Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's focus on cadres developing a "correct view of achievement" (正确政绩观), which prioritizes the people's interests above personal or factional gain. Xi stressed the importance of avoiding superficial projects and focusing on long-term, sustainable development that benefits the populace. He cited his own past work in various provinces as examples of prioritizing the people, and evoked the spirit of the cadre Gu Wenchang. Cadres are urged to avoid actions that run counter to the party line, national conditions, or local realities. The article also mentions the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" (十五五), and overall pushes for a "Chinese-style modernization" (中国式现代化).
Summary: Sichuan province is implementing measures to bolster technological innovation, following Xi Jinping's directives to strengthen original innovation and achieve breakthroughs in core technologies, with the aim of becoming a western innovation hub. These measures include optimizing the innovation resource layout, constructing efficient technology transfer systems (like the "揭榜挂帅" program), and strengthening the role of enterprises in technological innovation, including policy support for high-tech companies and research initiatives. Sichuan aims to significantly increase high-value invention patents and technology contract turnover. Sichuan Party Secretary Wang Xiaohui stated the province will strive to open new fields and create new advantages through scientific and technological innovation, in order to build a western innovation hub. No information was given regarding the United States.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired the State Council's plenary meeting, emphasizing the thorough implementation of Xi Jinping's directives from the Two Sessions and the deployment of key tasks for 2026. Li stressed the importance of understanding Xi's strategic insights, proactively addressing challenges, and maintaining strategic focus in a complex environment. He outlined key areas including unified market construction, service sector enhancement, intelligent manufacturing, infrastructure development, investment in people, and responding to external shocks. Li also called for education on a correct view of performance, aligning government work with the Party's goals. Key figures from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Health Commission, and the People's Bank of China spoke at the meeting.
Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping's emphasis on infrastructure development as an integral part of China's modernization, framing the current era as a "new Long March." It discusses advancements in China's infrastructure, including high-speed rail and railways in Africa built by Chinese companies, which the author sees as surpassing initial goals and setting new standards. The article contrasts China's achievements with past aspirations and emphasizes the CPC's commitment to improving people's lives. It also asserts China's commitment to open cooperation and mutual benefit with other countries, contrasting this with global economic challenges and promoting the Belt and Road Initiative. The article concludes by emphasizing self-reliance and overcoming strategic shortages in the face of external pressure.
Summary: According to the Supreme People's Court report delivered to the National People's Congress, the court concluded 31,958 cases in 2025, a decrease of 1.8% year-on-year. The report highlighted the court's efforts in safeguarding national security, including punishing "Taiwan independence" separatists and combating crimes related to smuggling rare earth minerals. The court also addressed various economic crimes, emphasizing the protection of property rights and the need to maintain fair competition within the market. The report noted the importance of international cooperation in global governance and legal exchanges, including in the realm of maritime law. The report did not mention the United States directly.
Summary: Reporting to the National People's Congress, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) highlighted its 2025 work, focusing on national security, economic development, and public interest. The SPP mentioned prosecuting individuals involved in "Taiwan independence" and combating cross-border telecom fraud, including those operating in northern Myanmar. The report emphasized efforts to protect intellectual property, particularly in the semiconductor industry, and to strengthen judicial protection in areas such as environmental protection, food and drug safety, and labor rights. Looking ahead to 2026, the SPP prioritized upholding national security, serving high-quality development, deepening public-centered procuratorial work, strengthening procuratorial supervision, advancing public interest litigation, and strengthening the procuratorial team.
Summary: A joint Chinese-Romanian archaeological project at the Dobrovăț site in Romania, focusing on the Cucuteni culture, has concluded a phase marked by an exhibition in Iași. Chinese researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in collaboration with Romanian counterparts, unearthed red-burnt earth houses and pottery, drawing parallels with China's Yangshao and Majiayao cultures. The project, initiated after a 2017 academic exchange, aimed to compare prehistoric cultures through fieldwork, utilizing modern technologies such as drones and 3D modeling. Chinese scholars emphasized that the project allowed them to re-examine Chinese prehistoric society in a broader context. Both sides emphasized the importance of equal academic dialogue and mutual learning between different civilizations.
Summary: In Paris, Vice Premier He Lifeng, China's lead on economic and trade issues, met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Trade Representative Katherine Tai for economic and trade consultations. He Lifeng stated that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled U.S. tariffs based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act as illegal, criticized additional U.S. trade measures, and urged the U.S. to eliminate unilateral tariffs. The U.S. side emphasized the importance of stable U.S.-China economic relations for global growth and stability. Both sides agreed to explore a cooperation mechanism to promote bilateral trade and investment and continue utilizing the U.S.-China economic and trade consultation mechanism.
Summary: The article argues that Japan, under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, is exhibiting a resurgence of "new militarism," characterized by a desire to shed post-WWII constraints and become a military power, with Takaichi acting as an "accelerator" towards remilitarization. This "new militarism" is described as more deceptive, using "peace" and "defense" as a guise while pushing for constitutional revision and increased military spending. The author contends that this trend, driven by historical revisionism and economic anxieties, threatens regional stability and the post-war international order. The article also criticizes Japan's growing alignment with the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy." The author urges international vigilance to curb this perceived dangerous trend.
Summary: The inaugural ministerial-level "3+3" strategic dialogue between China and Vietnam was held in Hanoi, with Wang Yi, Wang Xiaohong, and Dong Jun meeting their Vietnamese counterparts to discuss international developments, political security, and defense/law enforcement cooperation. Wang Yi emphasized the importance of the mechanism, created at the suggestion of Xi Jinping, as a platform for strategic communication to safeguard political systems and deepen collaboration, especially within multilateral platforms like China-ASEAN and BRICS. Wang Xiaohong called for strengthened law enforcement cooperation in areas like cybersecurity and drug enforcement. Both sides acknowledged the challenges posed by global instability and the need to uphold the UN-centered international system and international law.
Summary: Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary To Lam met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong, and Defense Minister Dong Jun in Hanoi during the inaugural ministerial meeting of the "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism. To Lam conveyed his best wishes to Xi Jinping and reiterated Vietnam's commitment to the One China policy, emphasizing that Vietnam prioritizes its relationship with China and supports Xi's global initiatives. Wang Yi, who also met with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and held talks with Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung, conveyed Xi Jinping's greetings to To Lam and stated that the "3+3" mechanism reflects the high-level political trust between the two countries. Wang Yi framed China as a "mainstay" in a turbulent world. The dialogue focused on coordinating development and security and jointly addressing challenges.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Peng Qinghua met with Canadian parliamentarians Senator Jaffer and MP Rooderick in Beijing. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on bilateral relations, exchanges between legislative bodies, and issues of common concern. The article doesn't specifically mention the United States or U.S.-China relations, focusing instead on China-Canada parliamentary dialogue.
Summary: Turkmenistan's National Leader and Chairman of the People's Council, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, will visit China from March 17-19 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. The visit is characterized as a "friendly visit," indicating a focus on strengthening bilateral ties. The announcement, made by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson, suggests a high-level engagement between the two countries. No further details were provided regarding specific agenda items or accompanying officials. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At a State Council Information Office press conference on March 16th, National Bureau of Statistics spokesperson Fu Linghui reported that China's economy showed a clear rebound in the first two months of 2024, with key economic indicators rising steadily. Investment grew by 1.8%, driven by infrastructure and manufacturing, while industrial production increased by 6.3%, supported by equipment manufacturing and emerging industries. Consumer prices rose modestly, and producer prices saw a narrowing decline. Fu Linghui acknowledged challenges from the complex international environment and domestic issues, emphasizing the need for proactive policies to expand domestic demand and optimize supply. He also noted that recent fluctuations in international energy prices have had a certain impact on domestic prices.
Summary: The article highlights China's positive economic performance in the first two months of the year, characterized by increased investment, moderate inflation, stable production and demand, and resilient foreign trade, setting a positive tone for the "15th Five-Year Plan." This strong start underscores the fundamental strength and resilience of the Chinese economy amidst global uncertainties. The positive results are attributed to proactive efforts across various sectors, from macroeconomic policy implementation to regional innovation and business development. The article emphasizes the importance of maintaining this momentum to achieve the annual development goals set during the recent Two Sessions.
Summary: Following U.S.-China economic and trade consultations in Paris, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, the head of the Chinese side of the China-France High-Level Economic and Financial Dialogue, met with French Minister Bruno Le Maire to discuss Sino-French economic and financial cooperation and issues of mutual interest. He Lifeng stated China's willingness to work with France to deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields and briefed the French side on the U.S.-China consultations. Le Maire affirmed France's strong interest in cooperating with China to promote practical cooperation in economic and financial areas.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of balancing speed and prudence in governance, drawing lessons from Xi Jinping's past leadership in Fujian and Zhejiang. It highlights Xi's focus on efficient execution ("immediately implement") while adhering to regulations ("red light theory") to avoid reckless development. It stresses that true achievements come from prioritizing the people's interests and acting within established rules, not from cutting corners. The article suggests that this approach is crucial for high-quality development in the current "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Shenzhou-21 crew, composed of astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang, successfully completed their second extravehicular activity (EVA) on March 16, 2026, installing space debris protection devices with assistance from the space station's robotic arm and ground personnel. Astronauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei returned safely to the Wentian experimental module after the 7-hour EVA. Zhang Lu has performed six EVAs, making him one of China's most experienced spacewalkers. Since their first EVA on December 9, 2025, the crew has been conducting equipment maintenance, health monitoring, and various experiments in space life science, microgravity physics, and new space technologies. Further EVAs and scientific experiments are planned for the remainder of the mission.
Summary: The Beijing-Xiongan New Area commuter express bus line officially launched on March 16th after a year of trial operations. The service connects key transportation hubs and areas with high concentrations of people and industry in both Beijing and Xiongan. The Beijing end covers nine important transit hubs, while the Xiongan end links business service centers and concentrated areas of relocated enterprises like the Zhongguancun Science Park. This initiative aims to facilitate transportation between the capital and the newly developed economic zone. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chongqing's Yongchuan District and Sichuan's Luzhou County have overcome administrative divisions to collaborate on rice production. In 2023, Yongchuan "lent" a pipeline passage to Luzhou, who in return "gave" Yongchuan surplus agricultural water, improving irrigation and drinking water access on both sides. Capitalizing on the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone initiative, ten villages from both towns formed a joint agricultural company to develop the rice industry. By combining Sichuan's seed and technology with Chongqing's land and labor, they have improved rice quality, secured large orders, and increased farmers' income.
Summary: As of March 15th, sixteen provinces in China have initiated spring irrigation, supplying 4.9 billion cubic meters of water to irrigate 57 million mu of land. National key reservoirs hold 497.3 billion cubic meters of water, nearly 10% more than the usual amount for this time of year. The Ministry of Water Resources has increased the discharge flow from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir, with Shandong and Henan diverting Yellow River water in advance. Southern rice-growing regions are accelerating farmland water conservancy dredging and repairing water-damaged projects. The report makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A nine-department joint initiative, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, has released a "Work Injury Prevention Five-Year Action Plan (2026-2030)" focusing on reducing work-related injuries during China's 15th Five-Year Plan. The plan prioritizes work injury prevention, aiming for a continued decrease in workplace accidents, targeting a 10% reduction in key industries and new employment sectors, including platform enterprises. The plan emphasizes using AI to prevent work injuries. The plan also aims to improve the monitoring and regulation of work injuries.
Summary: A joint Chinese-Romanian archaeological project at the Dobrovat site in Romania, focusing on the Cucuteni culture, recently concluded a phase with an exhibition in Iasi. Chinese archaeologists, including Wen Chenghao, collaborated with Romanian researchers like Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici to study prehistoric settlements and painted pottery, drawing comparisons between the Cucuteni culture and China's Yangshao and Majiayao cultures. The collaboration involved the use of modern archaeological techniques and fostered academic exchange, with Romanian researchers highlighting the Chinese team's meticulous approach. Researchers suggest these collaborations provide a counterpoint to earlier Western theories about the origins of Chinese civilization by promoting equal academic dialogue. The project highlights the value of intercultural exchange and understanding in archaeological research.
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Summary: The article highlights China's ambition to shape the future through its domestic policies and international engagement, emphasizing the recently concluded "Two Sessions" and the "15th Five-Year Plan." It cites international figures, including UN Secretary-General Guterres and Canadian Prime Minister Carney, who recognize China's global influence and economic contributions. The article stresses China's commitment to people-centric development, innovation-driven growth, and green transformation. It also emphasizes China's dedication to global cooperation and a shared future, contrasting its approach with that of countries promoting protectionism and decoupling, with specific reference to the Belt and Road Initiative. The article references positive comments in the US media regarding poverty alleviation in China.
Summary: Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming reflects on the four years since his gold and silver wins at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. He discusses overcoming injuries and the pressures of being a champion, and ultimately winning a gold and bronze medal at the most recent winter games. Su notes the rise of a new generation of Chinese winter sports athletes and their focus on sportsmanship. He emphasizes the importance of perseverance and passing the torch to younger athletes. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Here's a summary of the provided articles: The first article discusses the prevalent issue of smoking at the entrances of pediatric and maternal healthcare facilities in Beijing, despite existing regulations prohibiting it. The author calls for stricter enforcement of the "Beijing Smoking Control Regulations" and increased public awareness to prevent second-hand smoke exposure to vulnerable populations. The second article reports on the Education Ministry's plan to strengthen student physical fitness by enforcing mandatory physical education and break times, addressing issues like falsified schedules and restricted movement during breaks. The article emphasizes the need for schools to prioritize student health and for evaluations to include objective measures of fitness.
Summary: This article discusses the transformation of the Shengli Oilfield in Dongying, Shandong, from a traditional oil producer to a green and low-carbon energy enterprise. The shift involves integrating renewable energy sources like solar and wind power with existing oil infrastructure. The article highlights the importance of technological innovation and adapting to local conditions for resource-based cities undergoing similar transitions. It emphasizes the need for these cities to avoid repetitive investments and ensure that new and old energy sources complement each other. The piece concludes by stating that the transformation of places such as Shengli Oilfield reflects broader national trends in sustainable development.
Summary: A joint initiative from five departments, including the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, has released the "Three-Year Action Plan for Revitalizing Drama (2026-2028)." The plan outlines measures to support theatrical troupes, improve the quality of theatrical productions, enhance evaluation and funding effectiveness, strengthen talent development, and increase the quantity and quality of performances. The aim is to further promote the inheritance and development of drama in the new era. The initiative will focus on injecting new life into the arts. No individuals were mentioned in the report.
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Summary: Supreme People's Court (SPC) reported a decrease in cases accepted and concluded in 2025, while lower courts saw increases. The report emphasized safeguarding national security, including combating "Taiwan independence" and prosecuting those involved in illegal resource extraction. The SPC highlighted efforts to combat corruption, including prosecuting high-ranking officials, as well as addressing emerging cybercrimes and financial risks. It also mentioned protecting the rights of both domestic and foreign parties, promoting fair competition and improving the business environment. Finally, the report noted the court’s efforts in international judicial cooperation and participation in global governance.
Summary: Liu Peng, head of the Xiaxiong police station in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, has dedicated the last ten years to ensuring safety on the high-altitude, accident-prone 317 National Highway. Liu and his team provide aid to stranded travelers, offering a "safe haven" (平安驿站) with amenities like beds, oxygen, and route assistance. Liu developed a method for tracking lost livestock by comparing hoofprints, recovering over 800 animals and preventing significant economic losses for local herders. The station also implemented a "one village, one officer" service to improve local security and resolve disputes. Liu's dedication has fostered a sense of security and allowed villagers to focus on economic development.
Summary: The village of Dingmazhuang in Jing County, Hebei Province, has implemented water conservation initiatives which have reduced the cost of irrigation for farmers. A local party secretary stated that the villagers are getting real benefits from these construction projects. These initiatives include cleaning and dredging irrigation canals and expanding the capacity of ponds to store water. Jing County plans to continue water conservancy projects to develop a network of interconnected rivers, lakes, ditches and ponds. This system of water control will, according to the Deputy Director of Jing County Water Conservancy Bureau, improve the water ecology and support rural revitalization.
Summary: Construction is progressing rapidly on the second phase of the special steel smelting and refining project at Maanshan Iron and Steel's special steel division in Anhui province. Once completed, the project aims to optimize the industrial structure and enhance the company's competitiveness. The article contains no discussion of U.S.-China relations or the United States.
Summary: Reporting on the Supreme People's Procuratorate's (SPP) work in 2025, the report delivered to the National People's Congress (NPC) highlighted efforts to safeguard national security by cracking down on separatism, terrorism, and "Taiwan independence" activities, while also addressing online crimes and maintaining social stability. The SPP reported prosecuting former high-ranking officials for corruption and combating financial crimes to maintain market order. International cooperation included combating cross-border corruption and transnational crime. The report also mentions strengthening overseas interests' judicial protection and hosting foreign counterparts for exchanges, reflecting China's increasing engagement in global legal affairs and its focus on defending its interests abroad.
Summary: Zijin Property Insurance Co., Ltd. has been managing the Jiangsu Road Traffic Accident Social Assistance Fund for 15 years, providing over 5.7 billion yuan in aid to over 160,000 traffic accident victims. Entrusted by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance, Zijin Insurance facilitates timely medical payment and subsidies to those unable to afford treatment, working with hospitals and traffic police. The fund also expands aid to low-income families and those facing financial difficulties, with an average review time of one working day. Zijin Insurance has expanded its services nationwide, managing road assistance funds in multiple provinces and establishing a national training base in Jiangsu. They have established 398 service network locations nationwide, providing aid to over 230,000 individuals, and paying out over 7.8 billion yuan, which accounts for more than 34% of the total amount paid out by similar funds nationwide.
Summary: This article discusses Benxi city in Liaoning province and its efforts to promote its unique regional culture, including red (Communist) culture, historical heritage, geological features, ethnic diversity, industrial legacy, and traditional Chinese medicine. Benxi is working to preserve historical sites, develop cultural tourism, and promote local brands. The city is also attempting to revitalize its industrial heritage by turning old factories into cultural landmarks. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the significance of the newly passed "National Development Planning Law" in China. It states that the law codifies the Party's leadership in development planning, establishes the national development plan's overarching role in the planning system, and ensures the scientific rigor of planning processes. The law aims to provide a stable and predictable policy environment for economic actors by legally defining the government's responsibilities in planning and implementation. It also enhances the state's ability to mobilize resources and respond to challenges, providing a legal basis for China's strategic planning and implementation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of scientific decision-making for Chinese leaders, particularly regarding technological advancement and industrial development. It argues that leaders must "know technology," "understand industry," and "be good at decision-making" to promote high-quality development. The piece stresses the need for leaders to grasp technological trends, understand industrial structures, and avoid short-sighted approaches to economic development. Leaders should make decisions based on local conditions and be prepared for long-term investments in technology and industry. The article calls for a balance of strategic foresight and persistent effort in driving innovation.
Summary: This article argues that China's unique path of financial development, guided by the Party, contrasts sharply with Western models. It emphasizes serving the real economy and the people, not just capital, while maintaining scientific and stable governance through a combination of market forces and government oversight. The author also highlights the importance of balancing development with security, efficiency with fairness, innovation with stability, and openness with independence. The piece concludes by calling for further exploration of this path to build a strong financial nation and contribute Chinese wisdom to global financial governance reform. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to ensure a stable, year-round supply of high-quality watermelons through advancements in cultivation techniques, breeding programs, and regional specialization. It highlights the role of diverse growing regions, from Hainan to the Yellow River basin, in providing seasonal supplies and meeting consumer demand for various watermelon types. The piece emphasizes the use of molecular breeding to develop new varieties with improved traits like disease resistance, unique flesh colors, and smaller sizes. By leveraging technological advancements and genetic research, China has become a global leader in watermelon production and breeding. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to the author, the Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, China is strategically shifting from application leadership in AI to strengthening its foundational capabilities, emphasizing technological self-reliance and security. China aims to bridge the "digital and intelligent divide" by promoting global cooperation and inclusive governance in AI, advocating for a UN-centered global AI safety and governance system. This includes sharing its digital transformation experience to benefit developing countries, addressing disparities in network infrastructure, AI resources, and security capabilities. The author stresses that global cooperation should build an AI governance order that ensures equal rights, opportunities, and rules, while also enhancing technology sharing and financial support to bridge the digital gap.
Summary: Apple has adjusted its App Store commission policy in mainland China, stating that rates will remain competitive with other regions, a move influenced by communication with Chinese regulators. This adjustment, representing the first reduction in the "Apple tax" in 16 years, eliminates previous discriminatory treatment of Chinese developers and establishes a mechanism for fair competition. The reduction will save Chinese developers over 6 billion yuan annually. The article notes the global trend of antitrust scrutiny toward large tech companies, including efforts in the U.S. and EU, and China's increasing regulatory power in the digital market. While significant, the article points out that Apple has not yet allowed "sideloading" in China.
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Summary: The Chinese delegation, under the theme "Reading China," showcased over 4,000 books and hosted 40 events at the London Book Fair, attracting nearly a thousand exhibitors from over 90 countries. The exhibit included publications like "The China Development Report 2025" and "Global Development Report 2025" which aim to contribute Chinese wisdom and solutions to global issues. Participants noted increasing international interest in understanding China, with Chinese publications playing a bridging role. The fair also highlighted trends toward digital experiences, IP development, and more comprehensive Sino-foreign publishing collaborations, including content localization and digital integration. There was also discussion of the need to adapt to global trends in readership in the face of distraction from digitized entertainment.
Summary: The article asserts that Japan, under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, is exhibiting a dangerous resurgence of "new militarism," characterized by increased military spending, revisionist history, and a willingness to challenge the post-WWII order. Takaichi is portrayed as accelerating this trend through policies like revising security documents, increasing the defense budget, and potentially exporting lethal weapons. The article claims that this "new militarism" is fueled by unaddressed historical grievances, right-wing politics, economic anxieties, and the influence of military-industrial conglomerates. It warns that these developments pose a significant threat to regional and international peace, particularly through its stance on Taiwan and nuclear proliferation. The article also implicates the U.S. for not more thoroughly "de-Nazifying" Japan after WWII and for helping enable Japan's "remilitarization."
Summary: The Agricultural Bank of China's Gansu branch (农行甘肃省分行) is focused on supporting rural revitalization, the real economy, and the livelihoods of the people in Gansu province. As of the end of February 2026, its total loan balance was 294.165 billion yuan, with a focus on supporting key industries and projects within the province, including infrastructure, technology, and green development. The bank is also working to improve financial services for rural residents, small and micro enterprises, and the elderly. It has also implemented measures to reduce fees and provide financial support for disaster relief in Gansu. The bank aims to align its financial services with Gansu's development goals, including the "Five Strong" actions.
Summary: Jingdong (JD.com) announced a significant upgrade to its "Chunxiao Plan" to support third-party merchants, projecting an investment of over 35 billion yuan by 2026. The plan focuses on lowering operating costs by reducing security deposits and offering new merchant incentives, enhancing efficiency with 14 free AI tools, and boosting growth through advertising subsidies. These subsidies will increase from billions to tens of billions of yuan, including a "guaranteed profit plan" promising a 100% return on investment for eligible merchants. JD.com aims to create a supportive ecosystem for merchants, fostering growth and addressing pain points such as high customer acquisition costs. The initiative seeks to contribute to the high-quality development of the private sector.
Summary: A recent "New Mass Literature" initiative, exemplified by a writing contest co-sponsored by the China Writers Association and Douyin (TikTok), highlights the dynamism and diverse perspectives within Chinese society. The author, a judge for the contest, emphasizes the rich literary potential found within the populace, particularly in their reflections on Spring Festival experiences, including those of soldiers and people on the Tibetan Plateau. The author argues that literature should draw inspiration from the lives of ordinary people, whose diverse backgrounds and experiences enrich artistic creation. The author also noted that the appreciation and participation in literature is at a new high because of this new mass literature initiative, especially when compared to previous generations. This author makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance, led by the People's Daily, has launched the third "Silk Road Award" for international communication, aiming to promote the "Belt and Road" initiative through media collaboration. The award seeks to recognize media organizations that promote the "Silk Road" spirit and the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. The competition is open to foreign or joint Chinese-foreign productions, with awards given in four categories: best reporting, photography, video, and innovation. Submissions are made through the alliance's official website and judged in two stages. The alliance, comprising 316 media outlets from 117 countries, serves as a crucial media platform within the "Belt and Road" framework.
Summary: A Chinese research team from Qingdao Agricultural University, led by Sun Juan, has developed a novel microbial herbicide using a new species of *Mortierella* fungus, strain MXBP304. Isolated from alfalfa rhizomes, the herbicide selectively targets weed seeds without harming alfalfa growth or soil ecology, offering a "zero-pollution" alternative to chemical herbicides. The team is currently working on optimizing the fungal strain and formulation techniques for wider application. The findings were recently published in the journal *Pest Management Science*. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A literary event in Kaiping, Guangdong, launched the 2026 China Writers Association's "Famous Writers Arrive at Literary 'County' Field" series, aiming to bring literary resources to local levels. Hu Bangsheng, secretary of the China Writers Association Secretariat, emphasized the importance of online literature in cultural dissemination. Writers discussed how literature, particularly that focusing on the overseas Chinese (侨乡) experience, can serve as a bridge for international exchange and help the world "understand China." The event also launched the "Wenqi Chikan, Pen Runs Overseas Chinese Township" plan to attract creators to the area.
Summary: Chongqing's Banan District leverages the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC) to enhance its role as an inland international logistics hub. In 2025, the Chongqing cross-border highway bus saw 12,555 departures, valued at 17.417 billion yuan, and the Banan District's import and export volume reached 15.89 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.08%. The district focuses on developing a comprehensive logistics network, including highway, railway, and waterway transportation, to facilitate trade, particularly with ASEAN countries. By improving logistics and trade facilitation, Banan aims to foster industrial development and transform its geographic limitations into advantages. The district is also promoting platforms such as logistics hubs and trade events to boost economic growth.
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Summary: At the recent Winter Paralympics in Italy, the Chinese delegation achieved top rankings in both gold and overall medal counts, marking a new chapter for Chinese disabled winter sports. Chinese athletes showcased resilience and sportsmanship, achieving both sporting success and moral victories, as well as demonstrating the spirit of disabled people in the new era. The delegation participated in all major events, with significant progress in Para biathlon and other sports. The success is attributed to national support and the dedication of the support teams. The delegation also promoted China's achievements in disability affairs and expanded its international influence.
Summary: The 14th Winter Paralympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo concluded on March 15th with a record 611 athletes from 55 countries and regions participating. The Chinese delegation achieved a historic performance, securing the top spot in both the gold medal and total medal counts with 15 gold, 13 silver, and 16 bronze medals. The next Winter Paralympics will be held in the French Alps in 2030. There is no mention of the United States in the report.
Summary: The Chinese women's national football team has reached the semi-finals of the 2026 Asian Cup and secured a spot in the 2027 World Cup. Coach Ante Milicic has implemented a rotation strategy and a new tactical system, emphasizing a double defensive midfielder setup and set-piece proficiency. The team faces a challenging semi-final against host Australia, a strong team that reached the 2023 World Cup semi-finals, and China will be without key player Wang Shuang. Milicic plans to adjust the team's offensive system to compensate for Wang's absence. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 F1 Chinese Grand Prix concluded in Shanghai with Mercedes drivers Antonelli and Russell taking first and second place respectively, and Hamilton from Ferrari finishing third. The race featured significant technical and rule changes for the season, including adjustments to car size and aerodynamics. Cadillac's entry as the eleventh team offers Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu a potential path back into F1. The event drew over 230,000 spectators, with a 30% increase in ticket sales, boosting local commerce and tourism. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The city of Liuzhou in Guangxi province is expanding its economic ties to Southeast Asia and globally by leveraging its position as a key node in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. Liuzhou is focused on developing its port infrastructure and streamlining customs procedures to reduce logistics costs and times, particularly for exports like new energy vehicle components, lithium batteries and other "Liuzhou-made" products. The city aims to become a core growth pole for Guangxi's maritime development, integrating into the Belt and Road Initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Liuzhou is promoting the export of its products, standards, and vocational education, encouraging local companies to expand overseas, especially into ASEAN markets. Liuzhou seeks to build a "logistics hub" connecting Central and Southwest China and facing ASEAN.
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Summary: The article discusses the rise of AI-powered payment systems in China, highlighting benefits for both consumers and merchants through streamlined transactions and data-driven insights. AI payment simplifies processes like ordering and menu creation, while enhancing security and accessibility for diverse user groups. It notes that AI is being integrated across the financial sector, improving risk management, marketing, and other processes. The author emphasizes the importance of technological innovation and its role in benefiting the people, and in integrating it with the physical economy. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The city of Lipu in Guangxi, known as the "Hanger Capital of China," boasts a complete industrial chain of over 300 companies producing over 4 billion hangers annually, with over 80% of wooden hangers exported to over 100 countries. Local companies are innovating with new materials and designs to meet customer demands, including those from American clients. The local government actively supports the hanger industry through financial assistance, policy support, and facilitating collaboration between businesses and research institutions. The city has also established industry standards and facilitated trade events to boost exports. The article does not mention if any US officials accompanied those from Lipu or Guangxi.
Summary: A new book by Dr. Lei Yao, a veteran of China's green finance policy development, summarizes China's green finance development over the past 20 years, highlighting its multi-tiered market system and status as a global leader. The author emphasizes the need to shift focus from scale to structure, addressing the direct financing gap, and from qualitative disclosure to quantitative verification by improving data infrastructure. He also stresses the importance of standard implementation and the roles of both "effective market" and "capable government" in promoting green finance. The book analyzes opportunities and challenges, providing a comprehensive view of China's green finance evolution and future direction.
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Summary: According to this article, the Bank of China (BOC) is focused on strengthening financial consumer protection through a "big consumer protection" system, emphasizing both digital solutions and personalized service, with the goal of improving customer satisfaction and financial security. The BOC aims to incorporate consumer protection into all aspects of its operations, proactively addressing potential issues and resolving complaints effectively. BOC is promoting financial literacy and awareness through educational programs and activities. This includes specific attention to vulnerable groups like the elderly and ethnic minorities. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In an interview, former UN Under-Secretary-General Erik Solheim praised China's rapid environmental progress, attributing it to long-term policy, market dynamism, and technological innovation. Solheim highlighted China's "ecological civilization" concept and its role in driving down the cost of renewable energy, benefiting developing nations. He emphasized that China's green initiatives, including the Belt and Road Initiative, contribute to global public goods and enhance energy independence for partner countries. He also noted the technological advances made by Huawei, DeepSeek, BYD, and CATL, as well as China's commitment to sharing the progress made by these companies with the rest of the world. According to Solheim, some critics believe he is too close with China, but he believes it is the only way to promote green development.
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Summary: In 2025, China's administrative review system saw a significant increase in cases, handling 1.115 million, nearly three times the number of first-instance administrative lawsuits. The system emphasizes not only legal compliance but also reasonableness and fairness, exemplified by cases involving AI-related identity verification issues and inconsistent law enforcement impacting businesses. Efforts are being made to optimize the business environment through proactive legal services and standardized enforcement, while also pushing for online accessibility with 26.3% of cases being applied for online. The system aims to resolve disputes substantively, ensuring fairness and justice, and the government is working to consolidate these efforts. The article does not mention the U.S. or U.S. - China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the need to improve the rights and welfare of China's 84 million "new employment form" workers, such as delivery drivers and online service providers, who are vital to the platform economy. It emphasizes providing both emotional support through initiatives like worker rest stations and economic security via better pay, social insurance, and fair employment practices. The article highlights efforts in various regions, such as Xiamen and Anhui, to enact regulations protecting these workers and addressing issues like algorithmic control and discriminatory practices. The aim is to establish a standardized and legally sound system for safeguarding their rights and promoting a more stable and secure environment for this growing workforce. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court has clarified the principles for handling the return of betrothal gifts (彩礼) after cohabitation without formal marriage registration, as illustrated by a recent case. In this case, a man requested the return of a 200,000 yuan betrothal gift after four years of cohabitation and having a child together. The court rejected the man's claim, considering the length of cohabitation, the birth of a child, and the use of the betrothal gift for family expenses. The court emphasized the importance of protecting women's rights and avoiding the perception of betrothal gifts as easily revocable investments when a family unit has been established. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: A Tianjin court, led by Judges Liu Jing and Zhu Dawei, successfully executed a judgment for a supplier, Lao Yang, who was owed over 40,000 yuan by a shop owner, Deng. Despite initial difficulties in locating assets, the court discovered the shop was owned by Deng. After confronting a shop employee, who was also Deng's sister, and threatening to seize goods, the debt was settled. The court emphasized the importance of safeguarding citizens' interests through judicial action.
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Summary: The article discusses Wuxi's strategic focus on developing a commercial aerospace industry, despite lacking traditional advantages like launch sites or research institutions. Wuxi leveraged its manufacturing base and proactive local government policies to attract private rocket companies and build a supporting ecosystem. City officials, including Wuxi's Industry and Information Technology Bureau Director Wu Yan and Wuxi Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee Member and Minister of Organization Gao Fei, emphasized the importance of strategic planning, risk-taking, and supporting policies. Local cadres have actively engaged with companies, addressing their specific needs and facilitating growth in the aerospace sector. The city aims to deeply integrate into the national strategy of becoming an aerospace power, targeting a 100 billion RMB industry scale.
Summary: This article discusses the problem of incoming officials ("new officials") neglecting the unresolved issues or problems left behind by their predecessors ("old accounts"). It argues that ignoring these "old accounts" is a deviation from a correct view of achievement, as these issues can hinder development and public trust. The article emphasizes the importance of correctly dealing with "old accounts" and not creating new ones for successors, citing Xi Jinping's guidance on establishing and practicing a correct view of achievement. It also stresses the need for officials to improve their skills in handling complex problems and to utilize investigation and research, as well as mentioning disciplinary regulations for officials who shirk responsibility for pre-existing problems. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A vice principal at a school in Guangxi province, surnamed Lan, expressed regret over a dinner organized by a project contractor, surnamed Tian, and the school principal, surnamed Ran, which led to his involvement in corruption. An investigation revealed that Ran abused his power by leaking internal information to Tian and directing other school leaders to favor Tian's bids in exchange for gifts. Despite initial denials, Lan and other school leaders eventually admitted to accepting gifts and were subsequently punished. The case highlights the importance of strengthening discipline and anti-corruption measures to prevent collective corruption among officials and cut off the chain of illicit interests. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: According to Zhou Guannan, Party Secretary of China Railway Bridge Engineering Bureau Group, the company is implementing a system of dispatching Party representatives to project sites to improve grassroots Party building and better serve its large labor force. These representatives address issues ranging from providing hot meals to workers with irregular schedules to facilitating technical solutions for construction challenges, as exemplified by a project where they helped source domestically produced components instead of importing them. One representative, Sun Jingwu, organized transportation for workers' children to take the Gaokao. This initiative aims to enhance project management, worker well-being, and overall team cohesion by addressing practical concerns and fostering a sense of community on construction sites. The article does not mention the United States.
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Summary: The article discusses how AI video generation technology, particularly from Chinese companies like ByteDance and Kuaishou, is dramatically reducing content creation costs and potentially democratizing the film and television industry. It argues that this technological shift will make aesthetic judgment the most critical asset, emphasizing the importance of uniquely human insights and cultural understanding. The author suggests this presents a historic opportunity for Chinese storytellers to reach a global audience, as AI tools overcome language barriers and distribution challenges. The article implies that China's rich cultural heritage can provide a unique perspective in the global narrative. Ultimately, the piece underscores the need to cultivate creators who possess both technical proficiency in AI and refined aesthetic sensibilities.
Summary: A recent surge in Chinese films focusing on elderly characters, such as *Cuihu*, reflects growing societal attention to aging and addresses themes like intergenerational relationships and emotional fulfillment in later life. These films explore the challenges of aging, including memory loss and loneliness, while also emphasizing the importance of care, respect, and familial bonds. They aim to promote a positive view of aging and counter societal anxieties surrounding it. The trend builds upon a history of Chinese cinema addressing elderly issues, with contemporary filmmakers adopting diverse approaches to portray the realities and emotional landscapes of older generations. These narratives explore both the changes that come with aging and also the need to care for the elderly population.
Summary: The Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe's performances of "My Grand View Garden" and "The Garden of Love" in Taiwan were met with enthusiasm, drawing large crowds and highlighting the popularity of the new generation of Yue Opera performers like Chen Lijun. The productions, rooted in classic Chinese literature and themes such as love and shared cultural memories, resonated deeply with the audience, particularly young people. This cultural exchange fostered a sense of shared identity between people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Furthermore, recent discussion of the TV series, "A Peaceful Year" reflected a shared desire for reunification.
Summary: The documentary "We Chinese" seeks to define the essence of the Chinese people through historical figures and stories from China's 5,000-year civilization. It aims to reveal the spiritual code that makes "Chinese people Chinese" by showcasing historical figures embodying traits like patriotism, morality, and ideals. The documentary uses a "story + interpretation" format, embedding Chinese values within narratives to evoke emotional resonance and illustrate concepts like responsibility and balance. The documentary emphasizes the importance of understanding Chinese history and culture to foster ideological consciousness, cultural confidence, and national pride in the new era. The author suggests this approach of using multiple works and perspectives to represent Chinese history could be a useful method for future historic documentary production.
Summary: The AI-generated micro-drama "Shen Bi" (Magic Brush), overseen by Liu Cixin and written by Chen Qiufan, uses a standard "revenge" formula to explore the impact of AI on creators. The plot follows a designer who gains success using an AI-powered pen but gradually loses her self-awareness. This raises the question of where to strike a balance in human-AI collaboration. The drama suggests that the process of human-machine collaboration and competition can lead to the discovery of unique human creativity.
Summary: The article reviews the song and dance performance "Night of the Prairie – Ballads from Kokdala," focusing on the sacrifices and contributions of laborers in land reclamation and border defense. While some songs are praised for sincerity, others are criticized as superficial, and the choreography is seen as lacking. The production suffers from a fragmented plot and insufficient emotional depth due to a lack of dramatic conflict. The reviewer suggests strengthening the narrative aspects to improve the overall quality of the performance.
Summary: This blurb provides contact information for submissions to the "Literary and Art Review" section of the *People's Daily* newspaper. It lists the email address (wenyipl@peopledaily.cn) for submissions and credits Shen Yiling with the section's layout design. There is no mention of Chinese politics, specific officials, or the United States.
By: 本报记者 赵 成
"The issue of the view on achievements is a fundamental one, concerning the Party's commitment to serving the public and governing for the people."
In January of this year, at the opening ceremony of the seminar for leading officials at the provincial and ministerial level to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "In the first year of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan,' a correct view on achievements is needed, whether in formulating plans or deploying implementation. Leadership teams at the provincial, municipal, county, and township levels will be undergoing successive changes, so emphasizing the view on achievements is also very pertinent."
For Communists, engaging in undertakings and creating achievements is for the benefit of the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly analyzed the inherent essence of two different views on achievements: "A correct view on achievements requires us to adhere to starting from reality and acting according to the laws, and through scientific decision-making and hard work, create achievements that can withstand the test of practice and history, truly benefit the people, and be recognized by the masses." "An incorrect view on achievements, on the other hand, starts from the interests of individuals or small groups, is impatient and impetuous, seeks quick success and instant benefits, engages in falsehood and deception, and acts blindly and recklessly, creating 'image projects' and 'vanity projects,' leaving behind burdens and hidden dangers, and arousing strong dissatisfaction among the people."
The "fundamental issue" stems from the values reflected in the view on achievements.
Our Party has no special interests of its own other than the interests of the country, the nation, and the people. As Communists, creating benefits for the people is the greatest achievement.
Extending cordial greetings to delivery workers, learning in detail about health check-ups, rehabilitation training, and daily care for the elderly at the Silver Age Senior Apartments, and joining the common people in the Spring Festival market to "celebrate the Little New Year and welcome the New Year"... In February of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) conducted inspections in Beijing (北京), revealing deep concern for the people in the details.
The hearts of the people are the greatest politics. Establishing and practicing a correct view on achievements reflects the Party's fundamental purpose and concerns the foundation of the Party's governance.
Reviewing Xi Jinping's (习近平) vivid practices during his work in local areas, the view on achievements of "people first" has been consistently upheld: In Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北), facing the problem of a "high-yield but poor county," he advocated that it was better to not have the title of "National High-Yield County" than to let the masses live a good life; in Fujian (福建), he "went to Maojiaping three times" and "entered Xiadang three times," and promoted the establishment of the "Four Down to the Grassroots" mechanism; in Zhejiang (浙江), in response to the problem of lagging development and a large number of poor people in underdeveloped areas at that time, he emphasized that "modernization construction cannot leave blind spots and dead corners, and no township can be left behind in achieving comprehensive well-being"; in Shanghai (上海), he paid attention to the people's livelihood problems such as "hand-carried toilets," pointing out that "solving people's livelihood problems is the foundation of governance, and improving people's livelihood is the greatest achievement"...
"To measure whether a cadre's performance is good or not, the key is to see whether the people's reputation is good or not."
In October 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Gu Wenchang (谷文昌) Memorial Hall in Dongshan County (东山县), Zhangzhou City (漳州市), Fujian (福建), to learn about Comrade Gu Wenchang's (谷文昌) touching deeds, and said earnestly: "When we learn from his deeds, we should not only look up to him with admiration, but also learn from the virtuous, be like him in how we conduct ourselves and govern, 'benefit one side while in office,' and only by taking this path is it the right path in the world."
The "fundamental issue" stems from the view on achievements being linked to the view on development.
The view on achievements not only reflects the Party spirit cultivation and the pattern of mind of Party members and cadres, but also determines the quality and effectiveness of development, and concerns the success or failure of the cause.
"Consciously act according to the laws, and do not engage in seeking quick success and instant benefits, falsehood and deception, or blind and reckless actions in the pursuit of achievements, and eliminate the practice of new officials ignoring old accounts and 'image projects' and 'vanity projects.'" General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) warned Party members and cadres to calm down and work hard: "Take one step at a time, and move forward steadily."
From the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" Project to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, it reflects the view on achievements of hammering away one after another on the premise of respecting the laws—
During his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" Project, allowing thousands of villages to be beautiful in their own way and to share the beauty together. For more than 20 years, Party members and cadres in Zhejiang (浙江) have adhered to drawing a blueprint to the end, continuously promoting the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" Project, and benefiting thousands of farmers.
"It is necessary to learn from and apply the experience of the 'Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation' Project, promote the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages in accordance with local conditions, and improve the level of rural governance and the construction of civilized rural customs." At the end of last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important instructions on doing a good job in "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers," requiring "anchoring on the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, solidly promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas."
The "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization.
"Leading cadres at all levels must start from the realization of the Party's mission and tasks, establish and practice a correct view on achievements, and see whether their thoughts and actions have deviated from the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, whether they have deviated from the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, whether they have deviated from the Party's line, principles, and policies and the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, and whether they have deviated from the national conditions and the actual conditions of their regions and departments."
In January of this year, at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) stated the benchmark for measuring the establishment and practice of a correct view on achievements, requiring "advancing Chinese-style modernization with a selfless state of mind and the spirit of 'success does not have to be achieved by me, but success must have me.'"
Striving forward on the new journey, the vast number of Party members and cadres will profoundly answer the "fundamental issue," create achievements for the people, create achievements with practical work, and will surely promote Chinese-style modernization to continuously achieve new breakthroughs and create new situations.
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On March 12th, a "hardcore" piece of news from Sichuan (四川) attracted much attention: in Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone (成都高新区), an ultra-high-speed and high-precision analog-to-digital converter was released.
This converter, developed by Chengdu Huawei Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (成都华微电子科技股份有限公司), can convert analog signals into digital signals and is widely used in fields such as commercial aerospace, filling a domestic gap.
During this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Strive to achieve new breakthroughs in strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, and seizing the commanding heights of science and technology." In July 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Sichuan (四川): "It is necessary to improve the science and technology innovation system, actively connect with national strategic science and technology forces and resources, optimize and improve the layout of innovation resources, strive to overcome a number of key core technologies, and focus on building a highland of innovation in the western region."
To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, Sichuan (四川) has deeply implemented the frontier technology tackling action, and its scientific and technological innovation capabilities have steadily improved. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people in the province has increased by more than two times, and the transaction volume of technology contracts will exceed 300 billion yuan in 2025. Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan," Sichuan (四川) will continue to improve the overall effectiveness of the innovation system, enhance the source function of scientific and technological innovation, and build a highland of innovation in the western region.
Optimize and improve the layout of innovation resources—
In Suining (遂宁), Sichuan (四川), the Chongqing University (重庆大学) Lithium Battery and New Materials Suining Research Institute, the pilot production line of lithium-sulfur batteries is operating efficiently, and new battery products are continuously rolling off the line.
The research team of Chongqing University (重庆大学) has a solid technical foundation, and Suining (遂宁) has a mature lithium battery industry. In 2021, the research institute was jointly established by Chongqing University (重庆大学) and the Suining (遂宁) Municipal Government. "Focusing on key technology research and development of lithium-sulfur batteries, ternary cathode materials, etc., we have obtained more than 20 patents." Li Cunpu (李存璞), deputy dean of the research institute, said that the next step will be to accelerate the mass production process of lithium-sulfur batteries and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in tackling key technologies in the entire lithium battery industry chain.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Sichuan (四川) actively built a provincial science and technology innovation system, promoted the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing (成渝) dual-city economic circle, and jointly built the Western Science City (西部科学城) with Chongqing (重庆), implementing 257 Sichuan-Chongqing (川渝) science and technology innovation cooperation plan projects. At the same time, Sichuan (四川) connected with national strategic science and technology forces and resources, and the number of national-level innovation platforms in Sichuan (四川) has increased to 205. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Sichuan (四川) will optimize the resource layout in key areas, enhance the ability to tackle key problems in a systematic way, and coordinate the implementation of major science and technology projects, striving to produce more iconic original achievements.
Build an efficient transformation system for scientific and technological achievements—
In Tianfu New Area (天府新区), Sichuan (四川), in the plant factory laboratory of the Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院都市农业研究所), the lights are bright, and rows of hairy eggplant seedlings show tender buds and grow vigorously.
In February 2025, the first batch of "two-way unveiling and commanding" projects in Sichuan (四川) was released. The "Plant Factory Crop Breeding Accelerator Project Application and Industrialization" achievement of the Institute of Urban Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院都市农业研究所) attracted the "unveiling" of Xinteng Shuzhi Network Technology Co., Ltd. (新腾数致网络科技有限公司). "The company has an artificial intelligence technology base, and this achievement provides us with new application scenarios." Yu Heng (余恒), vice president of the company, said, "We have invested more than 40 million yuan to promote the industrialization of this achievement, and the breeding cycle of hairy eggplant is expected to be shortened by half."
With the in-depth advancement of "two-way unveiling and commanding," Sichuan (四川) has released four batches of lists with more than 260 projects so far. "During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will continue to build an efficient transformation system for scientific and technological achievements to help 'enterprises find technology' and 'achievements find the market.'" Lu Songming (路松明), director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology (四川省科技厅), introduced that by 2027, they will strive to support more than 500 "unveiling" projects and promote the transformation of more than 50 major iconic scientific and technological achievements in Sichuan (四川).
Strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation—
In the factory of Chengdu Jiachi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (成都佳驰电子科技股份有限公司), a new type of electromagnetic functional material has just rolled off the line. "The company's products are widely used in various types of smart terminals," said Chen Liang (陈良), the person in charge of the company.
Like many companies, Jiachi (佳驰) has received a series of policy supports: the company has a large demand for talents, and the organization department provides quota support for projects such as the "Tianfu Emei Plan" (天府峨眉计划) to help attract high-level scientific and technological talents; the company has a lot of R&D investment, and relevant reward and subsidy policies have also benefited it one after another. Last year, Jiachi's (佳驰) annual output value increased significantly.
By the end of 2025, Sichuan (四川) had 19,000 national high-tech enterprises and 29,000 science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to "strengthen the guarantee of scientific and technological innovation resources" and "strengthen the integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises." During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Sichuan (四川) will improve the policy system to promote enterprise innovation, support leading science and technology-based backbone enterprises to form innovation consortia, and carry out key common technology research and development and pilot and demonstration applications of scientific and technological achievements.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, we will use scientific and technological innovation to open up new areas and new tracks for development, shape new drivers and new advantages for development, and strive to build a highland of innovation in the western region," said Wang Xiaohui (王晓晖), Secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee (四川省委书记).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 16th (北京). Premier of the State Council, Li Qiang (李强), presided over the eleventh plenary meeting of the State Council on March 16th, to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech during the Two Sessions and the spirit of the Two Sessions, and to deploy key tasks for the State Council in 2026.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech during the Two Sessions profoundly elaborated and deployed many major issues related to China's development from an overall perspective, and has strong strategic, guiding, and targeted significance. It is necessary to deeply understand the spiritual essence and practical requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, effectively unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, earnestly do a good job in various government tasks, and strive to demonstrate new achievements in promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that this year is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Facing the complex and severe external environment and the arduous and heavy tasks of reform, development, and stability, the State Council and its departments must always maintain strategic focus and be more proactive, and act as executors, actionists, and doers who implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments to a higher standard. This "higher standard" should currently be reflected in three key aspects: First, it should be reflected in the keen grasp of changes in the situation. We must not only establish a **底线思维** (dǐ xiàn sī wéi - "bottom-line thinking," a way of thinking that focuses on the worst-case scenario and plans accordingly), but also enhance our awareness of progress, be good at seeking opportunities in changes and turning crises into opportunities, and firmly grasp the initiative of development. Second, it should be reflected in greater effectiveness in tackling tough problems. We must not delay or bypass, but face difficulties directly, deeply play the "combined punches," and continuously consolidate the foundation for development and enhance economic resilience. Third, it should be reflected in the continuous efforts to solve long-term problems. In response to the periodic characteristics of China's economic transformation and upgrading, we should focus on resolving contradictions and problems that affect the overall situation, **久久为功** (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent effort," to work diligently and persistently towards a goal) and **善作善成** (shàn zuò shàn chéng - "be good at starting and finishing well," to do things well from beginning to end), and constantly achieve breakthroughs.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that the Party Central Committee has made strategic deployments regarding this year's and the "15th Five-Year Plan's" economic and social development work, and the Government Work Report and the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline have made specific arrangements. We must promote implementation without compromise, especially focusing on a number of key tasks that are tractional and highly impactful. First, we must promote the construction of a unified national market in depth. Second, we must actively plan and promote the expansion and quality improvement of the service industry. Third, we must accelerate the development of a new generation of intelligent manufacturing. Fourth, we must systematically promote the construction of major infrastructure networks. Fifth, we must invest more in people and serve the people's livelihood. Sixth, we must better respond to external shocks and challenges under the new situation.
Li Qiang (李强) emphasized that we must, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, solidly carry out the study and education on establishing and practicing correct views on performance. Closely focusing on implementing the general requirements of "ruling for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work," we must combine grasping the study and education with doing a good job in government work, adhere to seeking truth from facts, consciously act in accordance with the laws, strengthen the guidance of high-quality development, strengthen the guidance of serving the overall situation, and fully reflect the results of study and education in work effectiveness.
The main responsible comrades of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), and the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) spoke at the meeting.
All members of the State Council attended the meeting, and the heads of relevant departments and units attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates.
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"The new journey is a new Long March." At the "first lesson of the year," General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important assertion has profound implications.
"To complete the '15th Five-Year Plan' for economic and social development goals and tasks, we need to deal 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 must put effort into researching new situations and solving new problems to gain experience."
At the National People's Congress (全国两会), the General Secretary's words were firm, demonstrating our Party's strategic clarity, strategic confidence, and strategic initiative.
"Each generation has its own Long March, and each generation has its own responsibility. Building a strong socialist modern country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is a relay race."
2026 marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, which is of great significance in the historical process of promoting Chinese-style modernization.
The Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, uniting the wisdom and strength of hundreds of millions of people.
How can we hold the historical baton firmly and run this crucial stage of the "15th Five-Year Plan" well?
From three news items about "roads," we can more deeply understand the rich connotation of the General Secretary's important assertion that "modern infrastructure is an organic component of a modern industrial system."
The road to accessibility is becoming smoother and smoother. The first Spring Festival transport season for high-speed rail in a number of old revolutionary areas, such as Yan'an (延安) in Shaanxi (陕西) and Pingxiang (凭祥) in Guangxi (广西), has come to a successful conclusion. China's high-speed rail network of over 50,000 kilometers improves efficiency, accelerates development, and makes both the road and the heart smooth.
The road to innovation is becoming wider and wider. In the Pearl River Estuary, the world's highest double-layer suspension bridge, the Shiziyang Bridge (狮子洋大桥), has prefabricated steel shell sections weighing over 100 tons, with an average of one section installed every seven days and a connection accuracy of millimeter level.
The road to win-win cooperation is becoming broader and broader. The Algeria (阿尔及利亚) Western Railway Mining Line project, the first desert heavy-haul railway in Africa undertaken by Chinese enterprises, has been fully opened to traffic. The owner called it "a model for carrying out large-scale infrastructure projects in desert areas."
More than 100 years ago, Sun Yat-sen (孙中山) described China's first blueprint for modernization: building 1.6 million kilometers of highways and about 160,000 kilometers of railways...
Not long ago, American media interpreted China's high-speed rail operating mileage exceeding 50,000 kilometers as: "China has set a new global standard for high-speed rail construction in the world."
Today, the total mileage of highways exceeds 5.49 million kilometers, the operating mileage of railways reaches 165,000 kilometers, and from "electricity access for every household" to "broadband access for every village"... China's degree of modernization has far exceeded the expectations of its predecessors.
"Only we Chinese Communists have achieved it." In October 2020, when inspecting Guangdong (广东), the General Secretary stopped and sighed in front of the relevant planning map of *The National Reconstruction Program*.
High-speed railways, heavy-haul railways, developed expressways, "four good rural roads" leading to the countryside, as well as advanced power grids, and ubiquitous water conservancy facilities... Modern infrastructure, some of which is not profitable, but lays the foundation for a developed social foundation, can only be achieved by socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The new journey is a long march full of glory and dreams. Looking at the Chinese-style modernization road from the "China Road," we can better understand the Chinese code of "taking our generation's Long March well."
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Looking at the Chinese-style modernization road from the "China Road," this is a bright road of high-quality and sustainable development, and a road of struggle to allow the people to live a good life.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must always share weal and woe with the people, be of one heart and one mind with the people, think what the people think, do what the people want, and constantly turn the people's yearning for a better life into reality."
At the end of 2025, the Xi'an (西安) to Yan'an (延安) high-speed railway was officially opened and put into operation, and the old revolutionary area of northern Shaanxi (陕北) ushered in its first high-speed railway.
The initial survey and alignment of the Xi'an-Yan'an high-speed railway faced two choices: not setting up a station in Luochuan (洛川) and following a straight line along the river valley; setting up a station in Luochuan (洛川), which would require adding 9 kilometers of main line, investing 1.8 billion yuan, and solving the world-class problem of collapsible loess construction.
How to choose?
"Some old areas still have relatively prominent contradictions of lagging development, backward infrastructure, and low living standards of the people." The important speech of the General Secretary at the symposium on poverty alleviation and prosperity in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia (陕甘宁) revolutionary old area is kept in mind by the Chinese high-speed rail people.
Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China, and never makes the choice of "eliminating anyone," but a solemn commitment of "leaving no one behind."
On the Long March, when the Red Army passed through Shazhou Yao Village (沙洲瑶族村) in Rucheng County (汝城县), Hunan (湖南), three female soldiers stayed overnight at the home of villager Xu Jiexiu (徐解秀). Seeing that the family's quilts were tattered, they cut half of their only quilt and left it behind when they left. "The relationship between our Communists and the common people is the feeling of sharing a quilt."
In the past, the road to Shu (蜀道) was more difficult than ascending to the blue sky. Today, Sichuan (四川) has the first place in the country in terms of railway and expressway construction mileage, and is actively integrating into the construction of a unified national market... "Ode to the New Shu Road" sings a song of unity.
From nearly 100 million rural poor people being lifted out of poverty to the establishment of the world's largest social security system, "allowing the people to live a better life" has always been the yardstick for measuring development and the source of motivation for forging ahead for the Chinese Communists.
At the National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) entrustment to Jiangsu (江苏) has great guiding significance for promoting the modernization of common prosperity for all the people: "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" and "explore effective ways to promote common prosperity for all the people."
The road is long and obstructed, but action will lead to arrival. "As long as the Party and the people always stand together, think together, and work together, no storm can shake our iron will, and no difficulty can stop our sonorous steps."
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Looking at the Chinese-style modernization road from the "China Road," this is a just road of opening up, cooperation, and mutual benefit and win-win results. Not considering the distance of mountains and rivers as far, China in the new era is not afraid of headwinds and backflows, and adheres to open connectivity, unity, and cooperation.
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The more stormy the situation, the more we need to work together in the same boat."
In November 2025, the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (坦赞铁路) activation project officially started. After about half a century, China, Tanzania (坦桑尼亚), and Zambia (赞比亚) are working together again to create a model for high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between China and Africa.
When Tanzania (坦桑尼亚) and Zambia (赞比亚) requested assistance in building the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (坦赞铁路), China "tightened its belt to help African brothers," and worked together for nearly 6 years to build this railway to the sea.
In 2022, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his talks with Tanzanian (坦桑尼亚) President Hassan (哈桑): "Now that we have developed, we must adhere to the concept of sincerity, real results, amity, and good faith to help our African friends achieve common development and build a China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era."
Investing in and assisting in the construction of public welfare projects for desalination of brackish water in Brazil (巴西) to allow local residents to drink clean water; establishing an agricultural textile industrial park in Tajikistan (塔吉克斯坦), where Chinese technology helps the local area achieve the wish of producing more and better cotton...
History has witnessed that the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is constantly expanding "a new space for win-win development that is of a higher level, more resilient, and more sustainable."
Promoting world peace and development, Chinese-style modernization is the right path for the world and the right path for humanity.
When the global economic recovery is sluggish, China continues to reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) implements full island customs closure operations, and opening up is gradually shifting from "following" to "leading."
Faced with the rise of anti-globalization, China is promoting the implementation of zero-tariff measures for 100% of tariff items for 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China, and international exhibitions such as the China International Import Expo (进博会), the China International Supply Chain Expo (链博会), and the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会) are constantly releasing China's cooperation "magnetic attraction."
When humanity stands at a crossroads in history, China holds high the glorious banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind and leads the progress of the times.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," China will continue to share opportunities and develop together with countries around the world to achieve a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity.
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Looking at the Chinese-style modernization road from the "China Road," this is a broad road for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation. Not considering the difficulties of thousands of mountains and rivers, the Chinese people are courageous in overcoming various difficulties and obstacles, and constantly crossing ditches and opening up new paths.
"Socialism is achieved through hard work, struggle, and sacrifice, not only in the past, but also in the new era." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important assertion reveals the secret of the Chinese people's continuous hard work and progress.
History always rhymes in similar ways, echoing at key points.
In April 1935, the right-wing column of the Central Red Army defended the simple Huajiang Iron Chain Bridge (花江铁索桥) for three days and three nights; in June of the same year, the Central Red Army crossed Jiajin Mountain (夹金山), the first large snow mountain on the Long March.
In September 2025, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge (花江峡谷大桥), which is "the world's number one in both length and height," was officially opened to traffic; in October of the same year, the 9.35-kilometer-long Jiajin Mountain Tunnel (夹金山隧道) was put into trial operation, and more than 100,000 people along the line bid farewell to the generational predicament of "winter snow blocking the mountains."
Opening roads through mountains and building bridges over rivers is both realistic and metaphorical.
From poverty and weakness to prosperity and strength, from being bullied to standing tall in the East, when has there been no difficulty along the way?
At the end of 1934, the heroic battle of the Red Army's Long March began.
In April 2021, when inspecting Guangxi (广西), the General Secretary made a special trip to the Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Hall of the Red Army's Long March (红军长征湘江战役纪念馆). He firmly said, "No matter how great the difficulties are, think about the Red Army's Long March and the bloody battle of Xiangjiang (湘江)."
Villagers in Xiazhuang Village (下庄村), Wushan County (巫山县), Chongqing (重庆) spent 7 years carving out an 8-kilometer road out of the mountains on the cliff; sand control workers in Xinjiang (新疆) have successively tied a 3,046-kilometer green scarf to the "Sea of Death"...
"If there is no road ahead, I will step out a road," a line from the globally popular *Ne Zha*, expresses the firm belief of the Chinese people.
On the new Long March, how to "deal with a more complex environment and solve more deep-seated contradictions"?
At this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), the General Secretary pointed out: "Now we need to solve the problem of strategic shortages, the problem of 'not being able to get it, not being able to buy it, not being able to beg for it.' Technological development cannot be all-encompassing, and we must have priorities."
From building "imported goods" with foreign drawings to re-innovating based on the introduction platform, and then to independently designing and manufacturing high-speed EMUs, China's high-speed rail is precisely the fruitful result of technological development "having priorities."
Faced with external suppression and containment, the Chinese people do not believe in evil and are not afraid of pressure, 踏平坎坷成大道，斗罢艰险又出发 (tà píng kǎn kě chéng dà dào, dòu bà jiān xiǎn yòu chū fā - "leveling bumps becomes a broad road, after fighting dangers, set off again," overcoming obstacles and continuing forward).
In October 2016, at the meeting commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "We still have many 'snow mountains' and 'grasslands' to cross, and many 'Lou Mountain Passes' (娄山关) and 'Lazikou Passes' (腊子口) to conquer."
The "China Road" is a tangible road and an intangible road.
Promoting the great spirit of Party building and the great spirit of the Long March, we firmly believe in the path, grasp the historical initiative, and "move forward firmly step by step," with full confidence and full strength.
Return to TopBy: 最高人民法院院长 张 军
Distinguished representatives,
Now, on behalf of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), I present this work report to the congress for your deliberation and welcome comments from the members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协).
Review of Work in 2025
In 2025, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) issued the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening Adjudication Work in the New Era," setting higher requirements for the work of the people's courts, which is a milestone in the history of the Party's leadership over people's justice. Over the past year, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and under the effective supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Court has adhered to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, earnestly implemented the resolutions of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, profoundly understood the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthened the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthened the "Four Confidences," and achieved the "Two Upholds." It has adhered to the absolute leadership of the Party, practiced whole-process people's democracy, promoted the socialist spirit of the rule of law, focused on "striving to ensure that the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case," faithfully fulfilled the duties conferred by the Constitution and laws, and strived to serve the construction of Chinese-style modernization with high-quality justice, achieving new progress in various tasks. The Supreme People's Court accepted 29,154 cases and concluded 31,958 cases, a year-on-year decrease of 16.5% and 1.8% respectively. People's courts at all levels across the country accepted 37.486 million trial and enforcement cases, and concluded 36.2 million cases, a year-on-year increase of 10.8% and 8.9% respectively.
I. Upholding Fairness and Justice, Safeguarding High-Level Security with High-Quality Justice
We adhered to the overall national security concept, comprehensively and accurately implemented the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, effectively prevented risks, ensured security, and maintained stability in accordance with the law, and built a higher level of safe China.
Resolutely safeguarding national security. We deepened the struggle against subversion, secession, terrorism, and cults, and promoted the legalization and normalization of counter-terrorism and stability maintenance. We implemented the Anti-Secession Law and severely punished stubborn "Taiwan independence" (台独) elements. Li Yanhe (李延贺) was convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law for inciting secession and undermining national unity. We punished crimes such as smuggling rare earths out of the country and illegally selling parental seeds and germplasm resources in accordance with the law, and built a judicial barrier to safeguard national strategic resources.
Effectively maintaining public safety. We concluded 46,000 cases involving 53,000 people in serious violent crimes such as intentional homicide, a year-on-year decrease of 7.3% (in terms of cases, the same below). We carried out normalized anti-organized crime and evil campaigns, and severely cracked down on rural family and clan-based organized crime and evil forces and their "protective umbrellas." Traditional drug crimes have been declining year by year. We have increased the punishment of new types of drug crimes, strictly distinguished between illegal trafficking of psychotropic drugs and rational purchase and use of medicines, and issued judicial recommendations to promote strengthened supervision. We punished crimes such as illegally sending dangerous goods by mail and illegally loading edible oil in tanker trucks in accordance with the law, and protected the lives, health, and property safety of the people. Together with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), we continued to promote the governance of drunk driving. After the issuance of the opinions on handling criminal cases of drunk driving, the number of people sentenced decreased from 320,000 in 2023 to 231,000 in 2025, and the number of traffic accidents, deaths, and injuries caused by drunk driving all decreased. We concluded 41,000 cases involving 85,000 people in telecommunications and network fraud crimes, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. Sixteen principal offenders of the "Four Big Families" (四大家族) criminal group in northern Myanmar were sentenced to death with immediate execution in accordance with the law, and crimes committed outside the territory that infringe on our citizens must be punished in accordance with the law.
Severely punishing corruption crimes. We concluded 36,000 cases involving 40,000 people in duty-related crimes such as bribery and embezzlement, a year-on-year increase of 22.4%, and punished 57 former centrally-managed cadres such as Tang Renjian (唐仁健) and Luo Baoming (罗保铭) in accordance with the law. Bai Tianhui (白天辉), who accepted particularly large amounts of bribes and caused particularly serious losses to the interests of the country and the people, was sentenced to death and executed in accordance with the law. We punished new and hidden corruption crimes such as expected returns, agreed-upon nominee holdings, and the "revolving door" (旋转门) between politics and business in accordance with the law. We implemented the policy of investigating both bribe-takers and bribe-givers, and concluded 2,724 cases involving 3,235 people in bribery crimes, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%. We coordinated the promotion of international pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen goods and cross-border corruption governance, and recovered and confiscated illegal gains of 18.14 billion yuan.
Punishing new types of crimes in accordance with the law. In the past five years, we concluded 9,326 cases involving 22,000 people in crimes endangering network security, an increase of 158.5% compared with the previous five years. In 2025, we concluded 25,000 cases involving 38,000 people in crimes of assisting information network criminal activities, a year-on-year decrease of 62%, and the effectiveness of coordinated governance was obvious. We punished crimes such as online rumors, online pyramid schemes, and online violence in accordance with the law, and promoted comprehensive governance of network space security. Two young people were convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law for illegally obtaining and disseminating the privacy information of others. We severely punished crimes such as money laundering and evasion of foreign exchange using virtual currency as a medium, and worked together to prevent illegal cross-border transfer of funds. We clarified that drivers who use auxiliary driving functions after drunk driving should still bear criminal responsibility and cannot evade legal responsibility through technological applications.
Preventing and resolving risks in key areas. We severely punished crimes such as illegal fundraising, and concluded 11,000 related cases involving 22,000 people, a year-on-year decrease of 0.6%. Together with the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部), and the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), we implemented mechanisms such as real estate financing coordination to promote the delivery of guaranteed housing. We concluded 2.707 million financial cases, a year-on-year increase of 1.8%, strengthened the diversified resolution of financial disputes, promoted judicial and administrative "digital chain collaborative" supervision, promoted the standardized operation of local small and medium-sized financial institutions, and effectively implemented risk prevention and control.
Promoting the prevention and resolution of contradictions and disputes. We adhered to and developed the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, achieved full coverage of grassroots courts stationed in county-level comprehensive governance centers, strengthened guidance and mediation, and gathered forces to resolve disputes. The Chongqing (重庆) court relied on the comprehensive governance center to carry out "demonstration trials + centralized mediation," prompting 959 homeowners to reach a settlement with the developer on housing sales disputes, and resolving more than 2,000 potential disputes in the bud. The number of "overall-to-overall" (总对总) diversified dispute resolution cooperation units increased to 18, and 654,000 disputes were resolved independently through the People's Court Mediation Platform, a year-on-year increase of 4.3 times. We standardized case filing and conducted mediation first in accordance with the law; we promoted 67 types of model complaint and defense forms, effectively guaranteeing the right to sue. We coordinated with relevant units to implement Judicial Recommendations No. 1 to 8 of the Supreme People's Court, improved industry supervision, and achieved significant results in "grasping the front end." The Supreme People's Court conducted circuit trials to local areas and grassroots levels 3,959 times, a year-on-year increase of 3.6 times, and related petitions decreased by 23.9%.
Strengthening judicial protection of human rights. We adhered to the principles of legality of crime and punishment and evidence-based adjudication in criminal justice, declared 294 people innocent in accordance with the law, and allowed the procuratorial organs to withdraw prosecution of 1,235 people. Together with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, we issued judicial interpretations to protect the right of criminal suspects and defendants in custody to choose defense counsel. For three consecutive years, we have held working consultations with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) and the All China Lawyers Association (全国律协) to improve the lawyer working mechanism, strengthen the protection of lawyers' practice rights, and jointly maintain judicial justice. We concluded 6,865 cases involving state compensation for investigation, prosecution, and trial, and traced back the causes of wrong cases and coordinated with relevant departments to strengthen front-end prevention. We issued judicial assistance funds of 850 million yuan to 38,000 people in need involved in litigation. The Henan (河南) court provided judicial assistance to three siblings whose parents were killed in accordance with the law, and coordinated with functional departments to handle minimum living allowances and tuition fee reductions, ensuring that the children's lives and studies were guaranteed.
II. Upholding Fairness and Justice, Serving High-Quality Development with High-Quality Justice
We fully, accurately, and comprehensively implemented the new development concept, focused on maintaining a fair and just market environment, promoted the construction of a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy, and helped high-quality development move steadily and far.
Serving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. We formulated opinions on serving and guaranteeing scientific and technological innovation, helped promote the development of new quality productive forces, and concluded 496,000 intellectual property cases, a year-on-year increase of 0.3%. We adhered to the principle of protecting intellectual property rights forcefully in accordance with the law. We sentenced 19,000 people for crimes of infringing on intellectual property rights, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%. We gave full play to the functions of systems such as preservation measures, preliminary judgments, and punitive damages to provide timely relief to rights holders and punish infringements. The Supreme People's Court heard a case of infringement of technical secrets of a CNC machine tool and ordered the malicious infringer and its company to jointly bear three times the punitive damages of 380 million yuan. We promoted the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. We formulated guidelines for mediation work in technical intellectual property cases to promote cooperation and standardized development through mediation. Two leading low-altitude economy companies had a series of disputes due to patent rights. A judgment could potentially harm both parties. The court promoted the transformation and application of patents through mediation by "licensing use first and then negotiating fees." We maintained a good innovation order. We deepened the governance of abnormal batch litigation of intellectual property rights, rejected 2,331 lawsuits and imposed judicial penalties on 694 cases in accordance with the law. We punished employees who left their jobs and infringed on trade secrets in accordance with the law. Zhang (张) and 13 others illegally obtained chip technology information from their former company and were convicted and sentenced for the crime of infringing on trade secrets; at the same time, we ensured the orderly flow of talent. The court found that Zheng's (郑) employment after leaving his job was not substantially related to the trade secrets of his former company and that he did not violate the non-competition restriction. We promoted the standardized development of artificial intelligence. We properly heard cases involving artificial intelligence in accordance with the law and accurately grasped the "tolerance" space for scientific and technological innovation. A generative artificial intelligence service made a mistake in providing services, and the developer had fulfilled its duty of care. The court found that it did not constitute infringement. We resolutely regulated behaviors that use artificial intelligence to infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of others and disrupt social order in accordance with the law to promote the good use of technology.
Helping build a unified national market. We safeguarded fair market competition. We concluded 25,000 cases involving administrative permits and administrative agreements of business entities, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%, implemented "non-prohibition is permitted," and promoted the elimination of local protection and market segmentation. A certain place set up a franchise right for shared electric bicycles and granted it to a specific company. The court found that it constituted an abuse of administrative power to exclude and restrict competition and ordered it to be revoked in accordance with the law. We helped rectify "involution" (内卷) competition, strengthened anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition justice, and determined that 27 cases constituted monopoly; we heard a case of two major e-commerce companies abusing their dominant market position by "choosing one of the two," guiding both parties to connect and benefit each other and jointly promote consumption. Together with the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), we released typical cases to rectify behaviors such as collusion inside and outside bidding, collusion between agency institutions, and bidders colluding to bid up prices. We promoted the efficient allocation of market factors. We concluded 32,000 bankruptcy cases, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, helped 1,481 companies regain new life, promoted the legal clearing of 29,000 "zombie companies," resolved 4 trillion yuan in debt, and revitalized 1.1 trillion yuan in existing assets. The Tianjin (天津) court heard a bankruptcy liquidation case of a real estate company and legally disposed of the land use rights and construction in progress involved, helping the "117 Project" (117项目), which had been stagnant for nearly 10 years, to resume construction. Hebei (河北), Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), Jiangxi (江西), Shandong (山东), Henan, Tibet (西藏), Ningxia (宁夏), Xinjiang (新疆) and other places have improved the administrative and judicial linkage mechanism for bankruptcy work at the provincial level. Nanjing (南京), Ningbo (宁波), Hefei (合肥), Foshan (佛山), Chengdu (成都), Xi'an (西安) and other places have deepened the construction of bankruptcy affairs centers to achieve "three improvements" in bankruptcy trial efficiency, corporate reorganization efficiency, and resource allocation benefits. Shenzhen (深圳) deepened the practice of the personal bankruptcy system. The parties involved in the first personal bankruptcy liquidation case actively repaid debts in accordance with the plan approved by the creditors' meeting and were legally exempted from the remaining debts after the expiration of the four-year inspection period. The Xiamen (厦门) Personal Bankruptcy Protection Regulations have been implemented for four months, and 11 personal bankruptcy cases have been filed for review. We maintained the order of the capital market. Together with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会), we issued opinions to jointly promote the high-quality development of the capital market. We concluded 25,000 cases involving securities, futures, funds, etc., a year-on-year increase of 53.6%. We severely punished illegal and criminal activities such as fraudulent issuance, financial fraud, and market manipulation to protect the legitimate rights and interests of investors. A listed company falsely increased revenue by 1.1 billion yuan. The court sentenced the actual controller to six years in prison in accordance with the law and ordered the company to compensate investors for losses of 770 million yuan.
Stimulating the vitality of various business entities. We adhered to and implemented the "Two Unwavering" (两个毫不动摇) principle and promoted the complementary advantages and common development of various ownership economies through equal protection. We protected the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. We issued 25 measures to implement the Private Economy Promotion Law. We continued to regulate enterprises "bullying the small" (以大欺小). In 709 cases, we determined that the contract terms of large enterprises that received third-party payments as payment conditions were invalid, helping small and medium-sized enterprises recover 1.9 billion yuan in accounts receivable. A unit delayed payment for goods on the grounds of being audited. The court reviewed and determined that the audit was not specifically related to the transaction and ordered payment of 26.86 million yuan in accordance with the law. We severely punished illegal and criminal activities such as extortion and blackmail and spreading rumors and smears against enterprises. A network anchor continued to defame and seriously infringe on the goodwill of a well-known enterprise and the reputation of its operators. The Henan court ordered the immediate cessation of infringement, compensation for losses of 2.6 million yuan, and a public apology. We standardized law enforcement and justice involving enterprises. We resolutely corrected illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement, strengthened judicial supervision of compulsory measures such as sealing up, detention, and freezing, and corrected 367 problems such as improper penalties involving enterprises. We resolutely prevented and corrected the use of criminal means to interfere in economic disputes, and determined that 69 cases that had been sued should not be treated as crimes; we retried and reversed 6 enterprises and 12 enterprise operators to be innocent. We promoted the improvement of corporate governance. We concluded 151,000 cases involving corporate disputes such as shareholder contributions and equity transfers, a year-on-year increase of 39.5%. A new energy company faced compulsory liquidation due to disagreements between two shareholders when its business term expired. The Hubei (湖北) court mediated and promoted equity transfer, and the company's assets of hundreds of millions of yuan and green production capacity were able to continue operating and utilizing. We legally heard cases of internal company disputes caused by family disputes to promote standardized operation of enterprises and legal inheritance of property.
Ensuring the healthy development of the digital economy. We concluded 908 cases involving data ownership, transactions, and other disputes, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%. We released guiding cases to regulate data collection, use, and other behaviors to promote the full release of the value of data elements. We comprehensively used trade secret protection, copyright protection, and anti-unfair competition regulations to punish behaviors that infringe on data rights and interests. The Jiangsu (江苏) court heard a data dispute case and legally determined that stealing data sets and developing data products constituted unfair competition, and applied punitive damages to award 30 million yuan in compensation. We concluded 915 cases involving personal information protection disputes, a year-on-year increase of 65%, and clarified that the processing of personal information should follow the principles of legality, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith. We properly heard cases involving platform algorithms and regulated the abuse of algorithms in accordance with the law. The Sichuan (四川) court heard a dispute case involving an e-commerce platform, coordinated the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of merchants and consumers, and promoted the resolution of unfair refund rules existing on multiple platforms.
Serving the comprehensive green transformation. We deepened the judicial practice of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization and actively provided rich samples for the compilation of the ecological environment code. We strengthened the joint law enforcement and justice to protect the Yangtze River (长江) and Yellow River (黄河), protect the ecology of the Qinling Mountains (秦岭) and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and jointly build a beautiful China. We punished environmental violations and crimes. We concluded 24,000 criminal cases involving ecological environment resources, a year-on-year decrease of 5.4%, and 164,000 civil cases, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%. The Zhejiang (浙江) court convicted and sentenced the companies involved and 10 responsible persons for illegally discharging waste hydrochloric acid to pollute lakes and ordered them to compensate for restoration costs of 480 million yuan. We helped comprehensive environmental remediation. Together with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and other departments, we optimized the environmental supervision of motor vehicles. Together with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), we carried out special rectification of illegal occupation of farmland for housing construction in rural areas. Together with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, we issued judicial interpretations to protect black soil. The courts of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) severely punished crimes of stealing and over-exploiting black soil. We gave full play to the functions of systems such as behavior preservation and advance execution, and issued 208 injunctions to avoid the occurrence or expansion of ecological damage. The Chongqing court handed over the ecological damage compensation involved in the case to Yunnan (云南), the place where the ecology was damaged, for restoration. The Fujian (福建) court explored the ecological restoration supervisor mechanism to solve problems such as inconsistent restoration standards and ineffective supervision. We promoted green and low-carbon development. We concluded 115 cases involving carbon, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, and promoted the improvement of rules on carbon finance, carbon tax, and carbon emission governance. The Henan court heard an administrative penalty case for atmospheric pollution and found that the enterprise invested a lot of money to use environmentally friendly materials and significantly reduced the environmental impact. It promoted substantive dispute resolution through mediation, and the competent authority legally reduced the penalty and guided the enterprise to upgrade its environmental protection technology and complete green transformation.
Serving comprehensive green transformation. Deepen Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on ecological civilization in judicial practice, and actively provide rich samples for the compilation of the ecological environment code. Strengthen law enforcement and judicial coordination to protect the Yangtze River and Yellow River, safeguard the ecology of the Qinling Mountains and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and jointly build a beautiful China. Punish environmental violations and crimes. Concluded 24,000 criminal cases involving ecological environment and resources, a year-on-year decrease of 5.4%, and 164,000 civil cases, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%. The Zhejiang court convicted and sentenced the involved enterprise and 10 responsible persons who illegally discharged waste hydrochloric acid to pollute the lake, and ordered compensation for restoration costs and other expenses of 480 million yuan. Help with comprehensive environmental remediation. Optimize the environmental supervision of motor vehicles in conjunction with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and other departments. Jointly with the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), conduct special rectification of illegal occupation of cultivated land for housing construction in rural areas. Jointly with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), issued judicial interpretations to protect black soil. Courts in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang severely punished crimes of stealing and over-excavating black soil. Give play to the institutional functions of behavior preservation and advance execution, issue 208 injunctions to avoid the occurrence or expansion of ecological damage. The Chongqing court handed over the ecological damage compensation involved in the case to Yunnan, the place where the ecology was damaged, for restoration. The Fujian court explored the ecological restoration supervisor mechanism to solve problems such as inconsistent restoration standards and ineffective supervision. Promote green and low-carbon development. Concluded 115 carbon-related cases, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, and promoted the improvement of carbon-related finance, carbon tax, and carbon emission governance rules. The Henan court heard an administrative penalty case involving air pollution, and found that the company invested a lot of money to use environmentally friendly materials and significantly reduced the environmental impact. It promoted substantive resolution through mediation, and the competent authority依法调减处罚 (yī fǎ tiáo jiǎn chǔ fá - "reduced the punishment according to law," legally reduced the punishment) and guided the company to upgrade its environmental protection technology and complete its green transformation.
Promote the improvement of the level of administration according to law. Formulate judicial interpretations to support improving the transparency of government work and legally protect the public's right to know. Work with relevant departments to deepen the "3+N" mechanism for preventing and substantially resolving administrative disputes, carry out joint training on administrative trials and administrative law enforcement and administrative reconsideration, unify law enforcement and judicial standards, and improve the quality and credibility of law enforcement and justice. Lawsuits filed against administrative organs for dissatisfaction with administrative compulsory enforcement decreased by 17.2% year-on-year, the administrative organs' failure rate in cases after reconsideration decreased by 0.7 percentage points year-on-year, and the appeal rate and application for retrial rate of administrative cases decreased by 3.6 and 2.6 percentage points year-on-year, respectively.
Serve the strengthening of the military. Concluded 8,133 military-related cases, severely punished crimes such as破坏军事设施 (pò huài jūn shì shè shī - "damaging military facilities," damaging military facilities) and impersonating military personnel to swindle, fairly and efficiently resolved disputes involving military training land and military engineering construction, and gave play to the advantages of specialized trials and military-local linkage to serve the modernization of national defense and the military. Improve the jurisdiction of military and local courts over civil cases to promote military-local harmony and military-civilian unity. Courts in Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hunan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, and Gansu strengthened judicial protection of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Site, the Red Army Long March Site, and anti-Japanese war memorial facilities to carry forward and promote the glory of the people's army.
III. Adhering to fairness and justice, safeguarding a high-quality life with high-quality justice
Bearing in mind that people's justice is for the people, always sit firmly on the side of the people, administer justice fairly, solve problems for the people, and earnestly protect and enhance people's well-being.
Actively respond to the public's judicial demands. In the five years since the implementation of the Civil Code, 1.752 million cases of property rights disputes, 960,000 cases of personality rights disputes, and 5.566 million cases of tort liability disputes have been concluded, with an average annual increase of 0.7%, 5.1%, and 7.1% respectively; 33,000 cases of applications for personal safety protection orders, designation of estate administrators, and online infringement of virtual property disputes have been concluded using the new rules, with an average annual increase of 20%, 181.2%, and 69.9% respectively. Create a friendly marriage and childbearing environment. Continue to promote the governance of high bride prices, regulate the extortion of property in the name of marriage and improper profiteering by marriage agencies, and severely punish fraud in the name of marriage. Ma (马) organized a number of women to engage in "flash marriages and divorces" and defrauded more than 2 million yuan from 15 families and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Severely punish domestic violence crimes and issue typical cases for education and warning. Adjudicate cases involving生育福利 (shēng yù fú lì - "childbearing welfare," childbirth benefits), childcare services, and assisted reproduction in accordance with the law to help implement fertility support policies. Create a safe and secure environment for elderly care. Severely punish crimes of defrauding the elderly, such as fake low-priced travel and illegal promotion of health products, in accordance with the law. Adjudicate cases involving elderly support, elderly care services, and estate management in accordance with the law to guide respect for the elderly and help for the elderly. Protect the rights of over-age workers to obtain labor remuneration and work-related injury compensation in accordance with the law to ensure that the elderly can achieve something. Create a worry-free consumption environment. Protect consumers' right to know, right to choose, and right to fair trade in accordance with the law, and effectively regulate platform merchants' "刷单炒信" (shuā dān chǎo xìn - "brushing orders and hyping credit," faking sales and reviews) and fictitious evaluation behaviors. Continue to regulate "knowing and buying fakes" and severely punish extortion in the name of cracking down on counterfeiting. Formulate judicial interpretations on prepaid consumption to rectify突出问题 (tū chū wèn tí - "prominent problems," outstanding problems) such as "running away with money" and "霸王条款" (bà wáng tiáo kuǎn - "hegemony clauses," unfair contract terms). Crack down on crimes of defrauding consumption subsidies. Ren (任) and three others illegally obtained 879,000 yuan in government consumer coupon subsidies, and the Sichuan court convicted and sentenced them in accordance with the law. Create a harmonious medical environment. Concluded 1,433 cases involving medical insurance fraud crimes involving 2,807 people, a year-on-year increase of 24%, and recovered more than 500 million yuan in stolen money. Properly resolve medical disputes and rule that failure to fulfill the obligation of informing and explaining caused damage to the patient constitutes infringement; behaviors that fulfill the obligation of diagnosis and treatment and comply with the norms of diagnosis and treatment are exempted from liability in accordance with the law, and the proportion of cases in which hospitals are liable has decreased by 9.5 percentage points. Beijing and Heilongjiang courts explored the "expert argumentation + judicial review" mechanism to solve the professional judgment problems in complex medical disputes. Create a social environment that values law and morality. The judgment that the property company's cleaning up of debris in the corridor after failing to urge the residents to do so in order to maintain public interests and fire safety does not constitute infringement; general negligence in pulling someone away during a fight does not result in liability; forcibly sitting down on a bus, squeezing and insulting others constitutes infringement of personality rights, protecting good deeds and punishing evil deeds.
Serve high-quality and full employment. Strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests, and conclude 674,000 labor dispute cases, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%. Hear 75,000 cases of claiming labor remuneration and help recover 24.12 billion yuan in labor remuneration such as migrant workers' wages. Formulate judicial interpretations to clarify legal application issues such as the determination of labor contracts without a fixed term and the responsibility for subcontracting labor, and wholeheartedly serve to stabilize employment and benefit enterprises. Regulate unreasonable assessment and dismissal of employees in accordance with the law. Yu (余) worked continuously for more than 8 hours, and the company did not arrange for anyone to take over. He was dismissed for taking a 3-minute nap, and the court ruled that it constituted illegal termination of the labor contract. Support employers to terminate labor contracts with employees who fabricate illnesses and work passively in accordance with the law, support employers not having to pay double wages to employees who deliberately fail to sign written labor contracts, and regulate frequent "闪辞" (shǎn cí - "flash resignation," quick resignation) to profit from economic compensation.
Care for the healthy growth of minors. Zero tolerance for crimes against minors. Concluded 40,000 cases of crimes against minors involving 44,000 people, a year-on-year decrease of 1.8%, ordered 1,199 people to be prohibited from engaging in work that is in close contact with minors, and sentenced criminals who harmed minors and committed extremely serious crimes to death in accordance with the law. Strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency. Adhere to the combination of leniency and severity, punishment and education, and sentenced a minor who had reached the age of 14 who committed intentional homicide to life imprisonment in accordance with the law, sentenced 2,356 minors who committed serious violent crimes to heavy sentences of more than five years, and imposed lenient punishments on 5,822 minors who committed minor crimes in accordance with the law. Comprehensive measures have been taken to do a good job in education, persuasion, and rescue, and the high incidence of juvenile delinquency has been effectively curbed. Promote the formation of a joint force for the protection of minors. Comprehensively handle criminal, civil, and administrative cases involving minors, which is more conducive to the mutual promotion of the "six major protections." The Henan court heard a case of a stepmother abusing a girl, and the criminal and civil cases were heard simultaneously. The stepmother was convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law, and the custody relationship was ordered to be changed and compensation for personal injury was awarded. Revoked the guardianship qualifications of 997 unqualified parents in accordance with the law, and issued 435 injunctions against personality rights infringement against parents who snatched or hid minor children, a year-on-year increase of 66.7% and 90.8% respectively. Adjudicate campus infringement cases in accordance with the law, schools fulfill their duties and are exempted from liability, and families and schools work together to educate children, which is more conducive to the healthy growth of children.
Strive to solve the "enforcement difficulties." Continue to increase enforcement efforts. Improve the coordination and linkage mechanism between case filing, trial, and enforcement, preserve and enforce 5.837 million cases, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%, the automatic performance rate of civil judgments increased by 2.7 percentage points year-on-year, and 2.2 trillion yuan was enforced. Cross-enforced 268,000 cases by means of upgrading or instructing, achieving substantial progress or resolving 105,000 cases, and enforcing 84.56 billion yuan. The Inner Mongolia court upgraded the enforcement of a series of cases of a large enterprise, and all 56 cases were concluded, and the winning rights and interests of more than 60 small and medium-sized enterprises were realized. Increase the intensity of punishment for dishonesty, and sentence 4,461 people for refusing to execute judgments and rulings. A person subject to enforcement lied about seeking medical treatment to fraudulently obtain a temporary lifting of the restriction on high consumption orders but went abroad to gamble and was held criminally liable in accordance with the law. Promote enforcement by distinguishing situations. Strengthen review and identification, and do not include those subject to enforcement who have no property available for enforcement in the list of dishonest persons. For those subject to enforcement who are willing and have the potential to repay debts, make good use of measures such as the grace period for punishment for dishonesty and "活封活扣" (huó fēng huó kòu - "live sealing and live deduction," flexible sealing and deduction), and the number of people on the list of dishonest persons decreased by 5.2% after the first decrease in 2024. A company was applied for compulsory enforcement. The Anhui court, in view of its possible debt repayment, promoted enforcement reconciliation, allowed business self-rescue, and finally repaid 9 million yuan on schedule. Under the leadership of the Party committee, multiple departments in Jiangxi jointly governed the "enforcement difficulties" and resolved 25,000 backlog cases.
Protect the legitimate rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, overseas Chinese, and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. Concluded 31,000 cases involving Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, a year-on-year increase of 15.6%. Promote the connection of judicial rules in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and recognize and enforce the arbitration decisions of Hong Kong-funded and Macao-funded enterprises established in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area that choose Hong Kong and Macao as the place of arbitration. The Guangdong court specially invited Hong Kong and Macao mediation organizations to mediate nearly a thousand foreign-related and Hong Kong-Macao-related dispute cases. Invited 129 Taiwan compatriots as mediators to settle in the Taiwan-related mediation platform to properly resolve disputes involving the protection of the rights and interests of Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan-funded enterprises. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and other places selected and hired Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan compatriots and overseas Chinese to serve as people's jurors and mediators to participate in relevant judicial activities. Work with the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中国侨联) to strengthen judicial protection of overseas Chinese rights and interests. An overseas Chinese filed a lawsuit due to a dispute over a century-old house, and the court, together with the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and other organizations, successfully mediated the case, achieving a settlement of the case and harmony among the people.
IV. Adhering to fairness and justice, helping high-level opening up with high-quality justice
Adhere to the overall promotion of domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, improve the quality and credibility of foreign-related trials, and serve open cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results.
Resolutely safeguard the interests of the country and the people. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 159,000 foreign-related cases were concluded, an increase of 66% compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan", of which intellectual property and maritime cases were 49,000 and 12,000 respectively, an increase of 115.9% and 84.6% respectively year-on-year. Firmly safeguard China's judicial sovereignty. Implement the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and effectively counter illegal sanctions and "长臂管辖" (cháng bì guǎn xiá - "long-arm jurisdiction," long-arm jurisdiction). A foreign company refused to sign the bill of lading on the grounds that a Chinese company was subject to sanctions. The Chinese court issued a mandatory order upon application, ordering the foreign company to deliver the bill of lading and ordering compensation for losses. Fully exercise judicial jurisdiction. A foreign enterprise operating patents was sued for abusing its dominant market position and affecting China's market competition order. A foreign-listed company made false statements and damaged the interests of Chinese investors. Chinese courts applied the extraterritorial effect clauses of laws such as the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Securities Law respectively. Strengthen judicial protection of overseas interests. Guide "going out" enterprises to operate in accordance with the law and prevent risks. A Chinese enterprise's project built abroad has passed acceptance. The foreign owner abused the right to claim payment and requested payment of the guarantee amount. The Beijing court ruled to suspend payment upon application and legally prevented the transfer of commercial risks to Chinese enterprises.
Equally protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and foreign parties. Strictly abide by WTO principles such as national treatment and create a fair, transparent, non-discriminatory, and predictable business environment. The operating period of a Chinese-foreign joint venture company is about to expire. The Chinese shareholder abused its voting rights and refused to distribute profits. The Jilin court legally protected the rights and interests of the foreign shareholder. The shareholder expanded its investment in China and registered a new company. The Shaanxi court heard a bankruptcy reorganization case, applied the Hague Convention on Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents to facilitate the rules, actively guided foreign creditors to declare their claims, and comprehensively and equally protected the interests of domestic and foreign creditors. Equally protect the intellectual property rights of Chinese and foreign rights holders, and rule that trade secrets formed by a foreign company abroad should be protected in accordance with the law; recognize the supplementary submission of experimental data and determine that a foreign company's drug patent application should be authorized. In the World Bank's business environment assessment, the fairness and recognition of Beijing and Shanghai courts are the best in the world.
Continue to build a preferred place for dispute resolution. Improve the foreign-related trial mechanism. Formulate opinions on the high-quality development of international commercial courts, innovate foreign-related service of process and cross-border litigation services, improve the mechanism for ascertaining foreign laws, and improve the effectiveness of foreign-related trials. Courts in Chongqing, Yunnan, Gansu, Qinghai, and 11 other places deepened cooperation in ascertaining foreign laws, the Guangxi court promoted the judicial application of the "ASEAN Corpus", and used the "soft connectivity" of rules and mechanisms to serve the construction of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor. The Shanghai Maritime Court promoted the model clauses of jurisdiction agreements, and the number of cases agreed by the parties to be under its jurisdiction increased from 361 in 2021 to 712 in 2025; in 2025, foreign parties chose to be under its jurisdiction in 23 cases where the disputes involved had no actual connection with China. The organic connection between litigation and mediation and arbitration. Relying on the one-stop diversified resolution platform for international commercial disputes, 155 foreign-related cases were fairly and efficiently mediated. After two oil tankers collided, parallel lawsuits were filed in China and another country respectively. The Chinese court facilitated a settlement between the two parties earlier and fully implemented it, demonstrating the fairness, professionalism, and efficiency of Chinese justice. Perform judicial review duties in accordance with the law, support and supervise the development of arbitration, and handle 21,000 judicial review cases of commercial arbitration, a year-on-year increase of 12.8%; complete 108 cases of applications for recognition (recognition) and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards. Support the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to jointly build an international commercial dispute resolution center. Improve judicial service guarantees for the full island closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port. The Hainan court connected with the temporary arbitration system innovation and successfully heard and concluded the first foreign-related temporary arbitration case in the Free Trade Port. Adhere to добросовестное и цивилизованное судопроизводство. Explore the "liner detention advance notice" mechanism, and the liner applied for detention can continue to operate after providing a guarantee, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the applicant for ship detention and avoiding greater losses to the shipowner. Handle 6,061 international judicial assistance cases in accordance with the law and agreements, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, and the average time for assisting in the service of civil and commercial documents was shortened by 12 days. Based on international treaties or the principle of reciprocity, 972 foreign judgments were recognized and enforced in accordance with the law, an increase of 2 times year-on-year, and China's civil and commercial judgments have also been recognized and enforced by more and more countries.
Actively participate in global governance. China's judicial practice promotes the innovation of the international trade system. The Convention on Transferable Documents of Title was reviewed and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, promoting the facilitation of cross-border multimodal transport and trade financing involving China-Europe freight trains and the "Belt and Road". The first international maritime convention named after a Chinese city, the Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships, officially came into effect. The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the Environment Programme, and the World Intellectual Property Organization included 210 typical cases of Chinese courts. Trained 419 judges and judicial officials from 38 countries and regions, held the 20th Meeting of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States, the Environmental Justice Theme Forum of the Eco Forum Global Guiyang, and other events to promote exchanges and mutual learning of legal civilizations, and promoted the practice of the four major global initiatives based on justice.
V. Adhering to fairness and justice, regulating the operation of judicial power
Highlight political leadership, strengthen constraints and supervision, forge a strong team, and ensure that the power of adjudication is operated in accordance with the law, standardized, high-quality, and efficient.
Highlighting political leadership, strengthening checks and balances and supervision, forging a highly competent team, and ensuring the lawful, standardized, high-quality, and efficient operation of judicial power.
Strengthening the political construction of the People's Courts. Systematically summarizing Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law in judicial practice, compiling unified teaching materials for national judge training, and using 9,955 practical Q&As to help cadres and police in courts across the country strengthen their theoretical foundation and resolve practical doubts. Solidly carrying out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, comprehensively strengthening Party spirit, shaping work style, and enforcing strict discipline. Conducting in-depth learning activities from role models such as Ding Yuxiang (丁宇翔), Bian Xiaobin (边晓斌), and Wang Jiajia (王佳佳) to encourage the vast number of court cadres and police to faithfully perform their duties and step forward to take responsibility. Thirteen judicial personnel恪尽职守、秉公司法 (kè jìn zhí shǒu, bǐng gōng sī fǎ - "conscientiously fulfill duties, uphold impartiality and law," dedicated to their duties and upholding the law impartially), dedicating their precious lives to the Party and the people's judicial cause.
Strengthening the supervision and management of trials. Implementing and improving the judicial responsibility system, ensuring that "those who hear the case adjudicate, and those who adjudicate are responsible." Presidents of courts and tribunals took the lead in handling difficult cases and reviewed 14.163 million cases. Strengthening the exemplary guidance of typical case judgments, with higher-level courts hearing 3,200 cases, an increase of 8.5% year-on-year. Clearing up 10,176 long-term unresolved and long-detained cases that had been pending for more than two years, further reducing the backlog by 12.6%. The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) issued 15 judicial interpretations, 20 guiding cases, and 101 batches of 641 typical cases. The People's Court Case Library has included more than 5,300 cases, and the Legal Answer Network (法答网) has answered 890,000 questions, effectively promoting the unification of judgment standards. Deepening and standardizing judicial openness, publishing 10.979 million judgment documents online, an increase of 13.3% year-on-year. Strengthening scientific management, the quality and efficiency of trials continued to improve, the "case-to-item ratio" decreased by 0.07, and the appeal rate and the rate of application for retrial decreased by 2.4 and 0.6 percentage points respectively, reducing derivative cases by more than 2.2 million.
Making good use of technology to empower justice. Implementing the deployment of the Party Central Committee, promoting the handling of cases and office work by courts across the country on "one network" and one platform. Giving play to the advantages of network connectivity and unified rules, coordinating the handling of related cases in different places, identifying and correcting false litigation, and implementing full-process supervision in every case. Actively and prudently developing an artificial intelligence-assisted trial system, adhering to the "assistance" positioning, with judges being the only subject of judicial responsibility.
Deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the courts. Party groups at all levels of courts earnestly fulfill their political responsibilities and main responsibilities, and consciously accept the supervision of the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission and their dispatched agencies. Conducting judicial inspections and special audit supervision of eight Higher People's Courts (高级人民法院). Implementing the judge punishment system. Standardizing the management of departing personnel. Strictly implementing the "three regulations" to prevent interference in judicial affairs. Punishing judicial corruption with zero tolerance, with 9 cadres and police of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) and 995 cadres and police of local courts being investigated and punished for violating discipline and laws by using the power of adjudication and enforcement.
Comprehensively strengthening the grassroots foundation. Coordinating the allocation and use of 1,353 special political and legal establishment quotas in conjunction with the institutional establishment departments, and enriching the grassroots front lines with the heaviest trial tasks with limited resources. Working with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) to standardize the employment of retired judges to engage in mediation work, with more than 3,700 retired judges contributing "silver hair strength" to resolving conflicts and disputes. The second batch of relatively weak grassroots courts "脱薄" (tuō bó - "shake off weakness," to improve and strengthen) and move towards strength, with 100 "Fengqiao-style People's Courts" (枫桥式人民法庭) demonstrating leadership and enhancing grassroots judicial capabilities. Fujian (福建) and Ningxia (宁夏) courts sent cadres to each other for exchange and training, deepening Minning (闽宁) judicial cooperation. Selecting and dispatching 248 outstanding cadres to support Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆), and Qinghai (青海).
VI. Adhering to fairness and justice, and consciously accepting supervision from all aspects.
Deeply practicing whole-process people's democracy, improving the working mechanism of accepting supervision, absorbing public opinion, and gathering public wisdom, and widely gathering joint forces to promote the high-quality development of trial work.
Accepting the supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) in accordance with the law. Implementing the spirit of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大三次会议), handling 469 suggestions from deputies, 4,072 opinions from deputies' deliberations, and 247 daily suggestions, conducting special research, and implementing them item by item. Reporting on maritime trial work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), conscientiously implementing the deliberation opinions, and effectively improving maritime judicial capabilities. Inviting 3,730 National People's Congress (全国人大) deputies to inspect courts, conduct special investigations, attend court hearings, and witness executions, etc., and obtaining strong support in accepting supervision. Conscientiously implementing the filing and review system for judicial interpretations and the review and filing system for normative documents.
Consciously accepting democratic supervision. Handling 185 proposals from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), conscientiously studying, adopting, and promptly providing feedback. Actively adopting the suggestions of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) bi-weekly consultation and symposium to improve the quality and efficiency of judicial protection of intellectual property rights. Visiting and receiving 204 members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协). Strengthening communication with various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), and people without party affiliation, and conscientiously listening to opinions and suggestions. Holding the Sixth Private Economy Rule of Law Construction Conference with the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) and other organizations to jointly promote the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy.
Accepting the legal supervision of the procuratorial organs in accordance with the law. Impartially hearing 8,728 protested cases, legally reversing 3,992 cases, a year-on-year decrease of 15.3% and 5.2% respectively. Conducting special analysis of cases of procuratorial supervision of civil trials to further improve the quality and efficiency of case handling. Working with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) to carry out supervision of enforcement work, and jointly solving the "difficulty in enforcement."
Widely accepting social supervision. Conscientiously listening to opinions and suggestions from special supervisors and specially invited consultants from all walks of life. Publicly hearing 16,000 appealed petition cases, an increase of 63.8% year-on-year. Holding a working conference of people's jurors with the Ministry of Justice (司法部), with 340,000 people's jurors playing a greater role in promoting judicial democracy and enhancing judicial credibility. Working with People's Daily (人民日报社), Xinhua News Agency (新华社), China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) and other media to tell the story of the rule of law in China in the new era.
Fellow Deputies, 2025 marks the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan," and China's development has achieved new major achievements, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new solid steps. In sync with the development of the cause of the Party and the country, the People's Courts have unswervingly marched forward along the correct direction, serving the overall situation and administering justice for the people, deepening the reform of the judicial system, forging a highly competent court team, continuously improving the quality and efficiency of trials, promoting the further improvement of the socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics, and making positive contributions to building a higher level of safe China and rule of law China. The development and progress of the work of the People's Courts are fundamentally due to the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the strong supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the strong support of the State Council (国务院), the democratic supervision of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), the supervision of the National Supervisory Commission (国家监察委员会) and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), the democratic supervision and support of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), people's organizations, and people without party affiliation, and the enthusiastic concern, support, and assistance of local Party and government organs at all levels, National People's Congress (全国人大) deputies, National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) members, people from all walks of life, and the broad masses of the people. Here, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks on behalf of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院)!
We are soberly aware that, compared with the requirements of the Party and the people, there are still many problems and difficulties in the work of the People's Courts. First, it is still necessary to make long-term efforts to study and understand Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law, and the ability to use the Party's innovative theories to solve new problems and difficulties in trial work needs to be enhanced. Second, there is still a gap in the ability to serve the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and the pertinence, coordination, and effectiveness of judicial services and guarantees need to be improved. Third, the realization and evaluation mechanism of judicial justice needs to be improved, and judicial credibility and authority need to be continuously enhanced. Fourth, the contradiction of "more cases and fewer people" is still prominent, it is not easy to determine disputes and stop disputes, the allocation of trial resources needs to be optimized, and the training of professional trial talents needs to be strengthened urgently. Fifth, some cadres and police still have problems of violating discipline and laws, and the rectification of work style, strict discipline, and anti-corruption must not stop for a moment or retreat half a step, and the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the courts is always on the road. We will highlight problem orientation and strive to solve problems under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the support of all parties.
Work Arrangement for 2026
2026 is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The People's Courts must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implement the deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, firmly establish confidence in the rule of law, pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to ensuring and promoting social fairness and justice, implement the deployment of the Central Conference on Overall Law-Based Governance and the Central Political and Legal Work Conference, strengthen trial work in the new era, and provide strong judicial services and guarantees for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
First, faithfully perform duties, and deepen and solidify serving the overall situation and administering justice for the people. Implement the national security responsibility system and the responsibility system for maintaining social stability. Comprehensively and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity. Severely punish crimes that endanger national security such as subversion, division, infiltration, sabotage, espionage, and religious extremism. Punish serious violent crimes severely and promptly in accordance with the law. Improve the normalized mechanism for cracking down on organized crime. Increase the punishment of crimes such as telecommunications network fraud, drugs, and endangering food and drug safety. Punish corruption crimes in accordance with the law. Prevent and combat illegal financial activities. Punish crimes that endanger tax collection and management in accordance with the law. Improve judicial policies for cyberspace governance. Strengthen judicial protection of personal information security. Strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency, and solidly carry out the work of legal vice-principals. Strengthen judicial protection of human rights. Supervise and support administration in accordance with the law. Coordinate and promote the standardized construction of comprehensive management centers, implement the legalization of petition work involving litigation, and promote the diversified and substantive resolution of conflicts and disputes. Further improve the quality and efficiency of handling civil and administrative cases, do a good job in explaining the law and reasoning, and achieve the goal of resolving cases and disputes and settling disputes. Strengthen judicial protection of intellectual property rights and help promote innovation-driven development. Promote the standardized development of the digital economy and "artificial intelligence +". Strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition justice. Implement the Private Economy Promotion Law. Improve the long-term mechanism for standardizing law enforcement and justice involving enterprises. Improve the connection mechanism between judicial judgment enforcement and the bankruptcy system. Implement the Ecological Environment Code and strengthen judicial protection of the ecological environment. Increase the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage. Help promote high-quality urban renewal and comprehensive rural revitalization. Strengthen judicial protection of overseas interests. Strengthen military rights protection work and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of heroes and martyrs, military personnel and their families, civilian personnel of the military, and veterans. Strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), Taiwan (台湾), and overseas Chinese. Protect the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Create a fair and orderly employment environment. Strengthen consumer rights protection. Promote the socialist spirit of the rule of law and create a good environment in which the whole society advocates the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and maintains justice.
Second, adhere to integrity and innovation, and improve the fair judicial system and mechanism. Resolutely implement the deployment of the reform of the judicial system and deeply implement the "Sixth Five-Year Reform Outline" of the People's Courts. Standardize the operation of judicial power, improve the realization and evaluation mechanism of judicial justice, and improve the fairness, stability, and authority of judicial judgments. Deepen the reform of the criminal procedure system centered on trials. Accelerate the construction of the foreign-related trial system and capacity, and improve maritime judicial capacity. Standardize the establishment of specialized courts. Deepen the reform of the level jurisdiction, centralized jurisdiction, and extraterritorial jurisdiction of administrative cases. Improve the national enforcement system and strengthen the standardized construction of enforcement. Continue to optimize trial management that conforms to the laws of justice. Actively standardize and do a good job in judicial suggestions. Strictly implement the case registration system, strengthen and standardize prior mediation. Improve an efficient, convenient, intelligent, and precise litigation service system. Strengthen the construction of relatively weak grassroots courts and optimize the layout of people's tribunals. Do a good job in supporting Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆), and Qinghai (青海), and support the construction of courts in old revolutionary areas, ethnic areas, and border areas. Accelerate the construction of digital courts and strengthen the empowerment of technology to justice.
Third, strictly manage and love, and forge a new era of court iron army that can shoulder heavy responsibilities. Adhere to the integrated promotion of political construction, business construction, and professional ethics construction. Deeply practice whole-process people's democracy, and consciously accept the supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大), democratic supervision, and supervision from all aspects. Report on the work of people's jurors to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会). Establish and practice a correct view of political achievements and encourage responsibility. Deepen the collaborative education mechanism with law schools and accelerate the training and reserve of specialized trial talents in foreign-related affairs, finance, bankruptcy, intellectual property rights, and environmental resources. Encourage and support retired judges to give play to their advantages and participate in resolving conflicts and disputes. Persistently promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the courts, focus on the implementation of the "three regulations," improve the judicial responsibility investigation mechanism, and promote the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt to ensure fair and honest justice.
Fellow Deputies, in the new era and new journey, we will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implement the requirements of this meeting, faithfully fulfill the duties entrusted to us by the Constitution and laws, unite our efforts, work hard, and make new and greater contributions to building a higher level of socialist rule of law country and to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), March 16)
Return to TopBy: 最高人民检察院检察长 应 勇
Distinguished Delegates,
Now, on behalf of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), I present this work report to the congress for deliberation, and I welcome comments from all members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协).
Review of Work in 2025
In 2025, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and under the effective supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Procuratorate adhered to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guidance, thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implemented the resolutions of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大三次会议决议), profoundly understood the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthened the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthened the "Four Confidences," and achieved the "Two Upholds." We adhered to the Party's absolute leadership over procuratorial work, practiced whole-process people's democracy, actively integrated into the further comprehensive deepening of reform and the process of advancing Chinese-style modernization, focused on building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist rule of law country with a higher level, adhered to serving the overall situation, administering justice for the people, and taking responsibility for the rule of law, strengthened procuratorial supervision, handled each case with high quality and efficiency, strived to make the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case, continuously promoted the procuratorial practice of Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, and achieved new results in various procuratorial tasks. Procuratorates nationwide handled a total of 3.467 million cases of various types, of which the Supreme People's Procuratorate handled 8,151 cases.
1. Implementing the Overall National Security Concept and Promoting the Construction of a Higher-Level Safe China
We lawfully performed procuratorial functions, comprehensively and accurately implemented the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, and made every effort to safeguard long-term national stability and security. Throughout the year, we approved the arrest of 664,000 criminal suspects of various types and filed public prosecutions against 1.404 million people, a year-on-year decrease of 11.7% and 13.9% respectively. China's social security situation continues to improve and is one of the safest countries in the world.
Resolutely safeguarding national security. We severely punished crimes endangering national security in accordance with the law, and resolutely cracked down on infiltration, sabotage, subversion, and secessionist activities by hostile forces. We improved the anti-terrorism and anti-secession procuratorial case-handling cooperation mechanism, and legally guaranteed the continued stability of Xinjiang (新疆), Tibet (西藏), and other places. We implemented the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" (中华人民共和国香港特别行政区维护国家安全法) to promote the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong (香港). We punished "Taiwan independence" (台独) diehards for the crimes of splitting the country and inciting secession in accordance with the law, and safeguarded national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.
Focusing on maintaining social stability. We severely punished serious violent crimes, prosecuting 54,000 people for intentional homicide, robbery, kidnapping, and other crimes. We promoted the integrated advancement of the fight against organized crime and the elimination of "protective umbrellas," prosecuting 9,870 people involved in organized crime and 65 "protective umbrellas." We severely punished crimes such as trafficking in persons, crimes involving guns and explosives, and drug manufacturing and trafficking, prosecuting 39,900 people. The Supreme People's Procuratorate legally approved the prosecution of 380 murderers in homicide cases that occurred more than 20 years ago, ensuring that criminals cannot escape the law. We regulated the application of the leniency system for admitting guilt and accepting punishment in accordance with the law. 84.8% of criminal suspects voluntarily admitted guilt and accepted punishment during the procuratorial stage, and the first-instance conviction rate was 96.9%, 33.4 percentage points higher than cases where the system was not applied, promoting conviction and settlement of disputes, repairing social relations, and demonstrating the effectiveness of crime governance. We continued to implement the opinions on handling criminal cases of drunk driving, accepting and reviewing the prosecution of 255,000 crimes of dangerous driving, and prosecuting 230,400 people, a year-on-year decrease of 21.5% and 16.5% respectively. The number of deaths in traffic accidents related to drunk driving nationwide decreased by 13.8% year-on-year, and the effectiveness of drunk driving governance has been continuously consolidated. Together with the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), we formulated opinions on handling cases of concealing criminal proceeds and assisting in information network criminal activities, promoting the legal governance of common and frequently occurring crimes and enhancing the people's sense of security.
Resolutely safeguarding national defense and military interests. We deepened military-local procuratorial cooperation, prosecuting 362 people for crimes endangering national defense interests, such as destroying military facilities and disrupting military management order; handled 437 public interest litigations in the field of national defense and military affairs, and promoted the strengthening of the protection of military airports, military waterways, and other facilities. In response to problems such as damage to military oil pipelines, communication optical cables, civil air defense projects, and unauthorized drone flights into military areas for aerial photography, we guided procuratorates in Shanxi (山西), Zhejiang (浙江), Hubei (湖北), Guizhou (贵州), and other places to supervise relevant departments to strengthen supervision through public interest litigation and maintain military security.
Continuously promoting the governance of the network ecology. We punished illegal and criminal activities such as online violence, online rumors, online extortion, and "online water armies" in accordance with the law, prosecuting 182,000 people for crimes committed using the Internet. We punished telecommunications network fraud crimes in accordance with the law, prosecuting 69,000 people. We severely cracked down on cross-border telecommunications fraud crimes. In response to the armed protection of telecommunications fraud by criminal groups in northern Myanmar (缅北) and the killing of Chinese citizens, the Supreme People's Procuratorate guided the prosecution of 285 people for suspected fraud, intentional homicide, intentional injury, and other crimes in accordance with the law, and severely punished them. We strengthened judicial protection of citizens' personal information, prosecuting 6,142 people for related crimes and handling 4,456 public interest litigations. Lin (林) and others illegally obtained citizens' personal information and established online groups to implement "opening boxes." The Beijing (北京) procuratorial organs filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law, resolutely maintaining order in cyberspace.
Coordinating and promoting social governance in accordance with the law. Combining with the handling of cases, we issued 17,000 procuratorial suggestions targeting management loopholes in issuing units, industries, etc., to promote source governance. We adhered to and developed the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, deeply promoted the legalization of procuratorial petition work, and promoted the improvement of responses to mass petitions from "being able to do it" to "doing it well." County-level procuratorates nationwide comprehensively dispatched personnel to reside in comprehensive management centers to resolve contradictions and disputes in accordance with the law. We deepened the tackling of repeated petitions, implemented the system of leading cadres of procuratorates at all levels receiving visitors and going down to the grassroots level, handling 54,000 petitions, and the number of petitions involving procuratorial organs, repeated petitions, and collective visits decreased by 0.5%, 2.5%, and 15.7% year-on-year, respectively. Shi (石) applied to the procuratorial organs for supervision after his request for civil compensation for disability caused by a traffic accident was rejected. The Supreme People's Procuratorate found that Shi (石) had been paralyzed in bed for more than 30 years and his family was in financial difficulties. It guided the procuratorial organs in Heilongjiang (黑龙江) and Anhui (安徽) provinces involved in the case to coordinate with relevant local departments to provide assistance, promoting the resolution of the case and the harmony of people.
Leading the trend of the rule of law with fair justice. We integrated the core socialist values into the performance of procuratorial duties, promoted the spirit of the rule of law with legal supervision, and promoted social stability. Procuratorial organs nationwide decided not to arrest or prosecute 339 people who were identified as legitimate defense after review. Wang (王) fought with a thief who broke into his home late at night, causing his death, and Chen (陈) injured the perpetrator while resisting illegal infringement. The procuratorial organs in Guangxi (广西) and Zhejiang (浙江) both determined that they were legitimate defense, continuously demonstrating that the law cannot yield to illegality. The procuratorial organs in Jiangxi (江西) and Hainan (海南) handled cases of allowing fierce dogs to injure people in parks and throwing objects from heights to disrupt public order, pursuing criminal responsibility in accordance with the law and promoting the standardization of social behavior. The procuratorial organs in Fujian (福建), Gansu (甘肃), Qinghai (青海), and other places supervised and promoted the reduction of sentences for community correction subjects who acted bravely for justice in accordance with the law, encouraging respect for the law and good deeds.
2. Comprehensively, Accurately, and Fully Implementing the New Development Concept and Serving High-Quality Development
We adhered to finding the procuratorial position in grasping the overall situation, performing procuratorial duties in integrating into the overall situation, and promoting procuratorial work in serving the overall situation, providing strong judicial guarantees for high-quality economic and social development.
Actively participating in the anti-corruption struggle. We accepted 30,500 cases of duty-related crimes transferred by supervisory commissions at all levels and prosecuted 29,000 people, an increase of 10.8% and 20.5% year-on-year, respectively, including 44 former provincial and ministerial-level cadres such as Wu Yingjie (吴英杰) and Tang Renjian (唐仁健). We coordinated the rectification of corruption in key areas, prosecuting 9,174 people for duty-related crimes in the fields of finance, state-owned enterprises, and energy. We severely punished corruption around the masses, prosecuting 7,609 people for duty-related crimes in the fields of rural revitalization, elderly care services, and funeral services. We punished new types of corruption and hidden corruption implemented by using their powers, such as expected returns, agreed-upon holding on behalf of others, and fictitious transaction links, prosecuting 832 people. We adhered to investigating bribery and bribery together, prosecuting 3,292 people for bribery crimes, an increase of 7.3% year-on-year. We coordinated the international pursuit of fugitives and the recovery of stolen goods and cross-border corruption governance, cooperating with relevant departments to persuade, repatriate, and extradite 17 criminal suspects who had fled abroad, and filed applications with the court for confiscation of illegal income from 12 absconding and deceased suspects of embezzlement and bribery crimes, including Li Chuanliang (李传良).
Maintaining the socialist market economic order. We increased the punishment of economic crimes, prosecuting 137,000 people, and promoted the construction of a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy. We jointly cracked down on smuggling crimes such as smuggling strategic minerals for export with the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), and other departments, prosecuting 9,874 people. We jointly governed the illegal intermediary chaos in the financial field with the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) and other departments, and participated in special actions to combat illegal fund-raising and other activities, prosecuting 25,000 people for financial crimes. Together with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会), we strengthened the construction of the rule of law in the capital market, prosecuting 418 people for securities crimes such as financial fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, and fraudulent issuance. We increased anti-money laundering efforts, prosecuting 3,259 people for money laundering crimes using virtual currencies, underground banks, and other methods. We prosecuted 13,000 people for tax-related crimes in accordance with the law. We coordinated with the State Taxation Administration (税务总局) to carry out a special action for tax supervision of retail enterprises of refined oil, and supervised and supplemented tax payments of 1.28 billion yuan through public interest litigation. We strengthened anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition procuratorial duties, prosecuting 9,797 people for crimes such as damaging business reputation and forced transactions, and handled 157 public interest litigations, serving the construction of a unified national market.
Strengthening law enforcement and judicial supervision involving enterprises. We adhered to and implemented the "**两个毫不动摇**" (liǎng gè háo bù dòng yáo - "two unwaverings," unwavering in consolidating and developing the public sector; unwavering in encouraging, supporting, and guiding the development of the non-public sector), implemented the Private Economy Promotion Law, protected the property rights of various ownership economies equally in accordance with the law, served to stabilize employment, stabilize enterprises, stabilize the market, and stabilize expectations, and promoted the creation of a rule-of-law business environment. We actively participated in special actions to regulate law enforcement involving enterprises, deployed special supervision of illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial activities, handled 19,900 cases in accordance with the law, supervised the withdrawal of 2,471 cases by investigation organs, decided not to prosecute 3,539 people, and supervised the lifting and return of illegally seized, detained, and frozen property of 2.63 billion yuan. The investigation organ in a certain place illegally filed a case for investigation against personnel of a company in another province on suspicion of crime, illegally took criminal compulsory measures, and seized, detained, and froze property. The Supreme People's Procuratorate guided the supervision and correction in accordance with the law.
Strengthening judicial protection of intellectual property rights. We deepened the comprehensive performance of intellectual property rights procuratorial duties, served the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, promoted the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries, cultivated and strengthened emerging industries and future industries, and legally guaranteed high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. We jointly formulated judicial interpretations on handling criminal cases of infringement of intellectual property rights with the Supreme People's Court, and jointly supervised the handling of 109 major infringement and piracy cases with the National Copyright Administration (国家版权局) and other departments, prosecuting 19,000 people for crimes such as infringement of trademark rights, copyright, trade secrets, and patent counterfeiting. A former employee of a semiconductor company illegally provided the company's trade secrets to overseas institutions. The Zhejiang (浙江) procuratorial organs filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law. We punished crimes against data security in the fields of artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and other fields in accordance with the law, prosecuting 4,739 people. We handled 3,658 civil, administrative, and public interest litigation cases involving intellectual property rights, deepened special supervision of malicious intellectual property rights litigation, and promoted the creation of a good innovation environment.
Serving the construction of a beautiful China. We deeply practiced the concept that green waters and green mountains are **金山银山** (jīn shān yín shān - "gold mountains silver mountains," green environment is invaluable), prosecuted 33,000 people for crimes of destroying the ecological environment and resources, handled 47,000 public interest litigations, and recovered 1.03 billion yuan in ecological environment damage compensation. We deployed special supervision of bird and wildlife protection, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate supervised the handling of 13 major cases. Together with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), and other departments, we improved the cooperation mechanism and strengthened judicial protection of the ecological environment in the Yangtze River (长江), Yellow River (黄河), Pearl River (珠江), and other river basins. In response to problems such as pollution of rivers flowing into the sea and illegal aquaculture in the Bohai Sea (渤海) region, the Supreme People's Procuratorate filed a public interest litigation case, and procuratorial organs in Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), Liaoning (辽宁), Shandong (山东), and other places simultaneously handled 581 cases. We organized procuratorial organs in Shaanxi (陕西), Hubei (湖北), Sichuan (四川), Qinghai (青海), and other places to strengthen the ecological environment protection of the Qinling Mountains (秦岭), and guided the Guangxi (广西) procuratorial organs to help rectify heavy metal pollution problems in the mining field. We carried out special supervision to serve green and low-carbon development, handled 13,000 public interest litigations, and promoted the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
Serving coordinated development. We actively participated in urban governance, promoted the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and promoted the integrated development of urban and rural areas. We jointly formulated judicial interpretations on handling criminal cases of destroying black soil resources with the Supreme People's Court, prosecuted 4,089 people for crimes of illegally occupying agricultural land, and helped to firmly guard the red line of arable land. We guided procuratorial organs in Hebei (河北), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), and other places to strengthen judicial protection of geographical indications related to agricultural products, and organized procuratorial organs in Shanxi (山西), Henan (河南), Hubei (湖北), Hunan (湖南), and other places to protect drinking water safety through public interest litigation. Serving regional coordinated development, we guided procuratorial organs in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui (沪苏浙皖), Sichuan-Chongqing (川渝), and other places to strengthen case-handling coordination, and supported the Guangdong (广东) procuratorial organs to promote marine protection cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
Serving the construction of a strong cultural country. We continued to crack down on cultural relic crimes, prosecuting 1,536 people for crimes such as looting ancient tombs and selling cultural relics. We handled 5,248 public interest litigations involving the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage. We supported procuratorial organs in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Sichuan (四川), Guizhou (贵州), Yunnan (云南), and other places to strengthen the protection of intangible cultural heritage and promote national unity and progress. We guided procuratorial organs in Shanxi (山西), Henan (河南), Ningxia (宁夏), and other places to carry out public interest actions for the protection of the Great Wall (长城) on a regular basis, and organized procuratorial organs in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Shaanxi (陕西), and Gansu (甘肃) to strengthen the protection of the Qinzhidao (秦直道) ruins, helping to continue the historical and cultural heritage.
Serving high-level opening to the outside world. We deeply implemented Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, integrated into the overall pattern of foreign-related rule of law work, strengthened foreign-related procuratorial work, prosecuted 55,000 people for foreign-related criminal crimes, and handled 254 criminal judicial assistance cases. We guided procuratorial organs in Hainan (海南), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), and other places to serve the operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) with the whole island sealed off. We organized procuratorial organs in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Chongqing (重庆), and other places to guarantee the construction of free trade pilot zones and comprehensive demonstration zones for expanding opening up in the service industry. We coordinated to strengthen the fight against sanctions, interference, and "long-arm jurisdiction." We strengthened judicial protection of overseas interests and protected the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and enterprises in accordance with the law. We received 12 foreign prosecutors general and deputy prosecutors general who came to China for visits, 214 foreign prosecutors who came to China for training and study, held the China-Africa Procuratorial Cooperation Forum in Guangzhou (广州), supported Hong Kong (香港) in hosting the China-ASEAN Member States Prosecutors General Conference, and served major-country diplomacy.
3. Adhering to the People's Livelihood as the Top Priority and Protecting the People's Rights and Interests in Accordance with the Law
We practiced the purpose of serving the people, deepened the special action of "Procuratorial Protection of People's Livelihood," and strengthened judicial protection of people's livelihood.
Effectively handling cases in the field of people's livelihood. We strengthened judicial protection of food and drug safety, prosecuting 12,000 people for crimes of producing and selling toxic and harmful food, fake drugs, and inferior drugs, and handled 27,000 public interest litigations. We coordinated the deepening of the special action to combat counterfeit agricultural materials, prosecuting 461 people for crimes of producing and selling counterfeit and inferior seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other materials. We jointly carried out special rectification of fraud and insurance fraud in the fields of social security and medical insurance, prosecuting 5,256 people for related crimes, supervising and correcting 573 false lawsuits, and safeguarding the people's "pension money" and "life-saving money." We prosecuted 108 people for crimes of injuring and disturbing medical personnel, promoting the construction of safe hospitals. We prosecuted 4,494 people for crimes of major liability accidents, dangerous operations, and other crimes, ensuring production safety. We coordinated and corrected outstanding problems in the fields of prepaid consumption and live streaming, and strengthened consumer rights protection in accordance with the law.
Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of heroes, martyrs, and military personnel and their families. We prosecuted 599 people for crimes of infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of heroes, martyrs, and military personnel and their families, and handled 1,863 public interest litigations. We carried out special activities to protect heroes, martyrs, and red cultural relics, organized procuratorial organs in Jilin (吉林), Jiangsu (江苏), Jiangxi (江西), Shandong (山东), and other places to strengthen the protection of anti-Japanese war sites, and guided procuratorial organs in Tianjin (天津), Liaoning (辽宁), Hunan (湖南), Guizhou (贵州), and other places to strengthen the protection of martyr memorial facilities, inheriting the red gene.
Protecting the rights and interests of workers. We jointly issued typical cases of labor law supervision "One Letter and Two Books" with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) and other departments, and cracked down on job search fraud crimes such as "**垫资入职**" (diàn zī rù zhí - "paying to get a job," paying a fee to secure employment) and "**付费内推**" (fù fèi nèi tuī - "paid internal recommendation," paying for an internal job referral) in accordance with the law. We actively participated in the governance of wage arrears, prosecuting 1,190 people for the crime of refusing to pay labor remuneration, supported migrant workers in filing 28,000 lawsuits to recover wages, and recovered 1.35 billion yuan in unpaid wages. We carried out supervision activities to protect the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms and handled 690 public interest litigations. In response to problems such as "fines for delays" and "deductions for complaints" on some express delivery and logistics platforms, the Shanghai (上海) procuratorial organs supervised relevant departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law, promoted the optimization of algorithm rules, and protected the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners.
Safeguarding the rights and interests of workers. Jointly with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) and other organizations, we released typical cases of labor law supervision in the form of "One Letter and Two Books," and cracked down on job application fraud crimes such as "paying for job guarantees" and "paid internal referrals" in accordance with the law. We actively participated in addressing wage arrears, prosecuted 1,190 individuals for the crime of refusing to pay labor remuneration, supported 28,000 lawsuits filed by migrant workers to recover unpaid wages, and recovered 1.35 billion yuan in unpaid wages. We carried out supervision activities to protect the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, and handled 690 public interest litigations. In response to issues such as "fines for delays" and "fee deductions for complaints" on certain express delivery and logistics platforms, the Shanghai (上海) procuratorial organs urged relevant departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law, promoted the optimization of algorithm rules, and safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners.
Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of minors and the prevention of crime. We have zero tolerance for crimes against minors, prosecuting 73,000 individuals. We punish, educate, influence, and save delinquent minors in accordance with the law, prosecuting 56,000 individuals; conditionally not prosecuting 16,000 individuals who committed minor crimes and actively confessed and repented. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) lawfully approved the prosecution of 24 minors aged between twelve and fourteen years old for serious violent crimes. Malicious crimes must be punished. We collaborated to strengthen the construction of specialized schools, promoted the establishment of a graded intervention and correction system for minors' criminal behavior, and continued to promote the implementation of mandatory reporting, pre-employment inquiries, and other systems to promote the enhancement of the combined force of the "six major protections." The number of prosecutions by procuratorial organs for crimes against minors and the number of cases accepted for review and prosecution of crimes by minors decreased by 2.2% and 9.8% year-on-year, respectively, the first "double decrease" in nearly five years.
Protecting the rights and interests of specific groups. Strengthening the protection of women's rights and interests. We deepened cooperation with the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联) and other organizations, released typical cases of anti-domestic violence, prosecuted 43,000 individuals for crimes infringing upon women's personal rights and dignity, and handled 2,259 public interest litigations. In response to issues such as some employers illegally terminating employment contracts with female employees during pregnancy, maternity leave, and breastfeeding periods, the Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Shandong (山东) and other local procuratorial organs urged relevant departments to strengthen supervision and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of female employees. Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly. We worked with the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) and other departments to improve working mechanisms, prosecuted 50,300 individuals for crimes infringing upon the rights and interests of the elderly, and handled 1,562 litigation supervision cases involving guardianship, support, and other matters related to the elderly. A guardian sold the property of a disabled elderly person regardless of their interests. The Beijing (北京) procuratorial organ accepted a supervision application, filed a protest in accordance with the law, and the retrial ruled the sale invalid. Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of persons with disabilities. We jointly released typical cases with the China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残联) and other organizations, and handled 4,723 public interest litigations related to the construction of barrier-free environments. We guided procuratorial organs in Fujian (福建), Hunan (湖南), Yunnan (云南), Shaanxi (陕西) and other places to supervise and promote the improvement of barrier-free facilities in transportation hubs and the addition of voice broadcast modules to public service software, helping people with disabilities share a convenient life.
Safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of compatriots from Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and Taiwan (台湾), overseas Chinese, and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. We handled 2,180 cases involving Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in accordance with the law. We deepened exchanges and cooperation with law enforcement and judicial institutions in Hong Kong and Macao. We supported procuratorial organs in Fujian (福建), Guangdong (广东) and other places to strengthen the construction of judicial liaison windows with Taiwan. We worked with the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中国侨联) to promote cooperation between procuratorial organs and overseas Chinese affairs organizations, strengthen procuratorial work involving overseas Chinese, and promote the cohesion of overseas Chinese hearts, strength, and wisdom.
Improving procuratorial measures to benefit the people and make life easier. We continued to improve the 12309 Procuratorial Service Center, deepened the organic integration of offline halls, online platforms, and hotline telephones, optimized functions such as complaints and appeals, case inquiries, and legal consultations, and facilitated the participation of the public in litigation and the expression of demands. We supported 42,000 civil lawsuits filed by vulnerable groups who had suffered infringements of their rights and interests but had genuine difficulties in filing lawsuits. We implemented the national judicial assistance system, providing 620 million yuan in judicial assistance funds to 43,000 parties involved in cases who were in financial difficulty due to the cases, demonstrating judicial warmth.
IV. Strengthening Procuratorial Supervision to Promote Fairness and Justice
We promoted the comprehensive, coordinated, and full development of criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation procuratorial work, adhered to lawful supervision, dared to supervise, and were good at supervising to maintain law enforcement and judicial fairness. Procuratorial organs nationwide filed 17,000 protests and procuratorial suggestions for retrials, of which the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) filed 63 protests and procuratorial suggestions for retrials, and instructed provincial procuratorial organs to put forward 18 supervisory opinions.
Strengthening criminal procuratorial supervision. Strengthening the functions of review of arrests and review of prosecutions. Upholding an objective and impartial stance, strengthening the judicial protection of human rights, implementing the principles of legality of crime and punishment and presumption of innocence, accurately grasping the statutory conditions for arrest and prosecution, and lawfully not approving the arrest of 326,000 individuals and not prosecuting 347,000 individuals. Comprehensively strengthening case review, and adding arrests of 10,100 individuals and adding prosecutions of 29,000 individuals who should have been arrested and prosecuted but were not submitted for approval of arrest or transferred for prosecution. The investigation authority had submitted Zhao (赵)'s case for approval of arrest on suspicion of robbery. The Gansu (甘肃) procuratorial organ reviewed and believed that the evidence on file could not prove that Zhao (赵) committed the crime, and lawfully did not approve the arrest and continued to supervise. Fifteen years later, the real culprit was arrested. Strengthening supervision of case filing and investigation activities. Deepening the implementation of the mechanism for investigation supervision and cooperation, supervising the filing of 17,000 cases that should have been filed but were not, supervising the withdrawal of 44,000 cases that should not have been filed but were, and putting forward 87,000 opinions on correcting illegal investigation activities. Strengthening supervision of compulsory measures involving citizens' personal rights, such as designated residence under surveillance, and compulsory measures such as sealing up, detention, and freezing, and putting forward 13,000 and 8,080 corrective opinions respectively. We collaborated with the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) to carry out a special cleanup of 278,000 criminal "pending cases." Strengthening criminal trial supervision. We filed 5,778 protests against criminal judgments that were deemed to be genuinely wrong. The courts concluded 4,713 cases, of which 71.1% were retrials or remands for retrial. We put forward 11,000 corrective opinions on illegal criminal trial activities, with a court adoption rate of 96.6%. Through the lawful supervision of the procuratorial organs, 79 individuals were changed from guilty to not guilty, and 51 individuals were changed from not guilty to guilty. Che (车) and two other individuals were sentenced for rape, intentional homicide, and perjury and continued to appeal. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) reviewed and found that the original case lacked key evidence, filed a protest in accordance with the law, and the retrial changed the judgment to not guilty; promoted continued investigation, arrested the real culprit, and filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law, so as to ensure that no mistakes were made and no one was missed, and to maintain judicial fairness.
Strengthening civil procuratorial supervision. We conscientiously implemented the Civil Code, filed 11,000 protests and procuratorial suggestions for retrials against effective civil judgments that were deemed to be genuinely wrong. The courts concluded 9,175 cases, of which 90.7% were retrials, remands for retrial, mediation, and withdrawal of lawsuits through reconciliation. We put forward 39,800 corrective opinions on illegal civil trial activities, with a court adoption rate of 97.4%. We deepened special supervision of false lawsuits, supervised and corrected 5,728 cases, and prosecuted 734 individuals for the crime of false litigation. Some used car dealers "encircled and hunted" judicial staff, filed false lawsuits, and defrauded vehicle transfers. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) guided procuratorial organs in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Anhui (安徽), Jiangxi (江西), Henan (河南) and other places to lawfully supervise and correct 101 cases, and filed cases for investigation of 7 judicial staff members for related duty-related crimes.
Strengthening administrative procuratorial supervision. We filed 646 protests and procuratorial suggestions for retrials against effective administrative judgments that were deemed to be genuinely wrong. The courts concluded 387 cases, of which 76% were retrials, remands for retrial, mediation, and withdrawal of lawsuits through reconciliation. We put forward 9,569 corrective opinions on illegal administrative trial activities, with a court adoption rate of 98.1%. In performing the duties of administrative litigation supervision, we lawfully carried out supervision of illegal administrative acts and put forward 3,427 procuratorial suggestions. We supervised and urged administrative law enforcement agencies to transfer 3,238 cases suspected of crimes, and put forward procuratorial opinions on 141,000 individuals who should be subject to administrative penalties but were not prosecuted, promoting the two-way connection between administrative penalties and criminal penalties.
Strengthening supervision of enforcement activities. Strengthening criminal enforcement supervision. We improved the "stationed + circuit + technology" supervision mechanism. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) carried out cross-provincial circuit inspections of 11 supervision sites in 10 provinces. We lawfully corrected 11,000 criminals sentenced to imprisonment who had not been handed over for execution, promoted the solution of problems such as difficulty in detention and difficulty in sending to prison; supervised 6,369 cases of improper commutation of sentences, parole, and temporary execution outside prison; supervised and urged the detention of 4,139 community correction subjects whose conditions for execution outside prison had disappeared; and put forward 31,000 corrective opinions on the execution of property-related parts of criminal judgments, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of criminal execution. Strengthening full supervision of civil enforcement. We put forward 55,000 corrective opinions on illegal civil enforcement activities. We deployed and carried out special supervision of civil termination of enforcement procedures, promoted the restoration of enforcement of 4,082 cases, and enforced 1.18 billion yuan. Strengthening administrative enforcement supervision. We put forward 19,000 corrective opinions on illegal administrative litigation enforcement and non-litigation enforcement activities.
Strengthening procuratorial public interest litigation. Resolutely safeguarding the public interest, focusing on statutory areas and fully performing duties in accordance with the law, we filed 136,000 public interest litigations, including 124,000 administrative public interest litigations and 12,000 civil public interest litigations. We put forward 82,000 procuratorial suggestions to administrative organs, with an administrative organ response and rectification rate of 96.9%. We filed 7,305 public interest litigations with the courts, and 99.8% were supported by judgments. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "strengthening procuratorial supervision and strengthening public interest litigation." In October 2025, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) initially deliberated the draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) actively cooperated to promote the legalization of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law in the field of public interest protection.
Lawfully carrying out procuratorial investigation. We lawfully filed cases for investigation of 1,372 individuals for crimes such as bending the law for personal gain, abuse of power, and extorting confessions by torture committed by judicial staff members using their powers, and punished judicial corruption. Investigation personnel Zhang (张) and others colluded with the legal representative of a company and used criminal means to crack down on another company. The Ningxia (宁夏) procuratorial organ investigated and dealt with the case in accordance with the law on suspicion of bending the law for personal gain, and supervised the revocation of the original case. Zhang (张) and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. For major criminal cases committed by state organ staff members using their powers under the jurisdiction of public security organs, which the procuratorial organs genuinely need to directly accept, we lawfully filed cases for investigation of 69 individuals.
Safeguarding lawyers' lawful practice. We jointly issued judicial interpretations with the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) to lawfully safeguard the right of criminal suspects and defendants in custody to choose defenders and the right of defenders to meet with them. We jointly formulated work regulations on lawfully safeguarding lawyers' right to review case files with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) to improve online, on-site, and off-site case file review mechanisms. We jointly released typical cases with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) and the All China Lawyers Association (全国律协) to supervise and correct 704 problems hindering lawyers' practice rights. We promoted full coverage of lawyers' defense at the stage of review and prosecution, and jointly maintained judicial fairness.
V. Strengthening the Awareness of Accepting Supervision to Ensure that Procuratorial Power Always Operates on the Track of the Rule of Law
We strengthened the restriction and supervision of the operation of procuratorial power, standardized the operation of power, and ensured strict law enforcement, impartial justice.
Actively and proactively accepting supervision by the National People's Congress (全国人大). We submitted a special report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) on the work of criminal enforcement supervision, and conscientiously implemented the review opinions. We invited 1,625 deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大) to inspect procuratorial work and participate in procuratorial activities, and visited 2,257 deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大). We conscientiously handled and responded to all 213 written suggestions put forward by deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大) during the conference and 4,011 opinions and suggestions put forward during deliberation reports, inspections, and investigations. We formulated opinions on the synchronous filing of normative documents of procuratorial organs and improved the working mechanism for filing review.
Actively and proactively accepting democratic supervision. We invited 319 members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) to participate in research, procuratorial hearings, and other activities. We conscientiously handled 76 proposals from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协). We organized special procurators to conduct special research on procuratorial work. We continued to strengthen communication and contact with various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联), people without party affiliation, and various people's organizations, fully listened to opinions, and effectively improved our work.
Accepting the restriction of law enforcement and judicial performance in accordance with the law. We re-examined cases of non-arrest and non-prosecution submitted by investigation authorities for reconsideration and review in accordance with the law, and changed the original decision for 159 individuals. We carefully reviewed public prosecution cases declared not guilty by the courts on a case-by-case basis and strengthened reverse review.
Deepening and standardizing procuratorial affairs disclosure. We formulated opinions on procuratorial affairs disclosure and promoted "sunshine procuratorial affairs." We invited people's supervisors to supervise procuratorial performance and case handling 157,000 times. We held procuratorial hearings 164,000 times for cases such as proposed non-arrest and non-prosecution and review of appeals. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) organized and held 16 press conferences, released white papers on criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation procuratorial work, and organized national procuratorial organs to hold 7,509 procuratorial open days, accepting social supervision.
VI. Taking the Party's Political Construction as the Guide to Effectively Strengthen the Construction of an Excellent Procuratorial Team
We strengthened our own construction, forged a procuratorial iron army that is loyal, clean, and responsible, and better fulfilled the duties and missions entrusted to us by the Party and the people.
Effectively strengthening the Party's political construction. We unswervingly used Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate our souls, fully implemented Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law, organized all-member political training, and strived to deeply study it, firmly believe in it, and practice it. We strictly implemented the reporting system, and the Party Leadership Group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) reported 28 major matters to the Party Central Committee. We strengthened the Party's construction in procuratorial organs, strengthened political supervision, and coordinated the promotion of Party building to lead team building and promote business. We deeply promoted cultural enrichment and cultural strengthening of procuratorial work, and gathered the spiritual strength of seeking truth, being pragmatic, being responsible, and being practical. Seventeen procuratorial personnel were awarded the title of National Advanced Worker, and the Chongqing (重庆) Procuratorial Minors Protection Work Team was awarded the title of "Role Model of the Times."
Deeply promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the procuratorial system. We solidly carried out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, and promoted the normalization and long-term effectiveness of discipline education and work style construction. We carried out inspections of the Party Leadership Groups of 10 provincial procuratorial organs, and strictly and practically grasped rectification and improvement. We strictly implemented the "Three Regulations" to prevent interference in judicial affairs, and verified and held accountable 142 procuratorial personnel. We resolutely supported discipline inspection and supervision organs in supervising discipline enforcement and law enforcement. 424 procuratorial personnel were investigated and dealt with for violating discipline and laws by using procuratorial power, a year-on-year decrease of 7.6%, of which 71 were held criminally responsible.
Strengthening the construction of professional quality and ability. We regularly carried out education and training and on-the-job training to guide procuratorial personnel to do a solid job of "three good at," and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) directly trained 18,000 person-times. We carried out evaluation of court appearances to support public prosecution in criminal cases and strengthened the construction of public prosecution capabilities. We strengthened case handling guidance, formulated 14 judicial interpretations and judicial interpretation-like documents, and released 28 guiding cases and 457 typical cases. We jointly formulated opinions on cooperation between procuratorial organs and schools with the Ministry of Education (教育部), organized procuratorial practice experts to give lectures in schools 210 times, and invited famous law professors to give lectures in procuratorial organs 520 times.
Deepening the comprehensive supporting reform of the judicial system. We carried out special inspections on the implementation and improvement of the judicial responsibility system and promoted the construction of a full-chain responsibility system. We strengthened the case handling responsibilities of leading cadres. Procurators-general and deputy procurators-general of procuratorial organs at all levels directly handled 543,000 cases and attended meetings of the court's adjudication committee 13,000 times. We improved the establishment and operation mechanism of the procurator selection committee and the disciplinary committee. We straightened out the business management relationship of cross-provincial railway transportation procuratorates and optimized the layout of criminal enforcement dispatched procuratorates. We improved the legal supervision mechanism for maritime trial work.
Improving the scientific level of procuratorial management. We continued to rectify formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots, deepened the "one cancellation and three no longer" measures, and grasped business management, case management, and quality management in an integrated manner. We regularly carried out analysis and research on case handling quality and efficiency, organized quality evaluation of cases such as non-prosecution after arrest and non-adoption after protest, and promoted the solid implementation of "every case must be inspected." The case completion rate of procuratorial organs nationwide increased by 2.3 percentage points year-on-year, the number of unclosed cases for more than one year decreased by 96.9% year-on-year, the number of acquittals and withdrawals of prosecutions decreased by 13.6% year-on-year, and the quality and efficiency of case handling steadily improved.
Strengthening grassroots foundation construction. We organized four phases of centralized training for 600 procurators-general of grassroots procuratorates. We carried out cross-regional paired co-construction of national grassroots procuratorates. We strengthened procuratorial counterpart assistance and guided the mutual dispatch of 738 cadres for practical training. We organized business backbones to conduct lectures and teaching support in procuratorial organs in Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆), and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), training 24,000 person-times.
Deeply promoting the construction of digital procuratorial affairs. We orderly implemented the digital procuratorial affairs plan, strengthened the construction of procuratorial intelligence, piloted the application of systems such as criminal full-process assisted case handling and digital and intelligent case management, and basically completed the construction of the rule of law informationization project. We established a big data legal supervision model platform, launched 837 supervision models, discovered 350,200 clues, supervised and formed 169,000 cases, and empowered legal supervision to improve quality and efficiency.
Deeply promote the construction of digital procuratorates. Implement the digital procuratorate plan in an orderly manner, strengthen the construction of intelligent procuratorates, pilot the application of systems such as criminal full-process auxiliary case handling and digital and intelligent case management, and basically complete the construction of the rule of law informatization project. Establish a big data legal supervision model platform, launch 837 supervision models, discover 350,200 clues, and supervise the completion of 169,000 cases, empowering legal supervision to improve quality and efficiency.
Fellow Deputies, 2025 marks the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan," and the cause of the Party and the country has achieved new and significant accomplishments. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Party Central Committee attached great importance to procuratorial work, formulated and issued the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening the Legal Supervision Work of Procuratorial Organs in the New Era" (《中共中央关于加强新时代检察机关法律监督工作的意见》), guiding the people's procuratorial cause to move forward steadily. The development and progress achieved in procuratorial work are fundamentally due to the leadership and guidance of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as well as the strong supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the strong support of the State Council (国务院), the democratic supervision of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), the coordination and checks and balances of the National Supervisory Commission (国家监察委员会) and the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), the enthusiastic concern of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联) and personages without party affiliation, various people's organizations, and the support and assistance of local Party and government organs at all levels, fellow deputies, fellow committee members, and all sectors of society. On behalf of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude!
We are soberly aware that, compared with the requirements of the Party and the people, there are still considerable gaps in procuratorial work. First, the arming of the Party's innovative theories still needs to be further strengthened, and the application of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law to guide procuratorial work needs to be continuously deepened. Second, the ability to focus on the overall situation and grasp the general trend needs to be improved, and the effectiveness of serving high-quality economic and social development is still lacking. Third, the accuracy, intensity, and depth of legal supervision need to be strengthened, and high-quality and efficient performance of duties and case handling still requires long-term efforts. Fourth, the professional quality and ability of the procuratorial team still have gaps, the measures to benefit the people and facilitate their lives need to be improved, and the construction of grassroots foundations still has shortcomings. Fifth, the implementation and improvement of the judicial responsibility system are not yet in place, there are still weak links in work style construction and procuratorial management, and problems of discipline violations and illegal activities by procuratorial personnel still occur. We will take effective measures to earnestly solve these problems.
Work Arrangements for 2026
2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Procuratorial organs nationwide must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, earnestly implement the arrangements of the Fourth Plenary Session, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立), resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards" (两个维护), earnestly implement the "Regulations on the CPC's Leadership over Comprehensive Law-Based Governance of the Country" (《中国共产党领导全面依法治国工作条例》) and the "Plan for the Construction of a Rule of Law China (2026-2030)" (《法治中国建设规划（2026—2030年）》), pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice, strengthen procuratorial supervision, strengthen public interest litigation, fulfill the duties of the state's legal supervision organs, handle each case with high quality and efficiency, and continuously promote the procuratorial practice of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
First, we must always adhere to the Party's absolute leadership over procuratorial work. We will continue to strengthen the arming of the Party's innovative theories. We will improve the mechanism for implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments in procuratorial organs. We will strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting on major matters. We will earnestly and solidly carry out the study and education on establishing and practicing correct views on political achievements. We will firmly establish confidence in the rule of law and unswervingly follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.
Second, we will better serve high-quality development and high-level security. We will implement the overall national security concept, fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, and earnestly safeguard national security, social stability, and people's tranquility. We will put safeguarding political security in the first place, severely punish crimes endangering national security, and safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests. We will improve the military-local procuratorial cooperation mechanism and serve the modernization of national defense and the military. We will coordinate and promote the anti-corruption struggle. We will severely punish serious violent crimes, telecommunications network fraud, and other crimes, and improve the normalized mechanism for combating organized crime and evil. We will promote the construction of a comprehensive social security prevention and control system. We will promote the governance of the network ecology and artificial intelligence in accordance with the law, and strengthen the protection of citizens' personal information. We will carry out special actions to centrally resolve petition issues. We will deepen special supervision over illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial practices. We will do a good job in submitting a special report on intellectual property procuratorial work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会). We will strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition justice. We will strengthen ecological environment, agriculture-related, maritime, and foreign-related procuratorial work.
Third, we will deepen and solidify procuratorial work for the people. We will severely punish crimes endangering food and drug safety and endangering production safety in accordance with the law, and strengthen judicial protection in people's livelihood fields such as family affairs, education, social security, medical care, employment, and consumption. We will strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency, and deepen the work of procurators serving as rule of law vice-principals. We will strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of specific groups such as women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. We will strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers, especially migrant workers, flexible employment workers, and new forms of employment workers. We will protect the rights and interests of heroes and martyrs, military personnel and their families, civilian personnel in the military, and retired soldiers in accordance with the law. We will strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and Taiwan (台湾), overseas Chinese, and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. We will regulate and carry out support for litigation work.
Fourth, we will strengthen procuratorial supervision. We will strengthen the construction of basic functions of criminal, civil, and administrative procuratorial work, improve the accuracy, intensity, and depth of legal supervision, and enhance the effectiveness of supervision. We will strengthen legal supervision over compulsory measures such as sealing up, detaining, and freezing. We will strengthen full-process supervision over enforcement activities. We will regulate the application of the leniency system for admitting guilt and accepting punishment in accordance with the law. We will improve the realization and evaluation mechanism of judicial fairness in the procuratorial process, improve the evaluation standards for the quality and efficiency of procuratorial case handling, and build a high-quality and efficient case handling system and mechanism. We will improve the internal and external constraint and supervision mechanism for the operation of procuratorial power.
Fifth, we will strengthen public interest litigation. We will fully cooperate in promoting the legislative process of the Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law, organize the revision of relevant judicial interpretations, improve supporting systems, and improve working mechanisms. We will strengthen case handling in the statutory areas of public interest litigation, continuously improve accuracy and standardization, and fully demonstrate the value of the system.
Sixth, we will continue to strengthen the construction of the procuratorial team. We will improve the comprehensive and strict governance system for procuratorates, and comprehensively strengthen the Party's political construction, business construction, and discipline and work style construction in procuratorial organs. We will strengthen procuratorial education and training. We will continue to deepen the comprehensive supporting reform of the judicial system, improve the system of gradual selection of procurators, and implement the system of accountability for judicial responsibility. We will deepen the work of rectifying formalism and reducing the burden on grassroots levels. We will strengthen the construction of digital procuratorates and improve the level of intelligence.
Fellow Deputies, in the new era and on the new journey, we will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement the requirements of this meeting, perform our legal supervision duties in accordance with the law, help build a higher level of safe China and rule of law China, and strive to make new contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 16)
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In the display case, fragments of burnt clay were carefully pieced together, with painted pottery shards and stone tool models complementing a three-dimensional reconstruction of the site. Next to it, a continuously playing joint archaeological video documented the excavation process of scholars from both countries at the same site. The exhibition of the phased achievements of the China-Romania Dobroțat Joint Archaeological Project at the Iași Moldova National Museum in Iași (雅西) , Romania, recently concluded. During the exhibition, the museum was bustling with visitors, and many local people came specifically to learn about the Romanian Cucuteni culture and the Chinese Yangshao culture (仰韶文化) and Majiayao culture (马家窑文化), witnessing the millennial resonance of civilizations from the banks of the Yellow River (黄河) and the Black Sea. China and Romania use archaeology as a link to continuously deepen academic understanding in the joint research of prehistoric settlements and painted pottery culture, and also write a vivid practical footnote for the exchange and mutual learning between different civilizations in the contemporary era.
"A precious witness to the equal exchange and joint research of Romanian and Chinese scholars"
"The joint archaeological results are fruitful, and our cooperation is very pleasant." Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici, a senior researcher at the Iași Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, told reporters, "The exhibits at the achievement exhibition not only present the life scene of prehistoric settlements 5,000 years ago, but also become a precious witness to the equal exchange and joint research of Romanian and Chinese scholars."
"This is the first time that Chinese archaeologists have set foot on the European continent to carry out archaeological cooperation in Southeast Europe, the birthplace of European prehistoric culture." Wen Chenghao (温成浩), associate researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), introduced that in July 2019, the China-Romania Joint Archaeological Project was officially launched. A joint archaeological team was formed by more than 10 researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (郑州文物考古研究院), the Iași Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, and the Iași Moldova National Museum, to carry out excavation work in Dobroțat village (多布若瓦茨村), Iași (雅西), Romania.
This transnational cooperation originated from an academic exchange in 2017. At that time, Lazarovici and Romanian scholars Lăcrămioara Stratulat (拉勒克拉米奥拉·斯特拉图拉特) and others came to China to promote Cucuteni culture. During their visit to China, they visited the Henan Yangshao Culture Museum (河南仰韶文化博物馆) and the Gansu Majiayao Site (甘肃马家窑遗址). When the exquisite painted pottery in the display case came into view, several scholars could not hide their surprise and curiosity, and couldn't help but compare it with Cucuteni painted pottery: "The Chinese Yangshao culture and Majiayao culture are too similar to Cucuteni culture."
This similarity is not accidental, and related discussions have continued for a century: After the discovery of the Yangshao Village Site (仰韶村遗址) in 1921, the Swedish scholar Johan Gunnar Andersson (安特生) proposed the "Western Origin Theory of Yangshao Culture." The German scholar Hubert Schmidt (胡伯特·施密特) disagreed, believing that the similarity of patterns alone could not infer the same origin of culture. With the development of Chinese archaeology, the "Western Origin Theory of Painted Pottery" has been negated, but the similarity between the two prehistoric cultures is still worth exploring in depth. In this way, Chinese and Romanian scholars reached a consensus and decided to enter each other's archaeological sites and use sufficient field archaeological evidence to establish the comparative research of the two prehistoric cultures on a solid empirical basis.
"Chinese colleagues not only brought advanced equipment, but also brought a rigorous and meticulous work attitude"
The Dobroțat site, which belongs to the Cucuteni cultural system, is located in the hilly area of northeastern Romania and is an important cultural site in the Copper Age of Southeast Europe. The focus of this joint archaeological work is on the systematic excavation and research of settlement morphology and burnt clay house remains.
In the western edge area of the site, the joint archaeological team cleared a total of 9 burnt clay house remains, of which the house numbered 3 was the largest, and altar remains were also found in the center of the house. A pottery found in good condition in a corner of the altar became an important discovery in the cooperation between the two parties.
"Everyone was very cautious during the cleaning process, trying to maintain its integrity." Wen Chenghao (温成浩) recalled. Romanian archaeologist Mircea Oancea (米尔恰·奥安卡) also remembers that in order to successfully excavate this pottery, the Romanian personnel were responsible for the specific operation, and the Chinese personnel assisted and guided, which took a full 3 days. "When the pottery was finally unearthed completely, we were all very excited, and we also forged a deep friendship in the joint cooperation," Oancea (奥安卡) said.
The exchange and mutual learning between scholars from the two countries runs through the day-to-day fieldwork. The Chinese team introduced modern archaeological technologies such as drones and total stations into the joint excavation, injecting new vitality into the research work: drones regularly take aerial photos of the site, allowing researchers to observe the layout of the site from an overall perspective; the Luoyang shovel (洛阳铲) plays a unique role in verifying the results of geomagnetic exploration and finding hidden remains; after the burnt clay slabs are pieced together, the three-dimensional model built by the Chinese team provides solid technical support for subsequent research and data sorting. "The digital recording method greatly improves the efficiency of data sorting and also leaves a reliable data basis for future research. Chinese colleagues not only brought advanced equipment, but also brought a rigorous and meticulous work attitude." Lazarovici said that the combination of technology and ideas makes the cooperation between the two parties smoother and more effective.
Romanian colleagues have rich experience in the field of burnt clay house research. They regard the collapsed burnt clay blocks as information units as important as pottery shards, and restore the construction method and use form of prehistoric houses by numbering each block, accurately measuring, and three-dimensional modeling, and using the wooden structure imprints retained on the back of the burnt clay. Wen Chenghao (温成浩) said: "The Romanian research method has brought new inspiration to the Chinese team."
"Even if the language is different, we can form a tacit understanding in the field." Lazarovici said.
"Only by placing Chinese civilization in the coordinates of world civilization can we more deeply understand its uniqueness"
With the continuous deepening of the excavation work, the academic value and practical significance of the Dobroțat Joint Archaeological Project have become increasingly prominent. From an academic research perspective, as the first systematic field work of Chinese archaeology to enter an important area of European prehistoric civilization, the project allows Chinese scholars to re-examine the development path of Chinese prehistoric societies such as Yangshao culture (仰韶文化) and Majiayao culture (马家窑文化) in a broader space-time background through in-depth research on Cucuteni culture.
Lazarovici said that Cucuteni culture and Yangshao culture are roughly in a similar stage of historical development. Both are based on agricultural economy, have highly developed pottery making technology, and have a relatively limited degree of social differentiation. At the same time, they generally use painted pottery, build wooden structure houses, and form a considerable scale of burnt clay house collapse accumulation. These commonalities make the comparative research of the two prehistoric cultures of great value.
"Those similar arcs and triangle combinations in the painted pottery patterns are easy to associate with." Li Xinwei (李新伟), deputy director of the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), said that the key to the comparative research of the two cultures is to discover commonalities while seeing differences, and then deeply understand the independent choices of different civilizations in the development process. This is the core meaning of prehistoric civilization research.
This transnational archaeological cooperation has not only yielded fruitful academic results, but also left many warm transnational friendships. The archaeological team members rented houses in the local village of Dobroțat and lived with the villagers day and night, forming a deep friendship. Local villagers often enthusiastically send fresh fruits, mellow milk, etc. to the archaeological site. "They directly stuffed things into our hands, and that kindness was very sincere," Wen Chenghao (温成浩) said.
This friendship across borders has long gone out of the archaeological site and extended to a broader field of academic exchange. At the end of last year, Oancea (奥安卡) was invited to participate in an archaeological academic conference held in Shanghai, which was his first time to China. "After cooperating with Chinese colleagues, I am more looking forward to visiting China, which has a brilliant history. In Shanghai, we not only carried out academic learning and discussions, but also visited the Bund (外滩) and the City God Temple (城隍庙), and experienced the most authentic Chinese culture. This is a precious life memory," Oancea (奥安卡) said.
At present, the Dobroțat Joint Archaeological Project has gradually entered the stage of data sorting and comprehensive research. The China-Romania Joint Archaeological Team plans to complete the final work of this cooperation this summer. However, in the hearts of all the scholars involved, this is not the end of the cooperation, but a new starting point for the research and exchange of prehistoric civilizations between China and Romania.
100 years ago, limited by data acquisition and research methods, Western scholars tried to explain the origin of Chinese civilization from the outside. Today, Chinese archaeology has gone abroad on the solid foundation of a century of development, and stands side by side with colleagues from various countries on archaeological sites to carry out equal academic dialogues and joint research. "Only by placing Chinese civilization in the coordinates of world civilization can we more deeply understand its uniqueness," Wen Chenghao (温成浩) said.
Stratulat (斯特拉图拉特) said that the burnt clay and painted pottery of the Dobroțat site record the development trajectory of human prehistoric civilization 5,000 years ago, while the continuous advancement of the Romania-China joint archaeology witnesses the real process of equal exchange and mutual learning between different civilizations in the contemporary era, "**这正是考古学超越时空的价值所在**" (zhè zhèng shì kǎo gǔ xué chāo yuè shí kōng de jià zhí suǒ zài - "this is precisely where the value of archaeology transcends time and space," Archaeology's value lies in its ability to transcend temporal and spatial boundaries, offering insights into the past that resonate in the present).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Paris on March 16th (Reporters Huan Xiang (宦翔), Han Shuo (韩硕), and Shang Kaiyuan (尚凯元)): From March 15th to 16th local time, the Chinese lead person for China-U.S. economic and trade affairs, Vice Premier of the State Council He Lifeng (何立峰), and the U.S. lead person, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen (贝森特) and Trade Representative Katherine Tai (格里尔), held economic and trade consultations in Paris, France. Guided by the important consensus reached by the heads of state of China and the United States, the two sides conducted frank, in-depth, and constructive exchanges and consultations on economic and trade issues of mutual concern, such as tariff arrangements, promotion of bilateral trade and investment, and maintenance of existing consultation consensus. They formed some new consensus and will continue to maintain consultations.
He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, after five rounds of economic and trade consultations last year, China and the United States have reached a series of consultation results in the economic and trade field, injecting more certainty and stability into the economic and trade relations between the two countries and the world economy. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the tariffs imposed by the U.S. based on the *International Emergency Economic Powers Act* are illegal. Subsequently, the U.S. imposed a 10% import surcharge on all trading partners based on Section 122 of the *Trade Act of 1974*, and successively introduced negative measures related to China, such as 301 investigations, corporate sanctions, and market access restrictions. China's position against the U.S. imposition of unilateral tariffs is consistent. China urges the U.S. to completely abolish unilateral tariffs and other restrictive measures, and will take necessary measures to resolutely defend its legitimate rights and interests. It is hoped that the U.S. will meet China halfway, jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, continuously lengthen the cooperation list, compress the problem list, and promote the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations.
The U.S. stated that a stable China-U.S. economic and trade relationship is very important to both countries and the world, and helps to promote global economic growth, supply chain security, and financial stability. The two sides should reduce friction, avoid escalating problems, and resolve differences through consultation.
The two sides agreed to study the establishment of a cooperation mechanism to promote bilateral trade and investment, continue to give full play to the role of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism, strengthen dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, expand pragmatic cooperation, and promote the continuous, stable, and positive development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
Return to TopJapan's "new militarism" is no longer just a dangerous trend, but a real threat, and regional countries and the international community must be more vigilant and curb its spread.
Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) delivered a policy speech, once again expressing a strong desire to revise the constitution, and proposed fundamentally strengthening Japan's defense capabilities, expanding the export of lethal weapons, and enhancing national intelligence capabilities, conveying a clear signal of accelerating the promotion of "re-militarization." Some commentators in Japan pointed out sharply that 2026 may become the "first year of Japan's militarization transformation." This transformation is not only reflected in strengthening defense capabilities, but also permeates all fields of economic society such as industry, technology, and infrastructure, intending to make the entire country fully stained with military colors.
In recent years, the Japanese right wing has become increasingly rampant, constantly promoting more covert and deceptive "new militarism." It is cloaked in the guise of "peace" and "defense," but its core goal is to get rid of the shackles of being a defeated country in World War II and promote Japan into a military power capable of using force or even launching wars against foreign countries. Since Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) took office, this process has accelerated comprehensively. In the political, military, diplomatic, and ideological fields, Japan has continuously broken through the constraints of the "Peace Constitution" and the post-war international order, and its pace of rearmament has become larger and faster.
Facts fully show that Japan's "new militarism" is no longer just a dangerous trend, but a real threat, and regional countries and the international community must be more vigilant and curb its spread.
(1) Aberration: "New militarism" retains the expansionist genes of traditional militarism, but also differentiates into new features that are extremely deceptive.
In the Martyrs' Cemetery of Jiamusi City (佳木斯市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), lies the internationalist fighter Etsuko Midorikawa (绿川英子). Etsuko Midorikawa's original name was Teruko Hasegawa (长谷川照子). During the Anti-Japanese War, she witnessed the tragic deaths and injuries of Chinese civilians caused by the Japanese army's invasion, and resolutely devoted herself to the anti-Japanese movement, using Japanese to conduct "anti-war broadcasts" to Japanese soldiers and civilians: "When you shout that you will swear allegiance to the Emperor and shed your blood on the land of China, do you know for whom you are working? And who are you loyal to? Are the spirits on the altar of the holy war heroes or criminals? Compatriots, don't shed your blood in the wrong place. Your enemies are not here across the sea..."
Etsuko Midorikawa's (绿川英子) cry went straight to the essence of modern Japanese militarism—implementing ideological control and military rule internally, and promoting aggression and expansion externally. From the end of World War II to today, the ghost of militarism still roams over Japan. Japan's current "new militarism" is the stubborn breeding and aberrant evolution of militarism in the contemporary era. It retains the genes of expansion, but also differentiates into new features that are extremely deceptive.
Politically, modern Japan hardly experienced the stage of free capitalism, and formed a feudal "oligarchy" ruling group composed of financial groups and the government and military through interest ties and family marriages. Under the guise of modern Western democratic systems, Japan's ruling group after the war is still mainly composed of political families, professional bureaucrats, and financial giants, whose families can mostly be traced back to the pre-war ruling class. In this new ecology, radical politicians and professional bureaucrats have filled the "ecological niche" of the former military, and administrative power is deeply tied to the interests of financial groups. Under the cover of democratic procedures, they implement the will of military expansion and promote "new militarism."
Militarily, due to a lack of primitive accumulation and resources, Japanese militarism in the past was extremely dependent on foreign wars and colonial plunder to supplement capital, and adopted military adventurism of "using small to win big." "New militarism" also regards war preparation as a core agenda, focusing on building offensive forces. However, restricted by the "Peace Constitution" and the peaceful forces in Japanese society, its methods are more covert and deceptive: it no longer directly advocates aggression, but uses the method of "salami slicing" to disguise its offensive intentions with "developing counterattack capabilities," package overseas military operations with "exercising the right to collective self-defense," and carry out war mobilization in the name of strengthening "economic security" and "crisis management," attempting to achieve military relaxation under the guise of "compliance."
Economically, Japanese militarism in the past implemented "high accumulation and low consumption," squeezing the people to support heavy industry and military industry production. Financial groups were both the foundation and the driving force of expansion, forming a vicious circle. "New militarism" has also established a symbiotic relationship between rearmament and the interests of financial groups. The Japanese government obtains fiscal revenue by over-issuing national debt and increasing taxes, and transfers it to financial groups in the form of huge military procurement, completing the transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the military-industrial interest groups. Once this huge military-industrial investment forms a path dependence, if the government cannot maintain and expand military procurement, the profits of the financial groups will be difficult to sustain, and they will inevitably take all means to force national policies to further militarize.
Culturally, Japan's "new militarism" inherits the cultural dross such as the pre-war "Imperial View of History," "Superiority of the Yamato Race," and "Bushido," adheres to the narrow logic of power politics and military expansion, and regards the development of neighboring countries as a strategic threat, which is exactly the same as the expansion theory of "sovereign line" and "interest line" advocated by militarism. In terms of content, the "new militarism" culture has added so-called "universal values" such as "freedom, democracy, and human rights" as packaging to deceive the international community; in terms of means, it focuses on using algorithm recommendations and public opinion manipulation in the social media era to build "information cocoons" and subtly incite narrow nationalist sentiments. Not long ago, the well-known game and animation IP Pokémon planned to hold related events at the Yasukuni Shrine, causing an uproar. This once again shows that the distorted view of history and war advocated by "new militarism" is deeply penetrating the younger generation through covert channels such as cultural and sports entertainment.
Diplomatically, Japan's "new militarism" continues the geopolitical game logic of heavy speculation and provoking confrontation, stirring up trouble with various manipulations, attempting to create convenience for strategic expansion. In recent years, the Japanese right wing has continued to promote the deepening of the Japan-U.S. alliance, willingly acting as a pawn in the so-called "Indo-Pacific strategy"; it has increased its intervention in regional hotspot issues, wooed individual regional countries to deepen defense cooperation, and accelerated the pace of military unbinding through bilateral military cooperation; it has increased its internal and external linkage, promoted "NATO's eastward expansion," and deeply intervened in global security issues under the guise of "proactive pacifism," seeking global action by the Self-Defense Forces.
The poison of Japanese militarism has not been eliminated and is gradually fermenting. Etsuko Midorikawa's (绿川英子) cry of "don't shed your blood in the wrong place" resonates across time and space to this day.
(2) Shaping: The result of the combined effect of militarist ideas growing secretly, radical political forces dominating, socio-economic anxiety distorting, and interest groups fueling the flames.
"To this day, the so-called 'humiliation' of Japan's defeat in World War II still stubbornly lingers in the minds of Japanese right-wingers, and the 'revanchist' sentiment arising from this is constantly rising. They want to completely shroud Japanese society in the shadow of militarism again." Yuri Tavrovsky, a professor at the Russian People's Friendship University, worked in Japan in the 1980s and personally felt the rampant attempt of Japanese right-wingers to revive militarism. He recalled that Japanese right-wingers often held large-scale gatherings in public places such as crowded squares, and even tried to win over primary and secondary school students and distribute leaflets and brochures to them.
The gradual formation of Japan's "new militarism" is the result of the combined effect of militarist ideas growing secretly, radical political forces dominating, socio-economic anxiety distorting, and interest groups fueling the flames.
--Japanese militarism has not been thoroughly liquidated. Unlike Germany's thorough "denazification" after the war, Japan's post-war democratic transformation was abandoned halfway under the influence of the U.S. Cold War strategy, and the poison of militarism was preserved in Japan's political body.
After World War II, the United States quickly shifted its policy toward Japan from "suppression" to "support" out of Cold War considerations, resulting in a large number of Class A war criminal suspects, including Nobusuke Kishi (岸信介), returning to politics without trial and even occupying the power center such as the prime minister. These "ghosts" of the old era and their successors constructed the conservative political spectrum that has long governed Japan after the war, allowing militarist ideas to be preserved in the core of power. As Atsushi Koketsu (纐缬厚), professor emeritus at Yamaguchi University (山口大学), said, post-war Japanese politics was to some extent established by people who launched wars of aggression, and its influence continues to this day.
The incomplete historical liquidation has led to serious distortions in Japan's historical cognition. Japanese right-wing forces have long promoted historical revisionism, beautifying the war of aggression as a "war of self-defense" and regarding defeat as merely "the end of the war." Under the influence of the so-called "culture of shame," Japanese right-wingers regard defeat as a shame that needs to be washed away, rather than a crime that needs to be reflected on. The Japanese right wing openly clamors for the so-called "Taiwan status not yet determined," which is essentially an externalization of this erroneous view of history, attempting to overturn historical conclusions, deny the post-war international order, and find legal excuses for another military expansion.
--Japan's political rightward shift is intensifying. Since the end of the Cold War, especially in recent years, structural changes have taken place in Japan's political ecology. The innovation faction and moderate conservatives, which once served as a check and balance force, have gradually declined. The right-wing conservative forces have not only completed the cleansing and integration of the political mainstream, but also occupied the absolute center of national power, constantly transforming the far-right ideology into the country's institutional will and legal actions.
Since Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) took office, she has accelerated the hollowing out of Japan's long-standing "emphasizing economy and de-emphasizing military" route after the war. The traditional "pacifism" has been stigmatized as "peace dementia," while the radical "constitutional amendment and strengthening of the military" has been packaged as the only way to "national normalization." This political line is becoming increasingly solidified, and radical security policies encounter almost no substantive resistance in the Diet, advancing rapidly in a vacuum lacking effective checks and balances.
--The long-term economic downturn has plunged Japan into strategic anxiety. Japan's post-war capitalist development model is increasingly facing complex difficulties. Under the multiple influences of huge national debt burdens, increased industrial hollowing out, and the crisis of a declining birthrate and aging population, the Japanese economy has long been mired in stagnation, and its per capita gross domestic product ranking has fallen from the top of the world to the middle and lower reaches of developed countries. The halo of manufacturing, which is the foundation of the country, is also gradually dimming, and its industrial output value has decreased by about 40% in the past 30 years. The living pressure of Japan's middle- and low-income groups has increased sharply, and society is filled with a deep sense of powerlessness and frustration.
The gradual loss of competitive advantage, the aging population structure, and the decline in growth momentum have spawned a distorted strategic view. In order to cover up internal governance failures, hyping up the so-called "China threat" has become a life-saving straw for Japanese right-wing politicians to shift domestic contradictions. They simply and rudely "blame" the pain points of people's livelihood such as rising prices and industrial decline on neighboring countries, and instill in society a zero-sum logic that is incompatible with the trend of the times. This approach is essentially externalizing internal contradictions and inducing social dissatisfaction to the track of external hatred and confrontation, in order to deceive so-called "public opinion support" for radical military expansion and war preparation.
--Interest groups profit by promoting military expansion. With the radical shift in Japan's defense policy, Japan's defense spending has increased for 14 consecutive years from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2026, especially doubling in 3 years since 2022, and Japanese military enterprises have therefore obtained a large number of orders. "National-level operation" has made these military enterprises earn a lot of money, and even created a "military-industrial bubble" in the capital market. Data shows that since November 2022, the stock price of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has increased by more than 650%, the stock price of IHI Corporation has increased by more than 480%, and the stock price of Kawasaki Heavy Industries has increased by more than 280%. In sharp contrast to this, the average annual growth rate of Japan's manufacturing industry during the same period was less than 1%.
These military enterprises are also very "sensible" and actively provide political donations to right-wing politicians. A report released by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications shows that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has donated more than 30 million yen to the Liberal Democratic Party's fund management organization every year since 2020. Right-wing politicians and the military-industrial complex are deeply tied to each other's interests, which is essentially overdrafting the country's future and "transfusing blood" to specific financial groups with high fiscal deficits.
"We are against large-scale expansion of military forces," Koji Sugihara (杉原浩司), a member of the Japanese Green Party, said, expressing the deep concern of enlightened people in Japanese society. "When politicians shout slogans such as 'active finance' and 'revitalizing the economy,' but cannot come up with any specific countermeasures to the plight of people's lives, their further increase in the defense budget is even more intolerable."
(3) Acceleration: Tying the country to a war machine, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is a dangerous "accelerator" that is pushing Japan back onto the path of aggressive militarism.
"Abe's girl," Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has risen rapidly in Japanese politics with her radical conservative stance and tough policy proposals, and is regarded as a "replica" of the Abe line. As a representative of Japanese right-wing politicians, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) herself has a strong militarist complex and has long promoted "new militarism." After the establishment of the Takaichi (高市早苗) administration, the promotion of "new militarism" has accelerated significantly, entering a dangerous stage of systematic implementation.
At the political and legal level, it attempts to completely eliminate war obstacles. Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) relies on the Liberal Democratic Party and far-right political parties to form the "most conservative ruling coalition after the war," constantly consolidating the right-wing ruling base. In her recent policy speech, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) hyped up that "competition between countries is becoming increasingly fierce, complex, and normalized," and once again wantonly smeared China, hyping up that Japan is facing "the most severe and complex security environment after the war." By creating such a "crisis" narrative, the Takaichi (高市早苗) administration continues to pave the way for promoting the constitutional amendment process, intending to override the post-war peace system, fundamentally change the basic policy of "exclusively defense-oriented," and promote Japan's radical shift to a "combat-capable" country.
At the military strategic level, it is committed to building an independent offensive system. Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) declared in her speech that it is necessary to revise the "three security documents," including the "National Security Strategy," within this year. The Takaichi (高市早苗) administration is promoting the defense budget for fiscal year 2026 to exceed 9 trillion yen, setting a new historical high, and achieving the goal of accounting for 2% of the gross domestic product in advance. Huge amounts of funds are being heavily invested in multiple offensive combat areas such as long-range standoff strike, unmanned combat systems, and sea, air, and space platforms, exposing the ambition to build multi-dimensional attack capabilities and increase the speed and scale of military expansion. The Takaichi (高市早苗) administration is also promoting the revision of the "Self-Defense Forces Law," intending to restore the current military ranks and some arms of service titles to the old army terms of the imperialist era. On the issue of arms exports, the Security Research Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party passed a draft proposal on February 25, which not only proposed to abolish the previous "five standards" that limited the export of equipment to rescue and transportation purposes, but also in principle allowed the export of lethal weapons such as fighter jets and frigates, and even left room for exports to "countries that are currently judged to be in combat."
At the economic mobilization level, it is accelerating the construction of a "new military-industrial complex." Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) talked highly in her speech about "establishing strong diplomacy and security on a strong economic foundation." Since Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) took office, war preparation has been elevated to the country's absolute priority, and military-industrial interest groups have been vigorously supported. The prototype of Japan's "new military-industrial complex" is emerging. According to reports, the Takaichi (高市早苗) administration plans to fill the military expenditure gap through large-scale bond issuance and the collection of a "special defense income tax," and plans to establish a "National Intelligence Agency" this year. These actions will promote a deeper binding between Japan's defense spending and the interests of specific industries and financial groups, building a self-reinforcing, cyclically accelerating policy and interest closed loop.
At the social cognitive level, it is intensifying the promotion of historical revisionism. The Japanese right wing continues to reshape national memory with "brainwashing" projects, carefully constructing a "victim" narrative of "completely cutting off from the history of aggression" by tampering with textbooks, beautifying the history of aggression, and promoting "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" education, intending to replace the "reflection of the perpetrator." This approach attempts to completely eliminate the anti-war consciousness of Japanese society, instill distorted historical cognition in the younger generation, so as to pave the social psychological foundation for future war mobilization.
At the social cognitive level, historical revisionism is being intensified. The Japanese right wing continues to reshape national memory through "brainwashing" projects, such as revising textbooks, glorifying the history of aggression, and promoting "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" education, carefully constructing a "completely cut off from the history of aggression" "victim" narrative, intending to replace "reflection on being the perpetrator." This approach attempts to completely eliminate the anti-war consciousness of Japanese society, instill distorted historical cognitions in the younger generation, thereby laying the social and psychological foundation for future war mobilization.
The above practices are the inevitable externalization of Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) long-standing militaristic complex. As early as 1994, the year after she was first elected as a member of the Diet, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) publicly questioned then Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (村山富市) as to why he admitted that the war of aggression was wrong. In 2007, in order to cater to the right-wing forces, she became the only cabinet member in the then Abe Cabinet to visit the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社) on "August 15," and even repeatedly and openly denied the Nanjing Massacre and the forced recruitment of "comfort women," openly sophistrying aggression as a "war of self-defense." In September 2021, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) threw out the fallacy that "a Taiwan emergency is also a threat to Japan." In November 2025, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗), as prime minister, falsely claimed during a Diet reply that a "Taiwan emergency" may constitute a "survival crisis situation" and refused to withdraw relevant remarks. Recently, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has publicly clamored that she is working hard to create conditions for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社). From early verbal probing to today's systematic manipulation, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has been summoning and leading the way for "new militarism," and is a dangerous "accelerator" for pushing Japan back onto the path of military expansion.
(4) Harm: "New militarism" is becoming one of the most dangerous variables affecting regional and international peace and stability.
"Japan's promotion of 'militaristic ambitions' is sounding the alarm for peace in the Asia-Pacific region and the world," international media commentary pointed out that as the region pays more and more attention to Japan's policies, one thing is clear: the world cannot allow militarism to make a comeback.
Such a warning is very necessary. The continuous rise of Japan's "new militarism" is becoming one of the most dangerous variables affecting regional and international peace and stability.
"New militarism" seriously threatens the post-war international order. Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) erroneous words and deeds on the Taiwan issue are a blatant interference in China's internal affairs, a blatant contempt for international legal documents such as the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, a blatant provocation to the post-World War II international order, and a serious departure from the basic norms of international relations. According to international legally binding documents such as the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, Japan should be "completely disarmed" and must not "maintain industries that can rearm it." In recent years, Japan has accelerated its "re-militarization" and formed military "small circles" by roping in forces inside and outside the region, provoking camp confrontation, and creating serious risks to the stability of the international order.
"New militarism" seriously threatens the nuclear non-proliferation system. Recently, senior Japanese government officials have continued to throw out nuclear weapons remarks, openly provoking the nuclear non-proliferation system. If the Japanese right wing's nuclear ambitions succeed, it will undoubtedly open Pandora's box and have a serious impact on regional and global strategic stability. Informed people in Japan are full of worries about this, emphasizing that they must adhere to the "three non-nuclear principles": former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (石破茂) said that possessing nuclear weapons is "by no means a beneficial thing for Japan," former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (野田佳彦) demanded the replacement of officials who made "Japan's nuclear weapons theory" as soon as possible, and the Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly unanimously passed an opinion requesting the Japanese government to adhere to the "three non-nuclear principles."
"New militarism" seriously undermines regional peace and stability. Under the promotion of right-wing forces, the thinking of engaging in geopolitical confrontation has gradually dominated Japan's strategic decision-making, leading Japan to present a "attacking on all sides" attitude in handling relations with neighboring countries. When dealing with relations with China, the Japanese right wing painstakingly incites trouble and creates incidents on many issues such as the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, and Sino-Japanese relations have fallen into serious difficulties. Japan also has constant frictions and frequent conflicts with other regional countries such as South Korea, Russia, and North Korea, which has seriously deteriorated the regional security environment. The populist sentiment stirred up in Japan in turn stimulates the right-wing regime to further show its strength to the outside world, making it more aggressive in handling disputes with neighboring countries and regional hotspot issues.
"New militarism" seriously damages the vital interests of the Japanese people. Recently, many mainstream Japanese media and experts have expressed concern about the fiscal expansion, consumption tax cuts, and economic policies that exacerbate the risk of inflation of the Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) regime, pointing out that the so-called "responsible and active fiscal policy" is itself extremely irresponsible, and if defense spending is greatly increased, Japan will face an unprecedentedly serious financial crisis. The Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) regime disregards the pain points of people's livelihood such as soaring domestic prices, and sacrifices the well-being of ordinary people to support the military machine, which not only triggered the Japanese people's angry protests of "we want life, not missiles," but also severely damaged the tourism and retail industries on which many Japanese people depend for their livelihoods due to the deterioration of the surrounding diplomatic environment. The Japanese Akahata newspaper editorial pointed out that 2026 is a crucial year to oppose large-scale military expansion, and the government's military expansion plan not only threatens peace, but also harms the lives of the Japanese people.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. This solemn trial of Japanese militarism is not only a just liquidation of its crimes of aggression, but also an important effort to build a peaceful world. At present, Japan's "new militarism" once again poses a serious real threat to regional and international peace and stability. Japan's deep-seated, structural problems, as well as dangerous strategic trends, must be observed and prevented. The international community must remain highly vigilant, jointly defend the achievements of World War II, and jointly build an indestructible line of defense of justice, and must never allow the dangerous forces of Japan's "new militarism" to harm the world, and must never allow the sunshine of peace to be obscured by the haze of war again.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Hanoi on March 16th (Reporter Bai Xiaochuan (白晓川)) The first ministerial meeting of the China-Vietnam diplomatic, defense, and public security "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism was held in Hanoi on the 16th. Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅), Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), and Defense Minister Dong Jun (董军) co-chaired the meeting with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung, Defense Minister Phan Van Giang, and Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang. The two sides focused on the theme of "coordinating development and security, following the socialist path, and jointly addressing common challenges," and exchanged in-depth views on the development and changes in the international situation, as well as issues such as maintaining political security and carrying out defense and law enforcement cooperation, reaching broad consensus.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that last year, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Vietnam and reached an important consensus with Vietnamese leaders on holding a ministerial meeting of the "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism. This mechanism is an important strategic communication platform pioneered by both sides globally and is a major initiative with strategic significance. Its purpose is to safeguard the security of the political system and deepen strategic coordination. It is both a due meaning of promoting the construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future and a necessary move to revitalize the socialist cause in the world, fully demonstrating the high level and strategic nature of the relations between the two parties and countries.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that, focusing on achieving the overall goal of "six mores" in China-Vietnam relations, the two countries' foreign ministries should closely coordinate and cooperate multilaterally, support each other's major initiatives and concepts, conduct strategic communication on diplomatic decision-making and international and regional issues, strengthen cooperation in multilateral platforms such as China-ASEAN, Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, and BRICS countries, properly handle maritime issues, and create a more favorable international environment for the development of their respective countries.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that the public security departments of the two countries should focus on the overall goal of "six mores," adhere to political security as the priority, and better prevent and resist "color revolutions"; adhere to strategic planning as the priority, and further consolidate strong synergy; adhere to the people's interests as the foundation, and strive for more pragmatic cooperation results, to better serve the respective socialist causes of the two countries and the strategically significant construction of a China-Vietnam community with a shared future. It is necessary to improve the law enforcement and security cooperation mechanism, focusing on areas such as cybersecurity, combating online gambling and telecommunications fraud, drug control, and fugitive pursuit and asset recovery, and strengthen exchanges and mutual learning in areas such as "safe city" construction and strengthening the police force through technology, jointly enhance law enforcement capabilities, effectively respond to risks and challenges, and effectively maintain security and stability.
Dong Jun (董军) stated that, facing unprecedented external security risks and challenges, the Chinese and Vietnamese militaries, as armed forces under the absolute leadership of the Communist Party, bear important responsibilities in consolidating the Party's long-term ruling position and defending the socialist red country. Under the guidance of the top leaders of the two parties, they must work together to build a solid defense and security barrier. China is willing to work with Vietnam to continuously enhance military security mutual trust, further expand cooperation areas, improve cooperation quality and efficiency, jointly safeguard maritime security and stability through positive interaction, promote exchanges and cooperation in the field of national defense to a new level, and set an example of unity and self-improvement for the armies of socialist countries.
The Vietnamese side stated that the current international and regional situation is changing rapidly and is more unpredictable. It is particularly urgent for the two parties and countries to strengthen unity and cooperation to address common challenges. Vietnam always regards consolidating and developing relations with China as the top priority and strategic choice of its foreign policy, firmly adheres to the one-China policy, provides firm support on issues involving China's core interests, and is willing to work with China to advance hand in hand, prepare for high-level exchanges, promote cooperation in various fields, strengthen close multilateral coordination and cooperation, and jointly elevate the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership to a higher level.
Both sides unanimously stated that the first ministerial meeting of the "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism was a complete success, marking the establishment of a new platform for China-Vietnam strategic communication and collaboration, reaching a new level, and being elevated to a new height.
Both sides unanimously agreed that the world today has entered a new period of turbulence and change, bringing common challenges to the socialist cause of China and Vietnam. Both sides must maintain strategic clarity and defend the ideological front; strengthen strategic determination and unite more closely; enhance strategic resilience, leverage institutional advantages, and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation; and strengthen strategic synergy, firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core and the international order based on international law.
Both sides unanimously agreed that the second ministerial meeting of the "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism will be held in China, and at the same time, the daily liaison role of senior officials of the mechanism will be fully utilized to deepen counterpart exchanges in diplomacy, defense, and public security.
During the meeting, the ninth ministerial meeting on cooperation in combating crime between the two countries' Ministries of Public Security and the tenth border defense friendly exchange activity will also be held.
Return to TopThis newspaper Hanoi, March 16th (Reporter Bai Xiaochuan (白晓川)) Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary To Lam (苏林) met in Hanoi on the 16th with Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅), Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪), and Defense Minister Dong Jun (董军), who were attending the first ministerial meeting of the China-Vietnam Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Public Security "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism.
To Lam (苏林) asked Wang Yi (王毅) to convey his best wishes to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and congratulated China on the successful holding of the Two Sessions and the adoption of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline. To Lam (苏林) stated that the "3+3" mechanism is a joint initiative of the leaders of the Vietnamese and Chinese parties, reflecting the high degree of political mutual trust between the two sides, highlighting that cooperation in key areas has become an important pillar of bilateral relations, and will powerfully promote the deepening and solidifying of the Vietnam-China community with a shared future. China is a **中流砥柱** (zhōng liú dǐ zhù - "backbone in a river," a mainstay; a person or thing that can be relied upon in a crisis) in a turbulent world. Vietnam always regards its relationship with China as the top priority and strategic choice of its foreign policy, continues to firmly adhere to the one-China policy, and supports the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平).
Wang Yi (王毅) first conveyed General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) cordial greetings to To Lam (苏林), and once again congratulated Vietnam on the successful convening of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the purpose of his visit to Vietnam to attend the first ministerial meeting of the "3+3" strategic dialogue mechanism is to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and countries. We exchanged in-depth views on the theme of "coordinating development and security, following the socialist path, and jointly responding to common challenges," reached broad consensus, and released an important signal to the outside world that the two major socialist countries of China and Vietnam are working together to safeguard the security of their political systems and jointly seek national development and revitalization. This is the first strategic communication platform created by China and Vietnam in the world, marking a new stage in the strategic mutual trust and cooperation between the two sides, and achieving new progress in building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future of strategic significance.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) and Dong Jun (董军) respectively introduced the cooperation between the Chinese and Vietnamese public security and defense departments.
During the visit, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (范明政) met with Wang Yi (王毅) and his delegation. Wang Yi (王毅) also held bilateral talks with Le Hoai Trung (黎怀忠), member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 16th. Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, met with Senator Jignac and Member of Parliament Royer, co-chairs of the Canada-China Parliamentary Association of the Canadian Parliament, in Beijing on the 16th. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on bilateral relations, exchanges between legislative bodies, and issues of common concern.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 16th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on March 16th: At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), Turkmenistan's National Leader and Chairman of the People's Council, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov (别尔德穆哈梅多夫), will pay a friendly visit to China from March 17th to 19th.
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"From January to February, production and demand maintained a steady increase, major economic indicators rebounded significantly, and positive factors accumulated and strengthened, laying a good foundation for positive economic development, fully reflecting the strong vitality and resilience of the Chinese economy." On March 16, at the press conference of the State Council Information Office (国新办), Fu Linghui (付凌晖), spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), chief economist, and director of the Department of Comprehensive Statistics of the National Economy, introduced the operation of the national economy in the first two months of this year.
Investment Growth Turned from Decline to Increase
Affected by multiple factors, fixed asset investment fell year-on-year throughout last year. From January to February this year, fixed asset investment increased by 1.8% year-on-year, achieving a shift from decline to increase, which played a positive role in optimizing the supply structure and expanding market demand. Fu Linghui (付凌晖) introduced the characteristics of investment operation from three aspects.
Investment in key areas is accelerating. From January to February, infrastructure investment increased by 11.4% year-on-year, 10.8 percentage points faster than the whole of last year, driving the growth of total investment by 3 percentage points. At the same time, the construction of large projects has accelerated. From January to February, the investment in projects with a planned total investment of 100 million yuan or more increased by 5% year-on-year. The demand for the transformation of traditional industries and the development of emerging industries has expanded, driving the rebound of manufacturing investment. From January to February, manufacturing investment increased by 3.1% year-on-year, 2.5 percentage points faster than the whole of last year.
New driving force investment is growing well. From January to February, investment in high-tech industries increased by 5.1% year-on-year, of which investment in aerospace vehicles and equipment manufacturing and information services increased by 20.2% and 16.5% respectively. The development of high-end equipment manufacturing is good, and investment is growing rapidly. From January to February, investment in railway, ship, aerospace vehicle and other transportation equipment manufacturing increased by 31.1%. The green transformation of energy is steadily advancing, the installed capacity of new energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaic continues to increase, and related investment continues to expand.
The effect of policies to expand effective investment is evident. Since the beginning of this year, various regions and departments have continued to promote the "two major" construction, continue to support large-scale equipment renewal, and increase project funding support. From January to February, investment by state-owned holding companies increased by 7.7% year-on-year, significantly faster than the whole of last year, and investment in equipment and tooling purchases increased by 11.5% year-on-year. Policies and measures to promote private investment have been actively implemented, enhancing the vitality of private investment. From January to February, private infrastructure investment increased by 9%.
"While seeing the positive changes, we must also see that the international environment is still complex and severe, and factors such as the adjustment of the domestic real estate market and the weak profitability of enterprises still have a restrictive effect on investment growth." Fu Linghui (付凌晖) said that in the next stage, we should focus on key areas such as the development of new quality productivity, new urbanization, and the comprehensive development of people, combine "investing in things" and "investing in people," and better promote economic development and people's livelihood improvement.
In addition to investment, demand-side indicators such as consumption and foreign trade also show positive changes. From January to February, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 2.8% year-on-year, 1.9 percentage points faster than in December last year and 1.1 percentage points faster than in the fourth quarter of last year, and market sales rebounded significantly; the total value of goods imports and exports increased by 18.3% year-on-year, a significant increase compared to the whole of last year.
Industrial Production Accelerated Significantly
From January to February, industrial production accelerated significantly, the industrial structure was optimized and upgraded, and the quality of development continued to improve, becoming a prominent highlight in economic operation. Fu Linghui (付凌晖) gave a specific introduction to this.
Industrial production continues to accelerate. In terms of growth rate, the value added of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 6.3% year-on-year from January to February, 1.1 percentage points faster than in December last year. From the perspective of industries and products, the growth rate of most industries and products rebounded. From January to February, the growth rate of 31 of the 41 major industries rebounded compared with December last year, with a rebound rate of 75.6%. Among more than 600 key products, the growth rate of more than 350 rebounded compared with December last year, with a rebound rate of nearly 60%.
Equipment manufacturing provides significant support. From January to February, the value added of equipment manufacturing above designated size increased by 9.3%, accounting for 33.5% of the total value added of industrial enterprises above designated size.
Some traditional industries have been optimized and upgraded. From January to February, the value added of the petroleum processing industry increased by 10.2% year-on-year, of which the biomass fuel processing industry increased by 55.3%; the chemical fiber industry increased by 6.1%, of which the bio-based material manufacturing industry increased by 25.1%. These data show that the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing is steadily advancing, new growth momentum is gradually gathering, and some industries have formed new growth points.
Emerging industries are growing rapidly. From January to February, the value added of high-tech manufacturing above designated size increased by 13.1% year-on-year, and the value added of digital product manufacturing increased by 8.8%; the value added of intelligent vehicle-mounted equipment manufacturing and intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing increased by 46.3% and 26.6% respectively, reflecting the continued expansion of demand for intelligent products.
Prices Showed a Moderate Rebound
In the first two months, under the influence of factors such as the improvement of market supply and demand, prices showed a moderate rebound.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed an overall upward trend. The CPI rose by 0.2% and 1% month-on-month in January and February respectively, and the month-on-month increase in February was significantly expanded due to the Spring Festival factor. From January to February, the CPI increased by 0.8% year-on-year, the same increase as in December last year, but higher than in the fourth quarter of last year and the whole of last year, showing a moderate rebound trend; the core CPI excluding food and energy increased by 1.3% year-on-year, 0.1 percentage points higher than in December last year.
Fu Linghui (付凌晖) believes that a reasonable rebound in consumer prices is conducive to improving business operations, promoting employment and income growth for residents, and also conducive to smoothing economic circulation. "Although international energy prices have fluctuated recently, bringing certain imported impacts on domestic prices, my country has sufficient supply capacity in the commodity and service market, and the foundation for maintaining price stability has not changed."
The Producer Price Index (PPI) showed an overall trend of narrowing year-on-year decline. In February, the PPI fell by 0.9% year-on-year, a decrease of 0.5 percentage points narrower than the previous month, and the year-on-year decline narrowed for three consecutive months; the month-on-month increase has shown an upward trend for five consecutive months.
The improvement of the PPI is mainly affected by factors such as the expansion of demand in some domestic industries, the driving effect of new momentum growth on industrial product prices, and the rise in some international bulk commodity prices. The comprehensive management of production capacity and "involution-style" competition in some key industries continues to advance, driving the improvement of prices in some industries.
"From January to February, my country's economy started strongly and developed in a new and better direction. However, it should also be noted that there are many variables in the current external environment, and there is great uncertainty. Domestically, we are still facing the contradiction of strong supply and weak demand." Fu Linghui (付凌晖) said that it is necessary to implement more proactive and effective macro policies, continue to expand domestic demand, optimize supply, develop new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions, promote the construction of a unified national market in depth, and promote sustained and healthy economic development.
Return to TopBy: 刘志强
Investment growth has shifted from decline to increase, prices have risen moderately, production and demand have steadily increased, and foreign trade has shown resilience. China's good economic performance in the first two months has made a good start for the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and laid the foundation for achieving the annual development goals.
This good start once again confirms the long-term positive fundamentals of the Chinese economy. Against the background of a volatile international environment and relatively high uncertainty in the global economy, the significant acceleration of major economic indicators reflects the solid foundation and strong resilience of the Chinese economy.
The steady start is due to the hard work of various regions, departments, and the vast number of business entities. From the macro-control departments implementing more proactive and effective macro policies, to various regions developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and then to the vast number of business entities strengthening innovation, seeking upgrades, seizing opportunities, and cultivating deeply in the fertile soil of the Chinese economy, the proactive actions of all parties have converged into a powerful synergy for high-quality development.
The start determines the direction, and the start is crucial to the whole process. The Two Sessions (两会) have just concluded, the blueprint for the "15th Five-Year Plan" has been drawn, and this year's annual development goals and tasks have been determined. At this time, to maintain a good state and continue the good momentum, all regions and departments must enhance their sense of urgency and execution, take the initiative to assume responsibility, exert efforts in advance, improve quality and efficiency, and promote the accelerated implementation and effectiveness of various tasks.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Paris, March 16) (Reporters Shang Kaiyuan (尚凯元), Han Shuo (韩硕), Huan Xiang (宦翔)) Local time, March 16, He Lifeng (何立峰), the Chinese lead person of the China-France High-Level Economic and Financial Dialogue and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with Bruno Le Maire (莱斯屈尔), the French lead person of the dialogue and Minister of Economy, Finance, Industry and Digital Sovereignty, at his request after the China-U.S. economic and trade consultations in Paris. They exchanged in-depth views on recent China-France economic and financial cooperation and issues of common concern.
He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that China is willing to work with France to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Emmanuel Macron (马克龙), further deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields of China-France economic and financial affairs, and promote the steady and long-term development of China-France economic relations. He Lifeng (何立峰) also briefed on the relevant situation of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultations upon request.
Bruno Le Maire (莱斯屈尔) expressed that France attaches great importance to cooperation with China and is willing to work with China to jointly promote pragmatic cooperation in the economic and financial fields between France and China and achieve greater progress.
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"Communicate promptly upon returning to the village," "Roll up your sleeves and work hard"... The National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (两会) have just concluded, and the deputies and members are moving from the "national affairs venue" to the "development arena," brimming with a sense of urgency and execution.
How to implement the spirit of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (两会)? Speak with actions and achieve success through hard work.
This reminds me of two inspiring stories about Xi Jinping (习近平), then the Secretary of the Fuzhou (福州) Municipal Party Committee.
In 1991, a report was on his desk. However, the same matter had already been instructed half a year prior. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly pointed out that "this is far from the spirit of 'immediate action'," and demanded a review of previously unaddressed instructions, persistently seeking results. Since then, Fuzhou (福州) cadres have been highly motivated and focused on implementation.
In 1992, at a meeting, a comrade spoke of the "red light theory," that is, "detouring when encountering a red light, rushing through a yellow light, and speeding through a green light," meaning that as long as there is no serious violation of principles, one can go all out. In response, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that this "red light theory" should not be adopted, and hoped that everyone would not only clarify "what can be done" and "what cannot be done," but also "what is allowed to be done" and "how it should be done."
Starting a career is never a blind sprint with speed as the ultimate goal, nor is it passive inaction, but rather a unity of daring to act and abiding by the rules. Only by working hard in the right direction and on the right track, with the courage to act and a sense of awe, can we achieve success, benefit the overall situation, and serve the people.
To establish a "immediate action" style and guard against the "red light theory," it is necessary to balance the relationship between speed and slowness, daring and guarding.
To grasp speed and slowness, "speed" must have direction and "slowness" must have value. Decisive action in the face of the urgent needs of the masses and development opportunities is a responsible and dutiful act of high efficiency. Deep cultivation in the face of long-term development and complex tasks is a prudent and pragmatic approach that respects the rules.
In Zhengding (正定), funds were raised to restore the Longxing Temple (隆兴寺); in Fuzhou (福州), the demolition of ancient buildings was stopped, and the protection plan for the historical and cultural city and Sanfang Qixiang (三坊七巷) was promoted... Without pursuing "short-term effects," the focus is on long-term development. Today, ancient cities, ancient bridges, ancient streets, and ancient alleys are full of vitality, the "urban living room" with rich historical heritage is full of charm, and the "humanistic economics" with development potential is thriving, demonstrating wisdom in the balance between speed and slowness.
To grasp daring and guarding, the key lies in "daring" having a bottom line and "guarding" having rigidity. Bold exploration in the face of development bottlenecks and people's livelihood problems is the courage to overcome all obstacles and win all battles. Adhering to principles in the face of Party discipline, state laws, and the interests of the masses is a clear understanding of right and wrong and a bottom line.
At the beginning of the 21st century, coastal provinces were competing with each other, and there were many voices calling for "accelerating to catch up." Xi Jinping (习近平), then the Secretary of the Zhejiang (浙江) Provincial Party Committee, after investigation and careful consideration, decided to promote structural adjustment, eliminate backward production capacity, rely on independent innovation, and achieve "shifting the bird from the cage" and "phoenix nirvana" (腾笼换鸟 téng lóng huàn niǎo - "empty the cage and change the bird," restructuring the economy by replacing old industries with new ones; 凤凰涅槃 fèng huáng niè pán - "phoenix nirvana," rebirth after a great ordeal). Since the new era, the concept and method of implementing the new development concept and promoting the conversion of old and new driving forces have been consistent. Breaking the shackles of inappropriate thinking, daring to blaze a path of high-quality development, and guarding the bottom line of ecology and safety, what is gained in doing well and achieving success is a vast world.
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," we should play a good concerto of speed and slowness, daring and guarding. For example, when planning industries, should we blindly follow the trend regardless of reality, or should we develop characteristics according to local conditions? When exploring innovation, should we think about "one mu and three points of land (一亩三分地 yī mǔ sān fēn dì - "one mu three fen of land," narrow-minded; one's own small plot)," or should we plan to integrate into the "national chessboard (全国一盘棋 quán guó yī pán qí - "the whole country as a single chessboard," coordinated national strategy)"? Finding the right rhythm in the balance between "speed" and "slowness," recognizing the positioning in the grasp of "daring" and "guarding," and internalizing the executive power of "immediate action" and the awe of the "red light theory" into a correct view of political achievements, can we, in the dialectic of "for whom to do" and "how to do," allow the tree of political achievements to take root in the people and flourish.
True political achievements never come from "detouring around red lights," but rather from walking step by step along the road of people-centeredness towards spring blossoms and fruitful autumns.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 16th (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) According to news from the China Manned Space Engineering Office (中国载人航天工程办公室): At 19:35 Beijing Time (北京时间) on March 16, 2026, after 7 hours of extravehicular activities, the Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) crew astronauts Zhang Lu (张陆), Wu Fei (武飞), and Zhang Hongzhang (张洪章), in close coordination and with the support of the space station's robotic arm and ground researchers, successfully completed tasks such as the installation of space debris protection devices. Astronauts Zhang Lu (张陆) and Wu Fei (武飞) have safely returned to the Wentian (问天) experimental module, and the extravehicular activities have been a complete success. Astronaut Zhang Lu (张陆) has now carried out a total of 6 extravehicular activities, making him one of the Chinese astronauts with the most extravehicular missions to date.
Since the Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) astronaut crew successfully completed their first extravehicular activity on December 9, 2025, they have completed tasks such as space station equipment inspection and maintenance, environmental monitoring, and health management. They have also carried out on-orbit training in rendezvous and docking, medical rescue, and emergency life-saving, and the space life science and human body research, microgravity physics, and space new technology experimental projects they are undertaking are steadily advancing. According to plan, extravehicular activities by the astronaut crew will also be carried out during the flight mission, and related scientific experiments and technical tests will continue to be carried out.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shijiazhuang (石家庄) report on March 16th (Reporters Shi Ziqiang (史自强) and Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬)) - After more than a year of trial operation, the Beijing-Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) customized express bus commuter line officially opened on March 16th. The Beijing-Xiong'an commuter express bus stations cover key transportation hubs and areas with dense populations and industries in both places. The Beijing (北京) end covers 9 important transportation hub locations, including the Lize Business District (丽泽商务区), and the Fengtai Science Park Subway Station (地铁丰台科技园站), etc. The Xiong'an (雄安) end connects the Xiong'an Business Service Center (雄安商服中心), Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (中关村科技园) and other concentrated relocation areas for enterprises.
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In Jiantan Town (吉安镇), Yongchuan District (永川区), Chongqing (重庆), where Sichuan (四川) and Chongqing meet, the machinery in a rice processing workshop hums. Rice grains move along the conveyor belt, entering processes such as husking, impurity removal, polishing, and grading... After multiple treatments, the crystal-clear rice is "哗啦啦" poured into woven bags.
Zhou Xianjin (周先进), the person in charge of the workshop, picked up a handful of rice and brought it to his nose to smell: "Fragrant! This is the result of our cooperation with the neighboring town!"
The neighboring town refers to Lishi Town (立石镇), Luxian County (泸县), Luzhou City (泸州市), Sichuan Province (四川省), which is connected to Jiantan Town by field ridges. Previously, restricted by administrative divisions, Jiantan Town lacked irrigation water, while Lishi Town lacked tap water pipe networks. Each place worked independently, lacking sufficient momentum for development.
In 2023, Lishi Town planned to connect several villages with a tap water pipe network, but one section needed to pass through Jiantan Town. Hu Bo (胡波), the Party Secretary of Jiantan Town, found Ai Bin (艾斌), the then Party Secretary of Lishi Town, and they discussed a win-win solution: Jiantan Town "lent" the pipe network passage to Lishi Town, and Lishi Town "returned" the surplus agricultural water to Jiantan Town.
With one loan and one return, the water flowed, and the development ideas of the two places also became clear. At the end of 2023, seizing the development opportunity of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle (成渝地区双城经济圈) construction, the collective of 10 villages in the two towns invested in the establishment of Yonglu Qiangcun Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (永泸强村农业开发有限公司) to jointly develop the rice industry.
"Sichuan provides seeds, technology, and storage warehouses, while Chongqing provides land, labor, and processing plants." Standing in the rice experimental field of Lishi Town, Ai Bin introduced, "This rice variety is called 'Chuanzhongyou 3607' (川种优3607), which is a high-quality variety cultivated in Sichuan. With coordinated planning between the two places, the seed price has dropped from 56 yuan per kilogram to 51 yuan, saving a lot on planting costs."
In the farmland of Jiantan Town, agricultural expert Zhou Xiyou (周昔友) is squatting on the ridge to observe the soil quality. "In the past, farming relied on the weather and experience, and the rice quality was uneven, so it couldn't be sold at a good price." Zhou Xiyou said that after the company was established, it achieved unified varieties, unified fertilizer and water management, unified standards, unified storage, and unified branding. "The quality of the rice produced has improved, and orders from large enterprises have naturally come."
"Now we plant according to orders, which is reassuring." Zhang Min (张敏), the mayor of Jiantan Town, introduced that they secured an order worth one million yuan from a supermarket in 2024, and the order volume for 2025 has even doubled.
"With the collaboration between the two places, the boundaries have become blurred, and the benefits have become clear." Hu Bo said with emotion that the internal driving force for regional cooperation is constantly increasing, and the pockets of farmers in both places are getting richer and richer. 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 16th (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)) - This reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) that various regions across the country are successively entering the crucial period of spring irrigation and preparation for plowing. As of March 15th, 16 provinces have initiated spring irrigation, with a cumulative water supply of 4.9 billion cubic meters, irrigating an area of 57 million mu.
Currently, the total water storage in key reservoirs nationwide is 497.3 billion cubic meters, nearly 10% higher than the average for the same period in previous years. River inflows are basically the same as the average for the same period in previous years, ensuring the overall supply of water for spring agricultural irrigation. At present, the overall soil moisture content across the country is relatively good, and the start time of spring irrigation in various regions is generally later than last year, with a slight decrease in the average irrigation volume per mu.
The Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会) of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has increased the discharge flow from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir (小浪底水库) since March 1st. Irrigation areas along the Yellow River (黄河), such as Shandong (山东) and Henan (河南), have started storing water in advance to prepare for the upcoming peak in spring irrigation water use. The southern rice-growing areas are accelerating the clearing of silt and obstacles from farmland water conservancy facilities and the restoration of water-damaged projects, providing favorable conditions for ensuring the safe and smooth flow of water for spring irrigation.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) March 16th dispatch (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部): The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), and other nine departments recently jointly issued the "Work Injury Prevention Five-Year Action Plan (2026-2030)," deploying national work injury prevention work during the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" period.
The Action Plan proposes to regard work injury prevention as a priority for work injury insurance, establish a firm concept of prevention first, and through five years of effort, continuously reduce the incidence of work-related accidents, with a reduction of about 10% in key industries over 5 years; gradually reduce the incidence of occupational injuries among new employment forms, with a reduction of more than 10% in key platform enterprises over 5 years.
The Action Plan clarifies that we will vigorously promote "Artificial Intelligence + Work Injury Prevention." Establish and improve the work injury accident monitoring indicator system, promote professional construction, and give play to the role of work injury insurance rate adjustment, to further consolidate the foundation and improve quality and efficiency.
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In the exhibition cabinet, fragments of burnt clay were carefully pieced together, with painted pottery shards and stone tool models complementing three-dimensional reconstructions of the site. Adjacent to these, a continuously playing joint archaeological video documented the excavation process undertaken by scholars from both countries at the same site. At the Iasi Moldova National Museum in Iasi (雅西), Romania, the exhibition showcasing the preliminary achievements of the Sino-Romanian Dobroăț Joint Archaeological Project recently concluded. Throughout the exhibition, the museum was bustling with visitors, many of whom came specifically to learn about the Romanian Cucuteni culture and the Chinese Yangshao (仰韶) and Majiayao (马家窑) cultures, witnessing a millennia-spanning resonance between the banks of the Yellow River and the shores of the Black Sea. Through archaeology as a link, China and Romania continue to deepen academic understanding in the joint study of prehistoric settlements and painted pottery cultures, also writing a vivid practical footnote for contemporary exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations.
"A precious testament to the equal exchange and joint research of Romanian and Chinese scholars"
"The joint archaeological results are fruitful, and our cooperation is very pleasant." Cornelia-Magda Lazarovici, a senior researcher at the Iasi Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, told reporters, "The exhibits not only present a living picture of prehistoric settlements 5,000 years ago but also serve as a precious testament to the equal exchange and joint research of Romanian and Chinese scholars."
"This is the first time that Chinese archaeologists have set foot on the European continent to carry out archaeological cooperation in Southeastern Europe, the birthplace of European prehistoric culture," said Wen Chenghao (温成浩), associate researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院). In July 2019, the Sino-Romanian Joint Archaeological Project was officially launched, with a joint archaeological team composed of more than 10 researchers from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (郑州文物考古研究院), the Iasi Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, and the Iasi Moldova National Museum, conducting excavations in Dobroăț village (多布若瓦茨村), Iasi.
This transnational cooperation originated from an academic exchange in 2017. At that time, Lazarovici and Romanian scholars Lăcrămioara Stratulat (拉勒克拉米奥拉·斯特拉图拉特) and others came to China to promote the Cucuteni culture. During their visit to China, they visited the Henan Yangshao Culture Museum (河南仰韶文化博物馆) and the Gansu Majiayao Site (甘肃马家窑遗址). When the exquisite painted pottery in the display cases caught their eyes, the scholars could not hide their surprise and curiosity, and couldn't help comparing it with the Cucuteni painted pottery: "The Chinese Yangshao culture and Majiayao culture are so similar to the Cucuteni culture."
This similarity is not accidental, and related discussions have continued for a century: After the discovery of the Yangshao Village Site (仰韶村遗址) in 1921, the Swedish scholar Johan Gunnar Andersson proposed the "Western Origin Theory of the Yangshao Culture." The German scholar Hubert Schmidt disagreed, arguing that cultural origins could not be inferred solely based on similar patterns. With the development of Chinese archaeology, the "Western Origin Theory of Painted Pottery" has been refuted, but the similarity between the two prehistoric cultures is still worth exploring in depth. In this way, Chinese and Romanian scholars reached a consensus and decided to enter each other's archaeological sites, using sufficient field archaeological evidence to establish the comparative study of the two prehistoric cultures on a solid empirical basis.
"Chinese colleagues not only brought advanced equipment but also a rigorous and meticulous work attitude"
The Dobroăț site, which belongs to the Cucuteni cultural system, is located in the hilly area of northeastern Romania and is an important cultural site of the Copper Age in Southeastern Europe. The focus of this joint archaeological work is on the systematic excavation and research of settlement forms and burnt clay house remains.
In the western edge area of the site, the joint archaeological team cleared a total of 9 burnt clay house remains, of which the house numbered 3 was the largest, and altar remains were also found in the center of the house. A pottery found in good condition in one corner of the altar became an important discovery in the cooperation between the two parties.
"Everyone was very cautious during the cleaning process, trying to maintain its integrity," Wen Chenghao recalled. Mircea Oancea (米尔恰·奥安卡), a Romanian archaeological worker, remembers that in order to successfully excavate this pottery, the Romanian side was responsible for the specific operation, and the Chinese side assisted and guided, which took a full 3 days. "When the pottery was finally unearthed completely, we were all very excited, and we also forged a deep friendship in the process of working together," Oancea said.
The exchange and mutual learning between scholars from the two countries runs through the day-to-day fieldwork. The Chinese team introduced modern archaeological techniques such as drones and total stations into the joint excavation, injecting new vitality into the research work: drones regularly take aerial photos of the site, allowing researchers to observe the layout of the site from an overall perspective; the Luoyang shovel (洛阳铲) plays a unique role in verifying the results of geomagnetic exploration and finding hidden remains; after the burnt clay plates are spliced together, the three-dimensional model built by the Chinese team provides a solid technical support for subsequent research and data sorting. "The digital recording method greatly improves the efficiency of data sorting and also leaves a reliable data basis for future research. Chinese colleagues not only brought advanced equipment but also a rigorous and meticulous work attitude," Lazarovici said, adding that the combination of technology and concepts makes the cooperation between the two parties smoother and more effective.
Romanian colleagues have rich experience in the study of burnt clay houses. They regard the collapsed burnt clay blocks as important information units equal to pottery shards, and restore the construction methods and usage forms of prehistoric houses through block-by-block numbering, precise measurement, and three-dimensional modeling, with the help of the wooden structure imprints retained on the back of the burnt clay. Wen Chenghao said: "The Romanian research methods have brought new inspiration to the Chinese team."
"Even if the languages are different, we can form a tacit understanding in the field," Lazarovici said.
"Only by placing Chinese civilization in the coordinates of world civilization can we more deeply understand its uniqueness"
As the excavation work continues to deepen, the academic value and practical significance of the Dobroăț Joint Archaeological Project become increasingly prominent. From an academic research perspective, as the first systematic field work of Chinese archaeology to enter the important area of European prehistoric civilization, the project allows Chinese scholars to re-examine the development path of Chinese prehistoric societies such as the Yangshao culture and the Majiayao culture in a broader spatio-temporal context through in-depth research on the Cucuteni culture.
Lazarovici said that the Cucuteni culture and the Yangshao culture are roughly in the same historical development stage, both based on agricultural economy, with highly developed pottery making technology, relatively limited degree of social differentiation, and the common use of painted pottery and the construction of wooden structure houses, and the formation of a considerable scale of burnt clay house collapse accumulation, these commonalities make the comparative study of the two prehistoric cultures of great value.
"Those similar arcs and triangular combinations in the painted pottery patterns are easy to associate with," said Li Xinwei (李新伟), deputy director of the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The key to the comparative study of the two cultures lies in discovering commonalities while seeing differences, and then deeply understanding the independent choices of different civilizations in the development process. This is the core meaning of prehistoric civilization research.
This transnational archaeological cooperation has not only yielded fruitful academic results but also left many warm transnational friendships. The archaeological team members rented houses in the local village of Dobroăț and lived with the villagers day and night, forging a deep relationship. Local villagers often enthusiastically send fresh fruits, mellow milk, etc. to the archaeological site. "They directly stuffed things into our hands, that kindness is very sincere," Wen Chenghao said.
This friendship across borders has long gone beyond the archaeological site and extended to a broader field of academic exchange. At the end of last year, Oancea was invited to participate in an archaeological academic conference held in Shanghai, which was his first time to China. "After cooperating with Chinese colleagues, I am more looking forward to visiting China, which has a brilliant history. In Shanghai, we not only carried out academic learning and discussions, but also visited the Bund (外滩) and the City God Temple (城隍庙), and experienced the most authentic Chinese culture, which is a precious life memory," Oancea said.
At present, the Dobroăț Joint Archaeological Project has gradually entered the stage of data sorting and comprehensive research, and the Sino-Romanian Joint Archaeological Team plans to complete the final work of this cooperation this summer. But in the hearts of all the scholars involved, this is not the end of the cooperation, but a new starting point for the exchange of prehistoric civilization research between China and Romania.
100 years ago, limited by data acquisition and research methods, Western scholars tried to explain the origin of Chinese civilization from the outside. Today, Chinese archaeology, based on the solid foundation of a century of development, goes abroad and stands side by side with colleagues from various countries on archaeological sites to carry out equal academic dialogue and joint research. "Only by placing Chinese civilization in the coordinates of world civilization can we more deeply understand its uniqueness," Wen Chenghao said.
Stratulat said that the burnt clay and painted pottery of the Dobroăț site record the development trajectory of human prehistoric civilization 5,000 years ago, while the continuous advancement of Sino-Romanian joint archaeology witnesses the real process of equal exchange and mutual learning between different civilizations in the contemporary era, "**这正是考古学超越时空的价值所在**" (zhè zhèng shì kǎo gǔ xué chāo yuè shí kōng de jià zhí suǒ zài - "this is precisely where the value of archaeology transcends time and space," highlighting the enduring significance of archaeological discoveries).
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(I)
"The red dawn rising in the East is dazzling. We once walked in that country, a country forging tomorrow..."
Not long ago, after visiting China with a delegation, Emil Jancheski, a member of the Central Committee of the Left Wing Party of North Macedonia, wrote affectionate verses.
This is not the first time that international figures have paid attention to China's future. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres publicly stated, "The future of mankind largely depends on China."
Why can China today be called "a country forging tomorrow"? The recently concluded Two Sessions (全国两会) provide an annotation.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要) outlines a blueprint for China's development in the next five years and also provides the world with a "list of opportunities."
Quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, forward-looking layout of future industries; childcare services, rehabilitation care, cultural tourism, quality upgrades in consumer supply...
One hammer blow after another, one relay baton after another, from which we can more deeply appreciate General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important assertion: "In the world's century of great changes, China provides stability and certainty."
Since the end of last year, the "visit China wave" has attracted attention. Canadian Prime Minister Carney said that China is providing impetus for world economic growth. British Prime Minister Starmer used the allegory of "blind men touching an elephant" to frankly say that he wants to have a comprehensive and true understanding of China.
Reality powerfully proves that in the face of the turbulent international situation, China is firmly committed to maintaining world peace, promoting common development, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and is always the most stable, reliable, and active force in a turbulent world.
Through the "country forging tomorrow," we see the most distinctive background color of "people first," the connotative development of "green innovation," and the inclusive attitude of "mutual benefit and win-win." Chinese-style modernization is writing a magnificent chapter in the new form of human civilization.
(II)
Winning the hearts of the people is the way to win the era. A "country forging tomorrow" must be a country that adheres to the principle of putting the people first and regards benefiting the people as its greatest political achievement.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Chinese-style modernization puts people's livelihood first. All the work of the Party and the government is for the people to live a happier life."
Ani'e Village (阿尼么村) in Yangbi Yi Autonomous County (漾濞彝族自治县), Yunnan (云南), which in the Yi language means "a place where even birds don't come," is now a popular online destination with throngs of tourists and melodious folk songs.
From "birds don't come" to "songs don't stop," how did the change happen?
The local Party committee and government made scientific plans and took active actions, rural capable people returned to their hometowns to start businesses and take the lead in getting rich, and Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation funds helped with supporting construction... Under the strong leadership of the Party, all parties twisted their strength into one rope, allowing the poor mountain village to bloom "flowers of prosperity."
The battle against poverty is the most concentrated, fullest, and most vivid embodiment of the Chinese Communist Party's tenet of serving the people wholeheartedly in the new era.
After visiting Huamao Village (花茂村) in Bozhou District (播州区), Zunyi (遵义), Guizhou (贵州), Vice Secretary-General Fasto Mwali of the Socialist Party of Zambia kept repeating one sentence: "On the road to common prosperity, no one can be left behind."
"China's poverty alleviation achievements can be called a miracle." The U.S. Hill Post website published an article, while reflecting on the U.S. "cut-off line" phenomenon, pointed out that China's poverty alleviation experience is a method that has been proven to improve people's livelihood on a large scale.
Looking at China, "firewood, rice, oil, salt, three meals a day, four seasons, every 'small family' is bustling with activity, and China, this 'big family,' is thriving." Putting "the people" at the center of the narrative of the times reveals the code for China's "forging tomorrow."
This code is hidden in the laughter of the "one old and one young" service consortium in Qinglian Town (青莲镇), Fengjie (奉节), Chongqing (重庆), where thousands of industrial workers have no worries and can work and struggle with peace of mind;
This code is hidden in the brand-new and comfortable home of Wang Yanfen (王言芬), a sanitation worker in Guiyang (贵阳), Guizhou (贵州), where the guaranteed apartment with a monthly rent of only 380 yuan allows front-line workers to truly feel the warmth and care of the city;
This code is hidden in the deep mountains of Beichuan (北川), Sichuan (四川), where specialties such as sausages and honey are "flown" out of the mountains by drones, and the dividends of science and technology are truly broadening the road to comprehensive rural revitalization and transforming it into the well-being of the people.
The people are the creators of history and the subject of "forging tomorrow." Every person's struggle can be seen and supported, and every family's happiness can be protected and achieved. The power of every drop will converge into a rolling torrent that promotes the country's development, casting a solid foundation for winning the future and shaping a powerful force for leading the future.
Stepping into the "15th Five-Year Plan," there is a "safety net" at the bottom to firmly support the bottom line of people's livelihood; there is a "climbing rope" upward to help every dream. China uses practice to interpret the value of "people's livelihood is the greatest."
"Where the heart is at peace is my hometown," and "tomorrow" is the tomorrow where people's hearts return. Adhering to "taking the people's heart as our heart," and moving forward firmly step by step, the sea can be filled and the mountains can be moved. China's hundreds of millions of people are united and unstoppable.
(III)
Green leads the future, and innovation achieves the future. A "country forging tomorrow" must be a country that adheres to connotative development, regards scientific and technological innovation as the primary driving force for leading development, and consolidates the ecological foundation for the future with green and low-carbon development.
At the beginning of the year, at the first collective study session of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "We must stand at the strategic height of promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation, base ourselves on objective conditions, give play to comparative advantages, adhere to steady progress and gradient cultivation, and promote continuous new breakthroughs in the development of China's future industries."
Observing the "sense of the future" of China's development, the story of "teachers becoming students" is thought-provoking.
During German Prime Minister Merz's visit to China, he made a special trip to Utree Technology (宇树科技) in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江). The humanoid robot that appeared on the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Horse once again performed, attracting praise from Merz and his entourage. The CEO of Wilo Group mentioned a German proverb in his感叹: "Teachers become students."
On the new track of artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence, China holds more than 30,000 patents and ranks first in the world in the shipment of humanoid robots, surpassing others.
Not only robots, but the internationally renowned technology magazine "Wired" launched a special issue on China, discussing "23 ways China is reshaping the future." A "New York Times" reporter exclaimed that in China, "I feel like I live in the future."
Seeking innovation is seeking the future. With the deep integration of science and technology and industry, new quality productive forces are growing vigorously. China is not only injecting inexhaustible power into its own modernization, but also bringing more development opportunities to the world.
The development that can represent the future, with strong momentum and full of potential, must not be a crude development model of "polluting first and then treating," but rather a high-quality and sustainable connotative development that practices the new development concept.
High quality, with innovation as the engine. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's total social R&D expenditure increased by an average of 10% annually; in 2025, the intensity of R&D expenditure will exceed the average level of OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries for the first time. Adhering to innovation-driven development, the confidence and resilience of high-quality development are stronger.
Sustainable, with green as the foundation. In 2025, China's sales revenue from clean energy power generation will account for 42.6% of the total power generation sales revenue, an increase of 7.2 percentage points compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan." The green industry is becoming stronger and larger, providing solid support for further implementing the "dual carbon" goal, demonstrating the strong potential and broad space for low-carbon transformation.
Since the beginning of the year, the international situation has become more turbulent. Setting this year's economic growth target at 4.5%-5%, and using "range regulation" to take into account both quantity and quality, "pursuing real and unadulterated growth," China is confident and calm.
**天工人巧日争新** (tiān gōng rén qiǎo rì zhēng xīn - "nature and man compete for ingenuity daily," describes continuous innovation and improvement). "Tomorrow" is a tomorrow that is oriented towards newness and excellence. Adhering to the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development, China's economy is making steady progress and overcoming obstacles.
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A small boat alone cannot withstand the stormy waves, and only by working together can we move steadily and far. A "country forging tomorrow" must be an open and inclusive country, committed to common development and shared prosperity.
"To walk with China is to walk with opportunities, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) words reveal the underlying logic of China's "future."
"Open source" is a key perspective to observe this "future" from an international dimension.
Software open source. In just five years, OpenHarmony (开源鸿蒙) has achieved full-stack independent research and development and control, with the number of lines of code exceeding 130 million, more than 9,700 community contributors, and a huge ecosystem covering thousands of industries.
Ecological open source. This year's "Government Work Report" (政府工作报告) proposed: "Support the construction of artificial intelligence open source communities and promote the prosperity of the open source ecosystem." In the past year, the download volume of open source large models developed in China accounted for 17.1%, ranking first in the world.
There is also "open source modernization." In Senegal (塞内加尔), the rural well-drilling project undertaken by Chinese companies solves the drinking water problem for about 1/7 of the population; in Laos (老挝), where the U.S. military dropped bombs in the past, the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) was built, and Chinese wind turbines were erected...
This is the inclusive and open Chinese model, and this is Chinese-style modernization that follows the path of peaceful development.
When some countries try to redraw spheres of influence through war and hegemony, China firmly chooses peaceful development and eliminates conflicts through dialogue; when some countries build "small yards and high walls" and promote "decoupling and breaking chains," China firmly chooses open cooperation and replaces barriers with connectivity; when the reverse globalization trend is surging and protectionism is rampant, China firmly supports multilateralism and bridges differences with inclusiveness.
How can such an empowering major country not gather the spirit of the four seas and gather the strength of all directions?
The great road is not lonely, and we walk hand in hand. Hoping to carry out cooperation with China in more fields and in a wider range, promoting the development of all countries in the world and enhancing the well-being of the people, is the sincere wish of batches of overseas friendly people after visiting China.
Empowerment does not stop, and we achieve each other. The China International Import Expo (进博会) has accumulated transactions of more than 500 billion US dollars, and it is constantly being held and renewed; the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) has started the full island customs closure operation; the "Belt and Road" initiative (一带一路) has become a popular international public product and cooperation platform... China's new plan, the world's new opportunities.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要) proposes to "adhere to open cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, steadily expand institutional opening up, and build a new system of a higher-level open economy."
**明月何曾是两乡** (míng yuè hé céng shì liǎng xiāng - "the bright moon has never been in two hometowns," the moon shines on everyone, implying that we are all connected). "Tomorrow" is a tomorrow where the world is one family. Not afraid of the backward waves, and good at opening the headwind boat, the Chinese giant ship leads the way, promoting economic globalization towards a more inclusive and inclusive direction.
Taking the people as the foundation, planning for the long term, and embracing the world. On the new journey, China, which "takes the benefit of the world as its own benefit," will surely work with all countries in the world to write a new chapter in the era of building a community with a shared future for mankind and jointly create a better tomorrow for the development and progress of human civilization.
(Written by: Zou Xiang (邹翔), Zhang Fan (张凡), Li Tielin (李铁林))
By: 苏翊鸣
4 years is enough for a person to grow.
February 15, 2022, in the wind and snow of the Big Air Shougang (北京首钢大跳台) in Beijing (北京), I, about to turn 18, completed two 1800-degree rotations in different directions, landed steadily, fixed my score, and successfully won the championship. I won the first Winter Olympics gold medal for Chinese men's snowboard, achieving a historic breakthrough, and my heart was full of happiness.
That Winter Olympics, I won one gold and one silver, becoming China's (中国) youngest Winter Olympics champion. But glory can make a person, and it can also make a person confused. For a while, when I woke up every day and saw the medals, I felt no joy, only emptiness. The halo is encouragement, but also shackles. In addition to mental tempering, there are also injury tests. In the 2024-2025 season, I injured my ankle and could only sit in a wheelchair for a time, but I had to compete in pain—to win enough points so that I could stand on the field of the Milan (米兰) Winter Olympics. Trapped by the champion title and troubled by pain, I doubted and struggled.
Opponents are also partners, able to encourage each other, salvage each other, and support each other to set off again. Seeing other players start trying new moves, the feeling of freedom with the wind in my ears and people in the air reappeared: I want to return to the field, out of love, and out of responsibility.
From Beijing (北京) to Milan (米兰), the 4-year road is more difficult than imagined. In the men's big air final of the Milan (米兰) Winter Olympics snowboard competition, I lived up to expectations and tried my best to win a bronze medal, winning the first medal for the Chinese (中国) sports delegation at this Winter Olympics. The moment I stepped off the podium, I cried, with regret, but more relief.
True strength is not about never falling, but about having the courage to stand up again after falling. I tore off the "defending champion" label and became a challenger again. Afterwards, standing on the starting platform of the slopestyle, I told myself to forget the ranking and pressure, just focus on the snow track in front of me, and enjoy every take-off and landing. I performed stably and cleanly, successfully stood on the highest podium, and used a gold medal to give myself the most precious gift for my 22nd birthday. This gold medal is heavier than the one 4 years ago, carrying the courage to start again and the perseverance to stick to love.
These 4 years have been 4 years of challenging limits and breaking through oneself. Unlocking the "back-to-back" 1980-degree rotation, challenging the 2160-degree extreme difficulty action... What I have achieved is not only a technical breakthrough, but also a growth transformation. The 18-year-old me was a teenager questioning fate; the 22-year-old me wants to be a strong person challenging fate. Growth is never giving up, and being able to stick to the original intention even in the trough.
These 4 years have also been 4 years of witnessing the rise of China's (中国) new generation of ice and snow power. In this competition, I found myself becoming a "veteran" on the list, surrounded by many younger, more daring, and more creative faces than me. We are all the same, taking the field with love and moving forward with responsibility, allowing the spirit of sports to gallop on the white ice and snow.
From the perseverance of a few people to the battle of many people side by side, the rapid progress of Chinese (中国) snowboard is obvious to all, and a spirit is becoming more and more apparent: our generation of ice and snow athletes has a rare clarity, dare to face the results directly, and face winning and losing calmly. This gives us a wider vision and a more stable mentality, respecting the limits and daring to challenge the limits. This is precisely the most valuable and promising thing about Chinese (中国) ice and snow athletes—supporting each other with the belief of never giving up, passing on the torch, and holding up the relay.
Compared with 4 years ago, I have collected three Winter Olympics gold, silver, and bronze medals, but I am still the child who is happy when I get on the snowboard. I am very lucky to be able to use my experience to ignite the enthusiasm for competitive sports and people's sports. I look forward to more young people taking over the baton in the future and sliding to a higher, farther, and more shining future.
We will write the next page of the Chinese (中国) ice and snow story together.
(The author is a Chinese (中国) snowboard athlete, interviewed and compiled by Ji Fang (季芳), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopDon't Let Secondhand Smoke Disrupt Medical Treatment
By He Ruo (何若)
In some children's specialist hospitals and maternal and child health hospitals in Beijing (北京), smoking at hospital entrances is a common phenomenon. Even with no-smoking signs posted, some people still ignore the regulations and "puff away," forcing sick children and pregnant women undergoing prenatal checkups to pass through clouds of smoke.
First of all, it should be clear that in Beijing (北京), smoking in maternal and child health institutions and children's hospitals, whether indoors or outdoors, is a violation of regulations. The "Beijing (北京) Smoking Control Regulations" clearly stipulate that smoking is prohibited in indoor and outdoor areas of maternal and child health institutions and children's hospitals. Making regulations effective and truly controlling smoking should become a common sense of civilization, and supervision and law enforcement should be strengthened.
More than 10 years after the implementation of the "Beijing (北京) Smoking Control Regulations," significant results have been achieved, but there are also many new problems, such as "roaming smoke" disturbing people on the streets, indoor e-cigarette smoking, and gatherings of smokers at subway and shopping mall entrances. All of these call for further optimization and upgrading of the rules.
The precision of governance measures the height of urban civilization. Consolidating social consensus, so that everyone has the confidence to say no to "secondhand smoke," and making smokers consciously avoid affecting others, will raise a city's civilization index and health index.
(Excerpted from "Beijing Daily (北京日报)," originally titled "How to Manage the 'Smoke Clouds' at the Entrance of Maternal and Child Hospitals")
Physical Education Class Needs a Shift in Mindset First
By Zhu Zheping (朱浙萍)
The Ministry of Education (教育部) has made it clear that in 2026, it will implement the student physical fitness enhancement plan in depth, focus on improving students' physical health, strictly prevent "fake timetables," and strictly investigate behaviors such as squeezing physical education classes and not allowing students to leave the classroom during breaks.
In reality, phenomena such as "physical education teachers being 'sick'," and "disappearing breaks" have repeatedly attracted attention. Although the "2 hours of physical education every day" and "15-minute break" system have been implemented, have the policies been implemented effectively, and has the implementation been discounted? This is precisely the key to this strict investigation.
To truly get children moving, the concepts of schools, teachers, and the whole society need to "move" first.
The school's management thinking must "move." Many schools are afraid of accidents and affecting learning, which leads to fake timetables and strict control of breaks. Managers should realize that improving physical fitness can promote learning efficiency, and should give students enough space for activities on the premise of adhering to the safety bottom line.
The evaluation "baton" must "move." It may be a good idea to set physical health and other indicators, link health outcomes with school evaluation, and truly return physical education classes to an important position.
The space and form of activities must "move." Schools with limited space can create sports "micro-spaces." We should also innovate courses and enrich sports supply, so that students change from "I have to practice" to "I want to practice."
When schools dare to let go, evaluations are more scientific, and society forms a consensus, breaks will truly return to vitality, and children can have "sweat on their bodies, light in their eyes, and strength in their feet."
(Excerpted from "Zhejiang Daily (浙江日报)," originally titled "Don't Let Physical Education Teachers Be 'Sick' for No Reason Anymore")
Return to TopBy: 李铁林
On the road home, there are always some landmarks. Like Shanhaiguan (山海关) for Northeastern wanderers and Xingxingxia (星星峡) for Xinjiang (新疆) wanderers, seeing them means home is near.
For Dongying (东营), Shandong (山东) people, the "landmark" guiding wanderers is a type of petroleum machinery – the "nodding donkey" or "beam pump."
Dongying people have a special affection for the "nodding donkey." This affection carries the weight of history. During the socialist construction period, we started the path of industrialization 筚路蓝缕 (bì lù lán lǚ - "break the road with a cart, wear tattered clothes," to start an undertaking in hardship), urgently needing to achieve energy independence. On the desolate reclaimed land, batches of oil workers gathered, and "nodding donkeys" rose from the ground, extracting the earth's rich resources and transporting the blood of industry to countless capillaries.
Coming from history, the "nodding donkey" still stands, and the responsibility of "ensuring national energy security and guaranteeing economic and social development" remains the same. Breaking through the bottleneck of oil displacement technology, overcoming high-temperature and high-salinity reservoirs once considered "forbidden zones"; developing combined fracture network fracturing technology, gradually opening up the feasibility of shale oil exploitation... In today's high-quality development, an old oilfield that is more than sixty years old is still a pioneer in securing the energy bowl with technological innovation.
As time flows, the "landmark" is not immutable. Along the way home, the neat rows of photovoltaic panels and towering wind turbines are becoming new "landmarks" for returning wanderers.
How did the old oilfield become connected with new energy? Oilfields are both energy producers and consumers – oil and gas production consumes a lot of electricity and heat. Under the guidance of the "dual carbon" goal, the potential for green and low-carbon transformation is huge. In addition, the increasing difficulty and cost of exploiting old oilfields are unavoidable problems that require finding a "second curve." Developing new energy is precisely the "common denominator" of the two.
Transformation is not only about epistemology but also tests methodology. How to prevent redundant investment and engage in "involution"? How to avoid the "each doing their own thing" situation between new and old energy sources? Burdened with strong industrial inertia, these are questions that resource cities and energy companies must answer. Solving the problem requires not only adapting to the trend but also adapting to local conditions.
Revitalizing idle land, the well site area of a meritorious oil well has been used to build a multi-energy complementary comprehensive utilization project of "photovoltaic, wind, thermal storage + multi-source microgrid," turning industrial heritage into a carbon-neutral demonstration zone; deeply exploring production processes, a "well king" that has continuously produced oil for 40 years has completed the transformation of green heat industrial application, and the previously difficult-to-use high-temperature wastewater heat energy is collected for oil-water heating separation, replacing traditional gas heating... Based on the advantages of the main business, new energy is organically embedded in the old oilfield, and the new and the old complement each other and enhance each other.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "the petroleum front has always been a banner of the Republic's reform and development, and it is necessary to continue to hold this banner high." The banner is always flying at the forefront of the times. Only by not fearing difficulties, breaking new ground, and setting benchmarks can the banner be held high. With new concepts leading the transformation and new technologies empowering the transformation, making the strengths more prominent and effectively making up for the shortcomings, Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田) is creating an observation paradigm for the green and low-carbon development of traditional oil and gas enterprises.
From this perspective, the "landmark" of going home is also the "coordinate" of development? Moving towards new and green is the general trend, and high-quality development is the primary task. Only by simultaneously breaking and establishing, and deepening the conversion of kinetic energy, can resource cities overcome the "growing pains." Moreover, the actual situations of different regions and different industries are very different. To walk this road well, it is necessary to anchor one's own "coordinates" and avoid "copying formulas" or "copying homework."
Gejiu (个旧) in Yunnan (云南) is moving from "Tin Capital of the World" to "Gliding Paradise," Ningdong (宁东) Energy and Chemical Base in Ningxia (宁夏) is moving from "relying on coal to eat coal" to "turning coal into gold," and Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has achieved a butterfly transformation from "sheep, coal, soil, and gas" to "raising eyebrows and exhaling." Insisting on doing what should be done, striving to do what can be done, and resolutely not doing what should not be done, more and more resource-based regions are exploring new paths for transformation and development, delivering high-quality development answers for energy security, industrial renewal, and people's livelihood and happiness, and helping to grasp the initiative in development.
The road home is a micro-individual's life experience and also reflects the development of the macro society. Looking at the whole country from one region and observing hundreds of industries from one industry, the small changes around each person add up to the ever-changing and thriving of this hot land under our feet.
As the years change and the spring is just right, in the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," all regions are planning development with clear positioning. It is believed that when returning home next year, more people will encounter surging new trends.
(The author is an editor in the Commentary Department of this newspaper)
Return to TopNot long ago, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and four other departments jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Revitalizing Drama (2026-2028)," putting forward a series of measures to support the development of drama troupes, improve the quality of drama creation, enhance the effectiveness of work evaluation and funding, consolidate the foundation of drama talent team building, and promote the improvement of drama performance quality and quantity, so as to further promote the inheritance and development of the drama cause in the new era.
This is precisely:
The orchestra harmonizes, and the strings and bamboo instruments rise,
Old rhymes and new sounds create a magnificent chapter together.
Now, the collective effort is frequently maintained and protected,
The flourishing art garden will be even more fragrant.
Wang Jingwen (王静文)
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Return to TopBy: 最高人民法院院长 张 军
Distinguished representatives,
Now, on behalf of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), I present this work report to the congress for your deliberation and welcome suggestions from the members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协).
Review of Work in 2025
In 2025, the Party Central Committee issued the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening Adjudication Work in the New Era" (《中共中央关于加强新时代审判工作的意见》), setting higher requirements for the work of the people's courts, which is a milestone in the history of the Party's leadership of people's justice. Over the past year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and under the effective supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Court has adhered to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law, fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, earnestly implemented the resolutions of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, profoundly understood the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthened the "four consciousnesses," strengthened the "four confidences," and achieved the "two safeguards." It has adhered to the Party's absolute leadership, practiced whole-process people's democracy, promoted the socialist spirit of the rule of law, and focused on "striving to ensure that the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case." It has faithfully fulfilled the duties entrusted to it by the Constitution and laws, and strived to serve the construction of Chinese-style modernization with high-quality justice, achieving new progress in various tasks. The Supreme People's Court accepted 29,154 cases and concluded 31,958 cases, a year-on-year decrease of 16.5% and 1.8% respectively. People's courts at all levels across the country accepted 37.486 million trial and enforcement cases, and concluded 36.2 million cases, a year-on-year increase of 10.8% and 8.9% respectively.
I. Adhering to Fairness and Justice, Ensuring High-Level Security with High-Quality Justice
Adhering to the overall national security concept, comprehensively and accurately implementing the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, effectively preventing risks, ensuring security, and safeguarding stability in accordance with the law, and building a higher level of safe China.
Resolutely safeguarding national security. Deepening the struggle against subversion, separatism, terrorism, and cults, and promoting the legalization and normalization of counter-terrorism and stability maintenance. Implementing the Anti-Secession Law, severely punishing stubborn "Taiwan independence" elements. Li Yanhe (李延贺) was convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law for inciting secession and undermining national unity. Punishing crimes such as smuggling rare earths abroad and illegally selling parental seeds and germplasm resources in accordance with the law, and building a judicial barrier for national strategic resource security.
Effectively maintaining public safety. Concluded 46,000 cases involving 53,000 people in serious violent crimes such as intentional homicide, a year-on-year decrease of 7.3% (number of cases, same below). Routinely carrying out the fight against organized crime and evil forces, severely cracking down on rural family and clan-based organized crime and evil forces and their "protective umbrellas." Traditional drug crimes have been declining year by year. Increased punishment for new types of drug crimes, strictly distinguishing between illegal trafficking of psychotropic drugs and rational purchase and use of medicines, and issued judicial recommendations to promote strengthened supervision. Punishing crimes such as illegally sending dangerous goods by mail and illegally transporting edible oil in oil tankers in accordance with the law, safeguarding the lives, health, and property safety of the people. Together with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), we continued to promote the governance of drunk driving. After the issuance of opinions on handling criminal cases of drunk driving, the number of people sentenced decreased from 320,000 in 2023 to 231,000 in 2025, and the number of traffic accidents, deaths, and injuries caused by drunk driving all decreased. Concluded 41,000 cases involving 85,000 people in telecommunications network fraud crimes, a year-on-year increase of 1.2%. Sixteen principal offenders of the "Four Big Families" criminal group in northern Myanmar were sentenced to death with immediate execution in accordance with the law, and crimes committed outside the territory that infringe upon our citizens must be punished in accordance with the law.
Severely punishing corruption crimes. Concluded 36,000 cases involving 40,000 people in duty-related crimes such as corruption and bribery, a year-on-year increase of 22.4%, and punished 57 former centrally-administered cadres such as Tang Renjian (唐仁健) and Luo Baoming (罗保铭) in accordance with the law. Bai Tianhui (白天辉) was sentenced to death and executed in accordance with the law for accepting particularly large amounts of bribes and causing particularly serious losses to the interests of the country and the people. Punishing new and hidden corruption crimes such as expected returns, agreed-upon nominee holdings, and "revolving door" practices between government and business in accordance with the law. Implementing the simultaneous investigation of bribery and bribe-giving, concluded 2,724 cases involving 3,235 people in bribery crimes, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%. Collaboratively promoted international pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen assets and cross-border corruption governance, recovering and confiscating 18.14 billion yuan of illegal gains.
Punishing new types of crimes in accordance with the law. Over the past five years, 9,326 cases involving 22,000 people in crimes endangering network security have been concluded, an increase of 158.5% compared with the previous five years. In 2025, 25,000 cases involving 38,000 people in crimes of assisting information network criminal activities were concluded, a year-on-year decrease of 62%, and the effectiveness of collaborative governance was obvious. Punishing crimes such as online rumors, online pyramid schemes, and online violence in accordance with the law, and promoting comprehensive governance of network space security. Two young people were convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law for illegally obtaining and disseminating the privacy information of others. Severely punishing crimes such as money laundering and evasion of foreign exchange using virtual currency as a medium, and working together to prevent illegal cross-border transfer of funds. It was clarified that drivers who use assisted driving functions after drinking alcohol should still bear criminal responsibility and should not evade legal responsibility through technological applications.
Preventing and resolving risks in key areas. Severely punishing crimes such as illegal fundraising, concluded 11,000 related cases involving 22,000 people, a year-on-year decrease of 0.6%. Together with the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部), and the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), we implemented mechanisms such as real estate financing coordination to promote the delivery of guaranteed housing. Concluded 2.707 million financial cases, a year-on-year increase of 1.8%, strengthened the diversified resolution of financial disputes, promoted judicial and administrative "digital chain collaborative" supervision, promoted the standardized operation of local small and medium-sized financial institutions, and effectively implemented risk prevention and control.
Promoting the prevention and resolution of contradictions and disputes. Adhering to and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, grassroots courts have fully covered county-level comprehensive management centers, strengthened guidance and mediation, and gathered forces to resolve disputes. Chongqing (重庆) courts relied on comprehensive management centers to carry out "demonstration trials + centralized mediation," prompting 959 homeowners to reach a settlement with developers on housing sales disputes, and resolving more than 2,000 potential disputes in the bud. The number of "general-to-general" diversified dispute resolution cooperation units increased to 18, and 654,000 disputes were resolved independently through the People's Court Mediation Platform, a year-on-year increase of 4.3 times. Standardized case filing, mediation first in accordance with the law; promoted 67 types of model complaint and defense forms, effectively guaranteeing the right to sue. Collaborated with relevant units to implement the Supreme People's Court's Judicial Recommendations Nos. 1 to 8, improved industry supervision, and the effectiveness of "grasping the front end" was obvious. The Supreme People's Court conducted circuit trials to local areas and grassroots levels 3,959 times, a year-on-year increase of 3.6 times, and related petitions decreased by 23.9%.
Strengthening judicial protection of human rights. Adhering to the principles of legality of crime and punishment and evidence-based adjudication in criminal justice, 294 people were declared innocent in accordance with the law, and the procuratorial organs were allowed to withdraw prosecutions against 1,235 people. Jointly with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, judicial interpretations were issued to protect the right of criminal suspects and defendants in custody to choose defense counsel. For three consecutive years, working consultations have been held with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) and the All China Lawyers Association (全国律协) to improve the lawyer work mechanism, strengthen the protection of lawyers' practice rights, and jointly maintain judicial fairness. Concluded 6,865 state compensation cases involving investigation, prosecution, and trial, and traced back the causes of wrongful cases and collaborated with relevant departments to strengthen front-end prevention. Judicial assistance funds of 850 million yuan were distributed to 38,000 people in need involved in litigation. Henan (河南) courts provided judicial assistance to three siblings whose parents were killed in accordance with the law, and coordinated with functional departments to handle minimum living allowances and tuition fee reductions to ensure that the children's lives and studies were guaranteed.
II. Adhering to Fairness and Justice, Serving High-Quality Development with High-Quality Justice
Comprehensively and accurately implementing the new development concept, focusing on maintaining a fair and just market environment, promoting the construction of a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy, and helping high-quality development move steadily and far.
Serving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. Formulated opinions on serving and guaranteeing scientific and technological innovation to help promote the development of new quality productive forces, and concluded 496,000 intellectual property cases, a year-on-year increase of 0.3%. Adhering to the protection of intellectual property rights in accordance with the law. Sentenced 19,000 people for crimes of infringing on intellectual property rights, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%. Leveraging the functions of systems such as preservation measures, preliminary judgments, and punitive damages to provide timely relief to rights holders and punish infringers. The Supreme People's Court heard a case of infringement of technical secrets of a CNC machine tool and ordered the malicious infringer and its company to jointly bear three times the punitive damages of 380 million yuan. Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Formulated guidelines for mediation work in technical intellectual property cases to promote cooperation and standardized development through mediation. A series of disputes arising from patent rights between two leading low-altitude economy enterprises, a judgment may hurt both parties. The court promoted the transformation and application of patents through mediation between the two parties by "licensing use first and then negotiating fees." Maintaining a good innovation order. Deepened the governance of abnormal batch litigation of intellectual property rights, rejected 2,331 lawsuits and imposed judicial penalties on 694 cases in accordance with the law. Punishing employees who leave their jobs and infringe on trade secrets in accordance with the law. Zhang (张) and 13 others illegally obtained chip technology information from their original company and were convicted and sentenced for the crime of infringing trade secrets; at the same time, ensuring the orderly flow of talent, the court determined that Zheng's (郑) employment after leaving his job was not substantially related to the trade secrets of the original company and that he did not violate the non-competition restriction. Promoting the standardized development of artificial intelligence. Properly hearing cases involving artificial intelligence in accordance with the law, and accurately grasping the "fault tolerance" space for scientific and technological innovation. A generative artificial intelligence provided services with errors, and the developer had done its best to pay attention, and the court determined that it did not constitute infringement. Resolutely regulating behaviors that use artificial intelligence to infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of others and disrupt social order in accordance with the law, and promoting technology for good.
Helping to build a unified national market. Guaranteeing fair market competition. Concluded 25,000 cases involving administrative permits and administrative agreements of business entities, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%, implemented "non-prohibition is permitted," and promoted the elimination of local protection and market segmentation. A certain place set up a franchise right for shared electric bicycles and granted it to a specific company. The court held that it constituted an abuse of administrative power to exclude and restrict competition and ordered it to be revoked in accordance with the law. Helping to rectify "involution" competition, strengthening anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition justice, and determining 27 cases constituting monopoly; hearing the "choose one of two" abuse of market dominance case of two major e-commerce companies, guiding both parties to interconnect and benefit each other and jointly promote consumption. Together with the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), we released typical cases to rectify behaviors such as collusion inside and outside bidding, collusion between agency agencies, and collusion between bidders. Promoting the efficient allocation of market factors. Concluded 32,000 bankruptcy cases, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, helping 1,481 companies regain new life, promoting the legal clearing of 29,000 "zombie companies," resolving 4 trillion yuan of debt, and revitalizing 1.1 trillion yuan of existing assets. The Tianjin (天津) court heard a bankruptcy liquidation case of a real estate company and disposed of the land use rights and construction in progress involved in accordance with the law, helping the "117 Project" that had been stagnant for nearly 10 years to resume construction. Hebei (河北), Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), Jiangxi (江西), Shandong (山东), Henan (河南), Tibet (西藏), Ningxia (宁夏), Xinjiang (新疆) and other places have improved the administrative and judicial linkage mechanism for bankruptcy work at the provincial level, and Nanjing (南京), Ningbo (宁波), Hefei (合肥), Foshan (佛山), Chengdu (成都), Xi'an (西安) and other places have deepened the construction of bankruptcy affairs centers, achieving "three improvements" in bankruptcy trial efficiency, corporate reorganization efficiency and resource allocation benefits. Shenzhen (深圳) deepened the practice of the personal bankruptcy system. The parties involved in the first personal bankruptcy liquidation case actively repaid debts in accordance with the plan approved by the creditors' meeting, and were exempted from the remaining debts in accordance with the law after the expiration of the 4-year inspection period. The Xiamen (厦门) Personal Bankruptcy Protection Regulations have been implemented for 4 months, and 11 personal bankruptcy cases have been filed for review. Maintaining capital market order. Together with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会), we issued opinions to jointly promote the high-quality development of the capital market. Concluded 25,000 cases involving securities, futures, and funds, a year-on-year increase of 53.6%. Severely punishing illegal and criminal activities such as fraudulent issuance, financial fraud, and market manipulation, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of investors. A listed company falsely increased revenue by 1.1 billion yuan, and the court sentenced the actual controller to six years in prison in accordance with the law and ordered the company to compensate investors for losses of 770 million yuan.
Stimulating the vitality of various business entities. Adhering to and implementing the "two unswervinglys," promoting the complementary advantages and common development of various ownership economies through equal protection. Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. Introduced 25 measures to implement the Private Economy Promotion Law. Continued to regulate enterprises "bullying the small," and in 709 cases, the contract clauses of large enterprises that received third-party payments as payment conditions were determined to be invalid, helping small and medium-sized enterprises recover 1.9 billion yuan in accounts receivable. A certain unit delayed payment for goods on the grounds of being audited. The court reviewed and determined that the audit was not specifically related to the transaction and ordered payment of 26.86 million yuan in accordance with the law. Severely punishing illegal and criminal activities such as extortion and blackmail and spreading rumors and smearing enterprises. A certain online anchor continued to slander and seriously infringe on the goodwill of a well-known enterprise and the reputation of its operators. The Henan court ordered to immediately stop the infringement, compensate for losses of 2.6 million yuan and make a public apology. Standardizing law enforcement and justice involving enterprises. Resolutely correcting illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement, strengthening judicial supervision of compulsory measures such as sealing up, detention, and freezing, and correcting 367 problems such as improper penalties involving enterprises. Resolutely preventing and correcting the use of criminal means to interfere in economic disputes, and determining that 69 cases that have been sued should not be treated as crimes; retrial overturned the verdicts of 6 enterprises and 12 enterprise operators, declaring them innocent. Promoting the improvement of corporate governance. Concluded 151,000 cases involving corporate disputes such as shareholder contributions and equity transfers, a year-on-year increase of 39.5%. The business period of a new energy company expired, and it faced compulsory liquidation due to disagreements between the two shareholders. The Hubei (湖北) court mediated and promoted equity transfer, and the company's assets of hundreds of millions of yuan and green production capacity were able to continue to operate and utilize. Hearing internal corporate dispute cases caused by family disputes in accordance with the law to promote standardized operation of enterprises and legal inheritance of property.
Ensuring the healthy development of the digital economy. Concluded 908 cases involving data ownership and transactions, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%. Released guiding cases to standardize data collection, use, and other behaviors, and promote the full release of the value of data elements. Comprehensively using trade secret protection, copyright protection, and anti-unfair competition regulations to punish behaviors that infringe on data rights and interests. The Jiangsu (江苏) court heard a data dispute case and determined in accordance with the law that stealing data sets and developing data products constituted unfair competition, and applied punitive damages to award 30 million yuan. Concluded 915 cases involving personal information protection disputes, a year-on-year increase of 65%, clarifying that the processing of personal information should follow the principles of legality, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith. Properly hearing cases involving platform algorithms and regulating algorithm abuse in accordance with the law. The Sichuan (四川) court heard a dispute case involving an e-commerce platform, coordinated the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of merchants and consumers, and promoted the solution of unfair refund rules existing on multiple platforms.
Serving comprehensive green transformation. Deepening the judicial practice of Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization, and actively providing rich samples for the compilation of the ecological environment code. Law enforcement and judicial collaboration to strengthen the protection of the Yangtze River (长江) and Yellow River (黄河), protect the ecology of the Qinling Mountains (秦岭) and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and jointly build a beautiful China. Punishing environmental violations and crimes. Concluded 24,000 criminal cases involving ecological environment resources, a year-on-year decrease of 5.4%, and 164,000 civil cases, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%. The Zhejiang (浙江) court convicted and sentenced the companies involved and 10 responsible persons for illegally discharging waste hydrochloric acid to pollute lakes, and ordered them to compensate for restoration costs and other expenses of 480 million yuan. Helping environmental comprehensive remediation. Together with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and other departments, we optimized motor vehicle environmental supervision. Together with the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), we carried out special rectification of illegal occupation of cultivated land for housing construction in rural areas. Together with the Supreme People's Procuratorate, we issued judicial interpretations to protect black soil, and the courts in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) severely punished crimes of stealing and abusing black soil. Leveraging the functions of systems such as behavioral preservation and advance execution, 208 injunctions were issued to avoid the occurrence or expansion of ecological damage. The Chongqing court handed over the ecological damage compensation funds involved in the case to Yunnan (云南), the place where the ecology was damaged, for restoration. The Fujian (福建) court explored the ecological restoration supervisor mechanism to solve problems such as inconsistent restoration standards and ineffective supervision. Promoting green and low-carbon development. Concluded 115 carbon-related cases, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, promoting the improvement of carbon-related finance, carbon tax, and carbon emission governance rules. The Henan court heard an administrative penalty case for atmospheric pollution and found that the enterprise invested a lot of money to use environmentally friendly materials and significantly reduced the environmental impact, so it promoted substantive dispute resolution through mediation, and the competent authority reduced the penalty in accordance with the law and guided the enterprise to upgrade environmental protection technology and complete green transformation.
Serving comprehensive green transformation. Deepen the judicial practice of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Ecological Civilization, and actively provide rich samples for the compilation of the Ecological Environment Code. Strengthen law enforcement and judicial collaboration to protect the Yangtze River, Yellow River, safeguard the ecology of the Qinling Mountains and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and jointly build a beautiful China. Punish environmental violations and crimes. Concluded 24,000 criminal cases related to ecological environment and resources, a year-on-year decrease of 5.4%, and 164,000 civil cases, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%. The Zhejiang (浙江) court convicted and sentenced the enterprise involved in the illegal discharge of waste hydrochloric acid polluting the lake and 10 responsible persons, and ordered compensation for restoration costs of 480 million yuan. Assist in comprehensive environmental remediation. Optimize the environmental supervision of motor vehicles in conjunction with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) and other departments. Jointly with the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), conduct special rectification of illegal occupation of cultivated land for housing construction in rural areas. Jointly with the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), issued judicial interpretations to protect black soil. Courts in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), and Heilongjiang (黑龙江) severely punished crimes of stealing and abusing black soil. Give play to the institutional functions of behavior preservation and advance execution, and issued 208 injunctions to avoid the occurrence or expansion of ecological damage. The Chongqing (重庆) court handed over the ecological damage compensation involved in the case to Yunnan (云南), the place where the ecology was damaged, for restoration. The Fujian (福建) court explored the ecological restoration supervisor mechanism to solve problems such as inconsistent restoration standards and ineffective supervision. Promote green and low-carbon development. Concluded 115 carbon-related cases, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, and promoted the improvement of carbon-related finance, carbon tax, and carbon emission governance rules. The Henan (河南) court heard an administrative penalty case for atmospheric pollution, and found that the company invested a lot of money in using environmentally friendly materials and significantly reduced the environmental impact. It promoted substantive dispute resolution through mediation, and the competent authority legally reduced the penalty and guided the company to upgrade its environmental protection technology and complete its green transformation.
Promote the improvement of the level of administration according to law. Formulate judicial interpretations to support improving the transparency of government work and legally protect the public's right to know. Work with relevant departments to deepen the construction of the "3+N" mechanism for the prevention and substantive resolution of administrative disputes, carry out joint training on administrative trials and administrative law enforcement and administrative reconsideration, unify law enforcement and judicial standards, and improve the quality and credibility of law enforcement and judicial work. Lawsuits filed against administrative organs for dissatisfaction with administrative compulsory enforcement decreased by 17.2% year-on-year, the administrative organs' failure rate in reconsideration cases decreased by 0.7 percentage points year-on-year, and the appeal rate and application for retrial rate of administrative cases decreased by 3.6 and 2.6 percentage points year-on-year, respectively.
Serving the strengthening of the military. Concluded 8,133 military-related cases, severely punished crimes such as destroying military facilities and impersonating military personnel for fraud, fairly and efficiently resolved disputes involving military training land and military engineering construction, and gave play to the advantages of specialized trials and military-local linkage to serve the modernization of national defense and the military. Improve the jurisdiction of military and local courts over civil cases to promote military-local harmony and military-civilian unity. Courts in Hebei (河北), Shanxi (山西), Jiangxi (江西), Shandong (山东), Hunan (湖南), Guizhou (贵州), Shaanxi (陕西), and Gansu (甘肃) strengthened judicial protection of the Jinggangshan (井冈山) Revolutionary Site, the Red Army Long March Sites and Monuments, and anti-Japanese War memorial facilities to continue and promote the glory of the People's Army.
III. Adhering to fairness and justice, and safeguarding a high-quality life with high-quality justice.
Bearing in mind that people's justice is for the people, always sit firmly on the side of the people, administer justice fairly, solve problems for the people, and effectively protect and enhance people's well-being.
Actively respond to the public's judicial demands. In the five years since the implementation of the Civil Code, 1.752 million cases of property rights disputes, 960,000 cases of personality rights disputes, and 5.566 million cases of tort liability disputes have been concluded, with an average annual increase of 0.7%, 5.1%, and 7.1% respectively; 33,000 cases of applications for personal safety protection orders, 1,680 cases of designated estate administrators, and 1,743 cases of online infringement of virtual property disputes have been concluded using the new rules, with an average annual increase of 20%, 181.2%, and 69.9% respectively. Create a friendly marriage and childbearing environment. Continue to promote the governance of high betrothal gifts, regulate the solicitation of property in the name of marriage and improper profiteering by matchmaking agencies, and severely punish fraud in the name of marriage. Ma (马) organized a number of women to engage in "flash marriages and divorces" and defrauded more than 2 million yuan from 15 families and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Severely punish domestic violence crimes and issue typical cases for education and warning. Adjudicate cases involving maternity benefits, childcare services, and assisted reproduction in accordance with the law to help implement fertility support policies. Create a safe and secure elderly care environment. Severely punish fraudulent crimes such as fake low-priced tourism and illegal promotion of health products in accordance with the law. Adjudicate cases involving elderly support, elderly care services, and estate management in accordance with the law to guide respect and assistance for the elderly. Protect the rights of super-age workers to obtain labor remuneration and work-related injury compensation in accordance with the law to ensure that the elderly can still contribute. Create a worry-free consumption environment. Protect consumers' right to know, right to choose, and right to fair transactions in accordance with the law, and effectively regulate platform merchants' "brushing orders and hyping credit," fictitious evaluations, and other behaviors. Continue to regulate "knowing and buying fakes" and severely punish extortion in the name of fighting fakes. Formulate judicial interpretations on prepaid consumption to rectify prominent problems such as "running away with money" and "hegemony clauses." Crack down on consumer subsidy fraud crimes. Ren (任) and other four people illegally obtained 879,000 yuan in government consumer coupon subsidies, and the Sichuan (四川) court convicted and sentenced them in accordance with the law. Create a harmonious medical environment. Concluded 1,433 cases of medical insurance fraud crimes involving 2,807 people, a year-on-year increase of 24%, and recovered more than 500 million yuan in stolen money. Properly resolve doctor-patient disputes and rule that failure to fulfill the obligation to inform and explain, resulting in damage to the patient, constitutes infringement; behaviors that fulfill the obligation to diagnose and treat and comply with the diagnosis and treatment specifications are exempt from liability in accordance with the law, and the proportion of cases in which hospitals are liable has decreased by 9.5 percentage points. Courts in Beijing (北京) and Heilongjiang (黑龙江) explored the "expert argumentation + judicial review" mechanism to solve the professional judgment problems in complex medical disputes. Create a social environment that respects the law and morality. Ruled that property management's cleaning up of debris in corridors to maintain public interests and fire safety after unsuccessful urging did not constitute infringement; general negligence in pulling a fight that caused injury to others did not incur liability; forcibly sitting down on a bus, squeezing and insulting others constituted infringement of personality rights, protecting good deeds and punishing evil deeds.
Serving high-quality and full employment. Strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests, and conclude 674,000 labor dispute cases, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%. Hear 75,000 cases of claiming labor remuneration and help recover 24.12 billion yuan in labor remuneration such as migrant workers' wages. Formulate judicial interpretations to clarify legal application issues such as the determination of labor contracts without a fixed term and the responsibility for subcontracting and subcontracting employment, and wholeheartedly serve to stabilize employment and benefit enterprises. Regulate unreasonable assessment and dismissal of employees in accordance with the law. Yu (余) worked continuously for more than 8 hours, and the company did not arrange for anyone to take over. He was dismissed for taking a 3-minute nap, and the court ruled that it constituted illegal termination of the labor contract. Support employers to terminate labor contracts with employees who fabricate illnesses and slack off in accordance with the law, and support employers not having to pay double wages to employees who deliberately do not sign written labor contracts, and regulate frequent "flash resignations" to profit from economic compensation.
Caring for the healthy growth of minors. Zero tolerance for crimes against minors. Concluded 40,000 cases of crimes against minors involving 44,000 people, a year-on-year decrease of 1.8%, and ordered 1,199 people to be prohibited from engaging in work that is in close contact with minors, and sentenced criminals who mutilated minors and committed extremely serious crimes to death in accordance with the law. Strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency. Adhere to the combination of leniency and severity, punishment and education, and sentenced a minor who had reached the age of 14 who committed intentional homicide to life imprisonment in accordance with the law, sentenced 2,356 minors who committed serious violent crimes to heavy sentences of more than five years, and imposed lenient punishment on 5,822 minors who committed minor crimes in accordance with the law. Comprehensive measures were taken to do a good job in education, persuasion, and rescue, and the high incidence of juvenile delinquency has been effectively curbed. Promote the formation of joint efforts to protect minors. Comprehensively handle criminal, civil, and administrative cases involving minors, which is more conducive to the mutual promotion of the "six major protections." The Henan (河南) court heard a case of stepmother abuse of a girl, and the criminal and civil cases were heard simultaneously. The stepmother was convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law, and the custody relationship was ordered to be changed and compensation for personal injury was ordered. Revoked the guardianship qualifications of 997 unqualified parents in accordance with the law, and issued 435 injunctions against infringement of personality rights to parents who snatched and hid minor children, a year-on-year increase of 66.7% and 90.8% respectively. Adjudicate campus infringement cases in accordance with the law, schools fulfill their duties and are exempt from liability, and families and schools work together to educate children, which is more conducive to the healthy growth of children.
Strive to solve the "enforcement difficulties." Continue to increase enforcement efforts. Improve the coordination and linkage mechanism between case filing, trial, and enforcement, preserve and enforce 5.837 million cases, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%, the automatic performance rate of civil judgments increased by 2.7 percentage points year-on-year, and 2.2 trillion yuan was enforced. Cross-enforced 268,000 cases by means of upgrading or instructing, achieving substantial progress or resolving 105,000 cases, and enforcing 84.56 billion yuan. The Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) court upgraded the enforcement of a series of cases of a large enterprise, and all 56 cases were concluded, and the winning rights and interests of more than 60 small and medium-sized enterprises were realized. Increase the intensity of punishment for dishonesty, and sentence 4,461 people for refusing to execute judgments and rulings. A person subject to enforcement falsely claimed to seek medical treatment and fraudulently obtained a temporary lifting of the restriction on high consumption orders but went abroad to gamble and was held criminally liable in accordance with the law. Promote enforcement by distinguishing circumstances. Strengthen review and identification, and do not include those subject to enforcement who have no property available for enforcement in the list of dishonest persons. For those subject to enforcement who are willing and have the potential to repay debts, make good use of measures such as the grace period for punishment for dishonesty and "live sealing and live deduction." The number of people on the list of dishonest persons decreased by 5.2% after the first decrease in 2024. A company was applied for compulsory enforcement. The Anhui (安徽) court, in view of its possible debt repayment, promoted enforcement reconciliation, allowed business self-rescue, and finally repaid 9 million yuan on schedule. Under the leadership of the Party Committee, multiple departments in Jiangxi (江西) jointly governed the "enforcement difficulties" and resolved 25,000 backlog cases.
Protect the legitimate rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门) and Taiwan (台湾) and overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. Concluded 31,000 cases involving Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, a year-on-year increase of 15.6%. Promote the connection of judicial rules in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and recognize and enforce the arbitration awards selected by Hong Kong-funded and Macao-funded enterprises established in the nine mainland cities of the Greater Bay Area with Hong Kong and Macao as the place of arbitration. The Guangdong (广东) court specially invited Hong Kong and Macao mediation organizations to mediate nearly a thousand foreign-related and Hong Kong-Macao-related dispute cases. Invited 129 Taiwan compatriots as mediators to be stationed on the Taiwan-related mediation platform to properly resolve disputes involving the protection of the rights and interests of Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan-funded enterprises. Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江), Fujian (福建), Guangdong (广东) and other places selected and hired Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots and overseas Chinese to serve as people's jurors and mediators to participate in relevant judicial activities. Work with the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese to strengthen judicial protection of the rights and interests of overseas Chinese. An overseas Chinese filed a lawsuit due to a dispute over a century-old house. The court, together with the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, successfully mediated the case, achieving a settlement of the case and harmony among the people.
IV. Adhering to fairness and justice, and helping high-level opening up with high-quality justice.
Adhere to the overall promotion of domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, improve the quality and credibility of foreign-related trials, and serve open cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results.
Resolutely safeguard the interests of the country and the people. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 159,000 foreign-related cases were concluded, an increase of 66% compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, of which intellectual property and maritime cases were 49,000 and 12,000 respectively, an increase of 115.9% and 84.6% year-on-year respectively. Firmly safeguard our country's judicial sovereignty. Implement the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law and effectively counter illegal sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction." A foreign company refused to sign the bill of lading on the grounds that a Chinese company was sanctioned. The Chinese court issued a mandatory order upon application, ordering the foreign company to deliver the bill of lading and ordering compensation for losses. Fully exercise judicial jurisdiction. A foreign enterprise operating patents was sued for abusing its dominant market position and affecting the market competition order in our country. A foreign-listed company made false statements and damaged the interests of investors in our country. Our courts applied the extraterritorial effect clauses of laws such as the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Securities Law to exercise jurisdiction. Strengthen judicial protection of overseas interests. Guide "going out" enterprises to operate in accordance with the law and prevent risks. A project undertaken by a Chinese enterprise abroad has passed acceptance. The foreign owner abused the right to claim payment and requested payment of the guarantee amount. The Beijing (北京) court ruled to suspend payment upon application and legally prevented the transfer of commercial risks to Chinese enterprises.
Equally protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese and foreign parties. Strictly abide by the WTO principles such as national treatment and create a fair, transparent, non-discriminatory, and predictable business environment. The operating period of a Chinese-foreign joint venture company is about to expire, and the Chinese shareholder abused its voting rights to refuse to distribute profits. The Jilin (吉林) court legally protected the rights and interests of the foreign shareholder. The shareholder expanded its investment in China and registered a new company. The Shaanxi (陕西) court heard a bankruptcy reorganization case, applied the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents to facilitate the rules, actively guided foreign creditors to declare claims, and comprehensively and equally protected the interests of domestic and foreign creditors. Equally protect the intellectual property rights of Chinese and foreign rights holders and rule that trade secrets formed by a foreign enterprise abroad should be protected in accordance with the law; recognize supplementary experimental data and determine that a foreign enterprise's drug patent application should be authorized. In the World Bank's business environment assessment, the impartiality and recognition of courts in Beijing (北京) and Shanghai (上海) are the best in the world.
Continue to build a preferred place for dispute resolution. Improve the foreign-related trial mechanism. Formulate opinions on the high-quality development of international commercial courts, innovate foreign-related service of process and cross-border litigation services, improve the mechanism for ascertaining foreign laws, and improve the effectiveness of foreign-related trials. Courts in Chongqing (重庆), Yunnan (云南), Gansu (甘肃), Qinghai (青海) and other 15 places deepened cooperation in ascertaining foreign laws, and the Guangxi (广西) court promoted the judicial application of the "ASEAN Corpus" to serve the construction of the western land-sea new channel with the "soft connectivity" of rules and mechanisms. The Shanghai (上海) Maritime Court promoted the model clauses of jurisdiction agreements. The number of cases agreed by the parties to be under its jurisdiction increased from 361 in 2021 to 712 in 2025; in 2025, foreign parties chose to be under its jurisdiction in 23 cases where the disputes involved had no actual connection with China. The organic connection between litigation and mediation and arbitration. Relying on the one-stop diversified resolution platform for international commercial disputes, 155 foreign-related cases were fairly and efficiently mediated. After two oil tankers collided, parallel lawsuits were filed in China and another country respectively. The Chinese court facilitated a settlement between the two parties earlier and fully fulfilled it, demonstrating the fairness, professionalism, and efficiency of Chinese justice. Perform judicial review duties in accordance with the law, support and supervise the development of arbitration, and handle 21,000 judicial review cases of commercial arbitration, a year-on-year increase of 12.8%; handle 108 cases of applications for recognition (recognition) and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards. Support the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to jointly build an international commercial dispute resolution center. Improve the judicial service guarantee measures for the full island closure operation of the Hainan (海南) Free Trade Port. The Hainan (海南) court connected with the innovation of the temporary arbitration system and successfully heard and concluded the first foreign-related temporary arbitration case in the Free Trade Port. Adhere to good faith and civilized justice. Explore the "liner detention notice" mechanism. The liner applied for detention can continue to operate after providing a guarantee, which protects the legitimate rights and interests of the applicant for ship detention and avoids greater losses to the shipowner. Handle 6,061 international judicial assistance cases in accordance with the law and agreements, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, and the average time for assisting in the service of civil and commercial documents was shortened by 12 days. Based on international treaties or the principle of reciprocity, 972 foreign judgments were recognized and enforced in accordance with the law, an increase of 2 times year-on-year, and China's civil and commercial judgments have also been recognized and enforced by more and more countries.
Actively participate in global governance. China's judicial practice has promoted the innovation of the international trade system. The Convention on Transferable Goods Documents has been reviewed and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, promoting the facilitation of cross-border multimodal transport and trade financing involving China-Europe freight trains and the "Belt and Road." The first international maritime convention named after a Chinese city, the Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships, officially came into effect. The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the Environment Programme and the World Intellectual Property Organization included 210 typical cases of Chinese courts. Trained 419 judges and judicial officials from 38 countries and regions, held the 20th Meeting of the Presidents of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States, the Environmental Justice Theme Forum of the Eco Forum Global Guiyang and other events to promote exchanges and mutual learning of legal civilizations, and promoted the practice of the four major global initiatives based on justice.
V. Adhering to fairness and justice and regulating the operation of judicial power.
Highlight political leadership, strengthen restraint and supervision, forge a strong team, and ensure that the power of adjudication is exercised in accordance with the law in a standardized, high-quality, and efficient manner.
Highlighting political leadership, strengthening checks and balances and supervision, forging a highly competent team, and ensuring the lawful, standardized, high-quality, and efficient operation of adjudicative power.
Strengthening the political construction of the People's Courts. Systematically summarizing Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law in judicial practice, compiling unified teaching materials for national judge training, and using 9,955 practical Q&As to help court officials and police across the country strengthen the foundation of theory and resolve practical doubts. Solidly carrying out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, strengthening Party spirit, shaping work style, and strictly enforcing discipline in an integrated manner. Conducting in-depth learning activities from role models such as Ding Yuxiang (丁宇翔), Bian Xiaobin (边晓斌), and Wang Jiajia (王佳佳) to encourage court officials and police to faithfully perform their duties and step forward to take responsibility. Thirteen judicial personnel devoted themselves to their duties and upheld justice, dedicating their precious lives to the Party and the people's judicial cause.
Strengthening the supervision and management of trials. Implementing and improving the judicial responsibility system, and truly "letting those who hear the case make the judgment, and letting those who make the judgment be responsible." Presidents and presiding judges of courts took the lead in handling difficult cases and reviewed 14.163 million cases. Strengthening the exemplary guidance of typical case judgments, with superior courts hearing 3,200 cases at a higher level, an increase of 8.5% year-on-year. Clearing up 10,176 long-term unresolved and long-pending cases that had been pending for more than two years, with the backlog of cases further reduced by 12.6%. The Supreme People's Court issued 15 judicial interpretations, 20 guiding cases, and 101 batches of 641 typical cases. The People's Court Case Library has included more than 5,300 cases, and the Legal Answer Network has answered more than 890,000 questions, which has effectively promoted the unification of judgment standards. Deepening and standardizing judicial openness, publishing 10.979 million judgment documents online, an increase of 13.3% year-on-year. Strengthening scientific management, the quality and efficiency of trials continued to improve, the "case-to-item ratio" decreased by 0.07, and the appeal rate and the rate of application for retrial decreased by 2.4 and 0.6 percentage points respectively, reducing derivative cases by more than 2.2 million.
Making good use of technology to empower justice. Implementing the Party Central Committee's deployment, promoting the handling of cases and office work by national courts on "one network" and one platform. Giving play to the advantages of network connectivity and unified rules, coordinating the handling of related cases in different places, identifying and correcting false litigation, and implementing full-process supervision in every case. Actively and prudently developing an artificial intelligence-assisted trial system, adhering to the "auxiliary" positioning, with judges being the only subject of judicial responsibility.
Deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the courts. Party groups at all levels of courts earnestly fulfilled their political responsibilities and main responsibilities, and consciously accepted the supervision of the Discipline Inspection Commission, the Supervisory Commission, and their dispatched agencies. Conducting judicial inspections and special inspections of court affairs in 8 Higher People's Courts. Implementing the judge punishment system. Standardizing the management of departing personnel. Strictly implementing the "three regulations" to prevent interference in judicial activities. Severely punishing judicial corruption with zero tolerance, with 9 officials and police from the Supreme People's Court and 995 officials and police from local courts being investigated and dealt with for violating discipline and laws by using their power of adjudication and enforcement.
Comprehensively strengthening the grassroots foundation. Working with the institutional organization departments to coordinate the allocation and use of 1,353 special political and legal establishment quotas, and enriching the limited resources to the grassroots front lines with the heaviest trial tasks. Working with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security to standardize the employment of retired judges to engage in mediation work, with more than 3,700 retired judges contributing "silver hair strength" to resolving conflicts and disputes. The second batch of relatively weak grassroots courts "got rid of weakness" and became stronger, and 100 "Fengqiao-style People's Courts" provided exemplary guidance to enhance grassroots judicial capabilities. Fujian (福建) and Ningxia (宁夏) courts sent cadres to each other for exchanges and training, deepening Fujian-Ningxia judicial cooperation. Selecting and sending 248 outstanding cadres to assist Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆), and Qinghai (青海).
VI. Adhering to fairness and justice and consciously accepting supervision from all parties.
Deeply practicing whole-process people's democracy, improving the working mechanism for accepting supervision, absorbing public opinion, and gathering public wisdom, and widely gathering joint efforts to promote the high-quality development of trial work.
Accepting supervision by the National People's Congress in accordance with the law. Implementing the spirit of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, handling 469 suggestions from deputies, 4,072 opinions from deputies during deliberation, and 247 daily suggestions, conducting special research, and implementing them item by item. Reporting on maritime trial work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, conscientiously implementing the deliberation opinions, and effectively improving maritime judicial capabilities. Inviting 3,730 deputies to the National People's Congress to inspect courts, conduct special research, attend court hearings, and witness enforcement, etc., and obtaining strong support in accepting supervision. Conscientiously implementing the filing and review system for judicial interpretations and the review and filing system for normative documents.
Consciously accepting democratic supervision. Handling 185 proposals from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), conscientiously studying, adopting, and promptly providing feedback. Actively adopting the suggestions of the CPPCC's bi-weekly consultation symposium to improve the quality and efficiency of judicial protection of intellectual property rights. Visiting and receiving 204 members of the National Committee of the CPPCC. Strengthening communication with various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and people without party affiliation, and conscientiously listening to opinions and suggestions. Holding the Sixth Private Economy Rule of Law Construction Conference with the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and other organizations to jointly promote the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy.
Accepting legal supervision by procuratorial organs in accordance with the law. Fairly hearing 8,728 protested cases, legally changing the judgments of 3,992 cases, a year-on-year decrease of 15.3% and 5.2% respectively. Conducting special analysis of cases involving procuratorial supervision of civil trials to further improve the quality and efficiency of case handling. Working with the Supreme People's Procuratorate to carry out supervision of enforcement work and jointly solve the "difficulty in enforcement."
Widely accepting social supervision. Conscientiously listening to opinions and suggestions from special supervisors and specially invited consultants from all walks of life. Holding public hearings on 16,000 appealed petition cases, a year-on-year increase of 63.8%. Holding a working conference on people's jurors with the Ministry of Justice, with 340,000 people's jurors playing a greater role in promoting judicial democracy and enhancing judicial credibility. Working with the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Media Group, and other organizations to tell the story of the rule of law in China in the new era.
Fellow Deputies, in 2025, the "14th Five-Year Plan" was successfully concluded, China's development achieved new major achievements, and Chinese-style modernization took new solid steps. Synchronized with the development of the cause of the Party and the country, the People's Courts have unswervingly marched forward along the correct direction, serving the overall situation, administering justice for the people, deepening the reform of the judicial system, forging a highly competent court team, continuously improving the quality and efficiency of trials, promoting the further improvement of the socialist judicial system with Chinese characteristics, and making positive contributions to building a higher level of safe China and rule of law China. The development and progress of the work of the People's Courts are fundamentally due to the leadership and guidance of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and benefit from the strong supervision of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee, the strong support of the State Council, the democratic supervision of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the supervision of the National Supervisory Commission and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the democratic supervision and support of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, people's organizations, and people without party affiliation, and the enthusiastic concern, support, and help of local Party and government organs at all levels, deputies to the National People's Congress, members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, all sectors of society, and the broad masses of the people. Here, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks on behalf of the Supreme People's Court!
We are soberly aware that compared with the requirements of the Party and the people, there are still many problems and difficulties in the work of the People's Courts. First, it is still necessary to work hard for a long time to study and understand Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law, and the ability to use the Party's innovative theories to solve new problems and difficulties in trial work needs to be enhanced. Second, there is still a gap in the ability to serve the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and the pertinence, coordination, and effectiveness of judicial services and guarantees need to be improved. Third, the realization and evaluation mechanism of judicial justice needs to be improved, and judicial credibility and authority need to be continuously enhanced. Fourth, the contradiction of "many cases and few people" is still prominent, it is not easy to determine the points of contention and it is even more difficult to stop disputes, the allocation of trial resources needs to be optimized, and the training of professional trial talents needs to be strengthened urgently. Fifth, some officials and police still have problems of violating discipline and laws, and the rectification of work style, strict discipline, and anti-corruption must not stop for a moment or retreat half a step, and the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the courts is always on the road. We will highlight the problem orientation and strive to solve it under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the support of all parties.
Work Arrangements for 2026
2026 is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The People's Courts must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on the Rule of Law, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implement the deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, firmly establish confidence in the rule of law, pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to guaranteeing and promoting social fairness and justice, implement the deployment of the Central Conference on Overall Law-Based Governance and the Central Political and Legal Work Conference, strengthen trial work in the new era, and provide strong judicial services and guarantees for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
First, faithfully perform duties and deepen and solidify the service to the overall situation and the administration of justice for the people. Implement the national security responsibility system and the responsibility system for maintaining social stability. Comprehensively and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity. Severely punish crimes that endanger national security such as subversion and division, infiltration and sabotage, espionage and theft of secrets, and religious extremism. Punish serious violent crimes severely and promptly in accordance with the law. Improve the normalized mechanism for combating organized crime and evil forces. Increase the punishment of crimes such as telecommunications network fraud, drugs, and endangering food and drug safety. Punish corruption crimes in accordance with the law. Prevent and combat illegal financial activities. Punish crimes that endanger tax collection and management in accordance with the law. Improve judicial policies for cyberspace governance. Strengthen judicial protection of personal information security. Strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency and do a solid job as legal vice-principals. Strengthen judicial protection of human rights. Supervise and support the administration of law in accordance with the law. Coordinate and promote the standardized construction of comprehensive management centers, implement the legalization of petitioning and visiting work involving litigation, and promote the diversified and substantive resolution of conflicts and disputes. Further improve the quality and efficiency of handling civil and administrative cases, do a good job in explaining the law and reasoning, and achieve the goal of resolving cases and disputes and stopping disputes. Strengthen judicial protection of intellectual property rights and help drive innovation-driven development. Promote the standardized development of the digital economy and "artificial intelligence +." Strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition justice. Implement the Private Economy Promotion Law. Improve the long-term mechanism for standardizing law enforcement and justice involving enterprises. Improve the connection mechanism between judicial judgment enforcement and the bankruptcy system. Implement the Ecological Environment Code and strengthen judicial protection of the ecological environment. Increase the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage. Help promote high-quality urban renewal and comprehensive rural revitalization. Strengthen judicial protection of overseas interests. Strengthen military-related rights protection work and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of heroes and martyrs, military personnel and their families, civilian personnel of the military, and veterans. Strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), Taiwan (台湾), and overseas Chinese. Guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Create a fair and orderly employment environment. Strengthen consumer rights protection. Promote the socialist spirit of the rule of law and create a good environment in which the whole society advocates the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and maintains fairness.
Second, uphold integrity and innovate to improve the judicial system and mechanism for ensuring fairness. Resolutely implement the deployment of the judicial system reform and deeply implement the People's Court "Sixth Five-Year Reform Outline." Standardize the operation of judicial power, improve the judicial justice realization and evaluation mechanism, and improve the fairness, stability, and authority of judicial judgments. Deepen the reform of the criminal procedure system with trial as the center. Accelerate the construction of the foreign-related trial system and capacity and improve maritime judicial capacity. Standardize the establishment of specialized courts. Deepen the reform of the level jurisdiction, centralized jurisdiction, and extraterritorial jurisdiction of administrative cases. Improve the national enforcement system and strengthen the standardized construction of enforcement. Continue to optimize trial management that conforms to the laws of justice. Actively standardize and do a good job in judicial suggestions. Strictly implement the case registration system, strengthen and standardize prior mediation. Improve an efficient, convenient, intelligent, and accurate litigation service system. Strengthen the construction of relatively weak grassroots courts and optimize the layout of people's courts. Do a good job in assisting Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆), and Qinghai (青海), and support the construction of courts in old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas, and border areas. Accelerate the construction of digital courts and strengthen the empowerment of technology in justice.
Third, strictly manage and deeply care for the team to forge a new era of court iron army that is capable of shouldering heavy responsibilities. Adhere to the integrated promotion of political construction, professional construction, and professional ethics construction. Deeply practice whole-process people's democracy and consciously accept the supervision of the National People's Congress, democratic supervision, and supervision from all parties. Report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the work of people's jurors. Establish and practice a correct view of political achievements and encourage responsibility and action. Deepen the collaborative education mechanism with law schools and accelerate the training and reserve of specialized trial talents in foreign-related affairs, finance, bankruptcy, intellectual property rights, and environmental resources. Encourage and support retired judges to give play to their advantages and participate in resolving conflicts and disputes. Persistently promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the courts, focus on the implementation of the "three regulations," improve the judicial responsibility investigation mechanism, and promote the integrated efforts to ensure that officials do not dare to, cannot, and do not want to be corrupt, so as to ensure fair and honest justice.
Fellow Deputies, in the new era and on the new journey, we will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implement the requirements of this meeting, faithfully fulfill the duties entrusted to us by the Constitution and laws, unite our efforts, work hard, and make new and greater contributions to building a higher level of socialist rule of law country and to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 16)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李凯旋
One morning on the plateau, in Ganzi County (甘孜县), Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan Province (四川省), the lights of the Xiaxiong Police Station (下雄派出所) turned on on time. After putting on his police uniform and cleaning up, the station chief, Liu Peng (刘鹏), began his new day of work.
"A few days ago, we rescued several tourists whose vehicle rushed off the road and into a ditch due to poor visibility at night." Liu Peng (刘鹏) and his colleagues immediately set out, carrying the trapped people out of the car and sending them to the hospital, not returning until midnight. When the weather is bad, Liu Peng (刘鹏) is always on high alert.
This year is Liu Peng's (刘鹏) tenth year working at the Xiaxiong Police Station (下雄派出所). The police station is located on the Luogelianzi Snow Mountain (洛戈梁子雪山), which the Red Army (红军) once crossed, with an average altitude of nearly 4,000 meters. It is an important node on National Highway 317 (317国道). The road is steep and winding, and traffic accidents occur frequently. The Xiaxiong Police Station (下雄派出所) also serves as the Luogelianzi Police Station (洛戈梁子警务站), with the same team responsible for ensuring traffic safety.
When he first arrived at Luogelianzi (洛戈梁子), the harsh conditions made Liu Peng (刘鹏) feel apprehensive. He had to break the ice to get water, burn cow dung for heating, and the house had cracks blown out by the strong wind. The area around the police station was desolate, and everyone said, "This is not an easy job."
Answering calls and dispatching, Liu Peng (刘鹏) gradually felt the heavy responsibility on his shoulders. Whenever there was snow accumulation, vehicles often overturned or skidded on the national highway, and drivers and passengers were often trapped. Luogelianzi (洛戈梁子) is 30 kilometers away from the county seat via a winding mountain road, and the temperature drops to minus 20 degrees Celsius at night in winter. Police rescue is the only hope for those trapped.
"What impressed me the most was the winter of 2019. The blizzard never seemed to stop. We worked with traffic police colleagues to clear snow while directing traffic, fighting continuously for five consecutive nights." Liu Peng's (刘鹏) phone album records many scenes: snow that covered his calves, shovels that were deformed from digging, and the faces of his colleagues covered in ice. His hands were frostbitten, and his body was covered in bruises, but Liu Peng's (刘鹏) conviction became even stronger: "The more difficult the job, the more we need to persevere."
The tense expressions on the faces of those rescued were what Liu Peng (刘鹏) felt most sorry for, so he decided to build a "Peace Station" (平安驿站). Beds were added to the police station's unused conference room, and oxygen and first-aid medicines were provided, so that those rescued could warm up and rest. The police planned routes for lost tourists, contacted rescue services for broken-down vehicles, and sometimes even cooked a few home-style dishes, providing more and more services.
In May 2023, after Liu Peng's (刘鹏) efforts, the local government built a brand-new Peace Station (平安驿站) next to the Xiaxiong Police Station (下雄派出所). The rest area with sofas and a diffused oxygen system was spacious enough, and underfloor heating was installed. The police also had new dormitories on the second floor of the station. "This station has the feeling of home," Liu Peng (刘鹏) said with pride on his face.
"Take a break, warm up, and set off again with warmth" is the warm slogan of the Peace Station (平安驿站). To date, Liu Peng (刘鹏) and his colleagues have rescued more than 2,000 drivers and passengers, and the station has become a distinctive landmark on National Highway 317 (317国道). Someone wrote in the station's guestbook: "I originally thought I would have to sleep in the open, but fortunately there is the Peace Station." Huang Xiaochun (黄晓春), a tourist from Jiangxi (江西), wrote. "This is my first time delivering goods to Ganzi (甘孜), and my car broke down on the way. Thank you to the police for the rescue," wrote Chen Long (陈龙), a truck driver, writing "thank you" several times in a row. Looking at the pages of messages, Liu Peng (刘鹏) was very pleased: "Our perseverance is worthwhile."
Starting the police car, Liu Peng (刘鹏) embarked on another patrol. Xiaxiong Township (下雄乡) covers an area of 252 square kilometers and has 9 administrative villages under its jurisdiction. In the hearts of the villagers, the police station is also a true Peace Station (平安驿站).
"Have the yaks not gone missing?" Liu Peng (刘鹏) habitually got out of the car to check when he arrived at the home of herdsman Suji Renz (苏吉仁孜). Suji Renz (苏吉仁孜) greeted him and pulled Liu Peng (刘鹏) into the pasture. "They're all fine."
Most of the local residents make a living by herding, and horses and yaks are everyone's "lifeline." Livestock theft and loss occur frequently in pastoral areas, and Liu Peng (刘鹏) is always on high alert whenever he receives a report.
It is not easy to find lost livestock on the vast plateau. Just after New Year's Day this year, a herdsman's horse was lost. After on-site investigation ruled out the possibility of theft, Liu Peng (刘鹏) searched the surrounding area for several days without finding any trace. The herdsman felt bad and grabbed him, saying, "There's nothing we can do if we can't find it. We'll just have to accept our bad luck." Liu Peng (刘鹏) waved his hand: "We have to keep looking, we can't just give up like this." Carefully searching for hoof prints, he trekked hundreds of kilometers and finally found the lost horse in a valley.
"Solving cases requires not only effort, but also dedication." Liu Peng (刘鹏) likes to ponder and has developed a set of "cattle and horse hoofprint comparison and tracking methods," collecting the hoofprint characteristics of lost cattle and horses to "find them according to the map" 按图索骥 (àn tú suǒ jì - "look for a steed with the aid of its picture," to follow clues to find something; to act according to plan). In recent years, he has solved more than 80 cases, recovered more than 800 yaks and horses, and recovered more than 6 million yuan in economic losses for the masses.
Suji Renz (苏吉仁孜) has a real feeling for the changes in village life. The Xiaxiong Police Station (下雄派出所) has equipped each village with a "Peace Steward" (平安管家), with one police officer serving each village, so that if cattle and horses are lost, someone will find them, and disputes are resolved quickly. "With a better public security environment, we can focus all our energy on increasing our income and getting rich." Suji Renz (苏吉仁孜), 28, has already raised more than 100 yaks and moved into a spacious and warm new house.
As they spoke, Liu Peng's (刘鹏) phone kept ringing. Asking about household registration policies, reflecting family conflicts, Liu Peng (刘鹏) patiently answered every call, and some simply made appointments to deal with them in person. Since coming to work at the Xiaxiong Police Station (下雄派出所), his phone has almost never been turned off. The villagers remember his number and are used to "finding the police when they have difficulties."
Traffic flowed continuously on the road, and smoke rose from the distant villages. Standing at the entrance of the Peace Station (平安驿站), Liu Peng (刘鹏) felt at ease, "Shining and generating heat in an ordinary position can also safeguard the peace of one side."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强
In Jing County (景县), Hebei Province, water has always been the deepest concern in the hearts of the villagers. Su Guizhi (苏桂枝), an old woman from Dingmazhuang Village (丁马庄村) in Duqiao Town (杜桥镇), has farmed all her life and fears two things most: drought and the high cost of irrigation. But in the past two years, her brow has eased.
The change stems from a "water" revolution. Aunt Su (苏大娘) calculated the costs: in the past, using machine wells for irrigation cost more than 40 yuan in electricity per mu, but since the town diverted river water into the pits and ponds, it only costs 10 yuan to irrigate one mu. Field crops are irrigated at least three times a year, saving nearly 100 yuan per mu per year. Aunt Su (苏大娘) said, "Our Dingmazhuang (丁马庄) has more than 1,200 mu of land, and this alone can save the villagers a lot of money." "Aunt Su's (苏大娘) calculation proves that the people have benefited from our water conservancy construction in recent years," said Sun Qingzhong (孙庆忠), Secretary of the Party Committee of Duqiao Town (杜桥镇). Today, in Duqiao Town (杜桥镇), more than 20 kilometers of Mao Dou branch canals have been cleared and dredged, and 23 pits and ponds have been expanded and deepened...
In recent years, the construction and renovation of irrigation areas in Jing County (景县) have been accelerating. The local government makes full use of the favorable construction conditions in winter to conduct a blanket investigation of the irrigation operation of ditches, canals, ponds, and dams, and accelerates the implementation of projects such as dike reinforcement, silt removal and dredging, and agricultural bridge construction, laying a solid foundation for spring plowing and production. According to reports, Jing County (景县) has planned and implemented a number of water conservancy projects, such as river and canal water system connectivity and farmland water conservancy construction. "Let rivers, lakes, ditches, canals, pits and ponds be interconnected, and build a river and lake connectivity project system that combines diversion, storage, irrigation, and drainage, effectively improving the county's water ecological system and providing more support for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside," said Cao Yuqiang (曹玉强), Deputy Director of the Jing County Water Resources Bureau (景县水利局).
Return to TopOn March 16, at the construction site of the New Special Steelmaking and Refining (Phase II) project of the Special Steel Division of Maanshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (马钢有限) in Ma'anshan (马鞍山), Anhui Province (安徽省), construction workers are working hard to install converters. After the project is completed, it will further optimize the industrial structure and enhance the competitiveness of the enterprise.
Photo by Luo Jisheng (罗继胜) (Image China)
Return to TopBy: 最高人民检察院检察长 应 勇
Distinguished Representatives,
Now, on behalf of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), I present this work report to the congress for your deliberation and welcome comments from the members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协).
Review of Work in 2025
In 2025, under the strong leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and under the effective supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) adhered to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implemented the resolutions of the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大三次会议), deeply understood the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthened the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthened the "Four Confidences," and achieved the "Two Upholds." We adhered to the Party's absolute leadership over procuratorial work, practiced whole-process people's democracy, actively integrated into the further comprehensive deepening of reform and the process of advancing Chinese-style modernization, focused on building a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and building a socialist rule of law country with a higher level, adhered to serving the overall situation, administering justice for the people, and assuming responsibility for the rule of law, strengthened procuratorial supervision, handled each case with high quality and efficiency, strived to ensure that the people feel fairness and justice in every judicial case, continuously promoted the procuratorial practice of Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law, and achieved new results in various procuratorial tasks. Procuratorial organs across the country handled a total of 3.467 million cases of various types, of which the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) handled 8,151 cases.
I. Implementing the Overall National Security Concept and Promoting the Construction of a Higher-Level Safe China
We lawfully performed our procuratorial functions, comprehensively and accurately implemented the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, and made every effort to safeguard long-term national stability and security. Throughout the year, we approved the arrest of 664,000 criminal suspects of various types and initiated public prosecutions against 1.404 million people, representing year-on-year decreases of 11.7% and 13.9%, respectively. China's social security situation continues to improve and is one of the safest countries in the world.
Resolutely safeguarding national security. We severely punished crimes endangering national security in accordance with the law, and resolutely cracked down on infiltration, sabotage, subversion, and secessionist activities by hostile forces. We improved the counter-terrorism and anti-secession procuratorial case-handling cooperation mechanism, and lawfully safeguarded the continued stability of Xinjiang (新疆), Tibet (西藏), and other regions. We implemented the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (中华人民共和国香港特别行政区维护国家安全法) and promoted the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong (香港). We punished "Taiwan independence" (台独) diehards who commit crimes of splitting the country and inciting secession in accordance with the law, and safeguarded national sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.
Focusing on maintaining social stability. We severely punished serious violent crimes, prosecuting 54,000 people for crimes such as intentional homicide, robbery, and kidnapping. We promoted the integrated advancement of the fight against organized crime and the eradication of "protective umbrellas," prosecuting 9,870 people involved in organized crime and 65 "protective umbrellas." We severely punished crimes such as trafficking in persons, crimes involving guns and explosives, and drug manufacturing and trafficking, prosecuting 39,900 people. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) lawfully approved the prosecution of 380 murderers in homicide cases that occurred more than 20 years ago, ensuring that criminals cannot escape the law. We regulated the application of the leniency system for admitting guilt and accepting punishment in accordance with the law, with 84.8% of criminal suspects voluntarily admitting guilt and accepting punishment during the procuratorial stage, and a first-instance conviction rate of 96.9%, which is 33.4 percentage points higher than cases where the system was not applied, promoting acceptance of judgments and resolution of disputes, repairing social relations, and demonstrating the effectiveness of crime governance. We continued to implement opinions on handling criminal cases of drunk driving, accepting 255,000 cases of dangerous driving crimes for review and prosecution, and prosecuting 230,400 people, representing year-on-year decreases of 21.5% and 16.5%, respectively. The number of deaths in traffic accidents related to drunk driving nationwide decreased by 13.8% year-on-year, and the effectiveness of drunk driving governance has been continuously consolidated. Together with the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), we formulated opinions on handling cases of concealing criminal proceeds and assisting in information network criminal activities, promoting the rule of law in the governance of common and frequently occurring crimes and enhancing the people's sense of security.
Firmly safeguarding national defense and military interests. We deepened military-local procuratorial cooperation, prosecuting 362 people for crimes endangering national defense interests, such as damaging military facilities and disrupting military management order; handled 437 public interest litigations in the field of national defense and military affairs, and promoted the strengthening of the protection of military airports, military waterways, and other facilities. In response to problems such as damage to military oil pipelines, communication optical cables, civil air defense projects, and unauthorized drone flights into military areas for aerial photography, we guided procuratorial organs in Shanxi (山西), Zhejiang (浙江), Hubei (湖北), Guizhou (贵州), and other places to urge relevant departments to strengthen supervision through public interest litigation and safeguard military security.
Continuously promoting the governance of the network ecology. We punished illegal and criminal activities such as cyber violence, online rumors, online extortion, and "online water armies" in accordance with the law, prosecuting 182,000 people for crimes committed using the internet. We punished telecommunications network fraud crimes in accordance with the law, prosecuting 69,000 people. We severely cracked down on cross-border telecommunications fraud crimes. In response to the armed protection of telecommunications fraud by criminal groups in northern Myanmar (缅北) and the harm to Chinese citizens, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) guided the prosecution of 285 people for suspected fraud, intentional homicide, intentional injury, and other crimes in accordance with the law, and imposed severe punishments. We strengthened judicial protection of citizens' personal information, prosecuting 6,142 people for related crimes and handling 4,456 public interest litigations. Lin (林) and others illegally obtained citizens' personal information and established online groups to implement "opening boxes." The Beijing (北京) procuratorial organ filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law, resolutely safeguarding order in cyberspace.
Coordinating and promoting social governance in accordance with the law. Combining our performance of duties and case handling, we issued 17,000 procuratorial suggestions targeting management loopholes in issuing units, industries, etc., to promote source governance. We adhered to and developed the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, deeply promoted the legalization of procuratorial petition work, and promoted the improvement of responses to people's petitions from "being able to do it" to "doing it well." County-level procuratorates across the country comprehensively dispatched personnel to reside in comprehensive management centers to resolve contradictions and disputes in accordance with the law. We deepened the tackling of repeated petitions, implemented the system of leading cadres of procuratorates at all levels receiving visitors and going down to the grassroots level, handled 54,000 petitions, and the number of petitions involving procuratorial organs, repeated petitions, and collective visits decreased by 0.5%, 2.5%, and 15.7% year-on-year, respectively. Shi (石) applied to the procuratorial organ for supervision after his request for civil compensation for disability caused by a traffic accident was rejected. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) found that Shi (石) had been paralyzed in bed for more than 30 years and his family was in financial difficulties, and guided the procuratorial organs in Heilongjiang (黑龙江) and Anhui (安徽) provinces involved in the case to coordinate with relevant local departments to provide assistance, promoting the resolution of the case and the reconciliation of the parties.
Leading the fashion of the rule of law with fair justice. We integrated the core socialist values into the performance of procuratorial duties, promoted the spirit of the rule of law with legal supervision, and promoted social stability. Procuratorial organs across the country decided not to arrest or prosecute 339 people who were identified as legitimate defense after review. Wang (王) fought with a thief who broke into his home late at night, resulting in the thief's death, and Chen (陈) injured an abuser while resisting illegal infringement. The procuratorial organs in Guangxi (广西) and Zhejiang (浙江) both determined that they were legitimate defenses, continuously demonstrating that the law cannot yield to illegality. The procuratorial organs in Jiangxi (江西) and Hainan (海南) handled cases of allowing fierce dogs to injure people in parks and disturbing public order by throwing objects from high altitudes, pursuing criminal responsibility in accordance with the law and promoting the standardization of social behavior. The procuratorial organs in Fujian (福建), Gansu (甘肃), Qinghai (青海), and other places supervised and promoted the commutation of sentences for community correction subjects who acted bravely for justice in accordance with the law, encouraging respect for the law and good deeds.
II. Comprehensively, Accurately, and Fully Implementing the New Development Concept and Serving High-Quality Development
We adhered to finding the procuratorial position in grasping the overall situation, performing procuratorial duties in integrating into the overall situation, and promoting procuratorial work in serving the overall situation, providing strong judicial guarantees for high-quality economic and social development.
Actively participating in the anti-corruption struggle. We accepted 30,500 cases of duty-related crimes transferred by supervisory commissions at all levels and prosecuted 29,000 people, representing year-on-year increases of 10.8% and 20.5%, respectively, including 44 former provincial and ministerial-level cadres such as Wu Yingjie (吴英杰) and Tang Renjian (唐仁健). We coordinated the rectification of corruption in key areas, prosecuting 9,174 people for duty-related crimes in the fields of finance, state-owned enterprises, and energy. We severely punished corruption around the people, prosecuting 7,609 people for duty-related crimes in the fields of rural revitalization, elderly care services, and funeral services. We punished new types of corruption and hidden corruption implemented by using their powers, such as expected returns, agreed-upon holding on behalf of others, and fictitious transaction links, prosecuting 832 people. We adhered to investigating bribery and offering bribes together, prosecuting 3,292 people for bribery crimes, representing a year-on-year increase of 7.3%. We cooperated in carrying out international pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen assets and cross-border corruption governance, and cooperated with relevant departments to persuade, repatriate, and extradite 17 criminal suspects who had fled overseas. We filed applications with the court for the confiscation of illegal gains from 12 absconding and deceased suspects of embezzlement and bribery crimes, including Li Chuanliang (李传良).
Maintaining the socialist market economic order. We increased the punishment of economic crimes, prosecuting 137,000 people, promoting the construction of a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy. We jointly cracked down on smuggling crimes such as smuggling strategic minerals for export with the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the General Administration of Customs (海关总署), and other departments, prosecuting 9,874 people. We jointly governed the illegal intermediary chaos in the financial field with the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) and other departments, and participated in special actions to combat illegal fund-raising, prosecuting 25,000 people for financial crimes. Together with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会), we strengthened the construction of the rule of law in the capital market, prosecuting 418 people for securities crimes such as financial fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, and fraudulent issuance. We increased anti-money laundering efforts, prosecuting 3,259 people for money laundering crimes using virtual currencies, underground banks, etc. We prosecuted 13,000 people for tax-related crimes in accordance with the law. We cooperated with the State Taxation Administration (税务总局) to carry out a special action to supervise tax-related matters of retail enterprises of refined oil products, and urged the investigation and payment of tax of 1.28 billion yuan through public interest litigation. We strengthened anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition procuratorial duties, prosecuting 9,797 people for crimes such as damaging commercial reputation and forcing transactions, and handled 157 public interest litigations, serving the construction of a unified national market.
Strengthening law enforcement and judicial supervision involving enterprises. We adhered to and implemented the "Two Unwavering" principle, implemented the Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy, protected the property rights of various ownership economies equally in accordance with the law, served to stabilize employment, stabilize enterprises, stabilize the market, and stabilize expectations, and promoted the creation of a rule-of-law business environment. We actively participated in special actions to regulate law enforcement involving enterprises, deployed special supervision of illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial activities, handled 19,900 cases in accordance with the law, supervised the withdrawal of 2,471 cases by investigation organs, decided not to prosecute 3,539 people, and supervised the lifting and return of 2.63 billion yuan of illegally seized, detained, and frozen property. An investigation organ in a certain place illegally filed a case for investigation against personnel of a certain company in another province on suspicion of crime, illegally took criminal compulsory measures, and seized and froze property. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) guided the supervision and correction in accordance with the law.
Strengthening judicial protection of intellectual property rights. We deepened the comprehensive performance of intellectual property procuratorial duties, served the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, promoted the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries, cultivated and strengthened emerging industries and future industries, and safeguarded high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement in accordance with the law. We jointly formulated judicial interpretations on handling criminal cases of infringement of intellectual property rights with the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), and jointly supervised the handling of 109 major infringement and piracy cases with the National Copyright Administration (国家版权局) and other departments, prosecuting 19,000 people for crimes such as infringing on trademark rights, copyrights, trade secrets, and counterfeiting patents. A former employee of a semiconductor company illegally provided the company's trade secrets to overseas institutions. The Zhejiang (浙江) procuratorial organ filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law. We punished crimes against data security in the fields of artificial intelligence, e-commerce, and other fields in accordance with the law, prosecuting 4,739 people. We handled 3,658 civil, administrative, and public interest litigation cases involving intellectual property rights, deepened special supervision of malicious intellectual property litigation, and promoted the creation of a good innovation environment.
Serving the construction of a beautiful China. We deeply practiced the concept that green mountains and clear waters are golden mountains and silver mountains, prosecuting 33,000 people for crimes of destroying the ecological environment and resources, handling 47,000 public interest litigations, and recovering 1.03 billion yuan in compensation for ecological environment damage. We deployed special supervision of bird and wildlife protection, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) supervised the handling of 13 major cases. Together with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), and other departments, we improved the cooperation mechanism and strengthened judicial protection of the ecological environment in the Yangtze River (长江), Yellow River (黄河), Pearl River (珠江), and other river basins. In response to problems such as pollution of rivers flowing into the sea and illegal aquaculture in the Bohai Sea (渤海) region, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) filed a public interest litigation case, and procuratorial organs in Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), Liaoning (辽宁), Shandong (山东), and other places simultaneously handled 581 cases. We organized procuratorial organs in Shaanxi (陕西), Hubei (湖北), Sichuan (四川), Qinghai (青海), and other places to strengthen the ecological environment protection of the Qinling Mountains (秦岭), and guided the Guangxi (广西) procuratorial organs to help rectify heavy metal pollution problems in the mining field. We carried out special supervision to serve green and low-carbon development, handled 13,000 public interest litigations, and promoted the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
Serving coordinated development. We actively participated in urban governance, promoted the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and promoted the integrated development of urban and rural areas. We jointly formulated judicial interpretations on handling criminal cases of destroying black soil resources with the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), prosecuting 4,089 people for crimes of illegally occupying agricultural land, and helping to firmly guard the red line of arable land. We guided procuratorial organs in Hebei (河北), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), and other places to strengthen judicial protection of geographical indications related to agricultural products, and organized procuratorial organs in Shanxi (山西), Henan (河南), Hubei (湖北), Hunan (湖南), and other places to protect drinking water safety through public interest litigation. Serving regional coordinated development, we guided procuratorial organs in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui (沪苏浙皖), Sichuan-Chongqing (川渝), and other places to strengthen case-handling coordination, and supported the Guangdong (广东) procuratorial organs to promote marine protection cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
Serving the construction of a strong cultural country. We continued to crack down on cultural relic crimes, prosecuting 1,536 people for crimes such as excavating ancient tombs and selling cultural relics. We handled 5,248 public interest litigations such as the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage. We supported procuratorial organs in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Sichuan (四川), Guizhou (贵州), Yunnan (云南), and other places to strengthen the protection of intangible cultural heritage and promote national unity and progress. We guided procuratorial organs in Shanxi (山西), Henan (河南), Ningxia (宁夏), and other places to carry out public interest actions for the protection of the Great Wall (长城) on a regular basis, and organized procuratorial organs in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Shaanxi (陕西), and Gansu (甘肃) to strengthen the protection of the Qinzhidao (秦直道) ruins, helping to continue the historical context.
Serving high-level opening to the outside world. We deeply implemented Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, integrated into the overall pattern of foreign-related rule of law work, strengthened foreign-related procuratorial work, prosecuted 55,000 people for foreign-related criminal crimes, and handled 254 criminal judicial assistance cases. We guided procuratorial organs in Hainan (海南), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), and other places to serve the full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港). We organized procuratorial organs in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Chongqing (重庆), and other places to guarantee the construction of free trade pilot zones and comprehensive demonstration zones for expanding opening up in the service industry. We coordinated to strengthen the fight against sanctions, anti-interference, and anti-"long-arm jurisdiction." We strengthened judicial protection of overseas interests and protected the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and enterprises in accordance with the law. We received 12 foreign prosecutors general and deputy prosecutors general to visit China, 214 foreign prosecutors to train and study in China, held the China-Africa Procuratorial Cooperation Forum in Guangzhou (广州), supported Hong Kong (香港) in hosting the China-ASEAN Member States Attorneys General Conference, and served major-country diplomacy.
III. Adhering to the People First Approach and Protecting the Rights and Interests of the People in Accordance with the Law
We practiced the purpose of serving the people, deepened the "Procuratorial Protection of People's Livelihood" special action, and strengthened judicial protection of people's livelihood.
Effectively handling cases in the field of people's livelihood. We strengthened judicial protection of food and drug safety, prosecuting 12,000 people for crimes of producing and selling toxic and harmful food, fake drugs, and inferior drugs, and handling 27,000 public interest litigations. We cooperated in deepening special actions to combat counterfeit agricultural materials, prosecuting 461 people for crimes of producing and selling fake and inferior seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, etc. We jointly carried out special rectifications of fraud and insurance fraud in the fields of social security and medical insurance, prosecuting 5,256 people for related crimes, supervising and correcting 573 false lawsuits, and safeguarding the people's "pension money" and "life-saving money." We prosecuted 108 people for crimes of injuring and disturbing medical personnel, promoting the construction of safe hospitals. We prosecuted 4,494 people for crimes such as major liability accidents and dangerous operations, ensuring production safety. We coordinated to correct outstanding problems in the fields of prepaid consumption and live streaming e-commerce in accordance with the law, and strengthened consumer rights protection.
Safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of heroes, martyrs, and military personnel and their families. We prosecuted 599 people for crimes of infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of heroes, martyrs, and military personnel and their families, and handled 1,863 public interest litigations. We carried out special activities to protect heroes and martyrs and red cultural relics, organized procuratorial organs in Jilin (吉林), Jiangsu (江苏), Jiangxi (江西), Shandong (山东), and other places to strengthen the protection of anti-Japanese war sites, and guided procuratorial organs in Tianjin (天津), Liaoning (辽宁), Hunan (湖南), Guizhou (贵州), and other places to strengthen the protection of martyrs' memorial facilities, inheriting the red gene.
Protecting the rights and interests of workers. Together with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) and other departments, we released typical cases of labor law supervision "One Letter and Two Books," and cracked down on job search fraud crimes such as "paying for entry" and "paying for internal referrals" in accordance with the law. We actively participated in the governance of wage arrears, prosecuting 1,190 people for refusing to pay labor remuneration, supporting migrant workers in filing 28,000 lawsuits to recover wages, and recovering 1.35 billion yuan in unpaid wages. We carried out supervision activities to protect the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms, handling 690 public interest litigations. In response to problems such as "fines for delays" and "deductions for complaints" on certain express delivery and logistics platforms, the Shanghai (上海) procuratorial organ urged relevant departments to perform their duties in accordance with the law, promoted the optimization of algorithm rules, and protected the legitimate rights and interests of practitioners.
Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of minors and the prevention of crime. We have zero tolerance for crimes against minors, prosecuting 73,000 people. We punish, educate, influence, and save delinquent minors in accordance with the law, prosecuting 56,000 people; we conditionally do not prosecute 16,000 people who have committed minor crimes and actively confess and repent. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) has legally approved the prosecution of 24 minors aged between twelve and fourteen who have committed serious violent crimes. Malicious crimes must be punished. We have coordinated to strengthen the construction of specialized schools, promoted the establishment of a graded intervention and correction system for minors' delinquent behavior, and continued to promote the implementation of mandatory reporting and pre-employment background checks to enhance the joint force of "six major protections." The number of prosecutions by procuratorial organs for crimes against minors and the number of cases accepted for review and prosecution of crimes by minors have decreased by 2.2% and 9.8% year-on-year, respectively, marking the first "double decrease" in nearly five years.
Protecting the rights and interests of specific groups. Strengthening the protection of women's rights and interests. We have deepened cooperation with the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联) and other organizations, released typical cases of combating domestic violence, prosecuted 43,000 people for crimes infringing on women's personal rights and dignity, and handled 2,259 public interest litigations. In response to issues such as some employers illegally terminating the employment of female employees during pregnancy, maternity leave, and breastfeeding periods, procuratorial organs in Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Shandong (山东) and other places have urged relevant departments to strengthen supervision and protect the legitimate rights and interests of female employees. Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly. We have worked with the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) and other departments to improve working mechanisms, prosecuted 50,300 people for crimes infringing on the rights and interests of the elderly, and handled 1,562 litigation supervision cases involving guardianship and support for the elderly. A guardian sold the property of a disabled elderly person regardless of their interests. The Beijing (北京) procuratorial organ accepted a supervision application, filed a protest in accordance with the law, and the retrial overturned the original judgment, declaring the sale invalid. Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of persons with disabilities. We have jointly released typical cases with the China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残联) and handled 4,723 public interest litigations related to the construction of barrier-free environments. We have guided procuratorial organs in Fujian (福建), Hunan (湖南), Yunnan (云南), Shaanxi (陕西) and other places to supervise and promote the improvement of barrier-free facilities in transportation hubs and the addition of voice broadcast modules to public service software to help people with disabilities share a convenient life.
Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of compatriots from Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and Taiwan (台湾), overseas Chinese, and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives. We have handled 2,180 cases involving Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in accordance with the law. We have deepened exchanges and cooperation with law enforcement and judicial institutions in Hong Kong and Macao. We support procuratorial organs in Fujian (福建), Guangdong (广东) and other places to strengthen the construction of judicial liaison windows with Taiwan. We have worked with the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中国侨联) to promote cooperation between procuratorial organs and overseas Chinese affairs, strengthen procuratorial work involving overseas Chinese, and promote the cohesion of overseas Chinese hearts, strengths, and wisdom.
Improving convenient and people-benefiting procuratorial measures. We will continue to build the 12309 Procuratorial Service Center, deepen the organic integration of offline halls, online platforms, and hotline telephones, optimize functions such as complaints and appeals, case inquiries, and legal consultations, and facilitate the public's participation in litigation and expression of demands. We support 42,000 civil lawsuits for vulnerable groups whose rights and interests have been damaged but have difficulties in filing lawsuits. We have implemented the national judicial assistance system, providing 620 million yuan in judicial assistance funds to 43,000 parties involved in cases who are in financial difficulty due to the cases, demonstrating judicial warmth.
IV. Strengthening Procuratorial Supervision to Promote Fairness and Justice
We will promote the comprehensive, coordinated, and adequate development of criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation procuratorial work, adhere to lawful supervision, dare to supervise, and be good at supervising, and safeguard law enforcement and judicial justice. Procuratorial organs across the country have filed 17,000 protests and prosecutorial suggestions for retrial, of which the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) filed 63 protests and prosecutorial suggestions for retrial, and instructed provincial procuratorial organs to put forward 18 supervisory opinions.
Strengthening criminal procuratorial supervision. Strengthening the functions of review of arrests and review of prosecutions. Upholding an objective and impartial stance, strengthening judicial protection of human rights, implementing the principles of legality of punishment and presumption of innocence, accurately grasping the statutory conditions for arrest and prosecution, and legally not approving the arrest of 326,000 people and not prosecuting 347,000 people. Comprehensively strengthening case review, and supplementing the arrest of 10,100 people and supplementing the prosecution of 29,000 people who should have been arrested and prosecuted but were not requested for approval of arrest or transferred for prosecution. The investigation authority once requested approval of the arrest of Zhao (赵) on suspicion of robbery. The Gansu (甘肃) procuratorial organ reviewed and believed that the evidence in the case could not prove that Zhao (赵) committed the crime, and legally did not approve the arrest and continued to supervise. Fifteen years later, the real culprit was arrested. Strengthening supervision of case filing and investigation activities. Deepening the implementation of the mechanism for supervision, coordination, and cooperation in investigation, supervising the filing of 17,000 cases that should have been filed but were not, supervising the withdrawal of 44,000 cases that should not have been filed, and putting forward 87,000 corrective opinions on illegal investigation activities. Strengthening supervision of compulsory measures involving citizens' personal rights, such as designated residence surveillance, and compulsory measures such as sealing up, seizure, and freezing, and putting forward 13,000 and 8,080 corrective opinions, respectively. We have worked with the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) to carry out a special cleanup of 278,000 criminal "pending cases." Strengthening supervision of criminal trials. We have filed 5,778 protests against criminal judgments that are deemed to be truly wrong. The courts have concluded 4,713 cases, of which 71.1% were reversed or remanded for retrial. We have put forward 11,000 corrective opinions on illegal criminal trial activities, and the courts have adopted 96.6% of them. With the legal supervision of the procuratorial organs, 79 people were changed from guilty to not guilty, and 51 people were changed from not guilty to guilty. Che (车) and two others were sentenced for rape, intentional homicide, and perjury and continued to appeal. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) reviewed and found that the original case lacked key evidence, and filed a protest in accordance with the law. The retrial overturned the original judgment and declared them not guilty; it promoted continued investigation and the arrest of the real culprit, and filed a public prosecution in accordance with the law, so as to ensure that no mistakes were made and no one was missed, and to safeguard judicial justice.
Strengthening civil procuratorial supervision. Conscientiously implementing the Civil Code, we have filed 11,000 protests and prosecutorial suggestions for retrial against effective civil judgments that are deemed to be truly wrong. The courts have concluded 9,175 cases, of which 90.7% were reversed, remanded for retrial, mediated, or withdrawn through settlement. We have put forward 39,800 corrective opinions on illegal civil trial activities, and the courts have adopted 97.4% of them. We have deepened special supervision of false litigation, supervised the correction of 5,728 cases, and prosecuted 734 people for the crime of false litigation. Some used car dealers "hunt" judicial staff, file false lawsuits, and fraudulently transfer vehicle ownership. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) guided procuratorial organs in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Anhui (安徽), Jiangxi (江西), Henan (河南) and other places to legally supervise and correct 101 cases, and filed cases for investigation of 7 related job-related crimes committed by judicial staff.
Strengthening administrative procuratorial supervision. We have filed 646 protests and prosecutorial suggestions for retrial against effective administrative judgments that are deemed to be truly wrong. The courts have concluded 387 cases, of which 76% were reversed, remanded for retrial, mediated, or withdrawn through settlement. We have put forward 9,569 corrective opinions on illegal administrative trial activities, and the courts have adopted 98.1% of them. In performing the duties of supervising administrative litigation, we have legally carried out supervision of illegal administrative acts and put forward 3,427 prosecutorial suggestions. We have supervised the transfer of 3,238 cases suspected of crimes by administrative law enforcement agencies, and put forward prosecutorial opinions on 141,000 people who should be subject to administrative penalties for those who were not prosecuted, promoting the two-way connection between administrative penalties and criminal penalties.
Strengthening supervision of enforcement activities. Strengthening criminal enforcement supervision. Improving the "stationed + circuit + technology" supervision mechanism, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) carried out cross-provincial circuit inspections of 11 supervision sites in 10 provinces. We have legally corrected the failure to deliver 11,000 criminals sentenced to imprisonment for execution, promoted the solution of problems such as difficulty in detention and difficulty in sending to prison; supervised 6,369 cases of improper commutation of sentences, parole, and temporary execution outside prison; supervised the return to prison of 4,139 community correction subjects whose conditions for execution outside prison have disappeared; and put forward 31,000 corrective opinions on the execution of property-related parts of criminal judgments, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of criminal execution. Strengthening full supervision of civil enforcement. We have put forward 55,000 corrective opinions on illegal civil enforcement activities. We have deployed and carried out special supervision of civil termination of enforcement procedures, promoted the resumption of enforcement of 4,082 cases, and enforced 1.18 billion yuan. Strengthening administrative enforcement supervision. We have put forward 19,000 corrective opinions on illegal administrative litigation enforcement and non-litigation enforcement activities.
Strengthening procuratorial public interest litigation. Resolutely safeguarding the public interest, focusing on statutory areas and fully performing duties in accordance with the law, we have filed 136,000 public interest litigation cases, including 124,000 administrative public interest litigation cases and 12,000 civil public interest litigation cases. We have put forward 82,000 prosecutorial suggestions to administrative organs, and the administrative organs have responded with a rectification rate of 96.9%. We have filed 7,305 public interest litigation cases with the courts, and 99.8% have received judicial support. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed "strengthening procuratorial supervision and strengthening public interest litigation." In October 2025, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) initially deliberated the draft Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) actively cooperated to promote the legalization of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law in the field of public interest protection.
Legally carrying out procuratorial investigation. We have legally filed cases for investigation against 1,372 judicial staff members who have committed crimes such as favoritism, abuse of power, and extraction of confessions by torture by taking advantage of their positions, and punished judicial corruption. Investigation personnel Zhang (张) and others colluded with the legal representative of a company and used criminal means to crack down on another company. The Ningxia (宁夏) procuratorial organ legally investigated and dealt with the case on suspicion of favoritism and perversion of justice, and supervised the revocation of the original case. Zhang (张) and others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. For major criminal cases committed by state organ staff members under the jurisdiction of public security organs by taking advantage of their positions, if it is indeed necessary for procuratorial organs to directly accept them, we will legally file cases for investigation against 69 people.
Protecting lawyers' practice in accordance with the law. We have jointly released judicial interpretations with the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) to legally protect the right of detained criminal suspects and defendants to choose defense counsel and the right of defense counsel to meet with them. We have jointly formulated work regulations on legally protecting lawyers' right to review case files with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) to improve online, on-site, and off-site case file review mechanisms. We have jointly released typical cases with the Ministry of Justice (司法部) and the All China Lawyers Association (全国律协) to supervise and correct 704 problems hindering lawyers' practice rights. We will promote full coverage of lawyers' defense at the stage of review and prosecution and jointly safeguard judicial justice.
V. Strengthening the Awareness of Accepting Supervision to Ensure That Procuratorial Power Always Operates on the Track of the Rule of Law
We will strengthen the restriction and supervision of the operation of procuratorial power, standardize the operation of power, and ensure strict law-based performance of duties and fair justice.
Actively and proactively accepting supervision by the People's Congress. We have submitted a special report on the supervision of criminal enforcement work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) and conscientiously implemented the review opinions. We have invited 1,625 deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) to inspect procuratorial work and participate in procuratorial activities, and visited 2,257 deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表). We have conscientiously handled and responded to 213 written suggestions put forward by deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表) during the conference and 4,011 opinions and suggestions put forward during deliberation reports, inspections, and investigations. We have formulated opinions on the synchronous filing of normative documents of procuratorial organs and improved the working mechanism for filing review.
Actively and proactively accepting democratic supervision. We have invited 319 members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) to participate in research, procuratorial hearings, and other activities. We have conscientiously handled 76 proposals from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协). We have organized special procurators to conduct special research on procuratorial work. We will continue to strengthen communication and contact with various democratic parties, the Federation of Industry and Commerce, non-party individuals, and various people's organizations, fully listen to opinions, and effectively improve our work.
Accepting restrictions on law enforcement and judicial performance in accordance with the law. We have legally re-examined cases of non-arrest and non-prosecution submitted by investigation authorities for reconsideration and review, and changed the original decision in 159 cases. We have carefully reviewed public prosecution cases declared not guilty by the court on a case-by-case basis and strengthened reverse review.
Deepening and standardizing procuratorial affairs disclosure. We have formulated opinions on procuratorial affairs disclosure and promoted "sunshine procuratorial affairs." We have invited people's supervisors to supervise procuratorial performance and case handling 157,000 times. We have held procuratorial hearings 164,000 times for cases such as proposed non-arrest and non-prosecution and review of appeals. The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) has organized 16 press conferences, released white papers on criminal, civil, administrative, and public interest litigation procuratorial work, and organized national procuratorial organs to hold 7,509 procuratorial open days to accept social supervision.
VI. Taking the Party's Political Construction as the Guide and Effectively Strengthening the Building of a Highly Qualified Procuratorial Team
We will strengthen self-construction, forge a procuratorial iron army that is loyal, clean, and responsible, and better fulfill the duties and missions entrusted to us by the Party and the people.
Effectively strengthening the Party's political construction. We will unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm our minds and guide our actions, fully implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law, organize all-member political training, and ensure that we deeply study it, firmly believe in it, and practice it. We will strictly implement the reporting system, and the Party Leadership Group of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院党组) has reported 28 major issues to the Party Central Committee. We will strengthen the Party's construction in procuratorial organs, strengthen political supervision, and coordinate the efforts to promote business by grasping Party building and team building. We will deeply promote cultural enrichment and cultural strengthening of procuratorial work and gather the spiritual strength of seeking truth, being pragmatic, taking responsibility, and working hard. Seventeen procuratorial personnel have been awarded the title of National Advanced Worker, and the Chongqing (重庆) Procuratorial Minors Protection Work Team has won the title of "Role Model of the Times."
Deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the procuratorial system. We will solidly carry out in-depth study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of discipline education and work style construction. We have carried out inspections of the Party Leadership Groups of 10 provincial procuratorial organs and strictly grasped the rectification and improvement. We will strictly implement the "three regulations" to prevent interference in judicial activities and investigated and held accountable 142 procuratorial personnel. We will resolutely support the discipline inspection and supervision organs in supervising discipline enforcement and law enforcement. 424 procuratorial personnel have been investigated and dealt with for violating discipline and laws by using procuratorial power, a year-on-year decrease of 7.6%, of which 71 were held criminally responsible.
Strengthening the construction of professional quality and ability. We will carry out education and training and on-the-job training on a regular basis to guide procuratorial personnel to do a solid job of "three good at," and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) directly trained 18,000 people. We will carry out evaluation of court appearances to support public prosecution in criminal cases and strengthen the construction of public prosecution capabilities. We will strengthen case handling guidance, formulate 14 judicial interpretations and judicial interpretation-like documents, and release 28 guiding cases and 457 typical cases. We have jointly formulated opinions on cooperation between procuratorial organs and schools with the Ministry of Education (教育部), organized procuratorial practice experts to give lectures on campus 210 times, and invited famous legal scholars to give lectures in procuratorial organs 520 times.
Deepening the comprehensive supporting reform of the judicial system. We will carry out special inspections on the implementation and improvement of the judicial responsibility system and promote the construction of a full-chain responsibility system. We will strengthen the responsibility of leading cadres in handling cases. Procurators-general and deputy procurators-general of procuratorial organs at all levels directly handled 543,000 cases and attended meetings of the court's adjudication committee 13,000 times. We will improve the establishment and operation mechanism of the procurator selection committee and the disciplinary committee. We will straighten out the business management relationship of cross-provincial railway transportation procuratorates and optimize the layout of criminal enforcement dispatched procuratorates. We will improve the legal supervision mechanism for maritime trial work.
Improving the scientific level of procuratorial management. We will continue to rectify formalism and reduce the burden on the grassroots, deepen the "one cancellation and three no longer" measures, and simultaneously grasp business management, case management, and quality management. We will regularly carry out analysis and research on case handling quality and efficiency, organize quality evaluation of cases such as non-prosecution after arrest and non-adoption after protest, and promote the solid implementation of "every case must be inspected." The case completion rate of procuratorial organs across the country increased by 2.3 percentage points year-on-year, the number of unclosed cases for more than one year decreased by 96.9% year-on-year, and the number of acquittals and withdrawals of prosecutions decreased by 13.6% year-on-year, and the quality and efficiency of case handling steadily improved.
Strengthening grassroots foundation construction. We organized four phases of centralized training for 600 procurators-general of grassroots procuratorates. We carried out cross-regional pairing and co-construction of national grassroots procuratorates. We strengthened procuratorial counterpart assistance and guided the mutual dispatch of 738 cadres for practical training. We organized business backbones to give lectures and support education in procuratorial organs in Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆), and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), training 24,000 people.
Deeply promoting the construction of digital procuratorial affairs. We will orderly implement the digital procuratorial affairs plan, strengthen the construction of procuratorial intelligence, pilot the application of systems such as criminal full-process assisted case handling and digital and intelligent case management, and basically complete the construction of legal informationization projects. We have established a big data legal supervision model platform, launched 837 supervision models, discovered 350,200 clues, supervised the formation of 169,000 cases, and empowered legal supervision to improve quality and efficiency.
Deeply promote the construction of digital procuratorates. Implement the digital procuratorate plan in an orderly manner, strengthen the construction of intelligent procuratorates, pilot the application of systems such as criminal full-process auxiliary case handling and digital and intelligent case management, and basically complete the construction of the rule of law informatization project. Establish a big data legal supervision model platform, launch 837 supervision models, discover 350,200 clues, and supervise the completion of 169,000 cases, empowering legal supervision to improve quality and efficiency.
Fellow Deputies, 2025 marks the successful conclusion of the "14th Five-Year Plan," and the cause of the Party and the country has achieved new and significant achievements. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Party Central Committee attached great importance to procuratorial work, formulated and issued the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening the Legal Supervision Work of Procuratorial Organs in the New Era" (《中共中央关于加强新时代检察机关法律监督工作的意见》), leading the cause of the people's procuratorate to move forward steadily. The development and progress achieved in procuratorial work are fundamentally due to the leadership and helm of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as well as the strong supervision of the National People's Congress (全国人大) and its Standing Committee, the strong support of the State Council (国务院), the democratic supervision of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), the coordination and checks and balances of the National Supervisory Commission (国家监察委员会) and the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), the enthusiastic concern of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (工商联) and personages without party affiliation, various people's organizations, and the support and assistance of local party and government organs at all levels, fellow deputies, fellow committee members, and all sectors of society. On behalf of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude!
We are soberly aware that, compared with the requirements of the Party and the people, there are still considerable gaps in procuratorial work. First, the arming of the Party's innovative theories still needs to be further strengthened, and the application of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law to guide procuratorial work needs to be continuously deepened. Second, the ability to focus on the overall situation and grasp the general trend needs to be improved, and the effectiveness of serving high-quality economic and social development is still lacking. Third, the accuracy, intensity, and depth of legal supervision need to be strengthened, and high-quality and efficient performance of duties and case handling still requires sustained effort. Fourth, the professional quality and ability of the procuratorial team still have gaps, the measures to benefit the people and facilitate their lives need to be improved, and the construction of grassroots foundations still has shortcomings. Fifth, the implementation and improvement of the judicial responsibility system are not yet in place, there are still weak links in work style construction and procuratorial management, and problems of discipline violations and illegal activities by procuratorial personnel still occur. We will take effective measures to earnestly solve them.
Work Arrangements for 2026
2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Procuratorial organs across the country must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大) and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, conscientiously implement the deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session, profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," conscientiously implement the "Regulations on the CPC's Leadership over Comprehensive Law-Based Governance of the Country" (《中国共产党领导全面依法治国工作条例》) and the "Plan for the Construction of a Rule of Law China (2026-2030)" (《法治中国建设规划（2026—2030年）》), pay more attention to the coordination of the rule of law with reform, development, and stability, pay more attention to safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice, strengthen procuratorial supervision, strengthen public interest litigation, fulfill the duties of the state legal supervision organ, handle each case with high quality and efficiency, and continuously promote the procuratorial practice of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law.
First, we must always adhere to the Party's absolute leadership over procuratorial work. Continue to strengthen the arming of the Party's innovative theories. Improve the mechanism for implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments in procuratorial organs. Strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting on major matters. Conscientiously and solidly carry out the study and education on establishing and practicing correct views on political achievements. Firmly establish confidence in the rule of law, and unswervingly follow the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.
Second, we must better serve high-quality development and high-level security. Implement the overall national security concept, fully and accurately implement the criminal policy of combining leniency and severity, and effectively safeguard national security, social stability, and people's tranquility. Put safeguarding political security in the first place, severely punish crimes endangering national security, and safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Improve the military-local procuratorial cooperation mechanism to serve the modernization of national defense and the military. Coordinate and promote the anti-corruption struggle. Severely punish serious violent crimes, telecommunications network fraud, and other crimes, and improve the normalized mechanism for combating organized crime and evil. Promote the construction of a comprehensive social security prevention and control system. Promote the governance of the network ecology and artificial intelligence in accordance with the law, and strengthen the protection of citizens' personal information. Carry out special actions to centrally resolve petition issues. Deepen special supervision over illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial practices. Do a good job in the special report on intellectual property procuratorial work to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会). Strengthen anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition justice. Strengthen ecological environment, agriculture-related, maritime, and foreign-related procuratorial work.
Third, deepen and solidify procuratorial work for the people. Severely punish crimes endangering food and drug safety and endangering production safety in accordance with the law, and strengthen judicial protection in people's livelihood fields such as family affairs, education, social security, medical care, employment, and consumption. Strengthen the prevention and governance of juvenile delinquency, and deepen the work of procurators serving as rule of law vice-principals. Strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of specific groups such as women and children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers, especially migrant workers, flexible employment, and new forms of employment workers. Protect the rights and interests of heroes and martyrs, military personnel and their families, civilian personnel in the military, and veterans in accordance with the law. Strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and Taiwan (台湾), overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese, and relatives of overseas Chinese. Regulate and carry out support for litigation work.
Fourth, strengthen procuratorial supervision. Strengthen the construction of basic functions of criminal, civil, and administrative procuratorial work, improve the accuracy, intensity, and depth of legal supervision, and enhance the effectiveness of supervision. Strengthen legal supervision over compulsory measures such as sealing up, detaining, and freezing. Strengthen full-process supervision of enforcement activities. Regulate the application of the leniency system for admitting guilt and accepting punishment in accordance with the law. Improve the judicial fairness realization and evaluation mechanism in the procuratorial process, improve the evaluation standards for the quality and efficiency of procuratorial case handling, and build a high-quality and efficient case handling system and mechanism. Improve the internal and external restraint and supervision mechanism for the operation of procuratorial power.
Fifth, strengthen public interest litigation. Fully cooperate in promoting the legislative process of the Procuratorial Public Interest Litigation Law, organize the revision of relevant judicial interpretations, improve supporting systems, and improve working mechanisms. Strengthen case handling in the statutory areas of public interest litigation, continuously improve accuracy and standardization, and fully demonstrate the value of the system.
Sixth, continue to strengthen the construction of the procuratorial team. Improve the comprehensive and strict governance of the procuratorial system, and comprehensively strengthen the Party's political construction, business construction, and discipline and work style construction in procuratorial organs. Strengthen procuratorial education and training. Continue to deepen the comprehensive supporting reform of the judicial system, improve the system of selecting procurators at each level, and implement the system of accountability for judicial responsibility. Deepen the work of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots. Strengthen the construction of digital procuratorates and improve the level of intelligence.
Fellow Deputies, in the new era and on the new journey, we will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, fully implement the requirements of this meeting, perform our legal supervision duties in accordance with the law, help build a higher level of safe China and rule of law China, and strive to make new contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 16)
Return to TopAfter a traffic accident, the injured person's family needs timely social assistance to cope with the sudden medical expenses. In order to strengthen the related people's livelihood security network, in March 2011, Zijing Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd. (紫金财产保险股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Zijing Insurance (紫金保险)") was entrusted by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance to officially operate the Jiangsu Road Traffic Accident Social Assistance Fund (江苏省道路交通事故社会救助基金) (hereinafter referred to as "Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金)"), becoming the first professional institution in the country to be entrusted by the government to manage the assistance fund through purchasing services. Over the past 15 years, Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) has practiced the development philosophy of putting the people first, and relying on the assistance fund, it has cumulatively assisted more than 160,000 people in Jiangsu (江苏), with a total assistance amount of more than 5.7 billion yuan, providing warm, timely, and professional protection for traffic accident victims and their families.
Gathering Strength from All Parties to Help Those in Urgent Need
When a traffic accident victim is hospitalized, the assistance fund can pay for the surgery costs as soon as possible; if the party mainly responsible only has compulsory traffic insurance, and both parties are unable to afford the subsequent treatment, the assistance fund can provide a certain amount of free subsidy in accordance with relevant regulations and make it public. This kind of social assistance that is "helping those in urgent need, open and transparent, convenient and efficient" protects many families of traffic accident victims.
Seizing every minute in rescue and providing precise and effective assistance are supported by various parties. The Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金) was established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province (江苏省人民政府). The Provincial Department of Finance (省财政厅), as the competent department, together with the Provincial Public Security Traffic Management Department (省公安交通管理部门), the Health and Health Department (卫生健康部门) and other departments, form a coordination group for the management of the assistance fund, which is responsible for formulating the assistance fund policy and studying and deciding on major matters related to the management of the assistance fund. The daily operation of the assistance fund is entrusted to Zijing Insurance (紫金保险), forming a management model of "provincial overall planning, unified policy, division of responsibilities, and professional operation."
After a traffic accident occurs, 380 medical institutions in Jiangsu (江苏) are connected to the Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金) advance payment policy, opening up a "life channel" of "treatment first, payment later" for the injured. Traffic police departments in many places share accident information with 13 municipal road assistance offices and 76 service outlets; road assistance specialists practice the principle of "advance payment whenever possible" and actively contact the families of accident victims, and family members can apply for the assistance fund as soon as possible. At present, the average review time for advance payments from the Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金) is kept within 1 working day, and the payment time is 0.5 hours.
Jiangsu (江苏) has also expanded the scope of use of the assistance fund. According to the "Implementation Rules for One-Time Difficult Assistance of the Jiangsu Road Traffic Accident Social Assistance Fund (江苏省道路交通事故社会救助基金一次性困难救助实施细则)" implemented in 2024, the assistance objects have been expanded to include low-income people, people in extreme poverty, families on the edge of low-income, and families with difficulties in rigid expenditures, and the assistance standards have been increased.
Over the past 15 years, with the joint efforts of all sectors of society, a people's livelihood security network has become increasingly dense. Among the accident victims helped by the Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金), critically ill patients accounted for 61%, low-income people accounted for 40%, and the elderly and children accounted for 54%, effectively alleviating the phenomenon of poverty and returning to poverty due to traffic accidents. In December 2015, the Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) Road Assistance Fund project won the third "Jiangsu Charity Award (江苏慈善奖)".
Doing a Good Job in Inclusive Finance and Achieving Healthy Operation
As a financial insurance institution that has cumulatively served more than 27 million customers and provided a total risk guarantee of 310 trillion yuan, Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) has established a professional team for the operation and management of the assistance fund, with a scale of nearly 400 people, and continues to support the healthy operation of the Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金) and the assistance system with the concept of "responsibility, professionalism, and innovation," and continuously improves the service effectiveness of inclusive finance.
Responsibility is the "cornerstone" of Zijing Insurance (紫金保险). Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) has established rules and regulations for each link of advance payment and recovery to achieve "chain management"; it has established 400 national service quality return visit hotlines across the country to conduct regular return visits to assistance recipients. Innovation is the "background color" of Zijing Insurance (紫金保险). Relying on its own digital transformation strategy, Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) has upgraded and built a comprehensive management platform for road assistance funds, launched the first independently developed and online Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) Road Assistance Fund Comprehensive Management Platform with software copyright in the country, realizing online application, real-time payment, traceable process management, visualized operation data, and online recovery of repayments, and sharing technology, information, and experience with peers to help the high-quality development of the assistance fund business.
Through the timely and effective advance payment of the fund, medical and traffic accident disputes caused by medical expenses are reduced from the source. At the same time, with the guarantee of Zijing Insurance's (紫金保险) digital "chain recovery" system and the active cooperation of courts at all levels, the annual recovery success rate of the Jiangsu Road Assistance Fund (江苏道路救助基金) exceeds 80%, which plays an important role in ensuring the long-term and stable operation of the fund.
Serving the Whole Country and Working Together for Love
Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) actively practices the concept of "talent first." Under the guidance of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance (江苏省财政厅), the Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) Road Assistance Fund National Training Base was established in Yangzhou (扬州市), and more than 280 road assistance specialists from all over the country have been trained. The "Jiangsu Road Assistance Experience" is spreading across the country.
Led by Zijing Insurance (紫金保险), 8 fund management units across the country jointly established the Road Assistance Fund Management Collaboration Partner Alliance. Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) is entrusted to manage the road assistance funds of Hainan (海南), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Guangxi (广西), Hubei (湖北), Hunan (湖南), and Shenzhen (深圳) in Guangdong (广东). It has established 398 outlets across the country, cumulatively assisted more than 230,000 people, and advanced more than 7.8 billion yuan, accounting for more than 34% of the total advance payments of similar funds in the country. It can complete the trial operation of the assistance fund construction within 1 month. The three enterprise standards of the Road Assistance Fund "Advance Payment Work Specification," "Recovery Work Specification," and "Outlet Service Specification" innovatively launched by Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) have laid a good foundation for the subsequent industry standard project establishment.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," Zijing Insurance (紫金保险) will strive to become a professional and trustworthy entrusted management institution for road assistance funds, and work with all sectors to continuously improve the level of convenient services for the people, and effectively help more accident victims and families in difficulty.
Data source: Zijing Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Ltd. (紫金财产保险股份有限公司)
Return to TopBenxi (本溪), Liaoning Province, a city forged with a profound industrial heritage and exquisite natural beauty, is taking regional culture as its spiritual root and development backbone. It is continuing the flame of civilization in upholding tradition and inheritance, activating the momentum of the times through innovation and breakthroughs, and radiating a vibrant and enduring vitality in the immersion and nourishment of culture, striving to write a new chapter in Benxi's practice of Chinese-style modernization.
Red Culture Shapes the Soul: Eternal Spirit Illuminates the Journey
Red culture is Benxi's distinct spiritual symbol and a spiritual gene integrated into the city's bloodline. A total of 105 cultural relics and sites in Benxi have been selected into the provincial revolutionary cultural relics list. It has two national patriotic education demonstration bases: the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army History Exhibition Hall and the Liaoning Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army Memorial Hall. Huanren (桓仁) Manchu Autonomous County has been listed as a key county in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army Revolutionary Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Area. To protect this precious red heritage, Benxi has compiled the "Overall Plan for the Protection and Utilization of Anti-Japanese United Army Sites and Remains in Benxi, Liaoning," and implemented key projects such as the renovation of the Sandaowang (三道旺) Anti-Japanese United Army Barracks Site and the preventive protection of collected cultural relics, so that revolutionary remains can be properly protected.
In terms of inheritance and innovation, Benxi has deeply explored the connotation of red culture, created and launched high-quality works such as the situational Party class "Echoes in the Mountains" and the Anti-Japanese United Army-themed drama "The Western Expedition," created three Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army red education routes, and strengthened the Party spirit education brand of "Retracing the Anti-Japanese United Army Road," tracing red footprints and creating a vivid classroom for red education. It has explored red cultural elements such as Wangtian Cave (望天洞) and developed red cultural and creative products to promote the deep integration of red culture and tourism. It has created the "Li Xiang Benxi (理响本溪)" theoretical micro-lecture carrier to integrate the spirit of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army into daily lectures; and carried out a series of activities of "Remembering the Entrustment to Promote Revitalization and Being Grateful and Striving to Write a New Chapter" to let the red gene shine in the new era.
Historical Culture Builds the Foundation: Cultural Heritage Opens a New Chapter
Historical culture is Benxi's millennium-spanning civilization imprint, precipitating the city's profound heritage. Starting with the Miaohoushan (庙后山) people 500,000 years ago, ancient civilizations have continued to be passed down on this land. Wunv Mountain City (五女山山城) is a component of the World Cultural Heritage "Goguryeo Capital Cities and Tombs," and many Ming Dynasty Great Wall and border fort remains and scattered beacon towers together constitute a rich historical and cultural map.
To protect this historical heritage, Benxi has solidly promoted the historical and cultural protection project, done a good job in the fourth national cultural relics census, and completed the collection of basic cultural relics data. In terms of historical building protection, Benxi has promoted the textual research and value assessment of the historical evolution of 103 buildings, compiled the "Identification Report of 30 Historical Buildings in Benxi City," and implemented listed protection for historical buildings such as the Limin Bridge (利民桥) in Nanfen District; 30 historical buildings were selected from 4 historical and cultural blocks and identified as historical buildings, and technologies such as drone aerial photography and 3D laser scanning were introduced to build 3D models to provide scientific support for protection work. At the same time, it promoted the declaration and identification of historical and cultural blocks such as Shifu Road (市府路) and Benxi Lake (本溪湖) to preserve urban memories. In terms of revitalization and utilization, Benxi has integrated historical elements into urban construction, refined urban slogans such as "Ben Gu Bang Ning Xi Lian Shan Hai (本固邦宁 溪连山海)," and created a unique urban cultural IP; through holding historical and cultural exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage performances and other activities, citizens can feel the charm of history and promote the deep integration of historical culture with tourism and cultural and creative industries, so that the millennium-old cultural context can bloom with new brilliance in the contemporary era.
Geological Culture Shows Wonders: Geoscience Treasures Show Charm
Geological culture is Benxi's unique natural endowment. As the only national geological park named after an administrative division in the country, its unique geological structure has nurtured a rich and diverse geological heritage. There are 14 stratotype sections named after geographical names in the Benxi area, among which the "Benxi Formation (本溪组)" stratotype section has become an important basis for stratigraphic comparison in the North China Platform area of China and international Carboniferous comparison, and has high scientific research value. Nature's miraculous craftsmanship has shaped many geological wonders: Benxi Water Cave (本溪水洞) Scenic Area is the world's longest underground dark river scenic area that can be continuously toured by boat. Wangtian Cave's winding labyrinthine cave passages and exquisite rimstone dams constitute a typical representative of karst landforms in northern China; Niumaoling (牛毛岭) Geological Park, Benxi Pingdingshan (平顶山) Geological Culture Museum and other scenic spots show the geological evolution process from ancient marine sediments 300 million years ago to today's mountain city landscape. In addition, the complex geological structure has also nurtured rich mineral resources, diverse water resources, and unique geothermal anomaly zones and river cave groups, forming a complete geological picture.
To promote geological culture, Benxi has formulated a systematic development plan, planning to establish the Benxi Geological Culture Research Center, integrate scientific research resources, and strengthen cooperation with domestic and foreign universities and scientific research institutions; innovate communication methods, use new media platforms to carry out geological-themed calligraphy, poetry, and photography exhibitions, so that geological culture is close to the masses; strengthen the protection of geological heritage, improve the protection system, and broaden the protection field; promote the development of new formats of "geology + cultural tourism" and "geology + ecology," so that tourists can appreciate natural wonders while feeling the profound connotation of geological culture, and build the core competitiveness of Benxi's cultural tourism industry with geological culture as the center.
Ethnic Culture Integrates Emotions: Multicultural Coexistence Shows Splendor
Multicultural coexistence is a vivid feature of Benxi's ethnic culture, demonstrating the unique charm of exchanges and integration among various ethnic groups. As a multi-ethnic gathering place, Benxi City has 2 ethnic minority autonomous counties, with ethnic minorities accounting for more than 30% of the population, and cultures such as Manchu and Korean coexist here. Traditional settlements and life scenes such as Manchu villages and folk kang (炕) are well preserved. Benxi actively protects Manchu cultural heritage and safeguards the roots of ethnic minority languages; through holding ethnic cultural festivals, it showcases traditional skills such as Manchu embroidery and paper-cutting, so that Manchu folk customs can be inherited. Korean Farmers' Dance, as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects, is a shining business card of Benxi's ethnic culture. Benxi revitalizes the ancient art of the times through regular performances and activities in schools and communities.
Benxi's folk culture is rich and colorful. Benxi Manchu paper-cutting, traditional woodblock New Year paintings, and inkstone making techniques (Songhua Stone Inkstone making techniques) and other intangible cultural heritage projects have their own characteristics. Storytelling, Pingju opera and other folk arts are widely spread. Cultural commissioners go deep into the countryside to carry out literary and artistic guidance and activity planning, activate the vitality of grassroots ethnic culture, so that diverse ethnic cultures can innovate in inheritance and coexist in integration, becoming an important link to unite ethnic emotions and promote social harmony.
Industrial Culture Innovation: Steel Heritage Renews
Industrial culture is the urban imprint of Benxi's rise due to coal and iron. Benxi has witnessed the development process of China's modern industry. Benxi Iron and Steel Group (本钢集团) is known as the "Meritorious Enterprise of the Republic" and has made important contributions to the country's industrial construction. The Benxi Lake Industrial Heritage Group has been announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit and selected into the first batch of national industrial heritage lists, condensing the city's industrial memories and glory. Today, Benxi takes the protection and utilization of industrial heritage as a starting point to revitalize industrial culture. By carrying out a city-wide industrial heritage census, establishing an industrial heritage database, and systematically sorting out the industrial cultural context; holding activities such as the Benxi (International) Maple Leaf Festival, the "Benxi · Maple YEAH!" Music Festival, and the Benxi Trendy Electronic Music Beer Festival, the Benxi Lake Industrial Heritage Group has been transformed from abandoned factories into cultural landmarks, attracting citizens and tourists to feel the charm of industrial culture; organizing "cultural visits" activities, launching Benxi industrial tourism boutique routes, and inviting key industrial enterprises to go deep into the front line of production to perceive the development process of the steel industry and understand the struggle philosophy, innovative concepts, and sense of responsibility contained in excellent corporate culture.
In terms of spiritual inheritance and industrial innovation, Benxi adheres to the industrial development concept of "**坚韧不拔、精益求精**" (jiān rèn bù bá, jīng yì qiú jīng - "unyielding and striving for excellence," describes a persistent and meticulous approach to work), encouraging enterprises to transform and upgrade; relying on industrial heritage resources to develop industrial tourism and cultural and creative industries, develop industrial-themed cultural and creative products, and promote the deep integration of industrial culture and modern industries, injecting new momentum into the city's economic transformation and development.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Benefits the People: Inheritance and Innovation Nourish People's Livelihood
Benxi's traditional Chinese medicine culture has a long history and profound heritage. Adhering to the concept of "inheriting the essence, upholding integrity and innovation," it has deeply implemented the "Five Famous Projects" of "famous hospitals, famous departments, famous doctors, famous prescriptions, and famous techniques" to build a new pattern for the development of traditional Chinese medicine.
In terms of driving by famous hospitals, a traditional Chinese medicine urban medical group has been established to improve the three-level traditional Chinese medicine service network at the city, county, and township levels, so that the masses can enjoy high-quality traditional Chinese medicine services at their doorsteps; in terms of building a foundation with famous departments, 17 provincial-level and above key traditional Chinese medicine clinical specialties have been consolidated and upgraded, and specialty alliances have been established to improve the ability of traditional Chinese medicine to treat acute and critical illnesses; in terms of empowering famous doctors, famous veteran traditional Chinese medicine inheritance studios have been built, "master-apprentice" activities have been carried out, and vocational skills competitions have been held to expand the talent team; in terms of inheriting famous prescriptions and promoting famous techniques, the research and protection of local characteristic traditional Chinese medicine preparations have been strengthened, the local characteristic traditional Chinese medicine processing techniques have been systematically sorted out, famous prescriptions and effective prescriptions have been sorted out, and a "Benxi Famous Prescription Database" has been established. At the same time, 3 traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technology training bases have been built to carry out technical training for grassroots medical personnel. In addition, Benxi also held the "National Quintessence of Qihuang, Healthy Benxi" traditional Chinese medicine culture night market theme activity to create characteristic brands such as "Benxi Herbs, Authentic Good Medicine" to make traditional Chinese medicine culture deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
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Red culture, historical culture, geological culture, ethnic culture, industrial culture, and traditional Chinese medicine culture blend and coexist harmoniously, constituting the unique regional culture of Benxi, which is Benxi's spiritual symbol and development foundation. In the future, Benxi will continue to deeply cultivate the fertile cultural land, promote the deep integration of culture with economy, society, and ecology, let the millennium-old cultural context bloom with more dazzling brilliance in the new era, inject a continuous stream of cultural power into high-quality development, and strive to write a new chapter in Benxi's practice of Chinese-style modernization.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Benxi Municipal Committee
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Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, pointed out: "Formulating medium and long-term plans to guide economic and social development is an important way for our Party to govern the country." The national development plan is an important way to transform the Party's propositions into the will of the state and strategic visions into the common actions of the whole society. It is also a concentrated embodiment of the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. The Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress deliberated and approved the "Law of the People's Republic of China on National Development Planning" (hereinafter referred to as the "National Development Planning Law"), which is a major event in the political life of the Party and the state. It is of great milestone significance for better leveraging the strategic guiding role of national development planning and promoting high-quality development. At a critical period of consolidating the foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization and making comprehensive efforts, and in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the promulgation of the National Development Planning Law clarifies the guiding ideology and principles that should be adhered to in national development planning work, and makes comprehensive and systematic provisions on the specific procedures for the preparation, review, approval, implementation, and supervision of national development plans. It will use the stability of the law to cope with the uncertainty of the external environment, and provide a strong institutional guarantee for scientifically preparing and effectively implementing national development plans on the track of the rule of law, and for continuing to strive to achieve the grand goal of building a strong socialist modern country in an all-round way.
The promulgation of the National Development Planning Law is an urgent requirement for the modernization of national governance.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "With the development of the times and the advancement of reform, the modernization of national governance requires an increasingly scientific and complete legal normative system." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has adhered to the comprehensive rule of law and incorporated economic and social development into the track of the rule of law in an all-round way. The legalization of economic and social fields has been advancing steadily. The formulation and promulgation of the National Development Planning Law provides a more complete institutional guarantee for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and has far-reaching significance for consolidating the legal foundation of Chinese-style modernization.
An important manifestation of the construction of the rule of law in China. Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The rule of law is an important support for the national governance system and governance capabilities." Since the new era, under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee, we have compiled the Civil Code, revised the Legislation Law, formulated and implemented the Yangtze River Protection Law, and promulgated the Private Economy Promotion Law. The construction of the rule of law in China has made breakthrough progress and historical achievements, and the guaranteeing role of the rule of law in consolidating the foundation, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term has become increasingly prominent. The formulation and promulgation of the National Development Planning Law is a summary and refinement of the successful experience of national development planning work over a long period of time, especially since the new era. It establishes long-term effective practices as legal and institutional norms, and provides a strong legal guarantee for better leveraging the strategic guiding role of national development planning, which is conducive to enhancing the overall effectiveness of the national planning system under the new situation. This marks that the national development planning work has entered a new stage of legalization, which not only improves the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, but also fully demonstrates our Party's firm determination to govern the country according to law and exercise state power according to law.
An objective need to improve the socialist market economic system. Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The socialist market economy is essentially an economy ruled by law." Properly handling the relationship between the government and the market is the core issue of economic system reform. Against the backdrop of the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes, the continuous rise of geopolitical risks, and the frequent fluctuations of the world economy, what business entities most expect is stable expectations. The National Development Planning Law is based on the Constitution, regulates the formulation of national development plans, guarantees the implementation of national development plans, and endows national strategic intentions with the authority, solemnity, and certainty of the law, which can effectively avoid policy changes and provide a fair, transparent, and predictable policy environment for business entities. The National Development Planning Law clearly defines the boundaries of the government's powers and responsibilities in the preparation and implementation of plans, which in essence draws a "red line" for public power and leaves sufficient space for the market to allocate resources. This is both a legal escort for an effective market and a legal regulation for an effective government, which has an irreplaceable "ballast stone" role in stabilizing the overall macroeconomic situation, stimulating the vitality of business entities, and stabilizing the expectations of the entire society.
An inevitable requirement for enhancing the ability to govern the macroeconomy. Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Improve the macroeconomic governance system and give play to the strategic guiding role of national development planning." Institutional advantages are the greatest advantages of a country, and institutional competition is the most fundamental competition between countries. Institutional competition is largely reflected in the competition of strategic planning capabilities. The National Development Planning Law provides important legal support for better transforming the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics into governance effectiveness. From the perspective of legal logic, the National Development Planning Law, through strict legal norms, promotes the formation of a national planning system with accurate positioning, clear boundaries, complementary functions, and unified connection, which can ensure that the deployment and implementation of national strategic goals are not reduced due to administrative levels, not distorted due to local interest games, and not arbitrarily changed or tossed around. From the perspective of governance effectiveness, the National Development Planning Law, through legal procedures, runs the national will through the entire process of economic and social development, improves the macroeconomic governance system, and promotes the efficient coordination of various policies such as fiscal, monetary, industrial, and regional policies. This kind of high-efficiency governance based on the rule of law will greatly enhance the country's strategic ability to mobilize various resources and respond to risks and challenges, and provide solid legal support for our country to win the initiative in fierce international competition.
Profoundly grasp the basic spirit of the National Development Planning Law
The formulation of the National Development Planning Law has always adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implemented Xi Jinping (习近平)'s economic thought and Xi Jinping (习近平)'s thought on the rule of law, and thoroughly implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee. The key to profoundly understanding and grasping the basic spirit, basic content, and basic requirements of this law lies in deeply understanding and grasping how this law ensures that the Party's propositions and national strategic intentions take root through legal procedures.
Highlight adherence to the Party's overall leadership. At the opening ceremony of the seminar for leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial levels to study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping (习近平) systematically summarized the rich experience created and accumulated by our Party in the long-term practice of formulating and implementing five-year plans, the first of which is to adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee. From the first five-year plan to the 15th five-year plan for the development of the national economy, each one was formulated, implemented and completed under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. It is precisely because we have always adhered to the leadership of the Party that our country has been able to maintain strategic focus and continue to struggle for decades, creating two major miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. The National Development Planning Law clearly states in the "General Principles": "National development planning work adheres to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and fully implements the Party's line, principles, policies, and the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee." This overall requirement is not an abstract political slogan, but is embedded in specific legal requirements. The national development plan is organized and prepared by the State Council in accordance with the CPC Central Committee's proposals and decisions on the formulation of the five-year plan for national economic and social development. The draft national development plan is submitted to the CPC Central Committee and the State Council for deliberation in accordance with the prescribed procedures, and then submitted by the State Council to the National People's Congress for review and approval in accordance with the procedures prescribed by law. This legally straightens out the logic of the transformation of the Party's propositions into the will of the state, fully demonstrates the Party's leading core role in commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties, ensures that the planning work always advances along the correct political direction, and realizes the organic unity of adhering to the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and governing the country according to law.
Establish the leading position of national development planning. In response to the problems of complicated types and vague positioning in the past planning system, the National Development Planning Law establishes the leading position of national development planning and optimizes and improves the national planning system, which is a major highlight. This law clarifies that the state establishes and improves a national planning system with the national development plan as the leader, the territorial space plan as the foundation, the special plan and regional plan as the support, and the national and local plans jointly composed, which contains profound systemic thinking. Among them, the national development plan solves the strategic goals and strategic orientation of "what to do and when to do it," and plays the role of "general command stick"; the territorial space plan solves the spatial layout problem of "where to do it," and plays the role of guiding according to local conditions; the special plan and regional plan solve the specific path problem of "how to do it," and play the role of classifying and implementing policies. For localities, this law requires that the draft outline of the five-year plan for national economic and social development of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government should be consistent with the national development plan, which not only ensures the implementation of national strategies, but also prevents the planning content from being "generally the same from top to bottom," and encourages combining their own comparative advantages to accurately locate the characteristics of local development in the overall national strategy.
Clarify the important principles for scientific planning. The key to planning is science, and authority comes from the rule of law. The National Development Planning Law clarifies strict "hard constraints" in terms of the principles and procedures for planning preparation, stipulating that it should follow the laws of nature, economic laws, and social development laws, and adhere to the integration of domestic and international, the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation, the connection between medium and long-term goals and short-term goals, the coordination of comprehensive planning and highlighting key points, and the unity of strategic and operational. This law adheres to the concept of whole-process people's democracy, establishes public participation, expert argumentation, and auxiliary support from think tanks as legal procedures, requires carrying out preliminary research and strengthening multi-angle argumentation and multi-program comparison, and soliciting opinions and suggestions from the public through the Internet and other means, truly achieving "open planning" and unifying top-level design and asking the people for advice. In specific planning preparation, in order to prevent "brainstorming" decisions and "image projects," the preparation of national development plans should comprehensively consider factors such as element support conditions, resource and environmental carrying capacity, financial affordability, and major risk prevention. As required, the setting of any planning goal must be based on rigorous financial assessment and risk research and judgment, that is, to answer a series of major practical questions such as "whether the development foundation is good," "whether the conditions are sufficient," "where the money comes from," and "how to control risks." These provisions mark that the preparation of national development plans is more institutionalized and standardized, which is conducive to ensuring that the main goals and indicators of economic and social development, major strategic tasks, major policy measures, and major engineering projects can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Strengthen the review and approval of development plans and the supervision of the implementation of development plans. The National Development Planning Law constructs an all-round, whole-process, and multi-level review and supervision system. In terms of review and approval, it strengthens the review power of the National People's Congress, further refines the review procedures, and clarifies the preliminary review by the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress and the review by various delegations; in terms of planning adjustment, it tightens the cage of the system, clearly stipulating that "after the national development plan is promulgated, it shall not be adjusted without legal procedures," and strictly limits the conditions for adjustment and the reporting and approval procedures; in terms of supervision of the implementation of the plan, it clearly forms a "combination punch" of people's congress supervision, supervision by supervisory organs and audit organs in accordance with the law, ensuring that each link of the plan from preparation, implementation to evaluation is based on law and has rules to follow. These deployments are conducive to promoting the transformation of the planning blueprint into development results without discount.
Practical requirements for implementing the National Development Planning Law
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation." In the process of promoting Chinese-style modernization, to implement the National Development Planning Law, we must adhere to the concept of systems, improve the implementation mechanism in accordance with the provisions of the law, strengthen policy coordination, and build a whole-chain legalized implementation system from goal decomposition, policy support, element guarantee to monitoring and assessment, and transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness.
Strengthen the effective connection between the annual plan for social development, other plans at all levels and of all types, and the national development plan. 不积跬步，无以至千里 (bù jī kuǐ bù, wú yǐ zhì qiān lǐ - "without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles," great achievements come from accumulating small efforts). To implement the National Development Planning Law, the first thing to do is to make the connection between the annual plan for national economic and social development and the national development plan solid and detailed; at the same time, we should focus on the refinement and implementation of the key areas and tasks of the national development plan in other plans at all levels and of all types, to ensure that the specific deployments in various fields are in the same direction as the overall national strategy. For the binding indicators determined by the national development plan, annual decomposition should be carried out in accordance with the law, the bottom line of annual progress should be clarified, and it should be included in the task list of various regions and departments to ensure that not only the "total account" is calculated, but also the "detailed account" and "progress account" are calculated. The annual plan for national economic and social development, as a short-term regulation and control means, should serve the medium and long-term cross-cycle design. When formulating annual investment plans and lists of major projects, priority should be given to arranging major engineering projects determined by the national development plan, and the medium and long-term "planning map" should be transformed into an operable "construction map" to ensure that our country's development strategic goals accumulate small victories into big victories.
Enhance the consistency of macroeconomic policy orientation. The formation of a joint force of macroeconomic policies is an important guarantee for the implementation of the plan. Improving the coordination mechanism between national development planning and macroeconomic policies and work coordination is an important guarantee for improving the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capabilities. We must establish and improve a macroeconomic policy coordination mechanism led by the national development plan, and take the national development plan as the basic basis for formulating macroeconomic policies. Through legal procedures, ensure that the "strength" of fiscal policy, the "precision" of monetary policy, and the "guidance" of industrial policy resonate at the same frequency under the baton of the national development plan. Before the introduction of important policies such as fiscal, monetary, industrial, price, employment, and regional, land, and environmental protection policies, compliance and consistency reviews should be conducted against the strategic goals of the national development plan, and non-economic policies such as safety, environmental protection, and social supervision should be included in the consistency assessment to prevent the occurrence of "composition fallacy" of macroeconomic policies due to departmentalism and excessive layering.
Build a resource element guarantee mechanism for the implementation of the plan. The implementation of the plan cannot be separated from the support and guarantee of element resources. We must, in accordance with the provisions of the law, break the traditional inertia of resource allocation and adhere to the principle that projects follow the plan and elements follow the projects. The law clearly states that "central fiscal funds should be prioritized for major strategic tasks, major policy measures, and major engineering projects determined by the national development plan," which requires strengthening the dynamic matching of medium and long-term fiscal plans and national development plans to ensure that national strategic tasks have long-term and stable funding channels. Guide financial capital, land indicators, data resources, etc. to gather in the fields of technological innovation, green transformation, and people's livelihood. Projects that do not conform to the guidance of the national development plan will not be approved, supplied with land, or loaned, to prevent blind launches and rushes.
Strengthen the connection between local development plans and national development plans. Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "When planning economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, all regions should accurately locate themselves in the overall national situation and strengthen planning connection." The "Opinions on Unifying the Planning System and Better Giving Play to the Strategic Guiding Role of National Development Planning" issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in 2018 made institutional arrangements for straightening out planning relations and improving planning management. The key to implementing the National Development Planning Law lies in maintaining the authority of the national planning system, ensuring that the whole country is a chess game, and adhering to the principle that lower-level plans are subordinate to higher-level plans, lower-level plans serve higher-level plans, and equal-level plans coordinate with each other. When formulating local development plans, all regions should strengthen the awareness of alignment and establish a strict planning filing review and compliance review system. In terms of goal setting, spatial layout, and industrial selection, local development plans should be subject to the main functional area strategy and major productivity layout determined by the national development plan. They must not cross the 雷池半步 (léi chí bàn bù - "half a step beyond the thunder pool," to go beyond the limit) for the national clearly defined prohibited development zones and ecological red line zones, and must not make changes to the national determined tasks of reducing production capacity and adjusting the structure. At the same time, it is necessary to prevent both local protection and market segmentation, and to avoid mechanical implementation. Encourage all regions to combine their own comparative advantages to accurately locate differentiated positions, but never engage in low-level repeated construction or disorderly vicious competition that is contrary to the overall national strategy.
Strengthen the connection between local development plans and national development plans. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "When planning economic and social development for the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, all regions should accurately position themselves within the overall national situation and strengthen planning coordination." The "Opinions on Unifying the Planning System to Better Leverage the Strategic Guiding Role of National Development Planning," issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) and the State Council (国务院) in 2018, made institutional arrangements for streamlining planning relationships and improving planning management. The key to implementing the National Development Planning Law lies in maintaining the authority of the national planning system, ensuring a coordinated national effort, and adhering to the principle that lower-level plans are subordinate to higher-level plans, lower-level plans serve higher-level plans, and plans of equal status are mutually coordinated. When formulating local development plans, all regions must strengthen their awareness of aligning with national benchmarks and establish strict planning record review and compliance review systems. In terms of target setting, spatial layout, and industrial selection, local development plans must comply with the functional zoning strategy and major productivity layouts determined by the national development plan. They must not cross the line for nationally designated prohibited development zones and ecological red line areas, and they must not make compromises on nationally determined tasks of reducing overcapacity and adjusting the structure. At the same time, it is necessary to prevent both local protectionism and market segmentation, and to avoid mechanical execution. We encourage all regions to identify differentiated positioning based on their own comparative advantages, but we must never engage in low-level duplication or disorderly and vicious competition that runs counter to the overall national strategy.
Improve the full-cycle monitoring, evaluation, and accountability system. The guarantee of execution lies in supervision. The National Development Planning Law incorporates the implementation of planning into the scope of rule-of-law supervision, and regards supervision, evaluation, and assessment as "hard indicators" for implementation. It is necessary to implement the provisions on mid-term evaluation and summary evaluation, and comprehensively use modern information technology to improve the scientific nature of the evaluation. The mid-term evaluation report shall be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会常务委员会) for deliberation after being approved by the Party Central Committee (党中央); the summary evaluation report shall be submitted to the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) together with the draft national development plan for the next planning period for review and approval after being approved by the Party Central Committee (党中央). For problems found in the evaluation, establish a "problem list" and a "rectification ledger" to promote the implementation of the plan. Establish a clear assessment and accountability mechanism, and take the implementation of the national development plan as an important reference for measuring the performance of duties by all regions and departments in accordance with the law. Those who engage in formalism and superficiality in the implementation of the plan, or who violate regulations in approving projects, blindly incur debts, or engage in vanity projects, will be held legally responsible in accordance with the law. Adhere to the principle that power must be accompanied by responsibility, responsibility must be shouldered, and accountability must be pursued for dereliction of duty, to ensure that the national development plan takes root and is effectively implemented.
(Author's Affiliation: Xi Jinping (习近平) Economic Thought Research Center (习近平经济思想研究中心))
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Scientific decision-making is an important component of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance in the learning and education's general requirements. Faced with the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, whether leading cadres can make scientific decisions is closely related to their scientific literacy and industrial vision. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during the 24th collective study of the 20th Politburo of the Central Committee, "Leading cadres at all levels should strengthen their learning of cutting-edge scientific knowledge and strive to know technology, understand industry, and be good at decision-making," which points out a specific path for leading cadres to establish and practice a correct view of performance and improve their ability and level to make scientific decisions.
High-quality development is the theme of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation is an important measure to promote high-quality development. Both technological innovation and industrial innovation have characteristics such as forward-looking and strategic, requiring scientific planning and overall coordination. If leading cadres know very little about the forefront of science and technology and do not have a deep understanding of the laws of industrial development, their decisions may deviate from reality and miss opportunities. In reality, some leading cadres are accustomed to "path dependence" and are not sensitive to technological development, failing to find the direction of industrial development; others are eager to achieve quick results and blindly follow the trend in launching projects, leading to problems in economic development. These situations expose deviations in the performance views of some leading cadres and reflect obvious shortcomings in their ability to perform their duties. Only by being good at decision-making on the basis of knowing technology and understanding industry can we promote the development of the Party and the country with outstanding achievements.
Knowing technology means being good at grasping the trends of technological development and improving the ability to strategically predict cutting-edge science and technology. The current "acceleration" of technological breakthroughs is beyond imagination. If leading cadres do not maintain a high degree of attention to the dynamics of technological development at home and abroad, they will not be able to understand the forefront or accurately grasp the direction. Only by understanding the main direction of the new round of technological revolution, grasping the underlying logic of technological iteration, and understanding which technologies may trigger industrial changes and which still need time to cultivate, can we know the general trend and application logic of technological development, grasp the essence from complex technological concepts, and foresee the possibility of its industrialization from the dynamic changes of technology.
Understanding industry means scientifically understanding the pulse of industrial structure and the evolution of the modern industrial system, clearly grasping the development trend of industrial intelligence, greening, and integration, and clarifying the internal mechanisms of traditional industrial upgrading, emerging industrial growth, and future industrial cultivation. Industrial development has its own laws. We must neither try to help seedlings grow by pulling them up nor wait for opportunities. We must comprehensively consider factors such as national strategic needs, technological maturity, and element support conditions to truly achieve industrial layout that is adapted to local conditions and differentiated development. Understanding industry requires going deep into the practice of industrial development, clarifying what the region's industrial base has, where the bottlenecks in the industrial chain and supply chain are, and what the direction of the industry's climb to the high end of the value chain is. Those "picking up everything in the basket" investment promotion ideas and "rushing into action" industrial layouts are, in the final analysis, manifestations of not understanding industry.
Knowing technology and understanding industry are the keys to good decision-making. If you do not understand technology, your understanding of industry will remain at the superficial and local levels, and decision-making will inevitably be like "盲人摸象" (máng rén mō xiàng - "blind men touch an elephant," to draw a wrong conclusion from incomplete data). If you are divorced from industry, technological knowledge will be difficult to transform into real productivity, and decision-making may become an "ivory tower." Good decision-making is the foothold of knowing technology and understanding industry. On the basis of knowing technology and understanding industry, we must base ourselves on reality, scientifically weigh the pros and cons, and find the optimal solution under multiple constraints in order to make scientific decisions, organically combine technology and industry, and truly transform technological variables into industrial increments.
Good decision-making must have both "accuracy" and "tenacity." Having "accuracy" means adhering to seeking truth from facts and adapting to local conditions, and determining the roadmap for technological innovation and industrial innovation based on the region's resource endowments and industrial base. Having "tenacity" means adhering to 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieving success through persistent effort," persistent effort leads to success). Strengthening technological innovation and building a modern industrial system often require long-term investment. If you are impetuous and eager for quick success, it will only cause waste of resources. Leading cadres should have the realm of "achieving success does not necessarily have to be me" and the responsibility of "achieving success must have me," not engaging in mere formalities, not doing superficial work, and not "东一榔头西一棒槌" (dōng yī láng tóu xī yī bàng chuí - "hit east hammer west club," unsystematic; haphazard), putting their minds on learning cutting-edge technology, putting their efforts on the transformation of old and new industrial drivers, identifying the direction of industrial development and transforming it into an actionable task list, taking firm steps step by step, and taking solid steps in high-quality development.
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Finance is the core of the modern economy and an important component of national core competitiveness. The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics is an unprecedented path of innovation, which elevates our Party's understanding of the essential laws and development paths of financial work to a new height. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics not only follows the objective laws of modern financial development, but also has distinct characteristics suitable for China's national conditions, and is essentially different from the Western financial model." To deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, it is necessary to further understand the theoretical transcendence and practical value of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics from the perspective of combining theory and practice, and enhance the theoretical and practical consciousness of accelerating the construction of a financial powerhouse.
Finance is the lifeblood of the real economy. Historically, the Western financial model has been prominent in mobilizing financial resources, promoting value discovery, and promoting economic growth, and has been regarded as a golden rule by some countries. However, practice has proved that the Western financial model has great drawbacks. In particular, in recent years, some Western economies have fallen into a state of sluggish growth, high inflation, industrial hollowing out, and frequent financial crises, exposing the defects of the Western financial model and reflecting that the Western financial model is no longer able to adapt to the inclusive and sustainable development requirements of today's era, and needs to be comprehensively and deeply theoretically reflected upon.
The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics has been forged under the leadership of our Party. The leadership of the Party is the most essential feature of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, and it is the greatest political and institutional advantage of China's financial development. Our Party uses Marxist financial theory to actively explore the laws of financial development in the new era, and deeply promotes the great practice of "two combinations" in the financial field. The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics forms a sharp contrast with the Western financial model, demonstrating strong vitality and significant advantages.
In terms of value orientation, we adhere to the people-centered approach. Serving capital and serving a few wealthy people is the essence of Western finance. In contrast, the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics adheres to the people-centered value orientation, promotes financial development for the people, continuously enhances the diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility of financial services, and better protects the rights and interests of financial consumers; promotes financial development relying on the people, adheres to asking the people about policies, asking the people about needs, and asking the people about plans in the formulation of financial policies, and promotes the mutual promotion of high-quality financial development and the high-quality life of the people; and promotes the sharing of financial development results by the people, improves a modern financial system with high adaptability, competitiveness, and inclusiveness, focuses on solving problems such as regional disparities, urban-rural disparities, and income disparities, and steadily promotes common prosperity. Adhering to the people-centered value orientation determines that the essence of China's finance is not a profit-seeking tool for a few people, but a public product serving the masses.
In terms of fundamental purpose, we adhere to serving the real economy. Finance is the lifeblood of the real economy. Serving the real economy is the natural duty of finance and a fundamental measure to prevent financial risks. Marx conducted a dialectical analysis of the relationship between virtual capital and real capital under the capitalist mode of production in *Das Kapital*, revealing the consequences of capitalist financial development deviating from the real economy. Finance can only achieve its own sustainable and healthy development by serving the real economy. The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics adheres to taking financial services to the real economy as its fundamental purpose. In terms of macro-control, it creates a good monetary and financial environment for the development of the real economy from the aspects of total amount, structure, and price; in terms of resource allocation, it does a good job in the "five major articles" of technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance, and strengthens financial support for key areas and weak links; in terms of micro-incentives, it better promotes the virtuous cycle of economy and finance by improving the compatibility of macro-control and micro-incentives.
In terms of governance, we adhere to scientific and steady practices. Marx's analysis of the periodic crises of the capitalist credit system revealed the limitations of relying solely on free market regulation. The international financial crisis that broke out in 2008 also showed that allowing capital to pursue profits will inevitably lead to crises. The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics adheres to the combination of an effective market and a capable government, strengthens the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) over financial work, establishes the Central Financial Commission (中央金融委员会), and forms a scientific and efficient decision-making and leadership mechanism; improves the dual-pillar regulatory framework of monetary policy and macro-prudential policy, and institutionalizes the prevention of systemic risks; comprehensively strengthens institutional supervision, behavioral supervision, functional supervision, transparent supervision, and continuous supervision, and effectively responds to the trend of complex financial formats and mixed operations. At the same time, it actively participates in international financial governance and cooperation, and pragmatically carries out multilateral and bilateral monetary and financial cooperation. This not only gets rid of the superstition of the free market, but also avoids excessive intervention in normal financial activities.
In terms of development, we adhere to overall coordination. The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics focuses on coordinating and handling the relationship between development and security, efficiency and fairness, innovation and stability, and opening up and autonomy. It encourages financial innovation and promotes high-quality financial development, while preventing the disorderly expansion of capital and guarding the bottom line of preventing systemic risks; it improves the efficiency of financial resource allocation, while paying attention to the role of finance in promoting common prosperity; it expands financial opening up, while safeguarding financial sovereignty and security; and so on. It is precisely the adherence to the concept of systems that has enabled China's financial development to maintain stable operation in a complex environment and avoid the drastic fluctuations of frequent crises in the Western financial system.
Since the new era, the quality of China's financial development has continued to improve, fully proving that the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics is viable and stable. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for basically realizing socialist modernization. To complete the strategic deployment of "accelerating the construction of a financial powerhouse," we must continue to explore in practice and make the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics wider and wider. First, we must explore the cultural genes of China's financial development, adhere to cultivating a financial culture with Chinese characteristics with the concepts of integrity, righteousness and benefit, and risk in the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and establish financial ethical norms that not only conform to international common rules but also have the characteristics of excellent traditional Chinese culture. Second, we must deeply summarize and refine the practical experience rooted in China's ultra-large-scale market complex governance situation, such as the supply-side structural reform of finance and the organic combination of policy-based finance and commercial finance, innovate and develop a Chinese-characteristic financial development theory with universal explanatory power, and deepen the theoretical interpretation of the path of Chinese-characteristic financial development. Third, based on China's national conditions and focusing on the common challenges facing mankind, we will systematically and deeply internationalize and transform the rich connotation of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, form theoretical achievements that can not only reflect Eastern wisdom but also participate in global dialogue, and contribute Chinese wisdom to the reform of global financial governance.
(The authors are the Vice President of the Central University of Finance and Economics (中央财经大学) and an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Finance and Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院金融研究所), respectively.)
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"Adhere to the simultaneous development of farming, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery, and increase the supply of diverse foods," "Deepen the implementation of the seed industry revitalization action, accelerate the selection and promotion of breakthrough varieties, promote the research and application of advanced and applicable agricultural machinery equipment, and clear the 'last mile' of agricultural technology promotion"... This year's "Government Work Report" made important arrangements around the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers." New technologies, new varieties, and new scenarios are constantly emerging in farmland. Starting today, this edition will launch a series of reports on "Fresh Things in Farmland," focusing on new agricultural achievements and phenomena such as watermelon breeding and unmanned farms, showcasing the vigorous vitality in the fields.
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The reporter saw at the Liguo Shunxin Shopping Supermarket in Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县), Shandong Province (山东省): On the shelves, round watermelons were very eye-catching. At noon, customers came in an endless stream, and from time to time someone would take one away, or hand it to the clerk to cut it open and sell it by weight.
China is the world's largest watermelon producer and consumer, with an annual watermelon output stable at around 60 million tons. According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, this output accounts for about 60% of the world's total.
Following the sweetness of "watermelon freedom," the reporter explored the story behind the stable supply of watermelons all year round.
Why is watermelon not weak in the off-season?
Strong consumer demand, guaranteed quality
At the Liguo Shunxin Shopping Supermarket, honey watermelons grown in Yunnan (云南) are priced at more than 4.99 yuan per catty. "Don't think the price is higher than in summer, it sells just as well." Supermarket manager Zhang Hongtao (张红涛) pointed to the watermelons being restocked and said. In the past half month, the average daily sales of watermelons in this supermarket have been stable at more than 160 catties, and can even exceed 240 catties on weekends.
Zhang Hongtao observed that customers who buy watermelons in the off-season do not buy large quantities at a time, but the frequency and willingness to buy are very high. Ms. Zhang (张女士), who was picking watermelons, is a regular customer. "Watermelon is full of moisture, sweet but not greasy, and the elderly and children in the family love to eat it." She said with a smile, "A while ago, it was still cold, and it was as enjoyable to blow on the warm air and eat watermelon at home as it is to drink cold drinks in the summer."
The reason why watermelon is not weak in the off-season is not only because consumers pay for taste and mood, but also because its quality is guaranteed. In order to ensure the best taste, the supermarket uses refrigerated display cabinets, where watermelons can maintain their best condition for 7-10 days. "Some customers are worried that the watermelon will not be ripe enough during this time, so we also provide a watermelon opening and inspection service to make customers feel more at ease." Zhang Hongtao said.
At the Hushan Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market (护山果蔬批发市场) in Jiaxiang Street (嘉祥街道), Jiaxiang County, 10 tons of watermelons just sent from the Hainan (海南) base are being unloaded. Li Jianguo (李建国), the owner who has been engaged in watermelon wholesale for more than 10 years, introduced that the local watermelons "Sweet King" and "Jingxin" are mostly sold in spring and summer. Once the weather turns cold, they mainly rely on the relay of southern producing areas, mostly varieties with tough skin and resistance to transportation, with sufficient sugar accumulation and stable taste.
The fact that watermelon is not weak in the off-season is also indirectly confirmed by the price trend. "The supply and price fluctuations of the watermelon market have significant seasonal characteristics." Zhao Junye (赵俊晔), a researcher at the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院农业信息研究所), introduced that every year after entering October, the supply of watermelons begins to decrease, and the price gradually rises. The national monthly average wholesale price of watermelons in the first quarter is generally more than 3 yuan per catty. After April, the market volume of watermelons increases significantly, and the price drops rapidly. Especially in the third quarter, when watermelons in northern producing areas are concentrated on the market, the price is usually at a low level throughout the year.
Are the watermelons eaten in different seasons from the same place?
Five major producing areas achieve continuous supply throughout the four seasons
Hainan Island (海南岛), with its abundant heat and sufficient light and temperature, is one of the main production bases of winter fruits and vegetables in the country. In the Beishan Yang (北山洋) planting base in Haitang District (海棠区), Sanya City (三亚市), Hainan Province, the watermelon harvest has been completed. "The variety is good, the packaging is good, and the sales are also good." Zhang Wei (张威), the head of the base and deputy general manager of Hainan Nongken Shenquan Group Co., Ltd. (海南农垦神泉集团有限公司), introduced that the seedless Kylin watermelons planted in the base have bright red flesh, crisp, sweet and juicy, and the sugar content (referring to the sugar concentration, the higher the value, the sweeter) can reach 14, which is very popular in the market.
In order to allow consumers in the distance to taste the sweetness across seasons, various ingenious ideas are used in the fields. The watermelons carefully selected by the workers are packed into special corrugated boxes, which can hold 4 watermelons weighing 10 to 12 catties, and thick cardboard is used to separate the watermelons. According to reports, the watermelons recently sent to other parts of the country only need to be moderately insulated during the journey, without cold chain logistics.
The watermelons grown in this base are mainly sent to supermarkets in Shandong (山东), Beijing (北京) and even Northeast China (东北地区). The market price of 4 yuan per catty is higher than the previous years' 2.8 to 3.5 yuan per catty. Zhang Wei introduced that the planting scale was expanded to 500 mu last year, with a yield of about 5,000 catties per mu, "the watermelons were all ordered while they were still in the ground."
In order to meet the watermelon's habit of liking heat and light but being afraid of waterlogging, the base built greenhouses to shelter the watermelons from wind and rain and maintain a relatively stable temperature and heat. The base also introduced a drip irrigation system and monitoring equipment to provide a suitable "microclimate" for watermelon growth.
What is the secret to the continuous supply of watermelons throughout the four seasons? Xu Yong (许勇), a researcher at the Vegetable Research Institute of the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (北京市农林科学院蔬菜研究所) and chief scientist of the National Watermelon and Melon Industry Technology System (国家西甜瓜产业技术体系), introduced that China has a vast territory and diverse geographical and climatic advantages. In addition, with the cultivation of suitable varieties and the widespread application of technologies such as facility protected cultivation, integrated water and fertilizer management, and green prevention and control, suitable areas and production environments for watermelon growth can be found in different seasons.
At present, China's watermelon has formed five major producing areas, mainly in the Yangtze River Basin (长江流域) and the Huanghuaihai region (黄淮海地区), accounting for more than 69%, supplemented by South China (华南), Northwest China (西北) and Northeast China. In terms of annual supply distribution, South China supplies in winter, the Yangtze River Basin and the Huanghuaihai region achieve early spring, Northwest China delays the market, and open-field planting in Northeast China and Northwest China guarantees summer and autumn supply.
How are personalized varieties cultivated?
Using molecular breeding, the flesh color is colorful and the types are diverse
In Yanjia Village (闫家村), Yaojia Town (姚家镇), Zhongmu County (中牟县), Henan Province (河南省), grower Ma Xiuhong (马秀红) has 2 mu of greenhouses. In addition to conventional varieties, she also reserved half a mu to grow rainbow watermelons. These days, she is busy transplanting the seedlings she has cultivated into the ground.
The rainbow watermelon that Ma Xiuhong mentioned is a special new variety developed by the Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院郑州果树研究所) in recent years. After cutting, it presents a two-color pulp with red and yellow interspersed, and the longitudinal section is like a rainbow. It is also high in sweetness, crisp in flesh, and rich in β-carotene.
"This variety is bred by crossing high-sweetness red-fleshed watermelons with crispy yellow-fleshed watermelons and screening and cultivating from the offspring." Zhao Shengjie (赵胜杰), associate researcher at the Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and expert of the Henan Watermelon and Melon Industry Technology System (河南省西甜瓜产业技术体系), introduced.
In order to meet consumers' personalized needs for eating watermelons, China's watermelon breeding has always kept up with the market. Xu Yong introduced that there are currently diverse types of watermelon varieties in China. From the maturity period, they can be divided into early-maturing, mid-early-maturing, and late-maturing, etc. From the size, they can be divided into large, medium, and small watermelons, etc. From the flesh color, they can be divided into red, yellow, orange, and colorful flesh colors. "Jingmei 2K" (京美2K), selected and bred by Xu Yong's team, weighs about 4 catties per fruit and has become the largest main cultivated variety of small watermelons in China, which is more suitable for current consumer demand.
Behind the colorful and diverse watermelons is the Chinese sweetness exuded by scientific and technological breeding. China's watermelon breeding technology innovation is in the world's first echelon, and the market share of domestic varieties exceeds 98%. High quality has become a standard configuration in the domestic market. As early as 2012, Xu Yong's team completed the mapping of the world's first watermelon gene map, opening the "black box" of the watermelon world, finding multiple disease-resistant genes for Fusarium wilt, anthracnose, and powdery mildew, and also clarifying the gene functions of fruit sugar content, size, shape, and other qualities.
"In recent years, we have adopted the latest molecular breeding methods to aggregate excellent trait genes of different watermelons through molecular markers, which has greatly improved the breeding efficiency, accuracy, and targeting, and shortened the breeding time from 7-10 years to 3-4 years." Xu Yong said.
In the future, what direction will watermelon be cultivated in? Xu Yong introduced that watermelon is currently facing challenges such as frequent extreme climates and increased new diseases in production; at the same time, consumers have higher and higher requirements for watermelon flesh color and quality, so it is still necessary to further explore the excellent genes of disease resistance, stress resistance, and high-quality resources, and continuously improve watermelon resistance and quality, and enrich variety types, "especially high-quality small and medium-sized fruits with diverse flesh colors will be the highlights of future watermelon varieties."
(Zhao Bo (赵博) participated in the writing)
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Entering 2026, artificial intelligence has become an important variable in reshaping the global productivity landscape and leading a new round of technological revolution, and is undergoing a paradigm shift from digital perception to physical interaction. China, with its complete industrial system and deep scene dividends, is realizing a strategic transformation from "application leadership" to "basic completion." Only by adhering to scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, coordinating development and security, and actively participating in global governance while improving new quality productivity, can we bridge the "digital intelligence divide" and promote the construction of a community of common destiny in cyberspace to a new stage.
I. Global Artificial Intelligence Development and Governance
Standing at the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," human society is transitioning from the "information age" to the "intelligent age." At present, the development of global artificial intelligence has surpassed the simple stage of large-scale model dialogue and text generation, and has entered a new era marked by "physical interaction" and "autonomous intelligence." This technological leap not only changes the way humans connect with the digital world, but also profoundly reconstructs the collaborative logic of algorithms, computing power, and data, outlining a new map of the intelligent era.
(I) Underlying Paradigm Innovation: Algorithm Upgrade, Computing Power Towards Green, Data Towards Quality
At the algorithm level, intelligent agent technology helps artificial intelligence evolve from a "dialogue assistant" to a "digital workforce" with task closed-loop capabilities; at the same time, embodied intelligence drives artificial intelligence to achieve a leap from digital intelligence to physical world perception through the integration of visual-language-action models. At the computing power level, computing power has evolved into a new quality productivity integrating transportation, calculation, and storage, and infrastructure is transforming towards "green inclusiveness and heterogeneous integration"; facing supply chain security, cost, and energy efficiency challenges, green computing power and energy-saving technologies such as liquid cooling have become new directions for sustainable development. At the data level, value orientation has shifted from massive stacking to high-quality governance, synthetic data has become the key to solving data scarcity in professional fields, and privacy computing and standardized asset management ensure the value release of data under the premise of security and compliance. The coordinated evolution of the three major elements jointly drives artificial intelligence towards in-depth social production and precise decision-making.
(II) Application Deepening: Global Artificial Intelligence Applications Reach New Heights
Currently, global artificial intelligence applications are undergoing a profound transformation from "perception and understanding" to "physical execution," which not only promotes the leap of artificial intelligence from the digital world to physical interaction, but also releases disruptive productivity in key areas. In key enabling areas, artificial intelligence is fully penetrating scientific research, medical care, and enterprise operations: "Artificial intelligence-enabled scientific research" promotes the paradigm shift of scientific research to autonomous discovery, becoming a strategic pillar that determines future scientific breakthroughs; digital intelligence medical care establishes a new path of "human-machine collaboration" for intelligent diagnosis and treatment through the deep integration of protein sequence analysis and clinical diagnosis and treatment; the digital intelligence transformation of enterprises has moved from single-point experiments to large-scale in-depth cultivation, transforming technological dividends into substantial business growth through process reconstruction. It is particularly noteworthy that intelligent manufacturing has become the main battlefield and policy focus for artificial intelligence to empower the real economy. Aiming at the key areas of artificial intelligence empowerment, since the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Special Committee of the World Internet Conference, it has focused on topics such as "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Scientific Research," "Artificial Intelligence Empowering Medical Health," and "Embodied Intelligence," relying on international platforms such as the Wuzhen Summit and the World Mobile Communication Conference to explore the cutting-edge application scenarios, key technological breakthroughs, and interdisciplinary innovation of artificial intelligence.
(III) Collaborative Governance: Building a New Multi-Dimensional Co-Governance Ecosystem in Risk Evolution
At present, global artificial intelligence governance is at a critical window period of transitioning from conceptual consensus to institutional implementation, showing a complex situation in which risk challenges and collaborative practices coexist. At the governance practice level, a new pattern of "multi-layer nesting and collaborative co-governance" is forming globally. The United Nations plays a leading role with its strong agenda-setting capabilities, and consolidates global consensus through top-level designs such as the *Global Digital Compact*; platforms such as the World Internet Conference contribute wisdom to the design of international mechanisms by releasing reports such as *Building a Global Artificial Intelligence Security and Governance System for the Common Welfare of Mankind*. At the implementation level, countries are competing to build characteristic regulatory systems, showing a multi-point breakthrough trend: China advocates a "development and security" solution, the European Union has introduced a legally binding Artificial Intelligence Act, and the United States and other countries focus on risk management and ecological cultivation. At the same time, the industry and academia are promoting the transformation of governance models from external passive supervision to endogenous active security by releasing "responsible expansion policies" and security commitments.
II. China's Strategic Leap and Scenario Practice in Artificial Intelligence Development
Based on the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," China not only ranks among the first echelon of global artificial intelligence development, but also has embarked on a path of independent innovation based on local realities in empowering new quality productivity and promoting scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. This leap is not only reflected in the quantitative leap in industrial scale, but also in the profound changes in innovation paradigms, ecological reconstruction, and value creation.
(I) Comprehensively Implement the "Artificial Intelligence+" Action to Lead the Profound Transformation of New Quality Productivity
Under the guidance of the national top-level strategy, artificial intelligence has become the core engine driving new industrialization. Especially in the manufacturing field, China is fully releasing the "scenario dividend" of the world's most complete industrial system through the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" special action. As of the end of 2025, China's manufacturing added value accounted for about 30% of the world, which provides an unparalleled testing ground for embodied intelligence and industrial intelligent bodies. The latest data shows that China's manufacturing robot density has climbed to 567 units/10,000 people, surpassing traditional manufacturing powerhouses. This process of deeply "combining" profound industrial heritage with cutting-edge artificial intelligence algorithms is a vivid portrayal of the vigorous development of new quality productivity. In this process, the application of artificial intelligence is advancing from single-point production optimization to the digital intelligence collaboration of the entire industrial chain.
(II) Deeply Cultivate the "Root Technology" to Consolidate the Cornerstone of High-Level Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance and Self-Improvement
In response to the long-standing structural challenge of "active application layer and the support capacity of the basic layer still needs to be strengthened," China is accelerating the shift of strategic focus to the underlying paradigm. Domestic frameworks such as Baidu PaddlePaddle (百度飞桨) and Huawei MindSpore (华为昇思) have made considerable progress in distributed training and large-scale parameter support, and are gradually shortening the ecological gap with international mainstream frameworks. In terms of the originality of the underlying algorithms, domestic models represented by Tongyi Qianwen (通义千问) and DeepSeek have achieved non-linear leaps in complex mathematical logic and multi-modal analysis through architecture innovation and efficiency optimization. At the same time, at the computing power infrastructure level, China is systematically promoting the integrated computing power network in accordance with the "point, chain, network, and surface" system, supporting the deep application of large models in key areas such as finance, transportation, and energy through the large-scale iteration of domestic high-performance hardware and the precise scheduling of one-stop computing power platforms, using the "certainty" of computing power to cope with the "uncertainty" of the external environment.
(III) Element Collaboration and Ecological Cultivation Drive the Intelligent Ecosystem to Move Towards the High End of the Value Chain
Talent is the first resource for innovation, and capital is an important support for development. China is accelerating the construction of a multi-level and composite talent cultivation system. As of 2025, the number of universities nationwide that have established artificial intelligence undergraduate majors has reached 626, promoting the continuous expansion of the talent team through the new paradigm of "artificial intelligence +" interdisciplinary integration. In the field of investment and financing, capital logic is undergoing a rational return from "valuation-driven" to "value landing." In 2025, domestic artificial intelligence financing events hit a record high, and funds accurately flowed to "hard technology" fields such as embodied intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and artificial intelligence base. The deep involvement of state-owned capital and industrial capital provides sufficient "patient capital" for artificial intelligence from laboratory prototypes to large-scale commercial deployment.
III. Bridging the "Digital Intelligence Divide" and Building a Community of Common Destiny in Cyberspace
The paradigm shift of global artificial intelligence makes the "digital intelligence divide" an important issue in building a community of common destiny in cyberspace. While strengthening the foundation of independent innovation, China promotes the transformation of digital intelligence transformation experience into a globally inclusive paradigm, and offsets the risks of digital intelligence inequality through the governance wisdom of "intelligence for good." Therefore, it is necessary to transcend unidirectional technological evolution and build a people-oriented global artificial intelligence security and governance system in international cooperation to ensure that intelligent dividends benefit every corner of the world.
(I) Face Up to and Bridge the "Digital Intelligence Divide" and Defend the Right to Global Equal Development
At present, the "digital intelligence divide" presents the characteristics of high concealment and strong complexity, which are mainly reflected in the imbalance of three dimensions: First, the network infrastructure divide, which is manifested as the global disconnection and stepped gap in coverage, transmission quality, and affordability, making low-income countries face severe access barriers; second, the intelligent element divide, the asymmetric distribution of computing power infrastructure, the head monopoly of original innovation capabilities, and the unidirectional siphon of high-end intellectual resources have led to the "Matthew effect" in the development of global artificial intelligence, exacerbating the "computing power poverty" of underdeveloped countries; third, the security protection divide, the uneven distribution of emergency response mechanisms, security governance systems, and cybersecurity education has significantly weakened the overall resilience of global digital development.
(II) China's Plan to Bridge the "Digital Intelligence Divide"
China contributes China's plan to bridge the global "digital intelligence divide" from three dimensions: infrastructure, governance system, and talent empowerment. In terms of base support, China promotes cross-border communication and smart city construction, and realizes the leap from "hardware output" to "capacity transfer" through satellite remote sensing data sharing, helping developing countries achieve technological leaps; in terms of governance collaboration, relying on institutional contributions such as the *Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative*, China transforms "intelligence for good" into an international consensus, providing a green and intelligent collaborative governance plan for implementing the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda; in terms of intellectual support, adhering to "teaching people how to fish," it builds a talent cultivation system through multi-level training platforms to help developing countries alleviate the "intellectual deficit." This series of measures effectively promotes the inclusive growth of global artificial intelligence dividends through the deep integration of hard connectivity, soft docking, and intelligent empowerment.
(III) Building a Global Artificial Intelligence Security and Governance System with the United Nations as the Core
Bridging the "digital intelligence divide" should not be just unidirectional technical assistance, but a paradigm reshaping of the global governance system. The international community urgently needs to build a new intelligent governance order of equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal rules through multilateral collaboration, so that the development results of artificial intelligence can shift from "local dividends" to "global inclusiveness." In order to cope with the unbalanced development of global artificial intelligence, a multilateral consultation platform should be built with the United Nations as the core to ensure that all countries participate equally in rule-making, enhance the legitimacy and inclusiveness of the governance system, and integrate risk prevention and control and standard construction through the *Global Digital Compact*. At the same time, it is necessary to deepen technology sharing and investment and financing innovation, build a cross-border flow mechanism for key elements, and increase financial support through North-South and South-South cooperation to bridge the "digital intelligence divide." In addition, a long-term capacity-building network should be established simultaneously to comprehensively enhance the adaptability of developing countries in local supervision, talent reserve, and risk governance, and ensure that all countries equally enjoy the right to digital development.
Artificial intelligence is not only a technological revolution that reconstructs productivity, but also an era issue concerning global fairness and the destiny of mankind. Through the collaborative breakthroughs of algorithms, computing power, and data, artificial intelligence is empowering high-quality development; and coping with the "digital intelligence divide" and building a governance system is essentially an adherence to fairness, justice, and multilateralism. In the future, only by adhering to "intelligence for good," deeply unifying scientific and technological self-reliance with open cooperation, and making innovation vitality and governance effectiveness work together, can intelligent technology become a bridge connecting civilizations and promote the world towards a more inclusive, safe, and resilient community of common destiny in cyberspace.
(The author is the Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference (世界互联网大会秘书长))
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On March 15, Apple adjusted its App Store commission policy in mainland China (中国内地（大陆）), stating that it will always maintain an overall fee rate no higher than that of other countries and regions. This not only means that Apple's previous discriminatory treatment of Chinese developers will be effectively eliminated, but also indicates that Apple will establish a long-term mechanism to effectively ensure that Chinese developers can continue to innovate in a fair and reasonable business environment.
This is the first time Apple has lowered the "Apple tax" since the App Store officially entered China 16 years ago in 2010. Apple's official statement revealed a key piece of information: the adjustment was made "based on communication with Chinese regulatory authorities." Apple's adjustment in China this time did not involve other fees, and there was no "hidden increase after an apparent decrease" 套路 (tàolù - "routine," a set pattern or trick), for example, in addition to commissions, Japan also charges payment processing fees, and the European Union also charges core technology fees, resulting in local developers still bearing higher overall fee rates. According to comprehensive calculations by industry developers, this basically reaches the lowest level of overall fee rates currently worldwide. Combining Apple's magnitude and attitude of this adjustment, it is not difficult to infer that Chinese regulatory authorities have effectively exerted pressure on it, reflecting that Chinese regulatory authorities are continuously improving digital market rules and enhancing regulatory discourse power in the process of deeply promoting normalized anti-monopoly supervision.
In fact, the Apple App Store's suspected monopoly has been widely criticized by the market. Apple is a closed ecosystem, and the Apple ecosystem only has this one App Store. Apple users can only install apps through the Apple App Store, with no other options. The Android system is highly open, supporting Huawei (华为), Xiaomi (小米), and other manufacturers' stores, as well as third-party app stores, in addition to the Google Store. Android users have multiple choices when installing apps.
Globally, strengthening anti-monopoly supervision of large technology companies is a general trend. From Google being required to split its advertising technology business in the United States, to Apple being forced to open up "sideloading" (third-party distribution and download channels) in countries and regions such as the European Union and Japan, to Amazon facing digital market anti-monopoly investigations, the "walled gardens" of technology giants are being breached by the anti-monopoly sword. Especially in the era of artificial intelligence, large technology companies have a deeper penetration into the lives of ordinary people, and the potential threats are also greater. Anti-monopoly supervision should be strengthened to maintain a fair and competitive market order, stimulate market innovation vitality, protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and escort the development of the digital economy.
China continuously strengthens anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition law enforcement and judicial practices, treating domestic and foreign-funded enterprises equally. In recent years, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) has investigated and dealt with monopoly cases such as the Alibaba Group's (阿里巴巴集团) "choose one of two" monopoly case and the Meituan's (美团) "choose one of two" monopoly case in accordance with the law, filed investigations against Google (谷歌) and Ctrip (携程), and implemented further investigations against Nvidia (英伟达), etc. At the same time, the State Administration for Market Regulation innovates regulatory methods, and for enterprises with potential risks, it promptly points out problems, transmits pressure, and urges rectification through various methods such as market investigations, reminders, and administrative interviews.
Under the high pressure of anti-monopoly, the reduction of the "Apple tax" in China will bring multiple wins. Chinese developers will reduce more than 6 billion yuan in cost expenditures annually, and the prices of consumer membership subscriptions, game recharges, live streaming rewards, and other scenarios are expected to decrease, and the entire industry is expected to break the old pattern of interests. However, it is worth noting that Apple has not yet opened "sideloading" in China, and Chinese users do not yet have multiple payment path choices such as third-party payments and external link payments. The market highly anticipates that under the continuous pressure of supervision, Apple can also dismantle the "fence" in China as soon as possible.
In today's world, the market is the most scarce resource. China has a super-large market advantage and has shifted from "using the market to exchange for technology" to "using the market to create technology." China has a superior innovation environment and talent reserves, constantly iterating commercial application scenarios, a rapidly developing digital economy, and active market competition, which can bring unique growth opportunities to multinational technology companies. It is believed that with the deepening of the construction of a unified national market and the continuous improvement of the digital governance system, the digital economy will usher in greater development opportunities.
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The 2026 London Book Fair, lasting three days, was recently held at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London (伦敦奥林匹亚展览中心). As an important indicator of the global publishing industry, this year's book fair attracted nearly a thousand exhibitors and 30,000 professionals from more than 90 countries and regions, with all parties engaging in in-depth exchanges on the development trends of the publishing industry. The Chinese publishing delegation, under the theme of "Reading China," showcased more than 4,000 selected books and held more than 40 special events focusing on book exhibitions, new book releases, author dialogues, and copyright cooperation. Many attendees stated that in recent years, the international community's interest in understanding and reading about China has continued to rise, and Sino-foreign publishing cooperation has presented an even richer and more vivid picture.
The China Joint Exhibition Stand at this London Book Fair featured five special exhibition areas, including Chinese Themed Books and Chinese Selected Books. The exhibited books not only carry the profound cultural heritage of the Chinese publishing industry but also demonstrate a distinct contemporary vitality. Among them, more than 1,300 foreign language books cover multiple languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, and Arabic, involving various categories such as politics, literature, culture, and children's books. These include academic monographs, popular readings, enlightenment picture books, Chinese learning materials, and academic journals, showcasing the diversified and professional development pattern of Chinese publishing, allowing overseas readers to appreciate vivid Chinese stories and experience the profound Chinese civilization.
Themed publications are the core section of the exhibition stand, becoming an important window for the international community to understand China in the new era. Books such as the English version of Volume I of "A Chronicle of Governing China in the New Era" ("新时代治国理政纪实"), "China's Proposal: Global Governance and International Cooperation" ("中国方案：全球治理与国际合作"), and "Analyzing China under the Global Development Initiative from an Economic Perspective" ("从经济视角解析全球发展倡议下的中国") analyze China's economic and social development achievements from multiple perspectives, demonstrating China's responsibility in global governance.
During the book fair, several reports focusing on China's economic and social development were released successively. Among them, the new book launch ceremony for the English versions of "China Development Report 2025" ("中国发展报告2025") and "Global Development Report 2025" ("全球发展报告2025"), guided by the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) and hosted by Foreign Languages Press (外文出版社) and China Development Press (中国发展出版社), was held. Long Guoqiang (隆国强), Vice President of the Development Research Center of the State Council (国务院发展研究中心), stated that "China Development Report 2025" interprets the code of China's development from the perspective of a think tank, comprehensively recording the thoughts, systems, and practical achievements of China's promotion of Chinese-style modernization in 2024; "Global Development Report 2025" focuses on global development issues, sorts out the progress of related agendas, and explores practical and feasible development paths. The two reports contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global development from different dimensions.
At the "China and the World in the New Era" theme seminar and multilingual new book launch event hosted by China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co., Ltd. (中国图书进出口（集团）有限公司), four multilingual new books were launched globally. Attendees such as John Ross (罗思义), former Director of Economic and Business Policy for the Mayor of London, and Ahmed El-Saeed (艾哈迈德·赛义德), President of Egypt's Hikmat Cultural Industry Group, fully affirmed the bridging role of Chinese publishing in mutual learning among civilizations, providing important inspiration for the international community to understand China more deeply. Marcelino Elosua (马塞利诺·埃洛苏瓦), founder of Spain's LID Editorial, said that publishing is not only a commercial activity but should also have cultural significance. The new books released that day further enriched the narratives and expressions about China's development with diverse perspectives and an international author lineup.
At the book fair, there were not only Chinese themed publications and traditional cultural works but also new content forms such as digital experiences and IP development. Classics and research results such as the *Yongle Encyclopedia* (*永乐大典*) and the *Warring States Bamboo Slips Collected by Tsinghua University* (*清华大学藏战国竹简*) were presented alongside VR immersive experience projects, reflecting the trend of Chinese publishing extending from "exhibiting books" to "exhibiting content ecosystems" on the international stage. Sino-foreign publishing cooperation models are not limited to simple copyright purchases but increasingly value full-chain cooperation such as content localization adaptation, translation quality polishing, global distribution and promotion, and digital technology linkage. Long-term strategic collaboration has become the mainstream consensus in the Sino-foreign industry.
During the book fair, multiple events such as the "Archaeology and Fairy Tales - Seminar on Cultural and博主题 Works," the "Mai Jia (麦家) Works Translation Exhibition," and the "China-UK Publishing Creative Industry Exchange Event" were also held. At the author dialogue salon, well-known Chinese writers exchanged and shared their creative journeys with overseas literature enthusiasts, telling the stories of national sentiments behind the words; at the China-UK publishing cooperation forum, experts from both countries spoke freely on hot topics such as publishing transformation, copyright protection, and digital publishing in the era of artificial intelligence, exchanging experiences; at the copyright signing ceremony, realistic works such as *Nehe Affairs* (*讷河往事*) and Chinese traditional cultural picture books were signed with overseas institutions, heading towards a broader global market.
Many people in the British publishing and translation industries stated that overseas interest in Chinese literature and Chinese culture has continued to rise in recent years. Jenny Niven (珍妮·尼文), Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (英国爱丁堡图书节), said after visiting the China Joint Exhibition Stand that the core of Chinese literature is extremely infectious. In the past, many readers had very limited understanding of Chinese works. Now, more and more high-quality translations are being implemented, and high-quality translations are building a bridge of communication, allowing more British readers to understand the warmth of Chinese stories. Paul Francis (保罗·弗朗西斯), Global Book Publishing Director of Springer Nature Group (施普林格·自然集团), said that the progress of Chinese academic publishing is obvious to all, and the Chinese publishing industry is becoming an indispensable and important force in the global industry. Ray (雷伊), a British publishing practitioner, said that publishing cooperation between China and other countries is increasingly showing a two-way exchange trend, emphasizing mutual understanding, joint participation, and continuous cooperation.
The survey data disclosed at the book fair attracted attention: only 1/3 of children in the UK are willing to actively read in their spare time, half of adults are gradually moving away from in-depth reading, and the reading habits of the younger generation are profoundly changed by digital entertainment. People in the global publishing industry are calling for optimizing the form of content products, launching lightweight, diagrammatic, and audio-visual readings to adapt to fragmented reading scenarios; linking social forces such as schools and communities to deeply cultivate children's reading enlightenment and cultivate a national reading environment. Marcelino Elosua (马塞利诺·埃洛苏瓦) said that only by adhering to content quality, protecting copyright value, and meeting reader needs can the long-term development of the industry be achieved. This is the common pursuit of the global publishing industry.
(Reported from London (伦敦) on March 16)
Return to TopJapan's "new militarism" is no longer just a dangerous trend but a real threat, and regional countries and the international community must be more vigilant and curb its spread.
Recently, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) delivered a policy speech, once again expressing a strong desire to revise the constitution, and proposed fundamentally strengthening Japan's defense capabilities, expanding the export of lethal weapons, and enhancing national intelligence capabilities, sending a clear signal to accelerate the promotion of "re-militarization." Some commentators in Japan pointed out sharply that 2026 may become the "first year of Japan's military transformation." This transformation is not only reflected in strengthening defense capabilities but also permeates various fields of the economy and society, such as industry, technology, and infrastructure, intending to make the entire country fully militarized.
In recent years, the Japanese right wing has become increasingly rampant, constantly promoting more covert and deceptive "new militarism." It is cloaked in the guise of "peace" and "defense," but its core goal is to get rid of the shackles of being a defeated country in World War II and promote Japan into a military power capable of using force or even launching wars against foreign countries. Since Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) took office, this process has accelerated comprehensively. In the political, military, diplomatic, and ideological fields, Japan has continuously broken through the constraints of the "Peace Constitution" and the post-war international order, and its pace of rearmament has become larger and faster.
Facts fully show that Japan's "new militarism" is no longer just a dangerous trend but a real threat, and regional countries and the international community must be more vigilant and curb its spread.
(1) Aberration: "New Militarism" retains the expansion genes of traditional militarism and has evolved new characteristics that are extremely deceptive.
In the Martyrs' Cemetery of Jiamusi City (佳木斯市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), lies the internationalist fighter Eiko Midorikawa (绿川英子). Eiko Midorikawa (绿川英子), originally named Teruko Hasegawa (长谷川照子), witnessed the tragedy of Japanese military aggression causing civilian casualties in China during the Anti-Japanese War. She resolutely devoted herself to the anti-Japanese movement and used Japanese to conduct "anti-war broadcasts" to Japanese soldiers and civilians: "When you shout that you will die to serve the Emperor and shed your blood on the land of China, do you know for whom you are working? And for whom are you loyal? Are the spirits on the altar of holy war heroes or criminals? Compatriots, don't shed your blood in the wrong place. Your enemies are not here across the sea..."
Eiko Midorikawa's (绿川英子) appeal directly pointed to the essence of modern Japanese militarism—implementing ideological control and military rule internally and promoting aggression and expansion externally. From the end of World War II to today, the ghost of militarism still roams over Japan. Japan's current "new militarism" is the stubborn breeding and abnormal evolution of militarism in the contemporary era. It retains the genes of expansion and has evolved new characteristics that are extremely deceptive.
Politically, modern Japan hardly experienced the stage of free capitalism, forming a feudal "clique" ruling group composed of financial groups and the government and military through interest ties and family marriages. Under the guise of modern Western democratic systems, Japan's ruling group after the war is still mainly composed of political families, professional bureaucrats, and financial giants, whose families can mostly be traced back to the pre-war ruling class. In this new ecology, radical politicians and professional bureaucrats have filled the "ecological niche" of the former military, and administrative power is deeply tied to the interests of financial groups. Under the cover of democratic procedures, they implement the will of military expansion and promote "new militarism."
Militarily, due to a lack of primitive accumulation and resources, the former Japanese militarism was extremely dependent on foreign wars and colonial plunder to supplement capital, adopting military adventurism of "**以小博大**" (yǐ xiǎo bó dà - "achieving big gains with small investment," to try to achieve a great victory with a small force). "New militarism" also regards war preparation as a core agenda, focusing on building offensive forces. However, limited by the "Peace Constitution" and the peace forces in Japanese society, its methods are more covert and deceptive: it no longer directly advocates aggression but uses the method of "salami slicing" to disguise its offensive intentions with "developing counterattack capabilities," package overseas military operations with "exercising the right to collective self-defense," and carry out war mobilization in the name of strengthening "economic security" and "crisis management," attempting to achieve military loosening under the guise of "compliance."
Economically, the former Japanese militarism implemented "high accumulation and low consumption," squeezing the people to support heavy industry and military production. Financial groups were both the foundation and the driving force of expansion, forming a vicious cycle. "New militarism" has also established a symbiotic relationship between rearmament and the interests of financial groups. The Japanese government obtains fiscal revenue through over-issuing national debt and increasing taxes and transfers it to financial groups in the form of huge military procurement, completing the transfer of wealth from ordinary people to the military-industrial interest groups. Once this huge military-industrial investment forms a path dependence, if the government cannot maintain and expand military procurement, the profits of financial groups will be difficult to sustain, and they will inevitably take all means to force national policies to further militarize.
Culturally, Japan's "new militarism" inherits the cultural dross of pre-war "Imperial History View" (皇国史观), "Yamato (大和) ethnic superiority theory" (大和民族优越论), and "Bushido" (武士道), adheres to the narrow logic of power politics and military expansion, and regards the development of neighboring countries as a strategic threat, which is the same as the "sovereign line" (主权线) and "interest line" (利益线) expansion theory advocated by militarism. In terms of content, "new militarism" adds so-called "universal values" such as "freedom, democracy, and human rights" as packaging to deceive the international community. In terms of means, it focuses on using algorithm recommendations and public opinion manipulation in the social media era to build "information cocoons" and subtly incite narrow nationalist sentiments. Not long ago, the well-known game and animation IP Pokémon planned to hold related activities at the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社), causing an uproar. This once again shows that the distorted historical view and view of war promoted by "new militarism" thinking are deeply penetrating the younger generation through covert channels such as cultural and sports entertainment.
Diplomatically, Japan's "new militarism" continues the logic of heavy speculation and provoking confrontation in geopolitical games, stirring up trouble with various manipulations, attempting to create convenience for strategic expansion. In recent years, the Japanese right wing has continued to promote the deepening of the Japan-U.S. alliance, willingly acting as a pawn in the so-called "Indo-Pacific Strategy"; increased its involvement in regional hotspot issues, wooed individual regional countries to deepen defense cooperation, and accelerated the pace of military disengagement through bilateral military cooperation; increased its linkage inside and outside the region, promoted "NATO's eastward expansion," and deeply intervened in global security issues under the guise of "proactive pacifism," seeking global action for the Self-Defense Forces (自卫队).
The poison of Japanese militarism has not been eliminated and is gradually fermenting. Eiko Midorikawa's (绿川英子) appeal of "don't shed your blood in the wrong place" resonates across time and space and is still deafening.
(2) Shaping: The result of the combined effects of the subtle growth of militarist ideology, the dominance of radical political forces, the abnormal changes in social and economic anxiety, and the fueling of interest groups.
"To this day, the so-called 'humiliation' of Japan's defeat in World War II still stubbornly lingers in the minds of Japanese right-wingers, and the 'revanchist' sentiment arising from this is constantly rising. They want to completely shroud Japanese society in the shadow of militarism again." Yuri Tavrovsky, a professor at the Russian People's Friendship University, worked in Japan in the 1980s and personally felt the rampant attempt of Japanese right-wingers to revive militarism. He recalled that Japanese right-wingers often held large-scale gatherings in public places such as crowded squares and even tried to win over primary and secondary school students and distribute leaflets and brochures to them.
The gradual formation of Japan's "new militarism" is the result of the combined effects of the subtle growth of militarist ideology, the dominance of radical political forces, the abnormal changes in social and economic anxiety, and the fueling of interest groups.
--Japanese militarism has not been thoroughly liquidated. Unlike Germany's thorough "de-Nazification" after the war, Japan's post-war democratization transformation was abandoned halfway under the influence of the U.S. Cold War strategy, and the poison of militarism was retained in Japan's political body.
After World War II, the United States, out of Cold War considerations, quickly shifted its policy toward Japan from "suppression" to "support," leading to the return of a large number of Class A war criminal suspects, including Nobusuke Kishi (岸信介), to the political arena without trial, and even occupying the power center such as the prime minister. These "ghosts" of the old era and their successors constructed the conservative political spectrum that has long governed Japan after the war, allowing militarist ideology to be retained in the core of power. As Atsushi Koketsu (纐缬厚), professor emeritus at Yamaguchi University (山口大学), said, post-war Japanese politics was established to some extent by people who had launched wars of aggression, and its influence continues to this day.
The incomplete historical liquidation has led to serious distortions in Japan's historical cognition. Japanese right-wing forces have long promoted historical revisionism, beautifying wars of aggression as "wars of self-defense" and regarding defeat merely as the "end of the war." Under the influence of the so-called "shame culture," Japanese right-wingers regard defeat as a shame that needs to be washed away rather than a crime that needs to be reflected upon. Japanese right-wingers openly clamor for the so-called "Taiwan status undetermined theory," which is essentially an externalization of this erroneous view of history, attempting to overturn historical conclusions, deny the post-war international order, and find legal pretexts for another military expansion.
--Japan's political shift to the right is intensifying. After the end of the Cold War, especially in recent years, structural changes have taken place in Japan's political ecology. The reformists and moderate conservatives who once served as a check and balance force have gradually declined, and the right-wing conservative forces have not only completed the cleansing and integration of the political mainstream but also occupied the absolute center of national power, constantly transforming the far-right ideology into the country's institutional will and legal actions.
After Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) took office, she accelerated the hollowing out of Japan's long-standing "emphasis on economy and light on military" policy. The traditional "pacifism" was stigmatized as "peace dementia," while the radical "constitutional revision and strengthening of the military" was packaged as the only way to "national normalization." This political line is becoming increasingly solidified, and radical security policies encounter almost no substantial resistance in the Diet (国会), advancing rapidly in a vacuum of effective checks and balances.
--The long-term economic downturn has plunged Japan into strategic anxiety. Japan's post-war capitalist development model is increasingly falling into complex difficulties. Under the multiple influences of huge national debt burdens, the increasing hollowing out of industries, and the crisis of a declining birthrate and aging population, the Japanese economy has long been mired in stagnation, and its per capita GDP ranking has fallen from the top of the world to the middle and lower reaches of developed countries. The halo of manufacturing, which is the foundation of the country, is also gradually dimming, and its industrial output value has decreased by about 40% in the past 30 years. The living pressure of Japan's middle- and low-income groups has increased sharply, and a deep sense of powerlessness and frustration permeates society.
The gradual loss of competitive advantage, the aging of the population structure, and the decline in growth momentum have spawned a distorted strategic view. In order to cover up internal governance failures, hyping the so-called "China threat" has become a life-saving straw for Japanese right-wing politicians to shift domestic contradictions. They simply and rudely "blame" neighboring countries for livelihood pain points such as rising prices and industrial decline, instilling in society a zero-sum logic that is incompatible with the trend of the times. This approach is essentially externalizing internal contradictions and inducing social dissatisfaction onto the track of external hatred and confrontation, in order to fraudulently obtain so-called "public support" for radical military expansion and war preparation.
--Interest groups profit by promoting military expansion. With the radical shift in Japan's defense policy, Japan's defense spending has increased for 14 consecutive years from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2026, especially doubling in 3 years since 2022, and Japanese military enterprises have therefore obtained a large number of orders. "National-level operation" has made these military enterprises earn a lot of money, and even created a "military-industrial bubble" in the capital market. Data shows that since November 2022, the stock price of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (三菱重工) has increased by more than 650%, the stock price of IHI Corporation (IHI株式会社) has increased by more than 480%, and the stock price of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (川崎重工) has increased by more than 280%. In sharp contrast, the average annual growth rate of Japan's manufacturing industry during the same period was less than 1%.
These military enterprises are also very "sensible" and actively provide political donations to right-wing politicians. A report released by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (总务省) shows that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (三菱重工) has donated more than 30 million yen to the Liberal Democratic Party (自民党) fund management group every year since 2020. The deep binding of the interests of right-wing politicians and the military-industrial complex is essentially overdrafting the country's future and "transfusing blood" to specific financial groups with high fiscal deficits.
"We oppose the large-scale expansion of military forces," Koji Sugihara (杉原浩司), a member of the Japanese Green Party (绿党), said, expressing the deep concerns of enlightened people in Japanese society, "When politicians shout slogans of 'active finance' and 'revitalizing the economy' but cannot come up with any concrete countermeasures to the plight of people's lives, their further increase in the defense budget is even more intolerable."
(3) Acceleration: Tying the country to a war machine, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is a dangerous "accelerator" pushing Japan back onto the path of aggressive militarism.
"Abe's girl," Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has rapidly risen in the Japanese political arena with her radical conservative stance and tough policy proposals and is regarded as a "replica" of the Abe line. As a representative of Japanese right-wing politicians, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) herself has a strong militarist complex and has long promoted "new militarism." After the establishment of the Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) administration, the promotion of "new militarism" has obviously accelerated, entering a dangerous stage of systematic implementation.
At the political and legal level, it attempts to completely eliminate war obstacles. Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) relies on the Liberal Democratic Party (自民党) and far-right political parties to form the "most conservative ruling coalition after the war," constantly consolidating the right-wing ruling base. In her recent policy speech, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) hyped up that "competition between countries is becoming increasingly fierce, complex, and normalized," and once again wantonly smeared China, hyping that Japan is facing the "most severe and complex security environment after the war." By shaping such a "crisis" narrative, the Takaichi (高市) administration continues to pave the way for promoting the constitutional revision process, intending to hollow out the post-war peace system, fundamentally change the basic policy of "exclusive defense," and promote Japan's radical transformation into a "combat-capable" country.
At the military strategic level, it is committed to building an independent offensive system. Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) declared in her speech that it is necessary to revise the "three security documents," including the "National Security Strategy" (国家安全保障战略), within this year. The Takaichi (高市) administration is promoting the defense budget for fiscal year 2026 to exceed 9 trillion yen, setting a new historical high, and achieving the goal of accounting for 2% of GDP in advance. Huge amounts of funds are being heavily invested in multiple offensive combat areas such as remote standoff strike, unmanned combat systems, and sea-air-space platforms, exposing the ambition to build multi-dimensional attack capabilities and increase the speed and scale of military expansion. The Takaichi (高市) administration is also promoting the revision of the "Self-Defense Forces Law" (自卫队法), intending to restore the current military ranks and some military designations to the old army terminology of the imperialist era. On the issue of arms exports, the Liberal Democratic Party's (自民党) Security Research Commission (安全保障调查会) passed a draft proposal on February 25, which not only proposed abolishing the previous "five standards" that limited the export of equipment to rescue and transportation purposes but also, in principle, allowed the export of lethal weapons such as fighter jets and frigates, and even left room for exporting to "countries that are currently determined to be in combat."
At the economic mobilization level, it is accelerating the construction of a "new military-industrial complex." Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) talked highly in her speech about "establishing strong diplomacy and security on the basis of a strong economic foundation." Since Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) took office, war preparation has been elevated to the absolute priority of the country, and military-industrial interest groups have been vigorously supported. The prototype of Japan's "new military-industrial complex" is emerging. According to reports, the Takaichi (高市) administration plans to fill the military expenditure gap through large-scale bond issuance and the collection of a "special defense income tax" (防卫特别所得税) and plans to establish a "National Intelligence Agency" (国家情报局) this year. These actions will promote a deeper binding of Japan's defense spending with the interests of specific industries and financial groups, building a self-reinforcing, cyclically accelerating policy and interest closed loop.
At the social cognitive level, it is intensifying the promotion of historical revisionism. The Japanese right wing continues to reshape national memory with "brainwashing" projects, carefully constructing a "victim" narrative that is "completely cut off from the history of aggression" by tampering with textbooks, beautifying the history of aggression, and promoting "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" education, intending to replace the "reflection of the perpetrator." This approach attempts to completely dissolve the anti-war consciousness of Japanese society and instill distorted historical cognition in the younger generation, thereby paving the social and psychological foundation for future war mobilization.
At the social cognitive level, historical revisionism is being intensified. The Japanese right wing continues to reshape national memory through "brainwashing" projects, such as revising textbooks, glorifying the history of aggression, and promoting "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" education, carefully constructing a "completely cut off from the history of aggression" "victim" narrative, intending to replace the "reflection of the perpetrator." This approach attempts to completely eliminate the anti-war consciousness of Japanese society, instill distorted historical perceptions in the younger generation, and thus lay the socio-psychological foundation for future war mobilization.
The above practices are the inevitable externalization of Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) long-standing militaristic complex. As early as 1994, the year after she was first elected as a member of the Diet, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) publicly questioned then Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (村山富市) as to why he admitted that the war of aggression was wrong. In 2007, in order to cater to the right-wing forces, she became the only cabinet member in the then Abe (安倍) cabinet to visit the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社) on "August 15," and even openly denied the Nanjing Massacre and the forced recruitment of "comfort women," openly sophistrying aggression as a "war of self-defense." In September 2021, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) threw out the fallacy that "a Taiwan emergency is also a threat to Japan." In November 2025, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗), as prime minister, falsely claimed in a Diet reply that a "Taiwan emergency" may constitute a "survival crisis situation" and refused to withdraw the relevant remarks. Recently, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has publicly clamored that she is working hard to create conditions for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社). From early verbal probing to today's systematic manipulation, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has been summoning and leading the way for "new militarism," and is a dangerous "accelerator" that is pushing Japan back onto the path of 穷兵黩武 (qióng bīng dú wǔ - "exhausting military strength and indulging in war," to engage in constant warfare and military expansion).
(IV) Harm: "New Militarism" is Becoming One of the Most Dangerous Variables Affecting Regional and International Peace and Stability
"Japan's promotion of 'militaristic ambitions' is sounding the alarm for peace in the Asia-Pacific region and the world," international media commentary pointed out that as the region pays more and more attention to Japan's policies, one thing is clear: the world cannot allow militarism to make a comeback.
Such warnings are necessary. The continuous rise of Japan's "new militarism" is becoming one of the most dangerous variables affecting regional and international peace and stability.
"New militarism" seriously threatens the post-war international order. Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) erroneous words and deeds on the Taiwan issue are a blatant interference in China's internal affairs, a blatant contempt for international legal documents such as the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, and a blatant provocation to the post-World War II international order, which seriously deviates from the basic norms of international relations. According to international legally binding documents such as the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, Japan should be "completely disarmed" and must not "maintain industries that can rearm it." In recent years, Japan has accelerated its "re-militarization" and formed military "small circles" by wooing forces inside and outside the region, provoking camp confrontation, and creating serious risks to the stability of the international order.
"New militarism" seriously threatens the nuclear non-proliferation system. Recently, senior Japanese government officials have continuously thrown out nuclear weapons remarks, openly provoking the nuclear non-proliferation system. If the nuclear ambitions of the Japanese right wing succeed, it will undoubtedly open Pandora's box and have a serious impact on regional and global strategic stability. Informed people in Japan are full of concerns about this, emphasizing the need to adhere to the "three non-nuclear principles": former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (石破茂) said that possessing nuclear weapons is "by no means a beneficial thing for Japan," former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (野田佳彦) demanded that officials who made "Japan's nuclear weapons theory" be replaced as soon as possible, and the Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly unanimously passed an opinion requesting the Japanese government to adhere to the "three non-nuclear principles."
"New militarism" seriously undermines regional peace and stability. Driven by right-wing forces, the thinking of engaging in geopolitical confrontation has gradually taken a dominant position in Japan's strategic decision-making, leading Japan to present a "attacking on all sides" attitude in dealing with relations with neighboring countries. When dealing with relations with China, the Japanese right wing painstakingly incites trouble and creates incidents on many issues such as the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, and Sino-Japanese relations have fallen into serious difficulties. Japan also has constant friction and frequent contradictions in its relations with other regional countries such as South Korea, Russia, and North Korea, which has seriously deteriorated the regional security environment. The populist sentiment stirred up in Japan in turn stimulates the right-wing regime to further show its strength to the outside world, making it more aggressive in dealing with disputes with neighboring countries and regional hotspot issues.
"New militarism" seriously damages the vital interests of the Japanese people. Recently, many mainstream Japanese media and experts have expressed concern about the fiscal expansion, consumption tax cuts, and economic policies that exacerbate the risk of inflation of the Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) regime, pointing out that the so-called "responsible and active fiscal policy" is itself extremely irresponsible, and if defense spending is greatly increased, Japan will face an unprecedentedly serious fiscal crisis. The Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) regime disregards the pain points of people's livelihood such as soaring domestic prices, and sacrifices the well-being of ordinary people to support the military machine, which not only triggered the angry protests of the Japanese people "wanting life, not missiles," but also severely damaged the tourism and retail industries on which many Japanese people depend for their livelihoods due to the deterioration of the surrounding diplomatic environment. The editorial of the Japanese Akahata newspaper pointed out that 2026 is a key year to oppose large-scale military expansion, and the government's military expansion plan not only threatens peace, but also harms the lives of the Japanese people.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. This solemn trial of Japanese militarism is not only a just liquidation of its crimes of aggression, but also an important effort to build a peaceful world. At present, Japan's "new militarism" once again poses a serious real threat to regional and international peace and stability. Japan's deep-seated, structural problems, as well as dangerous strategic trends, must be observed and prevented. The international community must remain highly vigilant, jointly defend the achievements of World War II, and jointly build an indestructible line of defense of justice, and must never allow the dangerous forces of Japan's "new militarism" to harm the world, and must never allow the sunshine of peace to be obscured by the haze of war again.
Return to TopThe Yellow River nourishes thousands of acres of farmland, and the Silk Road extends prosperity to the Gansu plateau. As a large state-owned commercial bank rooted in Gansu, the Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (中国农业银行甘肃省分行) (referred to as "Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (农行甘肃省分行)") bears in mind the "greater national interests" and always takes serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, empowering the real economy, and enriching people's well-being as its own responsibility. It channels financial resources to the forefront of development, engraves its responsibility on the land of Gansu, and injects surging financial momentum into the high-quality development of the local economy and society with practical actions and achievements. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of various loans was 294.165 billion yuan.
Deeply Cultivating the Fertile Land: Depicting the Comprehensive Revitalization of Rural Areas with Financial Strokes
The Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (中国农业银行甘肃省分行) adheres to its duty and mission of serving "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers," focuses on the construction of a strong agricultural province in Gansu and the "strengthening counties" initiative, continues to tilt financial resources, and promotes the gradual unfolding of the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas in the land of Gansu.
Adhering to the bottom line and consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation. Improve the long-term mechanism of "one file per county" for key support areas, deepen financial support for preventing the return to poverty among the lifted-out-of-poverty population, and precisely drip-irrigate 23 national key counties for rural revitalization and 17 former "Three Regions and Three Prefectures" (三区三州) deeply impoverished counties, so as to maintain a stable supply of credit and prevent the bottom line of large-scale return to poverty. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of county loans was 156.109 billion yuan, and the balance of various loans in key support areas was 84.772 billion yuan.
Consolidating the foundation and strengthening characteristic industries. Closely focusing on the "Five Actions" for seed industry revitalization and the construction of high-standard farmland, increase credit investment in grain, seed industry, agricultural machinery and other fields; focusing on the eight industrial clusters of "cattle, sheep, vegetables, fruits, potatoes, medicinal herbs, grain, and seeds," build a full-industry chain financial support system for modern cold and arid characteristic agriculture and the "Gansu Flavor" brand, and help "Gansu Flavor out of Gansu" (甘味出陇) and "Gansu Flavor to the sea" (甘味出海). As of the end of February 2026, the balance of agricultural-related loans was 78.372 billion yuan.
Empowering people's livelihood and broadening income channels. Weave a dense network of financial services for farmers, establish 7,533 "Huinongtong" service points, and have built 64 Huinong service stations, achieving full coverage of Huinong services in all towns and townships in the province. Solidly promote the establishment of farmer information files and the issuance of credit loans, strengthen the low-interest, inclusive small credit loan product "Fumin Loan," and promote the online farmer loan product "Huinong e-Loan," so as to stimulate farmers' entrepreneurial income growth momentum with considerate and efficient financial services. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of farmer loans was 41.295 billion yuan.
Protecting the ecology and depicting a green picture. Formulate a financial plan for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, innovate and promote green financial products such as "water-saving loans," increase credit investment in ecological protection, cultural tourism and other fields, protect the Yellow River with financial strength, and make green the distinctive background color of the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of various loans of branches of the Yellow River Basin in Gansu Province was 221.416 billion yuan.
Focusing on Empowerment: Driving the Innovative Development of the Real Economy with Financial Wings
The real economy is the foundation of finance, and finance is the lifeblood of the real economy. The Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (中国农业银行甘肃省分行) closely focuses on the deployment of Gansu's modern industrial system, focuses on key areas such as "two importants" (两重), "two news" (两新), technological innovation, and green transformation, and promotes the resonance of finance and the real economy.
Anchoring projects and building a solid foundation for infrastructure. Actively connect with Gansu's "attracting large, strong, and leading" action, fully serve major transportation projects such as the Pingqing Railway and the Lanzhou-Zhangye Third and Fourth Line Railway, realize the loan issuance of the "Four New Expressway Channels," and provide solid support for industrial undertaking and regional connectivity. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of infrastructure loans in transportation and other fields was 92.2 billion yuan.
Encouraging innovation and cultivating new quality productive forces. Implement the "strengthening technology" action, focus on the "14+1" key industrial chains, increase credit investment in advanced manufacturing and strategic emerging industries, serve the construction of the "Eastern Data and Western Calculation" (东数西算) project, tailor service plans for specialized and new enterprises, and empower technological innovation with finance.
Promoting transformation and creating a green model. Focusing on Gansu's "strengthening industry" action, serve the technological transformation and upgrading of key enterprises such as Jiuquan Iron and Steel Group (酒钢集团) and Jinchuan Group (金川集团), and help the high-end, intelligent, and green transformation of traditional industries; increase support for wind and photovoltaic power projects, and help Gansu build an important national new energy and new energy equipment manufacturing base. As of the end of 2025, the balance of green credit was 50.3 billion yuan.
Warmth in Longyuan: Brightening the Happy Background Color of People's Lives with Financial Strength
Finance is for the people, and the mission is on our shoulders. The Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (中国农业银行甘肃省分行) adheres to the people-centered approach, puts financial services that benefit the people, warm the people's hearts, and conform to the people's wishes into practice, and allows the fruits of financial development to benefit the people of Longyuan more and more fairly.
Boosting consumption and stimulating domestic demand. Comprehensively connect with the trade-in action for consumer goods, establish a special working group for fiscal "double interest subsidies," increase the discount on credit card and debit card payments, accelerate the precise issuance of urban personal loans, and stimulate market vitality with preferential interest rates and convenient services. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of urban personal loans was 50.415 billion yuan.
Deeply cultivating inclusive finance and escorting the growth of small and micro enterprises. Vigorously promote online products such as "Micro Quick Loan," refine and optimize the "Longyuan (Jincheng) Huishang Loan" characteristic product, improve the coverage of inclusive finance, so that inclusive finance benefits the majority of business entities and boosts development confidence. As of the end of February 2026, the balance of inclusive loans was 33.732 billion yuan.
Protecting the silver-haired population and creating a service benchmark. Help build a "15-minute convenient service circle," complete the age-appropriate transformation of 559 outlets, extend 42 high-frequency businesses such as social security card application and pension distribution information inquiry to bank service channels, and carefully protect the happy lives of elderly customers.
Benefiting the people and conveying the temperature of responsibility. Strictly implement the policy of reducing fees and profits, and lower the loan interest rates for agriculture-related and small and micro enterprises; provide targeted support for post-disaster reconstruction in Gansu, and quickly issue credit funds, so as to relieve people's difficulties and solve people's worries with financial strength.
In the future, the Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (中国农业银行甘肃省分行) will closely focus on Gansu's "Five Strong" actions and the "Three Transformations and One Integration" development path, accurately connect with the construction of "Seven Places, One Screen, and One Channel," and take more practical measures, better services, and stronger responsibilities to do a good job in the "five major articles" of finance, and contribute more agricultural bank strength to striving to write a new chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Gansu.
Data source: Agricultural Bank of China Gansu Branch (中国农业银行甘肃省分行)
Return to TopOn March 11th, JD.com's "Chunxiao Program" (春晓计划) for supporting third-party (POP) merchants announced another upgrade, with an estimated investment of over 35 billion yuan in resources by 2026 to provide merchants with the most substantial support since the program's launch.
This upgrade is tailored to address merchants' operational pain points with three major solutions: significantly reducing merchants' security deposits, covering over 3,000 categories for enterprise stores, with 86% of the categories having a minimum security deposit as low as 500 yuan, and additionally launching a "0 commission" incentive for new merchants; with the increasingly widespread application of AI technology, launching 14 free AI tools covering the entire operational chain to help merchants improve efficiency; in terms of advertising, significantly increasing the total advertising subsidy from the ten billion yuan level to the hundred billion yuan level, while launching a "Steady Profit Plan" for qualified merchants, becoming the first platform in the industry to promise merchants a 100% return on investment guarantee.
JD.com's "Chunxiao Program" continues to create a good ecosystem to support merchant growth. Data shows that in the past year, the "Chunxiao Program" has attracted millions of new merchants, and the order volume of small and medium-sized merchants has nearly doubled year-on-year.
Three Major Measures to Help Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiency, and Increase Growth
Providing Full-Chain Support for Merchants to Open Stores
In response to the pain points of new merchants such as "difficulty in starting," "lack of operational knowledge," and "no guarantee of benefits," in 2026, JD.com's "Chunxiao Program" launched three major measures: "Security Deposit Reduction to Help Reduce Costs, Free AI Tools to Help Improve Efficiency, and Hundred Billion Yuan Advertising Subsidy to Help Increase Growth," providing merchants with full-chain support from entry, promotion to operation.
In response to the pain point of high operating costs for merchants, the "Chunxiao Program" significantly reduced merchants' security deposits. Since March 1st, over 3,000 categories of enterprise stores have participated in the security deposit reduction, with 86% of the categories having a minimum security deposit as low as 500 yuan, covering categories such as fashion, 3C, home appliances and furniture, health, automotive, and industrial products; at the same time, a "0 commission" incentive for new merchants was launched, and new merchants who meet the transaction standards can enjoy a 100% commission refund for up to one year, effectively reducing the burden on merchants.
In the wave of AI deeply empowering the real economy, JD.com announced that all 14 "Jingmai" (京麦) AI tools will be opened for free, realizing full-chain coverage of merchant operations. From the "AI Business Opportunity Intelligence Analysis" tool launched in 2025 to help merchants select products and set prices, to the "AI Intelligent Order Processing" and "Delayed Delivery Reporting" tools to be launched in 2026 to help with back-end fulfillment, JD.com's AI capabilities continue to evolve. At the same time, the "Jingmai" service market has selected more than 30 essential tools for opening stores, which new merchants can use for free; the advanced "Jing Xiaozhi 5.0" (京小智5.0) JD.com official merchant intelligent customer service and JD.com official digital human live streaming tools can be used by new merchants for free throughout 2026. From merchant entry to product management, from marketing promotion to after-sales service, AI technology has been deeply integrated into the entire process of merchant operations, which not only helps new merchants lower the operating threshold, but also drives the overall improvement of operating efficiency.
In recent years, the significant increase in customer acquisition costs and the uncertainty of advertising effectiveness have become common pain points for merchants. JD.com will increase advertising subsidies for merchants from the ten billion yuan level to the hundred billion yuan level. New merchants will enjoy a 200 yuan advertising trial red envelope upon entry, and can receive a cumulative maximum of 5,500 yuan in advertising incentives. In addition, JD.com released the "Steady Profit Plan." If the promotion target ROI (return on investment) recommended by the system to merchants is not achieved within the agreed period, JD.com will provide 100% compensation for the actual amount of the unmet target, allowing small and medium-sized merchants to invest with more peace of mind. JD.com has newly launched an advertising consumption incentive policy: during the advertising period, after merchants achieve the consumption target, they can also receive a rebate incentive of up to 12% for their incremental cash consumption, giving merchants more confidence in their investment.
Comprehensive Upgrade of Logistics Services and Marketing Tools
Let Merchants Start Light and Operate Freely
In order to allow merchants to start light and operate freely, JD.com has launched a series of measures focusing on the three key links of store opening threshold, logistics costs, marketing tools and resources, comprehensively reducing merchants' operating costs.
In terms of the store opening threshold, JD.com continues to deepen the "0 yuan trial operation" policy. Users can search for "open a store" in the JD.com APP (京东APP), and enter the page to open a store in as little as 1 minute. After new merchants enter, they can start store operations without paying a security deposit; after the trial operation period, merchants can also enjoy the upgraded "full insurance security deposit." After successful insurance, they can be exempted from paying 100% cash security deposit, realizing "0 yuan formal operation."
In terms of logistics costs, JD.com uses practical measures to help merchants achieve a substantial reduction in costs. Merchants can choose JD.com official logistics for online delivery, as well as carriers such as "STO, YTO, ZTO, Yunda" (三通一达), J&T Express, and Deppon Logistics, with cooperation prices as low as 40% off, and no contract signing, full-process托管, guaranteed timeliness, and a dedicated customer service team to efficiently respond to and handle work order issues.
In terms of marketing tools and resources, JD.com's live streaming channel has abundant dividends. Merchants who participate in live streaming and meet the standards can share a total of tens of millions of live streaming incentives, realizing business growth through content channels; facing merchants throughout the entire life cycle, JD.com will provide a "new product growth package" to help merchants accelerate new product incubation. After one-click托管 of potential new products, they can automatically enter official and major promotion activity resource slots, and can also simultaneously obtain exclusive marketing skins. Some categories can enjoy intelligent advertising agency investment with ROI guarantees, allowing new products to quickly go viral and improve advertising efficiency; JD.com will also provide a total of hundreds of millions of traffic resources to help merchants' new products break through. Products that meet the platform's new product rules and are labeled with new product tags can obtain traffic tilt from platform search and recommendations, quickly accumulate initial sales, and create star products.
Create a Healthy and Fair Platform Operating Environment
Let Merchants Eliminate Concerns and Grow with Peace of Mind
While helping merchants reduce costs and increase efficiency, JD.com simultaneously improves the governance system, allowing merchants to "run fast" and "run steadily."
A continuously improving business environment is the only way merchants can grow with peace of mind. This upgrade of JD.com's "Chunxiao Program" adds a merchant self-restriction function. Without platform review, merchants can independently and immediately control malicious orders, malicious after-sales and other behaviors, and better grasp the initiative in operations. In addition, JD.com will severely crack down on "black five categories" (黑五类) of behaviors, including counterfeit goods, information that is seriously inconsistent with the actual product, serious food safety issues, malicious reselling, prohibited goods and information, etc., to create a fair, transparent, and orderly platform operating environment.
At present, the development prospects of the private economy are broad and promising. Through the "Chunxiao Program," JD.com, with its investment of real money and cutting-edge technology empowerment, joins hands with the vast number of private enterprises and individual small and micro merchants to jointly cultivate the fertile ground for growth and inject a continuous stream of momentum into the high-quality development of the private economy.
Data source: JD.com
Return to TopBy: 梁晓声
"New Public Literature and Art" is a topic that has frequently sparked discussions in literary and artistic circles in recent years, and can also be considered a subject for study. In fact, it has promoted the further prosperity and development of literature and art, and fostered a close relationship between literature and art and real life, as well as the aesthetic needs of the public.
To boost the vitality of new public literature and art, the Chinese Writers Association (中国作家协会) and Douyin (抖音) platform jointly launched the "Spring Festival Writing Competition" for the public. As one of the final judges, I carefully read more than 30 manuscripts that entered the final evaluation stage. Once again, I felt that among the masses in China, or rather, in the folk, there is a particularly broad and enthusiastic driving force for writing. This driving force further proves that the source of literature also lies in the folk, in the lives of the masses.
The entries mostly describe the sights, feelings, family ties, friendships, and nostalgia experienced during the return home for the Spring Festival. In this vast world, among all living beings, some people spend the Spring Festival in ways completely different from most of us. Without this essay competition, they might not have written about it. Then, those of us who spend the Spring Festival in a normal way would only see it with ordinary perceptions. For ordinary people, this is not much of a loss; but for artists, ordinary perception is certainly not enough. Because for literature and art, the meaning of "typical" also refers to what is beyond the general, the unique "one" or "some" characters in a typical environment.
For example, the first-prize winning work "Spring Festival on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: Keeping Watch on the Tibetan Plateau" (青藏高原的春节：藏原守岁记) - reading this work expanded my ordinary understanding of celebrating the Spring Festival to an unprecedented extent:
"Mother is not home again. Ever since she put on that Tibetan blue police uniform, the New Year's Eve reunion night on the plateau has become an expectation that falls through every year for me. She has to go deep into the pastoral areas, to the black tents scattered in the folds of the snow-capped mountains, to the uninhabited grasslands where even tire tracks cannot be left, patrolling on foot, guarding the peace of this bitterly cold land during the New Year, protecting the New Year's Eve stability of the scattered herders..."
What different people are spending such different Spring Festivals! I wouldn't have thought of it before reading, and I thought of more after reading. And another piece, just as I imagined, is "New Year in the Barracks" (军营的年):
"At that moment, there were no military ranks, no superiors or subordinates, only a group of young people, using the most clumsy but also the most sincere ways, to keep each other warm, confirming their common existence. We play ourselves, watch ourselves, and in the collective echo, confirm this burning youth..."
Respect arose spontaneously in my heart, and then many associations - indeed, the world is peaceful and beautiful, and we can happily celebrate the Spring Festival because some people are conscientiously performing their duties and forging ahead for us. That great respect should be what a writer, as a writer, can never sever in his heart - a writer who can no longer generate respect and emotion, his literary heart has withered; then so-called talent is actually unable to save the literature he is obsessed with.
There are indeed too many life stories in this vast world. For example, the Spring Festival in the hospital ward has a different kind of human warmth. The mutual comfort and encouragement between patients will forge a different kind of friendship in the world between them. This is what "Plum Blossom in a Bottle - The First Spring Festival After Successful Cancer Treatment" (瓶中梅——抗癌成功后的第一个春节) made me realize.
"Yesterday, I just attended a wedding in Zhoukou (周口) that left me unable to calm down for a long time. The groom's name is Shen Cong (申聪), a child who has a similar fate to me, who was also abducted, also searched for by his family for many years, and finally returned home. Watching him stand on the stage, tightly protected by his parents, blessed by a hall full of relatives, I was under the stage, with too many emotions surging in my heart that only we can truly understand..." "Because I am also the child who was lost for 21 years and finally found..."
Such a Spring Festival story comes from the work "I Finally Made 'Going Home' a Daily Routine" (我终于把“回家”过成了日常). The "we" in the article all have the same experience.
After reading the above two works, I secretly blessed them, blessing people I had never met during the Spring Festival, which filled my heart with kindness. I believe that others will feel the same after reading it. Respect for strangers and blessings for strangers are precisely the appeal of the essay competition, and in other words, the appeal of literature.
Someone said, "The writer's mind is like a perpetual motion machine of imagination." But I want to say that this statement is an exaggeration. The fact is that, throughout history, both in China and abroad, such a writer's mind has never been produced so far.
Life is the "perpetual motion machine" that produces endless good stories. Many world-famous masterpieces are the result of writers' creative inspiration being activated by life. *Tess of the d'Urbervilles*, *The Scarlet Letter*, *The Red and the Black*, *Anna Karenina*, *The Hunchback of Notre-Dame*, *Les Misérables*, and so on, are just a few examples.
Chinese literary history also corroborates the above point of view: from the *Book of Songs* (诗经) to Tang poetry (唐诗), Song lyrics (宋词), and Yuan opera (元曲), from Yuan zaju (元杂剧) to Ming and Qing novels (明清小说) and literature during the Republic of China period, to literature in various periods since the founding of New China, all excellent works (including the Four Great Classical Novels) benefit from the rich nourishment provided by life, this "perpetual motion machine," and most art forms are of course no exception.
And to talk about life while detached from the lives of the masses, the meaning of life is shriveled and withered.
Today's masses are not comparable to the masses in any period of Chinese history - the generations of members of the thousands of Chinese families who sit around the table for a reunion dinner are each multi-component families composed of farmers, workers, soldiers, college students, high school and junior high school students, and intellectuals. In short, the Chinese masses' requirements and appreciation level for literature and art have never been as diverse as they are now. Moreover, the passion for participating in commenting and creating on their own has never been as high as it is now: this is called the new public.
The new public has promoted various evolutions, innovations, and folk-based new phenomena in Chinese literature and art. And the new literary and artistic phenomena have in turn influenced the new public, making more individuals in the new public like literature and art.
There are too many people and things worth writing about in the folk. Let writing be more widely combined with the writing enthusiasm of the new public!
(The author is a writer)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 16 (Ji Peijuan (暨佩娟)) On March 16, the 3rd International Communication "Silk Road Award" selection, sponsored by the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance and led by the People's Daily (人民日报社), the chairman unit of the alliance, officially launched its call for entries.
The International Communication "Silk Road Award" is a key brand activity of the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance, aiming to promote the Silk Road spirit of peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation. It aims to encourage and guide news media organizations and others in countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road" to learn from each other, jointly tell the "Belt and Road" story, and jointly spread the "Belt and Road" voice.
The 3rd International Communication "Silk Road Award" selection has 4 categories of awards: Best Report Award, Best Photography Award, Best Video Award, and Best Innovation Award. Each category has 1 Grand Prize, 4 Nomination Awards, and 10 Finalist Awards. The International Communication "Silk Road Award" is open to entries from around the world. Works and subjects that support the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, convey the Silk Road spirit, reflect mutual learning and exchange between civilizations, conform to the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and have good international communication effects are eligible to participate. Participating works must be completed independently by foreign parties or jointly produced by Chinese and foreign parties. Works independently produced by Chinese institutions or individuals are not within the scope of solicitation.
Participants need to register on the official website of the "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance (www.brnn.com) and submit relevant information about their entries. The selection is divided into two stages: preliminary evaluation by the Academic Committee and final evaluation by the Review Committee. The progress of the selection will be published on the official website of the alliance in real time.
From April 2024 to January 2025, the 2nd International Communication "Silk Road Award" collected entries, receiving nearly 5,000 entries from 110 countries and regions, and finally selected 58 winning entries from 37 countries.
The "Belt and Road" News Cooperation Alliance is a cooperation platform jointly formed by media organizations in countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road", aiming to help media from various countries strengthen understanding, enhance friendship, promote cooperation, form a normalized cooperation mechanism, and gather media forces to tell the "Belt and Road" story well. At present, the alliance has absorbed 316 media outlets from 117 countries, and is an important media cooperation platform under the "Belt and Road" cooperation framework.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 16th (Reporter Zhao Yongxin (赵永新)) As an important global leguminous forage, alfalfa has always faced environmental pollution and food safety problems caused by the use of chemical herbicides. Chinese scientists have discovered a new type of microbial herbicide that can achieve "zero-pollution" weed control and promote crop growth. This achievement was completed by the Sun Juan (孙娟) team of Qingdao Agricultural University (青岛农业大学) after years of continuous research. The relevant paper was recently published online in the international academic journal *Pest Management Science*.
Through morphological and molecular biological analysis, the team isolated a new species of *Trichoderma* from the alfalfa rhizosphere - the microorganism "MXBP304 strain." This strain can accurately act on weed seeds, without affecting alfalfa seed germination, nor interfering with its seedling growth, and without destroying the soil ecological structure, which can truly achieve "zero pollution." At present, the team is continuing to deepen related research and continuously optimize *Trichoderma* strains and preparation processing technology to accelerate the promotion and application of this scientific research result.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜晓丹
On March 15th, Kaiping City (开平市), Jiangmen (江门) , Guangdong (广东) Province, welcomed a grand literary event. Many well-known writers gathered here to kick off the 2026 China Writers Association (中国作家协会) "Famous Writers Arrive at Literary 'County' Field" series of activities, promoting high-quality literary resources directly to the grassroots level.
Hu Bangsheng (胡邦胜), Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association (中国作家协会), pointed out that online literature has become an important force in spreading culture and connecting the world. He encouraged writers to delve into life, draw nourishment from reality, and create more masterpieces.
Recalling his experience of working temporarily in Kaiping (开平), Xiong Yuqun (熊育群), member of the Presidium of the Guangdong Writers Association (广东省作家协会), said that the overseas Chinese hometown theme naturally has an international perspective, and the multilingual dissemination of his work "Jin Xu (金墟)" is a vivid example.
In the exchange of "Starting from the Overseas Chinese Hometown - Dialogue between Literature and the World," writer Xiao Ding (萧鼎) said that literature is the carrier of overseas Chinese hometown memories and a bridge for Sino-foreign exchanges. Those texts that carry the family's struggle and national feelings have the penetrating power to allow the world to "understand China." Combining his experience of his work "Battle Through the Heavens (斗破苍穹)" going to more than 200 countries and regions, online literature writer "Tiancan Tudou (天蚕土豆)" said that the charm of outstanding Chinese traditional culture can resonate with global readers.
Around the concept of creation, writer Chen Jiming (陈继明) said that the most specific reader in his mind when writing may be his second brother: "At least he has to like it." This simple wish to write for the people around him reflects the universality of literature. Suspense writer Cai Jun (蔡骏) believes that writing is "first pleasing yourself, then pleasing the people around you," and then moving towards distant unknown readers. What can truly be passed on eternally is always the story and human nature itself. Writer "Loving to Dive Squid (爱潜水的乌贼)" compared creation to building a fantasy world, with the original intention of "Welcome to my fantasy world," and ultimately to explore the contradictions of human nature and emotional tension that are difficult to fully present in the real world.
Xie Youshun (谢有顺), Chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association (广东省作协), said that for writers, "the world" is not only a geographical concept, but also a spiritual space of imagination and creation. The contribution of online literature lies in its magnificent imagination, which opens up a new territory for readers to expand the dimensions of life.
Xiang Xin (向欣), Secretary of the Party Group and Full-time Vice Chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association (广东省作协), said that Kaiping (开平), this "rich mine" of an overseas Chinese hometown, is shining with new brilliance because of the arrival of literature.
In 2025, Jiangmen City (江门市) piloted the "Literary Creation Residence Program" in Tangkou Town (塘口镇), attracting creators to stay with practical policies such as talent apartments with monthly rents of 100 yuan. This event simultaneously launched the "Wenqi Chikan Biyun Qiaoxiang (文栖赤坎 笔润侨乡)" program, which aims to invite national creators to immerse themselves in the overseas Chinese hometown, explore the stories in it, and better communicate with the world through literature.
Return to TopChongqing Cross-border Highway Shuttle, as one of the main organization and operation methods of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in western China, is an international highway logistics corridor jointly led by the Banan District Government of Chongqing (重庆市巴南区政府) and Chongqing Public Transport Group (重庆公运集团), and operated by Chongqing Public Transport ASEAN International Logistics Co., Ltd. (重庆公运东盟国际物流有限公司). In 2025, the Chongqing Cross-border Highway Shuttle of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor dispatched 12,555 trips with a cargo value of 17.417 billion yuan; the throughput of the Chongqing National Logistics Hub of Trade and Service Type, located in Banan District, reached 32 million tons, an increase of 12.05% year-on-year. Relying on this strong channel and hub advantage, in 2025, the import and export volume of Banan District reached 15.89 billion yuan, an increase of 21.08% year-on-year.
Without being near the sea or bordering other countries, Banan District of Chongqing (重庆市巴南区) practices the development path of "channel driving logistics, logistics driving economy and trade, and economy and trade driving industry," anchors the goal of "Chongqing enhancing the service efficiency of inland opening comprehensive hub," seizes the opportunity with coordinated development, transforms the location disadvantage into a development advantage, and embarks on a new path of integrated development of channel hubs, unlocking a new code for inland opening.
Channel Foundation: Weaving a Dense Road Network, Turning the Inland into a Port
In the early morning, the Chongqing Nanpeng Highway Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) (重庆南彭公路保税物流中心（B型）) is a busy scene: large trucks are neatly lined up, and drivers are shuttling back and forth around the cargo compartments, making final checks for the goods that are about to start the "Southeast Asia tour." The wheels are rolling forward, witnessing the close connection between Banan and the world.
In the past, when enterprises engaged in cross-border trade, they often faced problems such as blocked channels, transshipment at multiple ports, and cumbersome and time-consuming procedures. Now, relying on a complete three-dimensional logistics network, it has realized "one-time entrustment, one vehicle to the end, and one ticket directly," effectively improving the efficiency of cross-border trade.
Breaking geographical limitations, channel construction is the key. Taking the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor as an opportunity, Banan District is making every effort to weave a dense three-dimensional cross-border logistics network. A network system of "3 directions, 12 lines, 25 ports, and 39 overseas distribution warehouses" facing ASEAN, Central Asia, and South Asia has been formed and continues to expand and upgrade. In 2025, the Chongqing Cross-border Highway Shuttle of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor dispatched 12,555 trips, breaking the 10,000-trip mark for the first time, with a cargo value of 17.417 billion yuan, an increase of 306% year-on-year.
While the highway channel is exerting its strength, the railway network is also accelerating its expansion. Nanpeng Station (南彭站), Nanpeng Highway Port (南彭公路港), and Fo'eryan Port (佛耳岩港) are deeply linked to achieve coordinated efforts in highways, railways, and waterways. In 2025, the throughput of the Chongqing National Logistics Hub of Trade and Service Type reached 32 million tons, an increase of 12.05% year-on-year, truly enabling Banan to achieve "land port connecting rivers and reaching the sea," and opening up the "main artery" of inland opening.
Economy and Trade Empowerment: Platform Exertion, Logistics Turns into Financial Flow
In 2025, Banan District's export volume of used cars exceeded 400 million yuan, becoming a new engine for foreign trade growth. This is a vivid microcosm of Banan's "logistics driving economy and trade."
When the channel is smooth, the economy and trade prosper. Relying on the advantages of four national-level platforms: Chongqing National Logistics Hub of Trade and Service Type, National Backbone Cold Chain Logistics Base, National Demonstration Logistics Park, and National E-commerce Demonstration Base, Banan District deeply integrates into the national development landscape, promotes the efficient transformation of logistics advantages into economic and trade advantages, and allows the vision of "logistics turning into financial flow" to take root.
Chongqing Nanpeng Highway Bonded Logistics Center (Type B) landed the first batch of pilot projects for "optimizing the management of classified supervision goods" in the country, realizing the consolidation and shipment of bonded and non-bonded goods in the same warehouse and in the same vehicle, shortening the consolidation time by 1-2 days; holding economic and trade activities such as "Foreign Trade High-quality Products Chongqing Tour," establishing foreign trade service stations, and serving more than 150 enterprises; Chongqing RCEP Investment and Trade Service Center operates efficiently, and 20 overseas branch center distribution warehouses have built a communication bridge; held the 2025 China (Chongqing)-ASEAN Logistics Industry Cooperation Conference, reaching 21 cooperation agreements.
With a series of measures working together, in 2025, the import and export volume of Banan District reached 15.89 billion yuan, an increase of 21.08% year-on-year, delivering a bright answer sheet for opening up.
Industrial Rooting: Cluster Gathering Momentum, Traffic Turns into Incremental Growth
The prosperity of economy and trade ultimately depends on industry to undertake; the effectiveness of opening up ultimately depends on industry to test. Banan District, through a series of pragmatic measures such as improving logistics support and creating an open environment, allows logistics not only to "flow through" Banan, but also to allow industries to take root in Banan, transforming channel economic and trade advantages into development advantages.
Chongqing Xinfadi Project (重庆新发地项目) is a vivid example of Banan's promotion of industrial rooting. This project, covering an area of 1,594 mu and with a total investment of 12 billion yuan, leverages the advantages of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor to link the high-quality food supply chain of ASEAN, allowing ASEAN fruits and other commodities to quickly reach the southwest region of China. At present, the project has completed the main construction of 600,000 square meters, attracting more than 500 merchants to settle in.
Today, Chongqing Highway Logistics Base (重庆公路物流基地) has introduced more than 80 well-known enterprises such as JD.com, SF Express, and STO Express, with more than 7,000 operating entities, forming five major industrial clusters: comprehensive logistics, professional markets, e-commerce, international trade, and consumer goods manufacturing, with a cumulative transaction volume of nearly 750 billion yuan, laying a solid industrial foundation for Banan to promote inland opening.
From building a channel foundation to open up the "main artery," to empowering economy and trade to activate the "new engine," and then to rooting industries to build a "hard support," Banan uses a set of "**组合拳**" (zǔ hé quán - "combination punch," a series of coordinated actions), accurately identifies the path, innovates pragmatically, develops collaboratively, seizes the opportunity, and writes the Banan answer for Chongqing's construction of an inland opening highland.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Banan District Committee of Chongqing (中共重庆市巴南区委宣传部)
Return to TopMap by: Wang Zheping (汪哲平)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑 轶 陶相安
On March 15th, local time in Italy, three five-star red flags were raised simultaneously at the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium. In the men's 20km standing cross-country skiing competition at the Milan Winter Paralympics, Chinese athletes Wang Chenyang (王晨阳), Huang Lingxin (黄灵心), and Liu Xiaobin (刘晓彬) swept all the medals, allowing the world to once again witness "China Speed."
At this Winter Paralympics, the Chinese sports delegation ranked first in both the gold medal and total medal counts, writing a new glorious chapter in China's disabled winter sports.
On the Winter Paralympic field, Chinese athletes faced challenges head-on, fought tenaciously, and never gave up, fully demonstrating the spiritual outlook and good image of disabled people in the new era, and achieving a double harvest of sports performance and spiritual civilization.
Advantaged events maintain strong strength, breakthroughs achieved in some events.
At the closing ceremony of this Winter Paralympics, Para cross-country skiing and biathlon male athlete Cai Jiayun (蔡佳云) and wheelchair curling female athlete Wang Meng (王蒙) served as flag bearers for the Chinese sports delegation. "Cai Jiayun (蔡佳云) made a comeback against the odds to win the first gold medal for the Chinese sports delegation, and with 3 gold medals, became the athlete with the most gold medals in the Chinese sports delegation at this Winter Paralympics; Wang Meng (王蒙) and her teammate Yang Jinqiao (杨金桥) fought fiercely for 9 rounds, winning the first wheelchair curling mixed doubles gold medal in Winter Paralympic history." In the eyes of Chang Zheng (常征), deputy head of the Chinese sports delegation, these two flag bearers are the epitome of Chinese disabled athletes pursuing excellence and breaking through themselves.
This is the seventh time that the Chinese sports delegation has participated in the Winter Paralympics, and it is also the one with the most events and the largest number of athletes participating in overseas Winter Paralympics. Whether they are seasoned veterans or rookies who are making their debut on the Winter Paralympic stage, everyone dares to fight and strive for the lead, demonstrating the vitality of winter sports for the disabled in our country.
Judging from the performance of each competition, our country's advantageous events still maintain strong strength. Para biathlon became the biggest surprise, with 8 gold medals carrying significant weight; the Para cross-country skiing team faced strong opponents and it was not easy to win 3 gold medals; the Para snowboard team won two gold medals in 8 events, and the "China whirlwind" was remarkable; the wheelchair curling team won gold in mixed doubles and silver in mixed team, showing our country's leading position in this event.
At this Winter Paralympics, the Chinese sports delegation participated in all major events, and 36 events won medals, accounting for 49% of the participating events. Chang Zheng (常征) introduced that this time, our country's Para biathlon level has greatly improved, and gold medal breakthroughs have been achieved in the men's standing group and the men's and women's visually impaired groups; the Para alpine skiing team overcame many difficulties such as the difficulty of the venue and the complexity of the route, and won 1 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze medals; the Para ice hockey team defeated the German team and the Italian team by a large score in the group stage, and finally defeated the Czech team to win the bronze medal, further narrowing the gap with the world's first-class strong teams.
Behind each heavy medal is the self-improvement life force of disabled athletes in our country, and it benefits from the strong support of the support team. A large number of coaches, guides, waxers, medical rehabilitation personnel, scientific research personnel, etc. with strong business skills and dedication escort disabled athletes in training and competition, and jointly support the highlight moments of the Winter Paralympic Games. "The gold medal does not only belong to individuals, but also belongs to our glorious collective," said Wu Zhongwei (武中伟), a Para snowboard athlete from the Chinese team.
The performance of disabled athletes on the field brings deep resonance and great encouragement to people.
On the white track, Wang Yue (王跃), a visually impaired athlete from the Chinese team, relied on the commands of the guide to accurately grasp the rhythm of each bend and slope, and stood on the highest podium of the Winter Paralympics twice. Her declaration of "I can't see the world, but I want the world to see me" has become the footnote of her life of "breaking free from the shackles of the impossible."
At this Winter Paralympics, Chinese disabled athletes transformed their full love for the motherland and their persistent pursuit of ice and snow sports into outstanding performances on the field, and their unyielding figures and tenacious will burst into dazzling light.
Cai Jiayun (蔡佳云) made a desperate comeback before the finish line, winning the third gold medal in the Para biathlon individual with a slight advantage of 0.2 seconds; Liu Zixu (刘子旭) had a recurrence of an old injury before the game, gritted his teeth and went all out in the Para cross-country skiing men's short-distance sitting group competition to win the championship; Zhang Wenjing (张雯静) won the gold medal in the Para alpine skiing women's slalom sitting group... The achievement of victory requires unimaginable dedication and effort. Disabled athletes bring deep resonance and great encouragement to people with their brave transcendence time and time again.
Inside and outside the arena, Chinese disabled athletes are sunny, confident, and actively train and compete. Through their bright smiles, people see their perseverance in their dreams, see the transformation of getting out of difficulties, and see the demeanor of Chinese disabled people in the new era.
While the Chinese sports delegation has achieved great results, it has always adhered to the principle of "winning gold medals of morality, gold medals of style, and clean gold medals." During the competition, Chinese athletes actively communicated with athletes from various delegations and conveyed friendship with smiles: Chinese athletes helped armless foreign athletes unload their snowboards, took the initiative to cheer for other teams and athletes, and decisively slowed down and detoured when opponents had accidental collisions... These acts of kindness and demeanor that transcend winning and losing have won many praises.
Chang Zheng (常征) said that at this Winter Paralympics, 71 athletes from our delegation have undergone 149 doping tests, and so far there have been no doping problems, achieving the goal of "zero occurrence."
The breadth and depth of ice and snow sports for the disabled are constantly expanding.
"Looking out from the top of the mountain, people are small, but dreams are big!" At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, Liu Sitong (刘思彤), as the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Para alpine skiing competition, stepped onto the field alone. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics, she already had many teammates fighting side by side. Now, participating in the Winter Paralympics for the third time, Liu Sitong (刘思彤) has ascended the podium 4 times.
Liu Sitong's (刘思彤) experience is also an epitome of the leapfrog development of China's Para ice and snow sports. After Beijing and Zhangjiakou successfully bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics in 2015, the development of winter sports for the disabled, talent cultivation, venue construction, and event layout have all entered the "fast lane." Today, China's Para ice and snow sports have already entered the world's leading ranks.
The excellent results of the Winter Paralympic Games rely on the comprehensive development of the cause of disabled people in our country, and resonate with national prosperity and social progress. In the new era, the living conditions and mental outlook of the vast number of disabled people have undergone fundamental changes, which has built a platform for disabled athletes to realize their dreams.
The solid foundation laid during the preparation cycle for the Beijing Winter Paralympics has continued to this Winter Paralympics. "The strong support of the country has continuously expanded the breadth and depth of ice and snow sports for the disabled. The China Disabled Persons' Federation and relevant local disabled persons' federations follow the laws of ice and snow sports, adhere to scientific preparation, and continuously improve the level of comprehensive support, which has effectively improved the competitive level of athletes," said Chang Zheng (常征).
Taking the opportunity of participating in this Winter Paralympics, the China Disabled Persons' Federation and the Chinese Paralympic Committee widely promoted the development concepts and achievements of the cause of disabled people in our country, actively shared beneficial experiences and practices in developing sports for the disabled, and continuously expanded the circle of friends and enhanced external influence.
When the flame of Milan and Cortina is extinguished, Chinese disabled athletes wave goodbye to this Winter Paralympics. Dreams and hopes, hard work and friendship... This unforgettable struggle vividly interprets the Chinese sports spirit, the Beijing Winter Olympic spirit, and the Paralympic spirit. The more honed, the more resilient, the more blooming. In the relay of inheritance, China's Para ice and snow sports are striding forward towards new goals.
Return to TopThis newspaper Milan (米兰) March 16th dispatch (Reporters Zheng Yi (郑轶), Tao Xiang'an (陶相安)) Local time on the evening of the 15th, the 14th Winter Paralympic Games closed at the Cortina d'Ampezzo (科尔蒂纳奥林匹克) Olympic Curling Stadium in Italy (意大利).
At this Winter Paralympic Games, a total of 611 athletes from 55 countries and regions participated, setting a new record for the Winter Paralympic Games. The Chinese sports delegation won 15 gold medals, 13 silver medals, and 16 bronze medals, for a total of 44 medals, ranking first in both the gold medal and medal tables.
The next Winter Paralympic Games will be held in the French Alps (法国阿尔卑斯山地区) in 2030.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈晨曦 刘硕阳
On March 17th, Beijing Time, the Chinese Women's Football Team will face the host Australian team in the semi-finals of the 2026 Women's Asian Cup. So far, the Chinese Women's Football Team has won all 4 matches in this Asian Cup, and while entering the top 4, it has achieved its wish to get the ticket to the 2027 Women's World Cup. The promotion process was not all smooth sailing. In the first group match against the Bangladesh team, the Chinese Women's Football Team only won by two goals. In the quarter-finals, they struggled for 120 minutes before eliminating their opponents 2-0.
This Asian Cup is the first important continental event since Australian coach Ante Milicic took charge of the Chinese Women's Football Team. Judging from the participating lineup, the team not only has veterans such as Wu Haiyan (吴海燕) and Wang Shuang (王霜) to hold the line, but also welcomes newcomers such as Zhang Chengxue (张程雪) and Shao Ziqin (邵子钦) who are on the Asian Cup stage for the first time. "The team is in a stage of renewal, and young players need to accumulate experience and grow in such competitions." Captain Wu Haiyan (吴海燕) said that the outstanding performance of many young players has become an important gain for this team in this competition.
In this Asian Cup, Milicic's lineup rotation strategy has been fully realized. In the second group match against the Uzbekistan team, Milicic rotated 9 starting players. When facing the strongest opponent North Korean team in the group, he replaced 6 starting players. Wang Shuang (王霜) and Zhang Linyan (张琳艳) entered the starting lineup for the first time at the same time. In the subsequent quarter-finals, he once again made a wide range of adjustments to the lineup. This change is conducive to coping with the intensive schedule and long journeys, and also allows newcomers to gain valuable practical experience and gradually activate the team's lineup depth. Milicic said: "Every player should feel that they are part of the team."
At the tactical level, the offensive and defensive system built by Milicic for the Chinese Women's Football Team has initially achieved results in this competition. He abandoned the previous game mode of over-reliance on fixed starters, and rotated to adapt to different opponents. At the same time, he built a double defensive midfielder system to optimize the connection between offense and defense, and turned set-pieces into a sharp weapon for breaking the deadlock. In the group match against North Korea, the Chinese Women's Football Team relied on two set-piece cooperations to complete the reversal, and defeated their opponents in the Asian Cup again after nearly 20 years.
The semi-final is quite challenging for the Chinese Women's Football Team. The Australian team is one of the top 4 teams in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a mature offensive and defensive system, and is bound to go all out to reach the final. Wang Shuang (王霜), the core of the Chinese Women's Football Team's offense, will miss the semi-final due to accumulated yellow cards, which will affect the team's overall offense. In addition, the Chinese team only has 3 days of adjustment and rest time, which also puts higher demands on the players' physical fitness and condition. Facing the challenge, Milicic said that the team's preparation plan was originally formulated according to playing 6 games. In the semi-final, the team will integrate player combinations and create a new offensive system to make up for the absence of Wang Shuang (王霜).
On March 15th, as the Japanese Women's Football Team defeated the Philippines team in the last quarter-final, all the top 4 teams in this Women's Asian Cup were produced. The Chinese team, the Australian team, the South Korean team and the Japanese team basically represent the current first-class level of Asian women's football. Although no "dark horse" appeared in the top 4 teams of this Asian Cup, with the increasing investment in youth training and the emphasis on tactical system polishing, the overall competitiveness is constantly improving.
For the Chinese Women's Football Team, the significance of this Asian Cup is far more than just the results. The growth of young players in the competition and the improvement of the new tactical system are more valuable. This semi-final will be an opportunity for the Chinese Women's Football Team to understand their opponents and find their position. No matter what the result, this team that is growing in the process of running-in will continue to accumulate strength and lay a more solid foundation for future competitions in the World Cup, Olympic Games and other events.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Shanghai on March 16th (Reporters Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋) and Shen Wenmin (沈文敏)) The 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Chinese Grand Prix main race concluded on the 15th at the Shanghai International Circuit (上海国际赛车场). Eleven teams, 22 drivers, and 56 laps of fierce competition saw Mercedes team's Antonelli and Russell ultimately win the championship and runner-up respectively, while Ferrari team's Hamilton took third place.
This season, F1 welcomes large-scale technological and rule changes. Adjustments to the size and weight of the cars, a brand-new aerodynamic design, and changes in the power unit layout all make the competition more suspenseful and watchable. With the addition of the eleventh team, Cadillac, Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu (周冠宇) will have the opportunity to return to the track as a reserve driver for the team in the future.
According to statistics, over 230,000 people attended the event over 3 days, and the event's box office revenue increased by more than 30% year-on-year. The "race ticket +" model drove deep linkage between local culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions, and consumption vitality continued to be released.
Return to TopIn Qinzhou Port (钦州港), giant ships fully loaded with new energy vehicle components produced in Liuzhou set sail; in Beibu Gulf Port (北部湾港), the "Liuzhou-Qinzhou-ASEAN" rail-sea intermodal train blared its whistle, sending "Liuzhou Intelligent Manufacturing" to the global market. As a major industrial town in Southwest China and the largest industrial city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), Liuzhou firmly grasps the important requirements of "emancipating the mind, innovating and seeking change, strengthening the sea, and opening up and developing," strengthens its maritime thinking, solidifies its maritime efforts, reshapes its position in the global value chain, and transforms the "maximum variable" of opening up into the "maximum increment" of high-quality development.
Planning with the Sea in Mind
Writing the Article of "Liuzhou Reaching the World"
As an important node city of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the western region, Liuzhou insists on taking expanding opening up as the "linchpin" of high-quality development, and uses channel reshaping to open up sea routes. In terms of hard connectivity, Liuzhou is accelerating the construction of a national comprehensive transportation hub. The Liuzhou-Wuzhou section of the Liuzhou-Guangzhou Railway is accelerating construction, and the "Liuzhou-Qinzhou-ASEAN" rail-sea intermodal train and the "Liuzhou-Shekou Port (蛇口港)" rail-sea intermodal train have been successfully launched. The shipping capacity of the Liujiang River (柳江) has jumped to 2,000 tons. In terms of soft connectivity, Liuzhou pioneered the "local inspection, arrival at port for export" export model in Guangxi (广西). The logistics time for lithium batteries shipped to ASEAN countries has been shortened by 3 to 7 days, and transportation costs have been reduced by 20%. In addition, Liuzhou has been approved to establish the Liuzhou联动 Innovation Zone of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone and the China (Liuzhou) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone, ushering in new opportunities for strengthening the sea.
Prospering with the Sea in Mind
Gathering Momentum with Industry as the Foundation
To strengthen the sea, the foundation lies in industry, and the way out lies in opening up. Liuzhou is seizing opportunities along the development path of "R&D in North, Shanghai and Guangzhou + Integration in Guangxi + Application in ASEAN," and gathering development momentum with industry as the foundation.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Liuzhou's average annual export growth rate reached 37.8%. In 2025, the total import and export volume of goods reached 44.22 billion yuan, of which the export volume reached 39.51 billion yuan. "Liuzhou Intelligent Manufacturing" is the main driving force for exports - new energy vehicles, auto parts, and lithium batteries increased by 264.5%, 77.4%, and 103.2% year-on-year, respectively, and high-tech products represented by artificial intelligence terminals and robot products increased by 59.7% year-on-year. Liuzhou is also vigorously promoting "vocational education going overseas," with the number of international cooperation platforms increasing to 23, and the development momentum of the maritime economy is even stronger.
SAIC-GM-Wuling (上汽通用五菱), rooted in Liuzhou, has built a complete vehicle production base in Indonesia. The new energy vehicles produced account for more than 37% of the local market share, driving 17 Chinese parts companies to settle in simultaneously. In 2025, Liugang Group (柳钢集团) exceeded the million-ton mark in steel exports, with products sold to 36 countries and regions. Liugong Group's (柳工集团) overseas business accounts for more than 50%, and its international market influence continues to expand. Under the strong leadership of leading enterprises, "Liuzhou-branded" products are riding the waves of globalization with the synergy of the entire industrial chain.
Becoming Stronger with the Sea in Mind
Clear Path and Surging Momentum
The blue sea breeds unlimited opportunities. This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and Liuzhou will more actively serve and integrate into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, as well as the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, to promote the steady and long-term development of strengthening the sea.
Focusing on the goal of "building Guangxi into a core growth pole for strengthening the sea and opening up and developing." Liuzhou will leverage its advantages of a solid industrial base, superior location and transportation, and abundant vocational education resources to vigorously develop the maritime economy and cultivate new growth points for open development.
Give play to the two roles of "canal + industry" and "channel + hub." On the one hand, amplify the multiplier effect of "canal + industry," actively integrate into the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) Economic Belt, stimulate the effectiveness of the canal with product exports, and drive industrial expansion with increased transportation capacity, creating a "manufacturing engine" for the canal economic belt. On the other hand, amplify the superimposed effect of "channel + hub," deeply integrate into the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, and create a "logistics hub" that is "based in Guangxi, links Central and Southern China, Southwest China, and faces ASEAN."
Promote the three "going overseas" of product exports, standard exports, and vocational education exports. Promote key industries such as automobiles, steel, machinery, artificial intelligence terminals and robots to deeply cultivate ASEAN and go global; support leading enterprises to participate in the formulation of international industry standards, and shape competitive advantages with standard advantages; adhere to the principle of "education following industry and industry and education going hand in hand," and support the hard export of industry with the soft connectivity of vocational education.
Thousands of sails are competing to strengthen the sea, and Liuzhou's momentum has been established and its prosperity can be expected.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Liuzhou Municipal Committee (中共柳州市委宣传部)
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Recently, AI payment has become popular.
On the commute to work, open the Qianwen APP (千问APP), and say "Order a hot latte and deliver it to the downstairs of the company" by voice. Without jumping to the takeaway APP, AI automatically matches preferences, and users only need to click "Select it", confirm Alipay (支付宝) payment, and complete the checkout with one click. In restaurants, merchants only need to take a photo of the paper menu, and the AI function of WeChat Pay (微信支付) can accurately identify and convert it into an online menu with one click, automatically generating electronic price options in the business collection code, realizing easy order collection and convenient payment collection. These two everyday scenarios outline the transaction landscape that AI payment is reshaping.
Payment meets AI, sparking new sparks. For users, it saves the tediousness of APP jumps and page switching. Ordering, buying tickets, paying fees, and recharging can be completed through "dialogue," greatly reducing time costs. Using voice expression instead of manual operation allows the elderly and people with mobility impairments to use related services more easily. For merchants, AI automatically completes menu archiving, product identification, order matching, and reconciliation, reducing labor costs and error rates. Transaction data is analyzed and transformed by AI, which can also help stores achieve precision marketing and inventory optimization, allowing small stores to have digital operation capabilities. This two-way empowerment makes payment no longer the "end" of the transaction, but a "smart hub" connecting demand and supply.
Looking back at the upgrade path of payment, each iteration focuses on reducing barriers and improving efficiency. From the standardized settlement of bank card payments to the popularization of mobile payment "scan," to the current AI payment of dialogue-to-pay and seamless completion, the payment medium is constantly simplified, the payment form is constantly evolving, the service boundary continues to expand, and payment becomes an intelligent service integrated into life. Moving from "completing transactions" to "serving life," taking the AI train, payment has more possibilities.
No matter how technology develops, payment security is an inviolable bottom line. AI empowers the development of payment, and it is necessary to adhere to technology to build a solid foundation for security and inclusiveness, and to drive service upgrades with scenarios, so that payment is more credible and more intimate. Relevant entities should deeply integrate biometric recognition, real-time risk control, and anomaly detection to build a full-process protection system to ensure that transactions are traceable, risks are interceptable, and losses are compensable, so that users dare to use and are willing to use. At the same time, it is necessary to optimize voice guidance, simplify operation processes, and lower the threshold for use for the elderly, users in remote areas, and special groups, so that technology dividends cover everyone and eliminate the digital divide. In addition, based on user habits and scenario needs, we must continue to optimize service supply, embed more diversified payment functions into transportation, medical care, education, government affairs, and other fields, and realize "demand triggering, intelligent execution, and seamless completion" in more scenarios, so that high-quality services exist in daily life and warm the details.
The intelligence of payment scenarios is just a microcosm of AI empowering the financial industry. Currently, in the financial field, from intelligent risk control and precision marketing to intelligent investment advisory and automated risk control review, AI's presence runs through the entire chain of capital flow, risk management and control, service reach, and decision support. This also more directly proves that AI is transforming from a cutting-edge technology into a basic capability of social operation, profoundly changing information processing methods, resource allocation efficiency, and service supply models.
In the face of the changes brought about by AI, it is wise to follow the trend and take the initiative to empower. Whether it is the financial industry or other economic and social fields, we must jump out of traditional path dependence, embrace technological innovation with a more open mind, use AI to improve efficiency, prevent and control risks, expand service boundaries, and constantly create new value. On the road to "understanding your needs," we must always adhere to technology for good and technology for the people, use AI to release people's livelihood dividends and activate development momentum, promote the coordinated progress of technology application and the real economy, and achieve higher quality and warmer development in the intelligent era.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 祝佳祺
In Lipu City (荔浦市), Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西), hanger companies' fully automated production lines are running at high speed, with finely polished and environmentally friendly coated hangers being neatly packed and shipped to destinations around the world...
As the "Hanger Capital of China," Lipu City has built a complete industrial chain covering eight supporting industries and more than 3,000 varieties. It currently has more than 300 enterprises, producing more than 4 billion hangers annually, with over 80% of wooden hangers exported to more than 100 countries and regions worldwide. The hanger industry has not only become the largest pillar industry in the area but also a bright spot on Guangxi's county-level export economy.
Improved Supply: From Handmade Workshops to Smart Factories
Polishing parts, assembling, labeling, packaging... In the production workshop of Guangxi Guilin Huahai Home Furnishing Co., Ltd. (广西桂林华海家居用品有限公司), a batch of birch hangers are smoothly coming off the fully automated production line, ready to be packed and shipped to Europe.
"To ensure order supply, intelligentization is the key," said Cai Gaoxu (蔡高旭), General Manager of Huahai Home Furnishing.
In 2022, Huahai Home Furnishing purchased its first intelligent production line. In the following 3 years, the company successively purchased 5 more production lines. Currently, the company's intelligent production rate has reached 95%, and it has also been rated as an autonomous region-level intelligent factory.
"In the earliest days, hanger making was all done by hand, using bicycle spoke wires to make the hooks," said Qin Yuangao (覃元高), Chairman of Guilin Yuxiang Home Furnishing Co., Ltd. (桂林裕祥家居用品有限公司), the first hanger company in Lipu City, who has witnessed the progress of production technology in the hanger industry.
Currently, over 90% of Lipu City's export orders come from bulk merchants, and many companies have stable overseas customers.
Intelligentization is not only a key move to expand production capacity but also a preemptive move to ensure quality. Stepping into Guilin Baikesi Home Furnishing Co., Ltd. (桂林佰客喜家居用品有限责任公司), four box-type machines are running with a roar. On the machine screen, the parameters to be processed are accurate to 0.5 millimeters. Workers put in the wood, and in less than 3 minutes, 12 half-hanger pieces are polished into shape, and after assembly, they become 6 finished luxury hangers.
"This is our 'one-key molding' production line, which is more precise than traditional manual polishing and more reliable in quality, greatly reducing rework. The company owns relevant patents," said Jiang Muxun (蒋目勋), General Manager of Baikesi Home Furnishing.
Intelligentization is not only applied in production. "We also use digital software for market analysis, product application scenario design, and the application of material simulation and visual recognition technologies reduces our early exploration costs. This year, the company will launch 'intelligent transformation and digital upgrading' to connect data from all links and use artificial intelligence to empower design, production, and management," said Qin Yuangao.
In February of this year, at the hanger and home furnishing industry-themed branch of Lipu Rural Commercial Bank (荔浦农商银行), staff from a micro-hanger enterprise were handling loan business at the counter.
"The government strongly supports the development of the hanger industry, and we serve nearly 70% of the local hanger enterprises," said Lu Yucheng (陆玉成), President of Lipu Rural Commercial Bank.
As early as 1989, when Qin Yuxiang (覃裕祥), the founder of Yuxiang Home Furnishing, received Lipu City's first hanger export order, he solved the funding problem for purchasing raw materials with a 5,000 yuan loan provided by this bank. Since then, Lipu Rural Commercial Bank and Yuxiang Home Furnishing have established a long-term and stable cooperative relationship, providing credit support multiple times.
In the past 5 years, Lipu Rural Commercial Bank has issued nearly 3.5 billion yuan in loans to hundreds of local hanger and home furnishing enterprises, and has saved the industry enterprises more than 18 million yuan in financing costs based on financial benefit policies.
Striving for Innovation: From Wooden Hangers to a Variety of Styles
How many different forms can a hanger have? Wooden hangers are the traditional mainstream product, but today, stepping into the "Hanger Capital of China" exhibition hall in Lipu City, wooden, bamboo, cloth, dip-molded, aluminum alloy, flocked, rubber-plastic, wood-plastic, and iron-wood hangers are all available, as well as personalized diamond-studded hangers, special-shaped hangers... Local enterprises are making a big deal out of a small space, each with its own unique skills.
At Baikesi Home Furnishing, leather hangers are the latest new product. The seemingly simple hanger has undergone 2 months of research and development innovation.
"American customers requested leather hangers, which had never been made locally before, so we went to Guangdong (广东) to learn," said Chen Youjun (陈有军), Deputy General Manager of Baikesi Home Furnishing, holding up a defective product with degummed leather, "Although we learned the process, the glue formula is a secret."
After dozens of adjustments by the company's R&D personnel, a suitable glue ratio was finally formulated to ensure that the product was delivered on schedule.
"This is another patent of ours in the past two years - 'a new type of hook and a clothes rack using the hook'," said Chen Youjun, holding a hanger in one hand and fiddling with the hook in the other. The hook rotates flexibly. "Some customers said that manual twisting would wear out the hook hole and easily cause the hook to fall off. For this reason, our R&D team came up with a way to add a rotating plug to the bottom of the metal hook, which reduces the wear and tear on the wood itself after being embedded in the hanger groove."
This invention patent has won Baikesi Home Furnishing 3 orders, driving hanger production to exceed 2 million.
Some product innovations are in appearance and function, while others are in materials.
"Hanger coatings used to be made of oil-based paint, but it is generally believed that oil-based paint is more environmentally damaging, so we started using water-based paint more than 10 years ago in response to the needs of overseas markets," said Cai Gaoxu.
Guilin Maojia Crafts Co., Ltd. (桂林毛嘉工艺品有限公司) has joined forces with the scientific research team of Guilin University of Technology (桂林理工大学) to launch injection-molded hangers made of renewable materials. In 2025, they also innovatively launched iron-wood hangers with a grand and simple design.
Some companies focus on high-end, personalized products, while others focus on mass-market products.
"European and American customers like to use wooden hangers, but wooden hangers take up more space and are relatively expensive, so we make wooden hangers thinner so that more people can use high-quality wooden hangers," said Qin Yuangao.
As of now, Lipu City's hanger enterprises have 30 valid invention patents and 57 utility model and design patents. In 2018, Lipu City was rated as one of the first batch of national innovative counties (cities). In 2022, Lipu was rated as a national pilot county for the construction of a strong intellectual property county. Where does the motivation for such innovation come from?
Over the years, the local government has taken the initiative to build a "government-university-enterprise" linkage mechanism, using the "bringing in + going out" model to organize docking with universities and facilitate cooperation agreements to solve technical bottlenecks. Enterprises are also constantly optimizing management to stimulate internal vitality. "Many innovations are proposed by front-line production personnel. We have a clear reward system and flexibly absorb front-line personnel into technical tackling projects in the form of projects," said Mao Huilin (毛惠霖), General Manager of Maojia Crafts.
Gathering Strength: From Working Alone to Joining Forces
During the 138th Canton Fair, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Department of Commerce (广西壮族自治区商务厅) and the Guilin Municipal Government (桂林市政府) jointly held the Guangxi Guilin Lipu Hanger Industry International Trade Supply and Procurement Docking Event. More than 20 hanger companies participated, attracting more than 50 overseas buyers to negotiate.
"Many of our orders come from exhibitions. The company has not missed a single Canton Fair in more than 20 years. If we don't have time to go out to participate in exhibitions, our peers will help us set up exhibitions," said Mao Huilin in the Maojia Crafts exhibition hall, where special-shaped hangers and diamond-studded hangers cooperated with Baikesi Home Furnishing are placed in prominent positions. "There is communication between enterprises. We all know what new products each company has made. The market is open."
"Cooperation among peers is very important for the healthy development of the industry," said Li Qingsong (李青松), Deputy Mayor of Lipu City, giving an example, "Many years ago, when we first started talking to everyone about intellectual property protection, many company leaders felt that everyone was producing the same things, and registering patents would be smashing the rice bowls of their peers. For the industry to move towards high-quality development, appropriate guidance is needed."
In 2009, the Lipu County Hanger Industry Association was established (renamed Lipu City Hanger Home Furnishing Industry Association in 2022). In 2018, under the guidance of the Lipu Municipal Government, the Hanger Branch of the China National General Merchandise Association was established, with members covering local leading enterprises and enterprises above designated size. From 2011 to 2025, more than 10 member enterprises of the Hanger Association and the Hanger Branch participated in the formulation of national and industry standards for eight categories of hanger production and group standards for three categories. These standards ensure the basic quality of Lipu hangers and regulate industry order.
"The hanger industry is not just about hangers," said Li Qingsong. "In recent years, the foreign trade situation has been complex and volatile, but the export data has not fallen, and the key lies in the fact that the entire industry, upstream and downstream, is working together, and the international competitiveness of enterprises has been improved."
At present, Lipu City takes the hanger industry as the main body to horizontally drive the development of hardware, electroplating, paint, and packaging industries, and vertically drive the development of upstream and downstream industries such as forestry planting, commerce, logistics, and scientific research. The entire industrial chain cluster has laid a solid foundation for the development of the hanger industry.
"In the past, we had to rely on imports for water-based paint, but now we can easily obtain it locally, which greatly reduces production costs," said Cai Gaoxu.
Gathering strength can gather limited resources and stimulate internal vitality. In 2010, Lipu was awarded the title of "Hanger Capital of China," and Lipu hangers have a brighter name card for going overseas.
"In the past, we talked about developing five major industries, but in 2019, the autonomous region required each county to focus on developing 1-3 leading industries, and our practice has shown significant results," said Li Qingsong.
In 2019, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission (广西壮族自治区发展改革委) issued the "Several Measures on Supporting the Development of the Hanger Home Furnishing Industry in Lipu City," proposing measures such as building a comprehensive trading center, promoting technological upgrading, forming an industrial alliance, building a characteristic park, and guaranteeing land and funds. This document is also known as the "Nine Hanger Articles" by local enterprises.
Related deployments have been implemented successively. For example, some merchants specify that wood can only rely on imports. In November 2025, 28 cubic meters of European ash wood panels imported from Croatia by local enterprises were transported to the Lipu Imported Bonded Warehouse, and the first wood bonded business in Guilin City was officially launched.
"In the future, we will continue to improve the industrial supporting system for product research and development design, solid waste recycling, small hardware accessories, logistics services, and new materials, do a good job in enterprise services, and improve the development level of the hanger industry," said Li Qingsong.
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Dr. Lei Yao's (雷曜) book is published at the 20th anniversary of the "Two Mountains" theory, which is very timely. As the first country in the world to build a relatively complete green finance policy system, China has basically formed a multi-level and diversified green finance market system covering green loans, green bonds, green insurance, green funds, green leases, and green trusts, injecting strong impetus into the comprehensive green transformation and development. The scale of the green finance market ranks among the top in the world.
China's green finance development has grown from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong, and has become one of the "five major articles" of finance. Lei Yao (雷曜), who has long been engaged in policy research, formulation, and promotion of implementation at the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), has been deeply involved and is a witness, participant, and participant in the development of green finance. The author's unique experience lays the unique value of this book - it has both theoretical depth, practical thickness, and cutting-edge vision, rather than just based on theoretical deduction and model construction. The content of the book integrates the author's personal experience, field research, and practical experience in participating in the construction of China's green finance system. It is not only a comprehensive summary of China's green finance development, but also a forward-looking analysis of future market opportunities and challenges.
China has basically established the "three major functions" and "five major pillars" of green finance development policy ideas. The next step should mainly give play to the role of the "effective market," especially to guide and encourage financial institutions to be practitioners and demonstrators of green finance. Financial institutions should establish and improve resource allocation mechanisms, risk management mechanisms, comprehensive service mechanisms, and assessment and evaluation mechanisms to improve the effectiveness of financial services for green development and continuously broaden the breadth and depth of green finance. Of course, the role of the "promising government" is still indispensable, and it is necessary to continue to deepen in the following three aspects in the future.
First, from "standard unification" to "standard implementation," solve the problem of policy coordination. The *Green Finance Support Project Catalog (2025 Edition)* further unifies the standards for green loans, green bonds, green insurance, and other products, but the vitality of standards lies in their use. In the future, we should refine quantifiable and auditable assessment and incentive and restraint mechanisms, especially clarifying differentiated assessment requirements for small and medium-sized financial institutions; accelerate the opening of information barriers between finance, industry, environmental protection, and other departments to achieve effective data sharing and efficient mutual recognition.
Second, from "scale expansion" to "structural optimization," fill the shortcomings of direct financing. China's green credit balance is nearly 45 trillion yuan, ranking first in the world, but the proportion of equity financing is significantly lower. In the future, we should vigorously develop equity instruments such as green equity funds and green insurance, support government industry funds, professional private equity investment companies, and venture capital companies to participate in green investment, and build a multi-level service system of "credit + bonds + equity + insurance" to better match the capital needs of the entire life cycle of green projects.
Third, from "qualitative disclosure" to "quantitative verification," consolidate the information data base. At present, corporate environmental information disclosure is mainly descriptive, with few negative indicators involved, and the effectiveness of information is insufficient. We should steadily expand the scope of semi-mandatory and mandatory disclosure and clarify the timetable and roadmap for disclosure. Strengthen technology empowerment, use artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, and other technologies to accelerate the construction of national-level data platforms, achieve "zero-cost, zero-intervention" accounting and dynamic monitoring of carbon emissions, and effectively curb "greenwashing" and "fake green" behaviors.
As expressed in the book, the real "new boundary" of green finance is not in the distance, but in the vivid details of each system and standard implementation, in the efficient delivery of each transformation loan, and in the precise measurement of each "carbon account." During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is believed that through the efforts of all parties, the huge potential of green finance will be further stimulated to better serve the green transformation of the real economy.
(The author is the chief economist of Zhaolian (招联) and the deputy director of the Shanghai Finance and Development Laboratory (上海金融与发展实验室))
Return to TopIn the new era and on the new journey, financial work must stand firm on the people's position, enhance the diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility of services, and better protect the rights and interests of financial consumers.
Under the guidance of the goal of building a strong financial nation, strengthening the protection of financial consumers' rights and interests is not only a key support for boosting market confidence and preventing and resolving financial risks, but also an inevitable requirement for maintaining financial security and stability and promoting high-quality economic and social development.
Opening the answer sheet of Bank of China's (中国银行) consumer rights protection work, from building a "Big Consumer Protection" (大消保) work system to fully anchoring the "little certain happiness" (小确幸) of people's livelihood, to embracing digital transformation in a "fast-paced" manner, from adhering to the "slow care" of finance for the people, to the long-term practice of consumer protection for the people "never having a completion time, only a progress time," Bank of China (中国银行) continues to optimize services and fully supports financial consumers' "steady happiness."
From "Big Consumer Protection" (大消保) to "Little Certain Happiness" (小确幸)
Focusing on "key small matters" and coordinating the overall planning of consumer protection work throughout the bank.
Financial security is the top priority. Since the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) proposed "building a new mechanism for financial consumer protection and constructing a 'Big Consumer Protection' (大消保) work system," a series of overall plans for Bank of China (中国银行) to improve the system and mechanism for financial consumer protection, promote the construction of financial consumer protection infrastructure, and optimize the organizational system for financial consumer protection work have been implemented one after another, and the "Big Consumer Protection" (大消保) pattern has gradually taken shape.
The background color of consumer protection work has always been the warm color of people's livelihood. Under the guidance of financial management departments and the promotion of industry self-regulatory organizations, Bank of China's (中国银行) concept of financial consumer rights protection runs through the entire process of the group's business development, and it has basically established a consumer rights protection work organization system from top to bottom, covering all levels of the governance structure. One by one, "key small matters" close to the masses are precisely embedded in the entire chain of construction of Bank of China's (中国银行) "Big Consumer Protection" (大消保) work system.
In terms of the bank's overall planning and design, combined with the urgent and difficult problems of financial consumers and the problems in the field of financial consumer rights protection that urgently need to be standardized, the Bank of China's (中国银行) board of directors and senior management team coordinate the long-term operation of the governance pattern. Directors and senior management go down to the front line to form a normalized mechanism for research, regularly conduct special research on consumer protection issues, coordinate the overall planning of consumer protection work throughout the bank, improve the timetable and roadmap for system construction, and promote the orderly implementation of various tasks.
In terms of the implementation of regulatory policies, focusing on the important systems such as suitability management and marketing publicity management issued by the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局), Bank of China (中国银行) promotes the integration of various regulatory requirements into the entire business process through system revisions, process optimization, system upgrades, training and publicity. At the same time, it earnestly fulfills the responsibilities of the chairman unit of the Consumer Rights Protection Working Committee of the China Banking Association (中国银行业协会), participates in the entire process of formulating the "Self-Discipline Specification for Suitability Management of Commercial Bank Products" as the leader of the writing team, and reviews the compilation of typical cases of integrity services in the banking industry, contributing Bank of China's (中国银行) strength to the standardized development of consumer protection work in the banking industry with pragmatic measures.
In terms of enhancing the consumer protection awareness of all employees, Bank of China (中国银行) added a professional sequence in the direction of consumer protection to the existing talent training system for the first time in 2025 to enhance the professional capabilities of consumer protection personnel and unblock their career development channels. Comprehensively upgrade and optimize consumer protection training content, innovate training forms, continue to promote the research and application of consumer protection micro-case courses, and expand the valuable experience of solving customer problems into a knowledge base for the entire jurisdiction, comprehensively improving the professional ability to serve customers.
Bank of China (中国银行) continues to improve the construction of the consumer rights protection system and mechanism, so that the demands of financial consumers can be actively and properly resolved. It writes a vivid footnote for the entire bank's consumer protection work to run through the entire process of operation and management.
From "Fast Pace" to "Slow Care"
Promoting "Digital Consumer Protection" and providing "warm services" around the clock.
By logging into the "Consumer Protection Zone" of the Bank of China (中国银行) Training Digital Platform, Bank of China (中国银行) employees can learn about the latest consumer protection policies and cases, participate in optimizing and improving consumer protection rules and regulations, conduct consumer protection compliance reviews of products and services, coordinate customer service work, and take the lead in organizing publicity and education activities...
Finance for the people, focusing on stability. Integrating the concept of financial consumer rights protection into the entire process of business development means that every employee shoulders the important responsibility of protecting consumer rights and interests, thereby forming a systematic work and becoming the daily routine of Bank of China's (中国银行) construction of the "Big Consumer Protection" (大消保) work system.
Under the wave of digital transformation, Bank of China (中国银行) is accelerating the construction of a new model of "digital consumer protection," building an online system covering the entire process of consumer protection work such as complaints, consumer review, and early warning, and applying artificial intelligence technology and data analysis technology to improve the intelligent management efficiency and digital analysis level of consumer protection work.
At the same time, Bank of China (中国银行) widely absorbs opinions to optimize system design. The intelligent consumer protection education and publicity module will innovatively design a shared management function, establish a unified material library and strategy library for the entire bank, support convenient retrieval and reuse sharing, and promote the sharing of excellent education and publicity results throughout the bank.
While embracing digital transformation in a "fast-paced" manner, Bank of China (中国银行) never forgets the "slow care" that consumer protection work should have.
Adhering to the concept of "warm service," Bank of China (中国银行) continues to improve the warm service mechanism for special groups such as the elderly, and creates a "Pension Finance Zone" on the mobile banking app, realizing the entire process of online and one-stop handling of account opening, payment, investment, inquiry, and voucher printing; offline, it promotes the aging-friendly transformation of outlets, equips them with barrier-free facilities, etc. In terms of products, it upgrades the rights and interests of the Suiyue Changqing Card (岁悦长情卡) and carries out preferential activities around the needs of elderly customers such as purchasing medicines, taking taxis, and home care, conveying financial care with "warm service."
In addition, Bank of China (中国银行) promotes the adaptation of mobile banking in minority languages to help minority customers better enjoy financial services; promotes the implementation of the online agency query business model for minors and optimizes exclusive service processes. On the channel, it integrates the menu bar of the WeChat official account and the credit card channel page of the mobile banking app to aggregate high-quality services and improve the convenience of finding them; establishes a mobile banking experience re-inspection mechanism to continuously improve the user experience.
In recent years, Bank of China (中国银行) has continued to carry out the "Bank of China Consumer Protection Accompanying Four Seasons" series of normalized activities, conducting differentiated and precise publicity and education for different financial knowledge needs of groups such as the "old, young, and new," rural people, and cross-border consumers, focusing on themes such as aging-friendly services, payment facilitation, anti-fraud, and anti-illegal activities, and singing the "good voice of finance." Bank of China (中国银行) has also comprehensively built a diversified education and publicity training system, innovating and upgrading from three aspects: content, form, and channels, linking regulatory departments, non-profit organizations, media, and internal group resources to achieve multiple breakthroughs in coverage, influence, and innovation. In 2025, the entire bank carried out more than 268,000 educational and publicity activities, effectively improving the public's financial literacy and risk prevention awareness. Related achievements won the "Excellent Anti-Fraud Short Video" award in the National Anti-Fraud Short Video Competition of the financial industry of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行).
Financial education and publicity work is of great significance for improving consumers' financial literacy, creating a safe and secure financial consumption environment, and maintaining financial stability.
Before the Spring Festival this year, targeting key groups such as the elderly, takeaway deliverymen, sanitation workers, migrant workers returning home, and students, Bank of China (中国银行) launched the theme financial education and publicity activity of "Building a Solid Anti-Fraud Defense Line and Welcoming a Safe and Peaceful New Year" throughout the bank. A batch of excellent and characteristic activities emerged, such as the "Together in the New Year, You Are in Our Hearts" financial consumer protection-themed Spring Festival temple fair in Getang Grand Market (葛塘大集) in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), the "Golden Police Escorting the Spring Festival Transport, Guarding the Dream of Reunion for Thousands of Families - 2026 Spring Festival Transport Financial Education and Publicity Activity" jointly carried out in 16 prefectures and states in Yunnan (云南), and the anti-fraud publicity theme activity of "Anti-Fraud Does Not Close at the End of the Year, Welcoming the New Year Safely" focusing on employees of enterprises in Chengdu (成都) Xingu (芯谷) Park in Sichuan (四川).
Among them, the "Together in the New Year, You Are in Our Hearts" financial consumer protection-themed Spring Festival temple fair launched by the Jiangsu (江苏) Branch of Bank of China (中国银行) in Getang Grand Market (葛塘大集) in Nanjing (南京) deeply integrates financial consumer protection publicity with the Spring Festival Grand Market to create an immersive financial knowledge popularization scene. The activity sets up four theme challenge checkpoints: identification of genuine and fake currency, anti-fraud intelligence decoding, etc., integrating financial knowledge popularization into interactive games, and integrating key points of financial management and fraud prevention into New Year customs landscapes and activities such as the Hundred Blessings Wall and catching "lucky" into cages, so that citizens can learn knowledge and skills such as anti-fraud and anti-illegal activities and fake currency identification in the process of collecting blessings and interacting in a fun way. In addition, the Tianjin (天津) Branch of Bank of China (中国银行) cleverly integrates Tianjin (天津) intangible cultural heritage elements such as Yangliuqing (杨柳青) woodblock New Year paintings and the making skills of Kite Wei (风筝魏) with consumer protection knowledge to create a long picture "Intangible Cultural Heritage 'Guarding' Art Spreads for a Century, Painting Says Consumer Protection Protects Thousands of Families," presenting anti-fraud slogans and risk warnings in the traditional art form of "half-printed and half-painted, meticulous and heavy color," which is widely disseminated on social media platforms, effectively improving consumers' risk prevention awareness.
From "People's Livelihood Temperature" to "Development Height"
Adhering to "Finance for the People" and Continuously Creating a New Situation in Consumer Protection Work.
High-quality development can only go far if it is stable. As one of the fields in financial work that is closest to the people and most closely connected with the people, consumer protection work is not only an inevitable requirement for fulfilling social responsibility, but also a strategic fulcrum for helping it enhance its future competitiveness and achieve high-quality development.
In 2025, Bank of China (中国银行) adhered to "finance for the people" and integrated the concept of financial consumer rights protection into the entire process of business development. From four dimensions: strengthening governance throughout the bank, improving business mechanisms, improving the quality of complaint management, and breaking through technology empowerment, it comprehensively and systematically promoted consumer protection work, continuously consolidating the consumer protection management system, improving the efficiency of dispute resolution, and initially achieving online foundations, effectively protecting customers' legitimate rights and interests.
In 2026, Bank of China (中国银行) will take "planning leadership, compliance foundation, digital intelligence empowerment, and precise prevention and control" as the guiding principles for its work, continue to improve the "Big Consumer Protection" (大消保) work system, and promote the deep integration of consumer protection work and business operations. Adhere to moving the consumer protection governance gate forward, improve and perfect the "pre-review, mid-term control, and post-event traceability" consumer protection full-process control mechanism, and realize the transformation of consumer protection from "firefighting" to "fire prevention"; adhere to "customer-centricity" and create a customer service system with temperature, responding to and properly resolving consumer demands in a timely manner; adhere to taking technology-driven as the main engine for improving the quality and efficiency of consumer protection work and build a digital consumer protection system.
2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Standing at a new historical starting point, Bank of China (中国银行) will actively practice the political and people-oriented nature of financial work, continue to create a new situation in financial consumer rights protection work, and strive to transform financial consumer protection work into an endogenous driving force for promoting the group's high-quality development, into a solid support for meeting the people's yearning for a better life, and into a responsible commitment to serving the construction of a strong financial nation, comprehensively enhancing financial consumers' sense of gain, happiness, and security, and effectively following the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics.
Data source: Bank of China (中国银行)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 屈 佩 陈熙芮
Erik Solheim (埃里克·索尔海姆), former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, is now the co-chair of the EU Asia Centre. As a "Guardian of the Earth" who has been deeply involved in global environmental protection for decades, Solheim has long been committed to promoting global cooperation in the field of ecological protection, and paying attention to and participating in China's exploration and practice in green development.
During his tenure at the United Nations, Solheim promoted Chinese environmental protection cases such as the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm (塞罕坝机械林场) in Hebei (河北) and the "Thousands of Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousands of Villages Renovation" project in Zhejiang (浙江) to the world, and facilitated the signing of the "Memorandum of Understanding on Building a Green 'Belt and Road'" between the United Nations Environment Programme and China, allowing China's ecological governance achievements to gain wider international recognition.
In recent years, Solheim has spent several months in China almost every year: formulating green development guidelines for "Belt and Road" projects, studying the development of the photovoltaic and energy storage industries, inspecting the results of marine ecological restoration, and promoting the experience of desertification control in the Kubuqi Desert (库布其沙漠)... On social media, he calls himself "Optimistic Environmental Guardian Uncle Solheim," leading fans at home and abroad to witness the progress of China's ecological environment governance.
"China has achieved environmental governance results in a relatively short period of time that some Western countries have taken decades to complete, while significantly improving the quality of life of its people."
Q: More and more Chinese projects are winning the United Nations' highest environmental honor, the "Champions of the Earth" award. What does this indicate?
A: When I first took office at the United Nations, I noticed a surprising fact: very few Chinese projects had won the "Champions of the Earth" award. This was not because China lacked successful cases, but because the international review system at that time was deeply influenced by inherent geographical and cultural perspectives – many judges sat in offices thousands of kilometers away, far from the field, making it difficult to truly see the green changes taking place in China. My judgment was: if they were willing to go to China and see for themselves, there would be green development cases everywhere.
My own experience is exactly like this. In 1984, I came to China for the first time. In the years that followed, I traveled to most parts of China. Almost every time I went to a city, I would run, using the most direct way to feel the local natural environment. In the last ten years or so, I have clearly felt that China's air quality is getting better and better, the results of water management are remarkable, and urban green spaces are constantly expanding – the results of green development are visible everywhere.
In 2017, the United Nations Environment Programme awarded the "Champions of the Earth" award to the builders of the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm (塞罕坝机械林场) in China. That was a land that was once close to desert, and three generations of Chinese people used more than half a century of persistence to plant millions of acres of artificial forest. This is not only a miracle of ecological engineering, but also a victory created by the human will and the ability of natural restoration working together.
Another very representative case is Zhejiang's (浙江) "Thousands of Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousands of Villages Renovation" project. I have visited urban and rural areas in Zhejiang (浙江) many times and witnessed firsthand this systematic governance action that goes deep into the grassroots level, completely changing the face of thousands of villages. Black and odorous water bodies once known as "soy sauce rivers" are now crystal clear; villages that were once dirty, chaotic, and poor are now full of birdsong and flowers.
China has achieved environmental governance results in a relatively short period of time that some Western countries have taken decades to complete, while significantly improving the quality of life of its people. This speed and scale are shocking, and this experience provides a reference for the vast number of developing countries.
Q: How do you understand "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets"?
A: President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," which shows the world that China refuses to make a "single choice" between economic growth and ecological protection. The two can be promoted in parallel and can achieve each other.
I have been to the Kubuqi Desert (库布其沙漠) in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) many times. There, people no longer regard the desert as just a problem, but as a resource that can be transformed. By developing the photovoltaic industry, ecological tourism, and medicinal material planting, local residents have created employment and increased income while restoring the ecology.
The changes in cities are equally shocking. In Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), nearly 20,000 kilometers of Tianfu Greenway (天府绿道) system is under construction. This length is equivalent to crossing China about 4 times from Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) to Kashgar (喀什), Xinjiang (新疆), or crossing the United States nearly 4 times from Los Angeles to New York. Such a large public green space is a gift to every citizen.
From deserts to cities, China has found diversified green transformation methods suitable for local conditions. This systematic transformation is extremely rare on a global scale.
The concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" also demonstrates unique wisdom at the level of social mobilization. Someone once jokingly asked me: "What exactly is biodiversity? Is it a disease?" This sentence reminds us that cold technical terms are not conducive to promoting public participation in ecological protection. To win this battle to protect nature, we must awaken people's emotional connection to nature. Expressions such as "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and "Beautiful China" are concise and powerful, transforming professional concepts into language that ordinary people can understand and are willing to listen to. Therefore, they can form a broad consensus in society and promote China's environmental protection cause in the right direction.
"The more global public goods China provides, the greater the certainty of the world's future."
Q: Why has China been able to achieve such a huge green transformation in such a short period of time?
A: The key lies in China's formation of a highly stable and sustainable ecological governance system.
The first is the long-term and continuous nature of policies. From the 2035 long-term vision outline to the centenary goal facing 2049, China is good at formulating grand blueprints spanning decades and continuously implementing and promoting them based on five-year plans. This strategic focus is a unique institutional advantage that many countries cannot match.
At the same time, the Chinese market maintains a vibrant and innovative competitive environment, and enterprises continue to promote technological progress, reduce costs, and expand scale. It is the government's active guidance and the market's effective allocation of resources that make China's green transformation full of vitality.
Q: In China's "15th Five-Year Plan," what are you most concerned about?
A: Among the many keywords, I am most concerned about two: "new quality productive forces" and "green development." The former is represented by cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and advanced manufacturing; the latter focuses on the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. These two are not separated, but interdependent and promoted simultaneously.
On the one hand, new technologies are accelerating the green revolution. Huawei (华为) uses artificial intelligence sound analysis technology to track the activities of Hainan gibbons (海南长臂猿) to achieve precise protection; energy companies use intelligent algorithms to dispatch power grids, allowing wind power, photovoltaic power, hydropower, and energy storage systems to operate efficiently and collaboratively. On the other hand, green energy is the cornerstone of technological development. Without low-cost, large-scale clean energy, we would not be able to support the huge energy consumption of artificial intelligence data centers. Green energy provides power for technological development, and technological innovation promotes green development – this is a true symbiotic relationship.
What is particularly commendable is the "open source" approach of Chinese enterprises in technological development. Large models launched by DeepSeek (深势科技) and others are open to the world, which means that a young person in Nigeria, Brazil, or Germany can sit at home and access the world's top intelligent brain as long as they have internet access. This reflects China's values – technological progress should be shared by all mankind. The same is true in the field of green development. BYD (比亚迪) is building a factory in Brazil, and CATL (宁德时代) is investing in Hungary – China is sharing green productivity with countries around the world, helping other countries achieve energy transformation at a lower cost and faster speed.
This is the confidence that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" brings to the world: the more global public goods China provides, the greater the certainty of the world's future. The stronger China becomes, the better the world will be.
"Without China, the global green transition will not stop, but it will become much more expensive and much slower."
Q: Is environmental protection just a career of sentiment?
A: This is a practical issue. If the green transition is just a career of sentiment, it cannot last for long. It must be economically viable.
Compared with 20 years ago, the price of solar panels has now fallen to less than 5% of what it was in 2005. This 95% cost reduction comes from fierce market competition and continuous technological progress, and China has played a key role in it.
For countries in the Global South, price is the decisive factor in energy choices. In many poor areas, people are eager to get rid of poverty and obtain stable electricity, but the premise is that energy prices must be affordable. At the current stage, relying on China's mature supply chain and manufacturing capabilities is often the best solution for obtaining low-cost clean energy.
Without China, the global green transition will not stop, but it will become much more expensive and much slower. If Western countries can face China's green development with a more open attitude, China can further promote the global green transition through investment, cooperation, and technology sharing. This is obviously a win-win deal.
Q: Is this what you advocate for green trade?
A: Yes. Green trade is not only about the flow of goods, but more importantly, it is about establishing green cooperative relationships. China has established a globally leading efficiency advantage in the field of green manufacturing and has the ability to cooperate deeply with countries around the world.
The reality is that every country hopes to maintain local industrial opportunities and employment opportunities while promoting the green transition. I understand the desire of many countries to develop local manufacturing. Over time, they will gradually establish their own industrial systems. But in the initial stage, for a country that wants to accelerate the green transition while taking into account economic vitality, establishing a partnership with China is obviously a realistic and efficient choice.
Not long ago, I saw a photovoltaic power station built by a Chinese company in Malaysia, which was very spectacular. When visiting around the world, I also often see large areas of solar panels supported by Chinese technology. These projects use China's advanced equipment and technical support, but the construction, operation, maintenance, grid connection, and financial services are mostly completed by local enterprises. This not only brings clean energy, but also creates real jobs and drives the upgrading and development of local industries. In fact, more and more green cooperation is like this, promoting the common development of both parties.
Q: How do you view the far-reaching impact of the green "Belt and Road" on global development?
A: Let me paint a picture: when you take the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (蒙内铁路) through the Kenyan (肯尼亚) savanna, you may look out the window and see a group of elephants slowly passing by. The reason why this railway can coexist with wildlife is that the Chinese team built special passages for animal migration at the beginning of the design – ecological corridors are set up under the bridges to ensure that they can move freely. This is a true reflection of building a green "Belt and Road."
The "Belt and Road" project green development guidelines research project launched in 2019 aims to establish a scientific and operable green assessment system for overseas investment. We proposed a "three-color classification method": environmentally friendly projects such as renewable energy and ecological protection are classified as green projects, and priority support is encouraged; projects with general environmental impacts are classified as yellow projects, and the design needs to be optimized to reduce negative impacts; high-carbon emission projects are classified as red projects, and it is recommended to focus on supervision or avoid them prudently. This mechanism has become an effective tool for guiding capital flows to green areas.
In 2021, China pledged that it would no longer build new overseas coal-fired power projects. This decision is of great global significance. When the world's second-largest economy takes the initiative to express its position, other countries follow suit, and the pace of global green transformation suddenly accelerates.
Q: There is a view that using Chinese green technology means losing energy autonomy. What do you think?
A: On the contrary, it means enhancing energy autonomy. Every country has natural resources that can be developed. Using Chinese green technology to establish or improve its own energy system is a completely different logic from relying on energy imports – it is actually strengthening the country's energy independence. Importing high-efficiency, low-cost equipment itself does not weaken a country's economic security. On the contrary, cooperation can promote local technology upgrades and industrial development. At the same time, the local service system formed in the links of installation, maintenance, and grid integration will create a large number of job opportunities.
We must realize that addressing climate change, ecological crises, and eliminating poverty are the common responsibility of all mankind. As long as we unite and cooperate, these problems are not unsolvable. However, once there is division and confrontation, even the smallest challenges will become insurmountable.
"What China is pursuing is not only its own green transformation, but also building a 'green civilization' together with the world."
Q: Since the green transition is so necessary, why is progress still so difficult globally?
A: The difficulty lies not only in cognition, but also in action. Scientific observations have long given a clear answer – the climate crisis is real, and active response is imminent. However, the lag in political will, disputes over the division of responsibilities, and especially the strategic absence of individual major countries, still slow down global collaboration or even lead to regression.
We must soberly recognize a fact: it is not the earth that needs humans, but humans cannot live without the earth. If we disappear tomorrow, the forests will return to lushness and the rivers will be restored to clarity; but if we continue to destroy the ecology, human civilization itself will face an irreversible crisis. Protecting nature is essentially protecting our own bottom line for survival.
It is gratifying that, although there are many obstacles, action is still continuing. We see that more and more Global South countries such as China, Brazil (巴西), and South Africa (南非) are playing an important role in global ecological governance, and more and more green cooperation rules are being jointly promoted by Global South countries. The Thirtieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reached a political document entitled "Global Mobilization: Working Together to Address Climate Change Challenges," and the G20 summit held in South Africa (南非) last year reaffirmed its commitment to achieving the goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. These important processes show that even without the participation of individual major countries, green action can still be promoted.
Q: In the process of promoting green development, how should we build a broader consensus?
A: To promote green development globally, we not only need technical solutions and financial investment, but also rely on the power of civilization. Because the wisdom of living in harmony with nature is inherent in the traditions of the world's major civilizations, and the pursuit of symbiosis and prosperity with nature is a common value pursuit of different civilizations.
China is the first developing country in the world to comprehensively promote ecological civilization as a national strategy, and China's green development achievements also have a profound civilizational foundation. Chinese traditional culture contains the concept of "**和合共生**" (hé hé gòng shēng - "harmony and co-existence," the idea of harmonious coexistence and mutual benefit). Today's China has embarked on a unique path of modernization – while promoting economic and social development, it pays attention to maintaining the continuity of its own cultural traditions, which is an important spiritual foundation for China to continuously promote the green transition.
In my opinion, what China is pursuing is not only its own green transformation, but also building a "green civilization" together with the world – a modern civilization in which humans and nature coexist in harmony. This pursuit is not a temporary measure, but is deeply rooted in the way of thinking of Chinese civilization for thousands of years.
Currently, more Global South countries are gaining voice and development space, which brings hope for building a greener and more just global order. But we must also be vigilant: if there is a lack of common rules and cooperation mechanisms, multipolarity may slide into a state of disorderly competition, and the law of the jungle may replace cooperative consensus. I believe that Global South countries represented by China can play a greater role in this process, bridging differences through civilizational dialogue and building consensus through green cooperation.
Q: Some people think that you are too close to China. What do you think?
A: Getting close to China is getting close to the countries of the Global South and getting close to green development. A country that has devoted so much effort to green development and achieved remarkable results is a positive force that no one engaged in ecological endeavors can ignore. China is working with the world to build a beautiful China (美丽中国) and a beautiful Earth, and I will continue to witness and participate in this process.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 倪 弋 张 璁
"The stone hanging in my heart has finally landed." Not long ago, citizen Wang (王某) received the administrative reconsideration decision and breathed a sigh of relief.
It turned out that five years ago, Wang's (王某) identity information was used by others to change the legal representative of a company. Wang (王某) believed that there was a situation of identity verification and registration through AI face-swapping, so he applied to the local market supervision department to revoke the change registration, but was told that "the system shows that the online identity verification has been completed" and could not be accepted. Wang (王某) then applied to the Municipal People's Government for administrative reconsideration.
The administrative reconsideration agency did not simply adopt the background data, but keenly pointed out that AI face-swapping technology is changing with each passing day, and the system background data alone is not enough to prove that it has completed identity verification. Therefore, it decided to revoke the decision of non-acceptance and ordered the respondent to make a new decision. In the end, the "being a legal person" shackles that had been weighing on Wang (王某) for many years were untied.
Administrative reconsideration is an important system for supervising the lawful and fair exercise of administrative power, promoting self-correction by administrative organs, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the masses, and effectively resolving administrative disputes.
The *Administrative Reconsideration Work White Paper (2025)* recently released by the Ministry of Justice (司法部) shows that in 2025, administrative reconsideration agencies at all levels across the country handled 1.115 million administrative reconsideration cases, and the number of newly received cases reached nearly three times that of first-instance administrative litigation cases in courts during the same period. At the same time, the Ministry of Justice (司法部) comprehensively promoted "online reconsideration." In 2025, the proportion of newly received online application cases nationwide has reached 26.3%, making fairness and justice more perceptible and accessible. Behind a series of figures is the full play of the main channel role of administrative reconsideration in resolving administrative disputes.
Give play to the functions of supervision and service
Help optimize the legal business environment
The significance of administrative reconsideration is not only reflected in the correction of administrative illegal acts, but also in creating a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable legal business environment for various business entities. In 2025, reconsideration agencies at all levels across the country handled 61,000 cases involving enterprises, and substantially resolved 15,000 cases through mediation and reconciliation.
In Chifeng City (赤峰市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), a dispute over whether the "unregistered operation in a different place" of a dangerous goods transport vehicle constitutes a major hidden danger was submitted to the administrative reconsideration agency. Law enforcement officers have different understandings of legal provisions, resulting in differences in law enforcement, leaving enterprises at a loss.
The administrative reconsideration agency did not simply judge right and wrong, but saw the potential harm of inconsistent law enforcement standards to the fair market order. They took the initiative to send a letter to the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) for an authoritative explanation. In the end, based on a clear explanation, 50 similar cases, including the penalty involved in the case, were systematically corrected, 20 business entities were "corrected and unbundled," and subsequent administrative law enforcement standards were standardized simultaneously. Zhou Shihong (周世虹), a partner at Grandall Law Firm (Hefei) (国浩律师（合肥）事务所), commented: "The advantage of administrative reconsideration is that it is embedded in the administrative system and can quickly discover and feedback common and emerging problems in law enforcement. Promoting the standardization of a class of problems through a case is a deeper and more efficient construction of a legal business environment."
In a fire accident penalty reconsideration case in a county in Shandong (山东) Province, the construction company involved in the case frankly stated at the hearing that it had no objection to the penalty itself, but more urgently hoped to clarify the proportion of accident responsibility in order to resolve civil disputes with its partners. While upholding the penalty in accordance with the law, the administrative reconsideration agency promoted the fire department to issue a detailed responsibility analysis report. The person in charge of the administrative reconsideration agency introduced, "We must not only judge 'whether the penalty is correct,' but also think about how to help enterprises get rid of derivative disputes and operate with peace of mind."
The concept of reconsideration staff reflects the extension of administrative reconsideration work from a referee to a service provider. This "one step forward" approach makes legal protection more efficient and warmer. According to statistics, in 2025, through administrative reconsideration, relevant administrative organs paid 34.2 million yuan in compensation to enterprises and exempted more than 81 million yuan in improper fines.
Optimizing the legal business environment is extending from the fair adjudication of the reconsideration window to the active legal services for enterprises. A large number of enterprise-related reconsideration service points and enterprise-benefit liaison stations have been established across the country, allowing the tentacles of legal protection to directly reach the most active end of economic cells. Shandong (山东), Yunnan (云南), Zhejiang (浙江), Shanxi (山西) and other places have carried out administrative reconsideration activities of "entering parks and entering enterprises," and established "enterprise-benefit contact points" in chambers of commerce and parks; 23 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have established files and accounts for enterprise-related reconsideration decisions that have not been fulfilled beyond the time limit, and conducted follow-up visits.
Standardize the operation of administrative power
Help promote the construction of a government under the rule of law
The key to building a government under the rule of law is the standardization and legalization of the operation of administrative power. "Administrative reconsideration is like a regular 'quality inspection instrument' embedded in the administrative system, which not only judges the legality of the results, but also examines the rationality of the behavior, and is committed to promoting administrative behavior from 'formal compliance' to 'substantial justice,'" said Zhou Shihong (周世虹).
"Is it not 'on the way to and from work' to go to work from my girlfriend's house?" A *Decision on Not Identifying as Work-Related Injury* issued by the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (人社局) of a county in Jilin (吉林) added to the grief of the family of Meng (孟某某), who died in a traffic accident on his way to work. The administrative reconsideration agency held that the determination of work-related injury should take the purpose of the behavior and the rationality of the route as important judgment standards. Ignoring the substantial rationality of the worker going to the work unit from the actual daily residence is a misunderstanding of the spirit of the law, and ultimately revoked the aforementioned decision.
"The accurate application of laws and the implementation of administrative law enforcement actions cannot be separated from the common sense of life and the original intention of legislation," said Xiao Beigeng (肖北庚), president of the Hunan Provincial Law Society Administrative Law Research Association (湖南省法学会行政法学研究会). The important value of administrative reconsideration lies in its ability to penetrate the formal elements of administrative actions and conduct a more common-sense review of "legality and rationality," which is both a necessary correction to mechanical law enforcement and a more substantial protection of citizens' rights.
In a city in Gansu (甘肃) Province, 19 drivers were fined for "not driving in the guided lane" at the same intersection in just over a month. Reconsideration personnel conducted on-site inspections and found that the root cause was that the setting of traffic signs and markings made it objectively impossible for vehicles to distinguish the prohibited lanes. After repeated communication with the traffic management department, the reconsideration agency not only promoted the revocation of the relevant penalties, but also promoted the optimization of the traffic signs and traffic plan of the section.
"The handling of this 'small case' vividly interprets the governance function of administrative reconsideration of 'grasping the front end and treating the disease before it occurs': it reveals the systemic problems of source governance through the correction of improper individual cases, thereby avoiding the generation of more disputes," said Xiao Beigeng (肖北庚).
"Administrative reconsideration is an important starting point for promoting the construction of a government under the rule of law. Its role is not only the self-correction of administrative organs, but also the promotion of the updating of administrative law enforcement concepts and the unification of standards through supervision, suggestions, and other methods," said the relevant person in charge of the Administrative Reconsideration and Response Bureau of the Ministry of Justice (司法部行政复议与应诉局). In 2025, administrative reconsideration agencies at all levels across the country issued 13,000 opinion letters and suggestions for common problems, and conducted incidental reviews of more than 8,600 "red-headed documents."
From changing the disproportionate environmental protection penalties in Honghe (红河), Yunnan (云南), to correcting the millions of yuan in land acquisition compensation differences caused by historical registration errors in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建), to promoting the unified and standardized labeling of time periods for more than 100 prohibited signs in Huai'an (淮安), Jiangsu (江苏)... Every administrative reconsideration is a precise calibration of the operation of administrative power. Data shows that in 2025, after administrative reconsideration, 93.6% of the cases did not enter litigation or petition procedures again, and the rate of efficient and substantial resolution of administrative disputes within the administrative system has exceeded 90% for two consecutive years.
Substantially resolve administrative disputes
Effectively safeguard social fairness and justice
The significance of the administrative reconsideration system lies in the fact that it not only pursues "case closure" in the legal sense, but also strives to substantially resolve contradictions and disputes, achieve "things are done" and "people are in harmony," and let the people feel that social fairness and justice are around them.
The academic information of graduate Xiao Zhang (小张) was wrongly revoked on Xuexin.com (学信网), and his settlement and job search instantly fell into a stalemate. He applied for reconsideration on the grounds that the provincial education administrative department failed to perform its duties. The reconsideration agency found that he had never submitted an errata application to the education administrative department, and could have simply issued a "non-acceptance." However, the reconsideration staff took the initiative to coordinate and simultaneously contacted universities, provincial departments, and Xuexin.com (学信网) to restore Xiao Zhang's (小张) information in a short period of time.
"For us, it may just be a matter of making a few more phone calls and coordinating a few more times; but for the parties involved, this is related to his future. 'Reconsideration for the people' should be reflected in this 'one more step'," said the reconsideration staff handling the case in a simple and powerful way. This practice of not being confined to procedures and taking the initiative to move forward to substantially resolve disputes is a vivid application of the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era in administrative reconsideration, giving the seemingly cold legal procedures a warm feeling.
In a certain place in Fujian (福建), the ancestral house of villager Huang (黄某) was wrongly registered in the name of another person more than 20 years ago due to the other person's fabricated kinship, resulting in the inability to obtain the due compensation during the expropriation. In the face of the improper compensation decision, the reconsideration agency did not simply "revoke and order a retrial," but directly changed the amount of compensation after finding out the key facts of the false registration, and solved the historical legacy problem that had plagued the parties for many years at one time.
"For cases with clear facts and clear rights and obligations, administrative reconsideration should dare to use change decisions to avoid procedural idling and allow the damaged rights and interests of the parties to be timely and thoroughly remedied," said the relevant person in charge of the Administrative Reconsideration and Response Bureau of the Ministry of Justice (司法部行政复议与应诉局). The handling of this case fully demonstrates the authority and efficiency of administrative reconsideration as the main channel for resolving administrative disputes, so that fairness and justice can not only be achieved, but also be achieved efficiently in a way that people can see and feel.
Mechanism innovation injects new impetus into the "substantial resolution" of administrative reconsideration. Shanghai (上海), Chongqing (重庆) and other places have issued guiding opinions on "reconsideration and mediation docking" to integrate people's mediation and industry mediation resources; Jiangsu (江苏) has achieved full coverage of administrative dispute mediation platforms at the provincial and municipal levels; Sichuan (四川) has carried out pilot work on reconsideration and mediation docking in 6 cities and 18 counties (districts) in the province, and issued 95 supporting systems.
"Since the implementation of the newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law for two years, the construction of the main channel of administrative reconsideration has achieved remarkable results. Looking to the future, we must take multiple measures to make this main channel deeper, smoother, and warmer," Xiao Beigeng (肖北庚) suggested that we should accelerate the improvement of supporting systems for administrative reconsideration, such as revising the implementation regulations of the Administrative Reconsideration Law and formulating work norms for administrative reconsideration personnel; at the same time, innovate substantial resolution mechanisms, deepen and solidify mediation and reconciliation; consolidate technological empowerment, use artificial intelligence to assist in analyzing similar cases and resolving group cases, and deepen the intelligent effectiveness of "online reconsideration"; further consolidate the responsibilities of local governments and regard the quality and efficiency of administrative reconsideration as an important assessment content for the construction of a government under the rule of law.
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As night falls, under the city lights, new employment form laborers such as takeaway delivery riders, express delivery couriers, and ride-hailing drivers are still busy. The rise of new business forms represented by the platform economy provides a large number of laborers with new employment options and new career paths. Currently, there are approximately 84 million new employment form laborers in the country. They shuttle through the streets and alleys, providing instant services to thousands of households.
Strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of new employment form laborers, so that they can work with peace of mind and comfort, is not only a "new test question" for economic and social development, but also a "must-answer question" that needs to be answered carefully. Working in the "cloud," in data, and in systems is a characteristic of new employment form laborers. Along with this, the prominence of problems such as difficulty in determining labor relations, opaque remuneration settlements, and insufficient social security protection tests governance wisdom and calls for legal protection. In recent years, relevant regulations and measures for the protection of the rights and interests of new employment form laborers have been continuously optimized and improved, creating a better employment environment for thousands of strivers.
To further weave a tight safety net for the protection of rights and interests, so that new employment form laborers are paid for their labor and their rights and interests are protected, it is necessary to calculate "two accounts" well.
One account is the "emotional account," which requires efforts to optimize services. Express delivery workers running on the road, anchors focusing on the screen, and takeaway delivery riders shuttling between buildings need a place where they can rest and reorganize and carry a sense of belonging. Various places rely on trade union stations to build a warm "home" for new employment form laborers. A cup of hot water, a place to rest, a mobile phone charging socket—these subtle conveniences allow the hardworking "little bees" to feel the warmth from the city. Next, the stations should become new windows for extending services, providing diversified services for new employment form laborers by integrating service resources, expanding service types, and innovating work forms.
One account is the "economic account," which requires efforts in welfare protection. Salary, social security, and equal employment are common concerns of new employment form laborers and are also issues facing managers and practitioners. Making riders feel recognized and protected will make more people willing to stay in this industry. Especially in terms of social security, it is necessary to adhere to "long-termism." Since last year, some takeaway platforms have been paying social security for full-time riders by issuing social security subsidies and allowing riders to independently choose their place of insurance, weaving a safety net for the "running life."
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed to "do a good job in the service management of new employment groups" and "introduce policies to support flexible employment personnel and new employment form personnel to participate in employee insurance." While calculating the "emotional account" and the "economic account," solving new problems such as algorithmic constraints, excessive fines for overtime, and dispatch discrimination requires laborers to enhance their legal awareness and ability to protect their rights, and also requires relevant departments to provide systematic support to promote the improvement of a normalized and legalized mechanism for the protection of rights and interests. At present, many places have carried out relevant explorations and practices. For example, Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) issued the country's first regulation on the protection of the rights and interests of online delivery workers, and Anhui (安徽) promulgated local regulations in the field of new business forms, transforming the "soft advocacy" of relevant rights and interests protection into "hard constraints."
New employment forms are an important "reservoir" for employment. Nowadays, new business forms are no longer a simple "option" in people's daily lives, but are deeply embedded in the urban fabric like water, electricity, and the Internet. We look forward to the continuous improvement of the normalized, legalized, and institutionalized mechanism for the protection of rights and interests, so that every new employment form laborer who is running in the digital wave can truly feel the temperature of the rule of law and the strength of governance, and strive for their dreams and happiness with more peace of mind.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
How should betrothal gifts be returned after a breakup or divorce? The handling of issues in specific situations, such as "de facto marriage" with cohabitation but without marriage registration, concerns both judicial justice and the vital interests of the masses. Recently, a typical case released by the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) clarifies the principles for handling the return of betrothal gifts.
Mr. Wang (王先生) and Ms. Sun (孙女士) met through an introduction and established a romantic relationship. Subsequently, to enter into marriage, Mr. Wang (王先生) gave a betrothal gift of 200,000 yuan. The two held a wedding according to custom, began living together, and had a daughter. However, the two did not register their marriage. Four years later, the two broke up due to conflicts. Mr. Wang (王先生) filed a lawsuit with the court, requesting Ms. Sun (孙女士) to return the betrothal gift of 200,000 yuan.
So, how does the law regulate this? The "Provisions of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Cases Involving Betrothal Gift Disputes" clarifies that if the two parties have not registered their marriage but have lived together, and one party requests the return of the betrothal gift given according to custom, the people's court shall, based on the actual use of the betrothal gift and the dowry, comprehensively consider the cohabitation and pregnancy situation, the fault of both parties, and other facts, combined with local customs, to determine whether to return it and the specific proportion of the return.
During the trial, the court considered the length of cohabitation, whether children were born, and the use of the betrothal gift as core factors. "If the receiving party of the betrothal gift is required to return all of it simply because they have not registered their marriage, it would violate the principle of fairness and would not be conducive to protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women." The trial court held that the two parties held a wedding according to custom, lived together for as long as 4 years, and had a daughter. During the period of cohabitation, the betrothal gift had been partially used for daily household expenses. Although the two parties did not register their marriage, Ms. Sun's (孙女士) efforts in raising children and managing the family cannot be ignored. After the breakup, the daughter is also directly raised by Ms. Sun (孙女士). Ultimately, the court ruled to reject Mr. Wang's (王先生) claim.
The relevant person in charge of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) stated that this case clearly defines the principles for handling the return of betrothal gifts in the case of not registering marriage but living together for a long time and having children. The law does not encourage soliciting high-value property in the name of marriage, nor does it support treating betrothal gifts as a "investment" that can be revoked at will. In the case of having lived together for a long time and establishing a family community, if one party claims the return of the betrothal gift after the relationship breaks down, their request will not be supported, so as to implement the principle of good faith and properly balance the interests of both parties.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
At 6:00 AM, the sky was just beginning to lighten. The reporter followed Liu Jing (刘婧) and Zhu Dawei (朱大伟), enforcement judges from the Beichen District People's Court (北辰区人民法院) in Tianjin (天津), driving to a small shop in Shuangjie Town (双街镇), Beichen District (北辰区). As the police car approached the shop, we saw Lao Yang (老杨), the applicant for enforcement, who had arrived early.
"Judge, the other party doesn't answer the phone or reply to messages. I can't get the money. I'm anxious!" Seeing the enforcement judge's police car arrive, Lao Yang (老杨) was very excited and rushed up to pour out his grievances: he supplied goods to Ms. Deng (邓女士), but was owed more than 40,000 yuan, won the lawsuit, but the other party did not fulfill the agreement.
"Don't worry, we understand the situation of your case, and we have done preliminary investigations and controls. Please trust us," the enforcement judge reassured.
In fact, when the case first entered the enforcement stage, the Beichen District People's Court (北辰区人民法院) immediately conducted an online investigation and control of the person subject to enforcement, Ms. Deng (邓女士), and found that she did not have any property available for enforcement under her name. Subsequently, the court froze Ms. Deng's (邓女士) bank card. In January of this year, after a payment of more than 10,000 yuan was credited, the court immediately deducted it.
Was it that she didn't have money to repay, or did she have money but refused to repay?
In order to successfully realize the legitimate rights and interests of the winning party, Zhu Dawei (朱大伟) comforted Lao Yang (老杨) on the one hand, and reminded him to contact the court immediately if he had any clues on the other.
"If you can't reach her by phone, try your luck at the small shop where you used to deliver goods." Lao Yang (老杨) discovered that Ms. Deng (邓女士) sometimes came to this small shop. Was she an employee here? Lao Yang (老杨) reported this situation to Zhu Dawei (朱大伟).
With clues, go to the scene! The reporter followed the enforcement judge and Lao Yang (老杨) into the small shop to understand the situation.
"We are enforcement judges from the court. Is Deng (邓某某) here?" Liu Jing (刘婧) stated her purpose to the shop assistant.
"She's not here. I'm just an employee. I don't know about her lawsuit. Don't affect my business." The shop assistant was somewhat resistant.
The judge introduced the case situation to the shop assistant, explained the law, and asked the shop assistant to cooperate and show the business license of the small shop. The information on the license showed that Ms. Deng (邓女士) was indeed the individual business owner operating the shop.
"This means that the goods in the small shop are Ms. Deng's (邓女士) property and can be enforced," Liu Jing (刘婧) explained from the side. According to the law, these properties can be seized on the spot for auction, or they can negotiate with Lao Yang (老杨) themselves to offset the payment for goods and automatically fulfill the enforcement payment.
After seizing the cash from the small shop's counter, the judge discovered, while verifying the payment account corresponding to the QR code, that some of the payment accounts were under the shop assistant's name: "Your account has a commingling of property with Deng (邓某某). According to the law, this account can be seized. If you knowingly and intentionally help the person subject to enforcement transfer property, it may constitute a violation of the law."
Hearing that she was suspected of violating the law and that the goods were going to be seized, the shop assistant became anxious: "This is the goods I advanced the money for. I am actually running the shop. Ms. Deng (邓某某) and I are sisters. I will find a way to contact her to raise money to repay the loan."
After several attempts, Ms. Deng (邓女士) answered the phone call made by the shop assistant, but then threw out the "delay" tactic: she was outside and couldn't return for a while, and would repay the money later. Then, she hung up the phone.
If Ms. Deng (邓女士) doesn't come, can the enforcement continue? Liu Jing (刘婧) once again explained the law to the shop assistant: "The shop belongs to Ms. Deng (邓某某), and the court will seize the goods in the shop according to law. If you and Ms. Deng (邓某某) have a dispute, you can resolve it separately."
Seeing that the court was going to take further enforcement measures, the shop assistant said that she would immediately raise money to solve the problem. In the end, the shop assistant contacted Ms. Deng (邓女士) and her relatives to transfer money to Lao Yang (老杨).
Having received the payment, Lao Yang (老杨) felt relieved and said to the shop assistant: "There is no conflict between us, but I had to apply for enforcement because it was really difficult."
"Everyone should understand each other. It's not easy. Maybe we can continue to cooperate in the future," Zhu Dawei (朱大伟) also came to reconcile the two parties.
"I understand. If it wasn't absolutely necessary, you wouldn't have gone to the point of filing a lawsuit," the shop assistant responded, and then asked the judge: "I'm just an employee. Will similar disputes have anything to do with me?"
Liu Jing (刘婧) explained the law to the shop assistant: "Whether you are an employee or have a family relationship, Ms. Deng's (邓某某) being subject to enforcement does not affect you. However, if there is a commingling of property, it will be affected. I remind you to operate in a standardized manner."
"I understand better now that you say that," the shop assistant said. Under the judge's invitation, the shop assistant and Lao Yang (老杨) shook hands to dispel their grievances.
Walking out of the small shop, the reporter asked: "Are you satisfied with the court's enforcement?"
"Very satisfied. I didn't expect to get the money back," Lao Yang (老杨) said. What moved him the most was that every time he went to the judge, he received a positive response, which warmed his heart.
Waving goodbye to Lao Yang (老杨), it was already 12:00 noon. Liu Jing (刘婧) called everyone to get in the car and return to the court: "We have to organize a review when we get back, and continue to work hard on the insufficient parts."
Fairness and justice are not abstract, they are in the daily necessities of life and the lights of every household. "Whether the written words can be turned into real money directly affects the public's perception of justice. If the public can't get the money, they will feel blocked in their hearts. We must go out more and go to the scene, and exchange the happiness index of the masses with the hardship index." At 1:30 in the afternoon, Jia Yaqiang (贾亚强), President of the Beichen District People's Court (北辰区人民法院), said at the enforcement review meeting that people's livelihood is no small matter, and we must use judicial power to support the people's steady sense of happiness.
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The "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline adopted at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress lists "Building a Modern Industrial System and Consolidating the Foundation of the Real Economy" as the top strategic task.
Looking back, China's economy has weathered storms, maintained strong resilience and vitality, and its strategic reliance has been on a complete industrial system. On the new journey, how to choose the right industrial track and how to further promote high-quality industrial development requires party members and cadres to establish and practice a correct view of performance and enhance the ability to build a modern country. Starting today, this edition will launch a series of reports on "Forging Experts in Promoting Industrial Development," focusing on industrial practices and demonstrating responsibility, so stay tuned.
——Editor
The once-out-of-reach space galaxy has become an accessible industrial track in Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu (江苏): Four of the top ten private rocket companies in the country have settled in Wuxi (无锡), with 325 companies on the city's commercial aerospace chain; among them, 52 are enterprises above designated size, with operating income expected to reach 14.48 billion yuan in 2025.
In fact, there was no large rocket launch site or top aerospace research institute here before. How did Wuxi (无锡) "create something out of nothing" and gradually become a "dark horse" in the field of commercial aerospace? What kind of view of performance and development is behind this? Recently, reporters visited Wuxi (无锡) and had in-depth exchanges with local party members and cadres.
A "Breakthrough" Meeting
To this day, Shao Jian (邵健) still clearly remembers that meeting in 2022.
As the then-director of the Liangxi District (梁溪区) Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, he had just put forward the idea of "laying out commercial aerospace," and the meeting room fell silent, followed by questions: Building rockets is incredible! Liangxi (梁溪) is an old city, can it handle such a cutting-edge industry?
This was not a momentary impulse for Shao Jian (邵健). In his view, as early as 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly issued documents encouraging private enterprises to develop commercial aerospace – this is "top-level design"; relying on the industrial base of the Yangtze River Delta, Wuxi (无锡) is a strong manufacturing city, and as early as 2012, it proactively entered the "two engines" (aircraft engines, gas turbines) industrial chain, with deep accumulation in precision processing, electronic information, and new materials, and has the ability to undertake some subdivided links in the field of commercial aerospace – this is "local reality."
"This is feasible." At that meeting, Shao Jian (邵健) proposed, "We neither seek to be big and comprehensive, nor are we eager for quick success and instant benefits, but we can focus on high-end intelligent manufacturing and refine and deepen key links such as rocket engines and satellite core components."
The "breakthrough" thus began. Party members and cadres of the Liangxi District (梁溪区) Bureau of Industry and Information Technology studied and researched, gnawing through obscure professional books, and their understanding of commercial aerospace gradually deepened. When Liangxi District (梁溪区) reported its work ideas for laying out new tracks to relevant departments in the city, it received a positive response.
"Go ahead and do it, the whole city can coordinate and support." Wu Yan (吴燕), director of the Wuxi (无锡) Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, stated, "Commercial aerospace is moving from scientific research to production. Wuxi's (无锡) manufacturing foundation is exactly the right soil for its growth and development."
Wu Yan (吴燕) further said that developing the semiconductor industry in the 1980s, anchoring the Internet of Things in 2007, and laying out the Internet of Vehicles in 2017, the word "innovation" is engraved in the genes of Wuxi (无锡) cadres. "By 2022, the city's regional GDP will be nearly 1.5 trillion yuan. Where will the next trillion-yuan industry come from? We must dare to be the first and proactively lay out new tracks." Wu Yan (吴燕) said.
With the support of the city, Liangxi District (梁溪区) began to lay out and attract enterprises in 2022. Yin Pengwei (殷鹏伟), director of the District Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, remembers that in that year, the main leaders of the Wuxi (无锡) Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government led teams to Beijing (北京), Xi'an (西安), Shanghai (上海) and other places many times to understand where the forefront of the industry is. The Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology and other departments also set up special teams to conduct a survey of the city's integrated circuits, high-end equipment, new materials and other industries, and demonstrate the basic conditions for industrial landing, to further identify the entry point for industrial development.
"In December 2023, the Central Economic Work Conference proposed to build a number of strategic emerging industries such as commercial aerospace. This greatly enhanced our confidence." Wu Yan (吴燕) introduced that in February 2024, Wuxi (无锡) benchmarked the central government's deployment and released the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Cultivation and Development of Future Industries," and "commercial aerospace" was prominently listed. In terms of positioning, Wuxi (无锡) avoided the "shortcomings" of the overall design of rockets and satellites, and gave play to the "strengths" of the manufacturing foundation, focusing on subdivided fields such as reusable rocket technology, high-value satellite payloads, key components and materials. Liangxi District (梁溪区), High-tech Zone (Xinwu District) (新吴区), and Huishan District (惠山区) were listed as industrial pioneer areas.
"In Wuxi (无锡), commercial aerospace, which seems to be 'creating something out of nothing,' is actually guided by the spirit of the Party Central Committee, supported by local resource endowments, and scientifically decided by the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. This is actually adapting to local conditions and seeking truth from facts." Gao Fei (高飞), member of the Standing Committee of the Wuxi (无锡) Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, said.
A Group of "Project Managers" Who Understand the Industry
Walking into the Jiangsu Deep Blue Aerospace Assembly Base in Wuxi High-tech Zone (Xinwu District) (无锡高新区（新吴区）), a row of rocket engines are being debugged – this is the Thunder R series engine on the liquid oxygen kerosene reusable carrier rocket "Xingyun-1." The "Xingyun-1" rocket is expected to make its first flight in the second quarter of this year and will attempt "first flight is recovery."
"If successful, the future space transportation capacity will take a big step towards high frequency and low cost!" Saying this is Zhu Xiaoxiao (朱小小), deputy director of the Xinwu District (新吴区) Small and Medium Enterprise Service Center. His other identity is the "project manager" of the district's aerospace industry.
What is this position? Cui Rongguo (崔荣国), secretary of the Party Working Committee of Wuxi High-tech Zone (无锡高新区) and secretary of the Xinwu District (新吴区) Party Committee, explained: "Under the new type of national system, China's commercial aerospace is accelerating its development, forcing party members and cadres to consciously and actively study technology, pay attention to the market, and connect with enterprises." Since 2025, the district has implemented the "industrial project manager system" in eight future industries, selecting and cultivating the first batch of project managers from heads of new R&D institutions, general managers of industrial parks, and business backbones of functional departments.
How to become a qualified project manager? Zhu Xiaoxiao's (朱小小) perception is to learn by doing and improve in practice. He told reporters about an experience after taking office.
At that time, Zhu Xiaoxiao (朱小小) took the lead in formulating a long-term development plan for the aerospace industry. After more than a month, he and his team confidently came up with a draft, suggesting that the focus of development should be on satellite payloads that complement the district's industries and have high market profit margins.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Chengcong (张成聪), deputy general manager of Deep Blue Aerospace, poured cold water on them: "Satellite payloads are the back-end application link, and the front-end link, namely rocket carrying capacity, is far from sufficient. Is the current plan too idealistic?"
What's the problem? Zhu Xiaoxiao (朱小小) and his team members once again plunged into the front line for research. The experience of an aircraft parts manufacturing enterprise gave the team a deeper understanding. More than 10 years ago, when this enterprise was developing new products, many places were staring at the profit link, paying little attention to the performance bottlenecks of materials and the precision limits of equipment. The product trial production once fell into a predicament, and the enterprise's development was slowed down. Zhu Xiaoxiao (朱小小) realized from this: "Sometimes, the right choice is not necessarily the optimal solution for profit. In the long run, laying a solid foundation is more critical."
Therefore, the new version of the plan proposes to tilt support policies towards "reusable rocket technology." It is because of this adjustment that Deep Blue Aerospace and other enterprises tackling the cost reduction of carrying capacity have received more precise support. In just a few years, the enterprise's rocket recovery test has completed the "four consecutive jumps" of ten-meter, hundred-meter, kilometer, and five-kilometer levels.
In order to create a strong atmosphere of wanting to do things, being able to do things, and getting things done, the Wuxi (无锡) Municipal Party Committee issued 40 measures to "encourage cadres to take responsibility," and continued to release policy effects. Dai Meizhong (戴美忠), executive deputy minister of the Organization Department of the Wuxi (无锡) Municipal Party Committee, introduced that more and more party members and cadres are taking the initiative to go deep into production lines, test sites, and supply chain nodes to accurately judge the breakpoints in the industrial chain and technical gaps, compile recruitment maps and technical tackling lists, and become experts in solving enterprise problems and promoting industrial development.
"When local cadres communicate with enterprises, they can change from 'giving preferential treatment' to 'talking about technology, talking about ecology, and talking about collaboration,' helping enterprises get licenses as soon as possible, improve launch insurance standards, and hold industrial docking conferences, which shows that they really understand the industry." Zhang Chengcong (张成聪) said.
A Meticulously Crafted Drawing
At the end of 2023, Blue Arrow Aerospace Space Technology Co., Ltd. compared and selected among many cities in the Yangtze River Delta, and finally decided to settle in Huishan District (惠山区) because of "a drawing."
This is not an ordinary drawing, it clearly depicts the "optimal route" from Jiangyin Port (江阴港) to the factory building in Luoshe Town (洛社镇), Huishan District (惠山区), ensuring that special vehicles can pass through every turn, overpass, traffic light and highway entrance along the way.
This road was measured and meticulously crafted by grassroots cadres point by point. "We must ensure that enterprises can not only build well but also transport well when they come." Xiao Zhicheng (肖志成), director of the Comprehensive Service Center of Luoshe Town (洛社镇), Huishan District (惠山区), said.
On the drawing, there are also 112 mu of contiguous factory buildings. In southern Jiangsu (苏南), where land is at a premium, such large plots of land are even more rare.
Behind this is a tough battle to replace old industries with new ones. Luoshe Town (洛社镇) has more than 3,000 industrial enterprises, but there are problems such as a heavy industrial structure, outdated technology in some enterprises, and low profit margins. "We introduce chain owner enterprises and conduct industrial chain investment promotion, which can bring new industrial increments on the one hand, and can also drive the upgrading of traditional industrial stock enterprises and become a link in the aerospace industrial chain on the other hand." Zhang Renhong (张仁洪), secretary of the Party Committee of Luoshe Town (洛社镇), has a clear idea. Simultaneously with the investment promotion work, the town guides enterprises producing intermediate parts to extend to terminal products, and replaces old industries with new ones for inefficient land-use enterprises. This 112-mu plot of land was vacated by several enterprises with backward quality and efficiency or environmental protection that failed to meet standards.
Whatever problems there are in industrial development, we will focus on solving them. This is precisely the "touchstone" for testing cadres' responsibility.
Land transfer has requirements for plot ratio, and general factory buildings must be built to more than two floors, but rocket manufacturing enterprises can only build single-story high-standard factory buildings, what should we do? Find the basis in the provincial documents, form a collective decision in a one-thing-one-discussion manner, and strive for it from above.
The existing industrial base still has gaps in directly supporting the aerospace industry, what should we do? The local government actively guides mechanical processing and equipment manufacturing enterprises to "jump up" and "reach up" to achieve strengthening, supplementing, and extending the chain. Jiangsu Zhuhong Forging Co., Ltd. originally produced intermediate products of alloy materials and supplied them to traditional industries such as petroleum and petrochemicals. Now, with the help of local policies and the technical support of the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Wuxi Research Institute, the high-temperature alloy materials developed by Zhuhong Forging Co., Ltd. have entered the testing and verification stage from the laboratory and are expected to become an upstream supplier of rocket manufacturing enterprises.
In Liangxi District (梁溪区), there are many such stories. When commercial aerospace was first laid out, many social investment institutions took a cautious attitude considering the high investment, high risk, and long cycle.
"If social capital does not dare to invest, we will invest first." In the view of Wang Yi (王毅), secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Liangxi Industrial Development Group Co., Ltd., "Since the country recognizes the direction of the industry, we have the patience to accompany enterprises to grow." In 2022, Liangxi District (梁溪区) invested 10 million yuan in angel funds and 10 million yuan in science and technology innovation mother funds to enterprises. Seeing this trend, social capital successively followed up with investments of more than 100 million yuan. The valuation of Ziw Micro Technology's Wuxi (无锡) base has doubled before it has been commercialized.
Today, Wuxi (无锡) has become a gathering place for commercial aerospace enterprises, forming a development pattern of "star-rocket collaboration, chip-network integration, scenario empowerment, and ecological support."
On March 7, Wuxi (无锡) held a city-wide commercial aerospace industry promotion conference, which set the goal of "deeply integrating into the national aerospace power strategy and anchoring a trillion-yuan industrial scale." "Starting from doubt and breaking through in hard work. To develop the aerospace industry, we must have the courage to look up at the stars, but also have the patience to be down-to-earth. We must adhere to the correct view of performance, draw a blueprint to the end, and do it one after another, and take every step on the journey to the stars." Wu Yan (吴燕) said.
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During this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), a leading cadre said in an interview, "Some old accounts, once sorted out, are messes left behind by the previous four or five administrations, and they must be dealt with... Dealing with old accounts is also a political achievement." This statement resonated widely.
Serving as an official for a term should benefit the local people. How can a new official ignore old accounts? Ignoring them is a deviation in the view of political achievements. All along, some cadres have only valued their responsibilities during their tenure, disregarding the affairs of their predecessors, focusing only on the present and future, and ignoring the past. Little do they know that "old accounts" may be stumbling blocks on the road to economic and social development, and obstacles on the path of the masses towards a happy life. In an interview, a person in charge of a private enterprise recounted: A pro-people project worth tens of millions of yuan could not be accepted even after 10 years because the leader of the competent department changed, and subsequent leaders ignored the "old accounts." As a result, the enterprise could not recover its payments, and the masses did not receive any benefits.
Such cases are not uncommon. Investment projects are not honored due to the arrival of a new official; payments owed to enterprises are delayed again and again because the leader has changed; difficulties reflected by the masses, which were originally promised to be resolved, are ignored again after the leader changes... New officials ignoring old accounts undermines the credibility of the Party committee and government.
It is worth noting that not all "old accounts" are "bad debts." Some leading cadres, as soon as they take office, completely reject the development ideas of the past, and start a new set of plans without investigation and research, leaving people at a loss. This kind of meddling, on the contrary, causes waste of resources and development gaps.
The reason why new officials ignore old accounts, upon closer examination, is that some cadres believe that dealing with "old accounts" is helping others make wedding dresses, and solving them does not count as their own achievements; some cadres believe in "planting more flowers and fewer thorns, and not reaching out when encountering difficulties," preferring to let "old accounts" become non-performing loans and bad debts, rather than uncovering them; some cadres cannot sort out the complex historical legacy issues, cannot figure out the ideas, and do not know how to start.
So, how should "new officials" deal with "old accounts"?
The root of the problem lies in ideology, and it must be corrected from the ideological source. "Do not engage in quick success and instant benefit, falsification, or blind and reckless actions in the pursuit of political achievements" "A good blueprint, as long as it is scientific, realistic, and in line with the people's wishes, everyone should continue to work on it one term after another"... The whole Party is carrying out the study and education of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, and Xi Jinping's (习近平) important related expositions provide guidance for leading cadres to calibrate their view of political achievements and correctly handle "old accounts."
Improving skills is also very important. Dealing with "old accounts" is often more complex and more difficult than drawing new plans. Leading cadres must strengthen their learning, broaden their horizons and patterns, and improve their ability and courage to solve complex problems; firmly grasp the basic skill of "investigation and research," find out the ins and outs, strengthen analysis and judgment, and use the spirit of nailing nails to peel off the cocoons and achieve success over time, until the historical arrears are completely resolved.
To avoid new officials ignoring old accounts, it is also necessary to strengthen the construction of the system. The "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China" (中国共产党纪律处分条例) clearly states that if a leading cadre of the Party passively evades or shirks responsibility for problems that already existed before taking office and fall within the scope of his duties, causing serious damage or serious adverse effects, he shall be given corresponding sanctions. In this regard, it is necessary to strengthen its application in practice.
In fact, "old accounts" are not long-sealed past events, but objectively existing history, and one of the basic conditions for "new officials" to start a business, which cannot be bypassed. It will always more or less affect the formulation and implementation of new decisions by "new officials" and affect the unfolding and implementation of new blueprints. Only when "old accounts" are properly handled, without shackles, can a place or region start lightly; only when contradictions and disputes are resolved, and there are fewer grievances, can the masses live and work in peace and contentment. In this sense, dealing with "old accounts" is building "new merits."
Every "new official" should take the initiative to deal with "old accounts," and should also consciously avoid creating bad "old accounts" for the next "new official." Not avoiding difficulties and not shirking responsibilities, working one term after another, this is being responsible for the cause, and this is the correct view of political achievements.
Return to TopSpeaking of that dinner, Lan (蓝), the vice principal of a school in Heshan City (合山市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), still feels regret. The dinner was initiated by Tian (田), a contractor for a project at the school, and organized by Principal Ran (冉). From the moment he walked into the private room, Lan's life path took a "turn."
The matter dates back to October 2024. During a supervisory inspection, the Heshan City Discipline Inspection Commission (合山市纪委监委) discovered that the student cafeteria and living service department projects of the school were both won by the same company, and the process was not compliant.
"In both bids, this company 'narrowly won' with a slight price advantage. Is it a coincidence?" The discipline inspection and supervision team talked to the school leadership team members multiple times. Before the Spring Festival that year, discipline inspection and supervision cadres noticed that the offices of Vice Principal Lan and several other leadership team members all had the same festive gift boxes. Lan could not 自圆其说 (zì yuán qí shuō - "make the story round," to rationalize; to justify oneself), and admitted that after Tian won the bid, he gave gift boxes to the team members who participated in the evaluation.
The other team members, like Lan, admitted to receiving gifts, but flatly denied illegally interfering in bidding and other issues.
The Heshan City Discipline Inspection Commission (合山市纪委监委) established a verification team, which found that Tian also contracted other projects at the school, and the companies participating in the bidding each time were the same few. Following the vine to find the melon, 抽丝剥茧 (chōu sī bō jiǎn - "drawing silk peeling cocoon," to get to the bottom of something), the verification team finally verified that Ran used the power in his hands to illegally disclose "internal information" to Tian, and instructed the team members to give Tian high scores in the evaluation process, creating the illusion of a "narrow win" each time.
"Principal Ran called me and asked me to have dinner together. I roughly knew what he meant, but he said that other team members were also there..." Lan confessed. Ultimately, Ran, Lan, and others were all given corresponding punishments.
[Disciplinary Officer's Perspective] In this case, the school leadership team members went from "one person's corruption" to "collective corruption," from "eating a little" and "taking a little" to using the power in their hands to provide assistance to illegal businessmen in project contracting, exposing the weak awareness of discipline and rules among some party member cadres. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies should adhere to investigating and treating both misconduct and corruption, and cut off the chain of interest transfer; party member cadres should strictly abide by the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定精神) and build a solid line of defense against corruption.
(Meng Yuan (蒙 圆))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李林蔚
"A hot meal is better than anything!" At the night continuous beam pouring site of the Jinan-Weifang High-speed Railway project of China Railway Bridge Engineering Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁建大桥工程局集团有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "China Railway Bridge Engineering Bureau (中国铁建大桥局)"), transport driver Wang Liang (王亮) took the lunch box and grinned.
This change originated from a "careful observation" by a resident team Party representative. "The transportation task is heavy, and the departure time is often close to meal times, and the return time is past the meal supply time." Su Zhentao (苏振涛), the resident team Party representative and director of the project laboratory, customized a meal delivery plan based on the departure schedule and destination to ensure that hot meals are delivered to the transportation team.
With many labor personnel and great management difficulty in engineering projects, the Party Committee of China Railway Bridge Engineering Bureau (中国铁建大桥局党委) issued the "Implementation Measures for the Work of Resident Team Party Representatives in Engineering Projects (Trial)" (《工程项目劳务队驻队党代表工作实施办法（试行）》), selecting key position leaders and young reserve force members who are Party members to serve as resident team Party representatives on the front line of the project.
"The non-standard structural embedded parts newly added to this plan have never been produced by domestic manufacturers. If they are imported from abroad, it will take too long!" On the Airbus Tianjin (空客天津) A320 series aircraft second final assembly line final assembly plant project, Ji Fafeng (季发峰), a member of the labor team, anxiously said to Wang Guipu (王桂普), the resident team Party representative and chief engineer of the project.
"Can we use larger-sized angle steel of the same material that can be provided domestically as a blank, and 'carve' out the finished product that meets the drawing requirements through precision machining?" Zhang Bo (张波), a master worker in the labor team, reminded everyone. Wang Guipu (王桂普) immediately organized technical backbones and experienced workers to study and calculate the processing plan, adjust parameters and optimize the process repeatedly, and finally successfully processed components that met the accuracy standards.
The integration of Party building and business effectively stimulates combat effectiveness. Under the guidance of the Party organizations of various projects, the resident team Party representatives organized labor personnel to carry out "Project Management Talk" to jointly solve a series of problems in resource allocation, construction progress, quality control, safety production, and technological innovation.
Building a bridge of hearts and drawing a concentric circle. The resident team Party representatives also hold heart-to-heart talks with team leaders and laborers from time to time to solicit opinions face-to-face and solve problems one-on-one.
Sun Jingwu (孙敬武) is the person in charge of the renovation and expansion project of Ninghe District Hospital (宁河区医院) in Tianjin (天津市宁河区), and also a resident team Party representative. Previously, approaching the college entrance examination, he talked with his workmates and learned that some of them were worried about not being able to send their children to the examination due to the tight construction schedule.
"The college entrance examination for children is a major event for every family!" He immediately reported the situation to the Party General Branch of the Ninghe (宁河) Project Group. The Party General Branch quickly organized a "Caring College Entrance Examination Assistance" motorcade. "The project department is so thoughtful, we must do our job well!" said worker Wang Kui (王奎).
Nowadays, more and more heart-warming services are being implemented on construction sites: holiday condolences, free medical check-ups, and special actions of "getting paid for work and being 'salary'-assured"... Some labor workers' residences have also set up "Red Charging Stations" and "Workers' Homes", which have become warm spaces for workers to learn, communicate, and rest. "Now, the construction site has the appearance of a 'home'!" said Li Qiang (李强), a laborer on the renovation and expansion project of Ninghe District Hospital (宁河区医院).
"Carrying out the work of resident team Party representatives is a vivid practice of opening up the 'last mile' of grassroots Party building," said Zhou Guannan (周冠南), Secretary of the Party Committee of China Railway Bridge Engineering Bureau (中国铁建大桥局党委). "We will continue to improve the mechanism, expand the connotation and extension of resident team Party representatives, and unite and serve the construction labor force with many points, long lines, and wide areas."
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When other thresholds are leveled by AI, aesthetics become the hardest "currency" in the cultural industry. Every technological leap is a revaluation of cultural heritage. The deeper the heritage of a civilization, the more likely it is to gain greater expressive space.
In 1927, "The Jazz Singer" allowed movies to have sound for the first time. At the time, silent film giants believed this was just a noisy vaudeville gimmick that would destroy the pure visual art of silent films. Five years later, sound films occupied 95% of the world's screens.
History never repeats its appearance, but it always repeats its structure. Every major technological leap redefines who can tell stories, how they can tell stories, and how far stories can reach. Printing allowed knowledge to move from the temple to the people, film allowed narrative to evolve from text to light and shadow, and the Internet allowed communication to change from one-way to many voices. Structural changes are always faster and deeper than the night watchman expects.
Today in 2026, when we look at those still flawed video clips generated by AI (Artificial Intelligence), we hear the same sound – the loud noise of a new paradigm knocking on the door.
A century-old law is being broken.
The film and television industry has a century-old rule that has never been broken: the realization of good content always requires heavy capital support. The investment in a high-quality drama series is often hundreds of millions of yuan, and a theatrical film usually takes three to five years from development to release. If creators want to realize their ideas, they must convince capital and platforms to pay the bill, and this "persuasion" process is often a process of continuous compromise in creation. Good works are of course always appearing, but often they are the result of creators doing their best in the face of heavy constraints, rather than growing naturally in the best soil.
This cost curve, which has been maintained for a century, is breaking.
In the past year, the evolution speed of AI video generation technology has far exceeded people's expectations. It is especially worth noting that the leaders of this round of breakthroughs are Chinese companies. ByteDance's Seedance (字节跳动) and Kuaishou's Kling (快手) have reached the world's leading level in terms of video generation quality, coherence, and controllability. This means that China is at the forefront of the world in the main track of generative artificial intelligence.
The single-minute production cost of a drama series is collapsing from 100,000 yuan to hundreds of yuan. This is not a percentage increase in efficiency, but a structural break of one to two orders of magnitude. When costs drop to this level, what changes is the possibility of creation. A creative team of three to five people, with a cost of millions of yuan, can produce works that used to require hundreds of millions of yuan.
The collapse of the cost curve releases not only efficiency, but also freedom – when a work no longer requires hundreds of millions of yuan of investment, creators do not have to hand over the steering wheel for it.
Freedom does not automatically produce good content.
This is only one side of the coin.
AI does make the threshold for creation "zero". But because of this, the value of spectacle has also been "zeroed". When people can generate movie-level exquisite pictures with one click, "exquisite" becomes the new zero point.
This is "aesthetic inflation" – models will iterate, tools will become popular, and today's stunning will be standard tomorrow. The half-life of pure technical leadership is only three to six months. In infinite supply, value will not be evenly distributed, but will fold extremely towards the head. Tools are equal to everyone, but the competition of aesthetics never talks about fairness. More flowers will bloom, and the fruits will be more concentrated.
So what is decisive?
Taste.
Let's do a thought experiment. AI generated a piece of material: a woman standing at the end of a hospital corridor, with her back to the camera. Ordinary users think the composition is good, the light and shadow are good, and use it directly. A good creator will see four problems: the lighting is too flat, a cold and hard backlight is needed to cut her shoulder and neck outline from the dimness of the corridor; the shoulder line is too loose, it should be slightly tightened because she has just made a difficult decision; the background should not be silent, there should be a faint ticking sound of the monitor in the distance; the camera should stay for another second and a half to allow the audience to transition from "seeing her" to "feeling her".
Technically, AI can execute all four adjustments. But the question is never "can AI do it", but "who can see where it is still lacking". This judgment comes from all the life experience of a creator – the books he has read, the failures he has experienced, and the sleepless nights he has spent alone facing his work.
I call it "aesthetic engineering". In the infinite possibilities provided by AI, make choices that make the work leap from "correct" to "moving" – AI is responsible for generating massive variables, and humans are responsible for providing direction. A good work is equal to thousands of judgments that you cannot outsource to AI.
When other thresholds are leveled by AI, aesthetics become the hardest "currency" in the cultural industry.
A Historic Window for Chinese Stories
Since aesthetics is the hardest "currency", the next question is: who has the thickest reserves?
In the past few decades, the biggest obstacle for Chinese content to go global has been language on the surface, and the entire infrastructure required for global distribution in depth – multilingual dubbing, localization operations, and global channels. In the past, only a few top platforms could afford this system. Many excellent Chinese stories were blocked before they even started.
AI is tearing down this wall. The cost and cycle of cross-language dubbing, lip-syncing, and subtitle translation have been compressed to a fraction of the traditional method. A Chinese creative team can launch its work to the global market in a dozen languages on the same day it is completed. Language is no longer a barrier, and cost is no longer a threshold. The globalization of Chinese stories has changed from a strategic choice for a few institutions to a reality that every creator can reach.
But what can go out will not be a simple imitation of Hollywood. Hollywood's narrative industry has its own superb skills, but global audiences do not need two Hollywoods. They are looking forward to another way of understanding the world and understanding people's hearts.
And this is precisely the deepest accumulation of Chinese narrative tradition. Thousands of years of poetic thinking, thousands of years of subtle observation of human relationships. Su Shi's (苏轼) six words 不思量，自难忘 (bù sī liang, zì nán wàng - "not think, self hard forget," encapsulates the deepest helplessness of mankind when facing loss) – writing about the deepest helplessness of mankind when facing loss. This depth of understanding of the subtle places in people's hearts is brewed by a civilization with thousands of years of joys and sorrows, and there is no shortcut.
At the same time, the industry ceiling is also opening up. In the past, film and television was a business with a "locked ceiling" – high investment, long cycle, and thin profits, with a heavy intermediate layer between creators and audiences. Pop Mart (泡泡玛特) used a set of original characters to support a market value of hundreds of billions of yuan, and Mihayou (米哈游) used several games to achieve annual revenue of hundreds of billions of yuan – they proved that emotional premium can support a commercial building.
The products of these two companies have caused a global trend, far exceeding people's expectations for "Chinese culture going out". And film and television content naturally has extremely strong emotional penetration. In the past, it was slow not because the content was not valuable, but because the commercial structure did not give it a channel to realize it. AI is opening up this channel. An AI-native content company may well have a profit structure close to that of a leading game company. For the cultural industry, this is a leap in magnitude.
Technology and culture have always moved forward in an intertwined manner. Papermaking and printing reshaped the communication radius of Chinese culture, allowing thought to move from the study of the literati to the market. Today, AI is doing something similar – it will not replace creation itself, but it is reshaping the cost structure, communication methods, and reach of creation. Every technological leap is a revaluation of cultural heritage. The deeper the heritage of a civilization, the more likely it is to gain greater expressive space after technology levels the threshold.
The rarest variable is people.
China has obvious structural advantages in this round of changes: the most cutting-edge AI video technology, the deepest cultural heritage, the largest group of creators, and relatively ample policy exploration space at the commercial application level. And the rarest variable among them is people – composite creators who have both aesthetic judgment and AI control. Discovering and cultivating such talents is more urgent than computing power investment. Technological iteration waits for no one, and the advantages of pioneers are often clearest in retrospect.
In this era where everything can be generated, where exactly is the value of people placed?
More than 20 years ago, Liu Cixin (刘慈欣) wrote a fable in his science fiction novel "Poem Cloud": an alien civilization exhausted the energy of the entire solar system to write poems that surpassed Li Bai (李白), exhaustively listing all the permutations and combinations of Chinese characters. That vast cloud of poems must contain poems that surpass Li Bai. But this civilization finally admitted failure – it can generate everything, but it cannot recognize which one is truly great. Technology can exhaust all forms of art, but it cannot give the most critical instruction – why this one, not another.
This fable from more than 20 years ago is becoming a reality today.
Computing power can exhaust all pixel arrangements. Algorithms can generate perfect explosions that conform to the laws of physics, collapsing cities, and dragons flying across the sky. Large models can accurately simulate human crying in dozens of languages.
But the machine doesn't know why it's crying.
At least today, machines have not experienced childhood setbacks, have not felt the despair of unrequited love, and have not experienced the absurdity of fate at a crossroads in the middle of the night. These scars and desires hidden deep in human experience are the source code of all great stories.
When imagination is no longer constrained by budget, taste is no longer constrained by production capacity, and empathy can penetrate the barriers of language almost without loss, those creators who truly understand stories and understand people's hearts can finally make their works "standing up".
China has never lacked good stories, nor has it lacked people who understand stories. Now, we have unprecedented tools in our hands. This is a historic opportunity for our generation of creators, and a brand new starting point for Chinese culture to face the world.
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In late January of this year, the elderly-themed film "Cui Hu" (翠湖) sparked heated discussions after its release, with many viewers saying they "saw the shadow of their family members." This film, which focuses on the emotional pursuits of the elderly and intergenerational family relationships, echoes the social issue of aging, along with previous films such as "Guo Jia Jia" (过家家), "Ma Teng, Don't Leave" (马腾你别走), "Cai Rou Huntun" (菜肉馄饨), and "Zai Tuanyuan" (再团圆). The addition of martial arts star Jackie Chan (成龙) and veteran actors Li Xuejian (李雪健), Li Youbin (李幼斌), and Song Xiaoying (宋晓英) has further increased the attention given to these works, setting off a "silver hair craze" on the screen.
These films feature the elderly as the protagonists, presenting their daily lives and mental states, and drawing out realistic issues such as emotional communication, intergenerational relationships, and family ethics. In addition to reflecting the commonalities of reality, several films also embody distinctive artistic styles, whether it is the narrative space with distinct regional characteristics such as Cui Hu (翠湖) in Kunming (昆明) and the Shanghai (上海) alleyways, or the narrative perspectives such as healing from growth trauma and the emotional demands of old age, all of which present Chinese filmmakers' active response, in-depth thinking, and sincere expression of the reality of aging.
In recent years, population aging has become a widely concerned social phenomenon. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines: "Deeply implement the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, improve the policy mechanisms for the coordinated development of elderly care undertakings and industries, and promote the elderly to be supported, to be active, and to be happy." Based on this background of the times, literary and artistic creation has paid more frequent attention to the silver-age group, and "silver hair stories" have also become an important theme of Chinese film realism creation.
Focusing on the changes in life brought about by physical aging and deep psychological needs, and exploring warm and effective ways to deal with the problem of aging, is the common ideological core of recent elderly-themed films. The memory dilemma brought about by Alzheimer's disease, the loneliness and perseverance of empty-nest elderly people, the emotional pursuit of widowed elderly people, and their desire for dignity, companionship, and self-worth, these issues are also what viewers outside the screen are facing or will eventually face. At the same time, many films cleverly embed family narratives such as intergenerational integration and emotional reconciliation in the telling of elderly people's stories. Films such as "Cui Hu" (翠湖) and "Cai Rou Huntun" (菜肉馄饨) also point to the current living conditions and psychological states of young people through the narration of intergenerational relationships, which expands and deepens the content and ideological connotation of the works.
While showing the changes in the elderly themselves, this batch of films also unanimously conveys reflections on the issue of care. "Guo Jia Jia" (过家家) and "Ma Teng, Don't Leave" (马腾你别走) tell the stories of care from neighbors, caregivers, volunteers, and other non-blood relationships, conveying the traditional cultural connotation of filial piety and respect for the elderly in the context of the plot of contradictions and frictions, mutual understanding, and ultimately moving towards common guardianship. The details of the film are full of tension, the fireworks in the alleyways, the wrinkles in the corners of the eyes of the elderly, the unintentional sighs and smiles, are all faithful depictions of reality, restoring the situation and living atmosphere of the silver-haired group, allowing the audience to see the weight of the years in the images, understand the meaning of elderly life, and feel the taste of silver-haired years and the warmth of the world. After all, aging is an inevitable stage of life for everyone, and it should be viewed positively rather than rejected blindly. Excessive pursuit of "anti-aging" will exacerbate the anxiety of the entire society about the phenomenon of aging. Several films tell the audience through the issue of care that old age is a time of life experience accumulation and worthy of awe.
Looking back at history, Chinese filmmakers paid attention to the elderly group as early as the 1990s. Works such as "Xin Xiang" (心香), "Zhao Le" (找乐), and "Xi Zao" (洗澡) recorded and discussed the life fluctuations and psychological adjustments of the elderly in the period of social transformation from multiple perspectives and with distinct image qualities. Entering the 21st century, films such as "The Person Who Loves Me Most in the World Is Gone" (世界上最疼我的那个人去了), "We Two" (我们俩), "Flying with the Grandfather" (飞越老人院), and in recent years, "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" (春潮) and "Mama!" (妈妈！) have also won good reputations, and some have also won major awards at home and abroad. These films take realism as the creative background, reversing the usual expression of "physical and mental aging," transcending the negative view of aging, reflecting the progress of social concepts, and guiding the audience to actively and rationally view the issue of aging. In addition, some young directors have turned their cameras from the city to their homeland, linking the feelings of the countryside with the life of the elderly, and observing the physical and mental conditions of the elderly group in a youthful and high-spirited narrative style. This gentle questioning method and deep humanistic care provide another dimension for the silver-age expression of Chinese films.
In such a deep creative context, with the advancement of age-appropriate policies and the change of people's concepts, film creation around era-sensitive issues such as active aging and healthy aging will also mature, and better carry the deep care for the silver-age group in terms of thematic deepening, type development, and value transmission, expressing awe for life in the flow of years.
(The author is a professor at the School of Art and Communication, Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学).)
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In the Bingwu New Year, the melodious Yue opera echoed in the Taoyuan Arts Center and Taipei Parent-Child Theater in Taiwan (台湾); outside the theater, enthusiastic audiences were still savoring the experience. The Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe (浙江小百花越剧院) brought its youth Yue opera "My Grand View Garden" (我的大观园) and the excerpt performance "Garden of Love" (爱情的花园) as scheduled, with five performances in four days, all of which were sold out.
The new generation of Yue opera actors, such as Chen Lijun (陈丽君), are well-known on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. With their enthusiastic and sunny image, diligent and hardworking qualities, and talented artistic expression, they have become popular "top streamers" of opera loved by audiences on both sides of the Strait. The Xiaobaihua (小百花) troupe, where Chen Lijun (陈丽君) is located, is known for its aesthetic quality of "poetic Yue opera." From its first performance in Taiwan (台湾) of plays such as "Lu You and Tang Wan" (陆游与唐琬) in the 1990s to bringing "My Grand View Garden" (我的大观园) this time, daring to seek novelty and being good at innovation has been its consistent artistic pursuit. If Mao Weitao (茅威涛) in those years guarded Yue opera with profound poetic and philosophical thinking, then today's Chen Lijun (陈丽君) and others are using youthful vigor to break Yue opera out of its circle and become a national trend pursued by a new generation of audiences. In Taiwan's (台湾) theaters, young audiences account for more than 60%, who come not only for the opera "top streamers" but also for the traditional and fashionable Yue opera art. The eyes of young people on both sides of the Strait quietly converge in cultural expressions full of youthful atmosphere.
This convergence stems not only from the charm of the actors but also from the profound cultural foundation carried by the repertoire itself. "My Grand View Garden" (我的大观园) is adapted from "Dream of the Red Chamber" (红楼梦), reinterpreting the classic from a contemporary perspective and reconstructing Chinese expressive aesthetics with modern artistic vocabulary. The figures coming and going in the Grand View Garden (大观园) and the poetic and wine-filled years are shared literary memories of Chinese people on both sides of the Strait; that praise for youth, persistence in true love, and sigh for the vicissitudes of life are a concentrated projection of national aesthetic psychology. "Garden of Love" (爱情的花园) cleverly connects four classic excerpts, telling the lingering, tragic, romantic, and melancholy of love, fully demonstrating the artistic charm of Yue opera's graceful lyricism. Love is the eternal theme of Chinese opera. The warmth and coldness of human relationships in the lyrics and the life-and-death love on the stage are all too familiar to us. The emotional resonance across time and space is a vivid footnote to the connected cultural heritage on both sides of the Strait.
From the thunderous applause in the theater to the enthusiastic interaction online, compatriots on both sides of the Strait seek identity in culture and warm their hearts in exchanges. Chinese culture is the common spiritual home of compatriots on both sides of the Strait, and literary and artistic works come across mountains and seas to make the spiritual roots even tighter.
Below a short video of the performance's curtain call shared by Taiwanese (台湾) netizens, someone commented: "The same origin in culture is an indestructible steel bridge." More enthusiastic Taiwanese (台湾) audiences directly extended invitations: "Please invite outstanding theater and dance troupes from all provinces!" The TV series "The Peaceful Year" (太平年), which has also sparked heated discussions recently, also uses history as a mirror to reflect the common expectations of both sides of the Strait. As the spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office (国台办) said, opposing division and pursuing reunification is the spiritual belief of the Chinese nation. The attention and discussion of audiences on both sides of the Strait on the plot and the history behind "The Peaceful Year" (太平年) fully reflects that peace is the common pursuit of compatriots on both sides of the Strait.
The melodious Yue opera lingers endlessly. May more excellent works emerge, so that compatriots on both sides of the Strait can get closer and closer in the common cultural nourishment, and their feelings become more and more intimate.
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What are the characteristics of the Chinese people? The documentary "We Chinese" seeks answers from the five-thousand-year history of Chinese civilization. Through a group of vivid characters and stories, it reveals the spiritual code of "why Chinese people are Chinese," providing a new paradigm for inheriting cultural roots and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.
A few years ago, the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局) vigorously supported historical and cultural documentaries, hoping to create a work reflecting the general history of China. I once heard an education expert say that history education should be carried out in two steps: first, tell historical stories so that children will never forget them, and then put these stories on a timeline. Imagine, if the 100 most important historical stories in the five-thousand-year history of civilization were vividly displayed and linked together into a general history of China, it would be of great benefit to the popularization of history among young people. This idea is very full and grand, but it is extremely difficult to operate, because the five thousand years of Chinese civilization is difficult to accommodate in the volume of a documentary.
"We Chinese" found a small entry point: exploring the spiritual world of the Chinese people through historical figures. From the exploration of scholars in the Spring and Autumn Period to the perseverance of patriots in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, from the foundation of the civilization of rites and music to the integration of diversity and unity, the Chinese people's national sentiments, moral concepts, ideological character, and life ideals have experienced kaleidoscope-like entanglements, tempering, quenching, and sublimation in more than 30 historical figures, leaving us with deafening historical echoes today. For example, to explain the ideal pursuit of "a scholar establishes himself with morality," the work tells the story of Confucius (孔子)'s 14 years of traveling around the states, adhering to his ideals in the "Peril of Chen and Cai (陈蔡之厄)," showing his gentle and firm character; to interpret the Chinese people's pursuit of fairness and justice, it uses Chu Chancellor Shi She (石奢)'s choice of "binding his father to the law (纵父伏法)," showing his moral consciousness in maintaining the dignity of the law and ethical bottom line in the dilemma of loyalty and filial piety.
In the narrative mode of "story + interpretation," the Chinese people's way of dealing with the world is integrated into the plot, and emotional resonance is triggered by seeing the big from the small. What is "immersing oneself in the situation (躬身入局)"? The details of the Qi State (齐国) historians' brothers truthfully recording history without fear of power make "responsibility" concrete; to interpret the "Doctrine of the Mean," the life scene of Tao Yuanming (陶渊明) "rising at dawn to weed the wilderness, carrying a hoe and returning with the moon (晨兴理荒秽，带月荷锄归)" makes "balance" feelable. At the same time, through expert interpretation and the opening introduction and ending summary of recitation artist Chen Duo (陈铎), it not only deeply analyzes the historical background and cultural connotation, reveals profound truths, but also leaves the audience room for thinking, so as to achieve the effect of being simple and profound, 润物无声 (rùn wù wú shēng - "moisten things silently," to influence subtly and imperceptibly), and writing big ideas with small stories.
Historical themes have always been an important field of documentary creation, bearing the important mission of inheriting civilization and uniting people's hearts. The inspiration of "We Chinese" for such creations lies in the fact that there is no need to accomplish the grand general history of China in one battle. It can be presented systematically through multiple works, multiple aspects, and multiple styles, restoring the context of civilization in a panoramic way. At present, Sinology, Chinese style, and Chinese trends are a grand sight. People attach great importance to the inheritance and development of Chinese history and culture, which not only provides broad space for the creation of cultural products, but also puts forward higher requirements. We should base ourselves on the needs of the times, build a rich and solid spiritual home by looking back at history, observing reality, and showing the future, strengthen the Chinese people's ideological consciousness, cultural self-confidence and national pride, and let the "appearance of the Chinese people" shine with more dazzling civilized brilliance in the new era.
(The author is the Vice President of the China Radio and Television Social Organization Federation (中国广播电视社会组织联合会))
Return to Top"Great heroine counterattack" and "workplace reversal" - at first glance, the AI micro-drama "Magic Brush (神·笔)" uses a standard formula for exhilarating dramas. Coupled with the eye-catching halo of Liu Cixin (刘慈欣) as executive producer and Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆) as screenwriter, it has exceeded 100 million views in just over 10 days since its launch, indicating its appeal.
However, what makes this drama more worthy of discussion is that it completes an interesting creative experiment in a "self-reflexive" way. As a simulated live-action drama, the work is created using AI and tells the story of AI's impact on creators. In the drama, original artist Li Huhuhu (李忽忽) relies on a "magic brush" that can transform her subconscious into excellent design solutions to counterattack in the workplace, but each use comes at a price - surrendering her self-awareness to AI and gradually becoming a "robot." This raises the question: where is the balance point of human-machine collaboration?
More than 70 years ago, the animated film "Magic Brush (神笔)" told us that tools have no inherent good or evil, and humans are the deciding factor. Now, another "magic brush" story is co-written by humans and AI: the process of humans and machines working together and constantly gaming each other is itself a process of finding and discovering unique human creativity.
(Zhu Jing (朱婧))
Return to Top"Night on the Prairie - Ballads from Kokdala" focuses on several representatives of laborers, telling the story of their sacrifices and contributions in reclaiming wasteland and defending the frontier. The singer's performance is excellent, but the quality of the lyrics and music fluctuates; some are very sincere, while others are like "bubblegum pop," and some arrangements lack appeal. Overall, the most pleasing parts are the finale and curtain call, with very beautiful songs and excellent dances in this section, but unfortunately, they are somewhat 有句无篇 (yǒu jù wú piān - "having sentences without a chapter," lacking overall coherence or structure).
As a song and dance drama, the work has more songs than dances, and the plot is slightly fragmented, which is a common problem faced by song and dance drama creation. Due to the lack of dramatic conflict, although there are small stories and songs to express emotions, these contents lack emotional groundwork, and the emotional tension is also insufficient. If the narrative shortcomings can be addressed and the "drama" component can be established, the overall artistic quality of the song and dance drama will be further improved.
(Chen Da (陈达))
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