People's Daily - March 7, 2026

Unswervingly Follow the Path of Developing Health and Healthcare with Chinese Characteristics, and Promote Decisive Progress in Building a Healthy China During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

Building a Healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共中央). The "15th Five-Year Plan" is a crucial period for achieving this goal, and it is necessary to plan and accelerate progress in a coordinated manner, striving for decisive progress.

China is a socialist country, a developing country with a huge population and still significant disparities between urban and rural areas. To build a Healthy China, we must adhere to China's national conditions, unswervingly follow the path of health development with Chinese characteristics, and unswervingly implement the health work guidelines for the new era. As the situation develops and changes, health work needs to optimize and improve some specific policies and measures, but we must always remain clear-headed and maintain strategic focus on fundamental issues.

Building a Healthy China is a systematic project. Facing the people's growing and diversified health needs, we must focus on key areas, seize the work that benefits a wide range of people and has a significant impact, concentrate efforts and resources on improving the public health system, building a high-quality and efficient medical service system, and advocating healthy and civilized lifestyles, and take effective measures to promote them, and constantly achieve new results.

It is necessary to improve the working pattern of unified leadership by the Party committee and joint management by the Party and government, and improve the policy and system system for health promotion to provide strong guarantees for the construction of a Healthy China. Further deepen reform and improve the coordinated development and governance mechanism of medical care, health insurance, and medicine. Promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements, and promote the construction of a digital and intelligent health system for all. Strengthen Party building in the health industry, mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of medical staff, increase talent training, promote excellent medical ethics and style, and strive to create a clean and upright industry environment.

Building a Healthy China requires the joint efforts of the entire society. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协) should play the role of a specialized consultative body, focus on in-depth investigation and research on relevant theoretical and practical issues, and put forward practical and effective countermeasures and suggestions. Members of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党), the Jiusan Society (九三学社), people from the medical and health community, social welfare and social security sectors should make good use of their professional advantages and actively contribute their wisdom and strength.

Beijing (北京), March 6 (People's Daily) - Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), President of the People's Republic of China (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), visited members of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党), the Jiusan Society (九三学社), the medical and health community, and the social welfare and social security sectors attending the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) on the afternoon of the 6th, and participated in a joint group meeting to listen to their opinions and suggestions. He emphasized that building a Healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共中央). The "15th Five-Year Plan" is a crucial period for achieving this goal, and it is necessary to plan and accelerate progress in a coordinated manner, striving for decisive progress.

On the occasion of the upcoming "March 8th" International Women's Day, Xi Jinping (习近平), on behalf of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中共中央), extended festive greetings and best wishes to the female deputies, female members, and female staff attending the National People's Congress (全国两会), to women of all ethnic groups and all walks of life across the country, and to female compatriots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区), the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特别行政区), and the Taiwan region (台湾地区), and overseas female compatriots.

Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央政治局常委) and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协主席), and Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央政治局常委) and Director of the General Office of the Central Committee (中央办公厅主任), participated in the visit and discussion.

At the joint group meeting, Wang Lu (王路), Ma Xiuzhen (马秀珍), Lu Ke (卢柯), Jiang Jiandong (蒋建东), Basang Zhuoma (巴桑卓玛), and Liu Qifang (刘启芳), six members, spoke on implementing a health-first development strategy, improving the level of primary medical services, strengthening key material technology research, promoting innovative drug research and development, doing a good job in the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness, and developing public welfare and charitable undertakings, respectively.

After listening to everyone's speeches, Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech. He said that he was very happy to discuss with everyone and listen to their opinions and suggestions. On behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), he extended sincere greetings to all the members present, to the members of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党) and the Jiusan Society (九三学社), to the people in the medical and health community, social welfare and social security sectors, and to the vast number of CPPCC members.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that in the past year, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协) has conscientiously performed its duties, offered suggestions and suggestions on planning the "15th Five-Year Plan" and other aspects, and made new contributions to the development of the Party and the country. The organizations at all levels of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党) and the Jiusan Society (九三学社) and their vast number of members have actively participated in political affairs and carried out social services, and their work has achieved new results. People in the medical and health community, social welfare and social security sectors have consciously devoted themselves to the vivid practice of building a Healthy China and enhancing people's well-being, demonstrating new achievements.

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China is a socialist country, a developing country with a huge population and still significant disparities between urban and rural areas. To build a Healthy China, we must adhere to China's national conditions, unswervingly follow the path of health development with Chinese characteristics, and unswervingly implement the health work guidelines for the new era. As the situation develops and changes, health work needs to optimize and improve some specific policies and measures, but we must always remain clear-headed and maintain strategic focus on fundamental issues.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that building a Healthy China is a systematic project. Facing the people's growing and diversified health needs, we must focus on key areas, seize the work that benefits a wide range of people and has a significant impact, concentrate efforts and resources on improving the public health system, building a high-quality and efficient medical service system, and advocating healthy and civilized lifestyles, and take effective measures to promote them, and constantly achieve new results.

Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that it is necessary to improve the working pattern of unified leadership by the Party committee and joint management by the Party and government, and improve the policy and system system for health promotion to provide strong guarantees for the construction of a Healthy China. Further deepen reform and improve the coordinated development and governance mechanism of medical care, health insurance, and medicine. Promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements, and promote the construction of a digital and intelligent health system for all. Strengthen Party building in the health industry, mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of medical staff, increase talent training, promote excellent medical ethics and style, and strive to create a clean and upright industry environment.

Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that building a Healthy China requires the joint efforts of the entire society. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协) should play the role of a specialized consultative body, focus on in-depth investigation and research on relevant theoretical and practical issues, and put forward practical and effective countermeasures and suggestions. Members of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党), the Jiusan Society (九三学社), people from the medical and health community, social welfare and social security sectors should make good use of their professional advantages and actively contribute their wisdom and strength.

Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), He Wei (何维), Wu Weihua (武维华), Shao Hong (邵鸿), Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), and Yang Zhen (杨震) participated in the joint group meeting.

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Good planning and execution: these two must be combined (Observations from the Two Sessions)

By: 本报记者 杜尚泽 陈世涵

Time: Afternoon, March 5th
Agenda: General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) participates in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation.

Reviewing the draft of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, listening to explanations regarding the draft of the National Development Plan Law... At the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress, which opened on the morning of March 5th, "planning" was a key word. In the afternoon, when he came to the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation to participate in the deliberation, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) began by talking about "planning":

"Formulating and implementing five-year plans is a national institutional arrangement and an important experience in the governance of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). It is also important to promote the implementation of good plans. Good planning and execution must be combined. After I started working in the central government, I participated in the formulation of the '12th Five-Year Plan' to the '15th Five-Year Plan' and I have a deep understanding. The planning process is also a process of promoting whole-process people's democracy."

"With a certain strategy, then there is a certain achievement." As early as when he was working in local areas, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) attached great importance to planning. In Xiamen (厦门), he presided over the compilation of the long-term "Xiamen (厦门) Economic and Social Development Strategy for 1985-2000"; in Zhejiang (浙江), the "Double Eight Strategy" he proposed had a far-reaching impact.

Drawing a blueprint to the end. Today, promoting the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages is precisely a new era chapter of the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project in the "Double Eight Strategy" proposed by Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) when he was working in Zhejiang (浙江).

Yang Hengjun (杨恒俊), the Party Branch Secretary and Director of the Village Committee of Desheng Village (德胜村), Jingjiang City (靖江市), spoke about his experience in leading the villagers to build a beautiful village. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said to him:

"From what you have introduced, the village's economy is good, and it also attaches importance to spiritual civilization, which is very important. In rural areas, it is not enough to solve the problem of food and clothing and not become rich, but it is not enough to just have money and become rich. We must attach great importance to rural spiritual civilization, focus on education, change customs and habits, and focus on cultural construction."

The Five-Year Plan is like a ladder for the cause, reflecting strategic, macro, and policy aspects, one step after another, one journey after another.

"Adhere to putting national and ethnic development on the basis of our own strength, and adhere to firmly grasping the destiny of our country's development and progress in our own hands." This is a strategic choice of a major country that has undergone the baptism of years and is moving towards great rejuvenation in the turbulent international situation. During the deliberation, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "We must adhere to focusing our work on improving our internal strength and strengthening ourselves."

Should we make trade-offs in developing the real economy?

"China (中国) is so big, we must engage in the real economy, and we cannot lack any aspect or field. Like grain, Chinese bowls must be filled with Chinese grain, and we must rely on ourselves," the General Secretary emphasized.

Can high technology be bought or begged for?

From the innovation-driven development strategy of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to the acceleration of the construction of a strong country in science and technology in the "14th Five-Year Plan," and then to the acceleration of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement in the "15th Five-Year Plan," China (中国) has always insisted on firmly grasping the lifeline of science and technology in its own hands. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has profound considerations: "We cannot only look at the growth of domestic production value. What is growing now is hard power, and what we are pursuing is the development of new quality productive forces. Through continuous transformation, upgrading, quality improvement, and replacement, we will move up step by step."

"Promote the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy." This is what the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized and is also one of the overall requirements for China's (中国) economic and social development.

Representative Shi Lei (石磊) from Tongfu Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (通富微电子股份有限公司) deeply feels that scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement can only be achieved through long-term efforts, step by step.

After listening to his speech, the General Secretary said: "China's (中国) scientific and technological development should carry out international cooperation while adhering to independence, self-reliance, and self-improvement, so as to better shoulder our historical responsibilities."

"'The 14th Five-Year Plan' has come to a successful conclusion. These five years have been extremely unusual and extremely extraordinary." The General Secretary's words were warm and firm. "To complete the economic and social development goals and tasks of the '15th Five-Year Plan', we need to cope with a more complex environment and solve more deep-seated contradictions. Jiangsu (江苏) and other major economic provinces are at the forefront of reform and opening up, and we must make efforts and gain experience in studying new situations and solving new problems."

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Chinese modernization: everyone is a protagonist (Observations from the Two Sessions)

By: 本报记者 杜尚泽 李建广

Time: Afternoon, March 5th

Agenda: General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) Participates in the Deliberation of the Jiangsu Delegation

"Did you appear on TV today? I remember your name."

At the meeting, as soon as Gao Derong (高德荣), a representative from the Jiangsu Lixiahe Area Agricultural Science Research Institute (江苏里下河地区农业科学研究所), spoke, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) asked with a smile. That morning, Gao Derong (高德荣) shared his story of tackling wheat breeding for more than 30 years on the "Representative Channel."

"How much area have your varieties been promoted to?" "Where are the areas prone to and severely affected by wheat scab?"... Every single matter is close to his heart.

"The seed industry is the most important. To engage in agriculture, the seed industry must be developed," the General Secretary said earnestly.

A single seed, within a hair's breadth, is tied to food security. Achieving the revitalization of the national seed industry is precisely the ideal pursued by agricultural science and technology workers like Gao Derong (高德荣). They devote themselves to research, 攻坚克难 (gōng jiān kè nán - "overcome difficulties," to overcome difficulties and tackle tough problems), and dedicate their youth to the fertile fields. In Chinese-style modernization, everyone is a protagonist. The General Secretary remembers every ordinary yet shining name in his heart.

"Letting the five-star red flag fly is my supreme glory. It is not only a flag, but also a belief!" At the meeting, Zhang Yufei (张雨霏), who has experienced three Olympic Games and won 10 Olympic medals, shared her struggle.

The General Secretary encouraged her to continue to strive on the sports field and win glory for the country, and to do a good job in passing on experience to young athletes.

"A strong sporting nation is an important symbol of a modern strong nation. A strong sporting nation is reflected in two aspects: one is that the whole nation is strong in sports and the people have high health qualities, and the other is that competitive sports are fully developed." His earnest instructions reflect the profound connection between a strong sporting nation and a healthy China.

The final stroke of the grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization is the new era's myriad of phenomena jointly painted by hundreds of millions of people, and the people's leader's deepest "seeing" of every ordinary striver, seeing that "every ray of light shines brightly."

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Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi Participate in Deliberations and Discussions in Various Delegations at the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions)

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 6th. Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, Zhao Leji (赵乐际), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, and Li Xi (李希), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, participated on the 6th in the deliberations and discussions of some delegations and groups at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress and the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

On the afternoon of the 6th, Li Qiang (李强) participated in the deliberations of the Henan (河南) delegation. After listening to the speeches of representatives such as Xu Weigang (许为钢), Zhao Hongguo (赵红果), and Liu Hongyun (刘宏云), Li Qiang (李强) said that in the past year, Henan (河南) has thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, played the role of a major economic province in shouldering heavy responsibilities, with the growth rate of major indicators ranking among the top in the country, and a clear trend towards new and better development. In the new year, it is necessary to actively strive for newness, excellence, and leadership, and better play a leading role in the development of the central region and even the whole country. It is necessary to strive for new achievements in serving the construction of a unified national market, and create a logistics channel hub, a consumer and commercial hub, and an industrial link hub radiating east, west, north, and south. It is necessary to shape new advantages in improving the modern industrial system, and cultivate competitive industrial clusters and leading enterprises. It is necessary to explore new paths in promoting new urbanization, improve the spatial pattern of urbanization, and promote integrated urban-rural development. It is necessary to create new brands in promoting the integrated development of culture and tourism, and enhance the influence of cultural and tourism brands.

On the morning of the same day, Li Qiang (李强) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the economic and agricultural sectors. After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Qu Yongyi (曲永义), Zhang Hecheng (张合成), and Lü Aihui (吕爱辉), Li Qiang (李强) said that in the past year, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and respond calmly. China's economy has moved forward against pressure and developed towards new and better directions, with the main goals and tasks being successfully completed and the "14th Five-Year Plan" coming to a successful conclusion. This year is the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and China's development faces increasing unstable and uncertain factors. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency, continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy, implement a package of policies, and promote the early implementation and effectiveness of policies. In conjunction with the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, it is necessary to promote the construction of major infrastructure networks, focus on expanding effective investment, and lay a solid foundation for long-term development. It is necessary to vigorously develop the service industry, strengthen policy support such as fiscal, taxation, finance, factor guarantees, and regulatory services, drive employment and income growth, and expand new spaces for consumption. It is necessary to promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, strengthen guidance in industrial layout, project planning, and equipment updates, and promote intelligent, green, and integrated development. It is necessary to continuously cultivate and strengthen new driving forces, improve policies and measures in government procurement and scenario cultivation, accelerate the large-scale industrial application of new technologies, and better empower all industries and enter thousands of households. It is necessary to solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, unremittingly grasp grain production, and improve the comprehensive production capacity, quality, and efficiency of agriculture. It is necessary to do a good job in regular and precise assistance, and firmly guard the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty. It is necessary to develop rural characteristic industries and promote the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages.

On the morning of the 6th, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the China National Democratic Construction Association (民建) and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联). After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Kou Gang (寇纲), Zhang Xinghai (张兴海), and Lu Ming (陆铭), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that 2025 was a very extraordinary year. The CPC 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, forge ahead, promote new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and achieve a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan." Members of the China National Democratic Construction Association (民建) and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联) have conducted in-depth research, offered suggestions, and made positive contributions to economic and social development. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, and it has an important position of linking the past and opening up the future. It is necessary to unify thoughts and actions with the CPC Central Committee's basic judgment and major decisions and deployments on the domestic and international situation, actively perform duties, strive to show new achievements, and contribute to creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to give play to the advantages of talent gathering and intellectual concentration, gather collective wisdom, offer sincere advice, and make good suggestions, enhance the effectiveness of democratic supervision, strengthen overall coordination and collaboration, and guide the people of all sectors to make contributions to achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is necessary to take the lead in studying, publicizing, and implementing the CPC Central Committee's guidelines and policies on promoting the development of the private economy, promote the effective implementation of the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, and contribute to promoting the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy. It is necessary to unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, practice whole-process people's democracy, and carry forward China's political advantages and institutional advantages in combination with new realities.

On the morning of the 6th, Wang Huning (王沪宁) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the cultural and artistic and sports sectors. After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Fan Zongchai (范宗钗), Guo Rong (郭蓉), and Yang Yang (杨扬), Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core attaches great importance to the development of cultural and sports undertakings, comprehensively promotes the construction of a strong cultural country and a strong sports country, and continues to deepen the reform of the cultural system and mechanism and sports reform. China's cultural and sports undertakings have achieved major achievements. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, shoulder the cultural mission of the new era, grasp the people-centered work orientation, and promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture with firm cultural confidence. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on sports, take the people as the main body for developing sports undertakings, implement the national strategy for national fitness, and continuously improve the health level of the people. It is necessary to actively deliberate and offer suggestions around the important deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on prospering and developing socialist culture and on coordinating the promotion of mass sports and competitive sports, and contribute to the development of cultural and sports undertakings during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It is necessary to adhere to the people's political consultative conference for the people, help literature and art and sports get closer to the people and serve the people, and guide people from all walks of life to unite and forge ahead in sharing the beauty of culture and the beauty of sports. It is necessary to play an exemplary and leading role in the fields of literature and art and sports, consciously practice the core socialist values, and lead the fashion with virtue.

On the morning of the 6th, Cai Qi (蔡奇) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the China Democratic League (民盟), the Communist Youth League (共青团) and the All-China Youth Federation (青联), and the All-China Women's Federation (妇联). After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Wang Pengfei (汪鹏飞), Zhang Kun (张坤), and Zhang Junping (张军萍), Cai Qi (蔡奇) pointed out that the past year was very extraordinary. The CPC 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 forge ahead, successfully completing the main goals and tasks of economic and social development, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" came to a successful conclusion. After five years of hard work, China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level, continuing to write a new chapter in the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps. Practice has proved that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an irreversible historical trend that no one can stop. Cai Qi (蔡奇) hopes that everyone will firmly grasp the correct political direction, adhere to using Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to strengthen the soul, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and unswervingly follow the path of Chinese-style modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It is necessary to give play to the advantages of various sectors, find the entry point and focus, focus on the central tasks of the Party and the country to offer suggestions and contribute efforts, guide party members and the masses they contact to forge ahead on the new journey and make contributions to the new era, and make new contributions to achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is necessary to implement the people-centered development thought, do a good job in uniting, uniting, and serving the masses, focus on the urgent needs and expectations of the people, and do more practical and good things that the masses can feel and touch. It is necessary to firmly establish and practice the correct view of performance, comprehensively strengthen self-construction, and continuously improve the ability and level of performing duties.

On the morning of the 6th, Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) participated in a joint group meeting of national committee members of the CPPCC from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门). After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Lin Jianyue (林建岳), Wu Zhiliang (吴志良), and Teng Jingguang (滕锦光), Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) said that in the past year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the cause of the Party and the country has achieved new major achievements, the "14th Five-Year Plan" has come to a successful conclusion, and a good start has been made in the new journey towards the second centenary goal. With the strong support of the central government and under the leadership of the Chief Executive and the SAR government, all undertakings in Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) have made comprehensive progress, writing a new chapter in the successful practice of "one country, two systems" and ushering in the best period of development. Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) emphasized that the central government has always adhered to the principles of "one country, two systems," "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong," "Macao people administering Macao," and a high degree of autonomy, promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门). Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) should make good use of the major opportunities brought about by the national "15th Five-Year Plan," give full play to their unique advantages and important roles of relying on the motherland and connecting with the world, adhere to and improve executive-led governance, solidly promote high-quality economic development, develop and strengthen patriotic forces in Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门), and better integrate into and serve the overall national development. Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) fully affirmed the national committee members of the CPPCC from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) for conscientiously performing their duties, and expressed the hope that everyone would unite their efforts, forge ahead, fully support the Chief Executive and the SAR government in administering according to law, widely unite people from all walks of life, draw the largest concentric circle, and jointly create a new situation of prosperity and development in Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门).

On the morning of the 6th, Li Xi (李希) participated in a joint group meeting of committee members from the CPC sector. After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Miao Wei (苗圩), Zhuang Guotai (庄国泰), and Zhu Guoxian (朱国贤), Li Xi (李希) said that in the past year, facing profound and complex changes in the domestic and international 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 to face difficulties and work hard, and the main goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" were successfully completed, and Chinese-style modernization took new and solid steps. The achievements have not been easy, and they also embody the wisdom and efforts of the vast number of CPPCC members. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is urgently needed for leading cadres at all levels to take on responsibilities with a good style, be pragmatic and work hard, and overcome difficulties. It is hoped that all members will deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," firmly establish and practice the correct view of performance, consciously produce achievements for the people and produce achievements with practical work, focus on implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and actively offer suggestions, and gather the mighty force of unity and struggle for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Li Xi (李希) emphasized that corruption is a roadblock and stumbling block in the process of the development of the cause of the Party and the country. It is necessary to effectively unify thoughts and actions with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, unswervingly follow the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, maintain a high-pressure anti-corruption stance without wavering, continuously improve the penetration of anti-corruption, deepen the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, and make greater efforts to advance the integrated approach of **不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐** (bù gǎn fǔ, bù néng fǔ, bù xiǎng fǔ - "not dare to be corrupt, not able to be corrupt, not want to be corrupt," a comprehensive strategy to combat corruption by deterring, preventing, and making it undesirable to engage in corrupt practices), and provide a strong guarantee for achieving the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period with new achievements in rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption.

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Solid strides in modernizing national defense and the military

By: 本报记者 金正波 李龙伊

The drums of war urge advancement, and the oars are raised to set sail. The new annual military training of the entire army has begun.

On land, unmanned combat vehicles traverse "enemy" formations; at sea, new main battle ships conduct comprehensive offensive and defensive exercises; in the air, multiple types of aircraft formations carry out beyond-visual-range strikes... From the vast Gobi Desert to the distant oceans, the people's soldiers move at the order and are full of fighting spirit. New equipment, new systems, and new tactics create a magnificent picture of a strong army, vividly demonstrating the new progress in the modernization of the People's Army in the new era.

The modernization of national defense and the military is an important part of Chinese-style modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China scientifically planned and made strategic deployments for "achieving the centenary goal of the army as scheduled and promoting the modernization of national defense and the military with high quality."

The journey is long, and the original aspiration remains firm. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi Jinping (习近平), the People's Army is striving to achieve the centenary goal of the army and constantly creating new prospects for strengthening the military.

Comprehensively Implement the New Era Strategy for Strengthening the Military Through Politics

War songs resound to welcome the spring, and the endeavor to strengthen the military starts a new journey.

On February 6, the Central Military Commission (中央军委) held a Spring Festival gala to慰问 retired cadres stationed in Beijing (北京). On the stage, the energetic members of the literary light cavalry team affectionately recounted the new look of the People's Army in the new era, the new progress in modernization, and the new achievements in preparing for war under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military in the past year.

"The flag leads the way, uniting and striving forward! The crucible tempers, becoming stronger with each forging!" The mixed chorus "Eternal Glory" opened the performance with a powerful melody. The heroic singing, penetrating time and space, converges historical echoes and the strong voice of the era into a symphony.

The People's Army is the steel Great Wall of the Party and the country, always acting and fighting under the banner of the Party.

Without revolutionary forging in politics, there could be no great changes in the People's Army in the new era.

The past year has been very unusual and extraordinary. The People's Army has deeply promoted political rectification, effectively responded to various risks and challenges, and undergone revolutionary forging in the anti-corruption struggle. The vast number of officers and soldiers of the entire army, especially those at the grassroots level, are determined to listen to the Party and follow the Party, faithfully perform their duties, focus on overcoming difficulties, and successfully complete various tasks. They are completely qualified and trustworthy.

Walking into the training ground of the Second Missile Launch Battalion of a Rocket Force (火箭军) brigade, the large characters on the wall are particularly eye-catching: "Must be particularly qualified ideologically and politically" and "Absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, absolutely reliable."

"For missile soldiers, translating special political requirements into personal practical actions means 'the missile listens to me, and I listen to the Party.'" Sergeant Ze Wang (泽王) of the Second Launch Battalion has been in the army for more than six years. He has tempered his loyalty in theoretical studies and honed his skills in practical positions, and has grown into a well-known missile expert.

Loyalty is written in the battle position; strength is proven by victory. Generations of officers and soldiers have forged their personal ideals into the great sword of the country. During a major exercise, extreme weather struck. All officers and soldiers of the battalion braved the wind and snow, guarding the equipment around the clock, charging forward in dangerous places, and standing firm at critical moments, ensuring the absolute safety of weapons and equipment. Commander Wang Sencheng (王森晟) said with deep feeling: "With rock-solid beliefs, there will be the determination to overcome difficulties and selfless charging in preparing for war."

To strengthen the military, we must first strengthen it politically, and political strength is the most fundamental strength.

Stepping into the new era, all officers and soldiers of the army are fighting to strengthen the military under the banner of the Party, implementing the chairman's responsibility system of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), and unremittingly using Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era to strengthen their minds and souls, and consolidate the ideological foundation for listening to the Party and following the Party.

"I am the 6679th soldier of the 'Liu Laozhuang Company' (刘老庄连). Bearing this flag, I have courage; to become the next hero, I have determination..." In July 2025, new recruit Dong Hongyun (董洪运) solemnly swore an oath facing the battle flag.

In the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) of a brigade of the 82nd Group Army (第82集团军) of the Army, each officer and soldier is assigned a combat number upon joining the company and swears an oath facing the battle flag that has been flying for more than 80 years. Dong Hongyun (董洪运) turned his oath into sweat: physical fitness, skills, and tactics, he tried his best, and won the overall excellent rating in the first assessment.

Years change, but the spirit endures. In 2025, the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) was awarded the title of "Role Model of the Times" (时代楷模). More than 80 years ago, eighty-two martyrs cast the company's soul of "life without end, fighting without stop" with their lives; today, the new generation of officers and soldiers are forging this spirit into the hot practice of training and preparing for war, and bravely charging on the journey of strengthening the military.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposal clearly states that "political rectification should be continuously deepened." This is a strategic deployment made by our Party to build and control the army ideologically and politically.

Attacking the centenary goal of army building and striving to build a first-class army. The People's Army will comprehensively implement the new era's strategy of strengthening the military through politics, carry forward the spirit of thorough self-revolution, continue to vigorously promote the deepening and solid implementation of political rectification, strictly enforce discipline and combat corruption, and provide a strong political guarantee for achieving the centenary goal of army building as scheduled and accelerating the building of the People's Army into a world-class army.

The Construction of Weapons and Equipment Has Achieved Leapfrog Development

On September 3, 2025, the capital Beijing (北京) solemnly held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

Ground equipment rumbled forward, naval and air warplanes spread their wings in the sky, and major country weapons such as "Dongfeng-5C" (东风—5C) and "Dongfeng-61" (东风—61) were majestically arrayed. All of the reviewed equipment this time were domestically produced active main battle equipment, and most of them were unveiled for the first time. The winning weapons of the future demonstrate the new progress in the modernization of national defense and the military.

The future has arrived. A new round of technological revolution and military revolution is surging: artificial intelligence is restructuring command and decision-making, unmanned operations are subverting traditional models, and the network electromagnetic space is opening up a new territory... The future war is a confrontation between systems and systems, and even more a race between technology and innovation.

Aircraft carriers, mobile sea fortresses, are symbols of a country's comprehensive strength. In November 2025, China's first electromagnetic catapult-type aircraft carrier, the Fujian Ship (福建舰), was officially commissioned. From the Liaoning Ship (辽宁舰) to the Shandong Ship (山东舰), and then to the Fujian Ship (福建舰), China's aircraft carrier industry has achieved three leaps.

Between the sea and the sky, several J-15T (歼—15T) fighters, J-35 (歼—35) fighters, and KJ-600 (空警—600) early warning aircraft catapulted from the deck of the aircraft carrier and went straight into the sky... The first maritime actual combat training of the Fujian Ship (福建舰) shortly after its commissioning effectively tested the electromagnetic catapult, recovery, and deck operation capabilities, and the ship-aircraft compatibility was further verified.

Some military experts said that the Fujian Ship (福建舰) launched live-fire training as soon as it was commissioned, which fully shows that the Fujian Ship (福建舰) has formed combat effectiveness upon commissioning.

In recent years, the People's Army has been closely following the changes in war, technology, and opponents, accelerating the construction of advanced combat capabilities, and the construction of weapons and equipment has achieved leapfrog development and historical achievements—

In 2021, the Long March 18 (长征18号) submarine, the Dalian Ship (大连舰), and the Hainan Ship (海南舰) were commissioned; in 2022, the Fujian Ship (福建舰) was launched and the YU-20 (运油—20) tanker was put into training and preparation for war; in 2025, cutting-edge weapons and equipment were concentrated on the military parade... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五) period, our army has successively overcome a number of high-precision and cutting-edge technologies, developed a number of advanced weapons and equipment, and created a new situation in the construction of weapons and equipment.

From looking up to standing shoulder to shoulder, from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, the arduous journey reveals a truth: the heavy weapons of a great power must be firmly held in our own hands; the dream of a strong army can only be realized by relying on self-reliance.

New equipment is not only a technological upgrade, but also a conceptual upgrade. With the continuous development of military technology, the importance of equipment factors is increasing, the combination of human factors and equipment factors is becoming closer, and people and equipment have become highly integrated. This puts higher demands on the scientific and technological literacy of officers and soldiers.

"Talent is the engine for the leap in advanced combat effectiveness." He Yuanzhi (何元智), a researcher at a research institute of the Information Support Force (信息支援部队), has a deep understanding of this. In recent years, she has led her team to launch an assault on the forefront of cyberspace, focusing on the operational needs of new domains and new qualities, and focusing on building a talent matrix covering cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and unmanned collaboration.

In a major mission, He Yuanzhi (何元智) led her team members to eat and live with the mission troops and fight side by side. Although her face was tanned, when the scientific research results were recognized by the frontline officers and soldiers, she could truly appreciate the value of "writing papers on the training ground."

With the accelerated construction of a new military training system that deeply integrates war and training in our army, a group of new-type destroyer and frigate captains, air commanders, combined battalion commanders, and missile launch commanders have emerged in major missions, and a large number of high-quality sergeants have played important roles on the training ground, promoting the transformation of theory into practice, the leap of knowledge into ability, and the extension of classrooms to the battlefield.

Improve the Strategic Capability to Safeguard National Sovereignty, Security, and Development Interests

"The place where I stand is China, I defend and guard with my life, even if the wind is like a knife and the mountain is like iron, not an inch of the motherland's land can be lost..."

During the Spring Festival, in the western border of the motherland, the temperature is as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. Along the Alakbek River (阿拉克别克河) on the Sino-Kazakh border, Zhou Renxin (周仁鑫), a soldier of a detachment of the Armed Police Corps (武警兵团总队), and his comrades, together with the border guards of the Corps, braved the wind and snow to patrol the sand dunes and snow sea on the right bank of the boundary river. The oath is sonorous and echoes for a long time on the border line.

A family is the smallest country, and the country is thousands of families. When the Chinese land is reunited, from the bustling cities to the vast Gobi Desert, from the long sky to the snowy islands, the reliable, trustworthy, and lovely People's Liberation Army soldiers always stick to their battle positions. They exchange "one family not reunited" for "ten thousand families reunited" and express their deep love for the motherland in a way unique to soldiers.

Improving the strategic capability to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests is the responsibility of the People's Army.

Develop a joint training system with Chinese characteristics for our army and accelerate the improvement of integrated joint operations capabilities—

Starting on December 29, 2025, the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized forces from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force (火箭军) to conduct a joint exercise codenamed "Justice Mission-2025" in the Taiwan Strait, northern Taiwan Island, southwestern Taiwan Island, southeastern Taiwan Island, and east of Taiwan Island. Warships and aircraft approached Taiwan Island in multiple directions, and various military services and arms jointly launched assaults.

Under the support of the joint operations system of the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区), the theater troops implemented maritime and air combat readiness patrols, seized comprehensive control, and jointly carried out precision strikes, further testing the capabilities of rapid maneuver, three-dimensional deployment, and system blockade.

The outcome of the battlefield depends on work style. Establish true, difficult, strict, and practical standards and hone the skills to fight and win—

Tan Hongmei (谭红梅), the captain of the Y-20 (运—20), is the seventh batch of female pilots in China. She has flown six types of aircraft and has performed major exercises many times. In the second year of refitting the Y-20 (运—20), Tan Hongmei (谭红梅) faced a severe test: during a night mission to pick up maintenance and support troops returning, when the plane flew over the Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山脉), the radar showed dense clouds ahead and distant lightning, and the atmosphere in the cockpit suddenly became heavy.

At the critical moment, she decisively handled the situation and finally drove the plane to a smooth landing at the airport, successfully completing the mission. Afterwards, she said: "The predecessors drove old planes and opened up routes in the plateau with their lives. Today, driving advanced warplanes, what reason do I have to retreat?"

At the beginning of the new year in 2026, many netizens received a good night text message sent by the People's Daily WeChat, signed by Tan Hongmei (谭红梅). The text message read: "As a pilot who controls the heavy weapons of the country, in the new year, I will work hard to fly skillfully and fly higher and farther on the road to chasing my dream in the blue sky!"

On the new journey of striving to strengthen the military, the People's Army firmly establishes combat effectiveness as the only fundamental standard, closely follows the changes in technology, war, and opponents, solidly promotes actual combat military training, promotes the innovation of combat methods and training methods, strengthens the integration of combat capability systems, firmly and flexibly carries out military struggles, and resolutely completes the new era mission entrusted by the Party and the people.

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The goal guides the direction, and the goal凝聚力量 凝聚力量 (níng jù lì liàng - "pool strength," to gather strength; to unite). 2026 is the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), and a crucial year for winning the tough battle to achieve the centenary goal of army building.

The entire army will thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military, thoroughly implement the military strategic policy of the new era, adhere to political leadership, strengthen mission responsibility, strive to create a new situation in the modernization of national defense and the military, accelerate the building of the People's Army into a world-class army, and provide strong strategic support 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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Building a Healthy China and Enhancing People's Well-being (Face to Face with the General Secretary)

By: 本报记者 孟祥夫 易舒冉

On the afternoon of March 6, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited members from the China National Democratic Construction Association (农工党), the September 3rd Society (九三学社), the medical and health community, and the social welfare and social security sectors who were attending the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协十四届四次会议), and participated in a joint group meeting to listen to their opinions and suggestions.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that building a healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), and the "15th Five-Year Plan" is a crucial period for achieving this goal. It is necessary to plan and promote it in a coordinated manner and strive for decisive progress.

At the scene, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) discussed and cordially exchanged views with the members, creating a warm atmosphere. The General Secretary's important speech pointed out the direction and inspired progress, making the members deeply feel their mission and boosting their confidence. The members unanimously stated that they would keep in mind the General Secretary's earnest entrustment, focus on building a healthy China and improving people's well-being, conduct in-depth investigations and research, actively offer suggestions and advice, broadly gather strength to make a good start and take a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," and serve the high-quality development of the economy and society with high-quality performance of their duties.

Based on National Conditions, Unswervingly Follow the Path of Health Development with Chinese Characteristics

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized:

To build a healthy China, we must adhere to starting from our country's national conditions, unswervingly follow the path of health development with Chinese characteristics, and unswervingly implement the health work policy for the new era.

"Using the past for the present, using foreign things for China, and doing China's original new drugs" was the topic reported by Jiang Jiandong (蒋建东), academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院) and president of the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (中国医学科学院药物研究院). In recent years, Jiang Jiandong (蒋建东) has been exploring a model for the transformation of achievements suitable for the creation of new drugs with Chinese characteristics, aiming to transform new drug experimental results into good medicines for clinical treatment of diseases, benefiting patients and society.

The General Secretary's important speech made Jiang Jiandong (蒋建东), as a drug researcher, feel very encouraged. "Thanks to the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, new drug research has obvious originality in the field of natural science in our country." Jiang Jiandong (蒋建东) said that to find a new path for China's original drugs, it is necessary to reshape the scientific framework of future drugs through "using the past for the present and using foreign things for China" and produce breakthrough original new drugs for major diseases.

From now to 2035, when a healthy China will be built, there are less than 10 years. Jiang Jiandong (蒋建ong) feels the mission and heavy responsibility on his shoulders. "To achieve this goal, we cannot have the slightest slack." Jiang Jiandong (蒋建东) said that he will work hard on the front line, start with specific projects, accelerate drug research and development, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in the future.

"The General Secretary always cares about the health of the people." said Basang Zhuoma (巴桑卓玛), professor at the Medical College of Tibet University (西藏大学医学院). This year is Basang Zhuoma's (巴桑卓玛) thirty-third year working at the Medical College of Tibet University (西藏大学医学院). In addition to her work, she actively participates in the "service for the people" activities of the members, providing free clinics and health education in remote areas with high altitudes such as Ali (阿里).

"In my work, I pay close attention to the prevention and treatment of altitude sickness. Practice has proved that as long as scientific measures are taken and precise efforts are made, the goal of 'preventable and controllable' altitude sickness can be achieved." Basang Zhuoma (巴桑卓玛) said that it is necessary to improve the early screening mechanism for altitude sickness, establish a cohort of common and frequently occurring diseases in high altitude areas, and rely on platforms such as the Plateau Medical Research Center (高原医学研究中心) to deepen the integration of basic research and clinical practice. It is necessary to strengthen the transformation of achievements based on the needs of the plateau and develop portable oxygen therapy equipment, rapid diagnostic reagents, etc. At the same time, it is necessary to inherit the characteristics and advantages of Tibetan medicine and promote the standardization and industrialization of ethnic medicine.

Highlight Key Points and Systematically Promote the Construction of a Healthy China

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized:

Building a healthy China is a systematic project.

People's health is an important symbol of national prosperity and strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech made Wang Lu (王路), full-time vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association (农工党中央), personally feel the great leader's deep feelings for the people. "We are pleased to see that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共十八大), the sky has become bluer, the mountains have become greener, the water has become clearer, and the health level of the people has continued to improve."

In Wang Lu's (王路) view, to implement the health-first development strategy in depth, it is necessary to adhere to the problem-oriented approach and transform the "planning map" into a "real-life map." "It is necessary to fully implement the policy of prevention first, promote the transformation of health from a focus on treating diseases to a focus on people's health, and accelerate the strengthening of weaknesses and promote the balanced, coordinated, and sustainable development of health." Wang Lu (王路) said.

"We must conscientiously implement the spirit of the General Secretary's important speech, focus on the construction of a healthy China, strengthen research, go to the grassroots level to find problems, come up with more practical and feasible methods, and solve the problems faced by the masses." Wang Lu (王路) said.

"Highlight key points, look at the high places, and start at the low places." This is Liu Qifang's (刘启芳), chairman of the Jilin Provincial Public Welfare and Charity Foundation (吉林省公益慈善基金会), feeling after listening to the General Secretary's important speech. How can the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments take root at the grassroots level? "Ask yourself more: What can I do?" Liu Qifang (刘启芳) said that it is necessary to combine with one's own work, continuously refine and break down tasks, do one's best, and contribute to the construction of a healthy China.

Social organizations can play a role in making people healthier, happier, and living a happier life. "If the government is weaving a net to provide a safety net, social organizations are also indispensable and can help solve the problems of the 'last kilometer' or even the 'last meter'." Liu Qifang (刘启芳) said that this year she will continue to promote the work of enriching the people and benefiting the border, strengthen vocational training for "new farmers" in border areas, help more people increase their income and become rich, and further improve the people's living standards and health levels.

Digital Empowerment, Promoting the Transformation and Application of Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievements

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized:

Promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements and promote the digital construction of national health.

Ma Xiuzhen (马秀珍), chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Committee of the September 3rd Society (九三学社宁夏回族自治区委员会), found in her research that artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for doctors and can solve the problems of insufficient capacity and uneven resources in the grassroots medical service system. "Promoting the construction of 'Internet + Medical Care' can allow data to run more and people to run less." Ma Xiuzhen (马秀珍) said.

Ma Xiuzhen (马秀珍) suggested building a new paradigm of digital-driven hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, using artificial intelligence to achieve early disease screening and guidance; during face-to-face consultations, artificial intelligence can be used to sort out archives, assist in decision-making, and conduct remote consultations to improve the service capabilities of grassroots doctors. "We must seize historical opportunities and deeply integrate digital technology into the health cause, and inject strong impetus into building a strong public health system and a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system." Ma Xiuzhen (马秀珍) said.

"Materials are the cornerstone of technological and industrial innovation. Strengthening the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements will enable innovative materials to empower a healthy new future." Lu Ke (卢柯), member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), was full of expectations when he listened to the General Secretary's important speech on the spot. He said that he will continue to pay attention to the original research of implantable materials and contribute scientific and technological strength to the construction of a healthy China.

"We should take the field of health as a key scenario for artificial intelligence empowerment applications." Wang Lu (王路) suggested applying artificial intelligence systems to promote drug research and development, precision medicine, and health management, so that high-quality medical resources can benefit the people.

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Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan": Pragmatically Pioneering a New Landscape

By: 本报记者

Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, participated in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress, inspiring the vast number of cadres and people in Jiangsu to strengthen their confidence and forge ahead. Everyone expressed that they should base themselves on reality, **鼓足干劲** (gǔ zú gàn jìng - "muster up full energy," to make great efforts), implement the responsibility of a major economic province in shouldering heavy burdens, strive to put effort and experience into studying new situations and solving new problems, and strive to complete the economic and social development goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan."

Striving to be at the Forefront in Developing New Quality Productive Forces

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that 'developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness. Jiangsu has a good foundation in this regard and should strive to be at the forefront.'" Wang Lifeng, deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Aeronautics and Astronautics Structure Mechanics and Control at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (南京航空航天大学), was deeply encouraged by listening to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech on the spot. "Aerospace technology is an important field for cultivating and developing new quality productive forces. We will further strengthen interdisciplinary collaborative innovation, continue to explore cutting-edge fields such as aircraft structural dynamics and low-altitude aircraft technology, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, and seizing the commanding heights of science and technology."

In 2025, Jiangsu's total social R&D investment intensity will reach about 3.38%, and the number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises will increase to 94,000. Xu Guanghui, Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology (江苏省科技厅), said: "To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we will intensify the implementation of the New Sharp Enterprise Climbing Action, the High-tech Zone and University Collaborative Innovation Action, the Science and Technology Finance Empowerment Action, and the Innovation Ecosystem Cultivation Action to accelerate the transformation of the potential energy of the scientific and technological revolution into the kinetic energy of industrial transformation."

In Danyang Huichuang Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. (丹阳慧创医疗设备有限公司) in Zhenjiang (镇江市), the Phase III clinical trial of the optical brain-computer interface treatment product for Alzheimer's disease is being accelerated. Wang Daifa, chairman of the company, said: "The brain-computer interface is in a critical period from technological breakthrough to industrial implementation. We must meticulously cultivate it with the determination of **十年磨一剑** (shí nián mó yī jiàn - "sharpening a sword for ten years," to spend a long time honing one's skills), and accelerate the transformation of laboratory innovation achievements into autonomous and controllable products that serve clinical practice."

"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, we will fully carry out the comprehensive reform pilot of factor market-oriented allocation." Cai Jianfeng, Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission (江苏省发展改革委), introduced that the Notice on Carrying out the Comprehensive Reform Pilot of Factor Market-oriented Allocation in Key Cities in Southern Jiangsu (苏南) recently issued by the Jiangsu Provincial Government focuses on key reform tasks and issues strongly reflected by business entities, requiring the five cities in Southern Jiangsu (苏南) to play the main role in reform, adapt to local conditions, and boldly explore, and strive to achieve original and breakthrough results in further deepening reform and removing institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the development of new quality productive forces.

Continuing to Exert Efforts in Enhancing Economic Resilience

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that 'a stable economic foundation and strong ability to resist external shocks in major economic provinces can support the stability of the overall national economy. Jiangsu should continue to exert efforts in enhancing economic resilience.'" Wang Jinjian, Secretary of the Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee (扬州市委书记), deeply felt this. "In recent years, relying on the advantages of the Yangtze River coastline, we have anchored the direction of high-end, intelligent, and green development, and continued to promote the construction of a modern industrial system. The next step is to improve our internal skills, strengthen ourselves, fully integrate into the unified national market, help smooth the domestic circulation, and strive to exceed 800 billion yuan in advanced manufacturing output value this year."

Deepening the implementation of the free trade zone upgrading strategy is the key work of the Nanjing (南京) Area of the China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone (中国（江苏）自由贸易试验区) this year. Lu Weidong, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Area, said: "General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech pointed out the direction. We will continue to explore an opening path with Nanjing (南京) characteristics, enhance the voice of 'Nanjing R&D' on the international stage, promote 'Nanjing Manufacturing' to be more deeply integrated into the global industrial chain, and promote better development of the regional open economy."

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that 'we must prevent various risks with a bottom-line thinking.'" Sun Jianjiang, Secretary of the Wujiang District Committee of Suzhou (苏州市吴江区委书记), said, "We will coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, promote the strengthening, supplementing, and extending of the industrial chain of advantageous industries, build a solid defense line for economic operation, safe production, and ecological environmental protection with a sense of responsibility of 'always being uneasy,' and weave a tight risk prevention and control network."

Exploring Effective Ways to Promote Common Prosperity for All People

"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech once again focused on the major proposition of common prosperity, emphasizing that 'Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all people.'" Li Yang, Vice President of the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences (江苏省社会科学院), believes that accurately grasping the new expectations of the people for a better life and the new characteristics of people's livelihood work under the new situation, "we must start from the issues that the masses are most concerned about, most directly, and most realistically, do one thing after another, year after year, and continuously improve the quality of people's lives."

Shi Hongjie, Director of the Nantong Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (南通市人力资源和社会保障局), said: "We will closely focus on employment as a key starting point, accelerate the construction of an employment-friendly city, provide precise assistance to key groups, pay attention to the improvement of vocational skills, promote the linkage of 'increasing skills, increasing wealth, and increasing efficiency,' and continuously improve a multi-level and multi-pillar social security system."

"Deeply understanding the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we will adhere to the equal emphasis on precise policy implementation and systematic advancement, improve efficiency with the help of technological empowerment and mechanism innovation, focus on exploring effective ways to promote common prosperity for all people, and make common prosperity have both the temperature of broad coverage and the resilience of long-term sustainability," said Lu Min, member of the Wuxi Municipal Committee and Deputy Mayor of Wuxi (无锡市副市长).

Assuming Responsibility and Performing Duties with a Correct View of Political Achievements

At present, Jiangsu (江苏) is conscientiously organizing and carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements. Tong Jian, member of the Standing Committee of the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department (常州市委常委、组织部部长), said: "We must deeply study and understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, solve the problems of 'for whom to establish political achievements, what kind of political achievements to establish, and what to rely on to establish political achievements' from the depths of our thinking, do practical work and act diligently, and turn the grand blueprint of the '15th Five-Year Plan' into a beautiful reality step by step."

"To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we must adhere to grasping party spirit, party conduct, and party discipline together, and connecting the rectification of conduct and discipline with anti-corruption, so that party members and cadres are accustomed to performing their duties under supervision and restraint, so that the willingness to take responsibility, dare to take responsibility, and be good at taking responsibility becomes a common practice, and use the continuous improvement of party conduct and government conduct to drive the upward and good social conduct and folk customs, and win the trust of the people with the actual results of comprehensively and strictly governing the party," said Lu Hongzhu, member of the Standing Committee of the Suqian Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Director of the Municipal Supervisory Commission (宿迁市委常委、市纪委书记、市监委主任).

Maqun Science and Technology Park (马群科技园), located in Qixia District, Nanjing (南京市栖霞区), promotes industrial transformation and upgrading through the redevelopment of inefficient land. "Facing the contradiction between the shortage of industrial land and the urgent need for industrial projects to be implemented, we give play to the leading role of party building, establish a special class for tackling key problems, twist the government, market, and social forces into one rope, accelerate the construction of a new highland for intelligent manufacturing industry, and make due contributions to the major economic province shouldering heavy burdens," said She Lingyun, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Maqun Street (马群街道党工委书记), full of energy.

(Reporters Deng Jiansheng, Wang Weijian, Yao Xueqing, and Bai Guangdi of this newspaper)

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Better meet the health needs of the people.

By: 本报评论员

"Unswervingly follow the path of health and development with Chinese characteristics, and unswervingly implement the health work policy for the new era."

When visiting members of the China National Democratic Construction Association (农工党), the Jiusan Society (九三学社), the medical and health community, and the social welfare and social security community attending the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协十四届四次会议), and participating in joint group meetings to listen to opinions and suggestions, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important arrangements for promoting the construction of a Healthy China during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, fully demonstrating the value orientation of better meeting the growing and diversified health needs of the people.

People's health is an important symbol of socialist modernization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party has adhered to placing the protection of people's health in a strategic position of priority development, and has built the world's largest disease prevention and control system and medical service system. The average life expectancy has increased from 74.8 years in 2012 to 79 years in 2024. Such achievements are hard-won, world-renowned, and inspiring.

From the stories around us, we can better feel the warm undertones of a Healthy China.

"If it weren't for medical insurance, I really don't know what I would do." This is the feeling of Ms. Wang, a resident of Dongying City (东营市), Shandong Province (山东). Suffering from diabetes combined with nephrotic syndrome, she spent 155,500 yuan on hospitalization and treatment. Through medical insurance, critical illness insurance reimbursement, and medical assistance, she only needed to pay 17,200 yuan personally.

"The artificial cochlea that we have been waiting for for many years can finally be installed for my mother!" This is the heartfelt voice of the son of Aunt Lin from Putian City (莆田市), Fujian Province (福建). Centralized drug procurement and other measures have significantly reduced the prices of drugs and consumables, allowing more patients to say goodbye to "sighing at the price of medicine" and "stopping because of the price."

"In the past, I had to go to the county hospital for a blood routine test, but now I can do it at the village health clinic and get the results in half an hour. It's so convenient!" This is the experience of Maimaiti Tursun (买买提·吐尔逊), a resident of Hotan County (和田县), Xinjiang (新疆). Today, medical consortia allow people to enjoy high-quality medical resources at their doorsteps, and more than 90% of families can reach the nearest medical point within 15 minutes.

One by one, these vividly interpret "making people's happy life the 'most important thing for the country'," reflecting the unremitting pursuit of "insisting on guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood in development." This is the most sincere embodiment of our Party's adherence to a people-centered development ideology, continuously benefiting the people, and leading and promoting the construction of a Healthy China to take solid steps.

"Our country is a socialist country, a developing country with a huge population and still large gaps between urban and rural areas." The General Secretary's scientific grasp of our national conditions profoundly reveals the truth that the construction of a Healthy China must adhere to starting from our national conditions and must always maintain a clear mind and strategic focus.

Stepping into the "15th Five-Year Plan," the most crucial thing to promote decisive progress in the construction of a Healthy China is to anchor the goals, fully implement the requirements of "two unwavering commitments," adhere to doing our best and acting according to our capabilities, and put the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee into action and achieve results step by step.

Being good at grasping the key points, the key links, and the crucial aspects is a scientific methodology. "We must highlight the key points and firmly grasp the work that benefits a wide range of people and affects the whole body," the General Secretary's important requirements are not only a profound summary of the development experience of the health cause in the new era, but also provide important guidance for building a Healthy China on the new journey.

For example, to improve the public health system, "prevention first" is one of the core requirements. Guangdong Province (广东省) issued and implemented an action plan for early prevention and treatment of viral hepatitis, with a cumulative screening of over 6.95 million people; Harbin City (哈尔滨市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江) carried out a pilot project of integrating medical treatment and prevention, and projects such as early diagnosis and treatment of urban cancers benefited more than 400,000 residents...

Grasping the key links and key areas, concentrating all aspects of strength and resources, and taking effective measures to promote them can drive the overall improvement of the construction of a Healthy China with key breakthroughs.

The more systematic the project, the more firmly we must grasp the working methods of overall planning and overall advancement. The draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" makes comprehensive arrangements for accelerating the construction of a Healthy China, involving policy systems, public health, medical services, and other aspects.

We must both adhere to systematic thinking, improve the working pattern of unified leadership by the Party committee and joint management by the Party and government, and handle major relationships such as government and market, efficiency and fairness, development and security, and prevention and treatment; and adhere to both policy support and reform and innovation, improve the coordinated development and governance mechanism of medical care, medical insurance, and medicine, and promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements, in order to continuously improve the "adaptation" of policies and form a strong synergy.

Now, there are less than 10 years left to build a Healthy China by 2035. Time waits for no one, and the mission is on our shoulders. We must work together and gather strength to benefit the people more with the achievements of modernization in continuous struggle.

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Anchor development goals, unleash policy dividends

By: 本报记者 李君强

On the afternoon of March 6, the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) held a press conference on economic topics. Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Zheng Shanjie (郑栅洁), Minister of Finance Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安), Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao (王文涛), Governor of the People's Bank of China Pan Gongsheng (潘功胜), and Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission Wu Qing (吴清) answered questions from reporters.

There is a Solid Foundation for Achieving Expected Goals

The Government Work Report made it clear that the expected target for macroeconomic growth this year is 4.5%-5%. "We have a solid foundation for achieving this goal. From the perspective of total scale, the total economic volume last year exceeded 140 trillion yuan, reaching a new level; from the perspective of innovation capability, innovation achievements and major breakthroughs have attracted global attention, and the momentum of national development is stronger; institutional advantages have been fully utilized, effectively responding to risks and challenges from all aspects," said Zheng Shanjie (郑栅洁).

Zheng Shanjie (郑栅洁) stated that this year, efforts will be intensified in four key areas: First, intensify efforts to improve the effectiveness of macroeconomic regulation, adhere to **稳中求进** (wěn zhōng qiú jìn - "seek progress while maintaining stability," to make steady progress) and improve quality and efficiency, emphasizing both intensity and coordination, to provide strong support for stabilizing employment, benefiting people's livelihoods, and preventing risks, and resolutely use the rule of law to regulate the boundaries of the market and the government. Second, intensify efforts to build a strong domestic market, continue to implement the "two new" policies, better release consumption potential, coordinate resources and efforts, continue to promote the "two major" construction and other work, promote the construction of the "six networks" and key areas, and continuously improve production conditions and living environment. Third, intensify efforts to strengthen the modern industrial system, coordinate the promotion of technological innovation and industrial innovation, deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, and accelerate the renewal of old drivers and the growth of new drivers. Fourth, intensify efforts to clear the bottlenecks and obstacles in economic and social development, so that the masses and enterprises can truly feel that there are fewer and fewer barriers, fewer and fewer unreasonable restrictions, and fewer and fewer problems in accordance with laws and regulations.

Use More Funds in Key Areas and Key Links of High-Quality Development

Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安) said that this year's "more proactive" fiscal policy can be summarized as both reflecting the scale of funds, with sufficient policy intensity, and reflecting the strengthening of policy coordination, with further amplified effects. In terms of the scale of funds, three aspects have reached new highs this year: the total amount of expenditure has reached a new high, exceeding 30 trillion yuan for the first time; the scale of new government bonds has reached a new high, with a plan to issue 1.3 trillion yuan of ultra-long-term special treasury bonds; and the central government's transfer payments to local governments have reached a new high, with a total amount of 10.42 trillion yuan. "These funds are given to local governments in a real way, allowing them to have more financial resources to secure the 'three guarantees,' improve people's livelihoods, and develop the economy," said Lan Fo'an (蓝佛安).

A prominent highlight of this year's implementation of a "more proactive" fiscal policy is the strong synergistic effect of policies: fiscal policy is coordinated with financial and other macroeconomic policies, and a fiscal and financial collaborative policy tool to promote domestic demand is innovatively established; reform and innovation are coordinated with policy support, and the accuracy and effectiveness of policies are improved through reform methods; various expenditure arrangements are coordinated with each other, and more funds are used in key areas and key links of high-quality development.

In answering questions from reporters, Pan Gongsheng (潘功胜) stated that this year, the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) will take promoting stable economic growth and a reasonable rebound in prices as important considerations for monetary policy, flexibly and efficiently use various monetary policy tools such as reserve requirement ratio cuts and interest rate cuts, and give play to the integrated and synergistic effects of incremental policies and existing policies, monetary policy and fiscal policy, to create a good monetary and financial environment for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

"China does not need and has no intention of gaining trade competitive advantages through exchange rate depreciation," said Pan Gongsheng (潘功胜). The People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) adheres to the decisive role of the market in exchange rate formation, maintains exchange rate flexibility, strengthens expectation guidance, and maintains the basic stability of the RMB exchange rate at a reasonable and balanced level.

Deeply Implement Special Actions to Boost Consumption

The Government Work Report lists expanding domestic demand as the top priority of this year's key tasks. In response, Wang Wentao (王文涛) stated that the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) will adhere to the combination of benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, adhere to the "policy + activity" dual-wheel drive, deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, and make every effort to promote consumption and expand domestic demand. In terms of commodity consumption, continue to implement the trade-in of consumer goods and accelerate the pilot of new consumption formats, new models, and new scenarios. In terms of service consumption, improve special support policies that directly benefit consumers and operators, and continue to promote "opening up to the outside world and deregulation to the inside." In terms of consumption in the sinking market, implement targeted and classified measures to stimulate consumption vitality.

Wang Wentao (王文涛) stated that in 2025, China's foreign trade will move forward under pressure and maintain stability and improve, achieving a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan."

"This year, we will strengthen the four 'coordinations' around the 'three pillars' of building a strong trading nation and make every effort to stabilize the basic foundation of foreign trade," said Wang Wentao (王文涛). First, coordinate promotion of stability and improvement of quality, and optimize policy support and guidance; second, coordinate emerging and traditional markets, and consolidate and expand diversified markets; third, coordinate imports and exports, and promote balanced trade development; fourth, coordinate productive services and life services, and vigorously develop trade in services. By expanding autonomous opening-up, the commodities, services, and other factors of the international and domestic markets can flow, realizing internal and external connectivity and mutual promotion.

Promote the Aggregation of Factor Resources to New Quality Productivity Fields

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China actively responded to multiple internal and external tests and promoted the prevention of risks, strengthening of supervision, and promotion of high-quality development of the capital market in an integrated manner.

Wu Qing (吴清) stated that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证券监督管理委员会) will focus on serving Chinese-style modernization and the construction of a financial power, and strive to achieve new improvements in five aspects: the market is more resilient and stable, and the market mechanism and ecology of "long-term money long-term investment" are improved; the system is more inclusive and adaptable, and the basic system of the capital market is further improved; the quality of listed companies is higher and the structure is better, and on the basis of continuing to focus on the "authenticity" of listed companies, the "investability" is further improved; supervision and law enforcement and investor protection are more powerful and effective; and opening up to the outside world is moving towards a deeper level and a higher level.

The Government Work Report clearly proposes that for technology-based enterprises in key core technology fields, a "green channel" mechanism for listing and financing, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring will be implemented on a regular basis to support innovation and creation with science and technology finance. Wu Qing (吴清) stated that the integrated effect of existing policies and incremental reforms will be coordinated and leveraged to promote capital formation through more channels with greater efforts, and to promote the aggregation of factor resources to new quality productivity fields with greater efforts, so that the capital market can serve industrial transformation and high-quality development at a new "acceleration."

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2026 Chinese Super League Season Opens in Chengdu

This newspaper Chengdu (成都) March 6th (Reporter Song Haoxin (宋豪新)) On the evening of March 6th, the 2026 season of the Chinese Football Super League opened in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川). At the opening ceremony, chief referee Wang Di (王迪) of the opening match and Chengdu Rongcheng (成都蓉城) club player Hu Hetao (胡荷韬) respectively took oaths on behalf of all referees and athletes of the Chinese Super League. Li Kemin (李克敏), Party Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese Professional Football League United Association, announced the official opening of the new season of the Chinese Super League.

The opening match of the Chinese Super League immediately unfolded between Chengdu Rongcheng (成都蓉城) and Shenzhen Xinpengcheng (深圳新鹏城). Ultimately, Chengdu Rongcheng (成都蓉城) defeated Shenzhen Xinpengcheng (深圳新鹏城) with a score of 5:1. Over 40,000 spectators watched the opening ceremony and the opening match live.

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Photo Story

On March 5th, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) opened at the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) in Beijing (北京). This is a photo taken by reporters at the venue.

Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporter Wang Xi (王曦) photographed this.

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First Edition Editors: Yang Xu, Hu Anqi, Zhang Shuaizhen; Second Edition Editors: Yuan Zhenxi, Liu Nian, Liu Jingwen; Third Edition Editors: Yin Xinyu, Zhang Anyu, He Biao; Fourth Edition Editors: Wu Gang, Zhou Zhou, Li Anqi

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Leaders of the NPC Standing Committee Participated in Group Deliberations of Delegations to the Fourth Session of the 14th NPC

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 6th. Leading comrades of the National People's Congress Standing Committee joined deputies from relevant delegations to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 6th to deliberate on the government work report.

The leading comrades who participated in the deliberations with the delegations were: Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟).

Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, said while participating in the deliberation of the Sichuan (四川) delegation that the theme of the government work report and the draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" are consistent and the deployments are closely linked, demonstrating the firm confidence, careful planning, and pragmatic actions to promote a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," outlining the realistic path and bright prospects for achieving Chinese-style modernization, and I fully agree. In 2025, facing the complex and profoundly changing domestic and international situation, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, taking into account both the domestic and international situations, with extraordinary political strategy and strategic determination, united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and move forward under pressure, promoting new major achievements in various undertakings of the Party and the country. The national self-confidence and cohesion of the Chinese people have been unprecedentedly enhanced, and China's international influence and appeal have been unprecedentedly improved. We have a deeper understanding that the "Two Establishes" are the most important and valuable political achievements since the new era, and are the greatest confidence and most fundamental guarantee for us to overcome all risks and challenges on the road ahead.

Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, said while participating in the deliberation of the Hunan (湖南) delegation that he fully agreed with the government work report and the draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The fundamental reason for the extraordinary development achievements of our country in the past year and during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period lies in the leadership and guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The government work report accurately deploys the tasks and measures for the opening year and is a good report that holds high the banner, boosts confidence, and inspires people to forge ahead. The draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" benchmarks the spirit of the "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, scientifically draws a blueprint for the next five years of development, and is an action program that grasps the laws of development, reflects the people's will, and embodies the actual conditions of the country. It is necessary to resolutely and forcefully implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, establish and practice a correct view of performance, unite and concentrate efforts to promote the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and take practical actions to firmly support the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards."

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A steady and progressive, proactive and pragmatic goal

By: 金社平

"Economic growth of 4.5%-5%, striving for even better results in practical work" – this is one of the main expected development goals proposed in the Government Work Report for this year.

Economic growth rates have always garnered widespread attention. Over the past three years, China's GDP growth target has been set at around 5%, and the actual growth rate has met expectations. Against this backdrop, this year's target is particularly noteworthy.

On the afternoon of March 5, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), while participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation, emphasized that completing the "15th Five-Year Plan" economic and social development goals and tasks requires responding to a more complex environment and resolving deeper-seated contradictions. Jiangsu (江苏) and other major economic provinces are at the forefront of reform and opening up and must put effort into researching new situations and solving new problems to gain experience.

At the beginning of the year, why is the expected target set at "4.5%-5%"? What requirements does this target place on doing economic work well? Thinking clearly and understanding these issues will help us to comprehensively, profoundly, and accurately understand and grasp the strategic deployment made by the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and to unite our efforts and work hard to achieve a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

(I)

"4.5%-5%" is a proactive and pragmatic goal that grasps the laws of economics, comprehensively considering domestic economic operations and changes in the external environment, and balancing needs and possibilities.

From the perspective of the expected target itself, "4.5%-5%" is a range target, which not only leaves room for responding to various uncertain factors but also helps various regions formulate their own growth targets in accordance with local conditions, and helps guide all parties to focus their energy on high-quality development.

In fact, setting a range target is not the first time in recent years. In 2016, China set its economic growth target at 6.5%-7%, and in 2019, it was 6%-6.5%, with actual growth of 6.8% and 6.1% respectively in those two years. This year, the expected target is once again proposed in the form of a range, which can be said to comprehensively consider the international and domestic situation, taking into account the needs and possibilities of development, and reflecting a pragmatic and adaptive approach.

The phrase "striving for even better results in practical work" in the expected target demonstrates a proactive goal orientation and policy orientation. As long as we make good and full use of various favorable conditions, we can strive for better results.

From the general law of economic development, it is a common phenomenon that the larger the economic volume, the more stable the growth rate tends to be. In 2025, China's total economic output will cross the 140 trillion yuan mark, and the economic increment will be equivalent to the annual economic output of a medium-sized economy. At the same time, changes have taken place in the factor conditions and allocation efficiency of China's economic development, and there are more constraints on continued development, such as resources and the environment. Today, 1 percentage point of GDP growth requires us to put in more effort and overcome greater challenges.

The "4.5%-5%" target fully considers the changes in the international and domestic situation and the development environment.

Currently, China's development environment is facing profound and complex changes: looking inward, the degree of population aging is deepening, the hard constraints of resources and the environment are increasing, and the task of converting new and old kinetic energy is arduous; looking outward, economic globalization is encountering headwinds, geopolitical risks are intensifying, and world economic growth is weak. The International Monetary Fund's forecast for global economic growth in 2026 is 3.3%.

"4.5%-5%" fully considers various domestic and international factors, considers our advantages and the risks and challenges we face, is a goal that fully estimates the difficulties and is realistic, and is also a goal that can be achieved through hard work.

The "4.5%-5%" target fully takes into account the needs of current and long-term development.

Basically achieving socialist modernization, "per capita GDP reaching the level of moderately developed countries" is an important sign. According to the reverse calculation of achieving the 2035 long-term goal, considering the estimated total population in 2035, GDP needs to grow at an average annual rate of 4.17% during the "15th Five-Year Plan" and "16th Five-Year Plan" periods. Taking into account various conditions such as factor supply, technological progress, and institutional innovation, China's potential GDP growth rate in the next 10 years is fully capable of supporting an average annual growth of 4.17%.

Looking at the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, the "4.5%-5%" target is in line with the medium- and long-term development goals and can ensure the basic realization of socialist modernization. It is a proactive and pragmatic goal that "both jumps up to reach high and maintains a steady pace," which is in line with China's current development reality and economic development laws.

Looking at the development coordinates of the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the "4.5%-5%" target fully considers that this year should leave room for adjusting the structure, preventing risks, and promoting reform, which is conducive to stabilizing employment, stabilizing enterprises, stabilizing the market, and stabilizing expectations, promoting the effective improvement of the quality and the rational growth of the quantity of the economy, maintaining social harmony and stability, and achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."

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"4.5%-5%" is a goal of seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency, which is conducive to promoting high-quality and sustainable development.

"The economy is large, and greater impetus is needed to move forward." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) major judgment reveals the underlying logic of high-quality development of China's economy in the new era.

Where does "greater impetus" come from?

On January 30, the first collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) at the beginning of the year focused on "proactively planning and developing future industries." "The degree of technological breakthrough largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly pointed out while presiding over the study.

Developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness. To achieve high-quality development, we must continuously improve labor efficiency, capital efficiency, land efficiency, resource efficiency, and environmental efficiency, continuously increase the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress, and continuously improve total factor productivity.

According to estimates, to basically achieve socialist modernization by 2035, it is necessary to maintain China's total factor productivity at an average annual growth rate of about 2%. The key to improving total factor productivity lies in promoting the concentration of various advanced factors towards the development of new quality productive forces.

Adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, closely focusing on high-quality development, the "4.5%-5%" target has a richer connotation, with both scientific guidance on quantity increase and higher requirements for quality improvement, reflecting the profound changes in the concept of development, the mode of development, and the driving force of development.

Breakthroughs in core lithium battery technology, continuous new progress in space biology experiments, and the first large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle operation in offshore oil fields... Recently, China has achieved new breakthroughs in a number of key technologies. "China, which has entered a 'period of innovation explosion,' is reshaping the world's technological landscape," foreign media commented.

At the just-concluded National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议), deputies and members brought a series of exciting new developments and breakthroughs:

"Chinese grain, Chinese vegetables, and Chinese meat are mainly using Chinese seeds," said Huang Sanwen (黄三文), President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), with pride;

"Quantum communication continues to maintain international leadership, and quantum computing remains in the first echelon internationally," said Pan Jianwei (潘建伟), Executive Vice President of the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学), as if counting family treasures;

"China's photovoltaic industry has shown strong growth potential and development resilience, and has achieved a leap from follower to leader," said Zhong Baoshen (钟宝申), Chairman and General Manager of LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (隆基绿能科技股份有限公司), full of confidence...

Economic development is a dynamic process, and today's growth cannot be measured by the standards of the past, nor can today's development be viewed with the eyes of the past.

Today, "4.5%-5%" is not a simple speed indicator, nor is it a linear growth of scale expansion. To achieve this goal, we must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, coordinate the important relationship between improving quality and increasing total volume, and continuously provide a stronger impetus for Chinese-style modernization.

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"4.5%-5%" is a goal that can be fully achieved through hard work and can strive for better results. The key lies in seeking truth from facts and doing practical work.

"'The 15th Five-Year Plan' has already started, and the leadership teams at all levels are enthusiastic and energetic, which is good, but the key is that the concept of performance must be correct." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) instructed during his first local inspection at the beginning of the year.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period. Looking at the historical timeline, there are only about 10 years left until the basic realization of socialist modernization in 2035. To lay a solid foundation and exert comprehensive efforts, we must not only do visible work but also do potential work.

The more urgent the time and the more complex the situation, the more we must maintain strategic focus, strengthen development confidence, and promote the spirit of hard work, and respond to the uncertainty of the international environment with the certainty of high-quality development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The stable development base of major economic provinces and their strong ability to resist external shocks can support the stability of the overall national economy."

Guangdong (广东), the vanguard, pioneer, and experimental zone of reform and opening up, has ranked first in the country in terms of regional GDP for 37 consecutive years. How can it continue to stand at the forefront?

"Guangdong (广东) must compare itself with itself. We must pay attention to studying and answering new questions in economic and social development." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) words injected strong confidence into Guangdong (广东) to maintain its strategic focus and unswervingly promote high-quality development.

Comparing with others always makes it difficult to get rid of speed anxiety. Comparing with itself, Guangdong (广东) has better clarified its goals and identified its direction. For example, in response to the "biggest shortcoming" of unbalanced urban-rural and regional development, Guangdong (广东) has combined its actual situation to propose the implementation of the "100 Counties, 1,000 Towns, and 10,000 Villages Project" to promote strong counties, promote towns, and drive villages.

Baiyun District (白云区), the largest central urban area in Guangzhou (广州) in terms of area and population, is constrained by the urban-rural dual structure for high-quality development. In Qinghe Village (清河村), Renhe Town (人和镇), 1,800 mu of scattered farmland has been transformed into the Renheyuan (人和园) National 3A-level tourist attraction; in Helong Street (鹤龙街), the low-end village-level industrial park has been renewed into the Guangzhou Design Capital (广州设计之都) with an annual revenue of over 90 billion yuan... Since the implementation of the "100 Counties, 1,000 Towns, and 10,000 Villages Project," all 4 towns in Baiyun District (白云区) have entered the top 250 national towns in terms of economic strength, and the total income of the village collective economy in the district has exceeded 10 billion yuan, ranking first in Guangzhou (广州).

"Comparing with oneself" provides an important methodology for various regions to do a good job in economic work in accordance with local conditions.

Yunnan (云南) "unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and builds a solid ecological security barrier in southwest China"; Shanghai (上海) "accelerates the construction of a science and technology innovation highland with global influence"; Shanxi (山西) "strives to take new steps in promoting the transformation and development of resource-based economies"... "Under the overall situation led by the Party Central Committee (党中央), each region should not follow others or simply imitate, but should look at its own advantages, how to learn from others' strengths and make up for one's own weaknesses, and how to promote one's strengths and avoid one's weaknesses."

"Comparing with oneself" means concentrating on doing one's own things well and solving the problems encountered in one's own development process.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's development environment faces profound and complex changes, and economic and social development faces many new issues. "We must seize this window of opportunity, consolidate and expand our advantages, break through bottlenecks and constraints, strengthen weaknesses, win strategic initiative in fierce international competition, promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, and ensure that decisive progress is made in the basic realization of socialist modernization."

Chinese-style modernization is achieved step by step. Making the greatest efforts to strive for the best results, moving forward firmly step by step, and steadily advancing stage by stage, constantly accumulating small victories into big victories, our goals will surely be achieved.

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National Committee of the CPPCC Leaders Participate in Group Discussions at the Fourth Session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 6th. Leading comrades of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) participated in discussions with members from relevant sectors of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协十四届) on the 6th.

The leading comrades who participated in the discussions in relevant sectors included: Leung Chun-ying (梁振英), Shao Hong (邵鸿), Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治), Zhu Yongxin (朱永xin), and Yang Zhen (杨震).

Leung Chun-ying (梁振英), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), said while participating in the group discussion of specially invited members from Hong Kong (香港), that under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, new and significant achievements have been made in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. Hong Kong (港区) members should fully recognize the extraordinary significance of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period for Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门), actively leverage the advantages of being backed by the motherland and connected to the world, accurately identify the intersection of "what the country needs and what Hong Kong (香港) excels at," offer advice and suggestions for the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan," play the role of a "super connector," precisely align with the country's strategic needs, play an irreplaceable and unique role in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and make new contributions to promoting the construction of a strong country.

Shao Hong (邵鸿), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), said while participating in the group discussion of members from the Jiusan Society (九三学社), that 2026 is the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." We must adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, resolutely implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives, fully leverage the advantages of China's new type of party system, and focus closely on the goals and tasks of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period to pool our efforts and fulfill our responsibilities, strive to write a new chapter in the high-quality development of the cause of the People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协) in the new era, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

Jiang Xinzhi (姜信治), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), said while participating in the group discussion of members from the Communist Party of China (中共), that it is necessary to firmly remember political responsibilities, strengthen political commitment, and unswervingly implement the Party's comprehensive leadership and the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) in all aspects of fulfilling duties. We must unremittingly use Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to strengthen our hearts and souls, continuously promote deepening and internalization, and effectively transform the effectiveness of learning into the ability to perform duties in political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs. We must adhere to putting the people first, accurately grasp the nature and positioning of the People's Political Consultative Conference (人民政协), firmly establish a correct view of achievements, and make new contributions to serving the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan" with practical work and achievements.

Zhu Yongxin (朱永xin), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), said while participating in the group discussion of members from the education sector, that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中共十八大), the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has insisted on placing education in a strategic position of prioritized development, systematically deploying and comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong education country, and China's education cause has achieved historic achievements and undergone structural changes. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for basically realizing socialist modernization. It is necessary to adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, establish and practice a correct view of achievements, focus on the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" to conduct in-depth consultation and deliberation of state affairs, actively offer advice and suggestions, carry out democratic supervision, and contribute wisdom and strength to promoting Chinese-style modernization.

Yang Zhen (杨震), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), said while participating in the group discussion of members from the China National Democratic Construction Association (农工界), that in the past year, under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the main goals of economic and social development for the whole year were successfully completed, the "14th Five-Year Plan" was successfully concluded, and Chinese-style modernization took new and solid steps. The fundamental reason for these achievements lies in the leadership and direction of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We must firmly support the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards" (两个维护), strengthen our confidence, seize the momentum, and work together to contribute wisdom and strength to a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan."

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The General Office of the State Council Issues "Opinions on Strengthening Grassroots Fire Protection Work"

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 6th. The General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) recently issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Grassroots Fire Protection Work" (关于加强基层消防工作的意见) (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").

The "Opinions" pointed out that we should adhere to the principle of giving priority to prevention and combining prevention with firefighting, assigning responsibilities at different levels with local responsibility as the mainstay, and building a grassroots fire protection work pattern in which the Party committee and the government organize and lead, the fire department takes the lead, departments coordinate, counties and townships are integrated, and the masses participate in prevention and control. First, we must strengthen local leadership. We must adhere to the principle of the Party and government sharing the same responsibilities, one position with dual responsibilities, joint management, and accountability for dereliction of duty, improve the fire safety coordination mechanism, and improve the fire safety responsibility system covering the grassroots level. We must straighten out the system and mechanism, accelerate the improvement of the grassroots fire governance system, promote the grassroots emergency fire work mechanism integrating emergency response and fire prevention and integrating teams and stations according to local conditions, give play to the role of grassroots grid management, and improve the closed-loop management system for hidden danger rectification. Second, we must strengthen comprehensive supervision. We must implement the integration of prevention and firefighting, strengthen grassroots fire supervision and inspection, promote the extension of fire forces to townships, and coordinate the deployment of diverse grassroots forces to assist in inspection and investigation. Third, we must strengthen industry management. We must implement the "three managements and three musts" requirements, urge industry and system grassroots units to implement the fire safety responsibility system. We must strengthen the source control of administrative examination and approval, and those that do not meet fire safety conditions shall not be approved for establishment and operation. We must strengthen technological empowerment, strengthen risk monitoring and early warning, and use the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies to improve the effectiveness of grassroots supervision. Fourth, we must strengthen the main responsibility. We must strengthen the independent management of units, improve the fire safety management system, configure fire-fighting facilities and equipment, and organize daily fire prevention inspections and fire training exercises. For elderly care institutions, hospitals, schools and other places, we must strictly implement fire safety requirements such as unblocked life channels and hot work operations, and strengthen comprehensive management of high-risk fire areas and places. Fifth, we must strengthen social co-governance. We must strengthen the occupational supervision of technical service institutions such as fire facility maintenance, testing, and fire safety assessment, and incorporate fire safety credit evaluation results into the National Credit Information Sharing Platform. We must implement the National Fire Safety Quality Improvement Action, carry out practical training for key groups, promote the construction of self-defense and self-rescue forces such as full-time fire brigades, volunteer fire brigades, and miniature fire stations, promote volunteer services to integrate into grassroots fire protection work, and build a solid people's line of defense for fire safety.

The "Opinions" emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen incentives and constraints, further promote burden reduction for the grassroots, promote simplified law enforcement at the grassroots level, strengthen administrative law enforcement supervision, seriously investigate and deal with fire accidents, and take the effectiveness of grassroots fire protection work as an important reference for the rewards and punishments of grassroots cadres.

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Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan": Pragmatic Work Opens a New Chapter

By: 本报记者

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress Jiangsu (江苏) delegation has inspired the vast number of cadres and masses in Jiangsu (江苏) to strengthen their confidence and forge ahead. Everyone said that they must base themselves on reality, work hard, implement the responsibility of a major economic province in shouldering the heavy burden, and strive to put effort and experience into studying new situations and solving new problems, and strive to complete the "15th Five-Year Plan" economic and social development goals and tasks.

Strive to be at the Forefront of Developing New Quality Productive Forces

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that 'developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness. Jiangsu (江苏) has a good foundation in this regard and should strive to be at the forefront.'" Wang Lifeng (王立峰), deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of Aeronautics and Astronautics Structural Mechanics and Control at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (南京航空航天大学), was deeply encouraged by listening to General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech on the spot. "Aerospace technology is an important field for cultivating and developing new quality productive forces. We will further strengthen interdisciplinary collaborative innovation, continue to explore cutting-edge fields such as aircraft structural dynamics and low-altitude aircraft technology, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, and seizing the commanding heights of science and technology."

In 2025, Jiangsu's (江苏) total social R&D investment intensity will reach about 3.38%, and the number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises will increase to 94,000. Xu Guanghui (徐光辉), director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology (江苏省科技厅), said: "To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we will increase our efforts to implement the climbing action for emerging enterprises, the collaborative innovation action for high-tech zones and universities, the science and technology finance empowerment action, and the innovation ecosystem cultivation action, and accelerate the transformation of the potential energy of the scientific and technological revolution into the kinetic energy of industrial transformation."

In Danyang Huichuang Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. (丹阳慧创医疗设备有限公司) in Zhenjiang (镇江), the Phase III clinical trial of the optical brain-computer interface treatment product for Alzheimer's disease is underway. Wang Daifa (汪待发), chairman of the company, said: "The brain-computer interface is in a critical period from technological breakthrough to industrial implementation. We must meticulously cultivate it with the determination of 十年磨一剑 (shí nián mó yī jiàn - "ten years to grind a sword," it takes great patience and effort to perfect one's skill), and accelerate the transformation of laboratory innovation results into independent and controllable products that serve clinical practice."

"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, we will fully carry out the comprehensive reform pilot of factor market-oriented allocation." Cai Jianfeng (蔡剑峰), deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission (江苏省发展改革委), introduced that the "Notice on Carrying Out the Comprehensive Reform Pilot of Factor Market-oriented Allocation in Key Cities in Southern Jiangsu (苏南)" recently released by the Jiangsu Provincial Government (江苏省政府) focuses on key reform tasks and issues strongly reflected by business entities, and requires the five cities in Southern Jiangsu (苏南) to play the role of reform subjects, adapt to local conditions, and explore boldly, and strive to achieve original and breakthrough results in further deepening reform and removing the institutional and mechanism obstacles restricting the development of new quality productive forces.

Continue to Work Hard on Enhancing Economic Resilience

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that 'major economic provinces have a stable development foundation and a strong ability to resist external shocks, which can support the stability of the national economic landscape. Jiangsu (江苏) should continue to work hard on enhancing economic resilience.'" Wang Jinjian (王进健), secretary of the Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee (扬州市委书记), deeply felt this. "In recent years, relying on the advantages of the Yangtze River (长江) coastline, we have anchored the direction of high-end, intelligent, and green development, and continued to promote the construction of a modern industrial system. The next step is to improve our internal skills, strengthen ourselves, fully integrate into the unified national market, help smooth the domestic circulation, and strive to exceed 800 billion yuan in the output value of advanced manufacturing this year."

Deepening the implementation of the free trade zone upgrading strategy is the key work of the China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone Nanjing Area (中国（江苏）自由贸易试验区南京片区) this year. Lu Weidong (陆卫东), secretary of the Party Working Committee of the area, said: "General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech pointed out the direction. We will continue to explore an opening path with Nanjing (南京) characteristics, enhance the voice of 'Nanjing R&D' on the international stage, promote 'Nanjing Manufacturing' to be more deeply integrated into the global industrial chain, and promote the better development of the regional open economy."

"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that 'we must prevent various risks with a bottom-line thinking.'" Sun Jianjiang (孙建江), secretary of the Wujiang District Committee of Suzhou (苏州市吴江区委书记), said, "We will coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, promote the strengthening, supplementing, and extending of the industrial chain of advantageous industries, build a solid defense line for economic operation, safe production, and ecological environmental protection with a sense of responsibility of 时时放心不下 (shí shí fàng xīn bù xià - "cannot rest easy at any time," a constant feeling of unease and responsibility), and weave a tight risk prevention and control network."

Explore Effective Ways to Promote Common Prosperity for All People

"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech once again focused on the major proposition of common prosperity, emphasizing that 'Chinese-style modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all people.'" Li Yang (李扬), vice president of the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences (江苏省社会科学院), believes that it is necessary to accurately grasp the new expectations of the people for a better life and the new characteristics of people's livelihood work under the new situation, "We must start with the issues that the masses are most concerned about, most directly, and most realistically, do one thing after another, year after year, and continuously improve the quality of people's lives."

Shi Hongjie (施宏杰), director of the Nantong Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (南通市人力资源和社会保障局), said: "We will closely focus on employment as a key starting point, accelerate the construction of an employment-friendly city, provide precise assistance to key groups, focus on improving vocational skills, promote the linkage of 'increasing skills, increasing wealth, and increasing efficiency,' and continuously improve a multi-level and multi-pillar social security system."

"Deeply understanding the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we will adhere to the equal emphasis on precise policies and systematic promotion, use technological empowerment and mechanism innovation to improve efficiency, and focus on exploring effective ways to promote common prosperity for all people, so that common prosperity has both the warmth of broad coverage and the long-term sustainable resilience." said Lu Min (卢敏), vice mayor of Wuxi (无锡) and member of the CPPCC.

Assume Responsibility and Perform Duties with a Correct View of Political Achievements

At present, Jiangsu (江苏) is conscientiously organizing and carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements. Tong Jian (童剑), member of the Standing Committee of the Changzhou Municipal Party Committee (常州市委常委) and Minister of the Organization Department, said: "We must deeply study and understand the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, solve the problems of 'for whom to establish political achievements, what kind of political achievements to establish, and what to rely on to establish political achievements' from the depths of our thinking, and work hard and diligently, step by step, to turn the grand blueprint of the '15th Five-Year Plan' into a beautiful reality."

"To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, we must adhere to grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and connecting the rectification of conduct and discipline with anti-corruption, so that Party members and cadres are accustomed to performing their duties under supervision and restraint, and let the willingness to take responsibility, dare to take responsibility, and be good at taking responsibility become a common practice, and use the continuous improvement of Party conduct and government conduct to drive the upward and good social conduct and folk customs, and win the trust of the people with the actual results of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party." said Lu Hongzhu (卢红柱), member of the Standing Committee of the Suqian Municipal Party Committee (宿迁市委常委), secretary of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, and director of the Municipal Supervisory Commission.

Maqun Science and Technology Park (马群科技园), located in Qixia District, Nanjing (南京市栖霞区), promotes industrial transformation and upgrading through the redevelopment of inefficient land. "Faced with the contradiction between the shortage of industrial land and the urgent need for industrial projects to be implemented, we give play to the leading role of Party building, establish a special team to tackle key problems, twist the government, the market, and social forces into one rope, accelerate the construction of a new highland for intelligent manufacturing industry, and make due contributions to the major economic province in shouldering the heavy burden." She Lingyun (佘凌云), secretary of the Party Working Committee of Maqun Street (马群街道党工委书记), is full of energy.

(Reporters Deng Jiansheng (邓建胜), Wang Weijian (王伟健), Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), and Bai Guangdi (白光迪) of this newspaper)

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"Industrial Workers Should Focus on Doing Good Work and Creating Quality Products" (On-site Coverage: Two Sessions)

By: 本报记者 杨颜菲

"Industrial workers must do their jobs well and create quality products!" On the afternoon of March 5th, Wang Huaping (王花萍), an employee of Jiangxi Guansheng Shoes Co., Ltd. (江西贯胜鞋业有限公司) and a representative to the 4th session of the 14th National People's Congress, made a deep impression at the plenary meeting of the Jiangxi (江西) delegation.

The persistent pursuit of doing a good job and creating quality products is deeply rooted in Wang Huaping's (王花萍) 18 years of front-line work.

"When I first entered the factory, I couldn't produce a single qualified finished shoe in a week. I was so anxious that I couldn't sleep, so I disassembled and reassembled them," Wang Huaping (王花萍) recalled. At that time, she was responsible for making the uppers of ski boots, which required high precision.

Faced with the challenge, she did not back down. Didn't understand? Just ask! Not enough time? Squeeze it in! After work, she was often the last person to leave the workshop, either pestering experienced master craftsmen to 打破砂锅问到底 (dǎ pò shā guō wèn dào dǐ - "smash the casserole to get to the bottom," to get to the bottom of something) or repeatedly studying, disassembling, and practicing with samples.

Day after day of sweat and hard work allowed her to gradually grow into a technical backbone who could stand on her own.

In her eyes, doing a good job is not as simple as mastering basic techniques. Wang Huaping's (王花萍) dictionary does not contain the word "stop." She began to think: how to do better? How to be more efficient?

One improvement suggestion after another was born from Wang Huaping's (王花萍) hands, from optimizing processes to improving tools, effectively improving production efficiency and product quality. "In the past, 30 to 40 of us could only make more than 100 pairs a day, but now 5 or 6 people can complete more than 70 pairs!"

While efficiency has increased, Wang Huaping (王花萍) has tightened the string of quality even more. In the early morning, she is always the first to enter the workshop, carefully checking the equipment and making all preparations. Whether it is the sewing machine operation with flying needles and threads, or the manual details that test patience, she is fully focused and meticulous.

"Simple things, do them with heart; troublesome things, do them patiently and carefully, this is the real skill." This is what she often says.

On the 5th, in her speech at the plenary meeting of the Jiangxi (江西) delegation, Wang Huaping (王花萍) gave a deeper meaning to "doing a good job and creating quality products." She said emotionally: "This is not only the foundation for individuals to settle down and make a living, but also the cornerstone for leading workers to common prosperity, and even more the solid foundation and hard-core strength for 'Made in China' to stand in the international market and win the world's respect."

"At the Milan Winter Olympics (米兰冬奥会), the Olympic athletes wore the ski boots we made," Wang Huaping (王花萍) said proudly.

The government work report proposed to accelerate the upgrading of standards, strengthen quality supervision and brand building, and support enterprises to provide better and more distinctive products. "This is exactly what I wanted to hear." When deliberating the government work report, Wang Huaping (王花萍) said that as a grassroots technical worker, she deeply knows that the construction of a quality powerhouse must be rooted in the needs of the people.

"Whatever the people need, we will work hard in that direction. When making shoes, they must be comfortable and durable. Quality improvement is not empty talk, it must be visible and tangible to everyone." She told reporters, "Standards must be tough, and craftsmanship must be innovative. The name of 'Made in China' must be transformed into 'Chinese Quality' with real skills!"

"The big fruit of high-quality development must be shared by every worker - with fatter wallets and happier hearts, they will be more motivated to work!" Speaking of this, she smiled.

"Doing a good job and creating quality products, I also want to perform my duties well." Wang Huaping's (王花萍) face was filled with confidence. This year's National People's Congress (全国两会), she carefully prepared suggestions on strengthening market supervision and optimizing the platform ecology, advocating for creating a fairer and healthier market environment.

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Taxi driver says "two circles" (On the Scene · Two Sessions)

By: 证券时报记者 秦燕玲

On March 6th, several delegations to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress held open group meetings, including the Chongqing delegation.

At the scene, the reporter met Yin Qilong (殷其龙), a representative of the National People's Congress. He is a taxi driver with more than 20 years of experience. His skilled driving and dedication are well-known.

"When I first started driving a taxi, there were only a few main roads in the main urban area of Chongqing (重庆). The roads were narrow, steep, and winding, so it was a great test of the driver's skills to drive fast and steadily," Yin Qilong (殷其龙) recalled. At that time, transportation from the main urban area of Chongqing (重庆) to various districts and counties was very inconvenient. The journey to southeastern and northeastern Chongqing (重庆) was bumpy and took at least five or six hours.

He said that now, the "2-hour Chongqing (重庆)" transportation circle has been basically completed, making it more convenient to reach districts and counties, and the roads in the main urban area are wider.

The 2-hour transportation circle is the "first circle" mentioned by Yin Qilong (殷其龙), which facilitates the flow of urban resources.

The other circle is the "15-minute high-quality life service circle." Convenience supermarkets, community canteens, pocket parks, health service stations... allow Chongqing (重庆) citizens, including taxi drivers, to enjoy tangible convenience in their lives.

"The tentacles of improving people's livelihoods extend to solving the practical problems of new employment groups such as delivery drivers and online car-hailing drivers," Yin Qilong (殷其龙) said. In response to pain points such as difficulty in eating, resting, charging, and parking, relevant departments are vigorously building friendly towns and streets for new employment groups and promoting the construction of friendly scenarios. "There are more and more friendly stations, and services have expanded from the initial rest stops and hot meals to childcare, etc." The quality of the life service circle is higher, so major events do not require long trips, and minor matters do not require leaving the community.

At this year's National People's Congress, Yin Qilong (殷其龙) will make suggestions on regulating the platform revenue distribution mechanism and guiding online car-hailing platform companies to give profits to drivers.

Yin Qilong's (殷其龙) "two circles" are both the "big circle" of urban development and construction and the "small circle" of people's livelihood concerns. The big circle and the small circle are promoted in coordination, allowing the masses to share more of the dividends of development.

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China's Pursuit of High-Quality Development Brings More Opportunities to the World (Two Sessions: Understanding China)

General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized on the afternoon of March 5th while participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation to the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress that completing the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" for economic and social development requires addressing more complex environments and resolving more deep-seated contradictions. Jiangsu (江苏) and other major economic provinces are at the forefront of reform and opening up and must put effort into researching new situations and solving new problems to gain experience.

President Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech has attracted high attention from the international community. International figures interviewed by this newspaper actively praised China's measures and achievements in developing new quality productive forces, promoting the sharing of development results, and expanding opening up to the outside world, believing that China's adherence to high-quality development will inject more impetus and provide more opportunities for the world economy.

"Promoting continuous economic development towards new, better, and higher quality"

President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness.

"President Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized the importance of developing new quality productive forces, providing important guidance for China's high-quality development," said Kofie Kouakou, a senior researcher at the Africa-China Research Center at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. China is firmly implementing an innovation-driven development strategy, continuously unleashing vigorous vitality in global technological competition. The innovation ecosystem has become one of the main contents of China's modern industrial system construction. This not only opens up a new path for China's industrial upgrading but also provides the world with more and better Chinese manufacturing and Chinese creation.

Former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mwencha, said that China is accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces, promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries towards high-end, intelligent, and green directions, and promoting the development and growth of emerging industries, consolidating the foundation of China's modern industrial system.

Claudia Yanucci, President of the Brazil-China Innovation and Economic Research Institute, said that China is cultivating more new technology talents through deepening education reform, building a solid talent support for the construction of a new type of industrialization system, and "promoting continuous economic development towards new, better, and higher quality."

Vladimir Datsishin, a professor at the Siberian Federal University in Russia, said that in recent years, China has made great progress in the digital economy, green economy, high-end manufacturing, and artificial intelligence, and future industries such as quantum technology, embodied intelligence, and 6G are poised to take off. "I believe that in the future, China's high-quality development momentum will be stronger, adding more impetus to Chinese-style modernization, and also bringing new development opportunities and opening up new cooperation space for various countries."

"Let the fruits of modernization construction benefit all the people more and more fairly"

Chinese-style modernization is a modernization of common prosperity for all the people. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that it is necessary to "explore effective ways to promote common prosperity for all the people."

"Chinese-style modernization adheres to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people." Tong Meng Davy, Deputy Director of the China-ASEAN Research Center at the Cambodia-China Polytechnic University in Cambodia, said that China continues to improve the level of public services through institutional arrangements and promote the gradual narrowing of the gap between urban and rural areas, providing important enlightenment for countries in the Global South: modernization is not only about expanding the economic scale but also should pay attention to fairness and inclusiveness, so that development can truly benefit the vast majority of people.

Veronica Saraswati, Director of the Indonesian-China Partnership Research Center, said that Chinese-style modernization always places the people's well-being at the core of its policies, focusing on promoting high-quality and full employment while promoting high-quality economic development, steadily increasing residents' income levels, and continuously improving the social security system, "so that the fruits of modernization construction benefit all the people more and more fairly."

Mian Abrar, editor of *Pakistan Today*, believes that China has won the battle against poverty, the vast rural areas have undergone a new look, and systems such as education, medical care, housing, and social security have been continuously improved, "the Chinese people truly enjoy the fruits of modernization development."

Ismail, a professor at the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Cairo University in Egypt, said that in recent years, China has made remarkable achievements in eliminating poverty, popularizing education, and ensuring medical care, laying a solid foundation for promoting common prosperity for all the people. China's development practice provides an important reference for countries in the Global South to explore their own modernization development paths and enhance people's well-being.

"Create broader space for its own development and inject more stability into the global economy"

President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized the need to expand high-level opening up to the outside world, broadly explore the global market, and better connect international circulation.

"China's adherence to high-quality development brings more opportunities to the world." Ismail said that China's super-large market will release huge potential and inject more strong impetus into world economic growth.

In the view of Hwang Jae-ho, President of the Institute for Global Strategy and Cooperation in South Korea, China is steadily expanding institutional opening up in rules, regulations, management, and standards, and vigorously boosting consumption and expanding effective investment. In the context of increasing uncertainty in the international situation, China will continue to play the role of a global economic growth engine.

"China's continued expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world has brought valuable opportunities to developing countries, including African countries." Mwencha said that deepening cooperation between Africa and China helps more African specialty products reach Chinese consumers directly, driving African countries to expand exports, increase employment, improve people's livelihoods, and also provide broad space for African industrialization and agricultural modernization development.

"China's business environment continues to optimize, and more and more countries hope to share China's development dividends." Tong Meng Davy said that looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," China will create more cooperation space in green development, the digital economy, advanced manufacturing, and other fields, bringing new trade, investment, and technology cooperation opportunities to Southeast Asian countries, and injecting stability and growth momentum into the world economy.

Kouakou said: "In the context of frequent geopolitical conflicts and rising protectionism, China's adherence to expanding high-level opening up to the outside world and strengthening global industrial chain cooperation not only creates broader space for its own development but also injects more stability into the global economy. This is crucial for maintaining the stability of the global trading system."

(Reporters Jiang Bo (姜波), Dai Kairan (戴楷然), Huang Weixin (黄炜鑫), Bai Yuanqi (白元琪), Chen Haiqi (陈海琪), Xiao Xinxin (肖新新), Cao Shiyun (曹师韵), Yan Huan (颜欢), Zhao Yipu (赵益普), Huang Peizhao (黄培昭), Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨) of this newspaper)

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Reception in Beijing Celebrates "International Women's Day" with Chinese and Foreign Women

Beijing, March 6th (Reporter Yang Hao (杨昊)) A grand reception for Chinese and foreign women was held in Beijing on March 6th to commemorate International Women's Day. State Councilor and President of the All-China Women's Federation, Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴), delivered a speech.

Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) extended festive greetings and best wishes to the vast number of women, fully demonstrating the great importance and deep concern of the leader of a major party and a major country for the development of women's cause. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, hundreds of millions of Chinese women will bravely shoulder the important tasks of the times, write a vibrant chapter of women's achievements, and contribute wisdom and strength to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) said that in October last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the opening ceremony of the Global Women's Summit and delivered a keynote speech, injecting strong impetus into the development of the global women's cause and setting a new milestone in the history of the international women's movement. Facing a world intertwined with changes and chaos, China is willing to work with all parties to fully implement the spirit of the summit, deepen exchanges and cooperation, and make new contributions to the development of the global women's cause and the progress of human civilization.

Tie Ning (铁凝), Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Su Hui (苏辉), and Xian Hui (咸辉) attended.

Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central and State organs, some female representatives and female members of the National People's Congress (全国两会), outstanding female representatives from all walks of life and all ethnic groups, representatives from the Hong Kong and Macao women's circles, some diplomatic envoys to China, representatives of international organizations in China, and more than a thousand Chinese and foreign guests attended the reception and visited the "Digital Intelligence Empowering Women and Girls Achievement Exhibition".

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The World Sees Development "Initiative" from Innovative China (Harmony Voice)

"In the past year, China ranked first in the world in the number of open-source model downloads," "Last year, China approved 76 innovative drugs," "The output of industrial robots and integrated circuits increased by 28% and 10.9% respectively"... International attention is focused on the Two Sessions (全国两会) in China, with scientific and technological innovation becoming a key focus.

Tens of thousands of miles away, at the 2026 World Mobile Communications Conference held in Spain, Chinese companies made a strong "breakthrough." The world's first robot phone, AI glasses equipped with "lip-motion recognition" technology, and soft and cute emotional companionship AI pets... Cutting-edge and trendy innovative products made foreign media exclaim "refreshing."

From the scene of the Two Sessions (全国两会) in Beijing (北京), to the international exhibition stands in Barcelona, two observation windows jointly demonstrate the vigorous vitality of innovative China. The Economist Intelligence Unit of the United Kingdom made an analysis: China's new Five-Year Plan is more proactive, focusing on promoting breakthroughs in key technologies and accelerating the deep integration of science and technology with industry.

Why does international public opinion interpret China's scientific and technological innovation pace with "proactiveness"?

From the perspective of modernization, scientific and technological innovation provides important support for China's endeavor. China adheres to the idea that science and technology are the primary productive forces and innovation is the primary driving force, effectively improving the overall social productivity level through the driving force of new quality productive forces.

Promoting innovation through application and cultivating momentum through scenarios are important keys to the rapid development of China's scientific and technological innovation. At the Two Sessions (全国两会), a foreign media reporter wore Chinese AI glasses to complete translation, photography and other work, praising Chinese technology for "making communication efficient." From robots "entering factories to work" to robot dogs "going to the countryside to farm," from brain-computer interfaces allowing paralyzed patients to regain "digital hands" to AI brain health screening safeguarding the "memory defense line" for the elderly, China's large-scale "innovation experiment field" allows cutting-edge technologies to be repeatedly tested, iterated and refined in real scenarios, and continuously transformed into abundant vitality for high-quality development.

Through the draft of the "15th Five-Year Plan," we see the re-planning of scientific and technological innovation: the average annual growth of R&D investment in the whole society is more than 7%; 28 projects are proposed focusing on improving industrial basic capabilities and competitiveness, cultivating and developing new industries and new tracks, tackling cutting-edge technologies, and improving innovation basic capabilities. Adhering to forward-looking vision to layout and implement, and promoting the seamless connection of the innovation chain and industrial chain, China's blueprint for leading the development of new quality productive forces with scientific and technological innovation is clear and the prospects are broad.

From the perspective of two overall situations, coping with risks and challenges is inseparable from scientific and technological innovation. At present, the depth of changes in the international situation is rare in history, the intensity of chaos is more prominent, and China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. Taking the lead in scientific and technological innovation is the only way to firmly grasp the initiative of development.

In the past year, new breakthroughs have been made in the independent research and development of chips, Tianwen-2 (天问二号) has started its "star chasing" journey, the large-scale application of Beidou (北斗) has been fully expanded, the Yaxia (雅下) hydropower project has started construction, and the first domestically-produced electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier Fujian (福建舰) has officially entered service... Facts fully show that strong science and technology means strong resistance to pressure, and active innovation means active response to changes. Scientific and technological innovation has become a powerful source of China's resilience.

Looking around the current world, coping with uncertainty and enhancing development resilience are common tasks for all parties. China's continuous advancement in scientific and technological innovation creates incremental space for international cooperation. Recently, German Chancellor Merz (默茨) visited Chinese technology companies during his visit to China and sincerely praised "China has once again proved that it is indispensable." This is also the common judgment of companies from various countries. Schaeffler (舍弗勒) of Germany recently announced that it will "increase its investment" of 1 billion yuan in Taicang (太仓), Jiangsu (江苏) to build a humanoid robot intelligent factory, aiming at the intelligent wave of the automotive industry. AstraZeneca (阿斯利康) of the United Kingdom announced that it will join hands with Chinese partners to use AI technology to tackle new therapies for metabolic diseases. Stories of "two-way efforts" are breeding new industrial upgrading solutions for the world. NBC (美国全国广播公司) reported that "China's innovation and development will be a boon to the world."

The world feels China's firm confidence in forging ahead in the face of waves from China's scientific and technological innovation pace, and captures broad opportunities for upgrading mutually beneficial cooperation. Entering the "15th Five-Year Plan," China will continue to join hands with countries around the world to embark on a scientific and technological agreement, and add certainty and positive energy to global development through innovation cooperation.

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Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi Participate in Deliberations and Discussions in Various Delegations at the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (Two Sessions)

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 6th. Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, Zhao Leji (赵乐际), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Cai Qi (蔡奇), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, and Li Xi (李希), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, participated on the 6th in the deliberations and discussions of some delegations to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress and the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

On the afternoon of the 6th, Li Qiang (李强) participated in the deliberations of the Henan (河南) delegation. After listening to the speeches of representatives such as Xu Weigang (许为钢), Zhao Hongguo (赵红果), and Liu Hongyun (刘宏云), Li Qiang (李强) said that in the past year, Henan (河南) has thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee, played the role of a major economic province in shouldering heavy responsibilities, with the growth rate of major indicators ranking among the top in the country, and the trend towards new and better development is obvious. In the new year, it is necessary to actively strive for newness, excellence, and leadership, and better play a leading role in the development of the central region and even the whole country. It is necessary to strive for new achievements in serving the construction of a unified national market, and build a logistics channel hub, a consumption and business hub, and an industrial link hub radiating across the east, west, north, and south. It is necessary to shape new advantages in improving the modern industrial system, and cultivate competitive industrial clusters and leading enterprises. It is necessary to explore new paths in promoting new urbanization, improve the spatial pattern of urbanization, and promote integrated urban-rural development. It is necessary to create new brands in promoting the integrated development of culture and tourism, and enhance the influence of cultural and tourism brands.

On the morning of the same day, Li Qiang (李强) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the economic and agricultural sectors. After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Qu Yongyi (曲永义), Zhang Hecheng (张合成), and Lü Aihui (吕爱辉), Li Qiang (李强) said that in the past year, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and respond calmly. China's economy has moved forward against pressure and developed towards new and better directions. The main goals and tasks have been successfully completed, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" has come to a successful conclusion. This year is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and China's development faces increasing unstable and uncertain factors. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability and improving quality and efficiency, continue to implement a more proactive fiscal policy and a moderately loose monetary policy, implement a combination of policies, and promote the early implementation and effectiveness of policies. In combination with the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, it is necessary to promote the construction of major infrastructure networks, focus on expanding effective investment, and consolidate the foundation for long-term development. It is necessary to vigorously develop the service industry, strengthen policy support such as financial and taxation, factor guarantees, and regulatory services, drive employment and income growth, and expand new space for consumption. It is necessary to promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, strengthen guidance in industrial layout, project planning, and equipment renewal, and promote intelligent, green, and integrated development. It is necessary to continue to cultivate and strengthen new driving forces, improve policies and measures in government procurement and scenario cultivation, accelerate the large-scale industrial application of new technologies, and better empower all industries and enter thousands of households. It is necessary to solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, unremittingly grasp grain production, and improve the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, quality, and efficiency. It is necessary to do a good job in regular and precise assistance, and firmly hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty. It is necessary to develop rural characteristic industries and promote the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages.

On the morning of the 6th, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the China National Democratic Construction Association (民建) and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联). After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Kou Gang (寇纲), Zhang Xinghai (张兴海), and Lu Ming (陆铭), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that 2025 was a very extraordinary year. The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core united and led the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and forge ahead, promote new major achievements in the cause of the Party and the country, and achieve a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan." Members of the China National Democratic Construction Association (民建) and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联) have conducted in-depth research, offered suggestions, and made positive contributions to economic and social development. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, and it has an important position of linking the past and opening up the future. It is necessary to unify thoughts and actions with the CPC Central Committee's basic judgment and major decisions and deployments on the domestic and international situation, actively perform duties, strive to show new achievements, and contribute to creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of talent gathering and intellectual concentration, gather wisdom, offer sincere advice, and contribute good strategies, enhance the effectiveness of democratic supervision, strengthen overall coordination, and guide the people of all sectors to make contributions to achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is necessary to take the lead in studying, publicizing, and implementing the CPC Central Committee's principles and policies on promoting the development of the private economy, promote the effective implementation of the Law on Promoting the Private Economy, and contribute to promoting the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy. It is necessary to unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, practice whole-process people's democracy, and carry forward China's political advantages and institutional advantages in combination with new realities.

On the morning of the 6th, Wang Huning (王沪宁) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the cultural and artistic and sports sectors. After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Fan Zongchai (范宗钗), Guo Rong (郭蓉), and Yang Yang (杨扬), Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core attaches great importance to the development of cultural and sports undertakings, comprehensively promotes the construction of a strong cultural country and a strong sports country, and continues to deepen the reform of the cultural system and mechanism and sports reform. China's cultural and sports undertakings have achieved major achievements. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, shoulder the cultural mission of the new era, grasp the people-centered work orientation, and promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture with firm cultural confidence. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on sports, take the people as the main body for developing sports undertakings, implement the national strategy for national fitness, and continuously improve the health level of the people. It is necessary to actively discuss and offer suggestions around the important deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on prospering and developing socialist culture and on coordinating the promotion of mass sports and competitive sports, and contribute to the development of cultural and sports undertakings during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It is necessary to adhere to the people's political consultative conference for the people, help literature and art and sports get closer to the people and serve the people, and guide people from all walks of life to unite and forge ahead in the shared beauty of culture and sports. It is necessary to play an exemplary leading role in the fields of literature and art and sports, consciously practice the core socialist values, and lead the fashion with virtue.

On the morning of the 6th, Cai Qi (蔡奇) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the China Democratic League (民盟), the Communist Youth League (共青团) and the All-China Youth Federation (青联), and the All-China Women's Federation (妇联). After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Wang Pengfei (汪鹏飞), Zhang Kun (张坤), and Zhang Junping (张军萍), Cai Qi (蔡奇) pointed out that the past year was very extraordinary. The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core united and led the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and forge ahead, successfully completed the main goals and tasks of economic and social development, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" came to a successful conclusion. After five years of hard work, China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level, continuing to write a new chapter in the two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new solid steps. Practice has proved that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is an irreversible historical trend that no one can stop. Cai Qi (蔡奇) hopes that everyone will firmly grasp the correct political direction, adhere to using Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to strengthen the soul, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," and unswervingly follow the path of Chinese-style modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of various sectors, find the right entry point and focus, focus on the central tasks of the Party and the country to offer suggestions and contribute efforts, guide party members and the masses they contact to forge ahead on the new journey and make contributions to the new era, and make new contributions to achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is necessary to implement the people-centered development thought, do a good job in uniting, gathering, and serving the masses, closely focus on the urgent difficulties and anxieties of the people, and do more practical and good things that the masses can feel and touch. It is necessary to firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, comprehensively strengthen self-construction, and continuously improve the ability and level of performing duties.

On the morning of the 6th, Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) participated in a joint group meeting of National Committee members of the CPPCC from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门). After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Lam Kin-Yue (林建岳), Ng Chi Leung (吴志良), and Teng Jinguang (滕锦光), Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) said that in the past year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, the cause of the Party and the country has achieved new major achievements, the "14th Five-Year Plan" has come to a successful conclusion, and a good start has been made in the new journey towards the second centenary goal. With the strong support of the central government and under the leadership of the Chief Executive and the SAR government, all undertakings in Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) have made comprehensive progress, writing a new chapter in the successful practice of "one country, two systems" and ushering in the best period of development. Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) emphasized that the central government has always adhered to the principles of "one country, two systems," "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong," "Macao people administering Macao," and a high degree of autonomy, promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门). Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) should make good use of the major opportunities brought about by the national "15th Five-Year Plan," give full play to their unique advantages and important roles of relying on the motherland and connecting with the world, adhere to and improve executive-led governance, solidly promote high-quality economic development, develop and strengthen patriotic forces in Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门), and better integrate into and serve the overall development of the country. Ding Xuexiang (丁薛祥) fully affirmed the National Committee members of the CPPCC from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) for conscientiously performing their duties, and hoped that everyone would unite their efforts, forge ahead, fully support the Chief Executive and the SAR government in administering according to law, widely unite people from all walks of life, draw the largest concentric circle, and jointly create a new situation of prosperity and development in Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门).

On the morning of the 6th, Li Xi (李希) participated in a joint group meeting of members from the CPC sector. After carefully listening to the speeches of members such as Miao Wei (苗圩), Zhuang Guotai (庄国泰), and Zhu Guoxian (朱国贤), Li Xi (李希) said that in the past year, facing profound and complex changes in the domestic and international situation, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome difficulties and work hard. The main goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan" were successfully completed, and Chinese-style modernization took new solid steps. The achievements were hard-won, and they also embodied the wisdom and efforts of the vast number of CPPCC members. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is urgently necessary for leading cadres at all levels to take on responsibilities with a good style, work hard, and overcome difficulties. It is hoped that all members will deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, consciously create political achievements for the people and create political achievements with practical work, focus on implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, actively offer suggestions and contribute efforts, and gather the mighty force of unity and struggle for the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Li Xi (李希) emphasized that corruption is a stumbling block and stumbling block in the process of the development of the cause of the Party and the country. It is necessary to effectively unify thoughts and actions with the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, unswervingly follow the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, maintain a high-pressure anti-corruption stance, continuously improve the penetrating power of anti-corruption, deepen the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, and make greater efforts to promote the integrated advancement of "dare not corrupt, cannot corrupt, and do not want to corrupt," so as to provide a strong guarantee for achieving the goals and tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period with new achievements in rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption.

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Solid strides in modernizing national defense and the military

By: 本报记者 金正波 李龙伊

The drums of war urge advancement, rowing oars and raising sails. The new year's military training for all military units has begun.
On land, unmanned combat vehicles traverse "enemy" formations; at sea, new main battle ships conduct comprehensive offensive and defensive exercises; in the air, multiple types of fighter jets form formations to carry out beyond-visual-range strikes... From the vast Gobi Desert to the distant oceans, the people's soldiers move at the order, full of fighting spirit. New equipment, new systems, and new tactics vividly demonstrate the new progress in the modernization of the People's Army in the new era, painting a magnificent picture of a strong military.
The modernization of national defense and the military is an important component of Chinese-style modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China scientifically planned and made strategic deployments for "achieving the centenary goal of the army building as scheduled and promoting the modernization of national defense and the military with high quality."
The journey is long, and the original aspiration remains firm. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi Jinping (习近平), the People's Army is making progress towards achieving the centenary goal of army building, and constantly creating new prospects for the cause of strengthening the military.

Comprehensively Implement the New Era's Strategy for Strengthening the Military Through Politics
War songs resound to welcome the spring, and the endeavor to strengthen the military starts a new journey.
On February 6th, the Central Military Commission (中央军委) held a Spring Festival gala to慰问 (wèiwèn - express sympathy and solicitude) veteran cadres stationed in Beijing (北京). On the stage, the energetic members of the cultural light cavalry team affectionately recounted the new look of the People's Army in the new era, the new progress in modernization, and the new achievements in preparing for war under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military over the past year.
"The flag leads the way, uniting and striving forward! The crucible tempers, becoming stronger with each forging!" The mixed chorus "Eternal Glory" opened the performance with a powerful melody. The heroic songs, transcending time and space, converged historical echoes and the strong voice of the era into a symphony.
The People's Army is the iron Great Wall of the Party and the country, always acting and fighting under the banner of the Party.
Without revolutionary forging in politics, there could be no great transformation of the People's Army in the new era.
The past year has been very unusual and extraordinary. The People's Army has deeply promoted political rectification, effectively responded to various risks and challenges, and undergone revolutionary forging in the anti-corruption struggle. The vast number of officers and soldiers of the entire army, especially those at the grassroots level, firmly listened to the Party, followed the Party, loyally performed their duties, focused on overcoming difficulties, and successfully completed various tasks, proving to be completely reliable and trustworthy.
Walking into the training ground of the Second Missile Launch Battalion of a certain Rocket Force brigade, the large characters on the wall are particularly eye-catching: "Must be particularly qualified ideologically and politically" and "Absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, absolutely reliable."
"For missile operators, translating special political requirements into personal practical actions means achieving 'the missile listens to me, and I listen to the Party.'" Sergeant Ze Wang (泽王) of the Second Launch Battalion has been in the army for more than six years. He has tempered his loyalty in theoretical studies and honed his skills in practical positions, and has grown into a well-known missile expert.
Loyalty is written in the battle position; strength is proven by victory. Generations of officers and soldiers have melted their personal ideals into the great sword of the country. During a major exercise, extreme weather struck. All officers and soldiers of the battalion braved the wind and snow, guarding around the clock, charging forward in dangerous places, and standing firm at critical moments, ensuring the absolute safety of weapons and equipment. Commander Wang Sencheng (王森晟) said with deep feeling: "With rock-solid beliefs, there will be the courage to overcome difficulties and selflessly charge forward in preparing for war."
To strengthen the military, we must first strengthen it politically, and political strength is the most fundamental strength.
Striding into the new era, all officers and soldiers of the army are striving to strengthen the military under the banner of the Party, implementing the chairman's responsibility system of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), and unremittingly using Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era to strengthen their minds and souls, and lay a solid ideological foundation for listening to the Party and following the Party.
"I am the 6679th soldier of the 'Liu Laozhuang Company' (刘老庄连). Bearing this flag, I have the courage; to become the next hero, I have the determination..." In July 2025, new recruit Dong Hongyun (董洪运) solemnly swore an oath facing the battle flag.
In the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) of a certain brigade of the 82nd Group Army of the Army, every officer and soldier is assigned a combat number upon joining the company and swears an oath facing the battle flag that has been flying for more than 80 years. Dong Hongyun (董洪运) turned his oath into sweat: physical fitness, skills, and tactics, he tried his best, and achieved excellent overall evaluation in the first assessment.
Time changes, but the spirit continues. In 2025, the "Liu Laozhuang Company" (刘老庄连) was awarded the title of "Role Model of the Times." More than 80 years ago, eighty-two martyrs cast the company's soul of "life without end, fighting without stop" with their lives; today, a new generation of officers and soldiers are melting this spirit into the hot practice of training and preparing for war, and bravely charging forward on the journey of strengthening the military.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal clearly proposes to "continue to deepen political rectification." This is a strategic deployment made by our Party with a view to building and controlling the army ideologically and politically.
Attacking the centenary goal of army building and striving for a first-class military. The People's Army will comprehensively implement the new era's strategy for strengthening the military through politics, carry forward the spirit of thorough self-revolution, continue to vigorously promote the deepening and consolidation of political rectification, strictly rectify discipline and combat corruption, and provide a strong political guarantee for achieving the centenary goal of army building as scheduled and accelerating the building of the People's Army into a world-class army.

Weapon and Equipment Construction Achieves Leapfrog Development
September 3, 2025, Beijing (北京), the capital, solemnly held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Ground equipment rumbled forward, naval and air warplanes soared into the sky, and major country heavyweights such as "Dongfeng-5C" (东风—5C) and "Dongfeng-61" (东风—61) were majestically arrayed. All of the equipment reviewed this time were domestically produced active main battle equipment, most of which were unveiled for the first time. The winning weapons of the future demonstrate the new progress in the modernization of national defense and the military.
The future has arrived. A new round of technological revolution and military revolution is surging: artificial intelligence is restructuring command and decision-making, unmanned operations are subverting traditional models, and cyberspace is opening up new territories... The war of the future is a confrontation between systems and systems, and even more so a race between technology and innovation.
Aircraft carriers, mobile sea fortresses, are symbols of a country's comprehensive strength. In November 2025, China's first electromagnetic catapult-type aircraft carrier, the Fujian (福建) ship, was officially commissioned. From the Liaoning (辽宁) ship to the Shandong (山东) ship, and then to the Fujian (福建) ship, China's aircraft carrier cause has achieved three leaps.
Between the sea and the sky, several J-15T fighter jets, J-35 fighter jets, and KJ-600 early warning aircraft catapulted from the deck of the aircraft carrier and went straight into the clouds... The first maritime actual combat training of the Fujian (福建) ship shortly after its commissioning effectively tested the electromagnetic catapult, recovery, and deck operation capabilities, and the adaptability of the ship and aircraft was further verified.
Some military experts said that the Fujian (福建) ship's deployment of live-fire training immediately after its commissioning fully demonstrates that the Fujian (福建) ship has formed combat effectiveness upon commissioning.
In recent years, the People's Army has closely followed the changes in war, technology, and opponents, accelerated the construction of advanced combat capabilities, and achieved leapfrog development and historical achievements in weapon and equipment construction—
In 2021, the Long March 18 (长征18) submarine, the Dalian (大连) ship, and the Hainan (海南) ship were commissioned; in 2022, the Fujian (福建) ship was launched, and the YU-20 tanker was put into training and preparation for war; in 2025, cutting-edge weapons and equipment were concentrated on the parade ground... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, our army successively overcame a number of high-precision and cutting-edge technologies, developed a batch of advanced weapons and equipment, and created a new situation in weapon and equipment construction.
From looking up to standing shoulder to shoulder, from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, the arduous journey reveals a truth: major country heavyweights must be firmly held in our own hands; the dream of a strong military can only be realized by relying on self-reliance.
New equipment is not only a technological upgrade, but also a conceptual upgrade. With the continuous development of military technology, the importance of equipment factors is increasing, the combination of human factors and equipment factors is becoming closer, and people and equipment have become highly integrated. This puts higher demands on the scientific and technological literacy of officers and soldiers.
"Talent is the engine for the leap in advanced combat capabilities." He Yuanzhi (何元智), a researcher at a certain research institute of the Information Support Force, has a deep understanding of this. In recent years, she has led her team to launch an offensive against the forefront of cyberspace, focusing on the operational needs of new domains and new qualities, and focusing on building a talent matrix covering cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and unmanned collaboration.
During a major mission, He Yuanzhi (何元智) led her team members to eat and live with the mission troops and fight side by side. Although their faces were tanned, when the results of their scientific research were recognized by frontline officers and soldiers, they could truly appreciate the value of "writing papers on the training ground."
With the accelerated construction of a new military training system that deeply integrates war and training in our army, a number of new type destroyer and frigate captains, air commanders, combined battalion commanders, and missile launch commanders have emerged in major missions, and a large number of high-quality sergeants have played important roles on the training ground, promoting the transformation of theory into practice, the leap of knowledge into ability, and the extension of classrooms to the battlefield.

Improve the Strategic Capability to Safeguard National Sovereignty, Security, and Development Interests
"The place where I stand is China, I defend and guard it with my life, even if the wind is like a knife and the mountains are like iron, not an inch of the motherland's land can be lost..."
During the Spring Festival, in the western border of the motherland, the temperature is as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. Along the Alakbek River on the Sino-Kazakh border, Zhou Renxin (周仁鑫), a soldier of a certain detachment of the Armed Police Corps, and his comrades, together with the border guards of the Corps, braved the wind and snow to patrol the sandy mountains and snow seas on the right bank of the boundary river. The oath echoed for a long time on the border line.
The family is the smallest country, and the country is thousands of families. When the Shenzhou land is reunited, from prosperous cities to the vast Gobi Desert, from the vast sky to the snowy islands, the reliable, trustworthy, lovely, and respectable people's soldiers always stick to their battle positions. They exchange "one family's reunion" for "ten thousand families' reunion," and express their deep love for the motherland in a way unique to soldiers.
Improving the strategic capability to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests is the responsibility of the People's Army.
Develop a joint training system with Chinese characteristics for our army, and accelerate the improvement of integrated joint operations capabilities—
Starting on December 29, 2025, the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized forces from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force to conduct a joint exercise codenamed "Justice Mission-2025" in the Taiwan Strait, northern Taiwan Island, southwestern Taiwan Island, southeastern Taiwan Island, and east of Taiwan Island. Warships and aircraft approached Taiwan Island from multiple directions, and various military services and arms jointly launched assaults.
Under the support of the Eastern Theater Command's (东部战区) joint operations system, the theater forces implemented maritime and air combat readiness patrols, seized comprehensive control, and jointly carried out precision strikes, further testing the capabilities of rapid maneuver, three-dimensional deployment, and system blockade.
The outcome of the battlefield depends on work style. Establish true, difficult, strict, and practical standards, and hone the skills to fight and win battles—
Tan Hongmei (谭红梅), a Y-20 pilot, is the seventh batch of female pilots in China. She has flown six types of aircraft and has performed major exercise missions many times. In the second year of refitting the Y-20, Tan Hongmei (谭红梅) faced a severe test: during a night mission to pick up maintenance personnel and escort troops back, when the plane flew over the Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山脉), the radar showed dense clouds ahead and distant lightning, and the atmosphere in the cockpit suddenly became heavy.
At the critical moment, she decisively handled the situation and finally piloted the plane to land safely at the airport, successfully completing the mission. Afterwards, she said: "The predecessors piloted old planes and opened up routes in the plateau with their lives. Today, piloting advanced warplanes, what reason do I have to retreat?"
At the beginning of the new year in 2026, many netizens received a good night text message sent by the People's Daily WeChat, signed by Tan Hongmei (谭红梅). The text message read: "As a pilot who controls the heavyweights of the country, in the new year, I will work hard to fly skillfully and fly higher and farther on the road to chasing my dream in the blue sky!"
On the new journey of striving to strengthen the military, the People's Army firmly establishes combat effectiveness as the only fundamental standard, closely follows the changes in technology, war, and opponents, solidly promotes actual combat military training, promotes the innovation of combat methods and training methods, strengthens the integration of combat capability systems, resolutely and flexibly carries out military struggles, and resolutely completes the new era missions and tasks entrusted by the Party and the people.
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The goal guides the direction, and the goal gathers strength. 2026 is the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and a crucial year for fighting a good battle to achieve the centenary goal of army building.
The entire army will thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military, thoroughly implement the new era's military strategic policy, adhere to political leadership, strengthen mission responsibility, strive to create a new situation in the modernization of national defense and the military, accelerate the building of the People's Army into a world-class army, and provide strong strategic support 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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New quality productive forces are rapidly developing.

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How Can Systems and Mechanisms Keep Pace with the Accelerating New Quality Productive Forces? (Economic Commentary)

By: 李君强

On the afternoon of March 5th, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his participation in the deliberation of the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation: "Developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness" and "Achieving new results in further deepening reforms and removing institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the development of new quality productive forces."

Why is it so important to remove the institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the development of new quality productive forces?

New quality productive forces are driven by new technologies, new industries, and new models, relying on the synergistic efforts of various factors. If the institutional environment remains in the past, it is easy for the "new business formats to run fast, but the system to follow slowly," forming bottlenecks in various links such as innovation, development, and application. Removing institutional and mechanism barriers is essentially improving the new type of production relations that are adapted to the new quality productive forces, allowing innovative elements to flow and combine more smoothly, and shaping new momentum and new advantages for economic development.

Currently, the exploration and practice of some places have provided useful insights. Wuhu (芜湖), Anhui (安徽), issued the province's first local normative document in the field of the low-altitude industry, using institutional innovation to ensure the development of the low-altitude economy, transforming airspace into a factor of production, and exploring "promoting development through legislation" for emerging industries; Gansu (甘肃) activated traditional industries with market-oriented mechanisms, accelerated the conversion of old and new momentum, and promoted "old trees to sprout new buds"; Yuyao (余姚), Zhejiang (浙江), adhered to "government guidance, chain-owner leadership," promoted the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, and empowered the county economy with new quality productive forces...

It should also be noted that at present, there are still bottlenecks in areas such as technological innovation, factor flow, market access, and achievement transformation. Some traditional systems and mechanisms are not adapted to innovation-driven development, becoming "invisible shackles" that bind the leap in productivity. For example, in some places, administrative barriers still exist, and talent flow and data sharing are not smooth enough; in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, the low-altitude economy, and commercial aerospace, the legislative and regulatory system is lagging behind, and it is still necessary to find a balance between encouraging innovation and regulating development... Therefore, only by further comprehensively deepening reforms to clear obstacles, break the old and establish the new, can innovative elements such as technology, talent, and data be efficiently gathered and smoothly circulated.

To further comprehensively deepen reforms and achieve new results in removing institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the development of new quality productive forces, it is necessary to continuously exert efforts in key links and promote the resonance of institutional innovation and technological innovation. For example, further break down the hidden barriers to the flow of innovative elements such as talent, data, and technology, so that resource allocation is more efficient and smooth; improve the transformation mechanism of scientific research achievements, and fundamentally solve the practical problems of scientific researchers "not daring to transfer, unwilling to transfer, and lacking money to transfer"; accelerate the improvement of laws, regulations, and regulatory systems in new fields, coordinate the encouragement of innovation and regulated development, and create a more inclusive, stable, and predictable development environment for new industries and new business formats. In the final analysis, it is to make the system better adapt to the development rhythm of new technologies and new industries, allow innovation vitality to fully flow, and open up a broader space for the growth of new quality productive forces.

The conversion of old and new momentum is accompanied by a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, containing new opportunities for cross-regional, cross-field, and cross-industry coordinated development. Removing institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the development of new quality productive forces is a "must-answer question" for adhering to innovation-driven development and promoting high-quality development. By answering this question well, technological innovation and industrial innovation will be more closely integrated, new momentum will be more surging and strengthened, and the Chinese (中国) economy will also firmly grasp the initiative of development in a more complex external environment.

Netizens are the cultivators of future industries.

China (中国) has more than 600 million users of generative artificial intelligence. This means that Chinese (中国) netizens have a strong stickiness to the Internet, and massive amounts of data are input into artificial intelligence every day, and artificial intelligence relies on continuous learning, evolution, and iteration, becoming more intelligent with use. From this perspective, Chinese (中国) netizens with high literacy and fast internet speeds are contributors to artificial intelligence and cultivators of future industries. This is one perspective for observing today's China (中国).

This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Some foreign media published articles commenting that "independent research and development in the fields of semiconductors and artificial intelligence has become a stable cornerstone of the Chinese (中国) economy" and "the blueprint that China (中国) has drawn for development in the next five years shows a clear understanding of the direction of progress, and China (中国) is ready to lead the industrial development of the 21st century."

In today's era, technological innovation is advancing by leaps and bounds, and new things are emerging one after another. We must seize the day and move towards the future!

From new energy vehicles to artificial intelligence, facts have repeatedly confirmed that Chinese (中国) consumers prefer new technologies and new products. A solid user base and market foundation are the fertile ground for innovation to grow.

From actively looking ahead, planning, and developing future industries, to continuously cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, a nation that can grasp the general trend, lead the era, and be determined to move forward will surely be at the forefront of the times!

(Excerpted from the "People's Daily Review" (人民日报评论) WeChat official account, originally titled "From Generating 'Intelligence' to Living 'Mobile,' Today's Netizens Achieve the Future")

Weave the warmth of technology into the warp and weft of life.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must take meeting the people's aspirations for a better life as the starting point for technological innovation, and take benefiting the people, enriching the people, and improving people's livelihoods as an important direction for technological innovation." In the past, "running back and forth, running to multiple places" was a common trouble for the masses to handle affairs. Nowadays, in many places, AI (artificial intelligence) empowers government services, allowing the masses to run at most once and get things done in one go.

Technology empowers all walks of life, effectively improving the quality of people's lives, and its role in supporting and leading high-quality development and promoting Chinese-style modernization is fully demonstrated. From swiping faces to enter stations to make travel lighter, to smart home appliances that understand local accents, to AI robots serving passengers on trains, new technologies such as AI are subtly weaving the warmth of technology into the warp and weft of life. Technology is not cold code and machinery, but the convenience of streets and alleys, the harvest of fields, and the peace of mind of thousands of homes... It quietly integrates into every moment of travel, work, and home, making life more "exquisite" and life more comfortable.

To make technology better serve life, the key is to have more care and more attention to detail. Start more from the real needs of ordinary people, polish more details, and make technology more convenient, easier to use, and more humane.

Technology has no boundaries, and people's livelihood is the foundation; AI has warmth, and service has no end. Facing the future, we need to adhere to demand orientation, promote the deep integration of technology and people's livelihood, and draw a new picture of high-quality life while balancing efficiency and warmth.

(Excerpted from People's Forum Online (人民论坛网), originally titled "Technology Subtly Moisturizes Things, Life Moves Towards Warmth")

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Deputies and members enthusiastically discuss

New Breakthroughs

Achieve new breakthroughs in strengthening original innovation, tackling key core technologies, and seizing the high ground in science and technology.

To achieve new breakthroughs, imagination and innovative ideas are needed; we cannot simply follow others in research. Every step forward in exploring the laws of nature requires courage and perseverance; one must be willing to sit on the sidelines. I will continue to lead the team in conducting basic theoretical research on ultra-low frequency deep-sea exploration, striving to push deep-sea exploration towards "a deeper step."
——Zhang Aman (张阿漫), Member (Professor of the School of Marine Engineering, Harbin Engineering University (哈尔滨工程大学))

Universities are an important source of innovation. Currently, China still faces insufficient integration of education, science, technology, and talent, and a lack of vitality in the development of "Artificial Intelligence +". We must actively embrace change and continuously explore new paths for the reconstruction of higher education paradigms, focusing on the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
——Ding Kuiling (丁奎岭), Representative (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学))

Chip development is crucial; there is no time to delay or wait. China has solved the problem of whether domestically produced CPUs "exist" and has overcome the difficulties of whether they are easy to use and capable of handling major tasks. Chips are not isolated islands; they must develop in coordination with operating systems, application software, etc. We must firmly grasp core technologies in our own hands.
——Guo Yufeng (郭御风), Member (Deputy General Manager of Phytium Technology Co., Ltd. (飞腾信息技术有限公司))

New Approaches

Explore new approaches in promoting the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and in promoting the efficient transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements.

After graduating from university, I became one of the first agricultural workers to join the "Taihang Mountain Road" initiative, allowing farmers to taste the "sweetness" of agricultural development through science and technology. In recent years, we have established the "First Station" of the Taihang Mountain Road, which has now split into more than 50 Baoding Taihang Innovation Stations (保定太行创新驿站) and more than 300 Hebei Agricultural Innovation Stations (河北农业创新驿站), playing an active role in promoting agricultural modernization.
——Sun Jianshe (孙建设), Representative (Professor of Hebei Agricultural University (河北农业大学))

Scientific research achievements cannot remain only in the laboratory; they must achieve a breakthrough from "0 to 1" in the laboratory and move towards an amplification from "1 to 10" in the industrial sector. We will continue to focus on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, promoting more innovative achievements to move out of the laboratory and into the front lines of industry, making technological innovation a strong driving force for promoting high-quality development.
——Liu Qing (刘庆), Representative (President of Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (江苏省产业技术研究院))

From breaking the technological monopoly of foreign capital and building an independent innovation chain to serving leading domestic automobile companies and improving the industrial chain layout, we actively promote the deep integration of the innovation chain and the industrial chain, serving the development of automobile industry clusters. In the future, we will implement the "Digital Intelligence Renewal" project, using the innovation chain to drive the industrial chain towards the high end of the value chain.
——Yang Ying (杨英), Member (Chairman of Guangxi Shuangying Group Co., Ltd. (广西双英集团股份有限公司))

New Prospects

Create new prospects in optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and proactively planning for future industries.

We cannot simply abandon traditional industries; instead, we must revitalize them through technological transformation and digital transformation, allowing "old trees to sprout new buds." We are no longer satisfied with selling raw materials; instead, we are focusing on the back end of the industrial chain. In cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, we are developing through "light" and moving towards "new," creating new engines for economic growth.
——Pang Zijian (逄子剑), Representative (Party Member and Deputy Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang (新疆喀什地区招商局))

Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture (怒江傈僳族自治州) was once a deeply impoverished area, with high mountains and long roads, making it difficult to sell good products. Today, Nujiang Prefecture has achieved "turning a natural barrier into a thoroughfare," vigorously developing the green lead-zinc industry based on its resource endowments and policy support. New energy and characteristic agriculture are working together to transform the driving force of development from "blood transfusion" to "blood creation."
——Yang Xiangqun (杨向群), Member (Vice Chairman of the CPPCC of Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan (云南怒江傈僳族自治州政协副主席))

Digitalization is an important tool for promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. We conduct product performance testing, and each test generates a large amount of data. Digitalization can not only improve testing efficiency but also structurally process, systematically manage, and correlate experimental data, providing important support for product design.
——Shao Hongting (邵洪婷), Representative (Deputy Director of the Experimental Testing Center of Chongqing Hongyu Precision Industry Group Co., Ltd., China Ordnance Industry Group (中国兵器工业集团重庆红宇精密工业集团有限公司实验检测中心副主任))

New Achievements

Achieve new achievements in further deepening reform and removing institutional and mechanism barriers that restrict the development of new quality productive forces.

The real-time spot market for the electricity market has been launched, and everyone can conduct market-based transactions. This new achievement in the system and mechanism has activated the entire market. The current transformation is like the leap in the field of communication from "post office landlines" to "mobile internet" – new quality productive forces are booming, a new ecosystem is growing, and there are huge industrial opportunities.
——Ouyang Minggao (欧阳明高), (Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (全国政协常委、中国科学院院士))

Reform should open up the growth space for new quality productive forces in the process of "breaking and establishing simultaneously." For example, building the "Guoneng e-Purchase" digital intelligence platform, using AI large models to reconstruct procurement business, and using market-based mechanisms to force the innovative allocation of production factors. Only by allowing technology, talent, and data to flow efficiently can new quality productive forces accumulate heat and burst forth like energy.
——Zhang Shengli (张胜利), Representative (Deputy Chief Engineer of the National Energy Group (国家能源集团副总工程师))

Towards new, towards intelligence, towards the future, strive to build a full-cycle cultivation ecosystem, with government investment funds taking the lead in becoming patient capital, building a risk-sharing mechanism, and allowing the seeds of innovation to take root. The next step is to build a new type of production relationship that resonates with new quality productive forces, and to achieve the deep integration and symbiotic development of the innovation chain, industrial chain, talent chain, and capital chain.
——Yi Tong (伊彤), Representative (Director of the Institute of Innovation and Development Strategy, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology (北京市科学技术研究院创新发展战略研究所所长))

(Reported by Meng Siqi (孟思奇), Ji Juesu (季觉苏), Cui Yin (崔寅), Jin Bo (靳博), Chen Zhen (陈震), Yang Xiaoyu (杨笑雨), Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), Li Weijun (李维俊), Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊), Liang Zeyu (梁泽谕), Li Junqiang (李君强), Sun Haitian (孙海天), Qin Ruijie (秦瑞杰), and Song Fei (宋飞) of this newspaper, compiled from interviews)

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Editor in charge of this edition: Cheng Chen, Liu Mengdan, Li Zhiyao, Liu Zihe, Min Fangzheng

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Changes and Continuities in the Government Work Report

By: 李心萍

In 2026, the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" begins.

The Government Work Report proposes that the main expected goals for development this year are: an economic growth rate of 4.5%-5%, striving for even better results in actual work; an urban surveyed unemployment rate of around 5.5%, with more than 12 million new urban jobs; a rise in the consumer price index of around 2%; synchronized growth of residents' income and economic growth; a basic balance of international payments; a grain output of around 1.4 trillion jin; and a reduction of around 3.8% in carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP.

Several major indicators, revolving around the same theme, convey a clear signal—unswervingly promoting high-quality development and promoting effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth of the economy.

Observing these main expected goals reflects the dialectic of "change" and "unchange," and contains the methodology of seeking progress while maintaining stability.

No matter how the external environment changes, China will unswervingly manage its own affairs well, responding to the uncertainty of the external environment with the certainty of high-quality development.

First, setting the economic growth target at 4.5%-5% reflects a pragmatic attitude. The range of 4.5%-5% shows both a clear understanding of the real difficulties and leaves room for adjusting the structure, preventing risks, and promoting reform. This goal is generally consistent with the long-term goals for 2035, reflecting the requirements of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period to lay a solid foundation and fully exert efforts, taking into account both the present and the long term.

"Striving for better results in actual work" reflects an attitude of taking the lead, striving for progress, and overcoming difficulties. This consistent attitude reflects the Chinese Communists' spirit of taking the initiative in history, daring to face the tests of high winds and waves, and daring to overcome difficulties, fight risks, and meet challenges.

Second, examine the three major indicators of prices, employment, and international payments. Economic growth indicators and employment, price, and international payment indicators are often referred to as the "macroeconomic quadrangle." This year, the three major indicators of employment, prices, and international payments remain consistent with last year. We will continuously consolidate and enhance the momentum of economic recovery on the basis of maintaining the foundation and stabilizing the position.

Third, analyze the residents' income growth target. "Synchronized growth of residents' income and economic growth"—behind this simple statement is a policy orientation that prioritizes people's livelihoods. Combined with improving free preschool education policies and raising the minimum monthly standard for basic old-age insurance for urban and rural residents by another 20 yuan, the background of doing practical things for the people is even more distinct.

Fourth, observe the grain output target. The Government Work Report proposes a grain output of around 1.4 trillion jin, which seems the same as last year, but actually implies a deeper meaning. It is both a firm adherence to the bottom line of "holding the rice bowl in our own hands" and a solid step towards the goal of a comprehensive grain production capacity of around 1.45 trillion jin during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period. This is a kind of strategic patience, and it is an accumulation of momentum towards a higher level after standing firm on the new level of 1.4 trillion jin for two consecutive years.

Finally, pay attention to carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP. The target of reducing emissions by about 3.8% comprehensively considers various needs such as economic and social development, green and low-carbon transformation, and national energy security, which is conducive to the orderly achievement of the carbon peak target before 2030. In recent years, the focus has shifted from dual control of energy consumption to dual control of carbon emissions, from managing energy imports to managing carbon emission exports, and from indirect carbon control to precise carbon governance. The green development orientation is clearer, the market incentive signals are clearer, and it is more in line with global climate governance.

This year's Government Work Report continues the distinct characteristic of prioritizing people's livelihoods. From emphasizing that finance should pay more attention to supporting and guaranteeing people's livelihoods, to formulating and implementing income increase plans for urban and rural residents, to increasing the proportion of government investment in people's livelihoods, the Chinese government has always insisted on doing more practical things and more good things for the people, so that the masses have more tangible gains.

Looking back on the past, from the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," the original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the people and rejuvenation for the nation has never changed, and the "major affairs of the country" are based on the "concerns of the people." Chinese-style modernization is not an abstract concept, but an increase in residents' income, an optimization of the surrounding environment, a rising hope in the heart, and the warmth of 一枝一叶总关情 (yī zhī yī yè zǒng guān qíng - "every branch and leaf shows concern," showing care and concern for even the smallest things).

Looking ahead, from one year to five years, and then to the long-term goals for 2035, the annual goals are linked to the five-year plan, and the five-year plan serves the long-term goals. This strategic system of progressive and interlocking ensures that "a blueprint is drawn to the end."

"Dreaming of mountains and seas, one does not feel the distance; the road ahead is long, stride forward."

Unswervingly manage our own affairs well, move forward steadily step by step, and success will surely come. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unstoppable!

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KPIs in the Government Work Report

Economic growth of 4.5%-5%
Strive for better results in practical work.
This year's economic growth target is a "two-sentence goal," which comprehensively considers domestic and foreign factors, the present and the long-term, needs and possibilities. It fully grasps the positive and favorable factors of China's high-quality development in all aspects, conforms to China's reality, and is a goal that is "both achievable with effort and sustainable."
——Huang Qunhui (黄群慧), Member (Researcher at the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院经济研究所))
At a new starting point, maintaining reasonable economic growth can lay a good foundation for achieving strategic goals in the next five years or even longer, and can also effectively guide all regions and departments to focus more on improving the quality and efficiency of development.
——Sun Aijun (孙爱军), Deputy (Party Secretary and Director of the Shandong Provincial Development and Reform Commission (山东省发展改革委))

Urban surveyed unemployment rate around 5.5%
More than 12 million new urban jobs
It is necessary to consolidate the main responsibility of the platform, strictly implement the requirement of "**平台缴费、每单必保** (píngtái jiǎofèi, měi dān bì bǎo - "platform payment, every order must be insured," platforms must pay and ensure every order is insured)," and urge key platforms to pay occupational injury insurance funds for all workers.
——Xie Ru (谢茹), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委), Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (江西省政协副主席)
To expand employment, it is necessary to create platforms and opportunities for talents, but also to open up channels for the realization of talent value, sincerely cherish talents, carefully cultivate talents, wholeheartedly attract talents, and meticulously use talents, and support more innovative talents to become entrepreneurial talents.
——Lü Zhicheng (吕志成), Deputy (Mayor of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province (辽宁省沈阳市市长))
To solve the "skill bottleneck" of youth employment as a starting point, it is necessary to establish a supply-demand docking vocational skills training system, promote the connection between learning outcomes and vocational skills certification, and achieve training with direction and employment with a path.
——Yue Wei (岳伟), Member (Minister of the Youth Development Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee (共青团中央青年发展部部长))
At present, emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, humanoid robots, low-altitude economy, and silver economy are booming, creating a large number of jobs and are expected to cultivate more new employment growth points.
——Gao Huarui (高华瑞), Deputy (Human Resources Manager of Nanjing Kuaiyijie Household Service Co., Ltd. (南京快易洁家政服务有限公司))

Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Increase of about 2%
The target for the increase in the consumer price index is a pragmatic arrangement made by considering the relationship between supply and demand, macroeconomic policies, and people's livelihood guarantees. An increase of about 2% is in line with the actual economic operation and reflects the accuracy of macroeconomic regulation.
——Ma Jian (马健), Deputy (Party Secretary and Director of the Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission (河南省发展改革委))
The setting of this goal takes into account both expected guidance and realistic possibilities. On the one hand, it fits the basic fundamentals of price operation, which not only fits the actual recovery rhythm, but also reserves flexibility for demand recovery; on the other hand, it matches macroeconomic policies and avoids policy constraints caused by excessively high targets.
——Zhang Lianqi (张连起), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协常委), President of the China Association for Financial Management (中国企业财务管理协会会长)

Growth of residents' income is in sync with economic growth
It is necessary to increase the overall coordination of education, medical care, elderly care and other people's livelihood fields, expand the supply of high-quality public services, steadily increase the basic pension and medical insurance subsidy standards, reduce residents' living costs, and build a solid bottom-line guarantee network, so that the people have a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security.
——Wang Shaofeng (王少峰), Deputy (Secretary of the Fengtai District Committee of Beijing (北京市丰台区委书记))
We must continue to work hard in promoting high-quality and full employment, strengthening the training of skilled personnel, and increasing the intensity of redistribution adjustments, so that the development results shared by the people are more abundant and more tangible.
——Lu Ming (陆铭), Member (Professor of the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院教授))

Basic balance of payments
In order to maintain a basic balance of payments, it is necessary to promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of foreign trade, enhance new momentum for foreign trade development; innovate foreign trade development methods, promote the integration of trade and investment, and the integration of domestic and foreign trade, and continuously optimize resource allocation and industrial layout. Improve the level of international cooperation, open up diversified markets, and share China's development opportunities and dividends with all countries.
——Gu Xueming (顾学明), Member (Dean of the Institute for Opening and Innovation Development, Shenzhen University (深圳大学开放与创新发展研究院院长))

Grain output
Around 1.4 trillion catties
It is necessary to strictly abide by the 1.8 billion mu of arable land red line and continue to promote the construction of high-standard farmland to build a solid foundation for stable grain production and increased production; it is also necessary to coordinate production, storage and other policies to ensure that agricultural product prices remain at a reasonable level, so that farmers can make money from growing grain.
——Wang Chengzhe (王承哲), Deputy (Party Secretary and President of the Henan Academy of Social Sciences (河南省社会科学院党委书记、院长))
It is necessary to accelerate the selection and promotion of breakthrough varieties to ensure that Chinese grain is mainly grown with Chinese seeds; it is also necessary to provide systematic solutions to break the bottleneck of yield per unit area, focusing on promoting the integration and integrated efficiency of good fields, good seeds, good machines, and good methods.
——Nie Shoujun (聂守军), Deputy (Vice President of the Suihua Branch of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (黑龙江省农业科学院绥化分院副院长))

Carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP
Decrease by about 3.8%
The green transformation and development of resource-exhausted cities is a "must-answer question" that must be answered with innovation and practice. The comprehensive green transformation of resource-exhausted cities should be guided by the "dual carbon" goal to promote the flow of limited energy consumption and carbon emission indicators to high-energy efficiency and high-carbon efficiency industries and projects.
——Wan Zhengfeng (万正峰), Deputy (Secretary of the Puyang Municipal Committee of Henan Province (河南省濮阳市委书记))
Carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP comprehensively consider various needs such as economic and social development, green and low-carbon transformation, and national energy security, demonstrating China's firm determination to follow the path of ecological priority and green development.
——Yang Changli (杨长利), Member (Party Secretary and Chairman of China General Nuclear Power Group Co., Ltd. (中国广核集团有限公司党委书记、董事长))
Manufacturing companies should give full play to their role as innovation subjects, and strive to save energy and reduce carbon in the production and manufacturing links through technological innovation, and at the same time, give play to the industrial advantages of photovoltaics, wind energy, etc., and vigorously develop renewable energy.
——Zheng Yueming (郑月明), Deputy (Chairman of Lianhong New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (联泓新材料科技股份有限公司董事长))
It is necessary to continuously promote equipment upgrades and energy efficiency improvements in the industrial field, further improve the policy support system for energy conservation and carbon reduction, and guide companies to increase investment in green technology.
——Zhang Chunsheng (张春生), Deputy (Former Party Secretary of Jinling Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (金陵石油化工有限责任公司原党委书记))
(Reporters Wang Hao (王浩), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Shen Shaotie (申少铁), Yang Hao (杨昊), Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Han Xin (韩鑫), Song Fei (宋飞), Chang Qin (常钦), Zhang Wenhao (张文豪), Kou Jiangze (寇江泽), Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲), Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡) from this newspaper, and Li Xundian (李迅典), reporter from Global Times, compiled and interviewed)
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Turning the "blueprint" into a "real-life painting" through practical work and dedication

By: 王东辉

At the crucial juncture of the "15th Five-Year Plan" commencement, the direction and practical paths for economic and social development are attracting widespread attention.

This year's Government Work Report proposes that "the new situation and tasks place higher demands on the work of the government." Governments at all levels and their staff must "firmly establish and practice a correct view of performance, adhere to achieving performance for the people and through practical work, and consciously act in accordance with the laws."

Focusing on building a strong domestic market, accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new drivers, accelerating high-level self-reliance in science and technology, and continuously deepening reforms in key areas... The ten major tasks deployed in the Government Work Report this year include not only pragmatic measures to stabilize growth and benefit people's livelihoods, but also strategic blueprints to strengthen momentum and promote openness, as well as long-term considerations to safeguard the bottom line and ensure security. The lines reveal a people-centered development ideology, full of the spirit of the times of practical responsibility, pointing out the direction of progress, clarifying the path of practice, and injecting strong momentum for the development of the whole year.

Reform and innovation are the distinct background color of the ten major tasks and the inexhaustible driving force for promoting Chinese-style modernization.

Only reformers advance, only innovators are strong, and only reformers and innovators win. Reform is the "golden key" to solving development problems, and innovation is the primary driving force for leading development. Based on the overall development situation, the Government Work Report has deployed a series of reform measures in key areas, from formulating regulations for the construction of a unified national market to break down regional barriers, to deepening zero-based budgeting reform to improve the efficiency of fiscal funds; from promoting the reform of universities by category to stimulate educational vitality, to deepening the comprehensive reform pilot of factor market allocation to release development momentum. Every reform is precise and hits the key points. In terms of accelerating the cultivation and expansion of new drivers and accelerating high-level self-reliance in science and technology, the Government Work Report clearly proposes innovative measures such as expanding and improving the quality of the service industry, creating new forms of intelligent economy, and strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, so as to empower and increase the efficiency of development.

"Reform" and "innovation" have become high-frequency words and keywords in the Government Work Report, demonstrating the firm determination to break through the situation with reform and empower with innovation.

People's livelihood is paramount, and every branch and leaf is of concern. This is the unchanging value orientation of the ten major tasks and the consistent original intention of our party to govern for the people.

Grasping reform and promoting development are ultimately for the purpose of enabling people to live a better life. The Government Work Report places the guarantee and improvement of people's livelihood in a prominent position, and the measures deployed are precisely aligned with the urgent needs and expectations of the masses, demonstrating deep feelings for the people. From emphasizing that fiscal expenditure should pay more attention to supporting and guaranteeing people's livelihood, to formulating and implementing plans to increase the income of urban and rural residents; from increasing the proportion of government investment in people's livelihood, to focusing on solving outstanding problems in key areas of people's livelihood such as education, medical care, and elderly care, every measure is heart-warming and in line with public opinion, reflecting the people-centered development ideology, conveying the clear guidance to do more practical things and more good things for the people, so that the masses have more tangible gains, and making the construction of Chinese-style modernization always full of warmth and cohesive.

Pragmatic and operable are the distinct characteristics of the ten major tasks and the key to promoting the implementation of various deployments.

One-part deployment, nine-part implementation. Without paying attention to implementation, without earnestly grasping implementation, even the best plans and deployments will be reduced to castles in the air. The main tasks and policy measures deployed in the Government Work Report have been fully researched and demonstrated, based on the actual development of our country, taking into account needs and possibilities, both actively enterprising and down-to-earth, with both operability and feasibility. From establishing a special fund of 100 billion yuan for fiscal and financial coordination to promote domestic demand, precisely leveraging the growth of domestic demand; to increasing the standards of people's livelihood subsidies, continuously enhancing people's livelihood and well-being; and then to incorporating normalized assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, every measure is specific and practical, and the target is accurate. It is necessary to firmly establish and practice a correct view of performance, adhere to achieving performance for the people and through practical work, be down-to-earth, do practical work, and promote the implementation of various tasks with a pragmatic style.

The east wind is mighty and the eyes are full of spring, and it is the right time to forge ahead. The ten major tasks are not only a "task book" for high-quality development, but also a "construction map" for enhancing people's livelihood and well-being. The beautiful blueprint depicted in the Government Work Report can never be easily realized. Only by taking one step at a time and hammering one hammer after another, using practical work to solve problems, using practical work to promote development, and using practical work to create outstanding achievements, can we turn the "task book" into a "report card" and the "construction map" into a "real picture."

The opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" is of extraordinary significance and great responsibility. We must establish and practice a correct view of performance, settle down to grasp implementation, devote ourselves to solving problems, implement the ten key tasks in a down-to-earth manner with the spirit of nailing nails, achieve practical results, blaze new trails in high-quality development, show new achievements in serving the people, create new achievements in practical responsibility, and rush to the magnificent new journey of Chinese-style modernization with an昂扬姿态 昂扬姿态 (áng yáng zī tài - "spirited manner," high-spirited and vigorous attitude), and write a new chapter of development belonging to the new era with practical work.

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Ten Key Tasks of the Government's Work in 2026

Strive to Build a Strong Domestic Market

Consumption is a function of income, and boosting consumption hinges on increasing income and enhancing confidence. We must formulate and implement plans to increase the income of urban and rural residents. With fuller wallets, residents' confidence and assurance in consumption will inevitably be greater.
—Huang Yi (黄毅), Deputy (Chairman of Sichuan Tianfu Bank Co., Ltd. (四川天府银行股份有限公司董事长))

To make investment more effective, efforts should focus on optimizing government investment and guiding social investment. To stimulate private investment, we must remove the bottlenecks and obstacles that restrict it, making it willing, daring, and easy to invest.
—Wang Chunyuan (王椿元), Deputy (Party Secretary and Director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Finance (云南省财政厅党组书记、厅长))

Expanding domestic demand is a strategic move, and boosting consumption is of paramount importance. We should rely on the "Data Element ×" action and policy synergy, and through the "data credit enhancement + chain financing + consumption boost" model, stimulate new market vitality and tap new consumption potential.
—Han Minchun (韩民春), Member (Professor of the School of Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学经济学院教授))

Good policies can 四两拨千斤 (sì liǎng bō qiān jīn - "four ounces deflect a thousand pounds," to use minimal force to achieve maximum effect; leverage). The Government Work Report places "in-depth implementation of special actions to boost consumption" in an important position, providing solid policy support for expanding domestic demand and stimulating market vitality.
—Qi Xiangdong (齐向东), Member (Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, Chairman of Qi An Xin Technology Group (全国工商联副主席、奇安信科技集团董事长))

Accelerate the Cultivation and Growth of New Drivers of Growth

Technological innovation and industrial innovation must be deeply integrated. Technology companies must be rooted in the front lines of industry, embedding innovative achievements into the "capillaries" of the industrial chain, in order to promote the overall upgrading of the industry.
—Chen Wei (陈玮), Deputy (Chairman of Chongqing Yucun Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆誉存科技有限公司董事长))

Accelerate High-Level Self-Reliance and Self-Strengthening in Science and Technology

Technological innovation is the key support for cultivating and forming new quality productive forces in the aerospace field. China's aerospace field adheres to independent innovation, and the development of the Long March 10A (长征十号甲) reusable carrier rocket has made important progress, laying a solid foundation for subsequent industrialization.
—Rong Yi (容易), Member (Chief Designer of the Long March 2F (长征二号F) Carrier Rocket, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团有限公司一院))

Original innovation is the fundamental driving force of scientific and technological progress, and core technology is the key to breaking through development bottlenecks and ensuring national scientific and technological security. We must put original innovation in a prominent position and strive to produce more original and leading achievements.
—Wang Liang (王亮), Member (Researcher at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院自动化研究所研究员))

Continuously Deepen Reform in Key Areas

High-quality development requires fully stimulating the vitality of various business entities. At present, private investment is more inclined towards industries with high technological content, high technology density, and strong service attributes, converging into a joint force for industrial upgrading.
—Liu Yonghao (刘永好), Member (Chairman of New Hope Group Co., Ltd. (新希望集团有限公司董事长))

Further Expand High-Level Opening Up

Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important magic weapon for China's modernization construction to continuously achieve new achievements. Hainan (海南) will promote high-level opening up in a wider range and at a deeper level, releasing the integrated effects of policies through institutional opening up.
—Cai Qiang (蔡强), Deputy (Member of the Party Leadership Group and Secretary-General of the People's Government of Hainan Province (海南省人民政府党组成员、秘书长))

China's door to opening up will not be closed, it will only open wider and wider. We must make full use of policy support, continuously expand new spaces for international economic and trade cooperation, and jointly inject strong impetus into the realization of Chinese-style modernization and global economic recovery.
—Liu Jinsong (刘劲松), Member (Chairman of the Hebei Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade (河北省贸促会会长))

Solidly Promote the Comprehensive Revitalization of the Countryside

Only by incorporating regular assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy can we continuously consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation. We must implement this work requirement, maintain the overall stability of assistance policies, and firmly guard the bottom line against large-scale return to poverty.
—Zhang Wenming (张文明), Member (Professor at East China Normal University (华东师范大学教授))

Regular assistance is valuable for its precision. We must reasonably determine the identification standards for preventing the return to poverty and do a solid job in monitoring and identification. We must improve the accurate identification and rapid response mechanism to ensure early detection, early intervention, and early assistance.
—Zhu Xueliang (朱学良), Deputy (Secretary of the Lindian County Party Committee, Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省林甸县委书记))

Promote New Urbanization and Coordinated Regional Development

To promote the comprehensive revitalization of the Northeast, the foundation lies in the real economy, the key lies in technological innovation, and the direction is industrial upgrading. We must strengthen characteristic industries and embark on a new path of high-quality development and sustainable revitalization.
—Shi Yan (时燕), Member (Vice Mayor of Dandong City, Liaoning Province (辽宁省丹东市副市长))

Guarantee and Improve People's Livelihood with Greater Efforts

Education prospers, then the country prospers. We must develop characteristic courses oriented to the development needs of the western region, share high-quality teachers and curriculum systems from the eastern region to the western region, and gather stronger forces for coordinated development.
—Guo Jinping (郭金萍), Deputy (Senior Teacher at the Second Boarding Junior High School in Menyuan County, Haibei Prefecture, Qinghai Province (青海省海北州门源县第二寄宿制初级中学高级教师))

Actively embrace change in order to turn challenges into opportunities. It is recommended to design incentive and support policies covering the entire career, and accelerate the construction of a lifelong vocational skills training system that is dynamically adapted to new quality productive forces.
—Zhong Yanmin (种衍民), Deputy (President of TBEA Co., Ltd. (特变电工股份有限公司总裁))

To actively respond to the aging of the population, we must expand the supply of inclusive elderly care services. It is recommended to base ourselves on the actual situation of plateau ethnic areas, make up for the shortcomings in rural elderly care services, and continuously enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security of rural elderly people.
—Gexi Wangmu (格西王姆), Deputy (Director of the Nursing Home in Barkam City, Sichuan Province (四川省马尔康市养护院院长))

Digital technology is the key to solving structural contradictions in employment. It is recommended to rely on new technologies such as big data to build an integrated smart employment service platform, use digital technology to improve matching accuracy, and help college students achieve high-quality and full employment.
—Cheng Lifen (程丽芬), Deputy (Chairman of the Nanchang Municipal Committee of the China Democratic League (民盟南昌市委会主委))

Accelerate the Promotion of Comprehensive Green Transformation

Green development is the underlying color of high-quality development. To achieve the "dual carbon" goals, the industrial sector needs to take the lead. The steel industry must do this "must-answer question," adhere to both ecological restoration and technological innovation, and accelerate green transformation.
—Tan Chengxu (谭成旭), Deputy (Party Secretary and Chairman of Angang Group Co., Ltd. (鞍钢集团有限公司党委书记、董事长))

Strengthen Risk Prevention and Resolution and Security Capacity Building in Key Areas

Only with a stable home can people work happily. It is recommended to promote the transformation of idle non-residential spaces by providing renovation subsidies, tax reductions, and exemptions; revitalize guaranteed rental housing projects in remote suburban areas by entrusting market-oriented professional institutions to operate them and adding transportation, commercial, and other facilities, so as to better meet the rental needs of key urban groups.
—Chen Xia (陈霞), Member (Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社科院哲学研究所研究员))

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Understanding China's "Long-Termism"

By: 尹双红

During the Two Sessions (全国两会), representatives and committee members enthusiastically discussed the draft of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The world is paying attention to this "opportunity list" and also focusing on the unique Chinese experience—governing the country through planning.

From each Five-Year Plan (Five-Year Plan (计划)), from the draft of the National Development Planning Law under deliberation at the conference, and from the continuous efforts of "drawing a blueprint to the end," the world can understand China's "long-termism."

China's "long-termism" is reflected in taking the original aspiration as the guiding direction.

The once-isolated mountain village has now become a "Best Tourism Village." Shibadong Village (十八洞村) in Huayuan County (花垣县), Hunan (湖南) Province, has taken on a new look. A foreign friend exclaimed, "If you don't understand its past, you might think it was originally a pastoral tourist destination. In fact, this is a major achievement in the coordinated promotion of economic, commercial, social, and infrastructure construction."

From 8 years of tackling poverty, 5 years of consolidation, to regularized precision poverty alleviation and comprehensive rural revitalization, the development miracle of tremendous changes in mountain villages has been realized through continuous efforts.

Upholding the original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the people and rejuvenation for the nation, from the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "14th Five-Year Plan," our Party draws a blueprint to the end, without retreating due to difficulties or wavering due to challenges.

The Five-Year Plan has become a prominent advantage of "Chinese governance," and the core secret lies in the leadership of the Party. In the resonance between macro planning and people's expectations, institutional advantages are better transformed into development advantages.

China's "long-termism" is reflected in seeking long-term development with determination.

Our understanding of time is measured in centuries and millennia.

When talking about why China's new energy industry can rise rapidly, Zeng Yuqun (曾毓群), a member from CATL (宁德时代), said, "For more than 20 years, the country has continuously introduced policies to encourage the development of renewable energy." With a long-term vision and advanced layout, and with the new national system pooling wisdom and strength, we have accomplished major and important tasks.

Ecological civilization construction has been a long-term endeavor. The green Great Wall in the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠) locks in the yellow sand, and green electricity from Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) crosses mountains and seas to light up the lights of every household on Hainan Island (海南岛). Synergistic promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth is underway.

Investment in the construction of a strong science and technology country continues. From approximately 49.9 billion yuan in China's basic research funding in 2012 to nearly 280 billion yuan in 2025, with continuous and high-intensity support, achievements such as artificial intelligence large models, quantum technology, and commercial aerospace continue to emerge, driving the cultivation and growth of "new" momentum.

Before breaking ground, bamboo has already taken root and grown underground for 4 years. Grasping what we are doing now with a sense of historical depth, not only focusing on immediate needs, but also committing to laying the foundation and benefiting the long term, Chinese-style modernization is advancing steadily.

China's "long-termism" is reflected in clarifying the path with strategies.

No great undertaking can be accomplished in one battle. Decomposing long-term goals into specific tasks that are phased, implementable, and verifiable, planning before acting, and being good at achieving success are not only methods for overcoming difficulties but also the wisdom for steady and long-term progress.

The millennial city is growing vigorously. Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) plans every inch of land clearly before starting construction. From the legend of flying to the moon to the legend of embracing the moon, the lunar exploration project steadily takes every step of "orbiting, landing, and returning."

How to coordinate the present and the long term? How to connect the broad and the subtle? "**操其要于上，而分其详于下**" (cāo qí yào yú shàng, ér fēn qí xiáng yú xià - "Grasp the key points at the top and divide the details below," to grasp the essentials and delegate the details) is an important method. Organically combining the steadfastness of strategy and the flexibility of tactics, drawing a "roadmap" and listing a "timetable" around the "task book," five years is the scale of time and the pace of development. Five years after five years, small steps accumulate into a vast landscape!

China's "long-termism" is reflected in accomplishing great things through execution.

The vitality of planning lies in implementation, and the key to implementation lies in adapting to local conditions.

In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," various regions and departments are planning and promoting, calculating input-output accounts, and improving adaptability. Behind adaptability lies the laws of development and local realities.

The Gobi Desert (戈壁) in Xinjiang (新疆) has become an energy oasis, Shaanxi (陕西) has transformed from an inland hinterland into an open frontier, and Guizhou (贵州) has risen as a computing power highland... It is precisely because various regions have accurately identified their position in the overall national situation, learned from each other's strengths, and avoided weaknesses that today's China has achieved a vibrant atmosphere of a hundred rivers flowing, a thousand sails racing, and a great river surging.

With planning and strategies, it is also necessary to combine practical and creative implementation, and to work hard and gain experience in studying new situations and solving new problems.

The further we go, the more unknown areas there are, with no mature experience to learn from and no ready-made answers to copy. Various regions and departments boldly explore in cutting-edge practices and unknown fields, overcoming difficulties, fighting risks, and meeting challenges with a spirit of historical initiative, so that planning can truly take root and grow into a lush forest. The road may be tortuous, but the future is bright.

It is often mentioned that China has the magic of turning "impossible" into "definitely possible." If there must be magic, perhaps it lies in the planning power of deep thinking and long-term consideration, and the execution power of where the will goes, no distance is too far. From this, we can better understand why the great rejuvenation is "unstoppable."

The "15th Five-Year Plan" is slowly unfolding. Firmly doing our own things and following our own path, the world will continue to witness a country's firm pace forward.

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Major Goals for Economic and Social Development During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period

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Major Economic and Social Development Indicators for the "15th Five-Year Plan" Period

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Good Voices from the Two Sessions: Discussing the "15th Five-Year Plan"

In the past, we competed on resources; now, we compete on innovation.
In the past, we competed on resources and investment; now, we must compete on innovation and efficiency. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must strive to break down barriers, smooth circulation, seek impetus from reform, promote the transformation of production factors from "physical combination" to "chemical reaction," and turn "dormant data" into "flowing capital."
——Li Chuntian (李春田) Delegate (Mayor of Binzhou (滨州市), Shandong Province (山东省))

Unblock bottlenecks, unafraid of thousand-meter water depths.
Relying on digital and intelligent transformation, our product and process design efficiency has increased by 30%. We have independently developed submarine cable products, breaking through key technological bottlenecks such as thousand-meter water depths, to better ensure the efficient and stable grid connection of offshore wind power. We must focus on cutting-edge technologies, focus on unblocking bottlenecks, promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and continuously improve the transformation and industrialization level of scientific and technological achievements.
——Xue Jiping (薛济萍) Delegate (Party Secretary and Chairman of Zhongtian Technology Group (中天科技集团))

Science fiction becomes reality; "what you think" can "come true."
With brain-computer interface technology, amputees can write calligraphy with a pen, and patients with high paraplegia can control wheelchairs to go downstairs for a walk. Science fiction is becoming reality, and "what you think" is "coming true." In the future, we must systematically exert efforts from three levels: infrastructure, scientific research organization, and talent ecology, to open up the evolution channel from technology to industry, and promote the key leap of future industries such as brain-computer interfaces from "bookshelves" to "shelves."
——Ming Dong (明东) Member (Vice President of Tianjin University (天津大学))

Equipping "China's Tianyan (中国天眼)" with "high-definition pixels."
We are promoting the construction of a mixed-aperture radio interferometric array centered on giant telescopes and surrounded by medium-sized telescopes to equip "China's Tianyan (中国天眼)" with "high-definition pixels." We will continue to take root in the deep mountains, look up at the stars, safeguard the leading position of "China's Tianyan (中国天眼)" with technological innovation, continuously produce breakthrough and leading scientific and technological achievements, and play a greater role in achieving high-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology.
——Jiang Peng (姜鹏) Delegate (Director and Chief Engineer of the "China's Tianyan (中国天眼)" Operation and Development Center)

Deeply cultivate "micro-reforms" to cultivate "large soil."
Deeply cultivating "micro-reform" small incisions will make the "large soil" of the business environment more solid. We must adhere to the combination of an effective market and a promising government, and focus on solving the subtle pain points and high-frequency demands in the production and operation of enterprises. By regularly sorting out "micro-reform" matters and promoting solutions, we can unblock institutional bottlenecks, optimize the business environment with normalized "micro-reforms," and enhance the sense of gain for various business entities.
——Gong Mingzhu (龚明珠) Delegate (Party Secretary and Director of the Development and Reform Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区发展和改革委员会))

We must not only go out but also go steadily.
We promote reform and development through opening up, give play to our advantages in jointly building the "Belt and Road (一带一路)," rely on the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列), deepen industrial collaboration, and drive the development of logistics, trade, and industry. At the same time, we must improve foreign-related legal services, carry out special training on compliance and intellectual property rights, provide full-chain legal protection, help enterprises actively "go out," and strive to "go steadily."
——Jia Zhenglan (贾正兰) Member (Chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade (陕西省贸促会))

We must both "break the circle" and "take root."
Cultural innovation must adhere to "walking on two legs": one is to achieve "breaking the circle" by leveraging new technologies, and the other is to settle down and deeply cultivate to achieve "taking root." Only with perseverance can we produce high-quality products. Regarding the development of new mass literature and art, it is recommended to combine guidance and regulation. On the one hand, we should set up regulations in advance, clarify the bottom line, and prevent the proliferation of vulgar content; on the other hand, we should strengthen evaluation and incentive and industry self-discipline to ensure that cultural innovation moves steadily and far on a healthy track.
——Teng Zhenfu (滕贞甫) Member (Member of the Presidium of the Chinese Writers Association (中国作家协会))

"Two-way rush" with common emotional symbols.
The international communication of Chinese literature and art should not be limited to "telling Chinese stories in international languages," but also learn to "tell world stories in Chinese languages," find common emotional symbols of mankind, and shift from "talking to oneself" to "two-way rush." To address the problem of fragmented communication, it is recommended to systematically construct a visual symbol system of Chinese culture to enhance the international influence of Chinese civilization.
——Shu Yong (舒勇) Member (Vice President of the China Democratic Progressive Central Committee Kaiming Painting Academy (民进中央开明画院))

High-quality medical care escorts grassroots health.
In the past, grassroots people had to run to the city to see major diseases. Now, by strengthening basic medical and health services and increasing the subsidy standard for residents' medical insurance, the medical needs of grassroots people are guaranteed. To enable residents to enjoy better medical services, we must promote the simultaneous efforts of the "ballast stone" role of public hospitals and the "living water pool" role of private hospitals, encourage more social forces to participate in medical assistance, and jointly escort grassroots health.
——Huang Hai (黄海) Delegate (President of Jilin Heart Hospital (吉林心脏病医院))

Industrial support to care for "the elderly and the young."
"The elderly and the young" are related to thousands of families. We must not only empower grassroots governance with digitalization, build a grid management system, and regularly visit and care for elderly people living alone, etc., and focus on solving urgent and difficult problems, but also build an industrial "hard support" for accurate services, increase support for rural industrial development, and provide a material foundation for popularizing elderly care service centers and inclusive kindergartens in rural areas.
——Ran Hui (冉慧) Delegate (Party Branch Secretary of Tianshanbao Village (天山堡村), Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (酉阳土家族苗族自治县), Chongqing (重庆))

Protecting a lake of clear water, showing the smile of the finless porpoise.
In recent years, through wetland restoration and biodiversity protection, the natural population of finless porpoises has shown a restorative growth, and the quantity and quality of rare populations of migratory birds have increased simultaneously. We must deepen the comprehensive management of the entire basin of "five rivers, two banks, one lake, and one river." Taking Poyang Lake (鄱阳湖) as an example, it is recommended to focus on the total phosphorus pollution control of Poyang Lake (鄱阳湖), strengthen the prevention and control of agriculture, industry, life, and mobile "four sources," and comprehensively and systematically promote the protection of the water ecological environment.
——Zheng Haijin (郑海金) Delegate (Director of the Soil and Water Conservation Research Institute of the Jiangxi Academy of Water Sciences (江西省水利科学院))

Be a "guardian" of green waters and green mountains.
To depict the green ecological picture of the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must not only be a "guardian" of green waters and green mountains, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, protect wetlands, and build a solid ecological barrier; but also be a "cultivator" of golden mountains and silver mountains, create a pillar industry of forest product processing and paper industry, implement "artificial intelligence + forestry," and explore effective ways to realize the transformation of ecological value.
——Cai Zhongping (蔡中平) Member (Party Secretary and Director of the Forestry Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区林业局))

Injecting "hardcore" increments into food security.
How to cross the new level of annual grain output of about 1.45 trillion catties? In the long run, the real challenge we face is the issue of core germplasm resources. We should rely on unique resource advantages, open up the technical chain from gene mining to seed application, firmly hold the seeds in our own hands, and use the independent control of core technologies to inject "hardcore" increments into achieving this production capacity goal.
——Chen Yuhui (陈宇辉) Delegate (Party Secretary and President of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (黑龙江省农业科学院))

Wind and solar green electricity guarantees energy security.
China's economy continues to pick up and improve, driving a rigid increase in energy demand, and it is difficult to sustain it by relying solely on traditional models. At present, while giving play to the "backstop" role of coal, we must focus on tackling key core technologies in the energy field, vigorously explore the potential of wind and solar power generation, and develop green energy such as hydrogen energy. We must leap from traditional mining to the deep integration of digital technology and smart energy, and build a new energy system with multi-energy complementarity with new quality productive forces.
——Zhang Guoqiang (张国强) Delegate (Chairman of Yihuatong Power Technology Co., Ltd. (亿华通动力科技有限公司))

(Reported by Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Li Rui (李蕊), Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Jin Bo (靳博), Zhao Yajiao (赵雅娇), Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊), Cheng Hong (程红), Chang Qin (常钦), Jiang Runnan (江润楠), Men Jiewei (门杰伟), Li Junqiang (李君强), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳琪), Zhu Dawei (祝大伟), and Yang Xiaoyu (杨笑雨), reporters of this newspaper)

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Environmental Code Safeguards Beautiful China

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Compile an ecological and environmental code that can withstand the test of history and practice.

By: 本报记者 彭 波

On March 5th, the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) heard a statement by Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会), regarding the draft Ecological Environment Code. The Ecological Environment Code is China's second law named "Code," and will further consolidate the legal foundation for achieving modernization with harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.

Why was the ecological environment field chosen to compile China's second code? How should we understand the moderately codified compilation model of the Ecological Environment Code? How is public opinion reflected in the Ecological Environment Code? In response to these questions of concern to readers, the reporter interviewed Huang Wei (黄薇), Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会法制工作委员会) and the person in charge of the special working group for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code.

The innovative development of ecological civilization construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) has laid a solid foundation for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code in terms of theory, practice, legal system, and social consensus.

Reporter: After the Civil Code, why was the ecological environment field chosen for the compilation of the second code?

Huang Wei: The compilation of the Ecological Environment Code is a major legislative task proposed by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届三中全会) and a major deployment of legal construction made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core. This code is China's second law named "Code" after the Civil Code. It is of great and far-reaching significance for implementing Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, promoting the construction of ecological civilization in the new era on the track of the rule of law, comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China (美丽中国), accelerating the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and realizing the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

The innovative development of ecological civilization construction over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), has made the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code possible with relatively mature conditions and a solid foundation.

First, at the theoretical level, the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization is the theoretical basis for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has taken the construction of ecological civilization as a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation, and has carried out a series of pioneering works. The determination, intensity, and effectiveness have been unprecedented. Historic, transformative, and comprehensive changes have taken place in ecological civilization construction from theory to practice. In the magnificent practice of ecological civilization construction, Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization has been formed, becoming an important part of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era. Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization is the theoretical sublimation and practical crystallization of our party's unremitting exploration of ecological civilization construction. It is a major achievement of combining the basic principles of Marxism with the practice of ecological civilization construction in China and with China's outstanding traditional culture, providing fundamental guidelines and action plans for promoting ecological civilization construction in the new era.

Second, at the practical level, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, China's ecological civilization construction has achieved remarkable achievements in pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, and green and low-carbon development. Significant progress has been made in the construction of a beautiful China (美丽中国), laying a solid practical foundation for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code and accumulating valuable experience.

Third, at the legal system level, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会党组) has attached great importance to legislation in the field of ecological environment. Major achievements have been made in the construction of the ecological environment legal system. New laws have been formulated, including the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Law (土壤污染防治法), the Yangtze River Protection Law (长江保护法), the Wetland Protection Law (湿地保护法), the Noise Pollution Prevention and Control Law (噪声污染防治法), the Yellow River Protection Law (黄河保护法), the Black Soil Protection Law (黑土地保护法), and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law (青藏高原生态保护法). At the same time, laws such as the Environmental Protection Law (环境保护法), the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law (大气污染防治法), the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law (水污染防治法), the Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste (固体废物污染环境防治法), the Forest Law (森林法), the Wildlife Protection Law (野生动物保护法), and the Marine Environmental Protection Law (海洋环境保护法) have been revised. At present, there are more than 30 currently effective laws in the field of ecological environment, as well as more than 100 administrative regulations, more than 1,000 local regulations, and related judicial interpretations and rules and regulations, which not only provide legal guarantees for promoting ecological civilization construction, but also provide a solid legal foundation for compiling the Ecological Environment Code.

Fourth, at the level of social consensus, the concept of protecting the ecological environment and that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains," environmental protection and economic development are mutually reinforcing) has taken root in people's hearts and become a broad consensus of the whole society. The people have an increasingly urgent demand for a good ecological environment and hope to protect the ecological environment with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law, achieve the "dual carbon" goals, and promote green and low-carbon development, thereby laying a broad social foundation for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code.

Classify into three categories, and systematically integrate, compile, and sublimate the existing ecological environment legal system, mechanisms, rules, and norms in a codified legislative manner.

Reporter: The Ecological Environment Code is constructed in a moderately codified model, integrating existing ecological environment laws and highlighting systematic protection. How should we understand the moderately codified model?

Huang Wei: There are more than 30 currently effective laws in the field of ecological environment. How to systematically integrate and compile these laws? After extensively listening to opinions from all parties and comprehensively considering the ecological environment legal system, the current situation of theoretical research, and the situation of work practice, the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code adopted a moderately codified model. This model does not mean that all laws in the field of ecological environment should be included, but rather that different situations should be handled separately: The first category is that the current Environmental Protection Law (环境保护法), Environmental Impact Assessment Law (环境影响评价法), Cleaner Production Promotion Law (清洁生产促进法), Marine Environmental Protection Law (海洋环境保护法), Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law (大气污染防治法), Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law (水污染防治法), Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Law (土壤污染防治法), Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste (固体废物污染环境防治法), Noise Pollution Prevention and Control Law (噪声污染防治法), and Radioactive Pollution Prevention and Control Law (放射性污染防治法) and other 10 laws will be compiled and included in the Ecological Environment Code. After the promulgation of the Code, the above laws will no longer be retained. The second category is that the current legal system norms related to ecological elements and ecosystems such as river basins, regions, natural resources, and biodiversity, as well as circular economy, energy conservation, and green and low-carbon transformation, will be selected and incorporated into the Ecological Environment Code. The current laws in these areas mainly include the Forest Law (森林法), the Grassland Law (草原法), the Yangtze River Protection Law (长江保护法), the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Ecological Protection Law (青藏高原生态保护法), the National Park Law (国家公园法), the Energy Law (能源法), the Energy Conservation Law (节约能源法) and other more than 20 laws. These laws will continue to be retained after the promulgation of the Ecological Environment Code. The third category is to consider the legal needs in response to climate change, carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and green and low-carbon development, and to make some principled and leading provisions to determine principles, lay the foundation, and leave room for the construction and practical development of relevant laws and regulations in China in the future.

The moderately codified compilation model ensures the wide coverage of the Code, highlighting the characteristics of systematically integrating, compiling, and sublimating China's existing ecological environment legal system, mechanisms, rules, and norms through codified legislation, while avoiding excessive complexity, and at the same time reserving space for the legal system in the fields of ecological protection and green and low-carbon development to be further improved based on practical development in accordance with the principles and spirit of the Code.

Extensively listen to opinions from all parties, continuously build legislative consensus, and many opinions and suggestions from the public and grassroots legislative liaison points have been absorbed and adopted.

Reporter: Through what forms does the draft Ecological Environment Code widely solicit opinions from all parties and practice whole-process people's democracy?

Huang Wei: The draft Ecological Environment Code, from its formation to its continuous improvement, is a process of continuously gathering the wisdom of all parties and building consensus. In the process of compiling the Ecological Environment Code, opinions from all parties were widely solicited through various means. First, the draft was distributed to relevant departments of the Central Government, provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), some cities divided into districts, grassroots legislative liaison points, academic research institutions, etc. to solicit opinions. Second, after each deliberation by the Standing Committee, the opinions of deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) were solicited through the deputies' work platform. Third, after each deliberation by the Standing Committee, the draft was published on the website of the National People's Congress (中国人大网) to solicit public opinions. A total of more than 20,000 opinions from more than 7,000 people were received in four public solicitations. Fourth, legislative research was conducted in more than 30 places to listen to opinions and suggestions. Fifth, 17 special symposiums were organized in Beijing on key and difficult issues to listen to the opinions and suggestions of deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) and relevant parties such as relevant departments of the Central Government, enterprises and social organizations, and experts and scholars.

In the process of compiling the Code, the special working group for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code attached great importance to the opinions put forward by the people, carefully studied the opinions and suggestions put forward by the public, and many opinions were absorbed and adopted. For example, according to the opinions of the public, the duties of courts and procuratorates in ecological environment protection were further supplemented and improved in the general provisions to further summarize and reflect the achievements of judicial practice; in the pollution prevention and control section, the content of improving the quality of the ecological environment and protecting public health was added, requiring the government to be more scientific and precise in the organization and management of straw, fallen leaves, and other burning and to strengthen relevant guidance; in the ecological protection section, the relationship with relevant separate laws was properly handled, and provisions were added to allow seasonal differentiated control measures to be implemented in nature reserves; in the green and low-carbon development section, general provisions were further integrated and refined, relevant provisions on energy conservation and green and low-carbon transformation and the institutional design for addressing climate change were improved; in the legal responsibility and supplementary provisions section, the principle of proportionality between offenses and penalties was further implemented, the coordination of legal responsibilities for similar illegal acts was enhanced, and relevant legal responsibilities for the ecological protection section and the green and low-carbon development section were supplemented.

The working group attached great importance to giving full play to the role of the grassroots legislative liaison points of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委) as "legislative direct trains," sent letters to solicit opinions from the grassroots legislative liaison points, and specially went to Hanzhong (汉中) in Shaanxi (陕西), Golmud (格尔木) in Qinghai (青海), Anji (安吉) and Lishui (丽水) in Zhejiang (浙江), Hudiayu孜 (胡地亚于孜) and Kuqa (库车) in Xinjiang (新疆), Dali (大理) in Yunnan (云南), Kunshan (昆山) in Jiangsu (江苏), Jingdezhen (景德镇) in Jiangxi (江西), Dalian People's Square (大连人民广场) in Liaoning (辽宁) and other grassroots legislative liaison points to conduct legislative research and listen to opinions. The grassroots legislative liaison points put forward many constructive opinions and suggestions on the draft Ecological Environment Code and the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code, which were adopted. For example, the grassroots legislative liaison points in Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江) and Nansha (南沙), Guangdong (广东) suggested that the list of key controlled new pollutants should be adjusted in a timely manner, and this opinion was adopted after research, and corresponding amendments were made to the draft; the grassroots legislative liaison point in Jingdezhen (景德镇), Jiangxi (江西) suggested that the types of green and low-carbon industries should be listed in the green and low-carbon development section, and this opinion was adopted after research; the grassroots legislative liaison points in Jianghai (江海), Guangdong (广东), Fuping (富平), Shaanxi (陕西), Susong (宿松), Anhui (安徽), and Fuling (涪陵), Chongqing (重庆) put forward many constructive opinions on implementing the principle of proportionality between offenses and penalties, which were also adopted.

In the process of compiling the Ecological Environment Code, the legislative body extensively listened to opinions from all parties and continuously built legislative consensus, which is a vivid practice of implementing Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law and practicing whole-process people's democracy.

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Decoding the "Green Narrative" from the Ecological and Environmental Code (Two Sessions Quick Commentary)

By: 盛玉雷

Understanding the Ecological and Environmental Code: Two News Stories About Trees Offer Inspiration.

One is "Guarding the Tree of Life." The popular TV series "Tree of Life" has allowed more people to see the ecological stories of the Sanjiangyuan (三江源). The other is "Growing a Technology Tree." Nagqu (那曲), Tibet (西藏), once known as "the only city in the country without trees," broke through the technical bottleneck of afforestation on the plateau during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and now has trees and forests.

"To make the motherland more verdant and vibrant." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) exhortation has been transformed into the metamorphosis of the vast landscape.

The Ecological and Environmental Code is the second law in China named with the term "Code." It codifies the theories, systems, and practical achievements of ecological civilization construction in the new era. From it, we can more deeply understand the General Secretary's people-centered feelings and better understand the "green narrative" of building a beautiful China.

There is concern in the "green ledger" that a good ecological environment is the most inclusive benefit for the people's livelihood.

Calculating the ecological account is calculating the people's livelihood account. From "hoping for blue skies" to "photographing blue skies" and then to "showing off blue skies"... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's GDP has more than doubled, and the average concentration of PM2.5 has decreased by 59%.

Promoting the construction of ecological civilization is ultimately to create benefits for the people, solve the prominent environmental problems that the people strongly reflect, provide more high-quality ecological products, and enable the people to live a high-quality life. This makes it easier to understand that the "national event" of compiling the code focuses on solving the problems of oil fumes and noise "at the doorstep" of the common people, and writes "protecting public health and ecological environment rights" in the first article of the general provisions.

Resilience is shown in the "green miracle," with one generation following another, advancing wave upon wave.

The breadth, difficulty, and determination of ecological civilization construction in the new era are remarkable to the world. From the "six old men" of the Babusha Forest Farm (八步沙林场) in Gansu (甘肃) to the lookout at Wanghailou (望海楼) in the Saihanba Forest Farm (塞罕坝林场), year after year, day after day, what is being continued is the cause, what is being written is the spirit, and behind it is the historical patience to draw a blueprint to the end.

Compiling the Ecological and Environmental Code, the rule of law escorts the construction of a beautiful China.

Responsibility is borne on the "green foundation," "worthy of our ancestors and descendants."

The Ecological and Environmental Code is not only an integrated optimization of the past, but also reflects forward-looking thinking about the future. Adhering to problem orientation, focusing on the prevention and control of pollution in new fields such as chemical substances, electromagnetic radiation, and light, the coverage is wider and the pertinence is stronger; reflecting systematic thinking, a separate section on green and low-carbon development is set up to address threats such as climate change, reflecting timeliness and forward-lookingness.

Promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development is a key link to achieving high-quality development. The Ecological and Environmental Code is planning development from the height of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, supporting high-quality development with high-level protection, and promoting high-level protection with high-quality development.

Planning for the present and planning for the long term, the law protects the mountains and rivers, and the code benefits thousands of years.

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Timeline of Environmental and Ecological Legislation Codification

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Editors of this page: Chen Juan, He Yuche, Zhang Yifu, Dong Zeyang, Shi Yu

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Good laws protect unity; with one heart, we revitalize China.

By: 李昌禹

The spring breeze caresses the face, and all things are renewed. At the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress, the draft law on promoting ethnic unity and progress was submitted for deliberation, becoming one of the "main focuses" of this year's Two Sessions. This important law, which carries the common expectations of all ethnic groups, concretizes the vivid metaphor of "holding together tightly like pomegranate seeds" into legal provisions, and consolidates the foundation of the rule of law for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, which is of great significance and far-reaching impact.

The sense of community of the Chinese nation is the foundation of ethnic unity. The Chinese nation has a civilization history of more than 5,000 years. The history of China is a history of the integration of all ethnic groups into a unified Chinese nation, and a history of all ethnic groups jointly creating, developing, and consolidating the great unified motherland. From the historical return of the Torghut people from thousands of miles away to the east, to the resounding oath of "one heart and one mind, unity to the end" on the ethnic unity oath monument in Pu'er (普洱), Yunnan (云南), the feelings for the country and the family have always been the spiritual code deep in the blood of the Chinese nation. To fix these valuable spiritual assets through legal forms is to deeply root the concept of a community with a shared future for all ethnic groups, sharing weal and woe, honor and disgrace, life and death, and destiny.

Consolidating the foundation with law, and laying a solid legal foundation for promoting the construction of the Chinese national community. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has taken forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main theme of the Party's ethnic work and various tasks in ethnic areas in the new era, and has promoted the cause of ethnic unity and progress to achieve historic achievements. The purpose of formulating this law is to "transform the major theoretical and practical achievements made by the Party in ethnic work into the will of the state through national legislation, improve the institutional mechanism for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, and further enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation." This positioning profoundly reveals the epochal significance of the legislation.

Building the foundation with law to improve the effectiveness of ethnic affairs governance. The formulation of the law on promoting ethnic unity and progress is an objective requirement for implementing the overall strategy of governing the country according to law and promoting the modernization of the ethnic affairs governance system and governance capacity on the track of the rule of law. The law guarantees the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic groups, regulates rights and obligations, clarifies the boundaries of responsibilities, and is connected and matched with the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy to improve the legal and regulatory system for ethnic work with Chinese characteristics. With the rule of law as a guarantee, the governance of ethnic affairs will be more regulated and law-based, so that governance effectiveness can be transformed into unity momentum and development potential.

Gathering strength with law to pave the way for common prosperity and development. In recent years, people of all ethnic groups have been close to each other like family and helped each other on the road to common prosperity, creating the "Minning Model" of east-west paired poverty alleviation cooperation, and deducing the deeply moving "Shan Hai Qing" (山海情), leaving countless moving stories in paired assistance to Tibet (西藏) and Xinjiang (新疆), vividly interpreting the warmth of the Chinese national family. Practice has repeatedly confirmed that without the joint unity and struggle of all ethnic groups, there would be no Chinese-style modernization today. The draft clearly supports ethnic areas to accelerate their integration into the overall national development, which is precisely to allow the fruits of development to benefit the people of all ethnic groups more and more fairly, and to make the road to common prosperity wider and wider.

The Chinese nation is one family, and we work together to build the Chinese dream. The formulation of the law on promoting ethnic unity and progress will surely become a "happy convention" for people of all ethnic groups to live, study, build, share, and enjoy life together. Standing at a new historical starting point, safeguarding unity with the rule of law and creating the future with struggle, the 56 ethnic groups will work together to write a more brilliant new chapter of unity and progress on the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!

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Understanding the Draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress

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Everyone's Talking About It

National unity is the lifeline of all ethnic groups. The draft law on promoting ethnic unity and progress elevates the Party's successful experiences in advancing the construction of the Chinese nation's community and the cause of ethnic unity and progress into legal provisions. By transforming the Party's significant theoretical and practical achievements in ethnic work into national will through national legislation, it will help further enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation.
——Representative Feng Fan (冯帆) (Director of Grandall Law Firm (Nanchang) (国浩律师（南昌）事务所))

With a solid legal guarantee, we can forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and advance its construction. As a member of the Lahu ethnic group and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), I am more confident in my work and entrepreneurship and have more confidence in future development.
——Member Huang Wei (黄玮) (Full-time Deputy Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, Pu'er Municipal Committee (民建云南省普洱市委会专职副主委))

Elevating "forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation" from a policy requirement to a legal provision provides an important guideline for doing a good job in ethnic areas in the new era. I am on the front line of ethnic work at the grassroots level, and I must play a better role as a bridge for ethnic unity as one family.
——Representative Lei Yanqin (雷燕琴) (Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhangping She Ethnic Township, Guixi City, Jiangxi Province (江西省贵溪市樟坪畲族乡党委书记))

Like Tea and Salt, Never Separated

I come from a Daur family, and the Inner Mongolia University (内蒙古大学) where I work and live is a large family composed of teachers and students of various ethnic groups. Everyone is as close as a family, united and helping each other. The Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress will provide a strong impetus and solid guarantee for promoting mutual assistance among the people of all ethnic groups and the high-quality development of ethnic border areas.
——Member E Xiaomei (鄂晓梅) (Professor, School of Law, Inner Mongolia University (内蒙古大学法学院))

I have been rooted in the plateau for a long time and have a personal understanding of ethnic unity and cultural integration. We must adhere to the equal emphasis on cultural inheritance and integration, both protecting the excellent cultures of all ethnic groups and promoting the construction of a common spiritual home. I believe that this law will allow all ethnic groups to be like tea and salt, never separated, and make the foundation of the Chinese nation's community stronger.
——Representative Baima Cuo (白玛措) (Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences (西藏自治区社会科学院民族研究所))

I was born in a Manchu family, left my hometown to study in Jilin as a teenager, then went south to Guangzhou, Guangdong, and finally settled in Wenzhou, Zhejiang. The description of blood ties in the preamble of the draft Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is a concrete picture of teachers and students of different ethnic groups in my surroundings being as close as brothers and sisters on campus, growing up together.
——Representative Li Xiaokun (李校堃) (President of Wenzhou Medical University (温州医科大学))

Water the Flower of Ethnic Unity with Heart

The Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is of great significance for promoting exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups. I have been engaged in education in ethnic border areas for a long time and must teach children to build a beautiful home and care for the big family of the Chinese nation.
——Representative Li Ruifang (李瑞芳) (Vice Principal of Guomen Primary School, Cangyuan Va Autonomous County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province (云南省临沧市沧源佤族自治县国门小学))

The draft proposes to support ethnic areas in developing characteristic and advantageous industries based on their resource endowments and using modern science and technology. We will actively promote the construction of a standardized system of Mongolian medicine and promote the integrated development of Mongolian medicine planting, processing, production, medical treatment, and health preservation.
——Representative Wang Hongmei (王红梅) (Director of Mongolian Medicine Physician, Mongolian Medicine Hospital of Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County, Liaoning Province (辽宁省阜新蒙古族自治县蒙医医院主任蒙医师))

The Chinese nation is a diverse and integrated family formed by the cohesion of all ethnic groups. We must guide the people of all ethnic groups to establish correct views on the country, history, ethnicity, culture, and religion.
——Member Men Fayen (们发延) (Researcher, National Culture Palace (民族文化宫))

(Reporters Peng Bo (彭波), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Li Linwei (李林蔚), Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲), Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡), Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊), Yu Jinghao (于景浩), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Liu Botong (刘博通), Liang Zeyu (梁泽谕), Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧) of this newspaper)

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Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch: Building a Unique New Ecosystem for Wealth Management Services

Standing on the development opportunities of the capital's wealth management market, Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) focuses on family wealth management and intergenerational wealth transfer services. Guided by customer needs, it has embarked on a distinctive development path from scale growth to value cultivation through model innovation, ecosystem construction, professional empowerment, and technological support, providing useful references for the development of the industry with inclusive practices and differentiated services.

Relying on a service network with full coverage in the region, Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) has consolidated the foundation for business development, upgraded sub-branches and outlets, and built a service system that is extensive and clearly hierarchical. At the same time, it has created high-end financial platforms such as the Beijing International Private Banking Center (北京国际私行中心) and Chang'an Street Private Banking Center (长安街私行中心). Relying on its unique strategy, it integrates regional channel resources to form a differentiated competitive advantage with coordinated efforts of various services, providing solid channel support for high-quality family wealth management and intergenerational wealth transfer services.

In business development, Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) always regards the construction of a professional team as its core competitiveness. Through systematic training, learning through competitions, and other methods, it has forged a service team with solid professional skills that can accurately match the professional service needs of the entire process of family wealth transfer, and customize practical inheritance solutions for customers. Focusing on family wealth management and intergenerational wealth transfer needs, Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) focuses on the long-term regular payment products and family trust business, promoting the deep transformation of the business from "scale-oriented" to "value-oriented." At the same time, it opens up key paths for the inheritance of non-financial assets, and enriches the product and tool system for family wealth inheritance services, making services more targeted and practical.

Solving industry pain points with model innovation is a distinctive feature of Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch's (邮储银行北京分行) family wealth management and intergenerational wealth transfer services. By innovatively implementing the "1+N" butler-style service model, Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) equips customers with exclusive account managers, links cross-field expert teams, and provides a package of customized solutions from asset allocation and family trust establishment to tax planning and designated guardianship, accurately matching the wealth inheritance needs of different family life cycles. For corporate owner customers, it creates a "dual-wheel drive of family and enterprise" service paradigm, integrating corporate and wealth management resources to realize the synergistic promotion of family wealth inheritance and enterprise development. At the same time, it builds a "government-industry-university-research" linkage platform to integrate cross-field resources to solve the collaborative problems in family wealth inheritance services.

Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) always adheres to the service concept of "finance for the people," deeply integrating financial innovation with people's livelihood security, and jointly promoting real estate trust public welfare projects with local governments. The project expands trust tools from high-net-worth individuals to ordinary families with special needs, realizing the unity of financial value and social value.

Technological empowerment and risk control escort make family wealth management and intergenerational wealth transfer services more efficient and safer. Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) promotes the digital transformation of outlets, uses intelligent technology to achieve accurate identification of customer needs and efficient matching of services, and upgrades the online service platform, integrates family wealth inheritance-related functions, and creates a "deep offline expert communication + convenient online operation" service closed loop to improve the convenience and experience of services. It builds a full-process closed-loop risk control system that combines regional characteristics and technological attributes. Through in-depth due diligence, third-party collaborative review, and other mechanisms, combined with innovative asset portfolio strategies, it builds a solid security defense line for family wealth inheritance and adapts to the needs of cross-cycle inheritance of family wealth.

In the future, Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行) will continue to anchor the high-quality development direction of wealth management, continuously improve the family wealth management and intergenerational wealth transfer service system, empower services with professionalism, drive development with innovation, continuously enrich service connotation, expand service boundaries, provide high-quality customized services for more families, and continuously explore the value of retail finance and create a unique new ecosystem of wealth management services.

Data source: Postal Savings Bank of China Beijing Branch (邮储银行北京分行)

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Rule of law safeguards the consistent implementation of a grand plan.

By: 金 歆

On March 5th, the draft National Development Plan Law was submitted to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation.

Looking back, from the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan," 14 five-year plans (and plans) have paved the way for the great journey of national rejuvenation. Looking ahead, with the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" starting, this special legislation will systematically summarize the successful experience of China's national development planning work, stabilize expectations with the rule of law, consolidate advantages with the system, and further consolidate the legal foundation of "**一张蓝图绘到底**" (yī zhāng lán tú huì dào dǐ - "draw a blueprint to the end," to implement a plan consistently from start to finish).

There are thousands of successful experiences, and the first is to adhere to the leadership of the Party. The general provisions of the draft clearly state that national development planning work adheres to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and stipulates the principles and requirements for the formulation and implementation of national development plans. The formulation of this law is to ensure that planning work always advances along the correct political direction, so that the institutional advantages of concentrating efforts to accomplish great things are more fully demonstrated, and the development blueprint resonates with the original aspiration and mission.

Planning is linked to people's livelihoods, and development is related to people's hearts. Practicing whole-process people's democracy is the source of strength for planning work and an important part of the draft law. The draft requires that the formulation of national development plans should adhere to the unity of top-level design and asking the people for advice, improve the public participation mechanism, encourage social participation, and solicit opinions and suggestions from the public through the Internet and other channels, and widely listen to the opinions and suggestions of the people and all sectors of society. From opening the door to solicit opinions to pooling wisdom, from fields to bustling streets, people's opinions and wisdom have now become the vivid background of planning, and people's livelihood and interests can be fully reflected in the plan.

To give play to the strategic guiding role of national development plans, implementation is the key. The draft law strengthens implementation guarantees and supervision and constraints throughout the entire chain, and the phenomenon of "emphasizing compilation and neglecting implementation" will be corrected by the rule of law. The draft constructs a full-process system of compilation, review and approval, implementation, and supervision, clarifies the responsibilities of the implementing entities, and stipulates the connection and coordination of annual plans, other plans at all levels and types, and national development plans. At the same time, the draft improves the mid-term evaluation, summary evaluation, and other full-chain supervision systems, and seriously investigates and holds accountable illegal and irregular behaviors. This series of institutional designs ensures that the implementation of the plan is not discounted or distorted by the rule of law, and promotes the grand blueprint from paper to the ground and from vision to reality.

Governing a country has constants, and benefiting the people is the foundation; development has principles, and the rule of law is the guideline. The draft National Development Plan Law embodies the valuable experience of our Party in governing the country, carries the people's yearning for a better life, and demonstrates the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Taking the deliberation of this draft law as an opportunity, using the power of the rule of law to ensure that the strategic guiding role of national development plans is fully exerted, "**一张蓝图绘到底**" (yī zhāng lán tú huì dào dǐ - "draw a blueprint to the end," to implement a plan consistently from start to finish) and "**一锤接着一锤敲**" (yī chuí jiē zhe yī chuí qiāo - "hammering one hammer after another," to work persistently and continuously), will surely gather the mighty force to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!

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Reading the Draft Law on National Development Planning

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Everyone's Talking About It

Safeguard: Enhancing the Certainty of Development with the Stability of the Rule of Law

　　Through special legislation, effective practices that have been in place for many years are established as legal and institutional norms, enhancing the certainty of development with the stability of the rule of law, and ensuring that "a blueprint is drawn to the end" and "one term follows another" with the thinking and methods of the rule of law.
　　——Xing Peng (邢鹏) (Deputy Secretary of the Panjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and Mayor of Panjin City, Liaoning Province)

　　Chapter 3 of the draft mainly stipulates the procedures for the National People's Congress to review and approve the national development plan, and the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to review and approve the adjustment plan of the national development plan in the form of a special chapter, which is a vivid practice of strengthening the implementation of the Constitution and adhering to, improving, and operating the system of the National People's Congress.
　　——Mo Jihong (莫纪宏) (Director of the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院))

　　The draft focuses on the implementation of the national development plan and promotes the coordinated efforts of policies such as "consumption, investment, and trade," which can form a joint force for people's livelihood security, stabilize growth, and benefit people's livelihood.
　　——Zhou Hongyi (周鸿祎) (Founder of 360 Group (360集团))

　　Decision-making: Unifying Top-Level Design and Seeking Advice from the People

　　The institutional design of promoting democracy and soliciting opinions openly can make the plan more in line with industrial realities and industry needs, and fully absorb social expectations, public wisdom, and expert opinions into the planning process, so that democratic participation has both breadth and depth.
　　——Zhou Shihong (周世虹) (Vice Chairman of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang)

　　The deep participation of the public makes the plan more in line with the needs of people's livelihood, enhances the transparency and execution of decision-making, and demonstrates the important significance of the National Development Plan Law in ensuring the people's status as masters of the country, improving the quality of planning, and promoting the construction of democratic rule of law.
　　——Huang Yan (黄艳) (President of Three Gorges University (三峡大学))

　　The formulation process of the national development plan is a process of promoting democracy, pooling wisdom, a process of the people being the masters of the country, and also a process of forming ideas and measures for governing the country in the next five years.
　　——Wang Chengzhe (王承哲) (Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Henan Academy of Social Sciences (河南省社会科学院))

　　Effect: Coordinated Unity Forms Planning Synergy

　　The draft adheres to taking the national development plan as the lead, promotes the construction of a unified planning system, clarifies that the national development plan is the general guideline for all levels and types of plans, and reserves institutional space for the formulation and implementation of other plans, maintaining internal coordination and unity of the planning system, and forming planning synergy.
　　——Li Zhi (李治) (Assistant Dean of the Institute for China's Development Planning, Tsinghua University (清华大学))

　　The formulation of the National Development Plan Law will provide a stronger legal guarantee for the formulation and implementation of special plans in the fields of culture, education, and health.
　　——Wang Yong (王勇) (President of the National Peking Opera Company (国家京剧院))

　　The formulation of the National Development Plan Law will help consolidate and enhance the effectiveness of plan implementation and further enhance the people's sense of gain.
　　——Shi Jinjin (石津金) (Chief Engineer of Cangzhou Municipal Engineering Co., Ltd., Hebei Province (河北省沧州市市政工程股份有限公司))

　　(Reporters Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲), Zheng Haiou (郑海鸥), Jin Xin (金歆), Yang Hao (杨昊), Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿), Hu Jingyi (胡婧怡), and Wu Jun (吴君) of this newspaper compiled)

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Hangzhou Xiaoshan: Enabling Youth and the City to "Move Towards Each Other" and Co-create the Future

The vitality and potential of a city hinge on its youth. Xiaoshan District (萧山区) in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), consistently adheres to the concept of "what the youth need, the city provides; where the youth aspire to go, the city's efforts are directed," promoting a "two-way journey" between youth and the city, jointly creating the future.

In 2025, Xiaoshan implemented the "Youth Xiaoshan" Ten Actions and Ten Policies, linked ten partner teams, and laid out ten landmark projects and ten landmark activities. The district's youth population reached 1.03 million, an increase of 93,000 from the end of 2024, gradually forming a development pattern where youth and the city mutually achieve and grow together.

Cultivating Fertile Ground for Growth
Allowing Youth to Come from Near and Far, Embarking Lightly
Xiaoshan focuses on the full-cycle development needs of youth from campus to society, from job seeking to settling down, building a set of precise and rapid policy support systems.

Strengthening the implementation and effectiveness of policies, allowing support policies to directly reach the youth. Xiaoshan promoted the comprehensive implementation of the "Ten Youth Policies" and supporting detailed rules. In 2025, the payment of youth policy funds exceeded 1.2 billion yuan, benefiting over 650,000 youth. The talent introduction and cultivation mechanism continued to improve, and the youth talent gathering effect was prominent. In 2025, the district added 54,000 college students under the age of 35, and the increase in high-level talents increased by more than 40% year-on-year, with both the quantity and quality of youth talent reserves increasing.

Focusing on the urgent needs and concerns of youth, accurately solving various practical problems. Addressing the "housing difficulty" for youth, Xiaoshan accelerated the construction of a multi-level housing security system, launching 3,291 public rental housing units and 5,315 guaranteed rental housing units in 2025. The rental subsidy policy was upgraded, increasing the rental subsidy for full-time undergraduate and above graduates to 36,000 yuan over 3 years, and introducing a 12,000 yuan rental subsidy policy for junior college graduates over 3 years. Policy care is more deeply rooted in the details of people's livelihood. By issuing subsidies for children's enrollment in nurseries and kindergartens, and promoting the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical and educational resources, the concerns of youth in terms of "the elderly and the young" and medical treatment and schooling are resolved. In terms of youth skills training and career development, Xiaoshan relies on measures such as youth night schools and academic qualification improvement subsidies to help youth broaden their ability boundaries and improve their professional skills.

Building a Wonderful Stage
Allowing Youth to Fully Display Their Talents and Establish a Career
Xiaoshan focuses on the employment and entrepreneurship needs of youth, creating a development stage where everyone can become talented and everyone can fully display their talents, promoting the resonance of youth dreams and urban development.

Optimizing employment service guarantees, helping youth grow steadily. In 2025, Xiaoshan launched 3,643 internship positions, released 46,000 high-quality employment positions, and provided financial support to youth by issuing living allowances and internship allowances.

Strengthening entrepreneurial support through multiple measures to stimulate youth entrepreneurial vitality. Xiaoshan continues to improve the functions of high-level platforms such as Qinghe Town (青荷小镇), Overseas Returnees' Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cluster Area (海归青创集聚区), and Southeast International Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship World (东南国际青创天地), forming a full-chain support system of "incubation-acceleration-industrialization," providing a solid carrier for youth entrepreneurship. Competitions such as the China Vision Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (中国视谷创新创业大赛) continue to be held, providing a platform for young entrepreneurs to connect with resources and realize their value. In 2025, 15,000 new youth-founded enterprises were established in the district, an increase of 52.4% year-on-year.

Creating an Integrated Ecology
Allowing Youth to Relax and Enjoy Life
Balancing the work and life needs of youth, Xiaoshan continues to optimize urban life services and humanistic ecology, enhancing youth's sense of belonging and happiness.

Building characteristic positions, enriching youth's spiritual culture and social life. Xiaoshan has created trendy landmarks such as Zhejiang Nongdongchao Art Park (浙农东巢艺术公园), Wuchi Commune Cultural and Creative Park (五七公社文创园), and Xiaoran Mountain Street (萧然山街), introducing diverse business formats, creating characteristic IPs, and holding various activities, making them activity positions integrating consumption, creativity, and social interaction, enriching youth's spiritual and cultural life. Starting in 2025, a Youth Development Conference will be held every year during the Guyu (谷雨) season. The first conference in 2025 was watched online and offline by over 1.3 million people. Activities such as the "CP31" Animation Exhibition and the Laifu Island Life Festival (莱福岛生活节) cater to the interests and needs of youth, further enhancing youth's sense of identity with the city.

Service supply continues to be optimized, helping youth enjoy a high-quality life. The "Monthly Theme, Quarterly Highlight" series of activities runs throughout 2025, covering all dimensions of "clothing, food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment." The "Xiaoran Qingcai Card" (萧然青才卡), which integrates 20 services and has nearly 170,000 registered users, and the "Youth Xiaoshan" service window with "online + offline" linkage, provide youth with comprehensive, one-stop life services.

Standing at a new starting point, Xiaoshan will promote the construction of a "city that youth aspire to" to a new stage of system integration and ecological empowerment, shifting from "policy benefiting youth" to "ecological nurturing of youth," and from "factor aggregation" to "value co-creation," creating a "tropical rainforest-style" innovation and entrepreneurship ecology, and building a development community where youth vitality is fully unleashed, talents are fully displayed, and dreams are fully rooted. Xiaoshan is continuously promoting the "two-way journey" between youth and the city with the attitude of 奔竞不息 (bēn jìng bù xī - "unceasing striving," to constantly strive for progress) and 勇立潮头 (yǒng lì cháo tóu - "bravely stand at the head of the tide," to be a pioneer), jointly creating a new future of high-quality development.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Xiaoshan District Committee of Hangzhou (中共杭州市萧山区委宣传部)

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Guizhou vigorously implements a strategy to strengthen its comparative advantages.

In Maotai Town (茅台镇), Zunyi City (遵义市), the aroma of sauce-flavored Baijiu, nurtured by the good ecology of the Chishui River (赤水河), wafts both at home and abroad; in Xifeng County (息烽县), Guiyang City (贵阳市), the green and environmentally friendly anhydrous gypsum masterbatch and packaging box production line of Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) are accelerating operations; in Taipan Village (台盘村), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), the 2026 Guizhou "Village Gala" cleverly connects "village-branded" brands to present a cultural feast; in the Guian Supercomputing Center (贵安超算中心), advanced equipment injects computing power into thousands of industries in real time; in the workshop of Bijie Jinghuang Garment Co., Ltd. (毕节市晶煌制衣有限公司), more than 3,600 employees are busy rushing to complete orders—these five hot scenes outline the vivid outline of Guizhou Province (贵州省) transforming its resource advantages such as ecology, minerals, culture and tourism, digital intelligence, and human resources into industrial advantages and development advantages.

This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and Guizhou will vigorously implement the strategy of strengthening comparative advantages, identify relative advantages, focus on tackling key breakthroughs, achieve better advantages and stronger strengths, and strive to blaze a new path of high-quality development that is different from the eastern region and other western provinces.

Focusing on the protection and development of ecological resources, we will promote the transformation of ecological advantages into economic and development advantages. Ecological advantage is Guizhou's innate endowment. As one of the first national ecological civilization pilot zones, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the average number of days with excellent air quality in Guizhou's central cities remained stable at more than 98%, the rate of excellent water quality in the exit sections of major rivers remained at 100%, and the forest coverage rate remained among the highest in the country, providing a natural development foundation for ecological agriculture, health and wellness tourism, and green manufacturing. The green economy accounts for 48.8% of the province's economy, and the "green content" and "gold content" of development have increased simultaneously, making the path of high-quality development of ecological priority and green development increasingly clear.

In 2026, Guizhou will continue to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development as always. Guided by the "dual carbon" goal, we will promote the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyles, accelerate the construction of a beautiful Guizhou, further promote the battle against pollution, continue to do a good job in ecological protection and restoration, actively and steadily promote carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, deepen the construction of ecological civilization system, and make green the distinctive background color of Guizhou's high-quality development.

Focusing on the in-depth development of mineral resources, we will promote the development of the entire industrial chain. The solid foundation of mineral resources is Guizhou's outstanding comparative advantage, with 67 types of minerals ranking among the top ten in the country in terms of resource volume. Based on the advantages of phosphorus, aluminum, manganese and other advantageous mineral endowments, Guizhou resolutely abandons the extensive mining model, fully promotes "intensive mining of rich mines," concentrates its efforts on building "six major industrial bases," and promotes the improvement of quality and efficiency and circular development of the entire industrial chain. In 2025, the total industrial output value of the "six major industrial bases" in Guizhou above designated size accounted for 83.3% of the province, and the export of "new three items" of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products in the province increased by 182% year-on-year, vividly interpreting the fundamental transformation from "resource dividend" to "value highland," and the advantage of mineral resources is accelerating the transformation into a lasting industrial competitive advantage.

In 2026, Guizhou will adhere to technological innovation to lead the development of new quality productive forces, and fully promote the optimization and upgrading of the "six major industrial bases" to "six major industrial clusters," paying more attention to cluster development, expanding industrial chains, gathering industrial elements, optimizing industrial layout, and building a solid "ballast stone" for the industrial economy.

Focusing on the development of cultural and tourism resources, we will continue to build culture and tourism into a pillar industry, a people's livelihood industry, and a happiness industry. Cultural and tourism resources are Guizhou's characteristic advantages and an important pillar for enriching the people and revitalizing Guizhou. During this year's Spring Festival holiday, Guizhou's cultural and tourism industry delivered a brilliant answer sheet: the province received a total of 32,692,400 tourists and generated a total tourism expenditure of 21.735 billion yuan, an increase of 14.62% and 15.08% respectively year-on-year on a comparable basis. The province's 60 key scenic spots received a total of 6,666,000 tourists and generated a total tourism revenue of 1.695 billion yuan, an increase of 26.93% and 21.80% respectively year-on-year. The "Huang Xiaoxi Dinner" boutique route has become a new calling card for Guizhou tourism; "village-branded" brands such as "Village T," "Village Marathon," and "Village Gala" have taken root in rural areas and are bursting with vitality; the bridge-tourism integration of the Huajiang Canyon Bridge has reached a new high in passenger flow, with more than 40,000 tourists received on a single day on the third and fourth days of the Lunar New Year; the Panxing High-speed Railway has driven the continuous growth of tourism along the route, and the number of tourists in the Wanfenglin Scenic Area reached 150,000 on a single day, an increase of 125.9% year-on-year. The multiplier effect of cultural and tourism integration continues to be released, making the cultural and tourism industry truly a pillar industry, a people's livelihood industry, and a happiness industry.

In 2026, Guizhou will focus on the three elements of "resources, tourists, and services," continue to implement the "four major actions" of tourism industrialization in depth, accelerate the construction of a high-quality and efficient service industry system, vigorously promote the integrated development of culture and tourism, sports and tourism, bridge and tourism, and wine and tourism, promote the quality improvement and upgrading of key tourist attractions, develop and expand the tourism and residence industry, accelerate the construction of a national tourism and health destination, vigorously develop the sports industry, accelerate the development of the sports event economy, and continue to polish the brand of "Mountain Park Province, Colorful Guizhou."

Focusing on the development of digital intelligence resources, we will comprehensively empower economic and social development. After more than 10 years of intensive cultivation, computing power and data have become Guizhou's most competitive comparative advantages. Seizing the opportunity to implement the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, Guizhou continues to improve its computing power infrastructure and promote the deep integration of digital and real economies. The province has 50 data centers under construction and in operation, and its comprehensive computing power level ranks among the top in the country. The scale of the digital intelligence industry has increased from 140.01 billion yuan in 2020 to 280 billion yuan in 2025, an increase of nearly one-fold, comprehensively empowering all fields of economic and social development.

In 2026, Guizhou will further implement the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, optimize and adjust the "computing power coupon" policy, formulate long-term measures for coordinated computing and electricity, and strive to increase the province's computing power scale to exceed 190EFLOPS. We will further implement the "Artificial Intelligence+" action and create more than 100 typical application scenarios for artificial intelligence large models. We will implement ten policies to encourage the development of the data industry, strive to create a national data industry cluster, accelerate the development of the data labeling industry, and make digital intelligence resources the main engine for cultivating new quality productive forces and empowering industrial upgrading.

Focusing on the development of human resources, we will provide strong support for economic and social development. Abundant human resources are Guizhou's most potential comparative advantage.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guizhou steadily promoted the "Six Six Employment Stabilization Plan," adding more than 600,000 new urban jobs and stabilizing the number of migrant workers from outside the province at around 6 million each year, and the initial employment destination implementation rate of college graduates reached more than 80%.

At the beginning of the new year, Guizhou, together with Guangdong (广东), Zhejiang (浙江), Fujian (福建), and Jiangsu (江苏), launched the 2026 "Spring Breeze Action" and the five-province linkage employment service season. The first event gathered nearly 40,000 high-quality jobs, allowing skilled talents and industrial development to achieve precise matching.

In 2026, Guizhou will continue to strengthen human resource development, strengthen the scientific and technological talent support for industrial development, strengthen the construction of the talent training system, adjust and optimize disciplines, majors and talent training models, introduce and cultivate more innovative and applied talents, promote the precise adaptation of skilled talents to the development of the "six major industrial clusters," and continue to expand the influence of labor brands such as "Guizhou Technician" and "Qian Craftsman" to provide a solid talent guarantee for the province's industrial development.

Standing at the new starting point of the "15th Five-Year Plan," Guizhou will adhere to high-quality development as the overall theme, vigorously implement the strategy of strengthening comparative advantages, strengthen confidence, work hard and practically, seek progress while maintaining stability, be good at making achievements, and strive to show Guizhou's new style in promoting Chinese-style modernization.

Data source: Publicity Department of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共贵州省委宣传部)

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Better Leverage the Strategic Guidance of National Development Plans

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Formulating and implementing five-year plans is an important experience for our party in governing the country and an important political advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics," and "Give play to the strategic guiding role of national development plans." The draft outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" deploys strategic tasks concerning the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization for the next five years. To promote a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, better leverage the strategic guiding role of national development plans, and go all out to grasp all economic and social development tasks this year, and gather a strong force for development. We invite deputies and members to share their understanding and exchange ideas on how to view the development situation in the next five years, how to carry out the work, and how to give play to the strategic guiding role of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
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　　Critical Period
　　Ensuring Decisive Progress in Basically Achieving Socialist Modernization
　　Quan Heng (权衡), Party Secretary of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Delegate
　　The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee drew a grand blueprint for China's development in the next five years and even longer, and pointed out the direction of advancement. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The '15th Five-Year Plan' period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization." Accurately grasping the important positioning of the "15th Five-Year Plan" in the process of Chinese-style modernization and focusing on tackling and breaking through major problems are of great significance for ensuring decisive progress in basically achieving socialist modernization.
　　After the comprehensive completion of a moderately prosperous society, our party led the people of the whole country to embark on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, that is, taking the realization of the first centenary goal as a new starting point and realizing the second centenary goal by the middle of this century. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China divided the overall strategic arrangement of the new journey into "two steps." The first step is to basically realize socialist modernization from 2020 to 2035, and the second step is to build our country into a strong socialist modern country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful from 2035 to the middle of this century. The first step of the new journey will be completed through the implementation of the "14th Five-Year Plan" to the "16th Five-Year Plan." Among them, the "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years, which has laid a solid foundation for economic and social development. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period has an important position of inheriting the past and opening up the future in the process of basically achieving socialist modernization. The historical task of this stage is to further "lay the foundation" based on the major achievements made in China's development during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and to "fully exert efforts" under the conditions of achieving a good start, so as to ensure decisive progress in basically achieving socialist modernization.
　　The so-called "decisive progress" means achieving development achievements that have a key role and decisive significance, which means accelerating the realization of breakthroughs from quantitative change to qualitative change and achieving landmark results in high-quality development and high-quality life. To this end, on the one hand, we must seize the window of opportunity and go all out to focus on links and fields that are related to development and security and have a global and significant impact, so as to promote the consolidation and expansion of the advantages that have been achieved, fundamentally overcome the bottlenecks restricting development, and make up for and strengthen the shortcomings affecting the overall situation, so that the development foundation of the "16th Five-Year Plan" period will be more stable and resilient; on the other hand, we must anchor the overall goals of China's development by 2035, focus on the "five-sphere integrated plan" and the "four-pronged comprehensive strategy," focus on the coordinated efforts in various fields of economic and social development, and achieve systematic breakthroughs and overall improvement.
　　To achieve this goal and task, we must adhere to the unity of problem orientation and goal orientation, face up to the problems of unbalanced and insufficient development in our country, enhance the driving force for development by making up for shortcomings, and open up a new situation for development by overcoming difficulties. To this end, we must focus on the theme of promoting high-quality development, take reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, focus on major aspects such as building a modern industrial system, accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, deepening the construction of digital China, building a strong domestic market, and accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system, grasp the rhythm and progress, promote major breakthroughs in strategic tasks related to the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization, and then achieve effective improvement in economic quality and reasonable growth in quantity, and take solid steps in the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people.

　　"Four Advantages"
　　Consolidating and Expanding the Foundation and Advantages of Development
　　Zhang Bin (张斌), Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Member
　　Today's world is intertwined with changes and chaos, and challenges and opportunities coexist. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China's economy is moving forward against pressure and developing towards new and better, showing strong resilience and vitality." Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, China's high-quality development has been steadily promoted, and the foundation and advantages have been consolidated and expanded. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed: "The advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, the advantages of a super-large market, the advantages of a complete industrial system, and the advantages of abundant human resources are more prominent." These "four advantages" are the foundation for us to strengthen our confidence in development and respond to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development.
　　The socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the fundamental institutional guarantee for the development and progress of contemporary China, and has extraordinary organizational mobilization capabilities, overall coordination capabilities, and implementation capabilities. In recent years, China has promoted comprehensive and deepening reform, continuously enriched and expanded the content of the system, optimized the system structure, and improved the system system. At the same time, it has strengthened the implementation of the system, promoted the continuous consolidation and development of the significant advantages of China's socialist system, and continuously improved the competitiveness of the system.
　　The super-large market is the "ballast stone" of China's economic development, which can not only provide a buffer for coping with the uncertainty of the external environment, but also reduce the unit production cost by leveraging the scale effect. More importantly, it provides rich application scenarios for innovation and can cultivate more world-class enterprises and leading technologies. Adhering to domestic demand as the mainstay and accelerating the construction of a strong domestic market can continuously accumulate the advantages of China's super-large market and continuously release its potential, supporting China's economy to show a solid foundation, strong resilience, and huge potential in many uncertainties.
　　The complete industrial system provides a strategic support for China's economy to overcome difficulties and maintain strong resilience and vitality. In the current complex and volatile geopolitical pattern and trade policy, and the obvious rise of unilateralism and protectionism, it can effectively hedge the downward pressure on the economy and enhance the upward momentum. In recent years, China has accelerated the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, continuously consolidated the material and technical foundation of Chinese-style modernization, and promoted China to better grasp the initiative in industrial competition and national development in deeply participating in international division of labor and cooperation.
　　China ranks first in the world in terms of total human resources, total scientific and technological human resources, and total R&D personnel. More than 5 million graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics majors graduate every year, and the ranks of outstanding entrepreneurs continue to grow. It has become the world's largest human resource country with the most complete categories. We are accelerating the construction of a strong country in education, promoting the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner, stimulating the labor enthusiasm and creative potential of abundant human resources, and contributing wisdom and strength to promoting high-quality development.
　　These "four advantages" are coordinated and linked, and systematically integrated to form a strong synergy to promote high-quality development, helping China's total economic volume to continuously reach new levels during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and its growth rate ranks among the top among major economies in the world. Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," these "four advantages" are also the key to opening up a new situation in the midst of changes and grasping the historical initiative. We must continuously transform advantages into winning advantages and turn potential into strength, and win strategic initiative in fierce international competition.

　　Modern Industrial System
　　Adhering to the Direction of Intelligence, Greenization, and Integration
　　Han Minchun (韩民春), Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Member
　　A modern industrial system is the material and technical foundation of Chinese-style modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposal puts the construction of a modern industrial system in the first place of various strategic tasks "is after careful consideration," and "building a modern industrial system and realizing the overall leap of the industrial system is an important strategic task during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period." Accurately grasping the core essence and practical direction of the modern industrial system is of great significance for promoting economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
　　At different stages of economic development, China has continuously enriched and improved the top-level design for industrial development. The report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "developing a modern industrial system," requiring "vigorously promoting the integration of informatization and industrialization, promoting the transformation of industry from large to strong, revitalizing the equipment manufacturing industry, and eliminating backward production capacity"; the report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "focusing on building a new system for modern industrial development"; the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "focusing on accelerating the construction of an industrial system in which the real economy, scientific and technological innovation, modern finance, and human resources develop in a coordinated manner"; the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed "building a modern industrial system" and made important deployments; the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee proposed "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy."
　　From "modern industrial system" to "modernized industrial system," the change of one word reflects the profound transformation of China's development momentum from factor-driven to innovation-driven, requiring the promotion of industrial innovation through scientific and technological innovation; it also reflects the greater emphasis on coordinating development and security in a complex and volatile international environment, requiring the improvement of the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain. To this end, we must adhere to the direction of intelligence, greenization, and integration, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with completeness, advancement, and security.
　　Consolidate the foundation and upgrade, and enhance the competitiveness of traditional industries. Deeply promote major technological transformation and upgrading projects, promote large-scale technological transformation and equipment renewal, use new technologies to penetrate and integrate into traditional industrial sectors to transform and upgrade traditional industries, promote the construction of intelligent production lines, intelligent workshops, and intelligent service platforms, consolidate and enhance the advantageous position of traditional industries, and stimulate the huge potential for high-quality development.
　　Innovate and cultivate new, and seize the commanding heights of future competition. Based on the present, we will accelerate the cultivation and expansion of strategic emerging industries with knowledge and technology intensive, low consumption of material resources, great growth potential, and good comprehensive benefits, accelerate the development of strategic emerging industrial clusters such as new energy, new materials, aerospace, and low-altitude economy, and create new engines for economic development; we will also focus on the long-term, prospectively lay out future industries, establish a future industrial investment growth mechanism, and promote quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, etc. to become new economic growth points and open up new tracks for future industries.
　　Strengthen the foundation and increase efficiency, and build a solid foundation for the modern industrial system. Accelerate the construction of a modern infrastructure system that is advanced and applicable, systematic and complete, intensive and efficient, safe and green, continuously improve the modern comprehensive transportation system, strengthen information infrastructure and data circulation and utilization infrastructure, better promote the interconnection, coordinated integration, safety and efficient development of infrastructure, and provide strong support for industrial upgrading.

　　New Development Pattern
　　Let Domestic Demand Become the Main Driving Force of Economic Development
　　Yang Decai (杨德才), Professor of Nanjing University, Member
　　Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is a strategic choice to reshape China's new advantages in international cooperation and competition. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "China has a large population, a large market, a complete industry, and strong development momentum, and has the conditions to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern." The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee clarified the guiding ideology for economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, which includes "accelerating the construction of a new development pattern." At present, in the face of a severe and complex external environment, taking the domestic demand market as the main reliance for promoting economic development and striving to improve the quality and efficiency of the national economic cycle is conducive to hedging the uncertainty of the international cycle with the inherent stability and growth of the domestic cycle and consolidating the foundation for high-quality development.
　　The characteristic of a large country's economy is that domestic demand is the mainstay and internal circulation is possible. China has a population of more than 1.4 billion and a large middle-income group. Its per capita GDP has exceeded 13,000 US dollars for three consecutive years, ranking among the top among upper-middle-income countries. This has not only created the advantage of China's super-large market, but also made China the most potential consumer market in the world. In recent years, the promulgation of the Law on Promoting the Private Economy and the construction of a unified national market have further released the vitality of business entities and improved the efficiency of resource allocation, making China's super-large market advantages more prominent and enabling China to have a solid foundation to shift from a development pattern in which both the market and resources are "outside" to a growth mode in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand.
　　Especially in the current external environment where some countries are engaged in "decoupling and breaking chains," trade protectionism is rising, and geopolitical conflicts are frequent, building a strong domestic market with domestic demand as a stable anchor can effectively ensure China's economic security, achieve basic normal operation in extreme cases, and also provide a "testing ground" and "amplifier" for technological iteration and updating, and provide rich application scenarios for the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, allowing enterprises to independently tackle key core components, continuously improve the localization rate, and reduce the risk of being "stuck in the neck" with strong reliance.
　　The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made important deployments on "building a strong domestic market and accelerating the construction of a new development pattern," requiring "adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point." To this end, we must correctly handle the relationship between consumption and investment, demand and supply, adhere to the close combination of benefiting the people and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people, vigorously boost consumption, deeply implement special actions to boost consumption, expand effective investment, maintain reasonable investment growth, improve investment efficiency, resolutely remove the blockages that hinder the construction of a unified national market, consolidate the dominant position of domestic demand, and enhance the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic cycle.
　　At the same time, it is necessary to realize that adhering to domestic demand as the mainstay is not a closed domestic cycle, but to lay the foundation and create conditions for building a new development pattern in which the domestic cycle is the mainstay and the domestic and international cycles promote each other. China's institutional opening up is steadily expanding, promoting the continuous transformation of the super-large market into an "attraction field" for attracting global factor resources, and is more confident in actively shaping an external environment that is beneficial to us, and ultimately winning the initiative in development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

　　New Quality Productive Forces
　　Promoting the Deep Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation
　　Huang Maoxing (黄茂兴), Vice President of the Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, Delegate
　　Developing new quality productive forces is the inherent requirement of high-quality development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must put the development of new quality productive forces in a more prominent strategic position." New quality productive forces are the most active, technologically advanced, broadest in prospect, and most influential part of productive forces, and play an important role in promoting economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
　　New quality productive forces cover new fields and new tracks in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and can drive the high-end, intelligent, and green development of industries through revolutionary technological breakthroughs and innovative allocation of production factors, achieve deep transformation and upgrading, and help stimulate new momentum for China's economic and social development. Scientific and technological innovation is the core element to promote the development of new quality productive forces, and cultivating and developing new quality productive forces is organically unified with promoting high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, which can not only improve the overall efficiency of the national innovation system, but also significantly enhance China's position in the global industrial chain and value chain, and help China reshape its advantages and grasp the strategic initiative in increasingly fierce international competition. New quality productive forces themselves are green productive forces. Developing new quality productive forces can effectively lead the green innovation and optimization and combination of productive force elements, build a green development system that saves resources and is environmentally friendly, coordinate and promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of China's economic and social development.
　　Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces. Accelerating the opening up of the channel from a strong country in science and technology to a strong country in industry and a strong country in economy, and continuously promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can inject strong momentum into economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Technological innovation and industrial innovation are the basic paths for developing new quality productive forces. Accelerating the connection from a strong science and technology sector to a strong industry and a strong economy, and continuously promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, can inject strong momentum into economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

To this end, we must focus on strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, continuously increasing the proportion of investment in basic research, and taking unconventional measures to focus on overcoming hard technologies such as new-generation information technology, integrated circuits, and basic software that can promote technological progress and industrial upgrading, promote the production of more iconic original achievements, and consolidate the foundation for the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. Promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements, plan and build concept verification and pilot test platforms, and increase the construction and opening up of application scenarios. Strengthen the main position of enterprises in technological innovation, focus on promoting the concentration of innovation resources in enterprises, support enterprises in leading the formation of innovation consortia, and better play the role of leading technology enterprises as "question setters," "answerers," and "graders." Continuously improve the mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, strengthen the protection and utilization of intellectual property rights, allow scientific and technological personnel to have greater autonomy in the distribution of income from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and stimulate the enthusiasm and creativity of scientific researchers.

At the same time, it should be noted that the development of new quality productive forces requires certain endowment conditions. Different regions and different fields should proceed from reality, carry out work scientifically, rationally, and pragmatically, fully consider realistic feasibility, develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and prevent 一哄而上 (yī hōng ér shàng - "swarm up," to act in a disorderly, rushed manner).

High-Quality Life

Safeguarding and Improving People's Livelihood in Development

Sun Jie (孙洁), Vice Dean of the School of Insurance, University of International Business and Economics

The purpose of development is to benefit the people. Promoting high-quality development is to meet the people's yearning for a better life and enable them to enjoy a higher quality of life. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) clarified the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, including "continuous improvement of the quality of people's lives." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed at the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) that "solid steps should be taken to promote common prosperity for all the people," which is a general requirement guiding economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), our Party has adhered to the people's position in considering issues and taken effective measures to safeguard and improve people's livelihood. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China (中国) has taken a series of effective measures to create a high-quality life. For example, in terms of people's livelihood, we have strengthened the policy of prioritizing employment, continued to improve the basic public service system, optimized the allocation of regional education resources, and optimized the allocation of medical and health resources; in terms of social security, we have continuously expanded the coverage of social insurance, included more people in the social security system, and improved the level of security, making basic security such as elderly care, childcare, and medical care more solid; in terms of the ecological environment, we have continued to advance the battle to defend blue skies, clear waters, and pure land, allowing people to live in a beautiful environment with blue skies, white clouds, green waters, and green mountains.

Driven by these policies and measures, China's (中国) people's livelihood security has been solid and stable during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the achievements in poverty alleviation have been consolidated and expanded, and spiritual and cultural products have been rich and colorful. From 2021 to 2025, China's (中国) per capita disposable income of residents increased from 35,128 yuan to 43,377 yuan; by the end of 2025, the participation rate of basic pension insurance and basic medical insurance were both above 95%. These achievements are not only a vivid footnote to practicing the people-centered approach, but also a strategic choice to activate new drivers of development, which can promote the people to invest more actively in work and innovation, inject vitality into high-quality development, and also stimulate new consumer demand, thereby promoting industrial upgrading and driving economic growth.

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the people's needs for a better life are more extensive. We must firmly grasp the important principle that must be followed in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, which is to adhere to the people-centered approach, safeguard the fundamental interests of the people, promote social fairness and justice, pay attention to safeguarding and improving people's livelihood in development, expand development space in meeting people's livelihood needs, and make the achievements of modernization construction benefit all the people more and more fairly. To this end, we must strengthen inclusive, basic, and bottom-line people's livelihood construction, solve the urgent, difficult, and worrying problems of the people, and improve the quality of people's lives by promoting high-quality and full employment, improving the income distribution system, running education that satisfies the people, improving the social security system, and accelerating the construction of a healthy China (中国).

At the same time, we must adhere to doing our best and acting according to our capabilities, taking into account the stage of development and affordability, starting from solving the most concerning, most direct, and most realistic interests of the people, so that various people's livelihood policies and measures are practical and effective, and write a warmer answer sheet for the times.

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This edition's editors: Wu Shan, Bai Zhenzhi, Liu Shuwen, Fang Yuan, Zhang Chi, Shang Rongzheng, Shi Weijia

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
This edition of the manuscript was interviewed and compiled by the Theoretical Department of the People's Daily (人民日报).

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Theoretical Connotation and Practical Requirements of a Modernized Industrial System (In-depth Study and Implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

By: 陈彦斌

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress: "Developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness," and required "opening up new prospects in optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and proactively planning for future industries." To develop new quality productive forces, we must focus on building a modern industrial system, producing both more scientific and technological achievements and transforming them into tangible productive forces. Building a modern industrial system and achieving an overall leap in the industrial system are important strategic tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put "building a modern industrial system and consolidating and strengthening the foundation of the real economy" as the first of the various strategic tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and made specific arrangements, reflecting a far-reaching strategic consideration of economic and social development. To deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decision-making arrangements of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, we must deeply grasp the important position and scientific connotation of building a modern industrial system in Chinese-style modernization, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and promote the overall leap of China's industrial system.

A complete industrial system is China's strategic support for weathering storms and maintaining strong resilience and vitality.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "In recent years, China's economy has weathered storms and maintained strong resilience and vitality, and the strategic support is a complete industrial system." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has accurately grasped the general trend of global industrial development, scientifically judged the situation of China's industrial development, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies on industrial development, and promoted China to basically form an industrial system with large scale, complete system, and strong competitiveness.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, facing the challenges of many unstable, uncertain, and even unsafe factors in the external environment, especially against the background of the global industrial chain and supply chain encountering severe tests such as "decoupling and breaking chains," China has deeply promoted new industrialization and accelerated the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse. In 2025, China's manufacturing added value reached 34.7 trillion yuan, accounting for about 25% of the gross domestic product, and the scale has remained the world's first for 16 consecutive years. On the whole, China's advantages of a complete industrial system are more obvious, the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain have been steadily improved, and the overall strength, quality, and efficiency of the industry, as well as innovation, competitiveness, and risk resistance capabilities, have been significantly enhanced. This not only provides an important support for China's economy to weather storms and move forward steadily but also lays a solid foundation for accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly define the "advantage of a complete industrial system" as one of the "four major advantages" of China's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and propose that "a modern industrial system is the material and technical foundation of Chinese-style modernization," fully demonstrating the important position of building a modern industrial system in basically realizing socialist modernization.

Safeguarding national economic security. Economic security is the foundation of national security. At present, the world's century-old changes are accelerating, geopolitical risks continue to rise, major power games are becoming more complex and intense, and the industrial chain and supply chain are encountering severe shocks. Maintaining the safety and stability of China's industrial chain and supply chain has become one of the core issues of safeguarding national economic security. China's complete industrial system provides room for maneuver and strategic depth for maintaining economic security and promoting industrial development, and can ensure self-circulation at critical moments and ensure the normal operation of the economy in extreme cases. On this basis, improving independent innovation capabilities and building a modern industrial system can further enhance the safety and stability of the industrial system and consolidate the foundation of economic security. For example, China has independently built the Beidou Satellite Navigation System (北斗卫星导航系统), and its industrial chain covers upstream basic products such as chips, midstream terminal equipment such as vehicle-mounted navigation, and downstream operation services. Behind this is the high coordination of multiple industrial sectors, ensuring the safe operation of China's communications field.

Consolidating the material and technical foundation of Chinese-style modernization. The history of world economic development shows that the modernization of the industrial system is the core of economic modernization. Those countries that have successfully achieved modernization have mostly experienced the process of industrialization driving the modernization of the industrial system, thereby providing a solid material and technical foundation for achieving economic and social modernization. As an important starting point for promoting high-quality development, building a modern industrial system not only provides core support for promoting new industrialization but also continuously consolidates the material and technical foundation of Chinese-style modernization. At the same time, the modern industrial system is an "accelerator" for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements. China's complete industrial system can quickly respond to market demands, reduce production costs, provide industrialization soil for scientific and technological innovation, effectively solve the problem of "difficulty in landing" scientific and technological innovation achievements in the real economy, and inject innovative impetus into the construction of a modern industrial system.

Winning the commanding heights of international competition. With the accelerated evolution of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, technological innovation has become the main battlefield of international strategic game, and the focus of global economic competition has shifted from past product competition and enterprise competition to industrial system competition including industrial innovation capability, industrial manufacturing capability, and industrial basic capability. At present, countries are vying to seize new fields and new tracks such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, and brain-computer interfaces, which is a vivid manifestation of industrial system competition. Whether we can firmly grasp the opportunities, actively respond to the challenges, and build a modern industrial system adapted to this round of technological revolution and industrial transformation wave determines whether China can win the strategic initiative in future development and fierce international competition. Therefore, aiming at the forefront of technological and industrial competition, accelerating the breakthrough development of key areas, building a modern industrial system, and creating new growth engines with new industries, new business forms, and new models to shape new industrial competitive advantages is an inevitable choice to firmly grasp the initiative of industrial development and seize the commanding heights in international competition.

Providing a "stabilizer" for promoting common prosperity for all people. Building a modern industrial system is of great significance for ensuring and improving people's livelihood in development and promoting common prosperity for all people. For example, industry is the foundation of employment, and building a modern industrial system will create a large number of new jobs, including many high-skilled and high-paying technical jobs, as well as new employment forms such as online car-hailing drivers, which will help to accommodate more groups of people to a greater extent and promote the general improvement of residents' income levels. For another example, building a modern industrial system can enhance the supply capacity of mid-to-high-end consumer goods, better meet the constantly upgrading consumer demands of residents, and promote the steady improvement of people's living standards and the continuous improvement of people's well-being. For another example, industrial collaboration is an important form of optimizing the layout of productive forces. By building a modern industrial system and deepening and expanding cross-regional industrial collaboration, developed regions can drive the industrial development of underdeveloped regions, forming a regional industrial pattern of reasonable division of labor and coordinated development, which will help to achieve common prosperity for all people.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on the modern industrial system has profound and rich theoretical connotations.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "A modern industrial system is the material and technical foundation of a modern country. We must focus on developing the economy on the real economy and provide strong material support for achieving the second centenary goal." Since the new era, a series of important expositions made by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) around the modern industrial system have profound and rich theoretical connotations, providing scientific guidance for accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system.

It clarifies the characteristics and requirements of the modern industrial system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with the characteristics of intelligence, greening, and integration and meeting the requirements of completeness, advancement, and security." Intelligence, greening, and integration are the characteristics of the modern industrial system. Intelligence has distinct characteristics of the times and conforms to the general trend of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation; greening reflects the requirements of the new development concept and embodies the ecological background of harmonious coexistence between man and nature; integration reflects the development trend that the cross-field integration of cutting-edge technology is becoming more and more obvious and the boundaries of industries are becoming more and more blurred. Completeness, advancement, and security are the requirements for building a modern industrial system. Against the background of intertwined changes and increasing turbulence in the world, building a modern industrial system with completeness and consolidating and expanding China's advantages of a complete industrial system and strong supporting capabilities can effectively cope with various risks and challenges; building a modern industrial system with advancement, efficiently gathering global innovation elements, and independently expanding new industrial tracks can continuously enhance the international competitiveness of China's industry; building a modern industrial system with security, giving full play to the advantages of China's socialist system in concentrating efforts to do big things, can strengthen the tackling of key core technologies and continuously improve the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain. Unifying completeness, advancement, and security, and promoting them in coordination with the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration, can create a modern industrial system that is independent and controllable, safe and reliable, and competitive.

It clarifies the support of the modern industrial system. The real economy is an important pillar of national strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization cannot take the path of abandoning the real for the virtual, and we must accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system supported by the real economy." The modern industrial system is composed of a series of interconnected and mutually supportive industrial sectors, business entities, and factor conditions, among which the real economy plays a key supporting role. Those economies that have achieved modernization in history have mostly relied on a strong real economy. An important reason why some developing countries have fallen into the "middle-income trap" and led to long-term economic stagnation is that they have not established a modern industrial system supported by the real economy. In the process of promoting and expanding Chinese-style modernization, we must consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy and consolidate the material foundation of Chinese-style modernization. At present, on the basis of consolidating and expanding advantages, we must adhere to the problem-oriented approach, focus on making up for the shortcomings and weaknesses in building a modern industrial system, seek progress while maintaining stability, and proceed in an orderly manner to further strengthen the support of the real economy.

It clarifies the backbone of the modern industrial system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Build a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone." Manufacturing is the foundation of a country and the foundation of a strong country. For a developing country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, building a socialist modern country and developing and strengthening the real economy must promote the high-quality development of manufacturing. The modern industrial system should take advanced manufacturing as the backbone because, under market economy conditions, manufacturing, especially advanced manufacturing, can more effectively drive the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation than other industries, drive enterprises to adopt new technologies, new software, new equipment, new processes, new processes, and new production organization methods, thereby improving the technological content and technical level of manufacturing as a whole. Only by taking advanced manufacturing as the backbone and promoting the mutual support and cooperation between manufacturing and other industries can we build a strong modern industrial system. This is also an inherent requirement for enhancing China's economic strength and improving China's economic risk resistance capabilities.

It clarifies the practical requirements for building a modern industrial system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and strengthen emerging industries, lay out and build future industries, and improve the modern industrial system." Industry is the carrier of productive forces, and a certain industrial system is adapted to a certain level of productive forces development. Developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions is an inevitable choice for building a modern industrial system and then promoting the realization of quality change, efficiency change, and power change in economic development. To this end, we must focus on the layout of the industrial chain for the development of new quality productive forces, apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner, promote the chain supplementation of short-board industries, the chain extension of advantageous industries, the chain upgrading of traditional industries, and the chain construction of emerging industries, and promote the optimization and upgrading of the industrial system on the basis of ensuring the independent controllability, safety, and reliability of the industrial system, and continuously improve the advanced level of the industry. At the same time, adhere to establishing before breaking, adapting to local conditions, and promoting the development of new industries, new models, and new kinetic energy in a selective manner based on local resource endowments, industrial foundations, and scientific research conditions, and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into new quality productive forces that meet the new development concept.

It clarifies the path to building a modern industrial system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Strengthen the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and build a modern industrial system with international competitiveness." Technological innovation is the strategic support and core driving force for building a modern industrial system. At present, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, the paradigm of scientific research is undergoing profound changes, technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of intensive activity, and the boundaries from basic research, applied research, technological research and development to industrialization are becoming blurred, and the characteristics of cross-innovation, integration, penetration, and diffusion of technological innovation are becoming more obvious, and the chain from innovation supply to innovation application is becoming more diversified, bringing major opportunities for accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system. Solidly promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation will help to promote the formation of a whole-process innovation chain from revolutionary technological breakthroughs to in-depth industrial transformation and upgrading, so that technological innovation can better empower industrial innovation, industrial innovation can better stimulate technological innovation, and promote the overall leap of the industrial system with the virtuous circle of mutual promotion between the two.

It clarifies the scientific method for building a modern industrial system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must adhere to the concept of systems and strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and overall promotion of development in various fields." The first meeting of the 20th Central Finance and Economics Commission pointed out: "Strengthen the top-level design of strategic areas and enhance the synergy of industrial policies." Building a modern industrial system is a systematic project, which requires not only the government's advanced planning and guidance and scientific policy support but also the regulation of the market mechanism and the continuous innovation of micro-subjects such as enterprises. Only by adhering to the national chess game, promoting the better combination of an effective market and a promising government, strengthening overall planning, coordinated promotion, key breakthroughs, and precise efforts, and fully mobilizing the forces of enterprises, scientific research institutes, and universities can we form a strong synergy for building a modern industrial system, enhance new kinetic energy for industrial development, and expand new space for industrial development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on the modern industrial system fully embodies the accurate grasp and profound insight into the external environment, internal conditions, and future trends of China's economic development, inherits and develops Marx's theory of expanded reproduction in theory, and deepens our party's understanding of the regularity of modern industrial development. This series of important expositions is not only an important ideological crystallization of socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics but also a major theoretical innovation made to industrial economic theory, which not only further enriches and develops Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought but also provides scientific guidance in practice for consolidating the foundation of China's economic development, enhancing development security and stability, and enhancing China's survivability, competitiveness, development power, and sustainability, and provides Chinese wisdom for developing countries to cross the "middle-income trap."

Highlighting key points and accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must place the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions in a more prominent strategic position, take technological innovation as the guide, take the real economy as the foundation, adhere to the simultaneous advancement of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, actively develop emerging industries, and proactively lay out future industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system." We must closely focus on the goals to be achieved by economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, adhere to the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, focus on key areas, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and continuously strengthen the material and technical foundation of Chinese-style modernization.
Maintain a reasonable proportion of manufacturing and vigorously develop advanced manufacturing. With the advancement of industrialization, the proportion of manufacturing generally declines after reaching its peak, but a proportion that is too low will lead to industrial hollowing out, which will have an adverse impact on economic development. The proportion of manufacturing in China has generally declined since 2006, which is in line with the laws of industrialization development and is a normal phased phenomenon of industrial structure adjustment, but it cannot be allowed to continue to decline and fall below a reasonable proportion, otherwise it will shake the industrial foundation of socialist modernization. To this end, we must adhere to the clear guidance of developing manufacturing, take the establishment of a mechanism for maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing investment as the starting point, optimize the manufacturing development environment, and on the basis of stabilizing the existing stock of traditional manufacturing, use "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" to help manufacturing enterprises reduce costs and increase added value; strengthen key links in strengthening the chain, supplementing the chain, extending the chain, and consolidating the chain, further optimize the business environment, reduce institutional transaction costs, consolidate manufacturing efficiency and profits, and expand new space for manufacturing development. Promote the high-end, intelligent, green, and clustered development of manufacturing. Deeply implement the industrial foundation reengineering project, cultivate a number of "chain owner" enterprises and specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, and make full use of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and digital twins to build smart workshops and "black light factories" to develop intelligent manufacturing. Actively promote green design, green processes, and green supply chains, vigorously develop energy-saving and environmental protection equipment, clean energy equipment, accelerate the cultivation of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters, and form a strong scale effect and spillover effect.

Comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities and enhance the core competitiveness of the modern industrial system. Strengthening scientific and technological innovation, focusing on overcoming "bottleneck" technologies, deepening original innovation, and comprehensively enhancing independent innovation capabilities can not only ensure the independent control of China's modern industrial system, but also provide endogenous动力 for the continuous upgrading of the modern industrial system. To this end, we must give full play to the advantages of the new type of national system, increase the efforts to tackle key core technologies in key areas, and achieve decisive breakthroughs in key areas such as integrated circuits, industrial mother machines, high-end instruments, basic software, and advanced materials to ensure the safety and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain; strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research to provide a continuous supply of innovative achievements for the construction of a modern industrial system. Give play to the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation, support leading technology enterprises to take the lead in forming innovation consortia, promote the aggregation of various innovation resources to enterprises, vigorously cultivate leading technology enterprises and high-tech enterprises with leading core technologies and strong innovation capabilities, and promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain.

Promote the deep transformation and upgrading of industries and accelerate the overall leap in the industrial system. Traditional industries are the cornerstone of the modern industrial system. We must optimize and upgrade traditional industries, focus on the high-end development of traditional pillar industries such as mining, metallurgy, chemical industry, and machinery, promote technological transformation and upgrading, enhance their quality and technical foundation capabilities, promote their orderly transfer within the country, and better play their role as the "ballast stone" of the modern industrial system. Strategic emerging industries have a significant leading and driving role in the overall economic and social situation and long-term development. We must focus on strategic emerging industries such as new energy, aerospace, and the low-altitude economy, improve the industrial ecology, implement large-scale application demonstration actions for new technologies, new products, and new scenarios, and stimulate new momentum in the modern industrial system. Future industries are currently in the incubation stage or the initial stage of industrialization, and have the characteristics of being forward-looking, strategic, and disruptive. We must comprehensively consider factors such as national strategic needs, technological maturity, and element support conditions, and make forward-looking arrangements, scientific planning, and overall coordination in cutting-edge fields such as quantum technology, biomanufacturing, brain-computer interfaces, and sixth-generation mobile communications to cultivate and develop future industries. Modern service industries are the bridge connecting manufacturing and consumption. We must promote the high-quality and efficient development of service industries, promote the deep integration of modern productive service industries and advanced manufacturing, and provide important support for improving the overall efficiency of industries.

Build a modern infrastructure system to support the construction of a modern industrial system. Modern infrastructure is an organic part of the modern industrial system. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the construction of China's modern infrastructure system has been accelerating and achieving remarkable results. The main framework of the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has been basically completed, the modern information and communication system is globally leading, and a natural gas "national network" spanning east and west, running through north and south, and covering the whole country has been built, shortening the distance of time and space, smoothing the flow of people and logistics, and promoting the smooth flow and integrated aggregation of factors. The "Suggestions" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) made important deployments for building a modern infrastructure system. To implement this deployment, we must moderately advance the construction of new infrastructure, promote the construction and intensive and efficient utilization of information and communication networks, the national integrated computing power network, and major scientific and technological infrastructure, promote the updating and digital transformation of traditional infrastructure, help unblock data islands in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and consolidate the foundation for breaking through "bottleneck" technologies and strengthening original innovation. Improve the modern comprehensive transportation system, strengthen cross-regional overall layout and cross-mode integrated connection, strengthen coverage and access guarantees in weak areas, solve the pain points of the "last mile" of logistics, and better serve the construction of a unified national market. Focusing on ensuring infrastructure security, improve a diversified and resilient international transportation channel system, optimize energy backbone channels such as ultra-high voltage and oil and gas pipeline networks and new energy infrastructure such as smart microgrids, accelerate the construction of a modern water network, and promote the construction of urban public infrastructure for both peacetime and emergency use. At the same time, we should pay attention to calculating the input-output account and improve the degree of adaptation, so that we cannot ignore the shortcomings, nor can we be too advanced and cause waste.

(The author is the director of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).)

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Give Full Play to the Important Role of Forests in Creating "Gold and Silver Mountains" (Special In-depth Thinking)

By: 尹 俊

General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Promote the coordinated operation of forests as 'four treasuries': water reservoirs, money banks, grain stores, and carbon sinks. We must pay more attention to 'improving quality,' optimizing forest stand structure, managing forests well, and simultaneously improving grassland ecological quality. We must pay more attention to 'developing industries,' using reform methods to revitalize forest and grass resources and strengthen the forest and grass industry. We must pay more attention to 'benefiting the people,' adding greenery and beauty to the lives of the masses, and expanding employment and income opportunities in forestry and grassland." Forests are the main body and important resource of terrestrial ecosystems, and are a great treasure trove that integrates water reservoirs, money banks, grain stores, and carbon sinks. The functions of the forest's "four treasuries" are interdependent and mutually reinforcing, forming an organic whole. "Water reservoirs" and "carbon sinks" mainly reflect the natural value and ecological functions of forests, providing basic and long-term ecological support for economic and social development through water conservation, soil and water conservation, windbreak and sand fixation, climate regulation, carbon sequestration and oxygen release. "Money banks" and "grain stores" mainly reflect the economic value and people's livelihood functions of forests, transforming ecological advantages into real productivity and people's well-being through the development of forest foods, under-forest economy and other forestry industries.

Promoting better coordination of the forest's "four treasuries" is an inherent requirement for practicing the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, achieving the unity of ecological, economic, and social benefits, and promoting the coordinated progress of ecological protection, economic development, and improvement of people's livelihoods. "Water reservoirs" and "carbon sinks" are the ecological premise and material basis of "money banks" and "grain stores," determining the ecological boundary of sustainable utilization of forest resources. "Money banks" and "grain stores" are important carriers for the realization of the value of "water reservoirs" and "carbon sinks," and also provide stable economic support and endogenous impetus for ecological protection. The "four treasuries" linkage is not a simple superposition of four types of functions, but rather a need to adhere to a systematic concept, forming a virtuous circle of "using water to nourish forests, using forests to produce grain, using grain to promote production, and using production to consolidate carbon," achieving simultaneous improvement in quality, development of industries, and benefit to the people, and comprehensively exerting the multiple benefits of forests at a higher level.

Pay more attention to "improving quality," improving the ecological quality of forests, and enhancing the functions of "water reservoirs" and "carbon sinks." Since the new era, China's forest resources have steadily increased, and the forest coverage rate has exceeded 25%, making it the country with the most and fastest increase in greening in the world. As the scale of forest resources continues to expand, it is necessary to scientifically grasp the relationship between "quantity growth" and "quality improvement," and put more effort into "improving quality," implementing forest quality precision improvement projects, and consolidating the ecological foundation of "water reservoirs" and "carbon sinks." For example, Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江) has carried out forest quality improvement and transformation, promoted comprehensive management of forest fires and pests and diseases, and governed and protected greenery in accordance with the law, guarding every tree and every forest to ensure that the ecological functions of forests are fully utilized. In terms of optimizing forest stand structure, it is necessary to select tree species and forest types scientifically according to local conditions, strengthen technological innovation and empowerment, rationally determine forest stand density and spatial layout, and improve forest stand structure through replanting and renewal, structural adjustment, and other methods. More attention should be paid to scientific and intensive forest management, adhering to the priority of protection, doing a good job in zoning and classification management, summarizing and promoting the mature experience of sustainable forest management pilot projects, improving management mechanisms and technical specifications, promoting the transformation of forest management from extensive to refined, and continuously improving forest carbon sink capacity, providing solid support for the "four treasuries" linkage of forests.

Pay more attention to "developing industries," promoting the diversified development of forestry, and unblocking the transformation path of "money banks" and "grain stores." The "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035," adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, proposed: "Develop the under-forest economy and strengthen the forest and grass industry." Based on the "four treasuries" linkage to promote "industrial development," the key lies in sustainably transforming the ecological advantages of forests into the real benefits of "money banks" and "grain stores." The forestry industry has a wide coverage and a long industrial chain, involving many formats such as under-forest economy, forest food, ecological tourism, and forest health care. Reform should be taken as a powerful driving force for promoting the high-quality development of the forestry industry, further deepening the reform of the collective forest tenure system and the state-owned forest farm reform, and promoting the forestry industry to develop in the direction of green, high-quality, characteristic, and branded. For example, Chongqing (重庆) has improved the operating mechanism of the "separation of three rights" of collective forest land ownership, contracting rights, and management rights, and guided farmers to transfer forest land management rights through leasing, shareholding, cooperation, and other methods, relying on the city's unified forest rights transfer and transaction platform to promote moderate-scale operation. Adhere to market demand as the orientation, coordinate and innovate science and technology policies, management systems, forest rights transactions, and financial services, accelerate the development of new forestry industries and new formats, help forest ecological industrialization and industrial ecology, extend the forestry industrial chain and value chain, and promote the diversified development and expansion of the forestry industry.

Pay more attention to "benefiting the people," synergistically promoting the expansion of greenery and beauty and the increase of employment and income, so that the "four treasuries" linkage benefits the people. The beautiful forest environment is an important ecological space for the production and life of the people, and it is a universal people's livelihood and well-being. To promote better coordination of the forest's "four treasuries," it is necessary to practice the people-centered development ideology and take enhancing the people's well-being as the starting point. On the one hand, relying on the ecological advantages of the forest's "water reservoirs" and "carbon sinks," continue to promote the construction of forest cities and forest villages, improve the urban and rural living environment, expand high-quality ecological space according to local conditions, and provide the people with more green space to get close to nature, relax, and recuperate. Organically combine ecological civilization construction and spiritual civilization construction, cultivate the ecological civilization concept of respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature, and accelerate the formation of a green production and lifestyle. On the other hand, by making the forest's "money banks" and "grain stores" bigger and stronger, the results of industrial development should be more reflected in the people's high-quality and full employment and sustained income increase. Support the diversified operation of the forestry industry, realize the integration of decentralized resources and professional operation through diversified operation methods, promote the development of the forestry industry, and expand the employment space for forest farmers. For example, the Dabie Mountain (大别山) National Nature Reserve (国家级自然保护区) in Henan (河南) relies on its excellent forestry resources to develop various tourism products such as forest health care and leisure vacations, which effectively drives the employment of local forest farmers and helps the poor population achieve stable poverty alleviation. Improve the interest linkage and income distribution mechanism, expand the sources of property and operating income of forest farmers, ensure that forest farmers steadily share the value-added income of the forestry industry, and make forests truly become the people's "healthy forests," "wealthy forests," and "happy forests."

(The author is a researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Institute (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究院) at Peking University (北京大学).)

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JD Industrial Boosts Digital and Intelligent Upgrade of Industrial Supply Chains by Promoting the Construction of Commodity Standardization and Price Index System

With the continuous advancement of new industrialization, improving the efficiency of industrial chain collaboration and the level of supply chain integration and coordination, and carrying out cost reduction and efficiency improvement work more efficiently around the supply chain, have become important paths for the development of industrial industries. As an important part of the supply chain, procurement is an important entry point and breakthrough for industrial enterprises to promote digital transformation, and it is also a "first move" to open up the entire chain of collaboration.

Continuously promoting the digital upgrade of procurement in industrial enterprises can not only effectively improve the level of supply chain integration and coordination, drive the industry to reduce costs and increase efficiency on the basis of compliance, but also create a benchmark for supply chain digitalization, and drive technological innovation and high-quality development of the real economy.

The "Research Report on Digital Supply Chain Helping New Industrialization" jointly released by JD Industrial and the Guoyan Big Data Research Institute shows that the total cost of China's industrial supply chain in 2024 is about 115.2 trillion yuan, and through supply chain innovation optimization and digital transformation, Chinese industrial enterprises can reduce supply chain costs by about 6.8 trillion yuan. As an industrial supply chain service provider, JD Industrial is committed to empowering supply chain cost reduction and efficiency improvement with digital upgrades, thereby expanding growth space for the development of the vast number of industrial enterprises.

Building a "Unified Language" for Industrial Products

Using commodity standardization as the foundation for supply chain upgrades

As the digital upgrade of the supply chain has become a common choice for cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the industrial industry, the pain points of industrial product procurement have become increasingly prominent. In particular, MRO (non-production materials), including tools, consumables, labor protection products, and other operation and maintenance materials, its characteristics of "small, miscellaneous, scattered, and chaotic" make it difficult to unify standards for procurement management.

For many years, most industrial products have been purchased offline, and information such as historical transaction data, procurement amount, number of suppliers, and supplier introduction is not transparent. At the same time, many companies have built their own information systems and commodity systems, and the naming methods of commodities are "vernacularized." The same product has a large number of non-standard naming problems in the system, which not only makes it impossible to associate replaceable product models of different brands, but even the same commodity has multiple names in the procurement system. This makes it impossible for companies to find target products and optimal suppliers accurately and efficiently during procurement, lacks an effective basis for price comparison, which leads to increased procurement costs and low procurement efficiency.

JD Industrial believes that the industrial supply chain field needs a unified commodity "language system." Taking this as an entry point, JD Industrial has created the Mercator Standard Commodity Library. Through technologies such as deep learning, it analyzes the categories and attributes of standardized commodities, commodity manufacturers, and other related information, and uses commodity information on the supply chain and the knowledge and experience of industry experts. Through a large amount of data cleaning and extraction, it finally forms a set of commodity parameter systems with unified definitions and consistent specifications, effectively reducing communication and transaction costs in the procurement process.

At present, the Mercator Standard Commodity Library has been applied in the industrial supply chain and has played a clear value. The first is to make industrial products findable and accurate. For example, an energy company once faced a circuit breaker supply problem. Relying on the digital sourcing system of the Mercator Standard Commodity Library, JD Industrial quickly and accurately locked in the product and surrounding inventory, and delivered the circuit breaker to the company in a timely manner. The second is to supply quickly and buy at value. The previous tool procurement process of a large machinery manufacturing company took at least 20 days. After JD Industrial helped it complete the digital upgrade of the supply chain based on commodity standardization, the company's procurement cycle for corresponding categories was shortened to 3-5 days, and procurement costs also decreased significantly.

JD Industrial released the industry's first industrial AI large model, JoyIndustrial, to drive industrial supply chain efficiency reform with "data + intelligence" and provide an engine for cost reduction and efficiency improvement in various industries. The model relies on over 97.7 million industrial product SKU (stock keeping unit) data and training accumulated in more than 40 subdivided industries to serve a large number of key industrial enterprises. Through AI commodity review, AI same-product identification, and AI commodity standardization, it specifically solves the problems of high labor costs, large field span, high professional requirements, and large compliance risks in commodity standardization. The amount of data accumulated in 2025 alone exceeds the accumulation of the previous 5 years.

JD Industrial also launched the "Gong Pin Cha" (工品查) intelligent agent. As the industry's first AI commodity and material governance center independently developed based on a knowledge base of tens of millions of commodities, the "Gong Pin Cha" intelligent agent has built-in multi-modal understanding and interaction capabilities, covering 40 key scenarios such as material standardization, same-product identification, category mapping, attribute specification, main image compliance, and specification identification, forming a new paradigm for enterprise material commodity governance, and compressing the governance time of hundreds of thousands of materials from "month level" to "hour level."

Taking an energy central enterprise as an example, the "Gong Pin Cha" intelligent agent quickly built an exclusive solution that meets its procurement process, automatically completed the clustering of the same products, batch review, and attribute completion, significantly reducing labor costs while ensuring quality and compliance.

Creating an Industrial Product Price Index System

Providing price reference for procurement by central state-owned enterprises

In the field of industrial product procurement, the industry generally lacks a fair price system, and companies may face compliance risks and unreasonable procurement costs due to the lack of procurement price reference.

As the main support and rigid demand factor for the high-quality development of the industrial supply chain industry, the value and role of the industrial product price index has become an industry consensus. The standardization of industrial products has laid a solid foundation for building a price index. Only by establishing a "unified language" and breaking the "vernacular" obstacles can we build a truly valuable price reference coordinate system.

Relying on serving more than 13,000 large enterprises and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises, with more than 97.7 million industrial product SKUs and the leading scale advantage in China's MRO procurement service market, coupled with the accumulation of technology and innovation capabilities in commodity standardization, industrial large models, and intelligent agents, as well as in-depth practice in the field of industrial product price sorting and fair price systems, JD Industrial has a solid data foundation for building an industrial product price index.

At present, JD Industrial has completed the construction and business integration of the industrial product price index, effectively improving the level of procurement compliance management, and will accelerate its application in central state-owned enterprises with cooperative relationships, providing solid support for the digital procurement of industrial products by central state-owned enterprises, and is committed to guiding the entire market to accelerate the embrace of the industrial product mall procurement model, continuously promoting the digital transformation and upgrading of industrial product procurement by central state-owned enterprises, and injecting key momentum into the industry to build a long-term development mechanism and optimize the overall procurement ecosystem.

In response to the full-process control needs of procurement by central state-owned enterprises, JD Industrial deeply embeds the industrial product price index into the entire process of "ex-ante budget - in-process control - ex-post audit" to form scenario-based compliance empowerment, helping central state-owned enterprises improve their procurement price management capabilities.

In the budget formulation stage, enterprises can call the JD Industrial Product Price Index as a commodity price reference to formulate procurement categories and procurement budgets; when commodities are put on the shelves, selected, and ordered, operations and procurement personnel can use the JD Industrial Product Price Index to evaluate the rationality of prices; procurement personnel can retain the transaction price of the order and the current JD Industrial Product Price Index as vouchers in a snapshot manner to form a basis for procurement price compliance; enterprises can also call the Industrial Product Price Index to judge and warn of abnormal price fluctuations of mall commodities, analyze procurement cost change trends, and assist in optimizing procurement strategies.

In order to better integrate into the digital procurement ecosystem of central state-owned enterprises, JD Industrial comprehensively integrates commodity standardization and price index systems into the JD Industrial Tai Pu (太璞) digital-real integrated supply chain solution to help the steady development of e-commerce procurement business of central state-owned enterprises.

For example, JD Industrial provides a digital procurement solution for a new energy vehicle manufacturer. Through data dashboards, it realizes automatic online commodity sourcing and price comparison, and empowers commodity governance and standard product construction based on the Mercator Standard Commodity Library, adjusts the number of medium and long-tail material suppliers, so that the supplier management cost is reduced by more than 50%; through on-site inspections of use scenarios and specification parameter identification, it provides localization substitution solutions for welding and cutting accessories, abrasive tools, and other categories, and the cost reduction range of different categories can reach 5%-30%.

In the long-term process of serving the digital transformation of the industrial supply chain, JD Industrial has grown into a leading industrial supply chain technology and solution service provider, serving approximately 60% of the "Fortune" China 500 companies and over 40% of the "Fortune" Global 500 companies in China. JD Industrial is using its digital-real integrated service capabilities to help the digital upgrade of the industry, adding momentum to industrial enterprises to build new supply chain competitive advantages in an increasingly complex market environment.

Data source: JD Industrial

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Striving to Write the Gansu Chapter of Chinese-Style Modernization

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Gansu (甘肃) Province, from top to bottom, set its sights on the goal of "accelerating the construction of a happy and beautiful new Gansu (甘肃), continuously creating a new situation of enriching the people and revitalizing Gansu (甘肃), and striving to write a Gansu (甘肃) chapter of Chinese-style modernization," forging ahead with determination and catching up. In 2025, Gansu (甘肃) successfully completed its annual target tasks. The province's gross regional product reached 1,369.75 billion yuan, an increase of 33.6% compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan," a year-on-year increase of 5.8%, ranking second in the country in terms of growth rate. Its comprehensive strength rapidly increased, industrial development was upgraded and renewed, open cooperation yielded fruitful results, people's well-being was comprehensively improved, development security was effectively coordinated, and new achievements were made in the construction of a happy and beautiful new Gansu (甘肃), achieving a successful conclusion to the "14th Five-Year Plan."

Industrial Transformation from "Old" to "New"

As an old industrial base in the west, Gansu (甘肃) adheres to the unwavering principles of strengthening the province through industry and revitalizing the province through industry, actively promoting new industrialization, developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system that reflects Gansu's (甘肃) characteristics and advantages.

It has deeply implemented the strong industry action, taking the creation of a national regional modern manufacturing base as a traction, promoting the quality and upgrading of key industries such as non-ferrous metallurgy, petrochemicals, photovoltaics, and new materials. The output value of 14 key industrial chains reached 1.62 trillion yuan.

Efforts have been stepped up to build a national important new energy and new energy equipment manufacturing base, forming three complete industrial chains for new energy equipment manufacturing: photovoltaic, wind power, and solar thermal. The Qingyang (庆阳) data center cluster has grown from scratch, integrating digital and real economies, with a computing power scale of 114,000 P. The "Longdian (陇电) Power Transmission" project is actively promoted, benefiting 26 provinces with green electricity from Longyuan (陇原).

Adhering to placing scientific and technological innovation at the core of the overall modernization construction, planning and implementing strong science and technology actions, and overcoming a number of key core technologies, key common technologies, and cutting-edge technologies, innovation achievements in fields such as thorium-based molten salt experimental reactors and ionic liquid hydrogen compressors continue to emerge.

Vigorously developing modern cold and arid characteristic agriculture, the "cattle, sheep, vegetables, fruits, potatoes, medicinal herbs, grains, and seeds" eight characteristic industries have achieved full industrial chain development, with an output value of 620 billion yuan.

Reform Speed from "Slow" to "Fast"

Gansu (甘肃) deepens reform and expands opening-up with greater courage and determination, focusing on solving the bottleneck problems restricting high-quality development.

Continuing to promote the three-year action for state-owned enterprise reform and the deepening and upgrading action for state-owned enterprise reform, allowing state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises to regain vitality, the total industrial output value and profits of provincial state-owned enterprises have doubled, and the contribution rate of provincial-level industrial enterprises above designated size to the province's industrial growth above designated size has reached 39.7%.

Continuing to carry out the actions of "Breakthrough Year for Optimizing the Business Environment," "Quality Improvement and Efficiency Enhancement Year," and "Comprehensive Improvement Year," the construction of the business environment is "leading in the west and among the top in the country." The first phase of the National Data Infrastructure (Gansu) (甘肃) Regional Functional Node project has been completed, and the market-oriented allocation reform of data elements has taken a key step. Public resource transactions have achieved a "province-wide network."

Focusing on expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world, deeply integrating into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. 26 international freight train routes and 11 international freight routes have been opened. 58 overseas warehouses have been built, 260 new foreign-funded enterprises have been established, and the total value of foreign trade import and export has exceeded 70 billion yuan, with an average annual increase of 13.2%.

Deeply carrying out the "Attracting Large, Strong, and Leading" action, investment promotion has repeatedly reached new highs, and the funds in place for projects signed from outside the province have increased by an average of 26.4% annually.

Ecological Path from "Governance" to "Beauty"

Always regarding ecological civilization construction as a major political task and a bottom-line task, establishing the "three major mechanisms" of ecological protection in the Qilian Mountains (祁连山) National Nature Reserve, ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and comprehensive prevention and control of desertification, deeply implementing the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project, and making every effort to fight the "seven landmark battles" to resolutely build a national western ecological security barrier.

Deeply promoting the comprehensive management of the Yellow River (黄河) main stream and major tributaries, the water quality of the Yellow River (黄河) Gansu (甘肃) section at the exit section remains stable at Class II, and the water conservation and supply of the Yellow River (黄河) upstream has increased by nearly 1.3 billion cubic meters.

Continuously promoting the Blue Sky, Clear Water, and Pure Land Defense War, the ratio of days with excellent air quality in cities is 93.5%, and the air quality of 14 cities and prefectures has fully met the standards. The ratio of surface water sections under national control with excellent water quality is 97.3%.

Deeply promoting the construction of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project, fighting the tough battle of the "Several Bends" of the Yellow River (黄河) and the blocking battle on the edge of the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) - Taklamakan Desert, the area of desertified and sandy land shows a "double reduction" trend of decreasing area and degree. Implementing the "Greening Longyuan (陇原)" action, completing afforestation of 22.1454 million mu.

Deepening the reform of the collective forest tenure system, developing the under-forest economy, and strengthening the forest and grass industry, the annual output value of the province's forest and grass industry has exceeded 100 billion yuan.

Ecological priority and green development have increasingly become the distinct background color of Gansu's (甘肃) high-quality development.

Cultural Prosperity from "Revival" to "Flourishing"

Firmly establishing cultural confidence, anchoring the goal of a strong cultural and tourism province, taking the deepening of cultural system and mechanism reform as the traction, and taking the "eight ones" cultural brand as the starting point, based on the profound cultural heritage, coordinating and promoting the development of cultural undertakings, cultural industries, and tourism.

Promoting the Dunhuang Academy (敦煌研究院) to build a model for the protection of world cultural heritage and a highland for Dunhuang studies, releasing the "Gansu Province Grotto Temple Protection and Management Guidelines," approving the establishment of the China-Kyrgyzstan Cultural Heritage Protection "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory, initiating and implementing more than 60 Dunhuang studies research projects, and the "Digital Sutra Cave" database platform has been successfully launched.

The construction of the National Cultural Park and the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) National Heritage Route is accelerating, and cultural heritage management systems such as the protection of traditional villages, archival document heritage, and investigation and identification methods for red resources have been introduced to strengthen the systematic protection of cultural heritage.

The vitality of cultural innovation and creation continues to burst forth. Gansu (甘肃) has deeply implemented the "Longyuan (陇原) Literary and Art Peak Climbing Project," and literary and artistic creation presents a good trend of increasing quantity and quality. A provincial-level art fund has been established, with an annual investment of 30 million yuan to support literary and artistic creation. The movie "Born to Fly," the musical "Flying Apsaras," and the song "She Who Pillows on Light" won the "Five-One Project" award. The innovative paired co-construction mechanism and online broadcasting revenue model of "One County, One Troupe" help enhance creation and performance capabilities and management levels.

Cultural and tourism integration connects tradition and modernity. In Dunhuang (敦煌), the Mingsha Mountain (鸣沙山) Starry Sky Concert "lights up" the Yueya Spring (月牙泉) night scene, and formats such as the Dunhuang Bookstore, Dunhuang Printing Bureau, and Dunhuang Unlimited are out of the circle and colorful; in the Hexi (河西) Metropolitan Scenic Area in Wuwei (武威) City, Hanfu flash mobs, water dance light shows, and immersive scene stage plays "Tianma Xing" allow tourists to "travel through" thousands of years...

Gansu (甘肃) stimulates the strong development momentum of the cultural and tourism market by deeply exploring cultural resources and innovating tourism carriers. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it has cumulatively received 1.752 billion tourists and tourism expenditure of 1.27 trillion yuan, an increase of 32.9% and 41.6% respectively year-on-year. In 2025 alone, the province carried out more than 230,000 various cultural benefit activities, screened 200,000 public welfare films, and planned and carried out nearly 3,000 national reading promotion activities. The public cultural service network has been continuously improved, and the cultural gains and happiness of urban and rural people have been significantly enhanced. The status of the cultural and tourism industry as a strategic pillar industry and a people-enriching industry in the province has become increasingly prominent.

People's Livelihood Improvement from "Having" to "Excellence"

The "Paired Assistance · Loving Gansu (甘肃)" project is an important people's livelihood project deployed by the Gansu (甘肃) Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. Since the launch of the project, the entire province has deeply mobilized and widely participated. All levels and departments have introduced a series of pragmatic and precise care measures, forming a vivid situation of supporting the weak, helping the poor, and solving difficulties. In 2025, paired cadres handled 180,000 practical matters, expanded the pairing of 3,642 economically disadvantaged left-behind children and 1,651 households affected by mountain floods, earthquakes, and other disasters.

Continuously increasing efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihood, the proportion of people's livelihood expenditure in general public budget expenditure remains above 80%, and the per capita disposable income of all residents increases by an average of 6.8% annually.

Taking multiple measures to continuously consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation, innovating and establishing a "one-click declaration" mechanism, accurately identifying and assisting 166,000 monitored objects with 705,000 people, with a risk elimination rate of 78.8%, and the income growth rate of farmers in poverty-stricken areas has been higher than the provincial average for five consecutive years. Implementing the first phase of the ecological and geological disaster risk avoidance relocation project, allowing 130,700 households and 460,000 people to realize their "dream of a secure home."

Social undertakings are developing well, and people's well-being is continuously improving. An average of 300,000 new urban jobs are added annually, and more than 5 million surplus rural labor forces are transferred. The "Strengthening Counties and Increasing Degrees" project has added 131,000 compulsory education degrees in urban areas of cities and prefectures, and the "Revitalizing County High Schools" project has improved the school-running capabilities of 40 ordinary high schools. 125 county-level medical consortia have been built in an orderly manner, the construction of 4 national-level regional medical centers is progressing smoothly, and the construction of 3 provincial-level regional medical centers is accelerating. 520 comprehensive elderly care service centers in townships (streets) and 900 mutual assistance happiness homes at the village level have been built. 167,200 sets of shantytowns and 6,594 old urban communities have been renovated.

Infrastructure Support from "Weak" to "Strong"

Coordinating and promoting the improvement of hardware and software infrastructure, focusing on strengthening the support and guarantee for development.

Accelerating the construction of a modern infrastructure system, adding 639 kilometers of railway operating mileage, adding 2,600 kilometers of expressways (first-class highways), 3,000 kilometers of rural roads, and 36,600 kilometers of hardened roads to natural village groups. Completing water conservancy investment of over 100 billion yuan, a number of water conservancy projects concerning people's livelihood improvement and ecological protection have been completed and put into operation, and the popularization rate of rural tap water has reached 95%. 89,900 5G base stations have been built, covering more than 95% of administrative villages.

In addition to stepping up efforts to promote visible and tangible hardware infrastructure, Gansu (甘肃) pays more attention to consolidating software infrastructure such as systems and mechanisms, work style efficiency, and basic skills. Deeply carrying out the actions of "Grasping Learning to Promote Improvement, Grasping Execution to Promote Implementation, and Grasping Efficiency to Promote Development," a new atmosphere of diligent learning, genuine grasping, and practical work has been formed throughout the province. The majority of party members and cadres dare to act, dare to break through, dare to do, and dare to be the first to promote the continuous creation of new situations in various undertakings throughout the province.

This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and a crucial year for Gansu (甘肃) to catch up and move up. Gansu (甘肃) will deeply implement the actions of strengthening science and technology, strengthening industry, strengthening counties, strengthening the provincial capital, and strengthening infrastructure, accelerate the promotion of new industrialization, new urbanization, and agricultural and rural modernization, accelerate the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, step up efforts to build "seven places, one screen, and one channel," and make every effort to promote a good start and a good step for the "15th Five-Year Plan," and strive to write a Gansu (甘肃) chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Gansu (甘肃) Provincial Committee

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