, healthy, and high-quality development of the private economy is a major policy that the state adheres to for a long time... These legal provisions are conducive to creating a good legal environment for promoting the healthy development of the private economy.
After the implementation of the Law on the Promotion of the Private Economy, the Standing Committee of the NPC immediately organized a centralized review of regulations, rules, and other normative documents involving the development of the private economy, and found a total of 1,466 normative documents of various types that needed to be revised or abolished, and simultaneously urged relevant parties to complete the revision and abolition as soon as possible to ensure the comprehensive, correct, and effective implementation of the law.
"The direct train of national legislation" is the affectionate name given to grassroots legislative liaison points by the masses. As of now, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the NPC has established a total of 60 grassroots legislative liaison points. In 2025, a total of 35,000 opinions and suggestions were solicited from liaison points on 25 draft laws, and many insightful opinions were absorbed and adopted by the legislative organs.
The draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, which will be submitted to this session of the Congress for deliberation, was previously solicited for opinions and suggestions from 30 grassroots legislative liaison points that are closely related to ethnic work by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the NPC. The liaison points actively carried out activities such as soliciting legislative opinions, widely collected the legal needs of people of all ethnic groups, allowed the masses to truly feel that democracy is around them, and promoted all ethnic groups to **像石榴籽一样紧紧抱在一起** (xiàng shí liu zǐ yī yàng jǐn jǐn bào zài yī qǐ - "to be closely united like pomegranate seeds," to be closely united and inseparable).
Focusing on the Center, Serving the Overall Situation, and Promoting the Improvement of the Quality and Efficiency of Supervision Work
In May 2025, the Standing Committee of the NPC formed a law enforcement inspection team to conduct law enforcement inspections on the Forest Law. In the next four months, the law enforcement inspection team went deep into national parks and state-owned forest farms to investigate reforms, inspected the construction of the Three-North Shelterbelt and afforestation, and went into forest areas to conduct random inspections of forest fire prevention and the construction of national reserve forests. They thoroughly investigated the problems existing in the implementation of the law, put forward clear opinions and suggestions, and laid a solid foundation for revising and improving the Forest Law.
In the past year, the Standing Committee of the NPC has conducted law enforcement inspections on five laws: the Trade Union Law, the Forest Law, the Food Safety Law, the Energy Conservation Law, and the Circular Economy Promotion Law. The law enforcement inspection team invited NPC deputies to participate in law enforcement inspections, held symposiums with NPC deputies at all levels, representatives of the masses, and grassroots workers, widely listened to opinions and suggestions, and ran through the important concept of whole-process people's democracy throughout the entire process.
The power of supervision is an important power granted to the NPC by the Constitution, and NPC supervision is an important part of the Party and state supervision system. In 2025, the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC listened to and deliberated on 22 supervision work reports, organized 2 special inquiries and 11 special investigations. Focusing on the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, focusing on the urgent needs and expectations of the people, and coordinating the use of statutory supervision methods, the NPC's supervision work has been continuously improved in quality and efficiency.
Keeping an eye on the "account books" and guarding the "money bags" for the people. In the past year, the Standing Committee of the NPC has continuously strengthened the supervision of budget final accounts review, the supervision of the management of state-owned assets, the supervision of government debt management, and the supervision of the rectification of outstanding problems found in audits.
On December 22, 2025, the Budget Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the NPC reported to the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th NPC on the work of filing and reviewing fiscal budget matters in 2025. This is the first report on the filing and review of fiscal budget matters submitted for deliberation, which is not only a concrete requirement for implementing the Budget Law, but also an innovative measure to strengthen the NPC's supervision of fiscal and economic work.
To better play the role of NPC supervision, it is necessary to do a good job in the "second half of the article" of follow-up effectiveness. According to the provisions of the Supervision Law, the "one government, one commission, and two courts" should publish to the public the deliberation opinions of the Standing Committee of the NPC on relevant reports, the reports of the Standing Committee of the NPC on law enforcement inspections and deliberation opinions, etc.
What problems did the Standing Committee of the NPC point out when deliberating on relevant reports? What suggestions were put forward? How did the relevant departments of the State Council reply? What specific policies and measures have been introduced? What is the effect? Everything is clear in the report.
Handing over, rectifying, feeding back, and making public, through a series of institutional arrangements, NPC supervision has formed a complete chain from discovery, tracking to rectification, and making public, promoting the implementation and effectiveness of problem rectification, fully reflecting the legal rigidity of NPC supervision, and also powerfully guaranteeing the people's right to supervision, and actively responding to the concerns of the public.
Better Play the Role of NPC Deputies
"High-quality suggestions should not only focus on the major practical problems in the process of economic and social development, but also closely combine the understanding of economic laws with the practical stage of economic development to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective suggestions." During last year's National People's Congress, Quan Heng (权衡), NPC deputy and secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社会科学院), put forward a suggestion on adapting to the transformation of the consumption structure and promoting the improvement and expansion of service consumption.
This suggestion was listed as one of the key supervised suggestions for innovating diversified consumption scenarios. The Ministry of Commerce combined the handling of suggestions to promote the high-quality development of service consumption. In response to the opinions and suggestions put forward by Deputy Quan Heng (权衡), the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance selected 50 cities to carry out pilot projects, giving each pilot city 200 million to 400 million yuan in funds to promote service consumption scenario innovation, business format integration, and industrial agglomeration. The constructive opinions and suggestions put forward by NPC deputies are effectively reflected and implemented in the work of state organs.
High-quality suggestions, high-quality handling. During the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, deputies put forward a total of 9,160 suggestions, criticisms, and opinions on various aspects of work in accordance with legal procedures, which were handed over to 211 undertaking units for research and handling. Among them, 231 suggestions in 23 items were determined by the Chairman's meeting and were supervised by the special committees of the National People's Congress. At present, all undertaking units have completed the handling and replied to the deputies on schedule.
The Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress passed the decision on revising the Deputies Law, putting forward new requirements for better playing the role of NPC deputies: highlighting the political requirements for deputies to perform their duties, requiring close contact between state organs and NPC deputies, close contact between NPC deputies and the people, and strengthening service guarantees and supervision and management of deputies' performance of their duties...
In the past year, NPC deputies have conscientiously implemented the requirements of the revised Deputies Law and actively participated in various tasks such as legislation and supervision: around the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, 1,020 deputies conducted 60 research activities and formed 50 research reports; 1,737 deputies conducted centralized inspections to listen to the opinions and requirements of the original election units and the people; 276 deputies attended the meetings of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress; 40 draft laws solicited opinions from deputies through the platform, and received 1,633 opinions and suggestions...
The deputies have firmly adhered to their political positions, fulfilled their political responsibilities, fully played the characteristics and advantages of coming from the people and being rooted in the people, closely contacted the people, observed the people's conditions, listened to the people's voices, gathered the people's opinions, and made positive contributions to the high-quality development of NPC work.
The upcoming Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress is of great significance for mobilizing the people of all ethnic groups across the country to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, pooling their efforts to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan." Standing at a new starting point and embarking on a new journey, the 14th National People's Congress and its Standing Committee will adhere to Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthen the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four self-confidences," achieve the "two safeguards," conscientiously perform the duties entrusted by the Constitution and laws, adhere to, improve, and operate the people's congress system well, and provide a solid institutional guarantee and gather the strength to forge ahead for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
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Since the launch of the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, all regions, departments, and units have quickly initiated and deployed with a high degree of political consciousness, carrying out the campaign in a powerful and orderly manner. The campaign educates and guides Party organizations and Party members and cadres at all levels to adhere to seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic and realistic, achieving performance for the people and through hard work, and promoting the learning and education to be internalized, embodied in action, and effective.
Careful Planning and Deployment Promotion
All regions, departments, and units studied and deployed the learning and education plan at the first time, quickly taking action and carefully arranging the deployment.
The Organization Department of the Central Committee held a departmental meeting to review the work arrangements for the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance in the department. The meeting emphasized that the department should conduct in-depth study and discussion, comprehensively examine and identify problems, resolutely implement rectification and remediation, pay attention to combining efforts, strengthen organizational leadership, and ensure that all tasks of learning, investigation, and rectification are carried out in a solid, in-depth, and effective manner. While focusing on the learning and education of the department, it should also work with relevant parties to fully implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee, and promote the healthy and orderly development of learning and education on a broad scale.
The Working Committee of the Central and State Organs held a committee meeting (expanded) and a leading group meeting on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, emphasizing that carrying out this learning and education campaign well should be regarded as a practical action to take the lead and serve as a "three-fold example." It should take the lead in establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, truly keep the original aspiration firmly in mind, shoulder the mission firmly, and adhere to the purpose firmly. It should continuously demonstrate new responsibilities and new actions in promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and ensure that all tasks of learning and education are implemented and achieve practical results.
The Shanghai (上海) Municipal Party Committee held an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee and a leading group meeting on Party building of the Municipal Party Committee to study and deploy the city's learning and education work. It proposed to carry out the learning and education campaign with high standards and high quality. Leading cadres at all levels in the city, especially the "top leaders," should lead by example and take the lead, closely integrating the learning and education campaign with the central work, giving full play to the guiding role of a correct view of performance, resolutely preventing formalism, and striving to achieve practical results.
The Fujian (福建) Provincial Party Committee resolutely implemented the deployment of the Party Central Committee, adhered to high-starting-point planning and high-requirement deployment, and studied and formulated a provincial implementation plan. It required that in-depth study of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance should be closely combined with inheriting and promoting the relevant important concepts and major practices of Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) during his work in Fujian (福建). It detailed 14 specific tasks in five aspects, including study and discussion, problem identification, rectification and remediation, system establishment, and open education, to promote the deepening and solidifying of learning and education.
In-depth Study and Thorough Understanding, Deepening and Solidifying
All regions, departments, and units educated and guided Party members and cadres to deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and to deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches and important instructions on their respective regions, departments, and fields. They adhered to in-depth study and thorough understanding to promote the deepening and solidifying of learning and education.
The Henan (河南) Provincial Party Committee required in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, conscientious study and discussion to lay a solid ideological foundation, adherence to combining individual self-study and centralized study, highlighting leadership, grasping the study of branches, strengthening education and training, making good use of positive and negative typical cases, and truly achieving thorough study and understanding, and integration and comprehension.
The Hubei (湖北) Provincial Party Committee required adherence to in-depth study and thorough understanding, focusing on learning and discussion, organizing Party members and cadres to deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches, and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, consolidating the foundation and correcting the source from the ideological level, highlighting promotion through training, emphasizing promotion through lecturing, and strengthening promotion through cases.
The Leading Group for Party Building Work of the Qinghai (青海) Provincial Party Committee held a meeting, requiring conscientious study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance and the major requirements for Qinghai (青海) work, focusing on the target requirements, deeply understanding, accurately grasping, and comprehensively implementing the general requirements of "serving the Party for the public, seeking happiness for the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work," and promoting learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner to ensure quality learning, powerful investigation, and effective rectification.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) (中央网信办) held a mobilization and deployment meeting for the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, deeply studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. It required that organizing and carrying out the learning and education campaign well should be regarded as an important political task, strengthening organizational leadership, strengthening supervision and guidance, paying attention to coordinated implementation, ensuring that learning and education are deepened and solidified, embodied in action, and effective, and solidly promoting a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan" for cyberspace affairs.
The Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) stated that efforts should be made to deeply understand and thoroughly grasp, study General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance in their original form, learn in conjunction with General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and approvals on human resources and social security work, consolidate the ideological foundation, closely integrate with the actual work of guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, promote learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, and promote learning and education with high standards, strict requirements, and a practical style.
Combining Learning and Application, Striving for Practical Results
All regions, departments, and units stated that they should take "serving the Party for the public, seeking happiness for the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work" as the general requirement, adhere to promoting learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, and transform the results of learning and education into practical results in promoting development.
The Standing Committee of the Jiangxi (江西) Provincial Party Committee held a meeting, requiring adherence to making good use of the grasp of promoting learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, focusing on making efforts in deep learning, genuine investigation, and practical rectification, focusing on grasping the establishment of systems, discovering institutional loopholes, shortcomings, and weaknesses from the investigated and rectified problems, improving systems and establishing rules in a targeted manner, adhering to open learning and education, sincerely doing practical things for the masses and solving their problems, and making the effectiveness of learning and education perceptible and accessible to the masses.
The Leading Group for Party Building Work of the Gansu (甘肃) Provincial Party Committee held a meeting, adhering to open education, adhering to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation, taking the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification as the grasp, grasping the rectification and remediation of problems, deeply investigating the existing problems in the view of performance, strengthening the establishment of systems, improving the effective mechanism for preventing and correcting deviations in the view of performance, and improving the assessment and evaluation mechanism.
The Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）) studied and deployed the learning and education work, requiring coordinated efforts to do a good job in the learning and education of students in school, organizing study and discussion, and opening special courses; organizing key teachers to conduct collective lesson preparation, closely focusing on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance to create high-quality public courses, and strengthening theoretical research and publicity and interpretation, effectively combining learning and education with practicing the Party school's original aspiration of "cultivating talents for the Party and contributing suggestions for the Party," and better implementing the various requirements of the Party school's surname being the Party, quality being the foundation of the school, and strict management of the school.
The Party Committee of the Ministry of State Security (国安部) stated that it should take responsibility and act in safeguarding the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, advance towards new goals in the development of national security, and must resolutely oppose the "six incorrect views of performance" such as the false and exaggerated view of performance, the unrealistic view of performance, the short-sighted view of performance, the view of performance that emphasizes the obvious and neglects the potential, the parochial view of performance, and the mediocre and inactive view of performance. It should make contributions and create performance in the struggle of doing practical work.
The Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) required the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification, combining with the actual situation of civil affairs to deeply investigate problems of deviation in the view of performance, carry out centralized rectification, and achieve immediate rectification, targeted rectification, and strict rectification; promote the establishment of systems, accelerate the construction of important laws, regulations, and systems in the field of civil affairs, improve the effective mechanism for preventing and correcting deviations in the view of performance, and guide Party members and cadres to correctly perform their duties, take responsibility, and act.
(Our reporters Wu Chuqi (吴储岐), Gong Shijian (龚仕建), Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟), Fu Wen (付文), Tian Doudou (田豆豆), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Geng Lei (耿磊), Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫), Zhu Peixian (朱佩娴), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕), Shen Tongrui (沈童睿), Jin Xin (金歆), Zhao Shuaijie (赵帅杰), Zhou Huan (周欢), Song Chaojun (宋朝军), He Zhaoyu (何昭宇))
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The rich "three flavors" of culture, technology, and human touch were an apt summary of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Horse for many netizens.
During the Lantern Festival, walking into the 600-year-old Longfusi Street (隆福寺街) area of Beijing (北京), long queues often formed in front of time-honored brands, while robot-made pancakes and coffee were trendy and stylish. Intangible cultural heritage handicrafts and Year of the Horse-themed cultural creations became popular items.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited here during his inspection in Beijing (北京), emphasizing that "tradition and modernity should be organically integrated."
During the just-concluded Spring Festival holiday, from bustling cities to village lanes, the land of China was filled with a strong festive atmosphere and the warmth of ordinary life. This is the vibrant pulse of a major country's development amidst the myriad lights. From this, we can more truly feel China's development moving towards the new, the better, and the good, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality.
The flavor of culture is timeless, reflecting the symbiosis and mutual prosperity of humanities and economy.
During the Spring Festival, the Paolong performance in Binyang (宾阳) in Guangxi (广西) and the Yingge Dance in Chaoshan (潮汕) in Guangdong (广东) were staged together, igniting the southern city of Binyang (宾阳). Data shows that this year's Binyang Paolong Festival (宾阳炮龙节) attracted a total of 547,000 tourists, an increase of 9.3% year-on-year.
The Spring Festival is a spiritual sustenance and a cultural inheritance. When the "literary gathering" in a farmer's courtyard in Xiji (西吉), Ningxia (宁夏) recites "the best crops," when Guizhou's (贵州) "Village Gala," "Village Marathon," and "Village BA" become shining cultural cards, when Huangshan (黄山), Anhui (安徽) uses 800-year-old fish lanterns to awaken the new vitality of ancient villages... China in the lights has a long cultural heritage and integrates the old and the new.
The Spring Festival has become a shared intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Chinese New Year is also a world New Year. This year's Spring Festival, "Come to China for the New Year" has become a new global trend. More and more "foreign faces" are coming to China to jointly perceive the cultural emotions and warmth of the Spring Festival. Data shows that during this Spring Festival holiday, the number of foreigners entering and leaving the country at various ports nationwide was 1.313 million, an average daily increase of 21.8% compared to last year's holiday.
From "China Tourism," "China Shopping," and "China Medical Treatment" to "Becoming Chinese" and "Celebrating the Chinese New Year," Chinese culture is heading to the world with the posture of galloping horses.
In today's China, the enthusiasm for cultural and museum activities and intangible cultural heritage continues to rise, and ancient charm and national style have become the "top aesthetic." By empowering economic and social development with culture and nourishing the spiritual homeland, China is writing a great article on humanistic economics, which permeates daily life, stimulates economic potential, condenses the centripetal force of development, and shapes the innovative force of development.
The flavor of technology is amazing, witnessing "relying on innovation to empower high-quality development."
At the National Information Innovation Park (国家信创园) in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京), General Secretary carefully observed the display of technological innovation achievements such as artificial intelligence and robots, and frequently exchanged ideas with representatives of scientific researchers and technology companies, saying: "Coming here today for on-site learning is very eye-opening. After seeing it, I am more confident in the country's technological innovation."
On the Spring Festival Gala stage in 2026, the "robot concentration is extremely high," and the cyber New Year's flavor is full. From last year's stumbling steps to this year's wielding knives and sticks, playing with walnuts, and folding clothes, taking the Spring Festival Gala as an observation coordinate and measurement scale, we can measure the past of humanoid robots and also measure the "China speed" of innovation.
Some foreign media bluntly stated that "the development speed of Chinese robots in just one year is amazing." Dan Ives, a securities analyst in the United States, said: "China is far ahead in robotics technology." Among the humanoid robots sold globally last year, those made in China accounted for about 90%.
"This is great! I think this is one of the future travel technologies." On February 26, German Chancellor Merz, who was visiting China for the first time since taking office, sincerely praised after trying out the new generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan and experiencing the navigation-assisted driving system developed in cooperation with Chinese technology companies in Beijing (北京).
"In every valley in Guizhou (贵州), clouds kiss the roads and cloud computing facilities; in every port in Fujian (福建), circuits and tides play a roaring symphony." "We once walked in that country, a country that is forging tomorrow." Not long ago, Emil Jancheski from the Left Party of North Macedonia visited China and wrote such emotional verses.
Today's China is actively looking ahead to layout and develop future industries, continuously cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and upgrading traditional industries with new technologies. The innovation momentum is continuously transforming into a strong driving force for high-quality development, and the "sense of the future" has become a personal feeling in people's lives.
The flavor of human touch warms people's hearts, demonstrating that "Chinese-style modernization puts people's livelihood first."
"The New Year is a major event for the common people." How to ensure that the broad masses of people have a happy and joyful New Year? The General Secretary always keeps this in mind.
A community canteen makes the New Year's flavor more intense among neighbors. In Shanghai (上海), the "Elderly Canteen" in Jiangsu Road Street (江苏路街道), Changning District (长宁区) provides delivery services to elderly people in need, without interruption for a day or delay for a meal; the Gongsan Community Canteen (共三社区食堂) in Pengpu New Village Street (彭浦新村街道), Jing'an District (静安区) does not close on New Year's Eve, allowing more than 10 migrant workers in Shanghai (上海) to have a reunion dinner.
A warm-hearted station allows those who are running around in the city to have a place to stop. In Tacheng (塔城), Xinjiang (新疆), the urban trade union station provides 24-hour warm-hearted service without closing, warming every city defender with thoughtful care. In recent years, China has built 186,100 trade union stations, covering 193 million employees.
From community canteens providing three meals a day to warm-hearted stations providing shelter from the wind and rain for outdoor workers, to building the world's largest education system, social security system, medical and health system, and urban housing security system... This is the unremitting pursuit of "guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood in development."
From colorful community activities to "immediate response to complaints" and rapid response to people's demands, to "efficiently handling one thing" bringing service improvements... This is a vivid practice of "thinking what the people think and doing what the people want."
High-quality development and high-quality life are moving towards each other, and investment in things and investment in people are closely combined. By doing a good job in one practical matter after another to continuously improve people's well-being and better meet the needs of the masses, this is a microcosm of today's China.
Let us increase confidence and add strength from the strong New Year's flavor of the Year of the Horse, firmly grasp the initiative of development in moving towards the new, the better, and the good, start from spring, and move towards hope.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 昊 王 洲
On the afternoon of March 3rd, the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held a press conference in the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂). The spokesperson for the session, Liu Jieyi (刘结一), briefed Chinese and foreign media on the session and answered questions from reporters.
Focusing on the Central Tasks of the Party and the Country, Fulfilling Responsibilities, and Serving High-Quality Development Practices with High-Quality Consultation and Suggestions
Liu Jieyi (刘结一) introduced that the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC will open at 3:00 PM on March 4th in the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) and close on the morning of March 11th, lasting 7 days. The main agenda of the session is: to hear and deliberate the work report of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the CPPCC and the report on the work of proposals; to attend the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) as observers, to listen to and discuss the government work report and other relevant reports, and to discuss the draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development; to review and approve the political resolution of the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, the resolution on the work report of the Standing Committee, the resolution on the report on the work of proposals since the Third Session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, and the report on the examination of proposals of the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the CPPCC.
"The National Committee of the CPPCC adheres to Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, profoundly understands the decisive significance of the 'Two Establishes,' enhances the 'Four Consciousnesses,' strengthens the 'Four Confidences,' and achieves the 'Two Upholds,' comprehensively implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, earnestly implements the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, consolidates the common ideological and political foundation for unity and struggle, and offers advice and suggestions on the formulation of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' further comprehensively deepening reform, and promoting high-quality development, making new contributions to the development of the cause of the Party and the country," said Liu Jieyi (刘结一).
Closely focusing on the central overall situation to plan affairs, focusing on key issues to discuss politics, and serving high-quality development practices with high-quality consultation and suggestions. Liu Jieyi (刘结一) stated that the National Committee of the CPPCC implements the requirement that proposals should be refined rather than numerous, promotes the improvement of the overall quality of proposals, coordinates and carries out activities such as inspections, investigations, research, connecting with people from different sectors, and "serving the people" through the performance of duties by committee members, gives play to the role of the "direct train" for reflecting public opinion and information, and submits nearly 20,000 pieces of information; promotes the construction of capacity for performing duties, holds 20 symposiums for committee members from different sectors, conducts face-to-face exchanges and interactions with more than 500 committee members from 34 sectors, and the enthusiasm and participation of committee members in performing their duties continue to increase.
Conducting In-Depth Consultation and Deliberation on Starting Well and Taking the First Step in the "15th Five-Year Plan" and Carrying Out Democratic Supervision
The year 2025 is the final year of the "14th Five-Year Plan" and also an important year for further comprehensively deepening reform. What work has the National Committee of the CPPCC done in assisting the high-quality completion of the "14th Five-Year Plan" target tasks and the formulation of the "15th Five-Year Plan"?
"Adhering to consultation before decision-making and during the implementation of decisions, focusing on the implementation of the '14th Five-Year Plan' target tasks, tackling key areas, and solving bottlenecks and difficulties, formulating and implementing annual consultation plans, and holding more than 300 various consultation and deliberation activities on more than 200 topics such as coordinating urban-rural integrated development, strengthening ecological and environmental protection, optimizing the allocation of regional education and medical resources, and promoting cultural confidence and self-improvement, proposing and submitting a large number of relevant proposals and information, and assisting in the optimization and implementation of decisions," said Liu Jieyi (刘结一).
Assisting in the scientific formulation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" is an important task for the National Committee of the CPPCC in 2025. Liu Jieyi (刘结一) introduced that the National Committee of the CPPCC will focus on the key and decisive factors in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the important theoretical and practical issues that need to be resolved in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, the developmental changes with trends and laws and the strategic tasks with forward-looking guidance on the new journey, hold special deliberative Standing Committee meetings and other consultation and deliberation activities, widely solicit opinions and suggestions from committee members, carry out a number of in-depth studies and countermeasure studies, propose more than 480 proposals, and submit more than 200 pieces of information, providing important references for the formulation of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Liu Jieyi (刘结一) stated that 2026 is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The National Committee of the CPPCC will closely focus on the central tasks of the Party and the country, conduct in-depth consultation and deliberation on major issues of starting well and taking the first step in the "15th Five-Year Plan," and carry out democratic supervision, in order to broadly gather people's hearts, consensus, wisdom, and strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Consolidating and Expanding the Momentum of Steady Improvement and Promoting China's Economy to Forge Ahead and Move Steadily and Farward
In 2025, China's economy achieved a growth of 5.0%. Amid the stormy external environment, China's economy has moved forward against pressure and developed towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality.
"The total economic volume has reached a new level of 140 trillion yuan, and the growth rate continues to remain at the forefront among major economies in the world. The deep integration of science and technology and industry, the emergence of innovative achievements, and the vigorous growth of new quality productive forces." Liu Jieyi (刘结一) cited this "longest ever" Spring Festival holiday as an example, listing a set of data: the popularity of catering, amusement, and shopping malls is strong, and the total consumption of domestic tourists exceeded 803.4 billion yuan, an increase of 126.4 billion yuan year-on-year, demonstrating the vigorous vitality of the super-large market; the total cross-regional personnel flow in the Spring Festival travel season is expected to reach 9.5 billion person-times, equivalent to more than 1 trip per capita worldwide, showing the surging vitality of mobile China.
"China's economy has always moved forward through difficulties and grown stronger through trials and tribulations. Although it still faces some old problems and new challenges, the foundation is stable, the advantages are numerous, the resilience is strong, and the potential is great. The supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. As long as we strengthen our confidence, make good use of our advantages, and respond to challenges, we will definitely be able to continuously consolidate and expand the momentum of steady improvement and promote China's economy to forge ahead and move steadily and farward," said Liu Jieyi (刘结一).
Liu Jieyi (刘结一) introduced that the National Committee of the CPPCC holds quarterly symposiums on the analysis of the macroeconomic situation to provide consultation for relevant departments to grasp the situation and formulate policies; carefully organizes inspections, investigations, and special research to seek practical measures and offer good strategies for promoting high-quality development; focuses on new situations and new problems in reform and development to consult and offer suggestions, gives play to the role of various consultation platforms, and conducts in-depth discussions and gathers wisdom.
Helping to Expand China's Global "Circle of Friends" of Open Cooperation and Mutual Benefit
A reporter from China Arab TV was deeply impressed by the full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) at the end of last year. In answering his question, Liu Jieyi (刘结一) listed a set of data on "people enjoying their travel and goods flowing smoothly": during this year's Spring Festival holiday, the amount of offshore duty-free shopping in Hainan (海南) increased by 30.8% compared to last year's Spring Festival, and the number of foreign tourists entering the country with visa-free entry increased by 75.6%.
"The full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) is a landmark measure for China to unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world and promote the construction of an open world economy." Liu Jieyi (刘结一) stated that the customs closure operation of the free trade port is a new exploration of China's steady expansion of institutional opening up in terms of rules, regulations, management, standards, etc., demonstrating China's firm determination to carry out reform and opening up to the end. "China always adheres to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, and the door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider and wider."
The National Committee of the CPPCC has long been concerned with and serving China's cause of opening up to the outside world, and has actively deliberated and offered suggestions and gathered strength for expanding high-level opening up to the outside world. "Focusing on building a new system of a higher-level open economy, improving the management and service system for foreign investment, and the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道), conducting in-depth inspections and research, forming high-quality research reports, and providing decision-making references for promoting the improvement of the quality and efficiency of foreign trade and unblocking the domestic and international dual circulation. Inviting foreign think tanks and institutional delegations to visit China to enhance their understanding and awareness of Chinese-style modernization, allowing the world to see the broad space for cooperation with China. Committee members exchange and share stories of win-win cooperation and mutual achievements between China and foreign countries in foreign exchanges, helping to expand China's global 'circle of friends' of open cooperation and mutual benefit," said Liu Jieyi (刘结一).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3rd. The reporter learned on the 3rd from the Press Center of the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大四次会议), that all delegations attending the meeting have registered, and all preparations for the conference are 就绪 (jiù xù - "ready," everything is prepared).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3rd. (Reporter) learned on the 3rd from the Press Center of the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协). The committee members from all sectors attending the meeting have registered, and all preparations for the conference are complete.
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Implementing the new development concept hinges on creatively adapting it to specific realities.
Recently, the Guoneng Ningxia Lingwu (国能宁夏灵武) 4-million-kilowatt photovoltaic power station was put into operation, capable of producing 6.8 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity annually. It is hard to imagine that this vibrant photovoltaic base was once a coal mining subsidence area.
Faced with the subsidence area, what should be done? The new development concept is the key to breaking the deadlock. Based on innovation and coexisting with nature, a virtuous cycle of "power generation above the panels, planting below the panels, breeding between the panels, and desertification control and soil improvement" is formed. Moving towards the new and the superior, adapting to local conditions, the shortcomings are transformed into "potential boards."
Creative transformation brings incremental space. Abandoned mines are transformed into data centers, roses are grown in the Gobi Desert, and cold-region testing is developed in the icy and snowy lands... Today, shifting from "consuming resources" to "creating value," the former "constraints" are transformed into "innovation opportunities," and high-quality development in China is 欣欣向荣 (xīn xīn xiàng róng - "flourishing," thriving and prosperous).
When the coordinate system of development shifts from "what is available" to "what to create," from "what to consume" to "what to activate," with a new concept, the world becomes wider, and the road ahead becomes clearer—this is precisely a vivid footnote to Chinese-style modernization, and it also breeds infinite possibilities.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 苏 滨
In Machang Village (马场村), Yangchang Town (羊昌镇), Wudang District (乌当区), Guiyang City (贵阳市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), in the first month of the lunar year, the reporter arrived at Yang Fucai's (杨福财) agricultural supply store.
Two years ago, during the spring plowing season, the reporter had interviewed him and considered him an old friend.
The agricultural supply store was still two rooms, one filled with fertilizer, bag upon bag; the other filled with seeds and pesticides, layer upon layer, seemingly everything remained the same.
In the aisle, previously mainly displaying small agricultural machinery, now a large drone had replaced them. In the fertilizer room next door, all new products were visible at a glance, and changes were quietly taking place.
"How's business?"
"There are more and more agricultural supply stores, but fortunately, we have withstood the competitive pressure, and sales have increased by almost 20% each year."
Hearing Lao Yang (老杨) mention the data, the reporter's curiosity was piqued, "How did you manage to make your business more and more prosperous?"
"Although the store is small, our vision cannot be confined. The country is promoting agricultural modernization, and we must also dare to 'try' new things." Yang Fucai's (杨福财) wife, Zhang Hualan (张花兰), chimed in.
What new things are there?
"Look at these new fertilizers and new seeds, full of technological content!" While speaking, Yang Fucai (杨福财) pulled up this year's bill, densely filled with records, forty or fifty transactions per day, "A total of 20 tons of new fertilizer and 1 ton of new seeds have been sold."
At 10 a.m., an old customer, Meng Xianli (蒙显力), entered the store, "Planning to plant 20 mu of corn, first come to get a load of fertilizer."
"This compound fertilizer is being sold for the first time. It can control the release of fertilizer, has a long-lasting effect, requires less usage, and can also reduce soil compaction and reduce environmental pollution. The price is a bit more expensive, but one application lasts for two years, so it's definitely more cost-effective in the long run." Last year, during the off-season, Yang Fucai (杨福财) spent several months running around the market, repeatedly comparing before deciding to introduce this fertilizer, "It is in line with the trend of green agriculture and ecological agriculture, and I am optimistic about its promotion prospects."
The small truck started, and Meng Xianli (蒙显力) took away 5 bags of fertilizer for trial, "If the effect is good, I will come again."
At 1 p.m., villager Zhu Xiaogang (朱小钢) came to buy rice and corn seeds, with simple requirements: the rice should taste good, and the corn should have a high yield.
Yang Fucai (杨福财) has a long-term partnership with the seed company of the Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences (贵州省农科院). He started preparing for this year's spring plowing in October last year, and the seeds have already been prepared. He glanced at the shelf and picked up a new rice variety, "Taifeng You 79 (泰丰优79)," "The seed company specifically conducted new variety trials, and I tasted them all. This one has the best taste with moderate glutinosity."
"I'll plant the new variety for rice, and take half new and half old varieties for corn." Zhu Xiaogang (朱小钢) left satisfied.
It is necessary to stabilize the planting of old varieties and also gradually promote variety updates.
Yang Fucai (杨福财) clicked the mouse and pulled up the purchase orders for the past two years: last year, 8 old rice varieties and 2 new varieties, 23 old corn varieties and 2 new varieties; this year, 5 old rice varieties and 2 new varieties, and 20 old corn varieties and 3 new varieties, with the proportion of new varieties gradually increasing.
The large drone in the aisle of the agricultural supply store constantly attracts customers' attention.
"This is another new item - a plant protection drone." Mountainous areas can also use "new gadgets" for farming. At the beginning of last year, Yang Fucai (杨福财) spent 42,000 yuan to purchase it, which can not only spray pesticides but also lift and transport things. It is the only one in the town.
What are the considerations for purchasing a drone at a high price?
"Using agricultural drones is still a novelty." Yang Fucai (杨福财) said that Guizhou (贵州) mostly has "palm-sized fields" and "chicken coop lands," which creates conditions for drone applications.
"I am certified." Yang Fucai (杨福财) participated in the drone training course organized by the Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (市农业农村局) and obtained a professional certificate.
Last year's spring plowing, Yang Fucai (杨福财) completed pesticide spraying operations on 150 mu of farmland at a price of 11 yuan per mu, and it is expected to cover 500 mu this year. "Relying solely on manual spraying, each person can spray a maximum of 5 mu per day, and the labor cost is at least 150 yuan per day. A drone can spray 30 mu in half a day, so it's worth it no matter how you calculate it."
Li Zhenlong (李贞龙), an administrator at the Wudang District Planting Management Station (乌当区种植管理站), introduced that Wudang District (乌当区) continues to carry out agricultural drone pilot training and smart agricultural machinery promotion, promoting the integration of good fields, good seeds, good machines, and good methods with digitization, intelligence, and mechanization, so that more new quality productive forces can help spring plowing.
As night falls, the agricultural supply store gradually returns to calm.
"There are enough seeds to sell, but there is a shortage of 30 tons of new fertilizer, so we have to continue to purchase." Yang Fucai (杨福财) calculated, "This year, I will add another drone to expand the service range and attract more customers."
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Since the launch of the study and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, various regions, departments, and units have swiftly initiated and deployed efforts with a high degree of political awareness, conducting them in a vigorous and orderly manner. This has educated and guided Party organizations and members, as well as cadres at all levels, to adhere to seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic, achieving performance for the people and through practical work, thereby promoting the study and education to be deeply ingrained in the mind and effectively implemented.
Careful Planning and Deployment Promotion
Various regions, departments, and units studied and deployed study and education plans at the first opportunity, quickly taking action and making careful arrangements.
The Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部) held a departmental meeting to review the work arrangements for the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance in the department. It emphasized that the department should conduct in-depth study and discussion, comprehensively examine and identify problems, vigorously implement rectification and remediation, pay attention to combining efforts, strengthen organizational leadership, and ensure that all tasks of learning, investigation, and rectification are carried out solidly, deeply, and thoroughly, so as to ensure that the study and education achieve tangible results. While focusing on the study and education of the department, it should also work with relevant parties to fully implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee, and promote the healthy and orderly development of study and education on a broader scale.
The Work Committee of the Central and State Organs (中央和国家机关工委) held an enlarged meeting of the committee and a leading group meeting on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, emphasizing that carrying out this study and education well should be regarded as a practical action to take the lead and serve as a "three-fold model." It should take the lead in establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, truly keeping the original aspiration firmly in mind, shouldering the mission firmly, and guarding the purpose firmly. It should continuously demonstrate new responsibilities and new actions in promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building, and ensure that all tasks of study and education are implemented and achieve practical results.
The Shanghai Municipal Party Committee (上海市委) held an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee and a leading group meeting on Party building of the Municipal Party Committee to study and deploy the city's study and education work. It proposed that the study and education should be carried out to a high standard and with high quality. Leading cadres at all levels in the city, especially the "top leaders," should lead by example and combine the study and education closely with the central work, giving full play to the guiding role of a correct view of performance, resolutely guarding against formalism, and striving for practical results.
The Fujian Provincial Party Committee (福建省委) resolutely implemented the deployment of the Party Central Committee, adhered to high-starting-point planning and high-requirement deployment, and studied and formulated a provincial implementation plan. It required that the in-depth study of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance should be closely combined with the inheritance and promotion of the important concepts and major practices of Comrade Xi Jinping during his work in Fujian (福建). It refined 14 specific tasks in five aspects, including study and discussion, problem identification, rectification and remediation, institution building, and open education, to promote the study and education to go deeper and more solid.
In-depth Study and Thorough Understanding, Going Deeper and More Solid
Various regions, departments, and units educated and guided Party members and cadres to deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and to deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and important instructions on the region, department, and field. They adhered to in-depth study and thorough understanding to promote the study and education to go deeper and more solid.
The Henan Provincial Party Committee (河南省委) required in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, careful study and discussion, and a solid ideological foundation. It adhered to combining individual self-study with centralized study, highlighting the leadership's role, grasping the study of branches, strengthening education and training, making good use of positive and negative typical cases, and ensuring that it is truly learned deeply and thoroughly understood and integrated.
The Hubei Provincial Party Committee (湖北省委) required adherence to in-depth study and thorough understanding, focusing on study and discussion, organizing Party members and cadres to deeply study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, deeply studying the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, consolidating the foundation and correcting the source from the ideological level, highlighting learning through training, paying attention to learning through lectures, and strengthening learning through cases.
The Leading Group for Party Building of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee (青海省委) held a meeting, requiring serious study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance and the major requirements for Qinghai (青海) work. It focused on the target requirements, deeply understood, accurately grasped, and comprehensively implemented the general requirements of "ruling the Party for the public, seeking happiness for the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work," and promoted learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner to ensure that learning is of high quality, investigation is forceful, and rectification is effective.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) held a mobilization and deployment meeting for the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, deeply studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. It required that organizing and carrying out the study and education well should be regarded as an important political task, strengthening organizational leadership, strengthening supervision and guidance, paying attention to overall implementation, ensuring that the study and education go deeper and more solid, see results, and effectively promote the smooth start of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" for cyberspace affairs.
The Party Group of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) stated that efforts should be made to deeply understand and thoroughly grasp, study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance in their original form, study General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and approvals on human resources and social security work in a connected manner, consolidate the ideological foundation, closely integrate with the actual work of ensuring and improving people's livelihoods, promote learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, and promote study and education with high standards, strict requirements, and a practical style.
Combining Learning with Application, Striving for Practical Results
Various regions, departments, and units stated that they should take "ruling the Party for the public, seeking happiness for the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work" as the general requirement, adhere to promoting learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, and transform the results of study and education into practical results in promoting development.
The Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee (江西省委) held a meeting, requiring adherence to making good use of the grasp of promoting learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, focusing on making efforts in deep learning, true investigation, and practical rectification, focusing on grasping institution building, discovering institutional loopholes, shortcomings, and weaknesses from the problems investigated and rectified, improving the system and establishing rules in a targeted manner, adhering to open learning and education, sincerely doing practical things for the masses, solving problems, and making the masses feel and reach the effectiveness of learning and education.
The Leading Group for Party Building of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee (甘肃省委) held a meeting, adhering to open education, adhering to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation, taking the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification as the grasp, grasping the rectification and remediation of problems, deeply investigating the existing problems in the view of performance, strengthening institution building, improving the effective prevention and correction mechanism for deviations in the view of performance, and improving the assessment and evaluation mechanism.
The Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）) studied and deployed the study and education work, requiring overall planning to do a good job in the study and education of students in school, organizing study and discussion, and opening special courses; organizing backbone teachers to carry out collective lesson preparation, closely focusing on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance to create high-quality public courses, and strengthening theoretical research and publicity and interpretation, and effectively combining study and education with the Party School's original intention of practicing "cultivating talents for the Party and contributing suggestions for the Party," to better implement the Party School's requirements of the Party's surname, quality-based school, and strict management of the school.
The Party Committee of the Ministry of State Security (国安部党委) stated that it should take responsibility and act in escorting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, advance towards new goals in the development of national security, and must resolutely oppose the "six incorrect views of performance" such as the false and exaggerated view of performance, the unrealistic view of performance, the short-sighted view of performance, the view of performance that emphasizes the obvious and neglects the potential, the parochial view of performance, and the mediocre and inactive view of performance. It should make contributions and create performance in the struggle of doing practical work.
The Party Group of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部党组) required the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification, combining with the reality of civil affairs to deeply investigate the problems of deviation in the view of performance, carry out centralized rectification, and achieve immediate rectification, targeted rectification, and strict rectification; promote institution building, accelerate the construction of important laws, regulations, and systems in the field of civil affairs, improve the effective prevention and correction mechanism for deviations in the view of performance, and guide Party members and cadres to correctly perform their duties and take responsibility.
(Our reporters Wu Chuqi (吴储岐), Gong Shijian (龚仕建), Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟), Fu Wen (付文), Tian Doudou (田豆豆), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Geng Lei (耿磊), Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫), Zhu Peixian (朱佩娴), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕), Shen Tongrui (沈童睿), Jin Xin (金歆), Zhao Shuaijie (赵帅杰), Zhou Huan (周欢), Song Chaojun (宋朝军), He Zhaoyu (何昭宇))
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"There was singing, dancing, and opera, and everyone enjoyed it very much!" said Fang Qiulan (方秋兰), a villager from Xianhou Village (显后村), Zuokou Township (左口乡), Chun'an County (淳安县), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江).
On March 2nd, before the Lantern Festival, the 2026 Yue Dong Hangzhou "I Watch Performances at New Era Civilization Practice Positions" event entered Xianhou Village (显后村).
The villagers arrived at the scene early, eagerly awaiting the start of the performance.
As the opening dance "Feng Qi Ming Chao" (凤起鸣潮) brought by young actors from the Hangzhou Drama Art Center (杭州话剧艺术中心) was wonderfully staged, the performance kicked off. The entire performance was diverse in form and rich in content, including moving solo singing, passionate recitations, and graceful dances. The thrilling acrobatics "High-Rise Swaying Tube" drew bursts of cheers, and the Sichuan Opera "Face-Changing" allowed villagers to experience the charm of intangible cultural heritage up close. The classic excerpts from Yue Opera sang to the villagers' hearts. Applause and cheers rose one after another at the scene.
Villager Fang Zhongjun (方忠军) said, "I am very happy to be able to enjoy a cultural feast at my doorstep. I hope there will be more such cultural activities going to the countryside in the future."
It is worth mentioning that this performance adopted the "National Ordering" model to accurately connect with the cultural needs of the grassroots. This performance was sponsored by the Hangzhou Municipal Committee Propaganda Department of the CPC (中共杭州市委宣传部) (Municipal Civilization Office) (市文明办) and the Hangzhou Culture Radio and Television Group (杭州文化广播电视集团).
Return to TopMarch 3rd, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, various regions held diverse cultural activities to joyfully celebrate the Lantern Festival.
Return to TopAgricultural modernization hinges on the modernization of agricultural science and technology. Through visits to China, participation in Sino-foreign agricultural technology cooperation, and other activities, many international individuals have been deeply impressed by China's emphasis on agricultural science and technology research and development investment and application, as well as the achievements made in developing new quality productive forces in agriculture based on local conditions. They highly praise China's vivid practices in developing modern agriculture and promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and look forward to deepening cooperation with China to jointly promote progress in agricultural modernization and contribute to global food security and sustainable development.
Empowering with Science and Technology, Consolidating the Foundation of Agricultural Development
In July of last year, Khalid Akram, Executive Director of the Pakistan Community of Common Destiny Research Center, visited Wuyuan (婺源) in Jiangxi (江西). He saw that local agricultural production had introduced technologies such as precision planting, intelligent irrigation, and pest and disease monitoring. "The integration of agricultural modernization and emerging technologies has injected strong impetus into the comprehensive revitalization of rural China. The former pastoral fields are transforming into fertile land full of modern atmosphere and unlimited opportunities," he said. He added that the key to promoting agricultural modernization lies in scientific and technological progress and innovation. "In China, I saw the future of agricultural development."
Last year, Mohamed Sanhoury, a reporter from Egypt's Cairo 24 Hours News Network, visited the "XAG Super Farm" in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东). In this smart farm, artificial intelligence drones perform spraying and intelligent fertilization operations through precise calculations; intelligent irrigation vehicles realize irrigation automation based on soil moisture sensors, meteorological data, and crop water demand models... Sanhoury said: "Under the background of policy promotion and deep integration of digital technology, China's agricultural science and technology innovation is showing a stronger momentum, and has broader application prospects in ensuring food security, promoting green transformation, and helping the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas."
Tahir Aslam, CEO of Pakistan Prosolve International Consulting Co., Ltd., went to China in 2024 to study agricultural technology and visit agricultural enterprises. He learned in Xinjiang (新疆) that the local area overcomes natural challenges such as drought and salinity, develops agricultural categories such as grain, cotton, high-quality fruits and vegetables, animal husbandry, and agricultural and sideline product processing, widely adopts drip irrigation technology and molecular breeding technology, and explores the development of smart agriculture. "Chinese friends selflessly share advanced agricultural technologies and concepts. I have been in contact with them and plan to introduce more Chinese agricultural equipment, seeds, fertilizers, etc." Aslam said, "We should seriously learn from China's development experience in promoting agricultural modernization and comprehensive rural revitalization."
"China is accelerating its transformation from 'sweat agriculture' to 'smart agriculture.' Developing new quality productive forces injects strong impetus into this transformation." Arun G.C., Assistant Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Nepal, said that in China's smart farms, the application of technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence reduces labor costs, pesticide use, etc., and effectively solves the problems of low efficiency and low returns in traditional agriculture. At the same time, characteristic agricultural industries have also stimulated rural innovation vitality.
Production and Research Collaboration, Focusing on Long-term Planning Implementation
"The success of China's agricultural modernization is inseparable from the government's long-term planning, continuous investment in scientific and technological research and development, and effective collaboration between universities, industries, and farmers." Eribaldo Júnior, promoter at the Rural Technical Assistance and Extension Center of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, said that China has the ability to quickly transform research and innovative technologies into productivity. In rural areas of China, young people use digital platforms, operate smart devices, and use drones to monitor crops, participating in agricultural production in an advanced way, which is impressive.
"An important reason for the progress of China's agricultural modernization is a clear development strategy—continuously increasing investment in technological research and innovation in the agricultural field, focusing on improving agricultural infrastructure, and creating agricultural technologies that are both suitable for China's local agricultural needs and can be promoted to many places around the world." Rodrigo Sarmiento, R&D Director of the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation, said that the coordinated development of production and research provides a solid guarantee for the continuous growth of China's agricultural productivity.
Hendra Kadka, coordinator of the National Farmers Alliance of Nepal, said that in China, digital technology, intelligent equipment, and biotechnology are deeply integrated with big data and artificial intelligence into the entire process of agricultural production, which greatly liberates productivity while significantly reducing reliance on manual labor, and promotes the organic unity of agricultural development, ecological protection, and increased farmer income.
Serik Korzhumbayev, editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan's "Business Newspaper," once visited a coffee plantation in Baoshan (保山), Yunnan (云南). He told reporters that the Chinese government continues to invest in modern agricultural technology, agricultural infrastructure construction, and farmer training, adheres to a people-oriented approach, and promotes sustainable development. The relevant experience is worth learning from.
Ahmed Sallam, a member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs who has long been concerned about China's development, said: "Technology plays a vital role in China's agricultural transformation. China's efforts in agricultural modernization integrate technological innovation, smart governance, and long-term planning, which are both practical and inspiring."
Working Together to Deepen South-South Cooperation
In Uzbekistan, Chinese drip irrigation technology has brought bumper harvests to cotton farmers; in Pakistan, high-yield and high-quality hybrid rapeseed varieties have become the hope for farmers to increase their income... While achieving its own agricultural development, China has carried out fruitful cooperation with other countries, improved the global level of agricultural technology, and promoted food security and sustainable development.
In recent years, the Irhoud region of Morocco has been plagued by water shortages and soil degradation, and the yield and quality of crops have continued to decline. Nasser Bouchiba, President of the Moroccan Association for Cooperation and Development with China, joined Chinese companies to establish the China-Africa Saline Agriculture Demonstration Farm, drawing on China's desert management experience and introducing China's soil conditioners and brackish water desalination equipment, which greatly reduced the annual water consumption of crops. "Relying on China's solar technology, we have also designed and developed a set of seawater desalination and sustainable irrigation systems. We plan to introduce the results of these demonstration projects based on Chinese innovative technologies to more desert countries." Bouchiba said, "China is willing to share development experience and innovative technologies, bringing hope for poverty reduction and development to more countries in the Global South."
At the end of 2024, the China-Latin America Sustainable Food Innovation Center was launched at the Yazhou Bay National Laboratory in Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南). Sarmiento visited here not long ago and said: "Cooperation with this laboratory brings us important opportunities. Colombia will strengthen cooperation with China in precision agriculture, artificial intelligence technology, etc. to increase crop yields."
Nabi, a senior researcher at the Wheat and Maize Research Institute of Bangladesh, once engaged in joint research at the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He said: "Through cooperation, we can jointly overcome current challenges, effectively ensure food security, and significantly enhance climate resilience."
With the support of the China-FAO South-South Cooperation Trust Fund, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has continuously implemented three phases of South-South cooperation projects in Uganda, sending nearly 60 agricultural experts and technicians to carry out agricultural technology demonstration and promotion activities. "Today, the yield of hybrid rice in Uganda has reached 2 to 3 times that of local conventional rice." Alawi Semanda, Executive Director of the Uganda Development Watch Centre, said, "The promotion of Chinese agricultural technology in Africa plays an important role in promoting agricultural modernization in Africa. African countries hope to deepen agricultural science and technology cooperation with China and jointly move towards modernization."
(Reported on March 3 from Beijing (北京), Islamabad (伊斯兰堡), Cairo (开罗), Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢), Astana (阿斯塔纳), Kathmandu (加德满都), Riyadh (利雅得), Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡), and Bangkok (曼谷) by reporters Han Xiaoming (韩晓明), Zhao Yipu (赵益普), Shen Xiaoxiao (沈小晓), Shi Yuanhao (时元皓), Li Qiang (李强), Li Mo (李墨), Ren Haoyu (任皓宇), Zou Song (邹松), and Sun Guangyong (孙广勇))
Return to TopThe situation in the Middle East is in danger of being pushed into the abyss, and military actions must cease immediately. The international community must unite in its efforts to promote peace, push the situation towards de-escalation, and jointly defend international law and the basic norms of international relations.
Recently, the United States and Israel launched a military strike against Iran without consulting the United Nations Security Council or obtaining its authorization. This act blatantly tramples on international law and the basic norms of international relations, and the situation in the Middle East is in danger of being pushed into the abyss. The international community must unite in its efforts to promote peace, push the situation towards de-escalation, and jointly defend international law and the basic norms of international relations.
The "principle of prohibition of the use of force" is the cornerstone of security in the contemporary international system. As early as before World War II, the Pact of Paris had established this consensus. After World War II, the Charter of the United Nations further established a guarantee mechanism for stopping war and maintaining peace, clearly stipulating that force shall not be used against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country. The vitality of international law lies in its universality, and its authority lies in its inviolability. The United States and Israel arbitrarily trample on the international rule of law, which not only disrupts the Middle East but also undermines the foundation of world peace.
The United States claims that "Iran has been working to develop its nuclear program and plans to develop missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland," and launched the strike on this basis. However, after the U.S. and Israel used force, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Grossi clearly stated that no systematic nuclear weapons manufacturing program had been found in Iran. Facts show that the United States and Israel chose to attack Iran perhaps for political considerations. By arbitrarily attacking other countries with military advantages, insightful people in the United States bluntly say that American hegemony is tearing off its disguise and becoming increasingly out of control.
After the United States and Israel launched a military strike against Iran, there was an outcry of opposition from the international community. United Nations Secretary-General Guterres clearly pointed out that the Charter of the United Nations lays the foundation for maintaining international peace and security, and international law and international humanitarian law must always be respected. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) issued a statement emphasizing that the use of force is unacceptable and supporting the resolution of current conflicts based on dialogue, mutual respect, and consideration of the legitimate interests of all parties, in accordance with international law and the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. The Arab League called on the international community to take swift action to de-escalate the situation to prevent the region from falling into an increasingly serious cycle of instability and violence.
How to treat international law and the international order reflects a country's worldview, view of order, and sense of responsibility. Force cannot truly solve problems, but will bring new problems and serious sequelae. The international community must take action to jointly defend international law and the basic norms of international relations.
Military actions must cease immediately. The tragic attack on an Iranian primary school has shocked the bottom line of human morality. While the humanitarian disaster is worsening, the security of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global energy trade route, has also been severely affected, and the risk of more forces being dragged into the conflict is rising sharply. War spillover is not in the interest of any party, and the red line of protecting civilians in armed conflict must not be crossed at any time. The immediate priority is to avoid further escalation of tensions and prevent the war from spreading to the entire Middle East region. The international community should attach importance to the security of the Gulf countries and support them in taking their future into their own hands.
Dialogue and negotiations should be restarted as soon as possible. Peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue through political and diplomatic means is the only correct option and is in the common interest of the international community. Recent Iran-U.S. negotiations have made progress, providing a rare opportunity for all parties to peacefully resolve disputes. Unfortunately, this process has been interrupted by gunfire. In the face of the grim situation, the parties concerned should resume dialogue and negotiations as soon as possible, support the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in performing its duties objectively and impartially, and push the Iranian nuclear issue back on the right track of peaceful resolution.
Unilateral actions must be jointly opposed. The international community should resist any behavior that violates international law. No major country can arbitrarily attack other countries with military advantages, and the world cannot return to the "law of the jungle." Launching a major attack on a sovereign country without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council seriously undermines international law and the basic norms of international relations centered on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The international community should send a clear and unambiguous message, resolutely opposing unilateral bullying and threats of force in international relations, opposing the imposition of one's own will on other countries, and opposing the use of power to override justice.
Currently, the conflict continues, and the situation continues to escalate. Faced with a highly dangerous situation, the international community should firmly stand on the side of peace and on the side of fairness and justice, and jointly promote the early restoration of peace and stability in the Middle East. As a responsible major country, China will work with the international community to actively promote peace and stop war, and play a constructive role in promoting the de-escalation of the regional situation and maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East and the world.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 3rd. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz (萨尔) on the phone on March 3rd at the latter's request.
After listening to Katz (萨尔)'s introduction of Israel's position on the current situation, Wang Yi (王毅) stated that China has always advocated resolving international and regional hotspot issues through dialogue and consultation. All parties should abide by the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and not use or threaten to use force in international relations, which is also in the fundamental interests of all parties, including Israel. Over the years, China has been committed to promoting the political resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue. The recent Iran-US negotiations are making significant progress, which also covers Israel's security concerns. It is regrettable that this process has been interrupted by the sound of gunfire. China opposes military strikes by Israel and the United States against Iran. Force cannot truly solve problems, but will bring new problems and serious sequelae. The true value of military strength lies not on the battlefield, but in preventing war. China calls for an immediate cessation of military operations to prevent the further spread and loss of control of the war. China has always adhered to a fair position on the Middle East issue, and we will continue to play a constructive role in promoting the de-escalation of the situation.
Wang Yi (王毅) requested that Israel take practical measures to ensure the safety of Chinese personnel and institutions. Katz (萨尔) stated that Israel attaches great importance to this and will protect the safety of Chinese personnel and institutions.
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The long river of history flows ceaselessly, and the giant ship of China has sailed through another five years.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" was extremely unusual and extraordinary. The complex and volatile international environment brought new contradictions and challenges, and changes in the main social contradictions in our country brought new characteristics and requirements.
Sailing against the wind and waves, maintaining stability and aiming for the long term. Over the past five years, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has observed the situation and trends, analyzed the crises and opportunities, coordinated the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and forge ahead, achieving a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan."
Over the past five years, we have jointly witnessed glorious achievements: the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) celebrated its centenary, the 20th National Congress of the Party (党的二十大) drew a grand blueprint for Chinese-style modernization, and the Victory Day parade was solemnly held in Tiananmen Square (天安门广场)...
Over the past five years, we have worked together to promote reform and development: China's total economic volume has continuously crossed new thresholds, its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new levels, green mountains and clear waters have become a beautiful backdrop, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security have continuously increased.
The tide of the times is magnificent; the land of China is thriving. Today's China sees the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as an unstoppable trend.
"Concentrate on managing our own affairs well"
"China's economy has moved forward against pressure, developing towards new and better directions, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality." At the end of 2025, at the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) words were profound and meaningful.
This was true in the past year, and even more so in the past five years. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has a far-sighted view: "When are there no difficulties? We overcome them one by one, year after year, and things get better every year. The Chinese nation has been doing this for over 5,000 years."
This is composure in the face of wind and rain, and profound historical confidence. Facing the various uncertainties brought about by profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, "as long as we maintain strategic focus, move forward firmly step by step, and steadily advance stage by stage, the cause of the Party and the country will surely accumulate small victories into great victories, and our goals will surely be achieved."
Development is the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, and it is the foundation and key to solving all problems in our country.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we adhered to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus, promoted the construction of a unified national market in depth, supported major economic provinces in taking the lead, and adhered to and implemented the "two unwaverings"... The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core made a series of major decisions and deployments, "concentrating on managing our own affairs well" to boost confidence and encourage enthusiasm.
It is still remembered that in the second and third quarters of 2024, the growth rate of China's main economic indicators declined, and market expectations weakened. On September 26 of that year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) chaired a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局会议) and decisively deployed a package of incremental policies. This crucial decision at a critical time enabled us to withstand the pressure and withstand the test, and the economy rebounded significantly.
Where does the confidence in development lie? Where does the confidence come from? This is inseparable from the four major advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the super-large-scale market, the complete industrial system, and the abundant human resources.
In January 2026, at the opening ceremony of the seminar for major leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届四中全会精神), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly: "In recent years, the strategic reliance for our country's economy to overcome difficulties and maintain strong resilience and vitality is the complete industrial system."
All along, our country has insisted on focusing on the real economy in developing the economy, building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, and currently has the world's largest, most complete, and most comprehensive manufacturing system. China's economy started with the real economy, and it must also rely on the real economy to move towards the future.
Development is the absolute principle, and high-quality development is the absolute principle of the new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly that "we must better coordinate the effective improvement of quality and the reasonable growth of quantity" and "respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we deeply practiced the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing, and continuously promoted quality change, efficiency change, and driving force change.
Let's look at "innovation."
Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology that leads a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. In February 2026, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the National Information Innovation Park (国家信创园) in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京), to learn in detail about the innovation and application of information technology, carefully observe the display of scientific and technological innovation achievements such as artificial intelligence and robots, and frequently exchange ideas with researchers and representatives of technology companies.
A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and it is not enough to not innovate, and it is not enough to innovate slowly. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core regards innovation as the primary driving force for leading development, and has deployed "improving the new national system" and "building a system and mechanism to support comprehensive innovation" to accelerate the advancement of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
Over the past five years, a series of "bottleneck" problems have been overcome, a large number of scientific and technological achievements have been transformed and applied, and China has entered the top ten in the global innovation index ranking. Over the past five years, various regions have developed new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, promoted the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, transformed and upgraded traditional industries, accelerated the growth of emerging industries, and made forward-looking layouts for future industries, continuously improving the gold content, new content, and green content of development.
Let's look at "coordination" again.
Beijing (北京) has shifted from "large and comprehensive" to "high-precision and cutting-edge," Tianjin (天津) has consolidated "good development" with "attracting investment," and Hebei (河北) has achieved "upgrade and jump" with "being able to take over," thanks to the in-depth promotion of the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀协同发展战略).
All along, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has devoted a lot of effort to "coordinated regional development," and has chaired a series of symposiums on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast in the new era, deepening the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and promoting the rise of the central region in the new era.
Looking at the big picture, the moves are more precise. Various regions have strengthened the awareness of "one game," correctly handled the relationship between division of labor and cooperation, misalignment and grabbing, optimized resource allocation, and improved overall efficiency, which has not only effectively promoted the solution of the problem of unbalanced development, but also enhanced the systemic ability to cope with risks and challenges.
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Practice has proved that high-quality development is not just an economic requirement, but a "general requirement for all aspects of economic and social development." This urgently requires changing ideas, improving systems and mechanisms, and writing a great article on "upholding integrity and innovation."
July 18, 2024, Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂).
"Passed!"
As soon as the voice fell, applause rang out like thunder—the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee (党的二十届三中全会) formally adopted the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) explained to the plenary session, using "four urgent needs" to clarify its great significance.
Development raises questions, and reform provides answers. More than 300 important reform measures have been launched one after another, promoting the socialist system with Chinese characteristics to become more mature and more established, and making high-quality development more confident, more resilient, and more valuable.
The road ahead cannot be smooth sailing. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly warned: "Further establish the concept that development is the absolute principle, and security is also the absolute principle."
Coordinating development and security is a major principle of our Party's governance. In the past five years, the annual grain output has always been maintained at more than 1.3 trillion catties; the world's largest power infrastructure system has been built; efforts have been made to resolve risks such as real estate, local debt, and small and medium-sized financial institutions... A set of combined punches has effectively promoted the stable operation of the economy and steady progress.
Looking back on the long journey, the mountains are far away, and looking forward to the future, the trees are full of spring. Under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, China's economic foundation is stable, its advantages are many, its resilience is strong, and its potential is great, and the supporting conditions and basic trends for long-term improvement have not changed. "Concentrate on managing our own affairs well," and Chinese-style modernization is constantly taking new and solid steps.
"Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihood is paramount"
"General Secretary, you are so busy, but you still come to see us. Thank you so much."
"I am busy with these things. The 'major affairs of the country' are the happy lives of the people."
At the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan," in Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited villagers' homes, leaving behind a deeply moving story.
Over the past five years, no matter how the situation has developed and changed, "Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihood is paramount" has been the people's leader's unwavering original intention. No matter how busy the state affairs are, the General Secretary must take the time to go deep into the grassroots level, look at the lives of the people, and ask about the expectations of the masses.
Employment is the most basic livelihood. The more economic development is under pressure, the more we must try every means to stabilize employment.
In June 2022, at the critical moment for the employment of college graduates, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Yibin University (宜宾学院) in Sichuan (四川).
On the electronic screen, the bar chart of the employment implementation rate of graduates was clearly visible. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) carefully observed and urged that "employment data must be solid and reflect the real situation." Facing the faces of youth, the General Secretary said earnestly: "A happy life is created by labor. Everyone should maintain a pragmatic heart, objectively view personal conditions and social needs, choose occupations and jobs based on reality, love labor, be down-to-earth, and grow step by step in practice."
In recent years, the Party Central Committee has closely followed the changes in the situation and stabilized employment, stabilized enterprises, stabilized the market, and stabilized expectations. In September 2024, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Implementing the Employment-First Strategy to Promote High-Quality and Full Employment" (中共中央国务院关于实施就业优先战略促进高质量充分就业的意见) was released to continuously promote the effective improvement of employment quality and the reasonable growth of quantity.
The numbers are the most convincing: Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," more than 12 million new urban jobs have been added every year, and the scale of employment of people lifted out of poverty has been stable at more than 30 million for five consecutive years. These are not just numbers, but the stability of families and the expectations of life.
Thousands of things, in the final analysis, are the things of thousands of households. In recent years, "I have kept the words of the folks in my heart."
"What the people worry about, I must think about," and the urgent and difficult problems of the masses are being solved with heart, affection, and effort.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the world's largest education, medical, and social security system was built; more than 11 million sets (rooms) of various types of affordable housing and resettlement housing for urban villages and urban dilapidated housing renovation were built and raised; the average life expectancy increased to 79 years old; the construction of a fertility-friendly society was steadily promoted; the bottom-line security network for people in difficulty was woven more and more tightly... The improvement of life is tangible and visible to the people.
"What the people expect, I must do," and the people's yearning for a better life is constantly becoming a reality.
The "second integration" has brought another ideological liberation, "humanistic economics" has been solved in practice, and the background color of cultural benefits for the people is brighter; whole-process people's democracy has been revitalized, and the people's status as masters of the country is more guaranteed; green mountains and clear waters have become the most inclusive people's livelihood and well-being, and livable homes can be seen everywhere; "three new" Party building has gathered people's hearts, and social work has warmed thousands of families; a civilized and healthy lifestyle has gradually formed, and ice and snow sports have ignited enthusiasm... Life is getting more and more prosperous and of higher quality.
Love is deep, responsibility is earnest, and planning is far-sighted. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has set his sights on the future.
Pay attention to changes in population structure, and always care about the "old and the young"—
In Zaolin West Community (枣林西社区), Lanzhou City (兰州市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), he learned in detail about the aging-friendly renovation and emphasized that "the elderly should be supported, medically cared for, educated, and entertained. The work for the elderly is only in its initial stage and needs to be continuously enriched, developed, and improved, and the service system should be improved and the service level should be improved."
In a letter to encourage students of Zhijiang Primary School (之江小学) in Jialing District (嘉陵区), Nanchong City (南充市), Sichuan Province (四川省): "Adhere to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and strive to be good young people of the new era who love the Party and the country, are self-reliant and self-improving, and are striving to grow into pillars of strength capable of shouldering the great task of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation."
Anchor the goal of common prosperity and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas—
When inspecting the New Era Urban Builder and Manager Home (新时代城市建设者管理者之家) in Minhang District (闵行区), Shanghai (上海), he emphasized that "cities should not only have height, but also warmth. Our socialism is to take the road of common prosperity."
In the 10,000-mu comprehensive demonstration area for grain production in Xiejiapu Town (谢家铺镇), Dingcheng District (鼎城区), Changde City (常德市), Hunan Province (湖南省), he pointed out that "growing grain can also lead to prosperity, and the lives of the majority of farmers can be like sesame flowers blooming higher and higher, and they can continue to live a happier and better life."
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"The Chinese nation is a big family, and everyone in the family must live a good life."
2025, the closing year of the "14th Five-Year Plan," coincides with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) and the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区). Xi Jinping (习近平), as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央总书记), President of the State (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委主席), led the central delegation to Tibet (西藏) and Xinjiang (新疆) to attend the celebration activities, which is the first time in the history of the Party and the country and is of extraordinary significance.
At the celebration meeting for the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), the villagers of Gala Village (嘎拉村), Linzhi Town (林芝镇), Bayi District (巴宜区), Linzhi City (林芝市) came. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the village in July 2021. With the help of policies, this small village with only a hundred people had a tourism income of 3.7 million yuan from the Peach Blossom Festival in 2025 alone, and the happy days are as bright as the blooming peach blossoms.
Today, from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains (天山) to the southwestern border, from the snowy plateau to the grasslands outside the Great Wall, the sense of community of the Chinese nation is constantly being forged, the ethnic regions are creating a new situation of high-quality development, and the people of all ethnic groups are full of joy and anticipation. "Looking at the Big Dipper, you will not get lost, and following the Communist Party will be happy." This is the sincere voice of the Chinese sons and daughters, and it is a deep tribute to this great era.
"Taking the benefit of the world as the benefit"
In the early autumn of 2025, the world's attention once again focused on the East.
Armored vehicles surged, and we vowed "not to let the historical tragedy repeat itself"; the Haihe River (海河) roared, and we called for "working together to move towards a community with a shared future for mankind." When the world is intertwined with changes and turbulence is intensifying, President Xi Jinping (习近平), with his profound insight of "advancing in the logic of historical progress and developing in the trend of the development of the times," firmly declared that "the noble cause of human peace and development will surely be victorious."
International figures highly praised that "mutual understanding, mutual respect, and cooperation can safeguard the hard-won peace" and "at the crossroads of where mankind is going, China's choice shows the responsibility of a responsible major country."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China has always attracted the world's expectations. How to coordinate the two major situations at home and abroad, and how to create a new situation in the midst of changes, calls for "Chinese wisdom" and "Chinese solutions."
Successively proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative;
Advocated that the "Global South" should jointly be a stabilizing force for maintaining peace, a mainstay for open development, a constructive force for global governance, and a promoting force for civilization exchanges;
In April 2025, the first Central Conference on Peripheral Work (中央周边工作会议) in the history of New China was held. In the same month, President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited three Southeast Asian countries. Facing the adverse current of "decoupling and breaking chains," we uphold the principle that "relatives get closer and closer, and friends get closer and closer," and achieve a closer handshake...
A series of pragmatic actions clearly show that "China will always be a force for peace, a force for stability, and a force for progress in the world."
In recent years, through in-depth strategic communication with leaders of various countries and important speeches at international multilateral summits, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) position is clear: "I have always advocated that history cannot go backwards, it should move forward; the world cannot be divided, it should be united; mankind cannot return to the law of the jungle, it should build a community with a shared future for mankind."
The relations between major countries affect the international situation, and we firmly stated that "dialogue is better than confrontation."
In April 2025, a "storm" of tariff war swept across the other side of the ocean. Our country responded decisively and resolutely—the door to negotiation is open; if you fight, we will accompany you to the end. Observers commented that China "maintained its composure, withstood the pressure, and won respect."
In April 2025, a tariff war "storm" swept across the ocean. Our country responded decisively and firmly: the door to negotiation is open; if a fight comes, we will see it through to the end. Observers commented that China "maintained its composure, withstood the pressure, and earned respect."
In October of that year, in Busan (釜山), South Korea, the heads of state of China and the United States held a meeting lasting more than 100 minutes. President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed, "Once the major principles are set, other issues become easier to handle," and "China and the United States can jointly demonstrate their responsibility as major powers and work together to do more great things, practical things, and good things that benefit both countries and the world."
The heads of state of China and Russia paid mutual visits in a historic year, the heads of state of China and France discussed global affairs in Dujiangyan (都江堰), Chengdu (成都), and the British Prime Minister visited China again after eight years... Head-of-state diplomacy strategically leads and promotes the construction of a major-country relationship pattern of peaceful coexistence, overall stability, and balanced development.
China's determination and responsibility are also reflected in "opening the door wider and wider."
For a period of time, many people paid attention to China's market environment and foreign policy, and even believed that "building a new development pattern" meant moving towards closure. In response, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core made a series of important deployments and responded to concerns with concrete actions.
Holding the China International Import Expo (进博会), the Canton Fair (广交会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the China International Consumer Products Expo (消博会), etc.; comprehensively "clearing" foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector; the "Belt and Road" initiative becoming a popular international public product and cooperation platform; the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) officially launching full island customs closure operations, and the free trade pilot zone forming 225 institutional innovation achievements...
From continuing to promote the flow-based opening of goods and factors to paying more attention to institutional opening, this is our strategic measure to smooth the domestic and international dual circulation and firmly grasp the initiative of development in our own hands. It is also a confident, independent, world-minded, open, and inclusive major country's response to the era of "dismantling walls" rather than "building walls."
"To walk with China is to walk with opportunity, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future." In March 2025, President Xi Jinping's (习近平) sincere invitation when meeting with representatives of the international business community injected strong confidence and strength into China's win-win cooperation with the world.
"Take the people's heart as our heart, and the world's benefit as our benefit."
Modernization is the goal pursued by the Chinese people and the common aspiration of people all over the world. "Chinese-style modernization, as a new form of human civilization, will greatly enrich the garden of world civilizations through mutual learning with other civilizations around the world." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly at the high-level dialogue between the Communist Party of China and world political parties.
This point is particularly vividly reflected in China's cooperation with neighboring and developing countries. Central Asia was once regarded as a "development depression." In recent years, the China-Central Asia Summit has been held for two consecutive sessions, China and Central Asian countries have deepened and solidified the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," and the four pillars and eight beams of the China-Central Asia mechanism have basically taken shape... Shaking hands with China has opened up a new world of common development, common prosperity, and common prosperity here.
If China is good, the world will be good; if the world is good, China will be better.
On the right path of "sharing the same planet," China always unites the progressive forces of the world with the greatest sincerity, gathers the energy of peaceful development with the greatest effort, and works together to create a garden of civilizations that benefits oneself and others, is beautiful and harmonious, and promotes harmony and co-existence.
"We must always maintain a clear and firm understanding of solving the unique problems of a large party."
Seeking happiness for the people, seeking rejuvenation for the nation, seeking progress for mankind, and seeking harmony for the world—looking back on the "14th Five-Year Plan," the achievements were hard-won, and the fundamental reason lies in the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Practice has once again proved that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The Party's leadership is directly related to the fundamental direction, future destiny, and ultimate success or failure of Chinese-style modernization.
The more magnificent the cause, the more arduous the challenges, and the more necessary it is to be strong ourselves. In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) warned the entire Party: "As the world's largest Marxist ruling party, if our Party is to always win the people's support and consolidate its long-term ruling position, it must always maintain a clear and firm understanding of solving the unique problems of a large party."
This clarity is a profound insight into risks and tests; this firmness is a never-slackening attitude of taking the exam.
Less than a week after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall and said with deep feeling: "This time, I came with the comrades of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to declare that the new central leadership collective will inherit and carry forward the fine revolutionary traditions and work style formed by the Party during the Yan'an period and promote the Yan'an spirit."
In the apple orchard in Nangou Village (南沟村), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) learned in detail about the apple harvest and the development of the local apple industry, and earnestly exhorted, "The Communist Party's governance is to serve the people and do a good job of the people's affairs."
Self-revolution is the second answer to the "cave dwelling question." Taking self-revolution to temper the original aspiration and mission is a solemn political declaration, as well as a re-mobilization and re-deployment for the entire Party.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," under the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thoughts on Party building and important thoughts on the Party's self-revolution, the comprehensive and strict Party governance system has been continuously improved, and various tasks better reflect the characteristics of the times, grasp the laws, and are full of creativity. All regions, departments, and units have focused on further implementing in terms of improving understanding, enhancing Party spirit, standardizing the operation of power, strictly supervising discipline enforcement, and fulfilling the responsibility of managing the Party and governing the Party, and unswervingly carrying out the Party's self-revolution to the end.
Taking the "most thorough self-revolution" as an example, deepening the rectification of corruption in key areas, advancing the pursuit of fugitives and stolen goods and cross-border corruption governance in depth, focusing on rectifying unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, deeply promoting the joint investigation and treatment of wind and corruption, and strengthening the construction of clean culture in the new era... A series of thunderous measures fully demonstrate the firm determination to win the tough battle, protracted war, and overall war against corruption.
Self-revolution removes unhealthy tendencies and brings about a clean atmosphere; it corrects stubborn diseases and brings about vigorous vitality.
This is particularly evident in ideological construction.
"Whenever the Party Central Committee makes major decisions and deployments, we call on all Party comrades to strengthen their studies in order to unify the thoughts and actions of the entire Party and gather a strong force to overcome difficulties and forge ahead in unity. This is a successful experience of the Party."
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," Party history learning and education, thematic education on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Party discipline learning and education, and in-depth implementation of the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation learning and education... The vast number of Party members and cadres have unremittingly used the latest achievements of the Party's innovative theories to strengthen their souls, get the ideological methods right, and learn the skills to protect their homes.
"Forge a good work style with iron discipline."
2025 is the year of the conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan." At a critical time node, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the entire Party has solidly carried out in-depth learning and education on implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation. The vast number of Party members and cadres have promoted learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner, and have concentrated their efforts and started businesses with an excellent work style.
Let's turn our attention to more subtle details.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) always keeps in mind the effort to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on the grassroots: presiding over the democratic life meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the meeting listened to special reports many times; presiding over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the meeting deliberated on the "Several Provisions on Rectifying Formalism to Reduce the Burden on the Grassroots"...
In November 2024, in the Party-Masses Service Center of Siyi Village (四邑村), Panjiawan Town (潘家湾镇), Jiayu County (嘉鱼县), Xianning City (咸宁市), Hubei Province (湖北省), the "List of Items for Serving the Masses" posted on the wall attracted the attention of the General Secretary. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "In the past, more emphasis was placed on asking the masses to do things, but now more emphasis is placed on Party members and cadres doing things and providing services for the masses. This is a fundamental change."
Practice has repeatedly proved that the more effective the Party's governance, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development.
In today's China, the political ecology is clearer and the atmosphere for doing business is increasingly strong. The vast number of Party members, cadres, and the masses are united and working hard, and the Party's political and organizational advantages are constantly being transformed into surging development advantages.
Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," a new picture is unfolding magnificently.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and with higher standards and more practical measures to promote comprehensive and strict Party governance, a "Marxist ruling party that always walks in the forefront of the times, is sincerely supported by the people, dares to carry out self-revolution, can withstand all kinds of storms, and is full of vigor and vitality" will surely unite and lead hundreds of millions of people to create new historical achievements.
(Reporters of this newspaper: Ma Guoying (马国英), Zhang Yang (张洋), Zhang Cong (张璁), Yi Shuran (易舒冉))
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News Background: It is estimated that the total cross-regional movement of people in the entire society during this year's Spring Festival travel season will reach 9.5 billion. According to the data center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), during the 9-day Spring Festival holiday, the number of domestic tourists nationwide reached 596 million, an increase of 95 million compared to the 8-day Spring Festival holiday in 2025; the total domestic tourism expenditure was 803.483 billion yuan, an increase of 126.481 billion yuan compared to the 8-day Spring Festival holiday in 2025. Both the number of tourists and the expenditure hit record highs.
Traveling with Family
[Scene] "More interesting than staying at home, lively and fresh"
During the Spring Festival holiday, the morning light spread over the Lu-North Plain. Stepping into the festive atmosphere, Li Yonghua (李永华) and his family of four from Shanxi (山西) came to Leling Film and Television City (乐陵影视城) in Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东).
The city gate slowly opened, soldiers in armor paraded on horseback, and dancers in Hanfu (汉服) costumes danced gracefully. "Immersive experience, it's like traveling back to ancient times!" Li Yonghua (李永华) took out his mobile phone and took pictures.
Traveling and celebrating the New Year at the same time was a first for Li Yonghua (李永华) and his family. In the past, during the Spring Festival, they either returned to their hometown to visit relatives and friends or stayed at home, "always feeling a bit lacking in novelty." Seeing many friends around him traveling with their families, Li Yonghua (李永华) was also moved: his elderly mother was getting old and rarely went out; his son was busy with his studies and rarely had time to relax; he and his wife had been busy for a year and also wanted to see some new scenery. The family used AI and other internet tools early to prepare their travel plans, giving the New Year a new meaning.
Walking into the Film and Television City, the family strolled through the costume drama filming location - Jinxiu Tangyuan (锦绣唐园). Before them, blue tiles and white walls were scattered in a well-organized manner, and the small bridges and flowing water had an ancient charm.
Standing in the long corridor where the characters in the drama had walked, stroking the carvings on the corridor pillars, the elderly mother, who usually liked to watch dramas, repeatedly praised the beautiful scenery. His wife quickly took out her mobile phone to capture the scene of the elderly woman and the scene in the drama in the same frame.
As night fell, the Film and Television City was brightly lit, with molten iron fireworks, fireworks shows, and drone performances taking turns, leaving the family dazzled. In the adjacent tourist and leisure block, the snacks were fragrant and the atmosphere of the New Year was overflowing. Li Yonghua (李永华) chose a local specialty restaurant and tasted charcoal-grilled pigeon and other dishes.
"Grandma, look at this molten iron fireworks, it looks so good when you take a picture!" At the dinner table, the child flipped out the photos.
"This trip was worth it, more interesting than staying at home, lively and fresh." The old lady said with a smile.
[NPC Deputies and CPPCC Members Say]
Traveling with family has become an increasingly popular choice for the Spring Festival. Under the pressure of fast-paced work, people not only yearn to relax and explore the world during the rare holidays, but also never let go of their attachment to home. Traveling for the New Year not only meets people's leisure needs, but also achieves the desire for family reunion during the Spring Festival. With economic and social development, this new way of celebrating the New Year will become more and more popular.
From "gathering around the stove to stay up late" to "sharing the distance," behind it is the rapid development of the economy and society.
With the increase in income levels and the upgrading of consumption concepts, more people are willing to invest resources in high-quality family experiences; modern transportation represented by high-speed rail has turned long journeys into convenient passages, providing a realistic possibility for family travel; the enthusiastic invitation of cultural and tourism departments in various places and the increasingly segmented market supply have created conditions for different groups to take what they need and spend the festival together.
At present, the forms of family travel are becoming increasingly diverse, and new consumption scenarios such as smart tourism and customized tourism are constantly emerging. However, the cultural and tourism market still faces problems such as imperfect supporting services, the difficulty in accurately meeting the needs of family members of multiple age groups, and the homogenization of consumption scenarios. The government and the market should work together to promote family travel from "simple travel" to "in-depth experience." For example, the government should improve public services and standards, guide the establishment of industry norms, and build a friendly family travel service system; business entities should deeply cultivate segmented needs, innovate and create differentiated products that take into account the needs of the old, middle-aged, young, and children, so that different family members can enjoy themselves.
-- Yang Chaoming (杨朝明), National People's Congress Representative, Distinguished Professor of Advanced Institute of Confucian Studies, Shandong University (山东大学)
Home is Where the Heart is
[Scene] "Wherever the family is together, it is the New Year"
Sitting around a table with grandma, dad, and mom, eating stewed chicken with mushrooms and stewed pork ribs with green beans, speaking authentic Northeast dialect. This year's Lantern Festival, Qiao Jianheng (乔健恒) from Heilongjiang (黑龙江) reunited with his family in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东).
Qiao Jianheng (乔健恒) is an employee of China Huadian Fuxin Guangzhou Energy Co., Ltd. (华电福新广州能源有限公司). He has been working for 8 years, and this is the first time he has spent the New Year with his family at his workplace.
Qiao Jianheng (乔健恒) had been planning this reverse reunion for a long time. Last year, after the house he bought in Guangzhou (广州) was renovated, he began to think, "I want my family to come and see it, so they will be more at ease. Moreover, Guangzhou (广州) is warm as spring in winter, the scenic spots are open during the holidays, and it is convenient to eat, drink, and have fun."
"Wherever the family is together, it is the New Year." On the phone, Qiao Jianheng's (乔健恒) father agreed immediately. On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the couple took Qiao Jianheng's (乔健恒) grandmother and boarded a flight to Guangzhou (广州).
"Reverse reunion is actually very cost-effective." Qiao Jianheng (乔健恒) calculated the costs: before the festival, a flight from Guangzhou (广州) to Harbin (哈尔滨) costs about 2,000 yuan; a flight from Harbin (哈尔滨) to Guangzhou (广州) costs only half as much.
As soon as they entered the house, Qiao Jianheng's (乔健恒) mother opened her suitcase - two large suitcases were packed to the brim, and after a careful search, a rolling pin "popped out." "You can't do without it for making dumplings and noodles." Qiao Jianheng's (乔健恒) mother said with a smile.
During the festival, Qiao Jianheng (乔健恒) became the family's exclusive tour guide. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, according to Lingnan (岭南) customs, they went out to "walk for good luck," and the family visited Baiyun Mountain (白云山). He also took his family to "check in" at the Spring Festival Flower Market, Canton Tower (广州塔), Yongqingfang (永庆坊), and Chen Clan Academy (陈家祠) to feel the vitality of the city and experience Lingnan (岭南) culture.
"Walking and stopping along the way, I told the elders the stories of this city, and they also understood why I chose to settle down here." Qiao Jianheng (乔健恒) said.
[NPC Deputies and CPPCC Members Say]
**此心安处是吾乡** (cǐ xīn ān chù shì wú xiāng - "where the heart finds peace is my hometown," home is where one feels at peace). Reverse reunion is the shift of the family center from the homeland to the new home, allowing the atmosphere of the New Year to break through geographical boundaries and return to the core of family affection. The direction of reunion has changed, but the warmth of mutual affection has not.
From an economic point of view, reverse reunion achieves a win-win situation of resource allocation optimization and consumption upgrading, which not only avoids the price peak of return home routes and revitalizes reverse transportation capacity, but also transforms the saved transportation costs into experiential consumption such as cultural tourism and catering. This is a rational choice under market rules. Guangzhou (广州) and other big cities have taken this opportunity to activate Spring Festival consumption, and the offline experience needs of the silver-haired group have driven the development of time-honored brands, scenic spots, and characteristic accommodation, injecting new vitality into the urban economy.
From a social point of view, in addition to alleviating the structural pressure of the Spring Festival travel season, reverse reunion also forces urban governance to move towards refinement and humanization. In the past, big cities during the Spring Festival were often in a "semi-dormant" state, with the return of migrant populations and the contraction of urban services, with many places closing down. The rise of reverse reunion has brought a group of "temporary residents" to the city during the festival, and more and more big cities have begun to adjust the supply of services during the festival, increasing the frequency of public transportation, extending the opening hours of scenic spots, and retaining manual windows in some public places. These detailed optimizations show the progress of urban governance and highlight the concept of people's city for the people.
-- Zhang Zhibing (张志兵), National Committee Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the China Democratic League, General Manager of Nanfang Finance Media Group
This newspaper reported from Beijing on March 3rd (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) A symposium on the publication of "Xi Jinping (习近平) Among the People (Second Collection)" was recently held in Beijing (北京). State Councilor and President of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴), attended and delivered a speech.
Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) pointed out that "Xi Jinping (习近平) Among the People" fully demonstrates General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) noble demeanor of placing the people in the highest position in his heart, and vividly reflects the touching scenes of the people's leader loving the people and the people loving the people's leader. We must deeply understand the fundamental position of putting the people first from the stories of the leader and the people, and always adhere to our original aspiration without wavering; deeply understand the development thought of adhering to the people-centered approach, and unswervingly promote high-quality development; deeply understand the important responsibility of guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, and continuously improve people's well-being; deeply understand the important role of consolidating the foundation of the family, and better promote social governance.
Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) pointed out that women's federations at all levels should study, publicize, and utilize "Xi Jinping (习近平) Among the People," strengthen guidance, service, and connection, persevere in promoting the construction of family, family education, and family style in the new era, wholeheartedly and with affection handle practical matters related to women, children, and families that are tangible and accessible, and unite and lead the broad masses of women and families to forge ahead into the "15th Five-Year Plan" and make contributions to the new journey.
Responsible comrades from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the Central Party History and Literature Research Institute (中央党史和文献研究院), and the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), as well as grassroots women's federation cadres and family representatives, attended the symposium.
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Democracy is not an ornament; it is used to solve the problems that the people need to solve.
There is a painting in which children drew two roads, one a winding mountain road and the other a straight new road. This is a treasured possession of Dong Caiyun (董彩云), a National People's Congress (全国人大) deputy from Linxia (临夏), Gansu (甘肃). At the 2019 National People's Congress, she reported to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) the wish of the people in her hometown to build an expressway. Subsequently, after research and argumentation, the road was built, traversing towering mountains and becoming a road to prosperity for the local people.
One shoulder pole carries burdens on both ends, and the two roads in the painting also have a new interpretation. One road is to "bring the voices of the villagers here"; the other is to "bring the spirit of the Two Sessions back." Between coming and going, it responds to public opinion, gathers wisdom, and solves problems.
There are even more stories of dreams coming true. "Let children go to good schools nearby, find good hospitals for medical treatment, and find employment locally without having to go out to work..." In the same year, Li Liancheng (李连成), a National People's Congress deputy from Puyang (濮阳), Henan (河南), reported eight dreams of farmers to the General Secretary. In recent years, schools, hospitals, and cultural squares have been readily available. The villagers have found jobs at their doorsteps, tomatoes have been planted in intelligent greenhouses, and Xixinzhuang Village (西辛庄村) in Puyang County (濮阳县) has turned the voices of the people into new development.
There are responses, supervisions, and implementations, running through the practice of whole-process people's democracy. The opinions and suggestions from grassroots practice, brought by deputies and members to the highest hall of state affairs for joint consultation, are ultimately transformed into the well-being of countless people through scientific and effective democratic institutional arrangements.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Whole-process people's democracy not only has complete institutional procedures, but also complete participatory practices. It is extensive, genuine, and effective."
I can't help but think of Wang Yongcheng (王永澄), a blind deputy. At the 2024 National People's Congress, he used his fingertips to "read" the Braille version of the government work report line by line, sincerely exclaiming, "This is 'touchable' democracy." The blind deputy's intuitive feeling of "touchable" speaks to the people's sincere experience of democracy.
The National People's Congress is held, and deputies and members perform their duties, offer suggestions and advice. The annual grand event is a major event in the country's political life and a window for the world to observe Chinese democracy.
Extending from the time of the Two Sessions to a larger space-time of development, whole-process people's democracy not only "focuses panoramically" on economic and social development, but also "pays attention to" the needs of people's lives at all times, condensing specific and micro dreams and demands into the "greatest common divisor" of unity of purpose.
For a period of time, the public has become increasingly concerned about pre-made dishes. Relevant departments have publicly solicited opinions on national standards, terminology and classification, and the promotion of independent and clear labeling of pre-made dishes, which will be revised and improved after fully absorbing opinions and suggestions from all parties.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) preparation work launched an online solicitation of opinions, receiving a total of 3.113 million effective suggestions from the public, from which relevant parties sorted out more than 1,500 suggestions.
From major development plans to every single detail, public opinion interacts with good policies, and the thoughts and ideas of hundreds of millions of people are integrated into the top-level design and decision-making arrangements for national development, and ultimately reflected in all aspects of achieving a better life.
A foreign official once attended a democratic consultation meeting in Wenling (温岭), Zhejiang (浙江), and saw villagers sitting around a big tree with small benches, freely expressing their opinions on the development of the village, and frankly said that "China's whole-process people's democracy has a richer and more profound connotation." From this, it is not difficult to feel the wisdom and enlightenment brought by the new form of human civilization: true democracy and good democracy mean that the people are the masters of the country, and the people not only have the right to elect and vote, but also have the right to participate widely; not only can they express their wishes, but also effectively realize them; not only promote national development, but also share the fruits of development.
Promote democracy, gather wisdom, and broadly build consensus. Focusing on the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), planning key strategies, looking forward to more good voices, promoting the introduction of more good policies, and jointly practicing the true meaning of democracy.
This newspaper Fushun (抚顺) March 3rd dispatch (Reporter Liu Jiahua (刘佳华)) On the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of learning from Lei Feng (雷锋), the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Office (中央精神文明建设办公室), the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部), the Communist Youth League Central Committee (共青团中央), the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联), the China Association for Science and Technology (中国科协), the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), and the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) jointly sponsored the 2026 National "Learning from Lei Feng, Civilized Practice in My Actions" theme activity, which was officially launched in Fushun City (抚顺市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省).
At the launching ceremony, national advanced models of learning from Lei Feng and civilized practice volunteers, in the form of "scene narration + time-space dialogue,"演绎薪火相传学雷锋的生动场景, triggering strong resonance among the masses. Literary and artistic programs such as "The Song of the People's Lei Feng," "Model," and "Give You Happiness" interpreted the contemporary connotation of the Lei Feng spirit. The short film "Walking Towards the Light" showcased the achievements of the national Lei Feng work and the characteristic activities carried out in various places, creating a strong atmosphere of learning from Lei Feng, advocating morality and goodness, and striving to be pioneers.
On the day of the event, Fushun City (抚顺市) also organized Lei Feng Community (雷锋社区), Lei Feng Police Station (雷锋派出所), Lei Feng Primary School (雷锋小学), and other organizations to widely carry out civilized practice activities of learning from Lei Feng, showcasing excellent projects of learning from Lei Feng such as the Lei Feng Agency Station and university student social practice, and holding a series of activities such as special exhibitions, literary and artistic performances, and civilized markets, guiding the masses to participate in interactive exchanges, which were warmly welcomed by citizens and tourists.
It is understood that the "Learning from Lei Feng, Civilized Practice in My Actions" theme activity will continue to be carried out nationwide. Various localities and relevant departments, in conjunction with their actual situations, will focus on the theme of learning from Lei Feng, organize civilized practice service activities such as health consultations, legal aid, psychological counseling, cultural benefits for the people, popular science publicity, and safety education. The broad masses will actively participate in civilized practice, dedicate their love and strength, promote the in-depth development of civilized practice activities of learning from Lei Feng in the whole society, and form a vivid situation in which everyone participates, everyone contributes, and everyone shares.
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The "three flavors" – cultural, technological, and human – are rich, which is a vivid summary of the Lunar New Year of the Horse for many netizens.
During the Lantern Festival, walking into the Longfusi Street (隆福寺街) area of Beijing (北京), which carries 600 years of history, there are often long queues in front of time-honored brands. Robot stalls making pancakes and brewing coffee are trendy, and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts and Lunar New Year-themed cultural creations have become popular items...
On the eve of the Spring Festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came here during an inspection in Beijing (北京), emphasizing that "tradition and modernity should be organically integrated."
During the just-passed Spring Festival holiday, from bustling cities to village alleys, the land of China was filled with a strong New Year's atmosphere and the warmth of daily life. This is the vivid pulse of a major country's development in the myriad lights of homes. From this, we can more truly feel that China's development is moving towards the new, the better, and the good, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality.
The cultural flavor is timeless, reflecting the symbiosis and mutual prosperity of culture and economy.
During the Spring Festival, the Paolong performance in Binyang, Guangxi (广西宾阳) and the Yingge Dance in Chaoshan, Guangdong (广东潮汕) were performed on the same stage, igniting the southern city of Binyang (宾阳). Data shows that this year's Binyang Paolong Festival attracted a cumulative total of 547,000 tourists, an increase of 9.3% year-on-year.
The Spring Festival is a spiritual sustenance and a cultural inheritance. When the "literary gathering" in a farmer's small courtyard in Xiji, Ningxia (宁夏西吉) chants "the best crops," when Guizhou's (贵州) "Village Gala," "Village Marathon," and "Village BA" become bright cultural cards, when Huangshan, Anhui (安徽黄山) uses 800-year-old fish lanterns to awaken the new vitality of ancient villages... China in the lights has a long cultural heritage, integrating the ancient and renewing the new.
The Spring Festival has become a shared intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Chinese New Year is also a world New Year. This year, "Come to China for the New Year" has become a new global trend, and more and more "foreign faces" are coming to China to jointly perceive the cultural emotions and warmth of the Spring Festival. Data shows that during this Spring Festival holiday, the number of foreigners entering and leaving the country at various ports across the country was 1.313 million, an average daily increase of 21.8% compared with last year's holiday.
From "China Tourism," "China Shopping," "China Medicine" to "Becoming Chinese" and "Celebrating the Chinese New Year," Chinese culture is heading to the world with the posture of galloping horses.
In today's China, cultural and museum fever and intangible cultural heritage fever continue to rise, and ancient charm and national style have become the "top aesthetic." Using culture to empower economic and social development and nourish the spiritual home, China is writing a great article on humanistic economics, which is immersed in the daily warmth of life, stimulates economic potential, condenses the centripetal force of development, and shapes the innovative force of development.
The technological flavor is amazing, witnessing "relying on innovation to empower high-quality development."
At the National Information Technology Innovation and Application Innovation Park (国家信创园) in Yizhuang, Beijing (北京亦庄), carefully observing the display of technological innovation achievements such as artificial intelligence and robots, and frequently communicating with representatives of scientific research personnel and technology companies, the General Secretary said: "Coming here today to study on the spot is very eye-opening. After seeing it, I am more confident in the country's technological innovation."
On the Spring Festival Gala stage in 2026, the "robot concentration is extremely high," and the cyber New Year's flavor is full. From stumbling last year to dancing with knives and sticks, playing with walnuts, and folding clothes this year, using the Spring Festival Gala as an observation coordinate and measurement scale, we can measure the past of humanoid robots and also measure the "China speed" of innovation.
Some foreign media bluntly stated that "the development speed of Chinese robots in just one year is amazing." Dan Ives, a securities analyst in the United States, said: "China is far ahead in robotics technology." Among the humanoid robots sold globally last year, about 90% were made in China.
"This is great! I think this is one of the future travel technologies." On February 26, German Chancellor Merz, who was visiting China for the first time since taking office, sincerely praised after test-riding the new generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan and experiencing the navigation assistance driving system developed in cooperation with Chinese technology companies in Beijing (北京).
"In every valley in Guizhou (贵州), clouds kiss the roads and cloud computing facilities; in every port in Fujian (福建), circuits and tides play a roar together." "We once walked in that country, a country that is forging tomorrow." Not long ago, Emil Jancheski from the Left Party of North Macedonia visited China and wrote such moving verses.
Today's China is actively looking ahead to layout and develop future industries, continuously cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and upgrading traditional industries with new technologies. The innovation momentum is continuously transforming into a strong driving force for high-quality development, and the "sense of the future" has become a personal feeling in people's lives.
The human touch warms people's hearts, demonstrating that "Chinese-style modernization is people-centered."
"The New Year is a major event for the common people." How to ensure that the broad masses of the people have a happy and joyful New Year? The General Secretary is always concerned about this.
A community canteen makes the New Year's flavor more intense in the neighborhood gatherings. In Shanghai (上海), the "Elderly Canteen" in Jiangsu Road Street (江苏路街道), Changning District (长宁区) provides delivery services to elderly people in need, without interruption for one day or delay for one meal; the Gongsan Community Canteen (共三社区食堂) in Pengpu New Village Street (彭浦新村街道), Jing'an District (静安区) does not close on New Year's Eve, allowing more than 10 migrant workers in Shanghai to have a reunion dinner.
A heart-warming station allows the footsteps rushing in the city to have a place to stop. In Tacheng, Xinjiang (新疆塔城), the urban trade union station provides 24-hour heart-warming services without closing, warming every city guardian with thoughtful care. In recent years, China has built 186,100 trade union stations, covering 193 million employees.
From community canteens providing three meals a day to heart-warming stations providing shelter from wind and rain for outdoor workers, to building the world's largest education system, social security system, medical and health system, and urban housing security system... This is the unremitting pursuit of "guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood in development."
From colorful community activities to "immediate handling of complaints" to quickly respond to the demands of the masses, to "efficiently handling one thing" to bring service improvement... This is a vivid practice of "**想人民之所想，行人民之所嘱**" (xiǎng rén mín zhī suǒ xiǎng, xíng rén mín zhī suǒ zhǔ - "think what the people think, do what the people ask," to be responsive to the needs and concerns of the people).
High-quality development and high-quality life go hand in hand, and investment in things and investment in people are closely combined. Continuously improving people's well-being and better meeting the needs of the masses by doing practical things for the people is a microcosm of today's China.
Let us increase our confidence and strength from the strong New Year's flavor of the Year of the Horse, firmly grasp the initiative of development in the direction of the new, the better, and the good, start from spring, and move towards hope.
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With the changing of the years, new achievements are made every day. In 2025, the "14th Five-Year Plan" will come to a successful conclusion; in 2026, the "15th Five-Year Plan" will start a new chapter.
Carrying the people's entrustment and taking solid steps, deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) from all regions and ethnic groups gathered in Beijing (北京) again this spring to discuss state affairs and seek common development.
Looking back on the past year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大) and its Standing Committee have performed their duties in accordance with the law, closely focusing on the overall work of the Party and the state, adhering to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, and have made new progress and achievements in all aspects of legislation, supervision, deputies, foreign affairs, and self-construction, writing a new answer sheet for the high-quality development of the work of the People's Congress with practical actions.
Fully Leverage the Important Role of the People's Congress in Ensuring the Comprehensive and Effective Implementation of the Constitution and Laws
"According to the Constitution of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国宪法), the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人民代表大会常务委员会) decided to establish October 25 as Taiwan Retrocession Day (台湾光复纪念日). The state will hold commemorative activities in various forms." This is the common aspiration of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, including Taiwan compatriots, fully reflecting the strong will of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) to unswervingly undertake historical missions and unswervingly achieve the complete reunification of the motherland.
The Constitution is the general charter for governing the country and ensuring its stability, and the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution is the primary task and basic work for building a socialist country ruled by law. The 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大) and its Standing Committee have thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law and General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on the Constitution, fully leveraging the important role of the People's Congress in ensuring the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Constitution and laws, improving the institutional system for ensuring the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, continuously improving the implementation and supervision level of the Constitution, and firmly safeguarding the authority and dignity of the Constitution.
"This law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution." Revising the Deputies Law (代表法), the Villagers Committee Organization Law (村民委员会组织法), and the Urban Residents Committee Organization Law (城市居民委员会组织法), deliberating on the draft Ecological Environment Code (生态环境法典草案), the draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress (民族团结进步促进法草案), and the draft National Development Plan Law (国家发展规划法草案)... In 2025, the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee accelerated the improvement of the legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as its core, and high-quality legislation effectively ensured the comprehensive implementation of the relevant systems, principles, and rules established by the Constitution.
The record review system is a constitutional supervision system with Chinese characteristics and an important tool for the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) to strengthen constitutional supervision. In the past year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) has conducted active reviews of 2,309 normative documents such as regulations and judicial interpretations submitted for record, studied 6,705 review suggestions submitted by citizens and organizations one by one, and put forward review opinions in a timely manner, striving to make every piece of legislation conform to the spirit of the Constitution, reflect the authority of the Constitution, and ensure the implementation of the Constitution.
On December 2, 2025, on the eve of the 12th National Constitution Day (国家宪法日), a volunteer Constitution explanation activity was held in the Great Hall of the People (北京人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京).
In what year was the first Constitution of New China (新中国) formulated? In what year was the current Constitution adopted? Why is the National Constitution Day (国家宪法日) set on December 4? People visiting the Great Hall of the People (北京人民大会堂) followed the explanations of the volunteer Constitution explainers from the National People's Congress (全国人大) and reviewed the glorious history of the Party leading the people in formulating and implementing the Constitution, and jointly felt the historic achievements made in the construction and implementation of China's (我国) constitutional system.
Elementary school student Zhou Zihao (周梓皓) said: "We learned about the Constitution in school. The teacher said that the Constitution protects our country and all of us."
Young worker Hu Jiazhou (胡嘉洲) said: "After I go back, I will study and learn more about the Constitution and laws."
Constitution publicity and education are increasingly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the people's belief in the Constitution and laws is becoming more and more firm.
Holding a symposium on National Constitution Day (国家宪法日), organizing national staff appointed and decided to be appointed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) to take a constitutional oath... The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) conscientiously performs its statutory duties, promotes the orderly development of national undertakings and work in accordance with the Constitution and laws, and lays a solid foundation for better playing the important role of the Constitution in governing the country and administering state affairs.
Improve the Legal System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with the Constitution as the Core
On January 23, 2026, Dongliujie Primary School (东刘街小学) in Anxin County (安新县), Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北) was particularly lively. Pan Honghao (潘宏豪), the school's deputy principal for the rule of law and assistant prosecutor of the First Procuratorial Department of the Anxin County People's Procuratorate (安新县人民检察院第一检察部), and his colleagues gave the students a rule of law education class with the theme of "Being a Law-Abiding Youth." Seeds of the rule of law are taking root and sprouting in the hearts of the children.
"Carry out rule of law publicity and education for young people according to their physical and mental characteristics and growth needs" is a clear requirement of the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law. On September 12, 2025, the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会第十七次会议) passed the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law" (中华人民共和国法治宣传教育法) with a high number of votes. For the first time, "Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law" was written into the law, and it was clearly stipulated that rule of law publicity and education should "implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law," and that "key minorities" and "future majorities" should be the key targets of rule of law publicity and education... With both scientific theoretical guidance and complete institutional arrangements and behavioral norms, the Law on Publicity and Education on the Rule of Law provides a strong legal guarantee for the continuous and in-depth development of publicity and education on Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law.
If good laws are established in the world, the world will be governed. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that to promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislation in accordance with the law, we must adhere to and improve the legislative work pattern of Party committee leadership, the People's Congress taking the lead, government reliance, and participation from all parties.
Since the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大三次会议), the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) has deliberated on 40 draft laws, legal interpretations, and relevant decisions, and passed 24 of them, including the formulation of 6 laws, the revision of 14 laws, the making of 1 legal interpretation, and 3 decisions on relevant legal issues and major issues. The legal system of socialism with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as its core is constantly advancing with the times, improving and developing.
On May 20, 2025, China's (我国) first basic law specifically on the development of the private economy, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting the Private Economy" (中华人民共和国民营经济促进法), was officially implemented. For the first time, adhering to the "two unwavering" was clearly defined as a legal system, for the first time, the legal status of the private economy was clarified in the law, and for the first time, it was clearly stipulated that promoting the continuous, healthy, and high-quality development of the private economy is a major policy that the country adheres to for a long time... These legal provisions are conducive to creating a good legal environment for promoting the healthy development of the private economy.
After the implementation of the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) immediately organized a centralized review of regulations, rules, and other normative documents involving the development of the private economy, and found a total of 1,466 normative documents of various types that needed to be revised or abolished, and simultaneously urged relevant parties to complete the revision and abolition as soon as possible to ensure the comprehensive, correct, and effective implementation of the law.
"The direct train of national legislation" is the affectionate name given to grassroots legislative liaison points by the masses. As of now, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委) has established a total of 60 grassroots legislative liaison points. In 2025, a total of 35,000 opinions and suggestions were solicited from liaison points on 25 draft laws, and many insightful opinions were absorbed and adopted by the legislative body.
The draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress (民族团结进步促进法草案), which will be submitted to this conference for deliberation, was previously solicited for opinions and suggestions from 30 grassroots legislative liaison points that are closely related to ethnic work by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委). The liaison points actively carried out activities such as soliciting legislative opinions, widely collecting the legal needs of people of all ethnic groups, allowing the masses to truly feel that democracy is around them, and promoting all ethnic groups to "hold together tightly like pomegranate seeds."
Focus on the Center, Serve the Overall Situation, and Promote the Quality and Efficiency of Supervision Work
In May 2025, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) formed an law enforcement inspection team to conduct law enforcement inspections on the Forest Law (森林法). In the next four months, the law enforcement inspection team went deep into national parks and state-owned forest farms to investigate reforms, inspected the construction of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project (三北防护林) and afforestation, and went into forest areas to conduct random checks on forest fire prevention and the construction of national reserve forests. It thoroughly investigated the problems existing in the implementation of the law, put forward clear opinions and suggestions, and laid a solid foundation for revising and improving the Forest Law (森林法).
In the past year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) has conducted law enforcement inspections on five laws: the Trade Union Law (工会法), the Forest Law (森林法), the Food Safety Law (食品安全法), the Energy Conservation Law (节约能源法), and the Circular Economy Promotion Law (循环经济促进法). The law enforcement inspection team invited deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) to participate in law enforcement inspections, held symposiums with deputies to the People's Congresses at all levels, representatives of the masses, and grassroots workers, widely listened to opinions and suggestions, and ran through the important concept of whole-process people's democracy from beginning to end.
The power of supervision is an important power granted to the People's Congress by the Constitution, and the supervision of the People's Congress is an important part of the Party and state supervision system. In 2025, the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会) heard and deliberated on 22 supervision work reports, organized 2 special inquiries and 11 special investigations. Focusing on the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, focusing on the urgent difficulties and anxieties of the people, and coordinating the use of statutory supervision methods, the supervision work of the People's Congress has been continuously improved in quality and efficiency.
Keep an eye on the "account books" and protect the "money bags" for the people. In the past year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) has continuously strengthened the review and supervision of budget final accounts, the supervision of the management of state-owned assets, the supervision of government debt management, and the supervision of the rectification of outstanding problems found in audits.
On December 22, 2025, the Budget Work Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会预算工作委员会) reported to the 19th meeting of the 14th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会第十九次会议) on the work of filing and reviewing fiscal budget matters in 2025. This is the first report on the filing and review of fiscal budget matters submitted for deliberation, which is not only a concrete requirement for implementing the Budget Law, but also an innovative measure to strengthen the supervision of fiscal and economic work by the People's Congress.
To better play the role of the People's Congress in supervision, we must do a good job in the "second half of the article" of follow-up effectiveness. According to the provisions of the Supervision Law, the "one government, one committee, and two courts" should publish to the public the deliberation opinions of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) on relevant reports, the reports of the law enforcement inspection of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), and the reports of deliberation opinions.
What problems did the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) point out when deliberating relevant reports? What suggestions were put forward? How did the relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) respond? What specific policies and measures have been introduced? What is the effect? Everything is clear in the report.
Handing over, rectification, feedback, and disclosure, through a series of institutional arrangements, the supervision of the People's Congress has formed a complete chain from discovery, tracking to rectification and disclosure, promoting the implementation of problem rectification, fully reflecting the legal rigidity of the supervision of the People's Congress, and also effectively guaranteeing the people's right to supervision, and actively responding to the concerns of the public.
Better Play the Role of Deputies to the People's Congress
"High-quality suggestions should not only focus on the major practical problems in the process of economic and social development, but also closely combine the understanding of economic laws with the realistic stage of economic development to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective advice." During last year's National People's Congress (全国人代会), Quan Heng (权衡), deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社会科学院党委书记), put forward suggestions on adapting to the transformation of the consumption structure and promoting the improvement and expansion of service consumption.
This suggestion was listed as one of the key supervised suggestions for innovating diversified consumption scenarios. The Ministry of Commerce (商务部) combined the handling of suggestions to promote the high-quality development of service consumption. In response to the opinions and suggestions put forward by Deputy Quan Heng (权衡), the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) selected 50 cities to carry out pilot projects, giving each pilot city 200 million to 400 million yuan in funds to promote service consumption scenario innovation, business integration, and industrial agglomeration. The constructive opinions and suggestions put forward by deputies to the People's Congress have been effectively reflected and implemented in the work of state organs.
High-quality suggestions, high-quality handling. During the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大三次会议), deputies put forward a total of 9,160 suggestions, criticisms, and opinions on various aspects of work in accordance with legal procedures, which were handed over to 211 undertaking units for research and handling. Among them, 231 suggestions in 23 items were determined by the Chairman's Meeting to be key supervised by the special committees of the National People's Congress (全国人大各专门委员会). At present, all undertaking units have completed the handling and replied to the deputies on schedule.
The Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大三次会议) passed the decision on amending the Deputies Law (代表法), putting forward new requirements for better playing the role of deputies to the People's Congress: highlighting the political requirements for deputies to perform their duties, requiring close contact between state organs and deputies to the People's Congress, close contact between deputies to the People's Congress and the people, and strengthening service guarantees and supervision and management of deputies' performance of duties...
In the past year, deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) have conscientiously implemented the requirements of the amended Deputies Law (代表法) and actively participated in various tasks such as legislation and supervision: around the preparation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) Outline, 1,020 deputies conducted 60 research activities and formed 50 research reports; 1,737 deputies conducted centralized inspections to listen to the opinions and requirements of the original electoral units and the people; 276 deputies attended the meetings of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大常委会); 40 draft laws solicited deputies' opinions through the platform and received 1,633 opinions and suggestions...
The deputies have firmly adhered to their political positions, fulfilled their political responsibilities, fully played the characteristics and advantages of coming from the people and being rooted in the people, closely contacted the people, observed the people's conditions, listened to the people's voices, and gathered the people's opinions, making positive contributions to the high-quality development of the work of the People's Congress.
The upcoming Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大四次会议) is of great significance for mobilizing people of all ethnic groups across the country to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, pooling their efforts to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and ensuring a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五). Standing at a new starting point and embarking on a new journey, the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大) and its Standing Committee will adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as guidance, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthen the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," achieve the "two safeguards," conscientiously perform the duties entrusted by the Constitution and laws, adhere to, improve, and operate the system of people's congresses well, and provide a solid institutional guarantee and gather the strength to forge ahead for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopAs long as we maintain strategic focus, steadily move forward step by step, and solidly advance stage by stage, the cause of the Party and the country will surely accumulate small victories into great victories, and our goals will definitely be achieved.
—February 14, 2026, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the 2026 Spring Festival group visit.
Data source: Chinese Government Network (中国政府网), National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), etc.
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"China gives the impression that the pace of construction never stops," a Spanish journalist who experienced the Chinese Spring Festival travel season exclaimed.
Never stopping is an attitude, a belief, shaping "China today" and inspiring "the world tomorrow."
In spring in Beijing (北京), the National People's Congress (全国两会) will review and discuss the draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Five years after five years, journey after journey, surging from the depths of history and heading towards national rejuvenation, relying on precisely "taking firm steps one step at a time."
With feet on the ground, the pace is more solid.
Grain production has remained stable at 1.4 trillion jin for two consecutive years, domestic demand contributes more than 67% to economic growth, and the gross domestic product has exceeded 140 trillion yuan for the first time... Withstanding pressure, strengthening internal capabilities, and gaining a firm foothold, we firmly grasp the initiative of development and further enhance our ambition, integrity, and confidence. Putting development on the basis of our own strength and taking solid steps one by one, the path of Chinese-style modernization is viable and stable.
Innovation empowers, and the pace is more vigorous.
Domestic large models have entered the first tier of the industry, humanoid robots are evolving at an "accelerated" pace, and new energy vehicles are evolving towards intelligent mobile spaces... China is one of the fastest-growing economies in terms of innovation. Accumulating strength and gathering momentum, China's innovation wave is surging, and new quality productive forces are igniting a new engine for high-quality development.
Finding the right rhythm, the attitude is more composed.
Nearly 4 out of every 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity used are green electricity. Energy transition is not something others are making us do, but something we want to do ourselves. The Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) releases a strong magnetic force for opening up. From following to leading, China connects the world with a higher level of openness. Responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, no difficulties and challenges can stop China's progress.
On the stage of the Year of the Horse Spring Festival Gala, robots and teenagers "practiced martial arts" together, and traditional culture and modern technology intertwined. Through this cross-section, we see the vigorous posture of an ancient civilization forging ahead and striding forward.
The opening year, a new departure. Taking firm steps forward, one step at a time, will eventually lead to success; solid progress, one stage at a time, will surely make dreams come true! 马到成功 (mǎ dào chéng gōng - "success upon arrival of the horse," achieve immediate victory).
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It is required to adhere to the central task of economic construction, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth, and promote the sustained and healthy development of the economy and comprehensive social progress.
——October 20, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in "Explanation on the 'Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development'"
Building a Modern Industrial System
Traditional Transformation and Innovative Nurturing Advance Simultaneously
Our Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)
A modern industrial system is the material and technological foundation of Chinese-style modernization. Building a modern industrial system is the primary strategic task placed at the forefront of the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal.
In Luoyang (洛阳), Henan (河南), the machine tool arrays in the intelligent equipment manufacturing workshop of CITIC Heavy Industries are orderly, the instruments hum softly, and the robotic arms flexibly process ultra-large forgings. "We independently developed a digital lean manufacturing platform, which has connected the data chains of product design, technology, planning, manufacturing, and quality inspection, and realized full-process digital production control." Wu Hanqi (武汉琦), Chairman of CITIC Heavy Industries Machinery Co., Ltd., said that the effectiveness of transformation and upgrading is immediately apparent—the average product development cycle has been shortened by 15%, and production management efficiency has increased by 20%.
Building a modern industrial system requires adhering to the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration. Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that as of January 2026, China has cumulatively built more than 35,000 basic-level, more than 8,200 advanced-level, and more than 500 excellent-level intelligent factories, and cultivated 15 leading intelligent factories.
"In the past, the competitive advantages of many traditional industries were concentrated in low-cost, large-scale manufacturing. To accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing, we must actively use digital technology and green technology to transform and upgrade traditional industries, and enhance the vitality and competitiveness of manufacturing in updating and iteration." Representative Wu Hanqi (武汉琦) said that they will seize the opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and promote the deep integration and development of traditional industries and the digital economy.
Building a modern industrial system involves both the consolidation and upgrading of traditional industries, with accelerated steps in high-end, intelligent, and green transformation, and the "accelerated run" of innovative nurturing, with emerging industries and future industries growing vigorously. The low-altitude economy is "soaring high," cutting-edge materials are "breaking out of their cocoons," and manned spaceflight is "touring the sky and embracing the moon." In 2025, the added value of China's integrated circuit manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing, electronic special material manufacturing, and biological drug product manufacturing industries increased by 26.7%, 24.8%, 23.9%, and 12.1% respectively.
Today's seedlings may be tomorrow's pillar industries. "To proactively plan and develop emerging industries and future industries, we must increase efforts to improve the supply of elements such as financial 'living water' and talent foundation, and consolidate the foundation for promoting the breakthrough development of future industries and accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces." Zhang Li (张立), President of the China Center for Information Industry Development, suggested that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, and continuously lay the foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
Accelerating High-Level Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance
Artificial Intelligence Tools Assist in Technological Breakthroughs
Our Reporter Sun Chao (孙超)
Just after the start of work in the Lunar New Year, in the "AI (Artificial Intelligence) Enzyme Evolution Laboratory" of Sansure Biotech Inc. (圣湘生物科技股份有限公司) in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南), Li Yuanyuan (李元元), the product development manager, is busy using artificial intelligence tools to design and screen a new generation of enzyme raw materials. There are no traditional laboratory bottles and jars here, but instead, a powerful computing infrastructure and rapidly running data streams. "With the help of AI tools, a large number of sequence designs and screenings can be carried out, and then the designed enzymes can be performance-verified using automated workstations, and the data obtained is then analyzed by AI to establish a more accurate prediction model, shortening the work cycle that originally took several months to a few weeks," said Li Yuanyuan (李元元).
Why focus a large amount of resources on "enzymes"? Dai Lizhong (戴立忠), Chairman of Sansure Biotech Inc. (圣湘生物科技股份有限公司), introduced that as the "biological chip" of in vitro diagnostic technology, the core enzyme raw materials have long relied on external suppliers. Accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies is a due obligation.
"Faced with increasingly complex clinical diagnosis and treatment needs, mastering the definition rights of core underlying technologies from the source has become the only way for the high-quality development of China's in vitro diagnostic industry." Representative Dai Lizhong (戴立忠) said that the "AI prediction + high-throughput verification" system developed by the company is pushing biomedical research and development from "massive trial and error" to "precise generation."
Accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance is inseparable from promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. In the Times Electric Manufacturing Center of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co., Ltd. (中车株洲电力机车研究所有限公司), intelligent guided robots efficiently shuttle back and forth, and robotic arms quickly and accurately assemble high-speed rail converter modules. This manufacturing base, covering an area of approximately 40,000 square meters, undertakes the production and manufacturing of 30% of the world's and 70% of the country's rail transit traction electrical transmission components. In the Tianxin (田心) area where the company is located, more than 450 companies on the chain work together, and tens of thousands of parts required for an electric locomotive can be collected in "the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee."
"We have cultivated three industries with a scale of over 10 billion yuan: rail transit, new materials, and new energy. More than 85% of scientific research achievements have been commercialized." Li Donglin (李东林), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co., Ltd. (中车株洲电力机车研究所有限公司), introduced that adhering to the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is the key to the company's cultivation and development of new quality productive forces.
To build a highland of independent innovation, the land of Hunan (湖南) is accelerating its layout. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Hunan's total R&D investment in the whole society increased by an average of 11.61% annually, and the number of high-tech enterprises doubled and exceeded 17,500. The four major laboratories, including Yuelushan Laboratory (岳麓山实验室), have sprung up, and major scientific facilities such as the large aircraft ground dynamics test platform have been completed one after another. More high-precision and cutting-edge technologies are constantly achieving new breakthroughs.
Building a Strong Domestic Market
Cultural and Tourism Integration Creates New Business Forms and Transforms Traffic into "Incremental Growth"
Our Reporter Zhou Huan (周欢)
Red houses, old kiln sites... As night falls, the Taoxichuan (陶溪川) cultural and creative block in Jingdezhen (景德镇), Jiangxi (江西) is brightly lit, with roadside stalls lined up and a constant stream of tourists.
"This is a work made with Jingdezhen's traditional porcelain-making techniques and hand-sculpted." On the east side of the block, stall owner Chen Saijie (陈赛杰) introduced loudly. The expressive and humorous figurines attracted the attention of many tourists. Last year, Chen Saijie (陈赛杰) achieved sales revenue of more than 600,000 yuan.
Building a strong domestic market requires adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus, leading new supply with new demand, and creating new demand with new supply. The development of Jingdezhen (景德镇) is a powerful validation. Relying on its long-standing ceramic history and culture, Jingdezhen (景德镇) has created creative ceramic markets in Taoxichuan (陶溪川), Sculpture Porcelain Factory (雕塑瓷厂), Sanbao Village (三宝村) and other places, as well as distinctive brand markets such as Creative Market, Taoran Market, and Mingfang Market, becoming a new scene of cultural and tourism integration and a new engine for driving consumption.
"Promoting the cultural and tourism industry towards new and better is an important starting point for expanding domestic demand. We must develop new business forms, cultivate new models, and create new scenes in accordance with local conditions, and accelerate the transformation of cultural influence into consumption traction and real productivity." Hu Xuemei (胡雪梅), Secretary of the Jingdezhen Municipal Party Committee, introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Jingdezhen (景德镇) deeply explored the characteristic resources of "porcelain, tea, and opera," created a "City of a Thousand Museums" with museums, art galleries, and intangible cultural heritage halls as the main body, and launched cultural and creative IPs and popular products such as "Suisui Ya" and intangible cultural heritage "Spring Bowl." "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, Jingdezhen (景德镇) will continue to take cultural empowerment, business form innovation, and technological empowerment as the starting points, further optimize the supply of cultural and tourism products, so that domestic and foreign tourists can come often and find something new, and strive to transform cultural and tourism traffic into tangible development increments."
Building a strong domestic market requires adhering to the close combination of benefiting the people and promoting consumption, and investing in both material objects and people. Seamless connection between airports, high-speed railways, and scenic spots, and the formation of a "15-minute cultural and tourism service circle" with tourist centers and smart guides... Adhering to investing in material objects, Jingdezhen (景德镇) continues to improve the "hard support" of supporting infrastructure such as transportation. Issuing one-time entrepreneurial subsidies to qualified "Jing Piao" (景漂) (drifters in Jingdezhen), setting up a special service window for "Porcelain Blue · Jing Piao"... Adhering to investing in people, Jingdezhen (景德镇) optimizes "soft services" in employment, entrepreneurship, production, and life, allowing more than 60,000 "Jing Piao" (景漂) engaged in ceramics and related industries to stay, live well, and succeed.
"Jingdezhen's (景德镇) porcelain industry has prospered because of people and craftsmen." Yu Jihua (于集华), Chairman of the Jingdezhen Ceramic Artists Association, suggested that we should continue to strengthen the "close combination of investing in material objects and investing in people," not only making "Jing Piao" (景漂) worry-free in life, but also effectively promoting the inheritance, innovation, and high-quality development of the ceramic culture and industry, strengthening the protection of ceramic intellectual property rights, and creating a good environment for "Jing Piao" (景漂) to innovate and start businesses.
Accelerating the Construction of a High-Level Socialist Market Economic System
"Two Unwavering Commitments" Escort Enterprise Growth
Our Reporter Dou Hao (窦皓)
In the Chuanhua Jiangdong Intelligent Factory (传化大江东智能工厂) in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), automated production lines are operating efficiently, and barrels of fluorine-free water repellent are being filled and will soon be shipped to the world. The fluorine-free water repellent developed by Chuanhua Group (传化集团) has overcome the industry problem of the difficulty in balancing water resistance and durability, broken the foreign technology monopoly, made up for the shortcomings of China's high-end textile auxiliaries, and greatly reduced the risk of water environment and soil pollution.
A high-level socialist market economic system is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. Accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system can better stimulate market vitality, and micro-cells feel the deepest. "'Unwaveringly consolidate and develop the public sector of the economy, unwaveringly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector of the economy, fully stimulate the vitality of various business entities, and fully unleash the source of all innovation and creation.'" Xu Guanju (徐冠巨), Chairman of Chuanhua Group (传化集团), said that as a private enterprise deeply involved in the chemical industry, it has deeply benefited from adhering to the "two unwavering commitments" in the research and development innovation of new materials and the transformation and upgrading of the company. The special team of the ecological environment department came to the door to provide precise guidance to help the enterprise identify and manage blind spots, and the industrial park quickly approved and started construction upon signing... A series of policy escorts have enabled the enterprise to continuously achieve new breakthroughs in technological innovation and market expansion.
A high-level socialist market economic system means the efficient allocation and smooth flow of various factors of production. The cumulative transaction volume of the Shenzhen Data Exchange (深圳数据交易所) has exceeded 10 billion yuan, Hangzhou (杭州) has created a "five-in-one" science and technology financial mechanism of "investment, loan, subsidy, guarantee, and insurance," and Henan (河南) has promoted the cross-ownership combination supply of "state-owned + collective" construction land... The market-oriented reform of factors of production is accelerating in various places.
Luo Weidong (罗卫东), a professor at the School of Economics of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), believes that facing the "15th Five-Year Plan," we should work hard to establish and improve a unified urban and rural construction land market, a fully functional capital market, a smoothly flowing labor market, and a highly efficient technology market, unblock various bottlenecks, eliminate local protectionism and market segmentation, and promote the smooth flow of various factors of production, injecting inexhaustible power into high-quality development.
A high-level market economy is inseparable from a high-level macroeconomic governance system. Ye Miao (叶苗), a member of the Party Group of the Ningbo Municipal Government (宁波市政府) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省) and Director of the Ningbo Economic Development Zone Management Committee (宁波经开区管委会), believes that it is necessary to further strengthen the coordination of fiscal, monetary, industrial, and regional policies to improve the effectiveness of macroeconomic governance, "For example, continue to deepen the reform of the fiscal and taxation system to enhance fiscal sustainability; improve the modern central bank system, and build a scientific and sound monetary policy system and a comprehensive macro-prudential management system."
Accelerating the Modernization of Agriculture and Rural Areas
Characteristic Industries Support the Happy Lives of Villagers
Our Reporters Wang Hao (王浩), Zhang Wenhao (张文豪), Li Weijun (李维俊)
Stir-frying, kneading... The aroma of tea wafts in. In the tea-making room of Tangping Village (塘平村), Liubao Town (六堡镇), Cangwu County (苍梧县), Wuzhou (梧州), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), tourists are immersed in the tea-making process.
"The tea industry is our poverty alleviation industry and, more importantly, our wealth-generating industry." Shi Rufei (石濡菲), Secretary of the Party Branch of Heishishan Tea Factory (黑石山茶厂) in Liubao Town (六堡镇), Cangwu County (苍梧县), said that a leaf steadily supports the happy lives of villagers.
Once, they lived in poverty while guarding the tea mountains. Representative Shi Rufei (石濡菲) introduced that Liubao tea (六堡茶) is of good quality, but it could not be sold at a good price due to inconsistent standards. In order to get Liubao tea (六堡茶) out of the mountains, Representative Shi Rufei (石濡菲) established a tea factory, driving cooperatives and tea farmers to plant tens of thousands of acres of tea, and developing new business forms such as "artificial intelligence + tea industry." At present, Wuzhou Liubao tea (梧州六堡茶) has driven about 310,000 people to increase their average annual income by about 3,300 yuan.
Consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation is the bottom-line task for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. "We must incorporate regular assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and enhance the endogenous development momentum with effective development-oriented assistance. In particular, we must promote the transformation and upgrading of poverty alleviation industries to drive more people to become rich." Representative Shi Rufei (石濡菲) suggested.
The fundamental way out for agriculture lies in modernization, and we must continuously improve the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture.
In the Yubei Plain (豫北平原), wheat seedlings are sprouting new green. During the spring plowing season, Ru Zhendong (茹振钢), a professor at Henan University of Science and Technology (河南科技学院), plunged into the fields. Henan University of Science and Technology (河南科技学院) and Henan Jinlei Seedling Co., Ltd. (河南金蕾种苗有限公司) jointly built a large-scale and efficient wheat production base, moving the laboratory to the field.
"To hold the 'rice bowl' steady, we must adhere to storing grain in technology." Representative Ru Zhendong (茹振钢) said that seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. Henan (河南) is accelerating the construction of the "Central Plains Agricultural Valley" (中原农谷) to promote the combination of production, education, research, and application, and improve the entire industrial chain of modern seed industry. The coverage rate of improved varieties of major crops in the province exceeds 97%. "Next, we must strengthen the research and protection of germplasm resources to achieve independent and controllable seed sources." Representative Ru Zhendong (茹振钢) suggested.
Building a beautiful home and living a good life is the expectation and yearning of hundreds of millions of farmers. The village roads are smooth and wide, and the fitness square is lively and extraordinary. Huang'erying West Village (黄儿营西村) in Ningjin County (宁晋县), Xingtai (邢台), Hebei Province (河北省) has carried out human settlement environment improvement, realizing "flowers in three seasons and evergreen in four seasons."
"We must gradually improve the completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of the human settlement environment. Areas with conditions should promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside in a classified and orderly manner to create high-quality rural living spaces." Ning Xiaowu (宁小五), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Village Committee of Huang'erying West Village (黄儿营西村), said.
Improving the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich farmers is an important starting point for accelerating the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社科院农村发展研究所), said that it is necessary to promote the study and application of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" ("千万工程") experience, follow the laws of rural construction, focus on doing practical things one by one, and promote a more solid agricultural foundation, a more prosperous rural area, and a more prosperous life for farmers.
Data source: National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, etc.
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Return to TopDriving high-quality development is the theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, as determined by the "Recommendations."
——October 23, 2025, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, pointed out at the second plenary meeting of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
Innovation Becomes the Primary Driver—
Embodied Intelligence Industry Accelerates Achievement Transformation
By Li Junqiang (李君强) and Liu Junguo (刘军国), reporters of this newspaper
Just after the Spring Festival holiday, the robot laboratory of Unitree Robotics Co., Ltd. has resumed its busy state. A group of technicians are testing cluster collaboration programs, with positioning data and motion trajectories dynamically displayed on the large screen in real time. Not long ago, the movements of these robots appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, becoming one of the highlights of the integration of technology and traditional culture.
The difficulty of humanoid robots lies not only in movement but also in stability. "Especially in complex motion states such as continuous jumping, aerial rotation, and object interaction, how robots maintain precise positioning and dynamic balance has always been a key focus of the industry," introduced Lian Yingying (廉莹莹), the team leader of Unitree Robotics at the Spring Festival Gala. Taking the robot's performance of stick techniques as an example, the team achieved dynamic perception and precise force control of the equipment in the robot's hands by physically modeling the equipment and conducting large-scale reinforcement learning training in a simulated environment.
Making a single robot perform well is far from achieving the goal. More crucial is the fully autonomous cluster control technology—dozens of robots on the stage, without external positioning assistance, rely entirely on airborne sensors to perceive the environment in real time, autonomously plan paths, dynamically adjust formations, and automatically recover after deviating or being interfered with.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" recommendations list embodied intelligence as one of the future industries for forward-looking layout. In 2025, the number of complete humanoid robot enterprises in China has exceeded 140, with over 330 products released, the industrial scale continues to grow, and application scenarios continue to expand.
"The real goal is to move towards industrial applications," said Wang Qixin (王其鑫), Chief Marketing Officer of Unitree Robotics. "In the future, the fully autonomous cluster control technology that supports the entire martial arts performance can be applied to tasks such as multi-robot collaborative inspection, warehouse sorting, and assembly line in industrial scenarios, achieving efficient coordination of large-scale operations."
Innovation-driven is a crucial leap for the industry from "large quantity" to "strong quality" and is the main engine for cultivating new quality productive forces. Luo Weihong (罗卫红), Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Hangzhou Municipal People's Congress of Zhejiang Province, believes that building a more open and collaborative innovation ecosystem requires opening up the collaborative channels of education, science and technology, and talent, achieving deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and creating an open innovation environment with global competitiveness.
Artificial intelligence further lowers the threshold for entrepreneurship, injecting more innovation vitality into society. "Currently, start-ups still face bottlenecks in law, technology, and services. It is necessary to further improve laws and regulations and clarify rights protection mechanisms," Luo Weihong (罗卫红) suggested. "We can explore the establishment of a filing system, allowing 'individual + AI assets' to be filed as light assets, enjoying policy support and reducing compliance costs."
Coordination Becomes an Intrinsic Feature—
The "Hands" of City and Countryside Are Held Tighter
By Wang Hao (王浩), reporter of this newspaper
Spring arrives in Xiong'an (雄安), buildings rise from the ground, underground pipe corridors extend, and the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei Province has entered a stage where large-scale construction and undertaking the relocation of Beijing's non-capital functions are equally emphasized.
Looking at the "city of the future" growing vigorously, Tan Shuangjian (谭双剑), captain of the Hydropower Team of the Electromechanical Installation Branch of Beijing Construction Engineering Group Third Construction Co., Ltd., feels proud. He participated in the construction of Xiong'an Station (雄安站), Rongxi Area (容西片区), Rongdong Area (容东片区), and other projects, witnessing the transformation of Xiong'an New Area from "a blueprint" to "a city." "Promoting the construction of a modern city in Xiong'an New Area with high standards and high quality has seized the 'bull nose' of relieving Beijing's non-capital functions, and the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is constantly reaching new heights," said Tan Shuangjian (谭双剑).
Tan Shuangjian (谭双剑) went to Beijing from Handan City (邯郸市), Hebei Province, in his early years to work, participating in the construction of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, Daxing International Airport (大兴国际机场), and other projects, accumulating rich experience. "Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei should each display their advantages and abilities, integrate resources and innovation elements, strengthen collaborative innovation and industrial collaboration, accelerate the joint construction and sharing of public services, and strive to become a pioneer and demonstration area for the construction of Chinese-style modernization," suggested Tan Shuangjian (谭双剑).
Coordinated development, the "hands" of city and countryside are held tighter. Shaobei Village (哨背村) in Wuning County (武宁县), Jiujiang City (九江市), Jiangxi Province, is located on the banks of the Xiu River (修河). In the past, there were no buses in the village, and it was difficult for villagers to go out.
The Wuning County (武宁县) Transportation Bureau surveyed remote mountainous areas and riverside villages, sorted out a list of villagers' travel needs, and improved the three-level urban-rural bus network of the county, township, and village. Last year, buses arrived in Shaobei Village (哨背村), and villager Han Guofeng (韩国峰) took the first bus, "Stepping out of the house, getting on the bus, traveling is so convenient."
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Jiujiang City (九江市) newly built and renovated 2,930 kilometers of rural roads, built 56 rural passenger transport stations, and continuously densified the urban-rural transportation network, making the flow of urban-rural elements smoother.
"Urban-rural integration, transportation first. As more and more villages have access to hardened roads, passenger buses, and postal routes, agricultural products enter the city, and express delivery goes to the countryside unimpeded," said Zhang Hairong (张海荣), a driver of the Women's Bus Team No. 25 of Jiujiang Public Transport Group Co., Ltd. She stated that to promote coordinated urban-rural development, it is necessary to continuously improve the integration of urban-rural infrastructure and promote the equalization of basic public services in urban and rural areas.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the system and mechanism for the integrated development of urban and rural areas have been continuously improved, and positive results have been achieved in the integrated development of urban and rural areas.
Qin Guangyuan (秦光远), Deputy Dean of the National Forestry and Grassland Economic and Trade Research Institute of Beijing Forestry University, suggested that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, coordinate the promotion of "hard connectivity" and "soft connectivity," strengthen infrastructure interconnection, improve industrial coordination, benefit-sharing mechanisms, and help the national unified market advance in depth.
Green Becomes a Universal Form—
Production and Life Achieve Green Transformation
By You Yi (游仪), reporter of this newspaper
In Minjiang Village (岷江村), Shou'an Town (寿安镇), Wenjiang District (温江区), Chengdu City (成都市), Sichuan Province, lanterns are hung high, and plum blossoms are blooming. "The sky is bluer, the land is greener, the water is clearer, the ecological environment has improved, and tourists are flocking here." Tao Xunhua (陶勋花), Secretary of the Party Committee of Minjiang Village (岷江村), Shou'an Town (寿安镇), Wenjiang District (温江区), Chengdu City (成都市), deeply feels that a good ecological environment can empower the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
In the past, poor sewage and garbage disposal not only caused complaints from villagers but also made it difficult for the village to develop. Building greenways, clearing ditches, encouraging garbage sorting, installing sewage collection and treatment facilities... Soon, the village introduced a batch of social capital to invest in homestays.
"The environment has improved, the appearance has been enhanced, and the villagers' lives are getting better and better." Tao Xunhua (陶勋花) said that now, Minjiang Village (岷江村) has systematically sorted out the village's ecological assets, integrated resource data such as farmland, forest plots, wetlands, and greenways, and a clear ecological system covering "land, sea, and air" is presented.
Industries are turning "green," and products are becoming "new." "Made in China" is undergoing a green "butterfly transformation."
Walking into the Changhong Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park (长虹智能制造产业园) located in Mianyang City (绵阳市), Sichuan Province, on the "5G+Industrial Internet" production line, fully automated intelligent equipment is running at high speed. Orders are issued in real time, materials are automatically transported, and processes are seamlessly connected.
"In recent years, with the help of 'intelligent transformation and digital transformation,' we have achieved quality and efficiency improvement." In the view of Liu Jiang (柳江), Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Sichuan Changhong Electronic Holding Group Co., Ltd., the "dual carbon" goal is leading the manufacturing industry to accelerate green transformation and promote the deep integration of low-carbon and circular concepts into all aspects of research and development, production, and operation.
To promote the green transformation of industry, technological innovation is crucial. Liu Jiang (柳江) suggested establishing a mechanism for the withdrawal of backward production capacity, promoting the transformation of the industry to high-quality and low-pollution, and enterprises should strengthen technological collaboration to overcome key "bottleneck" technologies.
Agricultural production is green and efficient, and lifestyles are undergoing a green transformation.
"Factory seedling cultivation, green planting, we have explored the entire process of mechanization of rice 'cultivation, planting, sowing, and harvesting' and the grain-economic compound model of 'rice-vegetable-vegetable' and 'rice-medicine-wheat' three-season rotation." As a village-level "field chief," Li Xueping (李雪平), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Village Committee of Yongfeng Village (永丰村), Dongpo District (东坡区), Meishan City (眉山市), Sichuan Province, often starts his field patrol work early in the morning.
Underfoot are high-standard farmland, with fields in squares, land in blocks, canals connected, and roads connected. In hand are green agricultural products, Yongfeng rice (永丰大米), lotus root noodles, and rice flower candy, following the Internet, from the fields to thousands of households. In 2025, the collective economic income of Yongfeng Village (永丰村) was about 2 million yuan, an increase of nearly 16 times compared to 2021.
Opening Up Becomes the Inevitable Path—
Border Post Transforms into International Hub
By Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊), reporter of this newspaper
In Alashankou (阿拉山口), Xinjiang (新疆), the morning light is faint, and the railway inspection site is brightly lit. The sounds of engines and dispatch instructions are intertwined, and a series of China-Europe freight trains roar away.
Li Lan (李兰), Director of the Technology Center of Alashankou Customs (阿拉山口海关), under the Urumqi Customs (乌鲁木齐海关), introduced that since the first China-Europe freight train passed through Alashankou (阿拉山口) in 2011, the port's business volume has continued to grow.
As of now, the cumulative number of trains passing through has exceeded 52,000, with 128 routes opened, connecting 21 countries.
In 2025, the cargo volume of the Alashankou Railway Port (阿拉山口铁路口岸) exceeded 17.269 million tons, an increase of 7.7% year-on-year. Li Lan (李兰) introduced that from a border post on the Gobi desert in the past to a key hub of the "steel camel team" of China-Europe freight trains today, Alashankou Port (阿拉山口口岸) has become a key node connecting Central Asia, West Asia, and Europe, witnessing the leapfrog improvement of Xinjiang's (新疆) opening-up level.
"The trains run fast, indicating that the process is smooth and the efficiency is high." Li Lan (李兰) introduced that in 2025, Urumqi Customs (乌鲁木齐海关) launched the "Smart Railway Port + Local Rapid Customs Clearance" reform, realizing real-time interconnection of customs and railway data through the construction and use of the digital port system, grasping the train dynamics and cargo release information in real time, and information sharing has greatly advanced the inspection process, reducing logistics costs by 67%.
Not far from the railway port, at the highway port, the import and export vehicles waiting for inspection are passing through the inspection and release in an orderly manner. "After the reform, the transit time of inbound and outbound vehicles at the highway port has been reduced by 85.5%, saving enterprises a lot of customs clearance costs." Speaking of the changes at the highway port, Li Lan's (李兰) tone was full of joy.
In 2023, Urumqi Customs (乌鲁木齐海关) implemented the "Highway Port + Local Direct Access" reform. Through process restructuring, enterprises can declare to the customs in advance before the goods arrive at the port, and vehicles arriving at the port can automatically verify through intelligent card access, and then launch the "Fast Customs Clearance Mode for Self-Driving Export Vehicles." In 2025, the import and export cargo volume of Xinjiang's (新疆) highway ports reached 18.1 million tons, an increase of 20.8% year-on-year.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang's (新疆) foreign trade continuously crossed the 200 billion yuan, 300 billion yuan, 400 billion yuan, and 500 billion yuan marks, achieving a "four-year jump," with an average annual growth rate maintaining a high level, reaching 520.37 billion yuan in 2025, an increase of 19.9%.
"The door to opening up is opening wider and wider, and the pace of development is becoming more and more stable." Li Lan (李兰) suggested continuing to combine customs work with the actual development of ports, promoting the standardization and standardization of land border ports, helping China-Europe freight trains to operate efficiently, and creating a good environment for the development of the port economy.
Sharing Becomes the Fundamental Purpose—
Let the People Have More Sense of Gain
By Chang Qin (常钦), reporter of this newspaper
On the vast wetlands of the Sanhuanpao National Nature Reserve (三环泡国家级自然保护区) in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), oriental white storks are nurturing in artificial nests. This land not only has natural beauty but also writes a moving story of people and nature sharing the dividends of development. "**绿水青山就是金山银山**" (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains," the concept that environmental protection and economic development are mutually reinforcing) has become a tangible reality here.
Zhao Kunyu (赵坤宇), Chairman of the Jiamusi Municipal Committee of the China Democratic League and former Director of the Administration of the Sanhuanpao National Nature Reserve (三环泡国家级自然保护区) in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), introduced that the reserve adheres to the principles of "light intervention, low disturbance, and near nature" to create high-quality wetland ecological tourism, which not only provides high-quality leisure space but also activates the surrounding development vitality, creating more than 40 jobs and driving the prosperity of catering, picking, and other industries. The local people truly share the green results of ecological monetization.
As the spring breeze blows across the wheat seedlings in the Central Plains, Li Chengwei (李成伟), Vice President of the Chinese Grain Economics Society and Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhengzhou University, turned his attention to the labor scenes in the fields.
Food security is a "**国之大者**" (guó zhī dà zhě - "the most important thing for the country," a matter of paramount importance to the nation), and it is also the foundation of shared development.
Li Chengwei (李成伟) keenly observed that the construction of smart agriculture in some places currently has the problem of technological applications being divorced from reality. Many farmers have not yet mastered key technologies such as precision irrigation and intelligent greenhouses. It is necessary to accelerate the national promotion and popularization of smart agriculture technology.
Li Chengwei (李成伟) deeply understands the power of inclusive education and resource sharing. He believes that it is necessary to break down institutional barriers and build a mechanism for mutual appointment and recognition of university mentors and industry mentors, co-cultivation, and sharing, so that intellectual resources can be rationally allocated and efficiently circulated in the innovation chain.
Zhao Kunyu (赵坤宇) deeply felt the weight of spiritual and cultural sharing. Learning about the children's desire for art in remote rural schools, she launched the "United Hearts Education Trip" public welfare action, sending more than 260 violins, guitars, and electric pianos to the children in 10 counties and districts of Jiamusi City (佳木斯市) and the Aoqi Hezhe Ethnic Township Joint School (敖其赫哲族联合学校).
Development for whom? The development practice of the new era has given a resounding answer: Make the "cake" bigger and distribute it well, so that the people have more sense of gain and share the fruits of development.
Data source: National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, General Administration of Customs, etc.
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Return to TopAdhere to further comprehensively deepening reform, focus on using reform methods to solve development problems, and increase momentum and vitality for development.
——October 20, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in the "Explanation on the 'Proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development'"
Beijing (北京) Haidian District (海淀区) Zhongguancun (中关村) West Zone——
"Strengthen innovation and make humanoid robots a real productive force"
People's Daily reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男)
This year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the robot "Gaitbot" from Beijing (北京) Galaxy General Robot Co., Ltd. attracted attention with its skills such as playing with walnuts.
"It does not rely on preset programs and can truly autonomously perceive, decide, and act." At Galaxy General in Zhongguancun (中关村) West Zone, Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京), founder Wang He (王鹤) said, "Strengthen innovation and make humanoid robots a real productive force."
Late at night in Beijing (北京), a 24-hour pharmacy received an urgent order for medicine. A few seconds later, the robot accurately found the shelf, took out the medicine, and sent it to the express delivery window. The entire process was completed autonomously by the robot, which is Galaxy General's 24-hour smart pharmacy.
It is not easy to go from the laboratory to industrial application. Wang He (王鹤) said: "If enterprises want to respond quickly to market demands, they need to strengthen the main position of enterprise innovation and seamlessly connect the innovation chain and the industrial chain."
Before founding Galaxy General in 2023, Wang He (王鹤) led the team to create the world's leading humanoid robot generalized grasping large model, "No matter if there is broken glass, paper balls, or other objects on the table, the robot can accurately grasp them through its own identification." But technological leadership does not equal product landing, "Many laboratory technologies are still far from practical application." He himself took the R&D personnel to the front line, went to pharmacies to see how couriers picked up goods, and went to convenience stores to observe how clerks sorted goods.
In terms of appearance, why choose wheels instead of two feet? Wang He (王鹤) replied: "Wheels can run for 6 to 8 hours, while legs can only last for more than 1 hour." Smart "brain," exquisite "hands," stable "wheels," driven by demand, focusing on productivity, the road of humanoid robot research and development will surely become wider and wider.
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China (中国) is in a critical period of upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and forward-looking layout of future industries. Promoting technological innovation and model innovation is of great significance. How can humanoid robots accelerate towards industrial models? First, activate the source of technological innovation and strengthen the forward-looking layout of national strategic scientific and technological forces. Second, build a bridge for industrial innovation transformation and promote the efficient transformation of results. Third, accelerate the industrialization and commercialization of innovative achievements. Strengthen the main position of enterprises in technological innovation, take application as the traction, create new supply, meet new demands, and shape new business forms.
——Xu Xiaolan (徐晓兰), member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), and full-time vice chairman of the China Zhi Gong Party (致公党中央)
Guangdong (广东) Shenzhen (深圳) Bao'an District (宝安区) Dagongfang International Accelerator——
"A website can handle all the matters of starting a business"
People's Daily reporter Lü Shaogang (吕绍刚)
During the Spring Festival holiday, Zhang Bo (张波) did not return to his hometown in Sichuan (四川), but stayed in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) to "start running" his newly established company.
Zhang Bo's (张波) company is located in the Dagongfang International Accelerator in Bao'an District (宝安区), Shenzhen (深圳). The place is not big, 10 square meters of space. "I am a typical 'one-person company,' handling business, technology, and marketing all by myself," he said.
From the emergence of the idea to the opening of the company at the end of 2025, Zhang Bo (张波) only took more than two months. "I used to hear that starting a company was troublesome, but I didn't expect it to be done in a few days." He, who was starting a business for the first time, was amazed at such speed.
In Shenzhen (深圳), enterprise registration is handled through the "One-stop Platform for Starting a Business" of the market supervision department. Entrepreneurs only need to log in to the website, authenticate their real names, fill in information, and upload materials. The remaining content is automatically compared and verified by the system. "A website can handle all the matters of starting a business. Although it was my first time handling it, the website guidance is clear and the process is convenient," Zhang Bo (张波) said.
With the license and seals in hand, Zhang Bo (张波) got busy. "If I had to wait until after the holiday to get the license, the business would have to be postponed. Now that the procedures are complete, the holiday is the best time to start running," he said.
Behind this is Shenzhen's (深圳) continuous optimization of the enterprise registration process. In recent years, Shenzhen (深圳) has taken the "One-stop Platform for Starting a Business" as the core and continuously refreshed the speed of starting a business: in 2018, the time for starting a business was shortened from 24 days to 5 days; in 2019, it was accelerated from "5 days to complete" to "1 day to complete."
Now, through the "One-stop Platform for Starting a Business," 11 businesses involving 10 departments, such as business license and social security registration, can be handled, realizing "one-time notification, one-form application, one-window acceptance, and one-network handling," greatly reducing the time and cost of starting a business.
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A series of measures to optimize the business environment have been introduced successively, achieving remarkable results in simplifying enterprise opening procedures and promoting intelligent approval. The "Efficiently Handle One Thing" service area and other faster handling methods allow companies to feel the speed and warmth. In the era of artificial intelligence, institutional innovation can also "go both ways" with artificial intelligence technology. Under the premise of ensuring risk safety and controllability, data barriers can be gradually broken, and "one-network handling" and cross-regional handling can be promoted, so that more advanced technologies and warm care can complement each other.
——Huang Haiwen (黄海文), deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大), and administrative and logistics supervisor of Zhengda (Hainan) Xinglong Coffee Industry Development Co., Ltd. (正大（海南）兴隆咖啡产业开发有限公司)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) National Astronomical Observatories (国家天文台)——
"Through popular science, bring the public to the forefront of science"
People's Daily reporter Shi Fang (施芳)
At the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) National Astronomical Observatories (国家天文台), Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) in his eighties, has been busy in the office during the Spring Festival holiday, "I just started a popular science article and have to hurry up and write it."
Revealing the vector magnetic field structure and evolution characteristics of solar active regions, discovering magnetic reconnection phenomena in the lower solar atmosphere, and developing the observational research basis for solar activity forecasting... Since the 1980s, Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) has devoted himself to the study of solar physics. Despite his busy work, Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) still devoted a lot of energy to popular science work. On March 9, 1997, the last total solar eclipse that occurred in China (中国) in the last century met the Hale-Bopp comet, which returns once every 2400 years. At the invitation of the TV station, Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) did more than 3 hours of live TV broadcast, explaining this astronomical spectacle. "After the live broadcast, people always recognized me on the road and enthusiastically asked various astronomical questions," Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) said, "This also strengthened my determination to do popular science."
With the help of new media forms such as short videos and live broadcasts, Wang Jingxiu's (汪景琇) "fans" are increasing. In order to transform the profound knowledge of solar physics into popular science content that the public can understand and is interested in, Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) repeatedly polished the lecture notes according to the needs of different age groups. Why study the sun? This question is frequently mentioned in popular science activities. "In the vast Milky Way, as the star closest to the Earth, the sun has nurtured a blue planet with intelligent life. But the sun also has a 'temper'. A series of its activities will have a great impact on the Earth and its surrounding environment." Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) described it this way in a popular science video class.
In recent years, the "Xihe (羲和) " and "Kuafu-1 (夸父一号) " solar exploration satellites have been successfully launched, and the era of Chinese (中国) space solar exploration has arrived. Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) plans to write about the ins and outs of Chinese (中国) solar exploration to help the public understand the latest scientific progress. "People engaged in scientific research should tell the public about new knowledge, especially the forefront of research. Through popular science, bring the public to the forefront of science," Wang Jingxiu (汪景琇) said.
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Scientific researchers use simple and easy-to-understand language to transform profound scientific knowledge into cognition that the public can widely understand and accept. On the one hand, it improves the public's scientific literacy and understanding and support for major national scientific and technological decisions; on the other hand, it creates a social atmosphere that encourages exploration and advocates science, attracting more people to pay attention to or engage in scientific and technological research, and providing talent support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese (中国) nation with Chinese-style modernization, and injecting an endless source of vitality.
——Wan Shiqiang (万师强), member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), and professor of the College of Life Sciences of Hebei University (河北大学)
Zhejiang (浙江) Jiaxing (嘉兴) Nanhu District (南湖区) Yuxin Town (余新镇)——
"In the future community, we must do a good job in 'sharing'"
People's Daily reporter Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋)
"As new parents, this is not only a place to walk the baby, but also a platform for parenting communication," said Zhang Min (张敏), a resident of Yuli Future Community in Yuxin Town (余新镇), Nanhu District (南湖区), Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang (浙江).
In the community's parent-child cabin, functional areas such as a doll activity area and a picture book reading area are fully equipped. By integrating resources such as local hospitals,辖区 kindergartens, social work stations, and volunteers, the cabin organizes parent-child activities every week.
There are many migrant workers in Yuxin Town (余新镇). In the past, the community lacked infant care and childcare facilities, as well as a platform for neighborhood communication. At the same time, the town's old streets, granaries, and other space resources also faced idleness. In 2022, the construction of the "future community" was promoted locally. Yuxin Town (余新镇) revitalized resources and created a 4,600-square-meter activity space, including parent-child cabins, resident activity rooms, and other convenient service places.
In the current future community, classic movies are shown in the viewing space in turn, parent-child reading and fun garden activities are carried out in the parent-child cabin one after another, and even the once difficult childcare problem has now become a highlight of the future community. Deng Jianqiang (邓剑强), secretary of the Yuxin Town (余新镇) Party Committee, said: "In the future community, we must do a good job in 'sharing,' not only space sharing and resource sharing, but also service sharing." On the one hand, social resources continue to join, and the community has formed a "business-resident co-governance" volunteer service team, actively organizing public welfare markets, convenient services, and other activities; on the other hand, community residents actively participate, and Zhang Lilei (张丽蕾), a 52-year-old enthusiastic resident, is one of them. "I have been participating in infant care volunteer services every week for more than 2 years," she said. In the future community, there is more communication between neighbors, and everyone's life is becoming more and more comfortable.
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In response to the problems such as the single spatial function of traditional communities, Nanxiaoqu Community in Pinggu District (平谷区), Beijing (北京) and other communities innovatively implanted functions such as communication and cultural and sports activities through micro-transformation and micro-renewal, which not only activated the potential of old spaces, but also created more opportunities for residents to communicate and exchange. In the future, community transformation and renewal can establish a dynamic database of residents' needs to accurately identify the needs of different resident groups. By collecting demands through refined research, promote public governance and service innovation, and let residents feel happiness in the details.
——Yue Qiaoyun (岳巧云), deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大), and chairman of Beijing (北京) Lvnong Xingyun Smart Agriculture Professional Cooperative (北京绿农兴云智慧农业专业合作社)
Anhui (安徽) Hefei (合肥) Xinqiao (新桥) Intelligent Electric Vehicle Industrial Park——
"Producing new energy vehicles, we must also contribute to carbon reduction"
People's Daily reporter Li Junjie (李俊杰)
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Xinqiao (新桥) Intelligent Electric Vehicle Industrial Park in Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽) is already a busy scene.
In the general assembly workshop of NIO Advanced Manufacturing Xinqiao (新桥) Second Factory, automobile parts such as seats and bumpers are directly sent to the production line via a 400-meter automated track as soon as they come off the line from the partner factory. "In the past, these large parts had to be purchased and transported across provinces," said Yin Liang (殷亮), head of NIO Advanced Manufacturing Xinqiao (新桥) Second Factory, pointing to this aerial passage.
This change is the result of NIO's promotion of green supply chain construction. Yin Liang (殷亮) introduced that NIO has laid out several industrial parks in Xinqiao (新桥), Lu'an (六安), and other places within a 1.5-hour radius of Hefei (合肥), and promoted the localization of parts and components. "Calculated based on a production capacity of 1 million vehicles, the company can save about 3 billion yuan in logistics costs alone when fully produced, and carbon emissions are also greatly reduced."
"In addition to carbon reduction at the logistics end, we pay great attention to integrating the concept of green development into all aspects of the industrial chain," NIO Chairman Li Bin (李斌) told reporters that they actively united with partners to formulate carbon reduction strategies and promote collaborative carbon reduction. At present, they have carried out ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance) reviews of hundreds of partners, comprehensively improving the sustainable development capabilities of partners and making green a consensus of the industrial chain.
Walking out of the general assembly workshop, the photovoltaic panels on the roof of the factory building are particularly eye-catching. Yin Liang (殷亮) said that NIO built distributed photovoltaic power stations in the factory to realize self-generation and self-use, and surplus electricity is connected to the grid. At the same time, energy conservation and consumption reduction are achieved through measures such as waste heat recovery, comprehensive use of LED lamps, and process cooling circulating water reuse, making green production the norm. With full life cycle green management, NIO Advanced Manufacturing Factory was rated as a national-level green factory in 2025. "Producing new energy vehicles, we must also contribute to carbon reduction," Li Bin (李斌) said.
This is also a microcosm of Anhui's (安徽) promotion of green manufacturing system construction. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," Anhui Province (安徽省) has cultivated a total of 410 provincial-level green factories and created 208 national-level green factories. By the end of 2024, the province's industrial enterprises above designated size supported a 7.9% increase in added value with an average annual energy consumption growth of 3.8%, and the cumulative decline in energy consumption per unit of industrial added value was 14.2%.
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In recent years, China's (中国) automobile industry has developed rapidly, which is precisely due to reform and innovation, and the continuous upgrading and optimization of the industrial ecology. As a front-line industrial worker, my main work focuses on the CNC machining of core precision parts independently developed by China (中国) FAW, anchoring the key and difficult points of new energy vehicle electric drives. The upstream and downstream industrial chain of the automobile industry is long, and a good industrial ecology is particularly critical. In the future, upstream and downstream enterprises must adhere to the concept of green development, further strengthen interaction and exchange, improve quality and efficiency, and contribute to the realization of the "dual carbon" goal.
——Yang Yongxiu (杨永修), deputy to the National People's Congress (全国人大), and chief skill master of China (中国) FAW
People's Daily reporters Yang Hao (杨昊), Yi Shuran (易舒冉), Pan Junqiang (潘俊强), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), and Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿) participated in the writing
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Return to TopTo improve people's livelihoods should be the focus of promoting social development, and steadily improve the quality of people's lives while developing the economy.
——January 20, 2026, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the opening ceremony of the thematic seminar for leading provincial and ministerial-level cadres to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee
Liaoning (辽宁) Dandong (丹东) City Improves the Quality of Preschool Education
"The children are happy every day, and we parents are at ease"
By Our Correspondent Hao Yingcan (郝迎灿)
On the playground of the No. 1 Kindergarten in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County (宽甸满族自治县) in Dandong (丹东) City, Liaoning Province (辽宁省), 4-year-old Qi Huaimu (戚怀沐) holds tightly to the climbing frame, trying to climb with the help of a teacher. Not far away, several children are building blocks on the artificial turf, having a great time.
"The activity venues and recreational facilities in the kindergarten are becoming more and more complete. The children are happy every day, and we parents are at ease," said Lin Lingling (林灵玲), Qi Huaimu's (戚怀沐) mother. The No. 1 Kindergarten started a renovation project in August 2024, with a total investment of 4 million yuan from the county-level special fund for preschool education. The expansion area reached 1,746 square meters, the park environment was continuously optimized, the classrooms were equipped with air conditioners, disinfection cabinets, and integrated teaching machines, and the corners of the stairs were treated with soft wrapping to prevent collisions.
"In the past, many parents felt that the curriculum was monotonous and were unwilling to send their children here," said Zhang Jing (张晶), the principal of the No. 1 Kindergarten. The Dandong (丹东) Municipal Education Bureau relied on the Municipal Teachers' Training College to form a municipal-level teaching and research team to achieve the sharing of high-quality educational resources. Under the guidance of the municipal-level teaching and research team, the No. 1 Kindergarten actively carried out outdoor labor games such as pulling radishes and picking wild vegetables in combination with local agricultural resources, allowing children to get close to nature and enhance their hands-on abilities.
In recent years, Dandong (丹东) City has increased financial investment, focusing on supporting the development of inclusive kindergartens. "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the city has accumulated 174 million yuan in funds from higher authorities to support the development of preschool education, improving the conditions for running kindergartens at all levels and of all types," said Liu Yunyi (刘云怡), a specialist in basic education and preschool education at the Dandong (丹东) Municipal Education Bureau. The transformation from "having education in early childhood" is accelerating towards "having quality education in early childhood."
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"Having education in early childhood" is related to family happiness and, more importantly, to the high-quality development of the population. It is necessary to strengthen top-level design, rationally allocate resources, promote the extension of high-quality childcare resources to rural areas, and promote balanced urban-rural development. In addition, it is necessary to implement systems such as maternity leave, parental leave, and paternity leave, as well as establish a cost-sharing mechanism for childbirth and explore the promotion of "parental shared parental leave."
——Yu Xueli (于学利), National Committee Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and Chairman of the Shenyang (沈阳) Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Liaoning Province (辽宁省)
Chongqing (重庆) Tongnan (潼南) District Promotes the High-Quality and Balanced Development of Basic Education
"Let more children not only 'have access to education' but also 'have access to good education'"
By Our Correspondent Shen Jingran (沈靖然)
"Students, which historical event does this photo record?" In the classroom of Class 8, Grade 2 of Baizi Middle School (柏梓中学) in Tongnan (潼南) District, Chongqing (重庆) City, Hou Jiawei (侯嘉伟), a history teacher from Chongqing No. 8 Middle School (重庆八中) about 100 kilometers away, is asking questions on the large screen next to the blackboard.
"It's the May Fourth Movement!" student Xie Yuqi (谢钰琪) raises her hand to answer. For her, history class used to be boring, relying entirely on "**死记硬背**" (sǐ jì yìng bèi - "memorize by rote," to learn something by heart without understanding). Since 2024, Tongnan (潼南) District has implemented the "1281" digital action, and Baizi Middle School (柏梓中学) has signed an agreement with Chongqing No. 8 Middle School (重庆八中) to join the dual-teacher classroom. Teachers from No. 8 Middle School give live lectures, and teachers from the local school provide on-site tutoring, so that children in rural towns can also "join" famous school classrooms. Xie Yuqi (谢钰琪) gradually discovered that history is no longer words on paper, but vivid scenes. "I used to think that famous schools were far away, but now I have access to high-quality courses every day," Xie Yuqi (谢钰琪) said. As of now, Tongnan (潼南) District has built 46 dual-teacher classrooms, basically covering all junior and senior high schools.
In order to promote the balanced development of high-quality educational resources, Tongnan (潼南) District issued a plan in 2025, and Baizi Middle School (柏梓中学) was included in two education communities: as a co-construction member school, it formed a community with Tongnan (潼南) District Dafo Junior High School (大佛初级中学校), sharing resources, jointly managing, jointly researching teaching, and bundling assessments; as a collaborative member school, it received business guidance from Tongnan Middle School (潼南中学). Chen Mingfeng (陈明峰), the head teacher of Xie Yuqi's (谢钰琪) class, will go to Dafo Junior High School (大佛初级中学校) to participate in joint teaching and research, and will also participate in business training at Tongnan Middle School (潼南中学).
"In the past, we were **摸着石头过河** (mō zhe shítou guò hé - "feeling for stones to cross the river," to feel one's way; to proceed with caution), but now we are sailing out to sea on a big ship," Chen Mingfeng (陈明峰) said. In the classroom, Teacher Chen cooperates with teachers from famous schools, one is responsible for lecturing, and the other is responsible for face-to-face tutoring.
"Tongnan (潼南) District will use digitalization and education communities as dual engines, and strive to achieve a coverage rate of more than 90% for education communities by 2027, and cultivate 4 district-level demonstration education communities. At the same time, we will implement rigid investment in education, so that more children not only 'have access to education' but also 'have access to good education'," said Liu Zhiyong (刘志勇), director of the Tongnan (潼南) District Education Commission.
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To promote the high-quality and balanced development of education, two aspects are worth paying attention to: First, accelerate the promotion of small-class teaching, optimize class size standards and teacher-student ratio configuration, so that every child can receive more attention and personalized support; second, improve the teacher training system, and strengthen teachers' learning and practice of teaching methods before they take up their posts.
——Liu Xiya (刘希娅), National People's Congress Representative (全国人大代表) and Party Secretary of Xiejiawan School (谢家湾学校) in Jiulongpo (九龙坡) District, Chongqing (重庆) City
Hubei (湖北) Xiaogan (孝感) City Supports Entrepreneurship to Drive Employment
"Good policies fill me with motivation"
By Our Correspondent Wu Jun (吴君)
Just after the Spring Festival holiday, Xiong Chuanbing (熊传兵), general manager of Hubei Bingdian Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (湖北冰点文化传播有限公司) in Xiaonan (孝南) District, Xiaogan (孝感) City, Hubei Province (湖北省), arrived at the office on time and held a work meeting: "Next, we must combine various policies to promote consumption and do a good job in the local cultural tourism sector."
Xiong Chuanbing (熊传兵) introduced that he registered this cultural training company in Xiaogan (孝感) when he was in college, mainly engaged in e-commerce live broadcasting. When he graduated from graduate school, the company was already taking shape. "Xiaogan (孝感) has many support measures for entrepreneurs, and good policies fill me with motivation," Xiong Chuanbing (熊传兵) said. In 2019, he returned to Xiaogan (孝感) and operated the company with 3 colleagues. "At that time, the company decided to expand the e-commerce business sector. The staff of the Xiaonan (孝南) District Bureau of Commerce took us to carry out live streaming activities to help us promote, and our business developed rapidly," Xiong Chuanbing (熊传兵) said.
Just as the company's development was about to enter the "fast lane," it encountered financial difficulties. Just when everyone was anxious, the staff of the Xiaonan (孝南) District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau took the initiative to come to the door, guiding Xiong Chuanbing (熊传兵) to fill out the materials and helping him contact the bank to apply for a loan. In about a week, a loan of 600,000 yuan arrived, solving the company's urgent need.
Taking entrepreneurship to drive employment, Bao Dabing (包大斌), Party Secretary and Director of the Xiaogan (孝感) Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, introduced that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xiaogan (孝感) City added 30,900 return-to-hometown entrepreneurial entities.
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Creating an environment that supports entrepreneurship is very important for the development of enterprises. Enterprises and workers can develop and progress together in entrepreneurship. The process of enterprises becoming stronger, better, and bigger is also the process of workers' self-realization. Let every worker be able to work with peace of mind, with dignity, and live a happy life, and inject solid strength into common prosperity!
——Ma Xinqiang (马新强), National People's Congress Representative (全国人大代表), Party Secretary and Chairman of Hualu Technology (华工科技)
Jiangsu (江苏) Suzhou (苏州) City Has Provided Nearly 10 Million Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Medical Services
"Using data to replace the masses running errands"
By Our Correspondent Wang Weijian (王伟健)
Zhang Shirong (张士荣), a resident of Yuanhe (元和) Street, Xiangcheng (相城) District, Suzhou (苏州) City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省), is 73 years old this year and suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Recently, his condition has worsened, and he decided to consult his "private doctor" on his mobile phone first.
Opening the "AI (Artificial Intelligence) Personal Health Assistant" in the "Healthy Suzhou Palm" mobile program, Zhang Shirong (张士荣) described the symptoms in detail: "Severe cough, a lot of phlegm..." The screen quickly popped up a reply: "Combining your history of COPD, the aggravation of cough is considered to be related to exposure to cold air, you can observe first..." This "doctor's advice" based on massive medical knowledge and algorithm analysis alleviated Zhang Shirong's (张士荣) anxiety.
The next day, Zhang Shirong (张士荣) came to the Yuanhe (元和) Street Community Health Service Center for treatment. In addition to the familiar doctor Shen Tao (沈涛), there was also an "AI general practitioner" who received him. Zhang Shirong's (张士荣) past medical records have been accurately stored in the "super brain" of the "AI general practitioner." When Shen Tao (沈涛) communicated with the elderly, a standardized and complete electronic outpatient medical record was automatically generated.
Since 2024, Suzhou (苏州) has successively piloted "grassroots AI general practitioners" in Zhangjiagang (张家港), Kunshan (昆山), Xiangcheng (相城) and other places. With the authorization and consent of residents, personal health information is collected to realize the "dual doctor collaboration" of grassroots doctors + AI general practitioners. As of now, pilot institutions have provided nearly 10 million AI-assisted services, which will be promoted throughout Suzhou (苏州) City this year. "Using data to replace the masses running errands, it is convenient for the masses to seek medical treatment," said Zhang Minglin (章鸣林), Party Secretary and Director of the Suzhou (苏州) Municipal Health Commission.
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Using data to replace the masses running errands is a microcosm of the construction of digital China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. With the help of AI's "super brain," people can fully understand their health status. People with chronic diseases can use AI to assist in chronic disease management and improve the dual effects of prevention and medical treatment.
——Gong Weijuan (龚卫娟), National Committee Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and Vice President of Yangzhou University (扬州大学)
Anhui (安徽) Chizhou (池州) City Has Built and Operated 177 Elderly Meal Assistance Points
"Responding to urgent needs and difficulties, and doing warm and practical things"
By Our Correspondent Li Junjie (李俊杰)
At noon, in the elderly canteen of Kangqiao (康桥) Village, Shengli (胜利) Town, Dongzhi (东至) County, Chizhou (池州) City, Anhui Province (安徽省), smoke curls up and the aroma of food wafts.
The Kangqiao (康桥) Village Elderly Canteen was founded in 2022. "The elderly aged 60 to 70 pay 5 yuan per meal, the elderly aged 70 to 80 pay 3 yuan, and those over 80 are free," said Zhou Keyu (周可育), an elderly man who was eating, with a smile.
In the back kitchen of the canteen, the chef is Song Hemiao (宋禾苗), a 68-year-old villager. Next to him, picking vegetables, serving food, and wiping tables are all elderly people who come here to eat. Zhang Qing (章庆), Party Secretary of the Kangqiao (康桥) Village General Branch, said that in order to make the elderly canteen "**办得起、管得好、可持续**" (bàn dé qǐ, guǎn dé hǎo, kě chí xù - "affordable, well-managed, and sustainable," to be able to afford it, manage it well, and sustain it), the village cadres conducted on-the-spot investigations and sat down with members of the village elderly association to reach a consensus and explore the model of "government subsidy, village management, and elderly management."
In order to promote the implementation of this model, the village designed a mutual assistance mechanism: the 28 villagers' groups in the village are uniformly divided into 8 areas, and each area is responsible for the operation of the elderly canteen for one week in turn; each area selects 3 elderly people who are in good health and have good cooking skills to cook, and others voluntarily help wash dishes, wipe tables, and clean up the hall.
Zhu Yunyun (朱芸芸), Party Secretary and Director of the Chizhou (池州) Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, introduced that Chizhou (池州) has included elderly meal assistance in people's livelihood since 2022. As of now, 177 elderly meal assistance points have been built and operated in the city. "Relying on rural happiness homes and village-level elderly care service stations (points) to extend service tentacles, responding to urgent needs and difficulties, and doing warm and practical things," Zhu Yunyun (朱芸芸) said.
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China's elderly care service system construction has achieved phased results, and service models such as inclusive elderly care and mutual assistance elderly care are constantly innovating, and rural elderly care service exploration has also made certain breakthroughs. The next step is to vigorously develop "medical and health care integration" and "health and wellness integration" to better meet the health and elderly care needs of the elderly; in terms of rural elderly care, summarize and promote the mutual assistance elderly care service model, so that rural elderly care can be "**不出村、不离乡**" (bù chū cūn, bù lí xiāng - "not leave the village, not leave the hometown," to be able to stay in one's own village/hometown).
——Kong Tao (孔涛), National People's Congress Representative (全国人大代表), Deputy Secretary of the Tongling (铜陵) Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Anhui Province (安徽省)
Fujian (福建) Putian (莆田) City Chengxiang (城厢) District Completes the Repatriation of 22,000 Sets of Resettlement Housing
"Living in a good house, life is peaceful and comfortable"
By Our Correspondent Shi Yu (施钰)
After sending her granddaughter to school, Yao Xiuxiang (姚秀香) rode her electric car to the vegetable market to buy vegetables again. "It's close for the children to go to school, it's close for me to buy vegetables, and it's also close to go to the hospital for medical treatment. This house is really convenient to live in!" Yao Xiuxiang (姚秀香) is 62 years old this year, and her family of four lives in the Longdejing Yiheju (龙德井颐和居) community in Chengxiang (城厢) District, Putian (莆田) City, Fujian Province (福建省).
The Longdejing (龙德井) area is located in the old city. Before the renovation, there were many dilapidated houses and a lack of supporting facilities. Yao Xiuxiang (姚秀香) lived in a self-built house built in 1984. "It was inconvenient to enter and exit, and the terrain was low. When it rained heavily, the water would reach my knees."
In 2020, the dilapidated house renovation project in the Longdejing (龙德井) area was officially launched. Yao Xiuxiang's (姚秀香) family signed the demolition and resettlement contract in the first batch. In 2024, the Yiheju (颐和居) community was handed over in a concentrated manner as scheduled. In 2025, Yao Xiuxiang's (姚秀香) family moved into a new house of 120 square meters, 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms and 2 bathrooms. The community has separate pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and the elementary school is across the road, and it is a 5-minute walk to the park.
Sending Spring Festival couplets, free clinics, performances... During the Spring Festival, community activities were held one after another. Chen Lisheng (陈丽生), the property manager of Putian (莆田) City Chengxiang (城厢) District Dingcheng Property Management Co., Ltd. (莆田市城厢区鼎诚物业管理有限公司), which is responsible for the Longdejing (龙德井) area, was very busy. "Everyone gets to know each other in community activities, and as they watch the community get better and better, their feelings for this place get deeper and deeper," Yao Xiuxiang (姚秀香) said. "Living in a good house, life is peaceful and comfortable!"
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Chengxiang (城厢) District, Putian (莆田) City accelerated the pace of urban renewal, promoted the implementation of shantytown renovation and old renovation projects, and the built-up area expanded from 23.8 square kilometers to 30 square kilometers. Chen Lin (陈麟), a member of the Party Group of the Chengxiang (城厢) District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, introduced that the district has built 26 resettlement communities and completed the repatriation of 22,000 sets of resettlement housing.
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To allow the masses to live in safe, comfortable, and well-equipped good houses, it is necessary to optimize the living environment, improve the convenience of life, create convenient living circles, make up for supporting services such as elderly care and childcare, and also coordinate efforts from various departments, strictly implement construction standards, deepen governance innovation, and promote the transformation from "**有房住**" (yǒu fáng zhù - "having a house to live in," having shelter) to "**住得好**" (zhù dé hǎo - "living well," having a good quality of life).
——Liu Aiying (刘爱英), National People's Congress Representative (全国人大代表), Party Secretary of Taikang (台康) Community, Haitan (海坛) Street, Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Zone (平潭综合实验区), Fujian Province (福建省) and Director of the Neighborhood Committee
Ningxia (宁夏) Yinchuan (银川) City Comprehensively Implements Policies to Help People in Need
"Let the warmth brought by policies always be more than the difficulties of the masses"
By Our Correspondent Qin Ruijie (秦瑞杰)
In the evening, in the conference room of Kangyuan (康园) Community, Yingu (银古) Road Street, Xingqing (兴庆) District, Yinchuan (银川) City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区), the heads of the Xingqing (兴庆) District Civil Affairs Department, Yingu (银古) Road Street, and Kangyuan (康园) Community sat together, flipping through thick medical records. The discussion continued until late at night, and finally a consensus was reached: to start the minimum living guarantee review process for Wang Xia (王霞) and her son, residents of the jurisdiction.
This guardianship began in early 2023. At that time, the civil affairs specialist of Kangyuan (康园) Community found in a routine visit that Wang Xia (王霞) was living alone with her 3-year-old child. The child was ill and needed long-term treatment, and medical expenses put the family in trouble.
After learning about the situation, Kangyuan (康园) Community and the Xingqing (兴庆) District Civil Affairs Department jointly held a review meeting. In less than 3 days, Wang Xia's (王霞) temporary assistance application was approved, and the assistance funds arrived in time. In September of the same year, the mother and son were included in the minimum living guarantee, receiving a monthly minimum living allowance of 1,258 yuan.
In response to the actual situation of Wang Xia's (王霞) family, Kangyuan (康园) Community continued to carry out targeted assistance. Considering that Wang Xia (王霞) had been taking care of her sick child alone for a long time and may have psychological pressure, the community and the Women's Federation arranged for psychological counselors to come to the door every week to provide counseling. Li Haiping (李海萍), Party Secretary of the Kangyuan (康园) Community Party Committee, contacted units in the jurisdiction in many ways to win her a public welfare position closest to her home. After assistance, Wang Xia's (王霞) family income increased and she no longer enjoyed the minimum living guarantee. In early 2025, the child's treatment costs increased. The civil affairs department, street, and community once again launched the assistance program and started the minimum living guarantee review for Wang Xia (王霞) and her son. "Let the warmth brought by policies always be more than the difficulties of the masses," said Li Haiping (李海萍).
The story of Wang Xia (王霞) and her son is a microcosm of the social assistance work in Yinchuan (银川) City. Yinchuan (银川) City has opened up the barriers between judicial assistance and social assistance. 12 departments including civil affairs, education, and human resources and social security have jointly established a "two-way clue transfer" mechanism, giving priority to minors, women in difficulty, and people with disabilities as assistance objects to ensure that assistance is not delayed or absent. In 2025, Yinchuan (银川) City distributed a total of 456 million yuan in various assistance subsidies, benefiting 78,300 people in need.
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China's social assistance work is becoming more and more refined, and is gradually transforming into a comprehensive assistance model of "material + service." Personalized services such as psychological counseling, employment assistance, and medical support have been incorporated into institutional design and legal protection, making assistance more precise and warmer.
——Liu Jianguo (刘建国), National Committee Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and President of the Ningxia (宁夏) Lawyers Association
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Return to TopThe more effective the Party's governance, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development. We must advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with the perseverance and dedication of always being on the road.
——October 23, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the second plenary meeting of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Huilongshan Yao Ethnic Township in Zixing City (资兴市), Hunan Province, strengthens Party building to lead grassroots governance——
With a "backbone," people's hearts will not be scattered
People's Daily reporter Sun Chao (孙超)
Driving in Huilongshan (回龙山), Zixing City (资兴市), Hunan Province (湖南), the road twists and turns, and the fog is misty. Arriving at Erfeng Village (二峰村), Huilongshan Yao Ethnic Township (回龙山瑶族乡), Zhao Hongjiang (赵红江), a farmhouse operator, has already set up a long table banquet to welcome tourists.
Erfeng Village (二峰村) was once awarded the title of "Chinese Ethnic Minority Characteristic Village." A road leading to the Huilongshan Scenic Area (回龙山景区) passes through the village, and many villagers have become wealthy by opening farmhouses along the road. However, three years ago, another new road led directly to the scenic area, and many people lost confidence as they watched the flow of customers on the old road plummet.
"At this time, with the grassroots Party organization as the 'backbone,' people's hearts will not be scattered," said Zhao Chunmei (赵春梅), a National People's Congress representative and secretary of the Erfeng Village (二峰村) Party Branch and director of the village committee. "We must change our thinking, let Party members play a leading role, and work together to find a way out!"
That year, Zhao Chunmei (赵春梅) led the village Party branch to organize a symposium on "Working Together to Build Erfeng Village (二峰村)." She encouraged everyone to boldly express their opinions and come up with ideas. "At the meeting, everyone no longer acted as bystanders, but 'put themselves in the picture' and talked about what they could do next," Zhao Chunmei (赵春梅) said. "One learning discussion after another gathered people's hearts and also gathered 'golden ideas' for the village's development."
"The key is to rely on culture to attract people." As a young Party member and the village's "Yao ethnic culture inheritor," Zhao Hongjiang (赵红江) took the initiative to lead the young people at home to join the village-level ethnic culture team. From folk performances to long table banquets, from study tours to live broadcasts, under the leadership of the village Party organization, new experiences have enriched the cultural tourism industry in Erfeng Village (二峰村). Zhao Hongjiang (赵红江) said, "In the past, tourists came 'along the way,' but in the future, we hope they will come 'specifically'."
"The '15th Five-Year Plan' proposal emphasizes the coordinated promotion of grassroots Party organizations in various fields, enhancing the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and giving play to the exemplary role of Party members," Zhao Chunmei (赵春梅) said. "Looking at it in comparison, we have been on the right track in recent years by leading the development of cultural tourism integration with grassroots Party building!"
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To promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, it is necessary to give full play to the "backbone" role of grassroots Party organizations. To deepen the work of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside through Party building, the first step is to select and strengthen the "two committees" of the village, especially the secretary of the Party organization, and strengthen the building of a team of rural leaders. Some village cadres have shortcomings in their abilities in rural construction, rural governance, and rural development. They can improve the ability and quality of grassroots cadres in multiple dimensions through various forms such as "inviting in" to speak and "going out" to learn.
It is recommended to further improve the incentive mechanism, and through reform and innovation, continue to attract outstanding young talents to return, so as to fundamentally enhance the endogenous power of rural development.
——Gao Ya (高亚), National People's Congress representative, secretary of the Party General Branch and director of the village committee of Chitang Village (赤塘村), Santangjie Town (三堂街镇), Taojiang County (桃江县), Yiyang City (益阳市), Hunan Province (湖南)
Cadres in Fuling District (涪陵区), Chongqing (重庆), promote industrial development through work style construction——
"Green Knobs" Become "Golden Knobs"
People's Daily reporter Wang Xinyue (王欣悦)
"In the past, selling vegetables had no guarantee, but now selling vegetables is stable and fast." Recently, at the pickled mustard tuber (zhacai) acquisition point in Dengjia Village (邓家村), Jiangbei Street (江北街道), Fuling District (涪陵区), Chongqing (重庆), farmer Liu Honglan (刘洪兰) held the hand of Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰), deputy director of the Jiangbei Street (江北街道) Office in Fuling District (涪陵区), and smiled from ear to ear. Around the Spring Festival this year, Liu Honglan (刘洪兰) completed the order delivery of nearly 20 mu of pickled mustard tuber in just 20 days, which was unimaginable in the past.
In this year's pickled mustard tuber acquisition, Jiangbei Street (江北街道) made good use of the "Pickled Mustard Tuber Industry Brain" to achieve efficient order matching with accurate data, and established a "three-level investigation, two-level distribution, and special team verification" order delivery mechanism. However, in actual implementation, another problem was encountered: pickled mustard tubers are scattered in various villages and households, and the output, pool capacity, and sales time of each household are different. What should be done?
In order to find out the bottom line, Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰) took the staff of the Agricultural Service Center and started a carpet-like visit. In the farmers' homes, they carefully recorded the volume of the pool and the needs of the farmers; when visiting pickled mustard tuber enterprises, they learned in detail about the enterprises' acquisition plans and storage capacity arrangements. "The data in the system must be accurate, and it must be verified by walking on foot," Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰) said.
During one visit, Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰) found that Liu Honglan (刘洪兰) was worried about the low price of order acquisition. He immediately took out his mobile phone and retrieved the historical price data and the current year's guaranteed price policy from the "Pickled Mustard Tuber Industry Brain," calculated and compared them one by one, until Liu Honglan (刘洪兰) nodded repeatedly: "Director Zhang (张主任), I'll listen to you and follow the order!"
On the day of the opening acquisition after the Rain Water solar term, Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰) came to Dengjia Village (邓家村) again to learn about the pickled mustard tuber acquisition. Instead of being a "commander," he was a "server," connecting with purchasers and verifying orders. Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰) was very busy. Liu Honglan (刘洪兰) saw him from afar and hurried to pull him to her own vegetable field: "Director Zhang (张主任), this year, with order acquisition and a guaranteed price, I dare to spend money to hire people to cut vegetables, and I have planted a few more mu. I feel very at ease."
"The affirmation of the masses is more valuable than any reward," Zhang Jinfeng (张晋丰) said. Implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation does not involve any window dressing. It means that cadres go down, visit each family, and look at each piece of land. When the work style is solid, the data is accurate, and the industry will be smooth. "Pickled mustard tuber is still the same pickled mustard tuber, but the 'green knobs' have become 'golden knobs'."
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Persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, promote cadres to walk out of government offices and into fields and factory workshops, and promote development with practical work and effectiveness.
Fuling District (涪陵区) focuses on the pickled mustard tuber, a characteristic industry that enriches the people, organizes cadres to comprehensively investigate the real situation of planting, output, transportation, etc., and relies on the "Pickled Mustard Tuber Industry Brain" to solve the problems of farmers' difficulty in selling vegetables and enterprises' slow acquisition of vegetables, so that the inconspicuous "green knobs" in the fields have truly become "golden knobs" for increasing the income of the masses. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," Fuling District (涪陵区) will create a "Industry Brain + Future Farm + Future Factory" development model with a pragmatic and responsible work style and improve the modern agricultural industry system.
——Li Yong (黎勇), National Committee Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Secretary of the Fuling District (涪陵区) Committee of Chongqing (重庆)
Shanghai (上海) Promotes the Renovation and Reconstruction of Old Housing——
Taking Serving the People as the Most Important Achievement
People's Daily reporter Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏)
Not long ago, Ni Xiuying (倪秀英), a resident of Caoxi Third Village (漕溪三村) in Xuhui District (徐汇区), Shanghai (上海), spent her first Spring Festival in her new home.
The kitchen is fully equipped with stoves, the bathroom is clean and tidy, and the bedroom is warmly decorated... "Compared with before the renovation, life is really comfortable." Sitting in the living room, Ni Xiuying (倪秀英) told reporters about her past life.
The two buildings in Caoxi Third Village (漕溪三村) were built in the 1960s, but there was no bathroom—who would have thought that in the central urban area of Shanghai (上海), solving the toilet problem still required people to "carry chamber pots." "When it was coldest in winter, I had to get up early in the morning and carry the chamber pot to the public toilet across the street to empty it," Ni Xiuying (倪秀英) said.
In order to solve the housing difficulties of residents, Shanghai (上海) launched rounds of renovation and reconstruction of old housing. By July 2022, the central urban area had comprehensively completed the renovation of houses below the second-class old neighborhoods. In 2023, Shanghai (上海) formulated a goal of completing the renovation task in two years for 14,000 households of residents who "carry chamber pots" scattered in various places and launched a comprehensive campaign.
In September 2025, Ni Xiuying (倪秀英) received the keys to her new home. Also in this month, with the completion of the signing and relocation of the last batch of residents who "carry chamber pots," Shanghai (上海) completed the final battle of the old housing renovation ahead of schedule.
The renovation work has always revolved around the needs of "people": from solving the "toilet problem" to improving the overall living environment, Shanghai (上海) completed the complete renovation of 436,000 square meters of old housing such as small-beam thin-slab houses last year and promoted the installation of elevators in 3,295 existing multi-story residential buildings; from protecting historical and cultural context to creating vibrant spaces, Shanghai (上海) adheres to the principle of "preserving, renovating, and demolishing" and focuses on preservation and protection, doing a good job in the renovation of relevant old areas, and a number of old residential areas such as Zhangyuan (张园), Block 228 (228街坊), and Caoyang New Village (曹杨新村) have been revitalized...
Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a notice to carry out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements throughout the Party. Practicing the concept of a people's city, establishing a view of achievements that benefit the people, and allowing the masses to better share the fruits of modernization, Shanghai (上海) has embarked on a new path of urban governance modernization that is in line with the characteristics and laws of megacities.
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Shanghai (上海) has completely bid farewell to "carrying chamber pots," solved the urgent needs and worries of the masses, and truly reflects "taking serving the people as the most important achievement."
Through years of continuous struggle, aiming at "key small things" and working on them year after year, with long-term efforts and perseverance, this has not only improved the level of urban infrastructure, but also vividly reflects the adherence to the concept of a people's city.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal proposes to allow the fruits of modernization to benefit all people more and more fairly. This requires us to proceed from the interests of the people, focus more on the people's sense of gain in development, and firmly anchor the fundamental purpose of development on improving people's well-being.
——Sheng Hong (盛弘), National People's Congress representative, secretary of the Party General Branch of the Gubei Ronghua Fourth Residential District (古北荣华第四居民区), Hongqiao Street (虹桥街道), Changning District (长宁区), Shanghai (上海)
Quzhou City (衢州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), Reduces the Burden on Grassroots Levels Through Smart Empowerment——
The Burden is Reduced, and the Efficiency is Increased
People's Daily reporter Dou Hao (窦皓)
Early in the morning, Zhu Huafang (朱华芳), secretary of the Party General Branch of Xinhu Community (新湖社区), Baiyun Street (白云街道), Kecheng District (柯城区), Quzhou City (衢州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), began to "stroll" in the community and chat with residents who were doing morning exercises.
Thinking of the scene a few months ago, Zhu Huafang (朱华芳) sighed at the great changes: At that time, in front of the office desk, a resident came to ask for a seal on a "weird certificate" required by a certain unit; and on the desk was another assessment report that was about to expire. "If I accepted it, I was afraid of taking the blame; if I didn't accept it, I was afraid of being complained about. At that time, it was really difficult to move forward or backward, and I was hesitant to work," Zhu Huafang (朱华芳) admitted frankly.
The change came from a small QR code.
Quzhou City (衢州市), on the basis of scientifically clarifying the "list of powers and responsibilities" for village and community performance and delineating the boundaries of grassroots responsibilities, launched a "burden reduction code." When grassroots cadres encounter tasks outside the list or certificates outside their responsibilities, they can scan the code to report anonymously.
"After the 'burden reduction code' was launched, when we encountered matters that exceeded our responsibilities or exceeded the list, we could scan the code to report, and the district would coordinate and handle it in a timely manner, so we no longer have to be in a dilemma," Zhu Huafang (朱华芳) said with emotion. "Now, every community cadre in Quzhou (衢州) has this QR code in their WeChat favorites."
In the command center of the Social Work Department of the Kecheng District (柯城区) Committee, a huge electronic screen displays a "grassroots burden heat map" that is very eye-catching—automatically "portraying" townships and streets around dimensions such as task pressure, event processing volume, and personnel allocation, and visually presenting the burden status with "green, yellow, and red" three-color lights.
"This is equivalent to installing a 'load monitoring instrument' for the grassroots," Zhu Qin (朱钦), deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xinxin Street (新新街道), Kecheng District (柯城区), figuratively said. "Whether the burden is light or heavy is clear at a glance. The allocation of resources and empowerment of the grassroots by the higher authorities is also more based on evidence, realizing precise 'decompression'."
The burden is reduced, and the efficiency is increased. Du Xinglin (杜兴林), deputy secretary of the Quzhou (衢州) Municipal Committee and minister of the Social Work Department, said that by using "code" to manage "burden" and "map" to predict risks, a governance mechanism integrating system and technology has been built, allowing cadres to free themselves from cumbersome affairs and promoting more considerate grassroots services and more precise governance.
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Reducing the burden on the grassroots level allows cadres to have more time and energy to serve the people, and the efficiency of grassroots governance is further improved.
For example, in our Anji County (安吉县), in the past, people often asked the village to stamp certificates such as no criminal record. Now, the county regards creating "certificate-free villages (communities)" as a key link in reducing the burden on the grassroots level, and has cancelled 42 certificates that were originally issued by villages and communities at one time, which greatly reduces the time that grassroots cadres originally needed to spend on verification.
The burden is reduced, and the efficiency is increased. Continuously rectifying formalism and allowing grassroots cadres to start lightly, truly unloading the "extra burdens" that grassroots cadres should not have on their shoulders, can allow grassroots cadres to better return to the "original intention" and "profession" of serving the masses and do practical things well.
——Wang Yucheng (汪玉成), National People's Congress representative, secretary of the Party Branch and director of the Village Committee of Yucun Village (余村村), Anji County (安吉县), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省)
Hepu County (合浦县), Guangxi (广西), Resolutely Punishes Grassroots "Micro-Corruption"——
Handling Cases Strengthens Deterrence and Pierces the Network of Interests
People's Daily reporter Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺)
"The rural collective asset supervision platform issued an early warning reminder that the village was suspected of signing a super-long-term contract of 36 years..." In June 2025, the Hepu County (合浦县) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Beihai City (北海市), Guangxi (广西), conducted research on deepening the centralized rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, and found in Pingtian Village (平田村), Baisha Town (白沙镇), that more than 2,000 mu of collective land in the village was not included in "three assets" management.
Following the clues to dig deeper, a deeper malaise was unexpectedly revealed—Xu (徐), the actual controller of a food company, not only encroached on the collective land rent of the Pingtian Village (平田村) Committee, but also fabricated names to raise slaughter service fees, seriously harming the interests of the masses.
In the market, merchant Liu (刘) opened his account book: "The slaughter service fees have been much more expensive in recent years, but the meat we get back is often short in weight." The only slaughterhouse in the county is controlled by the food company. The company bribed animal quarantine staff to request relaxed quarantine supervision requirements; by instructing purchasing and marketing stations to falsify, it made a profit of about 500,000 yuan per year... In July 2025, the County Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission took detention measures against Xu (徐) in accordance with the law and filed cases for investigation against a number of public officials, forming a strong deterrent to "not dare to be corrupt."
In the face of the deeply rooted network of interests, the County Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission insisted on investigating and rectifying at the same time, and promptly promoted the Pingtian Village (平田村) Committee of Baisha Town (白沙镇) to recover more than 2,000 mu of village collective land in accordance with legal procedures.
In September 2025, under the promotion of the County Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission, departments such as the Development and Reform Commission and the Agriculture Department issued relevant slaughter industry conventions to regulate relevant charging items, and the slaughter fee was reduced from 145 yuan/head to 75 yuan/head. At the same time, it supervised and promoted a comprehensive investigation of rural collective "three assets" problems, established a problem and rectification list, and ensured that asset inventory was comprehensive, contract signing was standardized, and asset ledgers were clear.
"In response to the larger corruption problems dug out along the lines of the 'three assets' management problems in Pingtian Village (平田村), we insist on starting with case handling, connecting investigation, rectification, and governance, and taking strengthening case handling deterrence, system constraints, and warning education as the starting point to promote the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt," said the relevant person in charge of the Hepu County (合浦县) Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission.
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Grassroots "micro-corruption" seems small, but it is actually very harmful. Discipline inspection and supervision organs must adhere to the people first, promote the anti-corruption struggle more soberly and firmly, promote the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, so that the people can truly feel that fairness and justice are around them.
The integrated advancement of "three not corrupt" focuses on "integration" and is difficult in "integration." It is necessary to grasp the premise of "not daring to be corrupt," so that corrupt elements pay a heavy price for severe punishment, and use powerful deterrence to prevent those who intend to be corrupt from crossing the red line; grasp the key of "not being able to be corrupt," put power in the cage of the system, so that those who dare to be corrupt have no opportunity to take advantage of; grasp the fundamental of "not wanting to be corrupt," adhere to the use of the Party's innovative theory to strengthen the soul, strengthen Party spirit education and warning education, and guide Party members and cadres to transform "lessons seen in the eyes" into "awe engraved in the heart" and eliminate the idea of corruption at the source of thought.
——Fang Lingmin (房灵敏), National People's Congress representative, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) Party Committee, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and director of the Supervision Commission
Data source: Statistical Bulletin of the Communist Party of China on Party Affairs, website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission, etc.
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Return to TopTides surge in the Yellow and Bohai Seas, and strong winds propel the sails forward; the wind rises in Dalian Bay, writing a new chapter of courage and striving for the first. This spring, Dalian (大连), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), is experiencing a surge of accelerating high-quality development.
Looking back at 2025, Dalian's regional GDP was 1000.21 billion yuan, an increase of 5.7% calculated at constant prices; the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size in the city increased by 11.7% year-on-year, an increase of 4.1 percentage points compared with the same period of the previous year; the integrated development of culture, sports, tourism, commerce, and exhibitions, the number of domestic tourists increased by 20% year-on-year, the comprehensive tourism income increased by 20.4% year-on-year, and the number of inbound tourists increased by 70.2%, hitting a record high... A set of data clearly outlines the trajectory of Dalian's (大连) economy moving towards new and better directions.
This is the result of the struggle of 7.54 million people in Dalian (大连). Dalian (大连), with its warm colors of a beautiful, happy, livable, and business-friendly city, has added a rich and colorful stroke to the picture of the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era.
Bearing responsibility and being pragmatic, Dalian (大连), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), is anchored in the strategic positioning of "pioneer zone for industrial structure optimization and pilot zone for economic and social development" (referred to as "Two Pioneer Zones" (两先区)) and "Northeast Asia International Shipping Center, International Logistics Center, and Regional Financial Center" (referred to as "Three Centers" (三个中心)), striving to be a good "high jump team" for the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era. The whole city resolutely implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, takes the lead and sets an example in the comprehensive revitalization of Liaoning (辽宁) in the new era, focuses on the "six constructions" goals and tasks, and promotes the continuous development of the city's economy towards new and better directions, improving quality and efficiency.
Expand Investment and Promote Consumption
Consolidate the Foundation for High-Quality Development
Although the spring is still cold, the construction site of Dalian Jinzhou Bay International Airport (大连金州湾国际机场) is a busy scene. In the operation area, the workers are full of energy; in the strong compaction area, the heavy compaction hammers weighing dozens of tons rise and fall powerfully... The core projects of the airport project, such as the deep foundation, the main body of the terminal building, and the flight area, are being advanced in an orderly manner. Dalian Jinzhou Bay International Airport (大连金州湾国际机场) is positioned as a 4F-level international airport and a regional aviation hub. The first phase of the project includes two long-distance parallel runways and a 500,000-square-meter T1 terminal building, which can meet the needs of 43 million passengers per year, 550,000 tons of cargo and mail throughput, and 330,000 aircraft takeoffs and landings.
At the construction site of the Dalian Changhai Cross-sea Bridge (大连长海跨海大桥), the builders overcame difficulties. With the precise connection of the last section of the bridge deck structure on January 8, 2026, the main pier steel platform was connected, opening up a key transportation channel for the subsequent construction of the main bridge. The bridge is about 25.5 kilometers long. As an important cross-sea channel connecting Dalian (大连) city and Changhai County (长海县), its completion and opening to traffic will end the history of Changhai County (长海县) relying on ship transportation.
In 2025, Dalian's (大连) major projects were advanced in succession. The second phase of Hengli Heavy Industry (恒力重工), COFCO Oils (中粮油脂) and other projects were completed and put into production. Dalian Jinzhou Bay International Airport (大连金州湾国际机场), Dalian Changhai Cross-sea Bridge (大连长海跨海大桥), Hengli Heavy Industry (恒力重工) Cooperation Innovation and Offshore Engineering Technology Industrial Park and other projects were accelerated. The feasibility study report of the Liaodong Peninsula (辽东半岛) Water Resources Allocation Project was approved by the state, taking a key substantive step. The practical effect of "grasping projects to grasp work" has become prominent.
Consumption is the main engine driving economic growth. Dalian (大连) has been active in boosting consumption, focusing on making domestic demand a source of power and stabilizer for economic growth. In 2025, the city's domestic demand potential continued to be released, the "two new" policies were fully implemented, and the replacement of old consumer goods with new ones leveraged 18.7 billion yuan in consumption, with a leverage ratio of 1:8; more than 400 special exhibitions such as the 14th China International Patent Technology and Products Fair and the 2nd China (Dalian) International Marine Trade Expo were successfully held, as well as 26 high-level concerts; the football economy flourished, and the average audience of the Chinese Super League and FA Cup matches hosted by Dalian Suoyuwan Football Stadium (大连梭鱼湾足球场) exceeded 58,000, and it was known as "Asia's No. 1 Home Stadium," and its attendance rate ranked among the top in the world; 19 international cruise voyages set four national records for ticket sales and tourist satisfaction, and more than 400 major events gathered popularity and showcased the image, and it was successfully selected as a national pilot city for consumption "three new" and a pilot city for promoting sports consumption and event economy, and was named "Model City for Beautiful Consumption."
Strengthen Industry and Focus on Innovation
Activate the Engine of High-Quality Development
Adhering to the principle of establishing the city through industry and strengthening the city through industry, Dalian (大连) is making every effort to promote the renewal and upgrading of traditional industries, consolidate the foundation for development, expand the scale of emerging industries, cultivate growth engines, and proactively lay out future industries, brewing new growth poles, and depicting a new picture of a modern industrial system in which traditional industries, emerging industries, and future industries complement each other with pragmatic efforts.
At the production site of Hengli Heavy Industry (恒力重工) in Dalian Changxing Island (大连长兴岛), giant ships are lined up along the coastline. The construction of ultra-large oil tankers, ultra-large dual-fuel ships, and ultra-large container ships is being promoted simultaneously. Hengli Heavy Industry's (恒力重工) production capacity continues to be released, and production efficiency is steadily improved, showing a trend of "gathering and dispersing oil" for multi-type batch construction and rhythmic delivery. With the accelerated construction of Hengli Heavy Industry (恒力重工) Cooperation Innovation and Offshore Engineering Technology Industrial Park, Dalian (大连) is adding a new engine to build a world-class high-tech ship and high-end marine engineering equipment manufacturing base. General Technology Dalian Machine Tool (通用技术大连机床) is deeply involved in the horizontal machining center track, continuously improving the competitiveness of machine tool products in terms of high precision, high performance, and high rigidity. At the same time, it is transforming from simply providing products to providing intelligent manufacturing solutions, and will promote successful application and service cases in China to overseas, and continue to climb to the high end of the industrial chain value chain.
Dalian (大连) continues to expand the advantageous industrial clusters of "petrochemicals as the mainstay, automobile and shipbuilding acceleration, and strong bearings, machines, rails, and automation," forming a green petrochemical and fine chemical industry cluster with a scale of 400 billion yuan, a new generation of automobile industry cluster with a scale of 100 billion yuan, a shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry with an output value of 80 billion yuan, a high-end bearing and high-end CNC machine tool industry cluster with a scale of 20 billion yuan each, and an advanced rail transit equipment industry cluster with a scale of more than 18 billion yuan. The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries has achieved remarkable results, new momentum is accelerating, and new advantages are constantly being shaped.
Dalian (大连) is vigorously cultivating emerging industries of "information empowerment, energy renewal, low-altitude development, and promising future." The new generation of information technology industry has formed a 200 billion yuan-level industrial cluster, and the third phase of SK Hynix Dalian Factory (SK海力士大连工厂) is accelerating construction; the new energy industry is developing with distinctive characteristics, and has joined the national hydrogen fuel cell vehicle demonstration city cluster; low-altitude economy, life safety, new materials, artificial intelligence and other industries are accelerating their layout. Proactively lay out future industries such as "artificial intelligence +," bio-manufacturing, and life health.
Innovation is the primary driving force for development. In 2025, the construction of Dalian's (大连) science and technology innovation platform accelerated. 25 research fields and 398 laboratories were stationed in Yinggeshi Science City (英歌石科学城), and 5 new national key laboratories and 1 "Belt and Road" joint laboratory were added. The transformation of scientific and technological achievements is accelerating. 9 new municipal-level or above scientific and technological achievement transformation pilot bases and 5 concept verification centers have been built. 4 pilot bases have been selected into the first batch of key cultivation lists of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the local conversion rate of scientific and technological achievements exceeds 45%, and the transaction volume of technology contracts has increased by 10% year-on-year.
Dalian (大连) is deploying innovation chains around industrial chains, laying out industrial chains around innovation chains, integrating technological innovation with industrial upgrading, and forging new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation, comprehensively promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Deepen Reform and Expand Opening-up
Accumulate Momentum for High-Quality Development
The application scenarios of "efficiently handling one matter" reached 77, 40 preferential policies for enterprises were "enjoyed without application," 1226 matters were "available immediately," more than 14,000 matters were "handled online," and the satisfaction of business entities remained above 90%... In 2025, Dalian (大连) delivered an excellent answer sheet for optimizing the business environment.
Dalian (大连) promotes the construction of a first-class business environment with comprehensive and in-depth reform, implements the business environment quality improvement action, makes comprehensive efforts in the construction of five major environments: policy, market, government affairs, rule of law, and culture, and accelerates towards the goal of "building a benchmark city for a business environment that is pleasing to those nearby and attracts those from afar," making Dalian (大连) contributions to Liaoning's (辽宁) creation of "the province with the best reputation for business environment."
The continuously optimized "soft environment" for business is becoming Dalian's (大连) "hard power" for attracting investment. In 2025, the domestic capital in place from outside the province completed 233.479 billion yuan, an increase of 10% year-on-year; the actual use of foreign capital completed 2.697 billion US dollars, an increase of 43.8% year-on-year.
In the early spring, the foreign trade vitality of Dalian Port (大连口岸) continues to surge. Import and export goods from Northeast China gather here and are shipped to all parts of the world. In 2025, the container throughput of Dalian Port (大连港) exceeded 5.4 million TEUs, and the container port performance index jumped to fourth in the world in 2024. The economic operation of the Dalian Area (大连片区) of the Liaoning Free Trade Pilot Zone (辽宁自贸试验区) was stable and improved in quality. The regional GDP increased by 8% year-on-year, the total industrial output value of enterprises above designated size increased by 25.1% year-on-year, the fixed asset investment increased by 5% year-on-year, and the funds in place from outside the province increased by 13% year-on-year, successfully completing the annual target tasks.
As an important coastal central city, Dalian's (大连) opening-up capacity has been further enhanced. The integration and upgrading of the Dalian Area (大连片区) of the Liaoning Free Trade Pilot Zone (辽宁自贸试验区) has made substantial progress. 34 tasks have been supported by the state for pilot trials, and the first bonded LNG shore-based bunkering business in the country has been launched. The construction of the "Three Centers" (三个中心) has accelerated. In 2025, the volume of sea-rail intermodal transport increased by 5.8%, and it was selected into the "Global Financial Centers Index Report" for 22 consecutive times. 286 new foreign-invested enterprises were established, and foreign trade exports increased by 10.6%. Looking at the situation with "data," the footprint of Dalian's (大连) high-quality development is becoming clearer and clearer, and the momentum towards new and upward directions is becoming stronger and stronger.
Those who start sharply must plan for their end, and those who succeed must first plan at the beginning.
2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Standing at a new historical starting point, Dalian (大连) is facing the stars and the sea. The whole city will take advantage of the situation and seize the day, 踔厉奋发 (chuō lì fèn fā - "exert efforts vigorously," to brace oneself and strive forward) and forge ahead courageously, anchor the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and be pragmatic, and constantly create a new situation in the high-quality development of the "Two Pioneer Zones" (两先区) and "Three Centers" (三个中心), and strive to write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Dalian (大连).
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Dalian Municipal Committee (中共大连市委宣传部)
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It's another spring, and deputies and members, carrying the heavy trust and expectations of the people, enter the venue to participate in the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions). Having passed the "14th Five-Year Plan" and striving towards the "15th Five-Year Plan," the deputies and members' path of performing their duties includes in-depth grassroots research, concerted efforts in the same direction, and persistent dedication. They use their opinions and suggestions to promote the implementation of practical measures for the people's livelihood, vividly demonstrating the unique advantages of whole-process people's democracy.
The reporters of this newspaper approach deputies and members at the grassroots level, listen to their stories of deep cultivation in their fields and performing their duties for the people, and feel their original intention of rooting themselves in the land and speaking out for the people.
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Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠), Deputy --
"What the villagers hope for is what we should do"
By Li Rui (李蕊), reporter of this newspaper
"Now is the critical period for wheat growth, so we must pay special attention to climate change." In his room at the驻地, Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠), a National People's Congress deputy and Party Secretary of Gengdian New Village (耿店新村), Jiazhai Town (贾寨镇), Chiping District (茌平区), Liaocheng City (聊城市), Shandong Province (山东省), repeatedly urged his fellow villagers on the phone. During the spring plowing season, field management is at a crucial juncture, and he is concerned about that green field.
As a National People's Congress deputy re-elected for two terms, Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠) has an unwavering habit: carrying a notebook with him, recording everything wherever he goes. From the daily lives of villagers to the soil moisture and seedling conditions in the fields, one item after another, densely packed.
Food security is a matter of national importance. Over the years, Geng Zunzhu's (耿遵珠) research direction has always revolved around food. During a visit a few years ago, a villager squatted in the field and expressed his concerns to him: "The facilities are not keeping up, farming relies on manpower, we work hard and earn little. Many young people would rather go out to work than take care of these few acres of land. Who will farm this land in the future?"
These words weighed heavily on Geng Zunzhu's (耿遵珠) mind. He traveled all over the surrounding counties and cities, chatting with farmers in the furrows, filling his notebook with notes: "Backward irrigation facilities," "Low grain planting benefits" - each word was heavy.
"To ensure food security, we must first make farmers willing to grow grain and grow it well." At last year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions), Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠) brought suggestions based on his research, calling for continued investment in infrastructure to build high-standard farmland into "ton and a half grain" fields; improving the benefit compensation mechanism, implementing support policies such as subsidies and insurance, and mobilizing farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain.
The suggestions were submitted, and the response came down. Before long, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) gave a reply, and the Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (山东省农业农村厅) also specifically sought him out for a discussion to talk about the feasibility of the suggestions. Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠) was gratified that the state's support for the construction of high-standard farmland continued to increase, and the relevant financial subsidy levels in Shandong Province (山东省) gradually increased, and his suggestions were heard.
Over the years, Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠) has been traveling in the fields, and he has a keen sense of the changes in the agricultural field. "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, the Chinese people's rice bowl was held more firmly and with more quality; during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, more attention will be paid to improving quality and increasing efficiency." He said that high-standard farmland is being laid out piece by piece, providing a more solid foundation for increasing efficiency.
Now, Geng Zunzhu's (耿遵珠) notebook is filled with the "new expectations" of the villagers - in addition to continuing to pay attention to the construction of high-standard farmland and the safety of agricultural materials, there are also rural elderly care, medical care, and education. "If these problems are solved, young people will be more willing to come back and earn money at their doorsteps with peace of mind."
This year's No. 1 Central Document proposes to strive to build agriculture into a modern large industry, make rural areas basically have modern living conditions, and make farmers' lives more prosperous and beautiful. Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠) said that this is the direction he is working hard for. "Sweating more in visits and research will make the voices from the fields louder." Geng Zunzhu (耿遵珠) said, "What the villagers hope for is what we should do. To protect rural revitalization and hold the Chinese rice bowl firmly, we must take this road step by step."
Lian Yuming (连玉明), Member --
"Research is the source of vitality for making proposals"
By Yi Shuran (易舒冉), reporter of this newspaper
"Diversity" and "focus" are the hallmarks of Lian Yuming (连玉明), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and chief expert of the Sanjiangyuan National Park Administration (三江源国家公园管理局), in performing his duties over the years.
Diversity is action, and focus is direction. Lian Yuming's (连玉明) way of performing his duties is diverse - from telling the story of Sanjiangyuan (三江源) on the "Member Channel" of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions), to listening attentively in the "Service for the People" activities of members performing their duties; from special research in the depths of the plateau to carefully worded proposals and suggestions at his desk, the form is unrestricted and the pace is unceasing.
His focus is always singular - paying attention to the protection and development of the Sanjiangyuan (三江源) area.
As a "veteran member" re-elected for two terms, Lian Yuming (连玉明) pays attention to combining his job with the performance of his duties as a member and transforming his research results into proposals. Starting in July 2023, he initiated and organized a field survey of Sanjiangyuan (三江源), conducting on-site research at more than 400 locations, covering a distance of nearly 40,000 kilometers. In Lian Yuming's (连玉明) view, "Having feet covered in mud makes suggestions more forceful; being close to the people's voice makes performing duties more powerful."
The experience of going to the source of the Yellow River (黄河) at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters for research is unforgettable for Lian Yuming (连玉明). There, he met a family that had lived on the banks of the Yuezongliequ River (约古宗列曲) for generations, protecting the ecological environment. "I understood the sincerity and dedication of the grassroots guardians, and I also wanted to make the Chinese story of Sanjiangyuan (三江源) ecological protection deeply rooted in people's hearts," Lian Yuming (连玉明) said.
Based on solid research, during the 2025 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions), Lian Yuming (连玉明) submitted a proposal on supporting Sanjiangyuan National Park (三江源国家公园) to create a model of natural protected areas with national representation and global influence, suggesting strengthening overall and systematic protection and effectively promoting the harmonious coexistence of humans and nature.
This proposal received a written reply from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林业和草原局). "Submitting high-quality proposals is a basic skill that CPPCC members need to cultivate. Research is the source of vitality for making proposals. During the research process, we must both serve the overall situation and understand the big picture, and also pay attention to people's livelihood and observe the real situation," Lian Yuming (连玉明) said.
In his many years of performing his duties, Lian Yuming (连玉明) has also witnessed the changes in the Sanjiangyuan (三江源) area: in the past, poaching, illegal mining, and other activities threatened the plateau ecology; but now, from the Tibetan antelope in the Kekexili (可可西里) to the snow leopard in the Lancang River (澜沧江), wild animal populations have continued to recover, and biodiversity has been significantly improved. This makes him feel very gratified.
These days, Lian Yuming (连玉明) is repeatedly polishing the new proposal in his hand, and the theme is still focused on Sanjiangyuan (三江源). "In the past year, I have found in my research that the construction and management of Sanjiangyuan National Park (三江源国家公园) needs to be further strengthened by scientific and technological empowerment." He suggested building a composite skilled talent team with both ecological protection and technological application capabilities to solve problems such as low efficiency of manual surveys and long data acquisition cycles.
"Every proposal and every suggestion is inseparable from the nourishment of the grassroots and the wisdom of the people. In the future, I will continue to root myself in the grassroots, go deep into the front line, keep the urgent needs and concerns of the people in mind, and write a people-centered answer sheet for CPPCC members with solid actions," Lian Yuming (连玉明) said.
Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴), Deputy --
"My suggestions received a quick response from the ministry"
By Liu Xiaoyu (刘晓宇), reporter of this newspaper
Wearing a safety helmet and non-slip shoes, Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴), a National People's Congress deputy and vice president of the Fujian Academy of Social Sciences (福建社会科学院), "sank" into a shoe and clothing production workshop in Quanzhou (泉州) at the beginning of the new year to conduct on-site research in private enterprises.
"Preferential policies for enterprises are enjoyed without review, can the applicable scenarios be further expanded?" As the person in charge of the enterprise spoke, Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) took notes in his notebook, and the thick research notebook had been worn out.
Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴), who has served as a deputy to the 13th and 14th National People's Congresses, has long been engaged in research on economic theory, regional economics, and other fields. His dual identity made him realize that the performance of his duties as a deputy cannot only stay in the study, but must go to the front line.
To this end, he often goes deep into factories, workshops, and fields to communicate face-to-face with entrepreneurs, workers, and farmers. In order to find out the "pain points" and "bottlenecks" in the development of private enterprises, he led a research team to cooperate with the Fujian Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce (福建省工商业联合会) to release research and analysis reports on private enterprises for many years, "diagnosing" the high-quality development of Fujian's (福建) private economy.
"The research process is both a process of performing duties and a process of service." Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) believes that only by adhering to the principle of coming from the masses and going to the masses can we truly grasp the situation on the front line and put forward high-quality suggestions.
At the beginning of 2025, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for Deputies jointly released 10 typical cases of high-quality handling of deputies' suggestions, including Huang Maoxing's (黄茂兴) suggestion on accelerating the development of China's digital service trade. He proposed actively exploring new business forms and models, increasing investment in digital infrastructure construction and technological innovation, and so on.
"**功夫不负有心人** (gōngfū bù fù yǒu xīnrén - "efforts will not fail those who put their heart into it," meaning that persistent effort will eventually lead to success)." Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) said, "My suggestions received a quick response from the ministry." Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) said that the Ministry of Commerce (商务部), together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and the National Data Bureau (国家数据局), communicated with him many times to report on the handling situation and solicit opinions on the handling. At the same time, relevant departments went to Fujian (福建), Anhui (安徽), Jiangsu (江苏), and other places to conduct on-site research and convened symposiums with local commercial authorities and industry experts. Finally, many of the suggestions were absorbed and applied to the research and formulation of relevant policy documents, and transformed into specific measures to promote the reform and development of digital trade.
"My experience in performing my duties spans the '13th Five-Year Plan,' '14th Five-Year Plan,' and '15th Five-Year Plan' periods. In recent years, China's social and people's livelihood undertakings have been significantly improved, the whole-process people's democracy system has been further improved, and the performance of deputies' duties has become more pragmatic." Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) said, "For example, more and more people contact me by email and phone to express their concern for social public undertakings." Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) said that in the process of performing his duties, he broadened his horizons, deepened his understanding, and improved his ability to solve problems. "**人民选我当代表，我当代表为人民** (rénmín xuǎn wǒ dāng dàibiǎo, wǒ dāng dàibiǎo wèi rénmín - "the people elected me as a deputy, and I will be a deputy for the people," a common saying expressing the commitment of elected officials to serve the people), I truly felt this solemn promise."
"Deputies bring the people's expectations to the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) through the performance of their duties and actively promote the implementation of policies, which is a vivid practice of whole-process people's democracy." Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴) said that he will continue to promote the healthy development of the non-public sector of the economy and the healthy growth of non-public economic figures through more extensive and in-depth investigations and research, and effectively promote the solution of the urgent needs and concerns of the people.
Xu Ling (许玲), Member --
"Performing duties requires long-term dedication and continuous deep cultivation"
By Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹), reporter of this newspaper
Not long ago, during the school's winter vacation, Xu Ling (许玲), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and vice president of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University (广东技术师范大学), was busy conducting research in enterprises.
"After the intelligent production line is implemented, how can the old technicians improve their skills?" "What kind of talents are needed for the new positions?" Next to the intelligent production line of an electric vehicle company, Xu Ling (许玲) approached the operating table and asked the company employees next to her.
As a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) for two consecutive terms, similar scenes have run through Xu Ling's (许玲) research path for many years. From manufacturing workshops to vocational colleges, from enterprise recruitment fairs to teacher-student symposiums, her research footprints have spread throughout the industrial chain and the talent supply side, and her notebook has recorded the thoughts of enterprise leaders, the expectations of technical workers, and the suggestions of college teachers. "In my opinion, there is no proposal without research. You can't write a good proposal just sitting in the office. Only by sinking to the front line can you hear the most authentic voices and identify the key issues," she said.
Xu Ling (许玲), who has been working in the field of education for a long time, has always been concerned about the development of vocational education and the cultivation of technical and skilled talents. Over the years, she has submitted a number of proposals focusing on vocational education, and many of her suggestions have been incorporated into relevant policy documents.
In her proposals, Xu Ling (许玲) has repeatedly called for steadily promoting vocational undergraduate education, improving the vertical training system, and allowing technical and skilled talents to have a clearer path to growth. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, she witnessed the structural changes in the vocational education system: the number of vocational undergraduate colleges continued to increase, the institutional framework was gradually improved, and the social perception of technical and skilled talents also changed. "In the past, some vocational school students were not confident when looking for jobs; now, many leading enterprises go to schools a year in advance to 'grab' people," Xu Ling (许玲) said with emotion, "I am very gratified to be able to contribute to the high-quality development of vocational education."
In-depth front-line research has also allowed Xu Ling (许玲) to see the new challenges faced by skilled talents. During the visits, some enterprise leaders said that with the intelligent transformation and upgrading, the demand for composite talents in enterprises is becoming more and more urgent. When communicating with front-line workers, some workers also said that they are worried that their skills will be eliminated by new technologies.
How can vocational school education and vocational training keep up with industrial changes? At this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions), Xu Ling (许玲) paid attention to the skill improvement of industrial workers and suggested providing development support for skilled talents around job changes. At the same time, she suggested improving the vocational education system and the construction of teacher standards to create a high-quality "double-teacher" teacher team, so that talent training and industrial needs can form a dynamic synergy.
"Performing duties requires long-term dedication and continuous deep cultivation." Looking back on her path of performing her duties, Xu Ling (许玲) sighed that what has changed over the years is the angle of suggesting the development of vocational education, and what has not changed is the attention to vocational education. "In the future, I will continue to focus on the key areas of vocational education development, conduct in-depth research, make frequent suggestions, and be good at making achievements in the innovation of the integration mechanism of industry and education and the construction of the vocational teacher team, carry forward the **钉钉子精神** (dīng dīngzi jīngshén - "nailing spirit," the spirit of perseverance and meticulousness), and use my little efforts to let more people shine on the fertile land of vocational education," she said.
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"What kind of support is needed to promote rural power grid construction?" "What difficulties do local specialties face in getting out of the mountains?"... During the Spring Festival holiday, Jiao Xian (焦宪), a National People's Congress representative and Party Branch Secretary of Pengjiagou Village (彭家沟村), Tangya Town (唐崖镇), Xianfeng County (咸丰县), Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (恩施土家族苗族自治州), Hubei Province (湖北省), went to local power supply departments and agricultural product processing enterprises to have in-depth exchanges with power supply employees, agricultural product sales personnel, and large-scale farmers, asking about their needs and difficulties, and seeking advice and suggestions. "The notes are very detailed, and the content of the suggestions is clearer and more complete."
This is an epitome of the performance of duties by deputies and members. "Create and rehearse more new dramas that reflect the new era and new life," "More teachers from the cultural center should come to tutor us in singing." In the fields, the villagers' expectations for a richer spiritual and cultural life are carefully recorded; "I hope elevators can be installed in old residential areas," "I look forward to building elderly care stations in the community." In the streets and alleys, the voices of the residents are carefully listened to... Deputies and members perform their duties, seeking advice from the people and understanding their needs, offering sincere words, planning good strategies, and coming up with practical solutions to support people's aspirations for a better life.
Wise words originate from solid grassroots research. Jin Lingzhan (靳灵展), a National People's Congress representative and actor at the Pingju Art Center (评剧艺术中心) in Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省), has hundreds of grassroots performances a year, "which also means hundreds of surveys a year," from which she constantly summarizes and refines down-to-earth and truly useful suggestions. Where does true knowledge and insight come from? It often grows in the fertile soil of the grassroots. Deputies and members go deep into the grassroots level time and time again, gathering public wisdom and turning the "golden ideas" of the masses into "golden keys" to solve problems.
Pragmatic strategies can often be expanded from solving "one thing" to solving "a class of things," with both realistic pertinence and foresight. From education, employment, elderly care, and medical care to comprehensively governing the country according to law and new quality productive forces... Many deputies and members are expert scholars who are deeply involved in professional fields. Their thinking about a certain type of phenomenon starts from the current practical problems and focuses on future development. Thinking deeply and seeing far, the written suggestions and proposals can therefore serve the front line and promote development.
This spring, many deputies and members have brought "fresh" suggestions and proposals from the grassroots. Their voices are heard, valued, and absorbed, which is a vivid embodiment of whole-process people's democracy.
Let us look forward to the sound implementation of each sincere advice and each insightful opinion.
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Return to TopBy: 人民网记者 邓志慧 梁秋坪
81.39% of netizens expect the accelerated implementation of policies related to expanding domestic demand, 74.32% of netizens advocate for the concentration of state-owned capital in important industries and key areas, and over 60% of netizens look forward to deeply promoting digital application scenarios such as "AI + medical care and elderly care," "AI + government services," and "AI + education"... From January 12 to February 12, 2026, People's Daily Online (人民网) conducted its 25th National People's Congress (全国两会) survey. The results show that in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," "people's livelihood security," "social governance," and "comprehensively strengthening Party discipline" are the three issues of greatest concern to netizens. "Comprehensively governing the country according to law," "social civilization," "scientific and educational innovation," "rural revitalization," "economic development," "comprehensively deepening reform," "Beautiful China," "domestic demand-led," and "opening up to the outside world" also remain at the top of the hot word list.
Supporting major people's livelihood issues with key small matters
People's livelihood security conveys warmth and safeguards the hearts of the people. In this survey, "people's livelihood security" ranks first on the hot word list, which not only reflects netizens' yearning for a better life, but also confirms the effectiveness of a series of national measures to benefit and warm the hearts of the people.
The survey shows that netizens generally recognize measures such as social services such as elderly care and childcare entering communities, cross-provincial mutual assistance of employee medical insurance personal accounts, and strengthening bottom-line assistance for low-income groups as measures that bring practical convenience to people's lives. At the same time, they expect the country to "gradually increase the basic pension for urban and rural residents" and "improve the social assistance system" to further weave a tight and solid people's livelihood security network.
Housing is the foundation of people's livelihood, and netizens participating in the survey have high hopes for improving the quality of housing: 60.45% of netizens call for accelerating the renovation of old houses, old residential areas, and old blocks; 57.16% of netizens suggest focusing on the needs of families in difficulty, wage earners, and new citizens to increase the supply of affordable housing; 56.86% of netizens hope to moderately lower housing provident fund and commercial bank housing loan interest rates.
Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood, and more than 50% of netizens suggest broadening employment and entrepreneurship channels for young people, strengthening the protection of the basic rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment and those who are overage, promoting the deep synergy between industrial development and employment expansion, and taking multiple measures to solve employment problems. In addition, marriage, childbirth, and parenting topics have attracted widespread attention. More than 60% of netizens advocate protecting the professional rights and interests of married and childbearing people, increasing housing policy support for married and childbearing families, increasing subsidy standards for fertility and parenting families, and reducing the burden of family parenting.
Improving governance effectiveness with embroidery skills
Social governance is directly related to the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security. In this survey, "social governance" ranks second on the hot word list, reflecting the people's strong expectations for improving the governance system and building a higher level of safe China (平安中国).
Grassroots governance is the "last mile" of national governance. Focusing on solving governance bottlenecks and improving service effectiveness, netizens actively offer suggestions: 65.78% of netizens call for unblocking channels for expressing public demands and promoting the source resolution and efficient handling of contradictions and disputes; 59.73% of netizens suggest building a digital governance platform to realize "one-stop online service and nearby quick handling" of people's livelihood affairs; 53.88% of netizens expect the comprehensive implementation of the list of matters for townships (街道) and subdistricts to perform their duties, standardizing the performance of duties by grassroots cadres and improving governance accuracy.
Steadily promoting the equalization of basic public services is an important starting point for consolidating social governance. The survey shows that 74.36% of netizens hope to focus on key groups such as the elderly to optimize the precise supply of public services; more than 60% of netizens suggest paying attention to remote rural areas and urban fringe areas to make up for the shortcomings of basic public services.
Netizens suggest continuing to deepen the governance of online chaos such as online rumors, personal privacy leaks, and algorithmic discrimination. More than 60% of netizens suggest increasing the punishment for illegal and irregular behaviors of online platforms, strengthening cross-departmental coordinated supervision, unblocking channels for reporting online illegal and irregular activities, and continuously purifying the online ecology and improving digital governance effectiveness.
Consolidating anti-corruption achievements with constant and unremitting efforts
The more effective the Party's governance, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development. In this survey, "comprehensively strengthening Party discipline" ranks third on the hot word list. Netizens have high expectations for promoting the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to a deeper level.
Last year, the entire Party carried out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定). Party organizations at all levels adhered to the integrated promotion of learning, inspection, and rectification, and earnestly addressed prominent problems. Netizens generally reported that problems such as "violations of regulations on eating and drinking," "Party members and cadres not taking responsibility, not acting, acting recklessly, and acting falsely," and "shallow and unrealistic investigations and research" have been effectively curbed. 65.38% of netizens have a clear sense of the effectiveness of reducing the burden on grassroots levels, such as "streamlining the number of documents and meetings and improving the quality of documents and the efficiency of meetings."
Anti-corruption is a major struggle that cannot be lost and must not be lost. 83.01% of netizens believe that it is necessary to always maintain a high-pressure anti-corruption stance, normalize "fighting tigers," "swatting flies," and "hunting foxes," and insist on investigating every case and punishing every corrupt person; 73.83% of netizens suggest strictly managing and governing the discipline inspection and supervision team, improving internal control mechanisms, and resolutely preventing "darkness under the lamp"; more than 60% of netizens call for improving the joint punishment mechanism for key bribe-givers and severely rectifying the chaos of "hunting."
Regarding polishing the sword of inspection, netizens most expect to "further substantiate political inspections and closely focus on issues that the masses strongly reflect"; more than 60% of netizens suggest strengthening the supervision of inspection and rectification, correcting problems such as ineffective rectification and false rectification, and at the same time unblocking channels for mass supervision and optimizing online reporting platforms and petition reception processes to make supervision more direct and more efficient.
Return to Top"National Unified Network" Demonstrates China's "Confidence" (People's Daily Review)
Jindouyun (筋斗云)
Energy is like the blood of a country's development, and energy infrastructure is the blood vessel that transports the blood.
Recently, China's three main natural gas pipelines—the Su-Wan-Yu Trunk Line, the Wen 23-Anqing Natural Gas Pipeline, and the Shandong Pipeline North Trunk Line (Phase I)—started construction simultaneously, marking an acceleration in the layout of a natural gas "national unified network."
The denser and smoother the blood vessels, the more vigorous and prosperous the development vitality. Today's China has a long-distance oil and gas pipeline mileage of 200,000 kilometers, and ultra-high-voltage arteries spanning mountains and seas realize "millisecond-level flash delivery" of electricity... Resilience is never an empty concept, but is embodied in these solid and hard-core strengths.
Against the backdrop of a more uncertain and unpredictable global energy supply and demand pattern, China has always been committed to building a new energy system, which not only demonstrates a national coordinated approach but is also a strategic choice to ensure energy security and master the initiative in major power games.
Today, China's clean energy has covered the entire industrial chain from power generation and transmission to power consumption, and is building a productive tool for future energy infrastructure with large-scale and systematic advantages, promoting renewable energy to become the most competitive and inclusive energy. Data from the International Renewable Energy Agency shows that the average cost per kilowatt-hour of global wind and photovoltaic power generation projects has dropped significantly in recent years, largely due to China's contribution.
The strategic vision of energy transformation relies on the overall perspective and execution under the national coordinated approach, and ultimately on the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.
Institutional advantage is the greatest advantage, and development capability is the greatest capability. Transforming institutional advantages into developmental victories is the "confidence" of why China "can."
New Consumption Ignites New Momentum (Economic Hotspot Quick Review)
Wang Donghui (王东辉)
The strong momentum of new consumption is driving profound changes in China's consumer market. During the Spring Festival holiday, many places created new Spring Festival temple fairs, and new consumption scenarios continued to expand; smart wearable devices and healthcare products were among the New Year's shopping lists, and new business forms flourished; IP empowered physical stores, and new business models gradually became a trend... New consumption is integrated into daily life with a more vivid posture.
Consumption is connected to economic development on one end and people's livelihood on the other. In 2025, domestic demand contributed 67.3% to economic growth, of which final consumption expenditure contributed 52.0%, an increase of 5.0 percentage points over the previous year. China's consumer market is expanding in scale, optimizing in structure, and shifting in momentum towards new areas.
New consumption promotes a high-level dynamic balance of "leading new demand with new supply and driving new supply with new demand," driving large-scale consumption such as automobiles and smart terminals, and incubating emerging business forms such as health and wellness tourism and emotional consumption. New consumption also demonstrates the confidence of a super-large-scale market, conforming to the transition of residents' consumption from survival-oriented to development-oriented and enjoyment-oriented, and the shift in consumption structure from commodity consumption-dominated to service consumption-dominated. New consumption also contains the inherent logic of economic development from scale expansion to quality improvement, with technologies such as artificial intelligence breaking down supply and demand barriers, and further deepening consumption stratification and precise supply.
From breaking circles in scenarios to revitalizing business forms, from model iteration to supply-demand resonance, new consumption will inject more momentum into China's high-quality economic development.
Starting from the Popular Meme of "Becoming Chinese" (Xia Ke Dao (侠客岛))
Song Shuang (宋爽)
Foreign netizens drinking hot water, practicing Baduanjin (八段锦), and using Chinese products, "becoming Chinese," continue to set off a craze on overseas social platforms. Where does this goodwill towards China come from?
Aspiring to a better life. The American magazine *Wired* reported: "Your mobile phone, laptop, robot vacuum cleaner, solar panels powering the countries of the Global South, the world's best-selling electric car brand, the watched open-source AI model... all come from China." National strength continues to rise, and the results benefit the world.
Desiring cultural empathy. In 2025, the number of inbound and outbound foreign visitors exceeded 82 million. From Kung Fu and the Great Wall to *Ne Zha 2* (哪吒2) and LABUBU (拉布布), a China where tradition and modernity, history and trends coexist, attracts more and more foreign friends to immerse themselves in the experience.
Embracing opportunity lists. In 2025, actual investment in China from Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom increased by 66.8%, 27.3%, and 15.9% respectively year-on-year (including investment data through free ports). "Efficiency, adaptation, stability" are high-frequency words when foreign media refer to the Chinese system, and China injects scarce certainty into a turbulent world.
This year's National People's Congress (全国两会) will further explore how to transform international goodwill into new momentum for domestic development. As understanding of China continues to increase, understanding, respect, and recognition from the world will inevitably become more solid and far-reaching.
Winning with "Quality" in the Spring of Endeavor (People's Forum Online Review)
Chang Chang (常嫦)
China's industrial development is full of "new" power. In 2025, the first phase of 6G technology trials formed more than 300 key technology reserves; the added value of industries such as integrated circuits and electronic special materials increased by 26.7% and 23.9% year-on-year, respectively...
From "making up for what is lacking" to "doing whatever is new," from "scale and speed-oriented" to "quality and efficiency-oriented," from "world factory" to "global innovation center," technological innovation and industrial innovation are deeply integrated and closely related to people's lives, blossoming and bearing fruit in practice.
In 2025, China's R&D expenditure intensity reached 2.8%. Actively cultivating and developing new quality productive forces, leading the development of new quality productive forces with technological innovation, and transforming technological advantages into industrial advantages and competitive advantages to lay a "hard-core" foundation for a modern industrial system is the trend of the future.
Anchoring the goal and taking advantage of the momentum. In the spring of endeavor, we win with "quality," and the pace towards becoming a strong country in science and technology is solid and powerful, and the momentum of high-quality development will be even stronger.
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Return to TopSpring returns to the earth, and everything takes on a new look. On the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the pulse of high-quality development is strong and powerful. From the roar of machines in industrial parks to the continuous flow of goods at open ports, from the abundant harvests in the vast fields to the warm and cozy atmosphere of residential villages, a surge of pragmatic and enterprising spirit is everywhere. In the past year, Yunnan Province has firmly grasped the primary task of high-quality development, adhered to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implemented the new development concept, actively served and integrated into the new development pattern, and promoted economic and social development to present a good situation of steady progress and improved quality and efficiency, making the foundation for high-quality development more solid.
Taking both total volume leap and structural optimization into account, the economy's "physique" is stronger.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan fully, accurately, and comprehensively implemented the new development concept, and made every effort to promote high-quality development, and its economic strength reached a new level. The regional GDP exceeded 3 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth of 4.7%, and the per capita regional GDP exceeded 10,000 US dollars. This is not only a leap in numbers, but also means that the foundation for development is more solid and the people are more confident.
The change in investment structure is an important window to show the transformation of Yunnan's development momentum. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan started more than 10,000 projects, injecting continuous momentum into long-term development. The proportion of industrial investment in total investment increased from 26.7% to 52.1%, becoming the absolute main force driving economic growth; the proportion of private industrial investment in private investment increased from 39.8% to 65.1%, and the endogenous power of the market continued to burst forth. This fundamental structural change marks the shift of Yunnan's development momentum from relying on traditional paths to being driven by industrial upgrading and market vitality.
The "gold content" of development is reflected in the continuous optimization of the economic structure. In 2025, the added value of industrial enterprises above the designated size in the province increased by 4.5%, of which the added value of non-tobacco and non-energy industries increased rapidly at a rate of 8.1%, contributing 72.9% to the growth of industrial enterprises above the designated size, and the transformation of new and old kinetic energy was accelerated and achieved remarkable results.
The fiscal "ledger" also hides the temperature and confidence of Yunnan's development. In 2025, the province's local general public budget expenditure exceeded 700 billion yuan for the first time. Where the money is spent is where the focus and temperature of development lies. On the one hand, funds are accurately invested in areas that lay the foundation and benefit the long term, and expenditures on energy conservation and environmental protection, transportation, and resource exploration industrial information have increased significantly, laying a solid foundation for industrial upgrading and sustainable development; on the other hand, the cumulative general public budget expenditure during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period was 3.4 trillion yuan, and more than 74% was used for people's livelihood, and the fruits of development are being passed on to thousands of households in a more fair and effective manner.
Traditional transformation and emerging rise go hand in hand, and the industry's "muscles and bones" are stronger.
The foundation of high-quality development lies in industry, and the vitality lies in innovation. Based on its own resource endowments, Yunnan adheres to the two-way efforts of transforming traditional industries and cultivating emerging industries, on the one hand, promoting the "old trees to sprout new branches" of traditional advantageous industries, and on the other hand, cultivating strategic emerging industries to "deeply root new trees", and the industry's "muscles and bones" are becoming stronger and stronger in the process of quenching.
On the fields of hope, Yunnan always puts food security first. In 2025, the total grain output exceeded 20 million tons for the first time, and the foundation of the "Plateau Granary" was more solid. While ensuring the "rice bag", the "special card" is becoming more and more popular. "Yunnan flowers" are blooming, and high-quality fresh-cut flowers account for 60% of flower production. Lijiang Modern Flower Industry Park holds tulip festivals, hydrangea festivals, lily festivals and other activities to enrich new "flower styles" and continue to release the vitality of the "Yunnan flower" industry; "Yunnan coffee" is fragrant, and the rate of intensive processing reaches 85%; the brand value of "Yunnan tea" and "Yunnan fruit" continues to increase. Agricultural production is no longer just "planting" and "harvesting", but has achieved a gorgeous transformation from "original character" and "initial character" to "refined character" and "strong character".
In the factory workshops, the upsurge of industrial transformation is coming, and the new advantage of "green electricity + advanced manufacturing" is accelerating. As of the end of 2025, the total installed power capacity exceeded 170 million kilowatts, and the scale and proportion of installed green electricity capacity ranked among the top in the country, with carbon dioxide emissions of 0.13 kg per kilowatt-hour, the lowest in the country. In 2025, the output value of green aluminum exceeded 200 billion yuan for the first time, and the industrial chain extended to intensive processing. It is worth mentioning that Yunnan's tin, indium and germanium production ranks first in the world, forming the most complete platinum group metal and titanium industrial chain in the country, and the Dianzhong Rare and Precious Metals Cluster has become the only national-level advanced manufacturing cluster in the industry, demonstrating "Yunnan's responsibility" in the field of key strategic materials.
Among the green mountains and clear waters, the "beautiful economy" is rejuvenated. Yunnan adheres to the priority of ecology and green development, promotes the deep integration of tourism and residence, and makes "a kind of life called Yunnan" more perceptible and accessible. In 2025, more than 5.5 million people came to Yunnan to live, with an average stay of 83 days, and more than 800 natural villages relied on ecological advantages to develop rural residence, making green mountains and clear waters truly become the "happy backer" for the masses to increase their income and become rich.
Regional coordination and opening up and cooperation linkage, the development "stage" is broader.
Yunnan strives to unblock the economic cycle, stimulate domestic demand potential, and expand opening up space, so that the engine of high-quality development is stronger and the development "stage" is broader.
The consumer market has steadily recovered under the guidance of policies and the promotion of activities. In 2025, Yunnan made good use of national subsidy funds and "two 1 billion yuan" provincial funds to drive consumption of more than 65 billion yuan. The "Dianchao" football league not only enriched the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also ignited the enthusiasm of the whole people for fitness and leisure consumption. The brand influence of "Yunnan Night" continues to expand.
A high-quality business environment is a "strong magnet" for attracting investment and stimulating vitality. Yunnan has always regarded the business environment as its core competitiveness, regularly holds round table meetings for government-enterprise communication, optimizes the "three diagnosis" mechanism for department and bureau directors, conducts large-scale visits to "six up" enterprises, and has solved more than 4,000 problems of various types in 2025. Sincere service has won the trust of the market. In 2025, the province introduced and landed 904 projects with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, and entrepreneurs used real money to invest in Yunnan's development prospects with firm confidence, and various business entities developed with peace of mind and started businesses with confidence in this hot land.
As a radiation center facing South Asia and Southeast Asia, Yunnan's opening channels have continued to widen and its effectiveness has become more prominent. In 2025, Yunnan Province's total import and export of goods trade increased by 10.2%, and its ties with neighboring countries became increasingly close. The effect of the China-Laos Railway "Golden Passage" continued to be released, with a cumulative total of more than 64 million passengers and more than 74 million tons of goods transported. In addition, the Kunming International Communications Business Import and Export Bureau has achieved interconnection, the Yunnan Ruili Industrial Collaboration Park has been approved as a national-level industrial collaboration park, and Yunnan has implemented 280 "small and beautiful" livelihood projects in neighboring countries... A series of upgrades in the capacity of opening platforms are promoting Yunnan to accelerate its transformation from a geographically border area to an important hub at the forefront of national opening up.
Rural development and people's livelihood improvement are synchronized, and the happy "background color" is warmer.
The temperature of development ultimately depends on the people's sense of happiness to measure. While Yunnan's economy is developing steadily, it has always placed the improvement of people's livelihood and the bottom line of safety in a prominent position, so that the fruits of development can benefit the people more and more fairly.
In 2025, the per capita disposable income of residents in Yunnan Province increased by 4.6%, and the relative gap between urban and rural residents' income further narrowed. Behind the income growth is an income increase system supported by multiple factors: during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 2.616 million new urban jobs were added, more than 8.56 million farmers achieved employment nearby, and the employment scale of people lifted out of poverty ranked second in the country. The "employment workshop at the doorstep" allows the masses to take care of their families and earn money at the same time; the prosperity of plateau characteristic agriculture and rural tourism has made the people's "money bags" more and more bulging, and their confidence in pursuing a better life is growing.
The people's livelihood security network is becoming denser and denser, and the level of public services is steadily improving. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan added 160,000 inclusive preschool places, and universities and tertiary hospitals achieved full coverage of prefectures (cities), and 3 national regional medical centers were put into operation; in 2025, 5,494 silver-age talents were recruited and retained, and the effectiveness of the "Silver Age Action" was at the forefront of the country, and 124 county medical communities reached the standard of close-knit type. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the participation rate in basic old-age insurance exceeded 95%, and the participation rate in basic medical insurance exceeded 98%; in 2025, 13.61 billion yuan was raised to ensure the basic living of people in difficulty, and childcare subsidies benefited 1.104 million people, and the care services for the "one old and one young" were perceptible and accessible.
The spring breeze is vast and full of new sights, and it is time to set sail. Standing at a new starting point, ready to go again, Yunnan has designated 2026 as the "Project Tackling Year" and deployed the "Nine Tackling Actions" to support the "stability" of development with the "progress" of projects. A modern new Yunnan with a more prosperous economy, a more beautiful ecology, a more harmonious society, and a happier people is being transformed from a blueprint into reality step by step in the joint efforts of cadres and the masses of all ethnic groups in Yunling.
Data source: Publicity Department of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China
Return to TopThe drums of a new journey urge us forward, and with spring arriving in Jianghuai, everything is renewed. From fertile plains to "One Zone, Six Parks," from factory workshops to commercial districts, Changfeng County (长丰县) in Hefei (合肥), Anhui Province (安徽省) is seeing its innovation engine roaring, its industrial momentum surging, and its urban and rural areas thriving. The surging tide of spring is filled with the sound of momentum, nurturing boundless hope.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" period was an extraordinary and remarkable five years for Changfeng County's development. Changfeng County thoroughly implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, and under the leadership of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the guidance of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, it sought progress while maintaining stability, achieved success amidst difficulties, and pursued excellence amidst changes. The county's gross regional product successively crossed four 10-billion-yuan thresholds, with an average annual growth of 10%. The total industrial output value of enterprises above designated size exceeded 200 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of 22.4%. It successfully advanced to a county with a gross regional product of 100 billion yuan, and its ranking among the top 100 counties in the country continued to improve. It successively won 19 national honors, including the National Science Popularization Demonstration County and the first batch of National Natural Resources Conservation and Intensive Use Demonstration Counties. It was recognized as an advanced county in the development of the private economy in the province and one of the top ten counties with the fastest manufacturing development in the province. Its science and technology innovation index ranked first among counties in the province for two consecutive years.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," Changfeng County is entering a crucial period of consolidating its foundation, fully exerting its strength, and striving for advancement. Focusing on the strategic positioning of Hefei as an important engine for high-quality development, Changfeng County will devote all its efforts to building "One City, Four Lands": a new energy vehicle city, an advanced manufacturing cluster, a science and technology innovation hub, a reform and opening-up leading area, and a coordinated development demonstration area. It will create a strong manufacturing county, a strong science and technology innovation county, a strong agricultural county, and a strong energy county, striving to achieve "six new leaps" in comprehensive strength, industrial capacity, scientific and technological leadership, urban and rural quality, people's livelihood and well-being, and social governance.
High-Level Construction of a New Energy Vehicle City
Changfeng County is promoting the "spirit of not missing opportunities" and vigorously developing the new energy and intelligent connected vehicle industry, forming an industrial cluster worth hundreds of billions of yuan. Currently, Changfeng County is following a clustered, differentiated, and characteristic development path, building a "1234" industrial pattern through regional linkage, industrial collaboration, and ecological co-construction: focusing on building the Xiatang (下塘) New Energy Vehicle Production and Manufacturing Core Base, the Shuihu (水湖), Gangji (岗集), and Wushan (吴山) auto parts supporting areas, and the Shuangfeng Economic Development Zone (双凤经开区) and Shuangdun (双墩) production and living service areas; accelerating the construction of the Changfeng Port (长丰港), the Xiatang Industrial Park (下塘工业园) railway special line, and the Changfeng General Airport (长丰通用机场), creating a logistics distribution center in northern Hefei; and constructing a "one river, two lakes, three canals, and one hundred reservoirs" automotive cultural tourism belt, the Hehuai Road (合淮路) and Heshui Road (合水路) industrial development support belts, the Weiwu Road (魏武路) science and technology innovation belt, and the northern area's industry-city integration development belt.
Adhering to the deep integration of industry, city, and people, and promoting integrated planning, construction, and governance, Changfeng County is using the high-level construction of a new energy vehicle city as a traction to promote industrial cluster development, innovation-driven development, and regional linkage development, comprehensively shaping a modern city of "industry-city integration, cultural prosperity, and livability and business-friendliness," and creating a new energy vehicle city of "promoting the city through industry, gathering people through the city, and promoting industry through people" throughout the county.
High-Level Creation of an Advanced Manufacturing Cluster
Manufacturing is the foundation of Changfeng's county and the basis for strengthening the county. Changfeng County insists on focusing on the real economy for economic development, taking "strengthening the county through manufacturing" as the guiding principle, implementing high-quality development actions for key manufacturing industrial chains, and building a "3+3+X" modern industrial system.
Focusing on expanding and strengthening the leading new energy and intelligent connected vehicle industry, Changfeng County has gathered 220 upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, such as BYD (比亚迪), CALB (中创新航), and Giti Tire (新佳通), forming an industrial cluster worth hundreds of billions of yuan with "leading enterprises driving and many stars surrounding the moon." The output of new energy vehicle complete vehicles ranks among the top in the country's counties, and it is focusing on cultivating "second growth curves" such as parts and components and the automotive aftermarket, increasing the complete-to-parts ratio, and building an industrial ecosystem of "vehicle-road-cloud integration" and "vehicle-chip-screen coordinated development." Focusing on the high-end equipment manufacturing industry and the smart home appliance industry, promoting the clustering of new-generation information technology, life and health, and other emerging industries, accelerating the realization of three transformations for advantageous manufacturing enterprises: from single products to system integration, from manufacturing to services, and from the domestic market to the international market, and promoting the integrated development of modern productive service industries with advanced manufacturing and modern agriculture. Proactively laying out new tracks for future industries, building the Hefei (合肥) Bio-manufacturing Provincial Future Industry Pioneer Zone to a high standard, seizing the initiative in areas such as fusion energy, the low-altitude economy, and embodied intelligence, and promoting the gradual accumulation of future industries.
High-Level Creation of a Science and Technology Innovation Hub
At the beginning of this year, the Hefei Fusion Science and Technology Innovation Demonstration Zone (合肥聚变科创示范区) was announced to be located in Changfeng County. According to the plan, the demonstration zone focuses on controllable nuclear fusion technology research and development, achievement transformation, and industrial agglomeration, promoting the implementation of the "ultimate solution to human energy" and depicting an energy landscape of green, low-carbon, and technology-led.
Changfeng County has always regarded innovation as the primary driving force, using innovation to open up new horizons for development. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Changfeng will adhere to innovation-led development, rely on innovation for layout, focus on the industrial chain to lay out the innovation chain, build an innovation development pattern supported by major scientific and technological infrastructure, carried by high-standard parks, and led by innovative enterprise clusters, and actively integrate into the construction of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center.
Strengthening high-level science and technology innovation platforms, Changfeng County relies on the substantive reform of Hefei Binhu Science City (合肥滨湖科学城) to strengthen the Changfeng (长丰) area of Hefei Future Science City (合肥未来大科学城), deepen the collaborative innovation of "one corridor, two parks, and multiple points," and build a "365" science and technology innovation system. Cultivating high-quality innovation entities, implementing actions to cultivate leading science and technology enterprises, promoting the aggregation of innovation elements to enterprises, building "one innovation platform for one industry," and striving to have more than 650 national high-tech enterprises and more than 1,200 science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. Building a high-efficiency transformation system, deepening the transformation of achievements from major scientific facilities, implementing large-scale application demonstration actions for new technologies, new products, and new scenarios, and promoting the on-site transaction, on-site transformation, and on-site industrialization of scientific and technological achievements.
High-Level Creation of a Reform and Opening-Up Leading Area
Changfeng County has a valuable gene of reform and innovation, daring to be the first. Since its establishment in 1965, Changfeng County has shaken off the label of a poor county, advanced to a top 100 county, and entered the ranks of "100 billion yuan counties." The development journey is marked with the firm footsteps of reform and tackling difficulties, and exploring the way forward. Changfeng County unswervingly relies on reform and opening up, gives play to the leading role of economic system reform, implements the comprehensive reform pilot task of market-based allocation of factors in the Hefei Metropolitan Area, and creates more reform brands with Changfeng's distinctiveness.
Deepening the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, Changfeng County is based on "an active government + an effective market," improving the modern corporate governance system, and enhancing the efficiency of state-owned capital allocation and operation. Deepening the comprehensive energy reform, comprehensively promoting the "dual pilot" of comprehensive energy reform, striving to create a national-level zero-carbon park, and realizing full-domain open energy scenarios, full-domain one-stop energy management, and full-domain integrated energy application. Deepening social governance reform, iteratively upgrading "efficiently handling one matter" and "comprehensive inspection once," improving the working mechanism of "leading goose leading," "red light reporting," and "solving problems on Saturdays," and continuously optimizing the business environment. Expanding high-level opening to the outside world, giving play to the superimposed advantages of multiple national strategies, deeply integrating into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, accelerating the construction of the China-Thailand "Two Countries, Two Parks," and striving to create a joint innovation zone for the China (Anhui) Free Trade Pilot Zone.
High-Level Creation of a Coordinated Development Demonstration Area
Coordinated regional development is an inherent requirement of Chinese-style modernization, and urban-rural integration is the inevitable path of modernization construction. Changfeng County has a narrow north-south county area, combining urban areas, industrial new cities, and pastoral villages. The county adheres to a holistic approach to urban and rural areas, breaks through administrative thinking, breaks down regional restrictions, builds a "5431" spatial layout, and promotes development from "one point shining" to "global red."
Changfeng County coordinates the coordinated development of the industrial structure, accelerating the integration of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries through "chain extension, technology penetration, function expansion, and cultural tourism empowerment." It coordinates the coordinated layout of urban-rural integration, deepening the functional positioning of "eastern cultural tourism, southern urban, western science and technology innovation, northern industry-city, and central intelligent manufacturing," systematically improving the quality and functions of the "four cities," and forming a new pattern of full-domain development with "four cities reflecting each other, three axes radiating, and one zone and six parks collaborating." It coordinates the coordinated growth of residents' income, narrowing the urban-rural income gap, consolidating and enhancing the status of "the No. 1 county for facility strawberries in the country," upgrading the five major agricultural industrial chains, promoting the quality and efficiency of characteristic industries that enrich the people such as edible fungi and green radishes, building a provincial-level future agricultural industrial park, and striving to create a national-level agricultural modernization demonstration zone.
Forging ahead on a new journey, striving to move forward. Striding forward into the "15th Five-Year Plan," Changfeng County is running out of the "acceleration" of the start and taking the "opening red" of the first quarter with the vigor of 一马当先 (yī mǎ dāng xiān - "one horse takes the lead," to take the lead) and the momentum of 马不停蹄 (mǎ bù tíng tí - "horse does not stop trotting," to press on without stopping), contributing more Changfeng strength to writing the Hefei chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Changfeng County Committee (中共长丰县委宣传部)
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Upholding a people-centered approach is a contemporary interpretation of the Marxist people's stance and the value foundation for the steady and long-term progress of Chinese-style modernization. Adhering to economic construction as the central task is a requirement of the Party's basic line, seizing the "primary task" of economic development. With development as the top priority, other tasks can be better carried out. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "A people-centered approach is our fundamental governing philosophy" and "Economic construction as the central task is essential for national rejuvenation." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, in explaining the guiding ideology for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, proposed: "Adhere to economic construction as the central task" and "Take meeting the people's ever-growing needs for a better life as the fundamental goal." A people-centered approach and economic construction as the central task are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, forming an organic unity of objective laws and subjective goals, social subjects and historical regulations in the development and movement of social contradictions, demonstrating a high degree of consistency between lawfulness and purposefulness, and jointly serving the grand blueprint of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Understanding the People-Centered Development Thought Based on the Basic Contradiction of Society
A people-centered approach is the political expression of the philosophical connotation of Marxism regarding the people as the subject of history, the subject of practice, and the subject of value.
Historical materialism believes that people's practical activities promote the development of basic social contradictions, people's practical abilities solve basic social contradictions, and people's practical purposes affect the trajectory of basic social contradictions, while the fundamental direction of the movement of basic social contradictions lies in realizing the free and all-round development of people. In material production, spiritual creation, and social activities, the movement of basic social contradictions is usually manifested in the initiative, sociality, and historicity of people as the subject of practice. The objective regularity of the laws governing the movement of basic social contradictions is organically unified with people's subjectivity, practicality, and initiative, promoting social development and creating human civilization. In socialist society, the objective and subjective organic unity of basic social contradictions is typically reflected in the following aspects.
The inherent regulation of the people as the subject of social history provides the economic and social foundation for a people-centered approach. The people as the subject of social history are an inherent attribute of the development of social history itself. Social history is fundamentally the history created by the people in social practice. The contradiction between productive forces and production relations, and between the economic base and the superstructure, is the fundamental driving force for the generation and development of human historical activities. The basic contradiction of socialist society is still the contradiction between productive forces and production relations, and between the economic base and the superstructure. Today, the public sector is the main component of China's economy, and various forms of ownership are economic components that inevitably exist in the primary stage of socialism in China. Under socialist conditions, these economic components have people's attributes. Therefore, the basic socialist economic system lays the economic foundation for the people to become the subject of society. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must adhere to the consistency between respecting the laws of social development and respecting the people's historical subject position." The objectivity of the laws of social development is realized through the people's subjective practice, and the people's subjective activities are also carried out by following the objective laws of social development. The economic relations of socialist society are the basic carrier of the laws of socialist social development, which makes the basic social contradictions of socialism realistically embodied as the social form of the people as the subject of society, thereby laying the premise and foundation for the fundamental direction and political purpose of social development, and determining the people's position as the subject of social and historical development.
The inherent logic of the people as the fundamental driving force of social development establishes the practical subject position for a people-centered approach. The movement of basic contradictions in socialist society is the fundamental driving force for promoting the development of socialist society. In the historical process of human social development, the fundamental driving force of historical development formed by basic social contradictions is embodied and realized through people's subjective practice. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The magnificent history of the development of the Chinese nation is written by the Chinese people! The profound Chinese civilization is created by the Chinese people! The enduring spirit of the Chinese nation is cultivated by the Chinese people! The great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up, getting rich, to becoming strong is achieved through the struggle of the Chinese people!" In socialist society, the fundamental driving force of basic social contradictions is embodied through the practice of the people as the subject. The people are the creators of social material wealth and spiritual wealth, and the labor practice of the people creates the preconditions for the development of material production. At the same time, the people's social practice activities also provide the production labor and living foundation for the creation of spiritual wealth. Therefore, the people are the great driving force and ultimate determining force of social change. The adjustment of production relations required by the development of productive forces, the changes in the superstructure required by the transformation of the economic base, and even the replacement, are all embodied and realized through the people as the subject of history. The people constantly promote the development of productive forces and change social relations in the production process, thereby profoundly reflecting the laws governing the movement of basic social contradictions in historical development.
The value characteristics of the people as the purpose of development determine the value foundation for a people-centered approach. In the process of constantly promoting the development of productive forces and the transformation of social relations, basic social contradictions create social conditions for the all-round development of people. In socialist society, the people are not only the practical subject of economic and social development, but also the value subject of economic and social development. The people-centered development thought runs through the entire process of the contradiction movement between productive forces and production relations, and between the economic base and the superstructure, realizing the organic combination of the objective movement of basic social contradictions and the people's subjectivity and autonomy in the great practice of the new era, and achieving the organic unity of the lawfulness and purposefulness of social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Leading the people to create a better life is the unwavering goal of our Party." Our Party's adherence to a people-centered approach is to grasp the objective laws of the movement of basic social contradictions, and through promoting the better adaptation of production relations and productive forces, and the superstructure and the economic base, constantly realize the interests of the people, lead the socialist cause to continuously move forward, and ultimately realize the all-round development of people.
Since the new era, the people-centered development thought has further consolidated the people's subject position, reflected the essential regulations of basic social contradictions, and highlighted the subject practice characteristics of the movement of basic contradictions in socialist society. The systematic interpretation of important concepts such as "The country is the people, and the people are the country," "The people's hearts are the greatest politics," "Adhere to putting the people first and putting life first," and "Always maintain close ties with the people"; the implementation of major strategic deployments such as developing whole-process people's democracy, creating a social governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing, and steadily promoting common prosperity; the successful practices of local reforms such as "running errands at most once," "one network for all matters," and "inter-provincial handling," these all-round explorations and systematic advancements from ideological guidance, strategic deployment to practical implementation have allowed the people's subject position to be more fully and comprehensively demonstrated in socialist economic relations, political relations, and social relations, not only consolidating the people's central position as the subject of history, but also allowing the people's subjective consciousness, subjective ability, and subjective value to be unprecedentedly enhanced in the great journey of the new era, becoming the deepest source of strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Understanding Economic Construction as the Central Task Based on the Principal Contradiction of Society
The principal contradiction of society is the contradiction that plays a dominant and decisive role in a specific stage of social development, and is essentially a specific presentation of the basic contradiction of society in different historical periods of social development. The principal contradiction of society is the basis for determining the central task of the Party and the state in a specific historical stage. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Whether the cause of the Party and the people can move forward in the correct direction depends on whether we can accurately understand and grasp the principal contradiction of society and determine the central task." The basic contradiction of society has different forms of expression and solutions in different historical stages and different social conditions, thereby forming different principal contradictions of society, which determine the central task of social development in different historical stages.
Economic construction as the central task is the core content, important guarantee, and key path to solving the principal contradiction of society in the primary stage of socialism. Marxism believes that the production of material means is the foundation of human social existence and development, and productive forces are the ultimate determining force of social development. The primary object of transforming the world is the natural world, and the production of material means is the most direct practice of human beings contacting and changing the natural form. Among many human practices, economic construction is the core carrier and main path of material production. For China, which has been in the primary stage of socialism for a long time, taking economic construction as the central task is undoubtedly the fundamental support for consolidating the foundation of national development and meeting the people's material and cultural needs.
Entering the new era, the principal contradiction of Chinese society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. Under the complex and severe domestic and international situation, China has adhered to economic construction as the central task and achieved remarkable achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. China's gross domestic product has climbed from approximately 52 trillion yuan in 2012 to over 140 trillion yuan in 2025. Its economic growth rate ranks among the top of major economies, and its contribution to world economic growth has remained at around 30% for many years, making it the most stable and reliable source of power for world economic development. China's industrial structure has continued to upgrade, the construction of a modern industrial system has accelerated, and the industrial field has accelerated its transformation from factor-driven and investment-scale-driven development to innovation-driven development, and to high-end, intelligent, and green transformation. In 2025, the proportion of the added value of high-tech manufacturing industries above designated size in the added value of industries above designated size will increase to 17.1%. China is not only the only country in the world with all industrial categories in the United Nations industrial classification, but also the "locomotive" of global manufacturing. In the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, China has implemented an innovation-driven development strategy and achieved significant results in manned spaceflight, artificial intelligence, fifth-generation mobile communication, and other fields; the leapfrog development of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products, the "new three items," leads the world... These achievements fully prove that economic construction as the central task demonstrates a more powerful practical force in the new era.
The transformation of the principal contradiction of society in the new era requires economic construction to better play its basic and central role, providing solid material support and power traction for the construction of various fields. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We also emphasized that we must take economic construction as the central task and give play to the leading role of economic system reform. That is to say, we must grasp the main aspects of the basic contradictions of our country at the present stage, and the focus is on development." This important exposition provides us with scientific guidance for grasping the development requirements of economic construction as the central task in the new era. Taking economic construction as the central task to lead the overall development can not only promote the improvement of hard power such as infrastructure improvement and industrial upgrading, but also drive the development of soft power such as public service optimization and governance effectiveness enhancement. For example, China uses various methods such as policy guidance and market regulation to allow financial capital and private capital to flow to key areas of people's livelihood, playing an important role in supporting small and micro business entities, helping the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, ensuring the needs of key groups, and promoting the development of people's livelihood.
Economic construction as the central task is a strategic choice made by the Party based on an accurate grasp of the principal contradiction of society in the primary stage of socialism. Economic construction plays a fundamental role in meeting the people's material needs, generating higher-level social needs, and driving the coordinated development of various fields. This is first determined by the principal contradiction of socialist society, and also by the basic position of economic construction in national development. China's social development practice fully proves that firmly grasping economic construction as the central task can master and promote the overall situation of modernization; deviating from this center will damage the entire modernization cause.
Following the Laws of Social Contradiction Movement, Deeply Grasping the Organic Unity of People-Centered Approach and Economic Construction as the Central Task
A people-centered approach originates from the laws of basic social contradiction movement, is the value core that runs through the entire process of socialist construction, and is also the value destination of Chinese-style modernization construction. Adhering to a people-centered approach is the fundamental positioning of the nature, purpose, and direction of China's economic and social development. Economic construction as the central task focuses on the historical and stage-specific demands of the principal contradiction of society. The specific manifestations of the principal contradiction of society in different historical periods determine that economic construction, as the basic way to solve contradictions, has distinct practical attributes and stage-specific characteristics. The organic connection between a people-centered approach and economic construction as the central task shows that the Party's central task and central work not only follow the basic laws of human social development, but also respond to the development needs of different stages, and are the Party's accurate grasp and creative application of the laws of socialist social contradiction movement. The dialectical relationship between the two is mainly reflected as follows:
There is an organic unity relationship between the two that adapts to the "subject-object." A people-centered approach highlights the practical subject of economic construction, and the subject orientation of a people-centered approach ensures that economic construction as the central task always points to the value purpose of putting the people first. Economic construction as the central task is the objective support for a people-centered approach, and its high-quality development is the material prerequisite for ensuring the all-round development of the subject, so that the subject's needs can be realized. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people." This requires taking the development of people as the fundamental measure of the development of things, preventing both the lack of "people trapped in things" and being wary of the alienation of "people serving things." Following a people-centered approach requires accurately responding to people's needs, respecting people's values, and protecting people's rights in the process of production, quality improvement, and distribution of things, ensuring that the development of things always serves people, and realizing a virtuous cycle of "people getting what they want and things being used to their full potential." Economic construction as the central task is the guiding principle and objective content for promoting China's economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Promote the continuous development of social productive forces in our country, and promote the realization of the unity of the continuous enrichment of things and the all-round development of people." Through the practical results of economic construction, enrich the connotation of a people-centered approach, and continuously transform the purpose and concept of a people-centered approach into a sense of gain and happiness that the people can perceive. For example, by the end of 2025, with the opening of the high-speed railway from Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西) to Yan'an (延安), the operating mileage of China's high-speed railways will exceed 50,000 kilometers, making it the world's largest and most advanced high-speed railway network, with an operating mileage more than twice that of all other countries in the world combined. Its significance lies not only in the technological iteration breakthroughs and the leading scale of operating mileage and other indicators in the world, but also in the fact that the rapid development of high-speed railways greatly shortens the travel time between the central and western regions and the eastern regions, making the flow of various factors across regions smoother, and promoting the formation of a new pattern of industrial collaboration between regions; responding to the people's yearning for a better life with high-quality services, making business, tourism, and family visits more convenient, and directly improving the quality of life and efficiency of hundreds of millions of people. This is precisely the vivid practice of a people-centered approach in the field of infrastructure construction.
Both have an organically unified relationship of "subject-object" adaptation. Taking the people as the center highlights the practical subject of economic construction. The subject orientation of taking the people as the center ensures that the focus on economic construction always points to the value of putting the people first. Taking economic construction as the center is the objective support for taking the people as the center, and its high-quality development is the material prerequisite for ensuring the comprehensive development of the subject, so that the needs of the subject can be realized. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people." This requires taking the development of people as the fundamental measure of the development of things, preventing both the lack of "people trapped by things" and guarding against the alienation of "people enslaved by things." Following the principle of taking the people as the center requires accurately responding to people's needs, respecting people's values, and protecting people's rights and interests in the process of material production, quality improvement, and distribution, ensuring that the development of things always serves people and achieves a virtuous cycle of "people getting their due and things being put to good use." Taking economic construction as the center is the guideline and objective content for promoting China's economic and social development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Promote the continuous advancement of China's social productive forces and promote the unification of the continuous enrichment of things and the comprehensive development of people." Through the practical achievements of economic construction, enrich the connotation of taking the people as the center, and continuously transform the purpose and concept of taking the people as the center into a sense of gain and happiness that the people can perceive. For example, by the end of 2025, with the opening of the high-speed railway from Xi'an (西安) to Yan'an (延安) in Shaanxi (陕西), China's high-speed railway operating mileage will exceed 50,000 kilometers, making it the world's largest and most advanced high-speed railway network, with an operating mileage more than twice the total of all other countries in the world. Its significance lies not only in the technological iteration and breakthrough, the scale of operating mileage and other indicators leading the world, but also in the rapid development of high-speed railways that greatly shortens the travel time between the central and western regions and the eastern regions, making the flow of various factors across regions smoother, and promoting the formation of a new pattern of industrial collaboration between regions; responding to the people's yearning for a better life with high-quality services, making business, tourism, and family visits more convenient, and directly improving the quality of life and efficiency of hundreds of millions of people. This is a vivid practice of taking the people as the center in the field of infrastructure construction.
Both have an organically unified relationship of "power-guarantee" mutual support. Taking the people as the center is the core engine driving development. People's needs are the most lasting and reliable driving force for development. People's pursuit of a better life, from meeting basic needs to expecting a high-quality life, constantly generates new consumer demand and market space, providing a continuous demand impetus for economic construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "domestic demand is the basic driving force of China's economic development, and it is also an inevitable requirement to meet the people's growing needs for a better life" and "make domestic demand the main driving force and stabilizing anchor for economic growth," which profoundly reveals the core logic of people's needs as the endogenous driving force of economic development. The objective laws of economic development are contained in the production and living needs of hundreds of millions of people. Enterprises' expectations for the optimization of the business environment, farmers' desire for increased production and income, and the masses' expectations for the improvement of people's livelihood facilities—these real demands are the source of power for economic development. At the same time, taking economic construction as the center provides economic security for people's happiness. It consolidates the economic foundation through economic development and provides an indispensable material prerequisite for the value goals of taking the people as the center. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Development is the foundation and key to solving all problems in our country." Whether it is the improvement of public services such as education and medical care, or the improvement of the ecological environment and the optimization of social governance, economic development is needed to provide financial, technical, and resource support. Without the guarantee of economic construction, taking the people as the center will lose its realistic foundation. The optimization of resource elements brought about by economic development can also make human, material, and technological resources more efficiently inclined to public services, ecological protection, and social governance, and solve the resource bottleneck problems in development. Therefore, taking the people as the center continuously injects value and development momentum into economic construction, and promotes higher-quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable, and safer development; taking economic construction as the center, in the process of promoting economic model transformation and industrial structure upgrading, builds a material foundation and development platform for the people's better life; people's needs present new content on the new platform, giving new impetus to economic construction. In the dialectical interaction of "power-guarantee," the two empower each other, promote each other, and continuously promote the overall progress of the economy and society.
Both have an organically unified relationship of "purpose-means" complementing each other. Taking the people as the center clarifies the core goal of "what kind of development to achieve," while taking economic construction as the center answers the key path question of "how to develop." On the one hand, the fundamental purpose of developing the economy is to benefit the people and allow the broad masses of workers to share the fruits of reform and development. Taking economic construction as the center is fundamentally to better realize the well-being of all the people, and ultimately to realize, safeguard, and develop the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people. This is precisely the high degree of unity and deep fit between taking the people as the center and taking economic construction as the center in terms of goal pursuit. This unity and fit is concretized into the life changes that hundreds of millions of people can feel and know. For example, from 2012 to 2025, the national per capita disposable income of residents increased from 16,510 yuan to 43,377 yuan, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents in 2025 decreased from 2.34 in the previous year to 2.31, and the relative income gap between urban and rural residents continued to narrow, fully reflecting the development achievements of taking economic construction as the center benefiting all the people. On the other hand, economic construction provides solid practical support for taking the people as the center by solving development contradictions and empowering the improvement of people's livelihood. For example, the expansion of the total economic volume creates more employment opportunities. With the continuous growth of China's total economic volume, since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the annual increase in urban employment has been stable at more than 12 million people, and relatively full employment has been achieved in the development of a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion; coordinated regional development and urban-rural integrated development have narrowed regional gaps. The economic growth rate of the central and western regions is faster than that of the eastern region, and the income growth rate of rural residents has been faster than that of urban residents for many years. Projects such as "East Data West Computing" (东数西算) and "West-East Electricity Transmission" (西电东送) promote the transformation of resource advantages into development advantages, ensuring that people equally enjoy development opportunities; and so on. Taking economic construction as the center takes adhering to taking the people as the center as the goal orientation, and is also the practical path to achieve the development of people themselves. Therefore, taking the people as the center is the value standard of taking economic construction as the center, while taking economic construction as the center is the path requirement of taking the people as the center.
Both have an organically unified relationship of "principle-route" interconnection. In the process of modernization, whatever principles there are, there will be corresponding routes. The principles of capital dominance, individualism, and power logic in Western modernization have brought about the characteristics of colonial expansion, hegemonic monopoly, and plunder. Chinese-style modernization takes the value orientation of taking the people as the center and takes economic construction as the key to national rejuvenation, creating a brand-new path for late-developing countries to achieve modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Whether the road to modernization can ultimately be successful and stable depends on whether we adhere to taking the people as the center." On the one hand, adhering to taking the people as the center requires using the people's main position and the people's comprehensive development to govern the logic of capital, while actively giving play to the productivity attributes of capital as an important factor of production, activating capital vitality through market-oriented reforms, helping technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and employment expansion, and exploring a path of using capital to serve the people's modernization. For example, the "China Private Enterprise Social Responsibility Report (2025)" released by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce shows that by the end of 2024, a total of 235,100 private enterprises across the country participated in the "Ten Thousand Enterprises Revitalizing Ten Thousand Villages" (万企兴万村) action, with an industrial investment of 1.23 trillion yuan, benefiting 161,900 villages, and private enterprises have become an important force in serving the rural revitalization strategy. On the other hand, adhering to taking economic construction as the center requires promoting the modernization of the country through endogenous development, abandoning the old path of Western colonial plunder-style modernization, and unswervingly following the path of peaceful development. Chinese-style modernization takes the domestic super-large-scale market as a strategic fulcrum, drives high-quality economic development through internal industrial upgrading and consumption expansion, and promotes infrastructure interconnection and capacity cooperation through equal and mutually beneficial international trade and high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), helping relevant countries and regions achieve industrial upgrading and economic revitalization. It can be seen that taking the people as the center and taking economic construction as the center are the inevitable requirements for the unity of value and law in Chinese-style modernization, and also an important magic weapon for China's successful emergence of a new road to modernization, providing a referential practical paradigm for late-developing countries to achieve modernization.
Standing at the key period of Chinese-style modernization, achieving the organic unity of taking the people as the center and taking economic construction as the center.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a key period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Adhere to taking economic construction as the center, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, achieve effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity, and promote sustained and healthy economic development and comprehensive social progress." This fully reflects China's firm determination to concentrate its efforts on strengthening the domestic economy in the face of the world's increasing turbulence, the severe challenges to the international economic and trade order, and the more complex and intense great power game; further clarifies the economic development orientation of achieving the unity of effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity, and making the "cake" bigger and better; and is a strategic consideration for coordinating the two overall situations at home and abroad to ensure that decisive progress is made in basically realizing socialist modernization. In the key period of promoting socialist modernization, taking the people as the center and taking economic construction as the center are endowed with more contemporary and innovative connotations, making the organic unity of the two closer and more realistic, which is specifically manifested in the following aspects.
Adhere to the organic unity of putting the people first and adhering to high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Adhere to the people-centered development thought, and take enhancing the people's well-being, promoting people's all-round development, and steadily moving towards common prosperity as the starting point and foothold of economic development. We must not forget this fundamental position at any time, and we must firmly adhere to this fundamental position in deploying economic work, formulating economic policies, and promoting economic development." Adhering to putting the people first and adhering to high-quality development are the principles that must be followed in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Among them, adhering to putting the people first is the background color, and promoting high-quality development is the theme. We must implement the people-centered development thought throughout the entire process, all fields, and all links of development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. At the same time, during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we will continue to promote high-quality development as the theme, and take developing new quality productive forces as an important starting point, and strive to achieve substantial breakthroughs in technological innovation, new kinetic energy cultivation, and economic structure optimization.
The organic unity of improving people's livelihood and developing the economy. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Economic development and social development are mutually reinforcing and must be coordinated and advanced. We must take improving people's livelihood as the focus of promoting social development, and steadily improve the quality of people's lives while developing the economy." Economic development is the prerequisite for improving people's livelihood, and continuous improvement of people's livelihood can boost domestic demand, generate new economic growth points, and expand space for development. The economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is to focus on the real economy and new quality productive forces, stabilize employment, increase income, and consolidate the material foundation of people's livelihood; at the same time, expand the supply of high-quality people's livelihood, boost consumption, optimize public services, release effective demand to drive supply upgrades, and achieve mutual promotion of development and people's livelihood.
The organic unity of sustained and healthy economic development and comprehensive social progress. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must not only develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, strengthen the real economy, enhance the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic great cycle, and promote sustained and healthy economic development; but also stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation, enhance the level of social civilization, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation, and promote the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all the people to take solid steps. This series of deployments points to building high-quality development in which economic development and social progress are coordinated and advanced, and material affluence and spiritual richness complement each other, injecting lasting impetus into Chinese-style modernization and promoting the great cause of national rejuvenation to advance steadily.
During the key period of the "15th Five-Year Plan," achieving the organic unity of taking the people as the center and taking economic construction as the center requires doing the following aspects.
Inject new impetus into economic and social development with further comprehensive deepening of reform. Focusing on the two key orientations of economic development and people's needs, adhere to further comprehensively deepening reform with institutional construction as the main line. Focusing on building a high-level socialist market economic system, we will remove institutional and mechanism obstacles that restrict high-quality development by accelerating the improvement of the market-oriented allocation system and mechanism of factors of production and unifying the basic institutional rules of the market. Strengthen the evaluation of policy implementation effects, improve the expectation management mechanism, optimize the comprehensive performance evaluation of high-quality development, stabilize market confidence, and build consensus on development. At the same time, adhere to planning and promoting reform from the interests of the people, establishing and improving relevant systems, and optimizing and innovating systems and mechanisms. We will respect the people's main position more, take the people's high-quality life and all-round development as the fundamental value standard, and take the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security as the institutional evaluation standard, so that institutional construction can truly take root in the people's needs, focus on the urgent difficulties and anxieties of the masses, and become a solid guarantee for responding to people's livelihood expectations, solving people's livelihood pain points, and ensuring people's livelihood well-being.
Build a new bridge between economy and people's livelihood with high-level scientific and technological innovation. To promote high-quality development, we must accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Economic quality improvement and people's livelihood improvement are inseparable from the power of science and technology. Scientific and technological innovation is a key link connecting economic growth and people's livelihood improvement. Scientific and technological innovation promotes the transformation of the economy from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement by breaking through core technologies and spawning emerging industries, thereby driving industrial upgrading and improving the quality and efficiency of economic development. At the same time, scientific and technological innovation makes people's livelihood services more convenient, more inclusive, and of higher quality through the implementation of technology. For example, telemedicine and AI-assisted diagnosis technology break through geographical restrictions, allowing people in remote areas to share high-quality medical resources; smart education platforms and personalized learning systems promote the balanced allocation of educational resources; and so on. The improvement of people's livelihood brought about by scientific and technological innovation can stimulate residents' consumption potential and inject endogenous power into economic development; the upgrading of needs in the field of people's livelihood can also promote the iteration of scientific and technological innovation, forming a virtuous cycle of economic empowerment of people's livelihood and people's livelihood feeding back to the economy.
Mark a new direction for high-quality development with a high-quality life. The core of the new era's high-quality life is to comprehensively upgrade from "whether there is" to "whether it is good," and the purpose is to make high-quality development always adjust its direction, allocate resources, and optimize its path around the people's high-quality life needs. Specifically, it can be promoted from four dimensions. First, guide the direction of industrial development with people's livelihood needs, such as promoting the development of biomedicine, smart medical care, and other industries around health needs; and promoting the development of green buildings, smart homes, and other industries to meet the needs of livability. Second, calibrate the direction of resource allocation with the equalization of public services, such as focusing on the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and gradually improving the completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of the living environment. Third, lead the direction of distribution reform with the goal of common prosperity, such as broadening the channels for residents' property income and expanding the size of the middle-income group. Fourth, clarify the direction of development mode with green and low-carbon transformation, such as strictly controlling high-energy-consuming and high-emission projects, promoting the realization of the value of ecological products, and allowing the people to enjoy a high-quality life in green mountains and clear waters.
High-quality living sets a new direction for high-quality development. The core of high-quality living in the new era is a comprehensive upgrade from "having or not" to "good or not." The goal is to ensure that high-quality development always revolves around the people's high-quality living needs to adjust direction, allocate resources, and optimize paths. Specifically, it can be promoted from four dimensions. First, use people's livelihood needs to guide the direction of industrial development, such as promoting the development of bio-pharmaceuticals, smart healthcare and other industries around health needs; connect with livable needs to promote the development of green buildings, smart homes and other industries. Second, use the equalization of public services to calibrate the direction of resource allocation, such as focusing on the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and gradually improving the completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of the living environment. Third, use the goal of common prosperity to lead the direction of distribution reform, such as broadening the channels for residents' property income and expanding the size of the middle-income group. Fourth, clarify the direction of development mode with green and low-carbon transformation, such as strictly controlling high-energy-consuming and high-emission projects, promoting the realization of the value of ecological products, and allowing the people to enjoy a high-quality life in green mountains and clear waters.
High-efficiency governance achieves new breakthroughs in high-quality development. In May 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Henan (河南): "Strive to write a new chapter in promoting Chinese-style modernization in the Central Plains with high-quality development and high-efficiency governance." High-efficiency governance mainly achieves the maximization of governance effectiveness in economic high-quality development and people's well-being improvement simultaneously through systematic optimization of the governance system and comprehensive improvement of governance capabilities with more intensive governance resource input. This requires strengthening innovation-driven governance during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, improving the basic research investment mechanism that combines competitive support and stable support, building an integrated development pattern of education, science and technology, and talent, and consolidating the foundation for the development of new quality productive forces. Strengthen the governance of factor allocation, and allow operating entities to participate in economic activities more efficiently through promoting the efficient allocation of various factor resources, and accumulate a material foundation for fair distribution. Strengthen collaborative governance, and promote efficient linkage between the government and enterprises, and between the government and social organizations through improving deliberation and consultation mechanisms, optimizing resource integration mechanisms, and improving linkage disposal mechanisms, stimulate the people's sense of ownership and participation vitality, guide all parties to participate in social governance in an orderly manner, and consolidate the mass foundation of social governance.
(Author's affiliation: Institute of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Peking University (北京大学))
Return to TopIn 2025, both production and sales of new energy vehicles in China exceeded 16 million units. Market competition has also entered a stage where "technological gap, cost efficiency, and globalization capabilities" are key factors. Leapmotor (零跑汽车), which ranked first in sales among emerging car manufacturers in 2025, has been anchored to the development direction of "full-domain self-research" and "technology for all" since its establishment in December 2015. After 10 years of development, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has adhered to the "engineer culture" and long-termism, achieved independent control of key core technologies, and served the market with the product concept of "good and affordable." By the end of 2025, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) had accumulated the trust of over 1.2 million users, with annual sales of nearly 600,000 vehicles, embarking on a path of high-quality development driven by technological innovation.
Adhering to Long-Termism, Full-Domain Self-Research Solidifies the Technical Foundation
Leapmotor's (零跑汽车) entrepreneurial history is deeply imprinted with "engineer culture" and long-termism. Leapmotor (零跑汽车) places research and development at the absolute center, adhering to full-domain self-research of key technologies and a high degree of self-manufacturing of core components. Over the past 10 years, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has mastered the key core technologies necessary for new energy vehicles and established a competitive independent component manufacturing system.
In the era of smart electric vehicles, the commanding heights of the industry lie in the independent controllability of the core technology chain. Only by mastering a complete set of technologies such as batteries, electric drives, electronic controls, intelligent cockpits, intelligent driving, and electronic and electrical architecture can one truly possess product definition rights, cost control rights, and iterative initiative. To this end, at the initial stage of Leapmotor's (零跑汽车) establishment, the proportion of R&D personnel in the team reached 90%. Even after the company's scale expanded significantly, the proportion of R&D personnel remained at 80%.
Ten years of dedicated investment have yielded fruitful results. Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has successfully built an independent R&D system covering key core technologies of smart electric vehicles. The cost of self-developed and self-manufactured parts accounts for 65% of the total vehicle cost, forming a complete and powerful independent supply chain: from a global vehicle architecture and an industry-leading central integrated electronic and electrical architecture (such as the "Clover" central domain controller), to innovative cell-to-chassis (CTC) technology and efficient oil-cooled electric drive systems; from cockpit systems empowered by large models to assisted driving systems empowered by end-to-end large models, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has achieved a comprehensive layout and continuous iteration of key technology nodes in the entire technology system, becoming a car company with full-domain self-research from chips (such as the first automotive-grade intelligent driving chip "Lingxin 01" (凌芯01)) to systems, and from hardware to software.
This deep self-research capability translates into significant competitiveness in the production and manufacturing end. Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has built 17 component factories covering key components such as cells, batteries, electric drives, electronic controls, headlights, and seats, forming an industrial cluster with economies of scale and collaborative efficiency. Currently, Leapmotor's (零跑汽车) core component sector has achieved strong cooperation with more than 10 domestic and foreign car companies, creating a unique development model.
Rich Vehicle Matrix, Creating "Good and Affordable" Products
Currently, new energy vehicle consumption is shifting from "price-oriented" to "value-oriented," and the trend of rational consumption points out an important direction for industrial upgrading. Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has clearly defined the product concept of "good and affordable" from the beginning, serving the vast consumer groups, and bringing products with higher configuration, better quality, and good value for money to the market through continuous innovation and research.
All Leapmotor (零跑汽车) models are based on a unified global vehicle architecture, creating four major product technology platforms: A, B, C, and D. The highly platformized and modular design enables a maximum component commonality rate of 88%, which not only greatly improves R&D efficiency and shortens the new car launch cycle, but also significantly reduces the cost per unit through economies of scale. Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has created a complete vehicle matrix covering sedans, SUVs, and MPVs, with a price range of 60,000 to 300,000 yuan and dual power options of pure electric and extended-range, allowing users to enjoy a high-quality intelligent travel experience within their budget, fully meeting the diversified needs of different market segments such as family users and young groups.
Deepening Global Layout, Achieving Healthy and Sustainable Operation
Healthy operation and sustainable growth are the foundation for a company's long-term survival and contribution to the industry. Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has not only achieved rapid growth in sales volume, but also explored a unique development path in channel system construction, globalization expansion, and corporate operating quality.
In terms of channel system construction, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) innovatively launched the "1+N" channel model, that is, building a central store with complete 4S functions (sales, delivery, service, and parts) in one region, while reasonably deploying N experience showrooms located in shopping malls or urban centers in the same region. This not only maintains direct control over service quality, but also achieves efficient coverage by leveraging the local resources of dealers, ultimately forming a closed loop of user experience with transparent prices, rapid response, and flexible services. By the end of 2025, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) had more than 1,000 channel outlets in the Chinese market.
Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has chosen a differentiated and highly efficient globalization path. In 2023, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) reached a strategic cooperation with Stellantis Group (Stellantis集团), a world-renowned automobile company, to jointly establish the "Leapmotor International" (零跑国际) joint venture company, which is fully responsible for Leapmotor's (零跑汽车) overseas business. Leveraging Stellantis Group's (Stellantis集团) mature dealer network, logistics system, localized manufacturing capabilities, and market experience around the world, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) can quickly enter mature markets such as Europe and the United States, as well as emerging markets such as Asia Pacific, South America, and the Middle East in a "light asset" model, greatly reducing the time and capital costs of building its own channels. This model of "**强强联合、优势互补**" (qiáng qiáng lián hé, yōu shì hù bǔ - "strong-strong alliance, complementary advantages," a situation where strong entities combine to leverage each other's strengths) has become one of the successful models for Chinese car companies to go overseas. In 2025, Leapmotor's (零跑汽车) overseas deliveries exceeded 60,000 vehicles, ranking first in overseas sales among emerging car manufacturers. As of now, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has completed business layouts in 35 countries and regions, covering regions such as Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, the Middle East, and Africa; more than 800 overseas sales and service outlets have been built, including more than 750 in the European market.
After 10 years of cultivation, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) has achieved a qualitative leap in its operations: it achieved its single-quarter profit target ahead of schedule in the fourth quarter of 2024, becoming the second company among emerging car manufacturers to achieve profitability, and continued to maintain profitability in 2025, entering a stage of virtuous development of scaled profitability, providing a solid guarantee for the company's subsequent technology research and development, product launch, and market expansion. Leapmotor's (零跑汽车) development model and potential have also been highly recognized by industrial capital. Following the strategic investment from Stellantis Group (Stellantis集团), in 2025, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) also reached a deep strategic cooperation with China FAW Group (中国一汽集团) and received additional investment from it. In 2025, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) was successively listed on the "Fortune" China 500 and China's Top 500 Private Enterprises, and its stock was also included in the Hang Seng TECH Index (恒生科技指数). Standing at a new starting point, Leapmotor (零跑汽车) will continue to adhere to the path of "full-domain self-research," take technological innovation as the engine, seek development with a global vision, and steadily move towards the goal of becoming a "world-class intelligent electric vehicle company."
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Return to TopThe pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is linked to both people's well-being and economic development. Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group (扬子江药业集团), based in Taizhou City (泰州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), is committed to becoming a world-class pharmaceutical and healthcare industry group. It adheres closely to the main theme of high-quality development, practices the company's "dual health" strategy of "healthy marketing and marketing health," continuously promotes industrial innovation and upgrading, promotes win-win supply chain and high-quality industrial chain development, and serves the construction of a healthy China.
The year 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and Yangzijiang will vigorously cultivate new quality productive forces, accelerate the industrial intelligent transformation, green development, and integrated upgrading, and further improve the innovation ecosystem. At the same time, by improving health services and enhancing the ability to allocate global resources, Yangzijiang will focus on achieving breakthroughs in the field of big health and international layout, continuously enhance the company's comprehensive competitiveness, and ensure that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period will strive to write a new chapter of high-quality development with greater responsibility.
Serving the Construction of a Healthy China
Promoting Innovative Development of the Big Health Industry
People's health is an important symbol of socialist modernization and a common pursuit of the broad masses of the people. Yangzijiang has always firmly practiced the development path of "moving towards the new, climbing towards the high, and transforming towards the excellent," striving to provide the people with high-quality health products and services. The "Huyou (护佑)" brand was selected into the "Era Excellent Products" list of corporate brands of China's consumer famous products in 2025 by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部).
"Making medicine for parents and making medicine for loved ones" is the quality culture that Yangzijiang has always adhered to. While consolidating the advantages of the pharmaceutical main business, Yangzijiang is deeply involved in the big health industry, launching health products such as the Lanqin (蓝芩) brand series, Huangqi (黄芪) food nourishing series, and probiotic product series. Currently, more than 20 SKUs (stock keeping units) have been launched, forming a diversified health product matrix. In Hanzhong City (汉中市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), Yangzijiang takes the Huyou Health Management Center as a pilot, jointly exploring the construction of a digital health city with the government and partners, aiming to serve the healthy lives of millions of Hanzhong citizens with professional health management solutions.
At the same time, Yangzijiang continuously spreads and practices the concept of "treating diseases before they occur" through public welfare actions, helping to improve the development of the entire chain of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and management services. On health promotion nodes such as the United Nations Diabetes Day and World Allergy Day, Yangzijiang carefully prepares a series of public welfare science popularization activities, holds many public health free clinics across the country, releases a popular science video of "Understanding Diabetic Complications in Three Minutes" online, and holds public welfare activities such as "Finding the Allergic You," helping citizens enhance their health awareness of "early identification, early prevention, and early intervention" of diseases. In recent years, Yangzijiang has continuously entered communities, nursing homes, and other places to popularize health knowledge and hold health lectures, health markets, and other activities, covering hundreds of thousands of people.
Yangzijiang closely focuses on national strategies and the multi-level health needs of the masses, innovatively developing new varieties and new categories such as Qili Drink (芪力饮) and hanging ear coffee, and integrating them into diversified consumption scenarios. At the same time, Yangzijiang is accelerating the cutting-edge exploration of the pharmaceutical research and development field. As one of the first batch of innovative enterprises in the country, Yangzijiang resolutely implements the innovation-driven development strategy and continuously achieves "hard-core" breakthroughs: In 2025, a Class 1.1 traditional Chinese medicine innovative drug was launched nationwide, a Class 1 chemical innovative drug was approved for marketing, and several new drugs entered the key clinical or marketing application stage, forming a clear gradient and a strong momentum for the innovative drug pipeline layout.
Helping the Comprehensive Revitalization of the Countryside
Promoting the Transformation and Upgrading of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry
At the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains (祁连山), Yangzijiang provides standardized training guidance and stable sales channels for cooperatives in Minle County (民乐县), Gansu Province (甘肃省). The local area has achieved increased income through standardized planting of Huangqi (黄芪) and other models. In Weinan City (渭南市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), Yangzijiang helps Huangqin (黄芩) growers increase production and income through digital management, selenium-rich experiments, and intercropping of grain and medicine. In the Wuling Mountains (武陵山区) of Chongqing (重庆市), Yangzijiang regularly organizes Huanglian (黄连) planting technology training, teaching farmers green prevention and control technologies for diseases and insect pests, and helping farmers improve their planting level...
Currently, Yangzijiang has established 80 standardized Chinese medicinal material planting bases in the authentic medicinal material producing areas and high-quality main producing areas of Chinese medicinal materials across the country, strictly controlling quality from the source of planting. Relying on the planting bases, Yangzijiang continues to practice the "Two Mountains" concept, helping local farmers to steadily increase their income, effectively improving the sustainable development level of rural industries, and helping the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
As a chain owner enterprise, Yangzijiang actively cultivates the health consumption market and broadens the future development path of the traditional Chinese medicine industry. Yangzijiang participates in platform-based activities such as the China (Fuding) Gardenia Health Industry Development Conference (中国（福鼎）栀子健康产业发展大会) and the China (Guyang) Organic Huangqi Industry Promotion Summit (中国（固阳）有机黄芪产业推进峰会); creates public welfare brand IPs for health science popularization such as "Authentic China"; develops AI intelligent bodies to help the digital construction of national health, and helps more and more people understand the health value of traditional Chinese medicinal materials. Thanks to a series of efforts to devote itself to the construction of a healthy China, Yangzijiang was selected as a national Chinese medicine culture publicity and education base in 2025 and won the title of National Advanced Unit of Mass Sports. Xu Haoyu (徐浩宇), Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman, and President of Yangzijiang Pharmaceutical Group, was awarded the honorary title of "Excellent Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for Non-Public Economic Figures Nationwide."
Currently, relying on a sound research and development system and standardized Chinese medicinal material planting bases, Yangzijiang is actively joining hands with partners in the industrial chain and supply chain to jointly enhance the ability to resist risks, and strive to bring the distance between producing areas and industries, enterprises and farmers, and products and consumers closer, helping to achieve synergistic linkage between the upstream, midstream, and downstream, and the closed-loop development of the entire chain.
Digital Empowerment, Quality Foundation
Continuously Benchmarking World-Class Standards
In the modern Chinese medicine intelligent production factory of Jiangsu Longfengtang Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd. (江苏龙凤堂中药有限公司), a subsidiary of Yangzijiang, advanced equipment such as automatic feeding robots and automatic guided vehicles (AGV) operate in an orderly manner in the workshop, and production and manufacturing, quality control, warehousing and transportation are standardized, intelligent, and precise. From the source to the terminal, Yangzijiang has built a full-chain quality assurance system. Its intelligent factory for the entire process of drug quality control has been rated as the first batch of excellent intelligent factories in the country, and its 5G freeze-dried preparation intelligent production line of Jiangsu Coast Pharmaceutical (江苏海岸药业) has been selected into the national 2023 5G factory list. Another 8 factories have been rated as national green factories.
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Return to TopHigh above hangs the bright moon, and on the ground are ten thousand colorful lanterns, the lights and the moon reflecting each other, colliding to create the romantic colors of the Lantern Festival. Without lanterns, the festival would lose its color; without the moon, the spring would not be strong. The earth returning to spring, the first full moon of the year, the auspiciousness, happiness, hope, and emotions rendered by the intermingling of lanterns and the moon have long been painted into the annals of art by painters. Through visual records, aesthetic transmission, and spiritual inspiration are achieved in the continuation of cultural traditions.
Looking at the moon on the Lantern Festival, heaven and earth share emotions. This edition invites five experts and scholars to delve into the treasure trove of traditional art, deeply analyzing the cultural codes and visual aesthetics hidden in the imagery of the bright moon, lanterns, elegant gatherings, various performances, and peddlers, to appreciate the artistic realm with readers, celebrate the New Year together, and embark on a new journey.
——Editor
The Heart of Heaven Suspends a Jade Mirror, Pure Radiance Falls Upon the Human World
Fu Yanghua (付阳华)
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Shangyuan Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival or Yuanxi. On this day, the round moon in the sky and the lanterns on the ground illuminate each other, so the climax of the festival is locked in the evening. From Lu Zhaolin's (卢照邻) "Suspecting stars fall from the Han River, leaning on the tower as if the moon hangs," to Li Shangyin's (李商隐) "Moonlight and lantern light fill the imperial capital, fragrant carriages and precious palanquins crowd the thoroughfares," countless literati have linked the lights of the human world with the stars and moon in the sky, endowing the Shangyuan Festival with rich connotations. This connotation is also vividly interpreted in related paintings.
In traditional paintings, there are not many direct depictions of the moon, but several paintings depicting the Shangyuan Festival include the moon, enriching and expanding the artistic realm of the Lantern Festival. Chen Mei's (陈枚) "Moon and Leisure Album" (月曼清游图册) of the Qing Dynasty, which depicts the scenery of the twelve months in the palace, including "Exploring Plum Blossoms on a Cold Night" (寒夜探梅) (partial view in Figure 1), precisely depicts the scene of Yuanxi. In the upper right of the picture, the painter deliberately uses warm yellow to render a round moon, and below, graceful ladies wander in the palace with lanterns, the full moon in the sky and the palace lanterns hanging from the eaves reflecting each other. In the moonlight and lantern light, the blooming, scattered plum blossoms are as crystal clear as the strings of palace lanterns, adding a touch of agility to the picture. Zong Lin's (宗懔) "Jingchu Chronicle of the Seasons" (荆楚岁时记) of the Southern Dynasties states: "The plum blossom begins, the chinaberry flower ends, a total of twenty-four flower herald winds." As the first of the flower herald winds, the plum blossom corresponds to the character "Yuan" (元) among the twenty-four flowers. Plum blossom ornaments are also important items for the Yuanxi Festival. As early as the Song Dynasty, it was customary to wear white clothes and plum blossoms on the Yuanxi Festival. The white plum blossoms in this painting are not only a realistic landscape but also reflect the festival culture.
Wu Bin's (吴彬) "Celebrating the Year Album" (岁华纪胜图册) of the Ming Dynasty also depicts the scenery of the twelve months, with the first page depicting Yuan Ye. Wu Bin captures a bird's-eye view of the Yuanxi lantern market near a city gate, with crowds of people on the streets. The focus of the picture is the Aoshan Lantern Festival, where people surround the huge multi-layered Aoshan Lantern to watch. Wu Bin did not use heavy colors to render the atmosphere like court painters but instead expressed the coldness of winter, with alternating red and green lanterns and the reflection of a bright moon on the river surface in the upper left corner of the picture highlighting the theme of this page. Several literati can be seen gathering under the moon on the riverbank. Although this work depicts folk festivals, it uses meticulous brushwork and restrained colors, exuding an air of elegance. In contrast, "Emperor Xianzong of Ming Enjoying the Lantern Festival" (明宪宗元宵行乐图) and "Shangyuan Lantern Festival" (上元灯彩图) only show lanterns and not the moon, using the noise of human affairs to cover up the beauty of the moonlit realm.
Xu Yang's (徐扬) "Poetic Illustration of the Capital City Celebrating Spring" (京师生春诗意图) of the Qing Dynasty connects heaven and the human world in another way. The picture overlooks the entire Forbidden City and many landmark landscapes of the capital. From the inscription, it can be seen that the painter hoped to depict a timeline from the beginning of the twelfth lunar month to the Lantern Festival, which is also a general picture of the "farewell to the twelfth lunar month and welcoming spring" scene in the capital at that time. The picture cleverly arranges the time of the seasons and the urban space, with palace customs and folk customs unfolding in different directions. Above the mountains in the northeast corner of the picture, hidden is the astronomical code for welcoming spring, which is an important astronomical landscape that coordinates the overall situation and opens the journey of celebrating spring, as described in Emperor Qianlong's (乾隆) poem: "Where does spring begin early? Spring begins in the handle of the Dipper. The beautiful sky resides in the northern constellation, pointing to the northeast wind. The jade ladle hangs like a waterfall, and the celestial sphere is already integrated. The Gongchen star is always close to the pole, leading the crowd of stars." Here, the state of the Big Dipper is described in language. This celestial phenomenon foreshadows the birth of spring, giving humanity a revelation of order.
On the Lantern Festival, the bright moon is like a jade mirror hanging high in the night sky, and the bright moonlight of the moon spills over the earth. In the human world, various activities such as watching lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, setting off fireworks, and dancing dragon lanterns are staged. On the night of the Shangyuan Festival, the moon phase in the sky is "full," and the handle of the Big Dipper points east, predicting "spring under heaven." Heaven, earth, people, events, and things constitute a space-time node of mutual interpretation and emotional interweaving. This is the true essence of Chinese festivals: "Looking up to examine the celestial seasons, looking down to examine human affairs," between "the movement of time in the sky" and "the connection of time to people," a bond that conforms to the seasons and harmoniously coexists with nature extends between heaven and earth.
(The author is a professor at the School of Arts, Renmin University of China)
Lantern Festival Lanterns Illuminate Ancient and Modern Times
Xiao Zhihui (肖志慧)
The Spring Festival of the Bingwu Year of the Horse in 2026, led by the 32nd Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival, will see lantern festivals in the north and south light up one after another, painting a prosperous picture. They add a strong festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival and become an effective carrier for displaying local culture and boosting the night economy. At the same time, the still-existing phenomenon of "a thousand lanterns with one face" is also worthy of attention: the simple stacking of classic symbols and popular IPs makes regional characteristics blurred, and lanterns easily become superficial visual landscapes. This cannot help but make people ask: Where does the power of a lantern to move people's hearts come from? The answer may lie in the depths of the Lantern Festival lanterns that are rooted in life and tradition.
Since ancient times, the city lights on the Lantern Festival night have been a vivid portrayal of abundant resources and people's prosperity, and even more so, a unique and warm cultural memory for Chinese people. As Tang Yin (唐寅) chanted in "Lantern Festival" (元宵), "Having lanterns without the moon is not enjoyable, having the moon without lanterns does not count as spring." People transform the beautiful wishes of "Fu, Lu, Shou" (福、禄、寿 - fortune, prosperity, and longevity) into lanterns that can be appreciated and felt. These lanterns come in various shapes, with birds, animals, fruits, vegetables, myths, and historical allusions all entering the lanterns. In the Ming Dynasty's "Shangyuan Lantern Festival" (上元灯彩图), we can directly feel the all-encompassing creativity of traditional lanterns. The more than 300 lanterns in the painting gather various images such as dragons, fish, and pumpkins, which are intertwined with the crowded people to jointly outline a lively and bustling scene of the Lantern Festival lantern market. The deep cultural background of the lanterns is hidden in these intuitive and emotional shared symbols.
The art of lanterns adheres to the tradition of "**图必有意，意必吉祥**" (tú bì yǒu yì, yì bì jí xiáng - "every picture must have a meaning, and the meaning must be auspicious," the idea that every image must have a symbolic meaning and that meaning should be auspicious), forming a deep and unique system of cultural symbols. Taking the three classic images of bats, treasure vases, and white elephants as examples: as independent lanterns, they respectively symbolize blessings, peace, and auspiciousness. In the Qing Dynasty's "Celebrating Peace and Prosperity" (升平乐事图), a treasure vase is inserted with a halberd, a swastika is hung on the halberd, a white elephant carries the treasure vase, and it is matched with patterns such as Ruyi and double coins, thus condensing into richer meanings such as "peace and acceptance of auspiciousness" and "the world is peaceful."
The wisdom of lantern creation is also reflected in the derivation of lantern products with different forms and meanings from the same motif. Aoshan lanterns and Aoyu lanterns are two types of classic lanterns under the mythological background of "giant turtles carrying mountains." According to "Liezi·Tangwen" (列子·汤问), the fairy mountains in the Bohai Sea are carried by giant turtles so that they can "stand still"; "Huainanzi·Lanmingxun" (淮南子·览冥训) also records that Nuwa patched the sky and "broke the feet of the turtles to establish the four poles." Therefore, "turtle" has long become a symbol of the power to support the sky and the earth and stabilize the universe. People use pine and cypress branches to build lantern sheds, comparing them to overseas fairy mountains carried by giant turtles, hanging various colored lanterns, decorating gods and figures, and assisting mechanical transmission to create giant lantern landscapes of Aoshan lanterns, which are used to symbolize the eternal stability of the country and the peace of the community. With the help of paintings such as "Celebrating the Year Album" (岁华纪胜图册), we can remotely imagine the spectacular scene of Aoshan lanterns.
Aoyu lanterns are mainly characterized by dragon heads and fish bodies and are another vivid evolution of the myth of "giant turtles carrying mountains." Aoyu not only has the divine power of "turtle" to carry mountains and objects but also integrates the rich imagery of "fish," such as catfish (annual surplus), goldfish (gold and jade fill the hall), and carp (carp leaping over the dragon gate). Affected by the imperial examination culture, the most representative meaning of Aoyu lanterns comes from the allusion of "**独占鳌头**" (dú zhàn áo tóu - "occupy the head of the鳌," to win the first place in the imperial examination). In folk customs, Aoyu is also known as "dragon fish," which is a transitional form of fish transforming into a dragon, so it also represents a spirit of active progress. Because it integrates multiple beautiful meanings from abundant life to success, Aoyu lanterns have become one of the most popular lanterns among the people. In the lantern market depicted in "Shangyuan Lantern Festival" (上元灯彩图), Aoyu lanterns are not only considerable in number but also have various shapes, which is a vivid embodiment of their broad mass base.
The Qinhuai Lantern Festival in 2025 used "Shangyuan Lantern Festival" (上元灯彩图) as a blueprint to transform the scenes in the painting into an immersive and participatory cultural tourism experience, allowing the lanterns in ancient paintings and classics to "live" on the banks of the Qinhuai River; in this year's Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival, the "Magical China" lantern group cleverly reflected the grand imagery in Zhuangzi's fables with contemporary aerospace achievements, allowing the progressive spirit symbolized by "fish transforming into a dragon" in traditional lanterns to gain a new dimension of soaring into the sky with the posture of "Kunpeng." These practices inspire us that to avoid a thousand lanterns with one face, the key lies in activating the cultural symbols and creative wisdom shared by people and making them have a sincere dialogue with contemporary life. Only in this way can a lantern transcend its visual appearance and carry the cultural mission of connecting ancient and modern times and uniting identity.
(The author is a professor in the Department of Art and Technology at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute)
Moonlit Night Literary Heart, Painting and Calligraphy Express Sentiments
Zhao Yanzhe (赵琰哲)
The night when the first full moon of the year rises is both the end of the Spring Festival celebration and the beginning of the New Year's atmosphere. On the night of the full moon, people look forward to reunion. People entrust their aspirations for health, peace, and a happy life through activities such as visiting lantern markets, walking away from illnesses, and guessing lantern riddles.
For ancient Chinese literati, the significance of the Shangyuan night was far more than just watching lanterns and admiring the moon. The auspicious time of the intermingling of lanterns and the moon was precisely the best time for poetic thoughts to surge and for literary exchanges. Under the moonlight and lantern shadows, literati composed poems, linked verses, appreciated paintings, and feasted, sublimating the festival into spiritual communication. Elegant gatherings and poetry meetings became a unique Shangyuan custom for literati. From the painter's documentary scrolls to the calligrapher's impromptu brushstrokes, the rich images and written imprints are not only visual representations of the Shangyuan elegant gatherings but also artistic condensations of the literati's ideals.
Lu Zhi's (陆治) "Yanye Gathering on Yuan Night" (元夜燕集图) of the Ming Dynasty depicts the scene of Wen Zhengming's (文徵明) family gathering on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing. That night, the stars and moon shone brightly, and Wen Zhengming's home was decorated with lanterns. A group of literati were invited to spend the Shangyuan Festival together. Wang Shou (王守), Peng Nian (彭年), Wen Peng (文彭), Wang Gu Xiang (王穀祥), and others who were present were all leaders in the Jiangnan literary world. In such a beautiful time and scenery, everyone sang and harmonized with poetry and wine, and their literary thoughts flowed like a spring, and their wonderful pens bloomed. Lu Zhi left the Lantern Festival poetry meeting in painting and calligraphy. The picture depicts not only the joy of the gathering but also the soaring of poetic thoughts, showing the blending of lantern shadows, moonlight, and poetry on the scene of the elegant gathering in a delicate and beautiful way.
Zhou Guan's (周官) "Watching Lanterns and Advocating Poetry" (观灯倡咏图) of the Ming Dynasty depicts a scene of a Shangyuan elegant gathering where eight literati are sitting around in a clear and breezy courtyard. According to the inscription, the owner, Wang Chengxian (王成宪), had a collection of exquisite lanterns, and every year on the night of the Lantern Festival, he invited colleagues and literati to come and watch the lanterns and link verses. This became a tradition for Ming Dynasty literati to combine seasonal customs and artistic creation in elegant gatherings.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (乾隆) in the Qing Dynasty, a literati gathering was being held in Xiaoyuan (篠园) in Yangzhou. Luo Ping (罗聘), one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" (扬州八怪), arrived as invited and recorded the scene at that time with pen and ink, which is "Drinking Picture of Xiaoyuan" (篠园饮酒图). Xiaoyuan is located on the north side of the Twenty-Four Bridges on the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou, known for its peonies, with excellent scenery in all four seasons, and is known as one of the "Eight Famous Gardens" of Yangzhou. The garden is surrounded by mist, with grotesque rocks and lush green bamboos interspersed among them. Inside the house, literati and scholars exchanged cups and talked about their friendship. At this time, Yangzhou was a prosperous place nourished by salt merchant culture, and literary gatherings were endless. Luo Ping reproduced the grand occasion of the Xiaoyuan elegant gathering on the Shangyuan Festival with pen and ink, which is a microcosm of the life of Yangzhou literati in the Qing Dynasty.
In addition to literati paintings, there are also many calligraphy works with the theme of the Lantern Festival, condensing rich personal emotions.
Tang Yin's (唐寅) "Wang Xiangren·Chunri Huaqian Yonghuai" (望湘人·春日花前咏怀) fan surface, written by a talented scholar from Wuzhong, is written in a free and elegant running script. The opening of this fan surface states "Love the Lantern Festival lights," directly expressing the love of a generation of talented scholars for watching lanterns on Yuan Night. In addition, he used the sentence "Look at the heroes of ancient times" to respond to the ups and downs of the world, and used the sentence "High achievements provoke slander, high reputation is envied, I will be drunk in front of the flowers" to express his detachment from fame and wealth. Tang Yin was successful in his youth and passed the Nanjing Jieyuan, but was later involved in a cheating case in the imperial examination and ended up in poverty. This fan surface expresses his self-emotions with the help of the Lantern Festival lights, revealing his clarity and alienation in the face of prosperity.
The Lantern Festival poem axis written by the Ming Dynasty calligrapher Zhang Bi (张弼) compares "last year" with "this time," and contrasts "brilliant new poems" with "red plum blossoms falling," expressing a sense of the past and present. Zhang Bi wrote poems in cursive script as fast as a rainstorm and as agile as a swimming dragon. The brushstrokes are coherent and contain deep life emotions in their unrestrained and vigorous style.
Between the moonlight and lantern shadows, and in the singing and harmony of poetry and wine, literati and scholars of past dynasties celebrated the Shangyuan night in their own unique ways. These paintings and calligraphy works show not only the lanterns of the Lantern Festival, not only the elegant gatherings of literati, but also the cultural identity and spiritual inheritance.
On the Shangyuan Festival, the moon shines on ancient and modern times, and people share the same heart. When we look up at the same round moon and browse through these yellowed ancient paintings and calligraphy, we are having a silent dialogue with the ancestors of thousands of years ago, feeling the cultural charm that transcends the long time and remains fresh.
(The author is a researcher in the Theoretical Research Department of the Beijing Painting Academy)
Peddler Pictures: Realism or Decoration?
Tan Haoyuan (谭浩源)
The Lantern Festival has always been a New Year custom that the sons and daughters of China value especially. In ancient art works, there is a type of painting that is closely related to the Lantern Festival and is a seasonal work of this festival, that is, peddler pictures.
Peddler pictures were first seen in the paintings of Li Song (李嵩) in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are 4 surviving works, all of which are relatively small in size. The Ming Dynasty inherited and developed this type of painting theme. As far as can be seen, there are nearly 20 peddler pictures in the Ming Dynasty, and their style and style are different from those of the Southern Song Dynasty paintings: First, the size has become larger, and almost all of them are in the form of hanging scrolls, which should be used for hanging and pasting decorations; second, the colors are bright, and the peddlers are dressed in gorgeous clothes; third, groups of four-scene peddler pictures or peddler pictures that only show a single item (such as birds) have been developed.
The academic community has discussed the peddler pictures from the Song to Ming dynasties. Bo Songnian (薄松年) has long identified the attribute of peddler pictures as court festival paintings. Huang Xiaofeng (黄小峰) has made full discussions on the meaning and image details of peddler pictures since the Song Dynasty. Yang Zhishui (扬之水) combined opera and literature materials to analyze the theme and famous features of peddler paintings. In addition, many scholars have continued to deepen and expand the research direction of this painting topic from the perspectives of peddler identity, painting meaning, and folk customs. Today, peddler pictures, as a continuous painting topic connecting the Song to Ming dynasties, and as an important node connecting genre paintings and court paintings, have received increasing attention from the art history academic community.
Although most of the peddler pictures in the Ming Dynasty did not leave the information of the painter, the Palace Museum has a "Peddler Picture Axis" (货郎图轴) signed by Ji Sheng (计盛), the painter of the Zhiwenhua Hall in the Xuande Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. As can be seen from the records of Liu Ruoyu's (刘若愚) "Zhuozhong Zhi" (酌中志) in the Ming Dynasty, this type of peddler picture, which is drawn in the form of hanging scrolls and has a gorgeous and festive style, should be drawn by Ming Dynasty court painters and used to decorate the palace residences during the Lantern Festival or other festivals.
In the surviving paintings, not only can we see these specific hanging festival paintings, but we can also see the figures of peddlers in the Lantern Festival court celebrations. The "Ming Xianzong Enjoying the Lantern Festival" (明宪宗元宵行乐图) in the collection of the National Museum of China depicts the scene of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty spending the Lantern Festival with his concubines and princes. The whole volume depicts three scenes of Emperor Xianzong participating in the celebration activities. In the second scene, the highlight is the four peddlers setting up stalls to sell goods. The four peddlers are dressed in gorgeous clothes and have smiling faces. The umbrellas and tents are decorated with rhinoceros horns, square knots, copper coins, and other miscellaneous treasures, all of which reveal auspicious and festive colors. The peddler stalls are already surrounded by concubines and princes, and some children have bought their favorite lanterns and are running around playing. The picture can be said to vividly reflect the word "**闹**" (nào - "bustling," lively) of "the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival."
In the transmitted paintings, one can not only see these specific seasonal paintings hung up, but also the figure of the peddler in the Lantern Festival (元宵节) court celebrations. The "Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration Picture" (《明宪宗元宵行乐图》) in the collection of the National Museum of China (中国国家博物馆) depicts the scene of Emperor Xianzong of Ming (明宪宗) spending the Lantern Festival with his concubines and princes. The entire scroll depicts three scenes of Emperor Xianzong of Ming participating in the celebration activities. In the second scene, the highlight is the four peddlers setting up stalls to sell goods. The four peddlers are dressed luxuriously, with smiles on their faces. The umbrella tents they set up are decorated with rhino horns, *fang sheng* knots, copper coins, and other miscellaneous treasures, all revealing auspicious and festive colors. The peddlers' stalls are already surrounded by concubines and princes, and some children have bought their favorite lanterns and are running around playing. The picture can be said to vividly embody the "excitement" of the "Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."
Compared with the single-panel hanging scroll "Peddler Picture" (《货郎图》), the peddler in "Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration Picture" is undoubtedly more realistic. However, the peddler in the picture does not really come from the folk, but is a performance role played by the Bell and Drum Division (钟鼓司) based on the peddlers who travel through the streets and alleys of the folk, intending to show the prosperity and liveliness of the folk market, and to highlight the abundance of goods and the people living and working in peace and contentment through the dazzling array of goods. Therefore, it can be understood that "Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration Picture" is a realistic record of the peddlers at the Lantern Festival celebration in the palace at that time, while the single-panel "Peddler Picture" is a greater exaggeration on this basis, further highlighting the auspicious meaning and decorative function of this type of painting.
The inscription in front of "Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration Picture" makes a point about the meaning of the peddler: "The peddler carries the burden, representing the height of each year and each festival. The art is presented skillfully, wishing happiness every year and every time." The lanterns bought by the princes from the peddler's stalls embody auspicious meanings such as "peace and prosperity" and "**年年有余**" (nián nián yǒu yú - "have abundance year after year," expressing a wish for surplus and prosperity). It is precisely these characteristics embodied by the peddler himself and the beautiful hopes entrusted to him that have made the theme of the peddler picture closely related to the Lantern Festival from the Song to the Ming dynasties. What it reflects behind it is not only the continuity and vitality of this theme, but also the beautiful wishes and sincere hopes of people in the Lantern Festival season for world peace, abundant goods, and living and working in peace and contentment, carried by this small social role that is commonly seen in the market.
(The author is the executive editor of the "Palace Museum Journal" (《故宫博物院院刊》).)
A Hundred Entertainments Celebrate the Lantern Festival
Wang Ren (王韧)
The Lantern Festival (元宵节) has been a lively traditional carnival festival since ancient times. It originated from the custom of worshiping the Taiyi God (太一神) in the Han Dynasty, and after the statutory lighting of lanterns in the Tang Dynasty, the extension of the festival period in the Song Dynasty, and the encouragement of long holidays in the Ming Dynasty, it became a grand event celebrated by the whole people. In this festive festival, a hundred entertainments, an ancient performing art integrating acrobatics, sports, music, and dance, pushed the joy to a climax.
A hundred entertainments have a long history. The artistic prototype can be seen in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. In the Han Dynasty, it was called "Jiaodi Zhuxi" (角抵诸戏), covering wonderful performances such as carrying tripods, searching for trees, rushing through narrow spaces, juggling swords, and magic. Although there were ups and downs due to government orders between the Sui and Tang dynasties, it also circulated between officials and the people. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, with the rise of the citizen class, a hundred entertainments gradually referred specifically to acrobatic art. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this art went deeper into the market towns and villages with flexible and diverse small programs. For thousands of years, from the court to the folk, a hundred entertainments have been performing the integration of skill and joy. The transmitted paintings preserve this visual archive, allowing us not only to get a glimpse of the original appearance of the Lantern Festival's hundred entertainments, but also to feel the ancients' yearning for a better life.
"Lantern Opera Picture of the Yuan Dynasty" (《元朝灯戏图》) depicts a scene of a *shehuo* dance team in Lin'an City (临安城) of the Southern Song Dynasty celebrating the Lantern Festival. There are 13 performers in the painting. Except for the leader, all of them wear different masks. They march to the same drumbeat rhythm. Some people open their mouths wide to make a laughing expression, some are raising their legs to do a one-legged jump, and some are posing to catch butterflies. The movements are exaggerated and have a strong comedic flavor of puppet shows and early operas.
"Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration Picture" constructs a rich court celebration picture scroll with the idea of a play within a play. We, as viewers of the painting, gaze at Emperor Xianzong, while Emperor Xianzong sits smiling and watching a "folk" Lantern Festival's hundred entertainments performed for him. In the middle of the scroll, a gorgeously dressed team moves slowly like a flowing stage. In front of the team, someone holds up a "World Peace" (天下太平) flag to clear the way, followed by someone carrying a large brush on his shoulder dressed as "Top Scholar and First Place" (状元及第), a "Playing Monk" (耍和尚) wearing a funny mask, and musicians playing flat drums, flutes, and clappers to cheer. The team is guarded by Zhong Kui (钟馗) carrying a little ghost, and the noisy festive atmosphere is slowly spread out in the music of *zheng*, clappers, and *sheng*. At the end of "Ming Emperor Xianzong's Lantern Festival Celebration Picture" (partial view in Figure 2), all eyes and performances are directed towards the throne. The hundred entertainments concentratedly displayed here can be called a miniature exhibition of skills: the agility of flying through hoops can be traced back to the "rushing through narrow spaces and swallow bathing" in Han portrait stones and portrait bricks; the strength control of pedaling on wheels and climbing poles to display flags continues the ancient traditions of pedaling skills and searching for trees; the naked upper body and pot-bellied comedian amuses the audience with humorous jokes, and his image is in the same line as the comedian figurines unearthed from Han tombs... The painter captures the peak moments of movement, and solidifies the leaping power, balancing skill, and humorous interest contained in the hundred entertainments on the screen. The entire painting arranges the scattered folk entertainment into a "Guo Jin Opera" presented to the emperor, thereby highlighting the visual paradigm of prosperity and peace and the joy of the monarch and the people.
"Lantern Festival Picture" (《上元灯彩图》) and "Nandu Prosperity Picture" (《南都繁会图》), although both depict the Lantern Festival scene in the Qinhuai area (秦淮一带) of Jinling (金陵) in the Ming Dynasty, present two different hundred entertainments landscapes and festive interests, one elegant and the other vulgar. In "Lantern Festival Picture", *jiaodi* opera, tube magic, and other entertainments are carefully arranged as embellishments to the picture, intending to create an ideal festival that is lively but not lacking in order. "Nandu Prosperity Picture" unfolds the artistic narrative from the perspective of the market, with entertainment activities such as a hundred entertainments and acrobatics intertwined with commercial transactions, full of the atmosphere of fireworks. The two works fix two memories of the Lantern Festival's hundred entertainments. The former is an elegant gathering picture in the minds of literati with order, and the latter is a carnival scene that grows freely on the streets of the market.
The hundred entertainments celebrating the Lantern Festival in ancient paintings are actually a visual feast of elegance and vulgarity juxtaposed, and movement and stillness complementing each other. Strength and skill are solidified in an instant, and vulgar interest and elegant meaning are intertwined, forming a scroll of folk culture that is worth watching, leaving an everlasting festive mark for future generations.
(The author is an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社会科学院).)
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