Summary: The General Offices of the CCP Central Committee and the State Council recently issued the revised "Regulations on Integrity of State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Leaders," effective as of the date of promulgation. The regulations outline specific prohibitions for SOE leaders, including abuse of power, seeking personal gain, engaging in for-profit activities, and cronyism. The document emphasizes the importance of strengthening Party leadership, preventing corruption in SOEs and ensuring the preservation of state assets. It also emphasizes strengthening the Party's construction of discipline and promoting self-regulation among SOE leaders. The regulations apply to leaders in wholly state-owned enterprises and those with state-controlled shares.
Summary: President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to the 10th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), held in Colombia. Xi noted CELAC's role in regional peace, stability, and development and highlighted the progress of the five major initiatives (unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people exchanges) launched at the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing last year. Xi affirmed China's commitment to supporting Latin American and Caribbean countries' sovereignty, security, and development interests. He expressed China's willingness to jointly defend international fairness and justice with Latin America. The message did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liaoning province is pushing forward with urban renewal projects, focusing on improving living conditions and community services, as directed by Xi Jinping during his visit to the province in January 2025. These projects include renovating old residential areas, improving infrastructure, and preserving historical districts, with the aim of enhancing the quality of life for residents. Over the past five years, the province has renovated thousands of old residential areas and constructed numerous pocket parks. Liaoning's Party Secretary Xu Kunlin stated that the province will continue to promote urban renewal, focusing on optimizing urban structure, driving energy transformation, improving quality, promoting green transformation, inheriting cultural heritage, and improving governance efficiency. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang, accompanied by Wu Zhenglong, addressed the opening ceremony of the China Development Forum 2026, emphasizing that the current international situation is undergoing profound and complex changes. Li stated that protectionism is not a panacea, and that China will continue to promote high-level opening-up, import more high-quality foreign goods, and work with all parties to promote the optimization and balanced development of trade. Li affirmed China's opposition to disorderly and irrational competition, and its commitment to fostering a fair and competitive market. He framed China as a "cornerstone of certainty" and a "haven of stability" for the world, and reiterated that China will grant foreign companies national treatment.
Summary: China's insurance industry is innovating to support emerging sectors and address societal needs as part of the "15th Five-Year Plan." New insurance products are being launched, such as policies for robotics, low-altitude economy ventures, and technology innovation, aiming to reduce risks and promote growth. The industry is also focusing on providing accessible and affordable insurance to vulnerable groups, like tea pickers and the elderly, while leveraging digital technologies to improve service delivery. Insurance is playing an increasing role in disaster response and social governance, offering financial support and risk mitigation strategies. Zhao Yulong, Chairman of the China Insurance Industry Association, stated the industry would accelerate the construction of a comprehensive and multi-layered science and technology insurance service system. The article made no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Xiong'an International Airport officially opened on March 22nd, becoming the first non-airport port in China to utilize a comprehensive bonded zone and an aviation three-letter code. The inaugural flight, Capital Airlines JD488 from Colombo, Sri Lanka, carried pottery which, after customs clearance, marked the airport's operational debut using its unique "NXA" code. This dedicated code allows international goods to connect directly to global destinations, establishing Xiong'an International Airport as both an international air cargo origin and destination. The Xiong'an Free Trade Pilot Zone Administrative Committee collaborated with Beijing Shouhang Daxing Ground Service Co., Ltd. to construct the Xiong'an International Aviation Freight Station, ensuring the success of this initial operation.
Summary: In the first two months of this year, China saw a 14% year-on-year increase in newly established foreign-invested enterprises, totaling 8,631, with actual use of foreign capital reaching 161.45 billion yuan, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The manufacturing and service industries saw 47.52 billion yuan and 111.22 billion yuan in foreign investment respectively. High-tech industries experienced a 20.4% increase in foreign investment, accounting for 39.2% of the total, with notable investment growth from Canada, Switzerland, and France. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The *National Land Geochemical Monitoring Report 2025* indicates China's land quality is stable and improving, with soils becoming more fertile. The report, based on data from 1995, 2016, and 2023, shows that the proportion of land with medium or higher geochemical grade was 92.6% in 2023, an increase of 0.4 percentage points from 1995. The report says that land in Northeast, Northwest, and Qinghai-Tibet regions all improved. Organic carbon content in Qinghai-Tibet saw significant increases.
Summary: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to the 10th CELAC summit, expressing wishes for the development of Latin American and Caribbean countries and emphasizing China's commitment to the long-term development of China-Latin America relations. Latin American experts highlighted Xi's support for South-South cooperation and the five major projects launched at the China-CELAC Forum, which focus on solidarity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people exchanges. They emphasized that cooperation with China offers new development opportunities. Experts believe China's support helps these countries maintain sovereignty and advance their development interests, while also advocating for a more balanced global order.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's concept of a "community of common destiny for mankind," contrasting it with a zero-sum, "nation-first" worldview. It highlights the increasing international support for this concept, including its inclusion in UN resolutions and alignment with China's Belt and Road Initiative. The article argues that the concept offers a new way for the world to operate, as perceived by some Western observers. China's global initiatives and actions, such as trade policies and development projects, are presented as concrete steps towards realizing this vision, particularly in contrast to perceived protectionism and unilateralism. The article also mentions positive international reception of the idea, and rising favorability toward China.
Summary: A Spanish historian argues that China's development offers solutions to global challenges, highlighting the significance of Chinese-style modernization for human development. They emphasize China's people-centered development, open cooperation, and support for developing countries through initiatives like the Belt and Road. The author praises China's technological advancements, infrastructure development, and efforts to promote green energy and digital connectivity globally. China's four global initiatives (Development, Security, Civilization, and Governance) are presented as solutions to global governance dilemmas, emphasizing multilateralism and the importance of the UN. The article frames China as an alternative to protectionism, although it does not directly mention the United States.
Summary: The inaugural season of "Sing Africa," a Chinese-Kenyan co-produced singing competition, concluded with Kenyan drama teacher Fanuel Mulwa winning. Jointly launched by Hunan Broadcasting System and Xinhua News Agency's Africa bureau, the program aims to foster Sino-African cultural exchange through music, offering opportunities for contestants to visit China. Contestants expressed a desire for more cultural exchanges between China and Kenya. A Kenyan official stated that this new form of cultural exchange is attractive to the younger generation.
Summary: Politburo Member and Vice Premier He Lifeng met with a delegation from the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) in Beijing on March 22nd. He Lifeng stated that U.S.-China relations are the most important bilateral relationship and encouraged the USCBC to promote healthy development of trade relations, urging American companies to seize opportunities in the Chinese market to contribute stability. USCBC representatives, including Chairman Craig Allen and President Ted Rule, expressed optimism about China's economic prospects and affirmed their commitment to deepening U.S.-China trade cooperation.
Summary: March 21st marked the inaugural "International Taijiquan Day," the first UN-designated day named after a martial art. This recognition, following Taijiquan's UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage listing, signifies its growing global influence as a shared human cultural asset. In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Argentina Wushu Club organized a celebration with over a hundred martial arts enthusiasts, including its founder Chen Min, demonstrating Taijiquan. This event highlights the global spread and appreciation of this traditional Chinese practice. The event was captured in a photo by Martin Sabala, and distributed by Xinhua News Agency.
Summary: An exchange meeting for foreign envoys to China was held in Beijing on March 20th by the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, attended by ambassadors, diplomats, and representatives from 40 countries and international organizations. Attendees shared their experiences and observations from visiting Xinjiang, discussing the region's economic and social development, human rights achievements, and stories of modern Xinjiang. The Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation praised Xinjiang's transportation infrastructure, while the Cameroonian Ambassador to China highlighted Xinjiang's experience in desert agriculture and renewable energy. Participants also visited an exhibition showcasing Xinjiang's history and development achievements.
Summary: The Su-Tai Expressway, slated for full completion in September 2025, is designed to improve connectivity between Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and other cities in the Yangtze River Delta. According to Zhejiang Province Transportation Department Deputy Director, Ye Jianfeng, the highway planning involved comprehensive consideration of financial, land, and economic benefits to avoid becoming a "dead end" road. Zhejiang Province Transportation Department member Dong Youbang noted that transportation departments from the provinces hold video conferences to communicate progress. Zhejiang Province Transportation Department Vice Director Wang Dongjie stated that they will continue to work with surrounding provinces to improve infrastructure collaboration. The highway project aims to reduce transportation costs and facilitate regional economic integration.
Summary: The Yangtze River Delta region is making progress in "integration" and "high-quality development," focusing on infrastructure connectivity, public service sharing, and regional market integration. Noteworthy achievements include completing the first batch of 17 inter-provincial "dead-end road" projects, substantial railway construction investments, and the launch of digital platforms for shipping and trade. Further advancements are planned for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, aiming for higher levels of infrastructure integration, enhanced economic density in metropolitan areas, and stronger innovation corridors. The region will also focus on unified policies, consistent rules, and coordinated execution to advance the unified national market. No mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations was made.
Summary: A recent joint directive from ten departments, including the State Administration for Market Regulation, outlines a plan for building a standards system for the low-altitude economy by 2025, aiming for over 300 standards by 2030. This system will address the lack of unified standards across the low-altitude economic ecosystem, from technology and manufacturing to infrastructure and services. The standards will focus on areas like low-altitude aircraft, infrastructure, air traffic management, safety, and specific applications, promoting safer operations and innovation. The goal is to ensure unified national standards and prevent conflicting regional standards, allowing low-altitude economic applications to become more integrated into daily life. Standards will be updated to keep pace with technological advancements in areas like unmanned aircraft and low-altitude logistics.
Summary: In Xinjiang's Kunyu City, a 8200 mu wheat plantation utilizes advanced irrigation technology to achieve high seedling survival rates in the Taklamakan Desert. The plantation uses 380-meter-long center pivot irrigation systems, which are more effective than drip irrigation in the region's harsh, sandy conditions. The pivot irrigation system also helps to suppress the sand, clean the wheat and improve the microclimate. With the new technology, 4 workers can now accomplish the work that used to require 30 people. The new operation combines grain production and desert control by converting sand dunes into arable land.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance have jointly issued a notice outlining 16 policy measures to promote employment for college graduates and other young people in 2026. These measures include encouraging employment in private enterprises, especially in advanced manufacturing and modern services, as well as guiding graduates to county-level economies with potential policy support. They also include implementing employment and entrepreneurship policies such as social insurance subsidies and tax reductions to encourage enterprises to employ more college graduates. The plan calls for expanding grassroots service projects, improving recruitment, increasing employment training, and developing new quality productivity training programs. Finally, the plan outlines efforts to provide targeted assistance to graduates from low-income families and those with disabilities, offering services such as career guidance and employment assistance.
Summary: China's National Administration of Financial Regulation (NAFR) reported a 26% year-on-year decrease in the number of six types of local financial organizations by the end of December 2025, a 55% decrease compared to historical peaks. Since 2024, the NAFR has focused on strict regulation, guiding local authorities to rectify these organizations, eliminating over 5,600 non-compliant institutions. The NAFR aims to eliminate "out-of-touch" and shell companies, address issues like excessive interest rates and improper debt collection, and improve the industry environment through regulatory mechanisms and inter-departmental collaboration. The NAFR, along with other departments, is guiding local areas to deepen regulation, focus on key areas of chaos, and urge local financial organizations to focus on their main business, return to their origins, reduce quantity and improve quality, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers. These efforts aim to improve services to the real economy and social well-being.
Summary: Xi Jinping emphasized the need to improve public cultural services. The article highlights local efforts to upgrade public cultural services in Liaoning, Shandong, and Hubei provinces, including museum renovations, the creation of cultural spaces, and the establishment of library systems. These initiatives aim to enhance public engagement with culture, provide more accessible resources, and better meet the needs of local communities. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Xi Jinping stressed the importance of thorough investigation and research (调研) to address new situations and problems. He referenced his own experience of using a bicycle to conduct research in Zhengding County, Hebei, in the 1980s, emphasizing the need to understand the true situation at the grassroots level and connect with the people. The article highlights the importance of solving practical problems for the people and promoting sustainable development through fact-finding and problem-solving, referencing successful examples such as resettling boat dwellers in Fujian. It asserts that local governments must conduct in-depth research to formulate development strategies that reflect their unique characteristics and comparative advantages. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council have issued the "Regulations on Honest Practice of Leading Personnel of State-Owned Enterprises." The regulations, revised in February 2026, aim to regulate the ethical conduct of leaders in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and strengthen anti-corruption efforts within these entities. The document outlines specific prohibitions against abuse of power, seeking personal gain, and engaging in activities that harm national interests or violate personnel management rules. It emphasizes the importance of Party leadership and supervision, and calls for promoting a culture of integrity within SOEs. The regulations cover a wide range of SOE leadership roles, including members of the Party leadership team and senior management personnel. There is no mention of the United States in this document.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating a large, innovative, and high-caliber cultural talent pool to achieve China's cultural strength goals. It calls for identifying and supporting leading figures in literature, art, philosophy, social sciences, news, and communication, as well as fostering grassroots cultural leaders. The piece also highlights the need to integrate technology with culture, emphasizing the cultivation of interdisciplinary talents while also focusing on literature, history, and philosophy in order to foster innovation. Finally, the article stresses the importance of creating an environment that respects and incentivizes cultural creation, allowing talent to flourish and contribute to China's cultural prosperity.
Summary: This article discusses the development and clinical application of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in China, focusing on the experiences of the author and their team at the Beijing Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Research Institute. They developed both semi-invasive ("Beinao-1") and invasive ("Beinao-2") BCI systems, using a "graded research and layered application" strategy. The "Beinao-1" system has already entered clinical trials and has enabled patients with spinal cord injuries and speech impairments to regain some functionality. The author emphasizes the importance of translating scientific research into tangible benefits for patients and the need for robust regulations to ensure the safe and ethical development of BCI technology.
Summary: The article depicts the commencement of spring planting across China as temperatures rise, emphasizing the industrious efforts of farmers and agricultural technicians in preparing for a bountiful harvest. It highlights activities such as machinery maintenance, soil preparation, and ensuring adequate agricultural supplies. The piece underscores the importance of timely and precise agricultural practices for maximizing yields.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of supporting "new employment groups" (e.g., delivery drivers) in China, arguing it's crucial for stabilizing employment, boosting the economy, and enhancing urban development. It highlights examples of cities improving conditions for these workers through initiatives like subsidized meals and affordable housing. The article points out the need to address challenges faced by these workers and integrate them into urban governance. By improving the lives and working conditions of these essential workers, cities can foster shared development and improve their overall environment. It also states that there are no examples worldwide to follow in this new area of employment.
Summary: This article profiles Chen Zhen, a "95-hou" photographer in Shanghai who documents the lives and stories of elderly residents and old buildings. It highlights the positive impact of her work in preserving urban memories and fostering intergenerational connections. The piece emphasizes Chen's dedication and genuine connection with her subjects, leading to reciprocal warmth and care. The article positions Chen as representative of a generation of young Chinese committed to contributing to society through dedicated action. The piece draws parallels between Chen and other young people engaging in volunteerism, technical innovation, and rural development, highlighting the positive energy and sense of responsibility they bring to society.
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Summary: A team of engineers from the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) Highway Planning and Design Institute is undertaking the design and survey work for the difficult and complex Duku Highway project in Xinjiang. The project involves traversing challenging terrain with high altitude and seismic activity, requiring innovation and adaptation, including using drones to transport heavy equipment. Engineers faced harsh conditions, including freezing temperatures and dangerous river crossings, to ensure accurate data collection. The project is expected to boost the local economy by improving transport infrastructure, and is scheduled to be completed in 2032.
Summary: Jia Jiaya, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and ACM Fellow, aims to promote high-quality industrial development through AI. His research focuses on computer vision, multi-modal large models, and industrial intelligent agents, with his company SenseMeer creating AI solutions for manufacturing, including defect detection systems for companies like CRRC. He emphasizes practical application and industry collaboration, and the importance of continuously reevaluating one's research direction to remain at the forefront of the rapidly evolving AI field. Jia also expressed pride in his students, whom he encourages to gain a wide variety of skills and seek opportunities for international collaboration and experience. There was no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The sixth China International Consumer Products Expo will be held in Hainan Haikou from April 13th to 18th, co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the Hainan Provincial Government. This year's Expo, themed "Openness Leading Global Consumption, Innovation Driving a Better Life," will be the first since the official launch of the Hainan Free Trade Port's island-wide customs operation. The event aims to promote global consumer goods in the Chinese market and facilitate the internationalization of domestic brands. The Expo will feature various supporting activities, including new product launches, supply-demand matchmaking events, and promotional activities focused on consumption. The number of participating countries and regions has reached a new high, enhancing its global consumer goods exhibition and trading function.
Summary: The "Jianghai" shield tunneling machine on the right line of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel has completed over half of its digging task, reaching 4658 meters as of March 22nd. This tunnel, spanning 39.07 kilometers between Nantong Haimen and Suzhou Taicang, is a key project within the "Yangtze River Trunk Line Crossing Channel Layout Plan (2020-2035)." Construction is slated for completion in 2028. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on efforts by discipline inspection and supervision cadres in Shandong, Anhui, and Yunnan provinces to rectify undesirable work styles ("Four Winds") and improve the business environment. In Dongying, Shandong, officials are using an intelligent platform to monitor the use of official vehicles. In Liu'an, Anhui, officials are inspecting supermarkets to prevent the illicit giving and receiving of gifts and money, focusing on sales of prepaid cards, alcohol, and tobacco. In Fuyuan, Yunnan, officials are investigating problems faced by local coal mining businesses.
Summary: The article discusses a new "three services" list (三个服务) policy implemented in Ningxia to reduce the burden on community-level cadres and improve their ability to serve residents. This policy categorizes communities and provides a list of 30 common and 40 specific tasks related to public, social, and convenient services. The policy clarifies responsibilities, allowing cadres to focus on essential tasks and avoid being bogged down by extraneous matters. The list helps cadres identify the appropriate departments or organizations to contact for assistance, streamlining service delivery. The policy aims to empower cadres to serve residents more effectively.
Summary: Hainan province has issued new regulations establishing a comprehensive mechanism for addressing business environment issues, including accountability for officials failing to resolve past issues ("new officials ignoring old accounts"). The new mechanism creates a closed-loop management system for handling complaints and resolving issues, with specific timeframes for response and resolution. A tiered supervisory mechanism involving escalating levels of official communication will be used to address complex legacy issues. Disciplinary measures will be taken against those engaging in malfeasance, and embedded supervision by discipline inspection organs will monitor for violations. The province aims to resolve over 90% of existing historical issues affecting enterprises by 2026.
Summary: A primary school in Fujian province organized a field trip for Young Pioneers to a local memorial hall to learn about revolutionary history. The students listened to a guide recount revolutionary stories at the site in Chongwu Township. The activity aimed to allow the students to learn about the "red footprints" in the village. No high-ranking officials were reported to be present, nor was the United States mentioned.
Summary: Guangxi province has continued its campaign to rectify malfeasance and corruption affecting the populace, employing mechanisms like "citizen-initiated problem identification" to address livelihood issues. In 2025, Guangxi filed 21,201 cases, disciplined 14,150 individuals, completed 11,700 livelihood projects, and resolved 20,600 urgent public concerns. The Guangxi Discipline Inspection Commission leveraged the "citizen-initiated problem identification" mechanism, closely monitoring issues raised by the people to accurately focus efforts and collaborating with various departments to gather complaints related to pressing public concerns. The province advanced six national-level rectification projects, including "school meals" and oversight of rural revitalization funds, and deepened rectification of six region-wide prominent issues, including procurement of medicines and consumables. Fifteen livelihood projects were completed, spanning real estate, social assistance, property management, and tourism, among other sectors.
Summary: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Kunming University focused on high-quality Party building to lead the high-quality development of the school, achieving historical breakthroughs in education and receiving national and provincial accolades. The university has optimized its undergraduate programs, adding emerging fields like intelligent manufacturing and digital economy. Kunming University actively serves the national strategy by collaborating with institutions like the University of International Business and Economics to release the "China-Laos Railway Development Report," and engaging with the "Belt and Road" initiative through international collaborations. Kunming University also focuses on local needs, with the university launching the "China-Laos Railway Development Report". The university also has focused on domestic development, including providing support to rural areas.
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Summary: Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Shanghai's Lingang New Area has achieved breakthroughs in urban construction, institutional innovation, industrial agglomeration, and innovation. The area has pioneered a system of institutional opening-up centered on "five freedoms and one facilitation," resulting in 166 breakthrough innovation cases, including 79 national firsts. Lingang has seen the initial formation of advanced industrial clusters represented by integrated circuits, high-end equipment, civil aviation, and intelligent new energy vehicles. The area's GDP has grown by an average of 21.7% annually, with significant increases in industrial output, fixed asset investment, sales, and import/export value. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The recently approved *Environmental and Ecological Code* codifies ecological civilization theories and practices since the 18th Party Congress, marking a milestone in China's rule of law. Guided by Xi Jinping's ecological civilization and rule of law thoughts, the code aims to modernize environmental governance, address public expectations, and contribute Chinese wisdom to global environmental governance. It enshrines principles like "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" into law and strengthens international cooperation on environmental issues. This comprehensive legal framework is designed to resolve systemic issues, promote coordinated governance, and establish a robust system of environmental protection. The code provides a Chinese solution for global environmental governance and promotes a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature.
Summary: This article discusses the growing "new employment groups" (快递员, 外卖骑手, 网约车司机, 电商从业人员) in China's platform and digital economies, focusing on the need to improve their service management and protect their rights. It highlights the top-level design of protecting the rights and supporting services for these groups, as well as the progress made in the construction of the institutional policy system for the service management of new employment groups in recent years. The author emphasizes strengthening labor rights protection, improving employment support and training, promoting social integration, and reinforcing Party building and social governance among these groups. The article advocates for addressing issues such as labor disputes, algorithm regulation, social security, and access to public services for these workers.
Summary: According to the Minister of Water Resources, China has made significant progress in constructing a national water network, achieving targets set for 2025. Key achievements include improved flood and drought disaster prevention, enhanced water resource allocation, and ecological environment restoration of rivers and lakes. The next phase will focus on integrating water network projects, enhancing safety and sustainability, and building a digital twin water network with improved monitoring and predictive capabilities. The Minister emphasized the importance of innovation in water conservancy investment and financing mechanisms. The Minister mentioned that Xi Jinping has emphasized that the construction of the water network will be another century-long picture in the history of water management of the Chinese nation and will be recorded in history.
Summary: Researcher Cai Yanfei and her team at the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences have achieved breakthroughs in domestic cut flower breeding, specifically with roses, by adapting cultivation techniques to local conditions and reducing costs. They focused on developing varieties tailored to the Chinese market, considering factors like fragrance and consumer preferences. To gain acceptance for new breeds, Cai's team involved growers in the selection process and co-created names for the flowers with the public. The team also aims to reduce reliance on foreign rose varieties and associated patent fees.
Summary: The 16th rapeseed flower viewing season was held in Kecun Town, Yixian County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, attracting numerous tourists. Kecun Town, known for its strong agricultural industry, is leveraging its ecological resources and rapeseed flower fields to promote the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism, aiming to build a beautiful, livable, and business-friendly countryside. The event showcased the town's efforts to develop rural tourism centered around its vast rapeseed flower fields. The article does not discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Financial Regulatory Administration and the People's Bank of China have jointly issued regulations requiring lenders to clearly disclose the comprehensive financing costs of personal loans. These costs encompass all expenses, including interest, installment fees, credit enhancement fees, and potential default penalties. Lenders, including banks and financial institutions, must provide a comprehensive financing cost disclosure form detailing all fees charged by them and their partners, calculating the annualized comprehensive financing cost. This initiative aims to address opaque fee disclosures that have led to financial consumer disputes and hindered effective interest rate policy implementation. The regulations seek to protect consumer rights by providing greater transparency in personal loan costs. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Yiwu's small commodity exports are booming after the Spring Festival, with increased orders demanding faster customs clearance. To improve efficiency, Yiwu Customs has implemented measures such as automated systems and technological support at Yiwu Port, including AI-powered equipment and streamlined inspection processes. The city is also actively supporting businesses in attending international trade fairs, such as those in Hong Kong, Italy, the U.S. and Panama, to expand markets and secure orders. Yiwu plans to assist 1500 foreign trade companies in participating in overseas exhibitions this year.
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Summary: The 14th National People's Congress passed the "Environmental and Ecological Code of the People's Republic of China," which includes a dedicated section on green and low-carbon development to achieve carbon peaking and neutrality goals. This code aims to integrate green and low-carbon principles into all aspects of development, providing legal safeguards for achieving "dual carbon" targets and building a beautiful China. It addresses issues like renewable energy consumption and carbon emissions trading. The code emphasizes promoting the use of wind and solar energy, as well as improving the renewable energy consumption guarantee mechanism.
Summary: During the 2026 National People's Congress, the enactment of the Ecological Environment Code has garnered significant attention, particularly its unique chapter dedicated to "Green and Low-Carbon Development," a global first offering a "Chinese solution" for achieving dual-carbon goals. By the end of 2025, China's total installed renewable energy capacity reached 2.34 billion kilowatts, making it the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system. The Code clarifies and improves the renewable energy power consumption guarantee mechanism. Green electricity now accounts for nearly 40% of China's total electricity consumption. The Ecological Environment Code will guide the formation of a social consensus and action on green and low-carbon development through the power of the rule of law, promoting a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
Summary: To commemorate World Meteorological Day, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) highlighted its progress in modernizing weather forecasting and disaster preparedness. The CMA has achieved breakthroughs in meteorological technology, including advancements in Fengyun weather satellites and AI-powered forecasting models. China is now providing high-quality meteorological data services to 153 countries and is actively involved in global meteorological governance. The CMA also plans to enhance its disaster risk warning system and promote its "MAZU" early warning system internationally. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: To mark World Water Day and China Water Week, a "Conserve Water in China" campaign took place in Hefei, Anhui Province. Officials stated that China's water usage remained constant during the 14th Five-Year Plan, even as the economy and grain production increased. By 2025, China's unconventional water usage exceeded 25 billion cubic meters. The Ministry of Water Resources emphasized improving water resource management, promoting water conservation, and developing unconventional water resource allocation. The event was hosted by the National Office for Water Conservation, the Anhui Provincial Department of Water Resources, and the Hefei Municipal People's Government.
Summary: Several regions have recently conducted promotional events related to "World Water Day" and "China Water Week." These activities aimed to popularize water conservation knowledge and raise public awareness regarding water conservation. The events sought to enhance the overall societal understanding of water conservation and its importance. No U.S. or U.S.-China related information was included.
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Summary: The State Council has issued Order No. 831, the "Regulations on Water Supply," which were adopted on December 31, 2025, and will be implemented on June 1, 2026. These regulations aim to promote high-quality development of the water supply industry, ensure water supply safety, and improve service levels to better meet economic, social development, and public needs. Li Qiang, the Premier, signed the order on February 11, 2026. The regulations cover water supply activities, including urban and rural scaled water supply, but exclude agricultural irrigation, emphasizing the importance of integrated urban-rural development and the public service nature of water supply. County-level governments and above bear primary responsibility for water supply security, with specific duties assigned to various departments like housing and urban-rural development, water resources, and disease prevention and control. The new regulations replace the previous "Urban Water Supply Regulations," but do not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A new exhibit at the Shanxi Museum, titled "Xiang Ma (Appraising Horses)," showcases nearly 200 horse-related artifacts unearthed in Shanxi Province, spanning from prehistoric times to the Ming and Qing dynasties. The exhibition, divided into two sections, explores the evolution of horses in Chinese civilization and their cultural significance. Notable artifacts include a Western Zhou jade horse and Northern Qi-era artifacts like pottery horses and hunting murals. The exhibit emphasizes the horse's role in warfare, transportation, daily life, and as a symbol in Chinese culture, reflecting philosophical and cosmological views.
Summary: China's insurance industry is innovating to support emerging industries and address societal needs, with a focus on technology, disaster relief, and accessible services. New insurance products include coverage for robotics, low-altitude economy ventures, and technology innovation, aiming to reduce risk and accelerate development. The industry is also expanding coverage for agricultural risks and offering customized health insurance to benefit a wider range of people. Xi Jinping emphasized the role of the insurance industry as an economic shock absorber and social stabilizer. This insurance expansion aims to support economic growth and societal well-being.
Summary: A reporter in Greenland found residents expressing concerns and anxieties about potential U.S. actions towards the island, referencing Trump's previous interest in purchasing it. Locals emphasized their distinct Greenlandic identity and opposition to becoming part of the United States, as reflected in anti-U.S. demonstrations and widespread disapproval expressed in polls. Greenlanders highlighted their unique culture, traditions, and connection to the land, viewing themselves as a people who value freedom and sustainable development, not merely a resource to be exploited. Residents conveyed a desire for their culture and rights to be respected amid these external pressures and the perceived threat from the U.S. The mayor of Sisimiut said that attitudes had shifted greatly toward the US, and that the alliance forged in WWII had been damaged.
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京) March 22nd (date as is in source). Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Regulations on the Integrity of Leading Cadres of State-Owned Enterprises" and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to earnestly comply with them.
The full text of the "Regulations on the Integrity of Leading Cadres of State-Owned Enterprises" is as follows.
Regulations on the Integrity of Leading Cadres of State-Owned Enterprises
(Approved by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) on May 22, 2009; issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) on July 1, 2009; revised by the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) on February 28, 2026; issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) on February 28, 2026)
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the "Code of Integrity and Self-Discipline for the Communist Party of China (中国共产党廉洁自律准则)," the "Regulations on Internal Supervision of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党党内监督条例)," and other Party regulations, as well as the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国监察法)," in order to regulate the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises and strengthen the building of Party conduct and clean governance and anti-corruption work in state-owned enterprises.
Article 2 These Regulations apply to the following leading cadres of state-owned solely-funded and wholly-owned enterprises, state-owned holding enterprises, and state-owned de facto control enterprises (including state-owned solely-funded and wholly-owned financial enterprises, state-owned holding financial enterprises, and state-owned de facto control financial enterprises) and their branches:
(1) Members of the Party organization leadership team;
(2) Members of the board of directors and management team members who are managed by higher-level Party organizations;
(3) Other senior management personnel who are managed by higher-level Party organizations or by the Party organization of the enterprise.
Article 3 Strengthening the work of integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as guidance, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth, strengthen the supervision of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises in performing their duties, exercising their powers, and practicing self-discipline, promote the integrated advancement of "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt," and provide a strong guarantee for strengthening, optimizing, and expanding state-owned enterprises and state-owned capital.
Article 4 Leading cadres of state-owned enterprises should achieve the following in practicing integrity:
(1) Be loyal to the Party, firm in ideals and beliefs, resolutely implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), actively serve the national development strategy, and earnestly safeguard national interests;
(2) Be responsible and proactive, be bold in innovation and forge ahead, practice a correct view of political achievements, and promote the continuous enhancement of the core functions and core competitiveness of enterprises, and realize the preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets;
(3) Abide by rules and laws, abide by the Party Constitution, Party regulations, Party discipline, national laws and regulations, and enterprise rules and regulations, use power cautiously, strictly adhere to the bottom line, be fair in public and private matters, be honest and trustworthy, and prevent and resolve risks;
(4) Guarantee people's livelihoods, fulfill social responsibilities, and safeguard the public interests of society and the legitimate rights and interests of employees;
(5) Have a strong work style, thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定精神), practice thrift and oppose waste, and inherit and promote the fine traditions and work style of state-owned enterprises.
Article 5 Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should strengthen the leadership of the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in state-owned enterprises, strengthen the specific responsibilities of Party work organs, and grasp and implement the promotion of integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises as an important task, and create a good political ecology and development environment for state-owned enterprises. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should assist Party committees (Party groups) in strengthening the supervision and inspection of the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises, and focus on punishing systemic corruption behaviors such as relying on enterprises to eat enterprises and setting up rent-seeking.
People's governments at all levels and their departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets should strengthen the management of state-owned assets and strengthen the management and supervision of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises in accordance with their functions and responsibilities.
Chapter II Norms of Integrity Conduct
Article 6 It is forbidden to abuse power to damage the rights and interests of state-owned assets. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Violating decision-making principles, procedures, and responsibilities and authority to decide on major decisions on enterprise production and operation, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and large-scale fund operation matters;
(2) Violating regulations to handle enterprise restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, bankruptcy, asset evaluation and disposal, property rights registration and transactions, etc.;
(3) Violating regulations to invest, issue loans, finance, guarantee, lend funds, entrust financial management, issue letters of credit for others, purchase and sell goods and services, and bid for tenders, etc.;
(4) Instructing, directing, or forcing relevant personnel to carry out activities that violate national financial discipline and enterprise financial and accounting systems;
(5) Without the approval of the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets, or the higher-level enterprises with management authority, deciding on the salaries, rewards, allowances, subsidies, and other welfare monetary income of leaders at the same level;
(6) Donating or sponsoring assets owned by the enterprise to the outside world in a personal name, or deciding on donation or sponsorship matters without collective research by the enterprise leadership team, or although collective research by the enterprise leadership team has been conducted, but without the approval or filing of the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets, or the higher-level enterprises with management authority, deciding on large-scale donation or sponsorship matters;
(7) Other acts of abusing power to damage the rights and interests of state-owned assets.
Article 7 It is forbidden to use power or influence of position to seek personal gain. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Accepting or soliciting gifts, gift money, securities, virtual currency, and other property provided by the enterprise's affiliated enterprises, enterprises that have business relationships with the enterprise and its investing enterprises, as well as management and service objects, or agreeing to accept them after leaving office or retirement;
(2) Purchasing or leasing houses, cars, and other items from others at prices significantly lower than the market price, or selling or renting them to others at prices significantly higher than the market price, as well as illegally accepting property from others in other transaction forms;
(3) Entrusting others to invest in securities, futures, funds, or in the name of other entrusted financial management, without actually contributing capital but obtaining income, or although actually contributing capital, but obtaining income significantly higher than the income that should be obtained from the contribution or being compensated for losses after losses;
(4) Engaging in power-money transactions in the form of anonymous shareholding, holding shares by others on behalf, or acting as an agent to carry out business activities;
(5) Obtaining large amounts of returns through financial activities such as private lending that may affect the fair performance of duties;
(6) Using internal information of the enterprise or other non-public information, trade secrets, as well as intangible assets or resources such as the enterprise's intellectual property rights and business channels to seek personal gain;
(7) Stealing from oneself, engaging in **暗箱操作** (àn xiāng cāo zuò - "black box operation," operating in secret) or fabricating names and falsely increasing commercial links, illegally occupying or misappropriating the property and customer assets of the enterprise and its affiliated enterprises;
(8) Taking discounts and intermediary fees in the enterprise's economic exchanges, and property rewarded and returned by relevant departments and units due to the enterprise's behavior as one's own or privately dividing them;
(9) Using the original power or influence of position to seek personal gain after leaving office or retirement;
(10) Other acts of using power or influence of position to seek personal gain.
Article 8 It is forbidden to engage in profit-making activities in violation of regulations. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Engaging in for-profit business activities and paid intermediary activities personally or in the name of others;
(2) Investing in shares in the same type of operating enterprises, affiliated enterprises, or enterprises that have business relationships with the enterprise and its investing enterprises directly or in the form of entrusted holding, anonymous investment, etc.;
(3) Holding concurrent positions in the enterprise's invested enterprises or other enterprises, institutions, social organizations, intermediary agencies, foundations, international organizations, etc. without approval or filing, or holding concurrent positions with approval or filing, but receiving additional benefits such as salaries, bonuses, allowances, and subsidies;
(4) Within 3 years after leaving office or retirement, holding positions or investing in shares in enterprises and intermediary agencies that have business relationships with the original employing enterprise and its investing enterprises, or engaging in or acting as an agent for business activities related to the business operations of the original employing enterprise and its investing enterprises;
(5) Other acts of engaging in profit-making activities in violation of regulations.
Article 9 It is forbidden to use power or influence of position to seek benefits for spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) The individual's spouse, children and their spouses, and other specific related persons investing in shares in the enterprise's affiliated enterprises, enterprises that have business relationships with the enterprise and its investing enterprises;
(2) Entrusting, leasing, or contracting state-owned assets to the operation of spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons;
(3) Providing convenient conditions for spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons to engage in profit-making activities;
(4) Providing convenient conditions for each other's spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons to engage in profit-making activities;
(5) Economic business dealings between enterprises invested or operated by the individual's spouse, children and their spouses, and other specific related persons and the enterprise and its investing enterprises that may infringe on public interests and enterprise interests;
(6) Providing assistance for spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons to absorb deposits, issue loans, and promote financial products;
(7) Failing to avoid holding positions and performing official duties in accordance with regulations due to the involvement of spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives;
(8) Using the original power or influence of position to seek benefits for spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons after leaving office or retirement;
(9) Other acts of using power or influence of position to seek benefits for spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons.
Article 10 It is forbidden to blindly pursue political achievements and damage national interests. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Exceeding reasonable asset-liability ratio levels and asset-liability structures, resulting in excessive debt;
(2) Deviating from the main responsibility and main business, engaging in irrelevant diversified operations;
(3) Establishing multi-level enterprise organizational structures to evade supervision and carry out disorderly expansion;
(4) Holding but not controlling shares or participating but not exercising rights in enterprise mergers and acquisitions and mixed ownership reforms, resulting in the loss of management and control of enterprises;
(5) Engaging in false holding in enterprise cooperation and falsely increasing operating performance;
(6) Engaging in data fraud to conceal the true situation of the enterprise;
(7) Carrying out financing trade or false transactions;
(8) Engaging in affiliated operations by renting or lending the name of state-owned enterprises, the trade name in the enterprise name, qualification certificates, or false joint ventures, and piecing together the scale of the enterprise;
(9) Expanding overseas business in violation of compliance and integrity requirements;
(10) Other acts of blindly pursuing political achievements and damaging national interests.
Article 11 It is forbidden to select and appoint personnel in violation of regulations. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Practicing favoritism, excluding dissidents, and making promises of official positions in the enterprise's selection and appointment of personnel;
(2) Rushing to promote and adjust enterprise personnel during enterprise restructuring, when the main leading members are about to reach the age limit for holding office, the age limit for retirement, or have been clearly informed that they are about to leave office;
(3) Selecting and appointing enterprise personnel without following the prescribed number of positions and qualification conditions;
(4) Not following the procedures for proposing, recommending, examining, discussing, and deciding on the appointment and removal of enterprise personnel, or having the main leading members decide on the appointment and removal of enterprise personnel individually;
(5) Privately disclosing relevant information such as research and judgment, proposals, democratic recommendations, democratic evaluations, examinations, deliberations, and decisions on personnel appointments and removals;
(6) Not following the requirements to fulfill the procedures for requesting instructions, reporting, filing, and approval for important personnel appointments and removals;
(7) Recruiting and arranging spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons of oneself or other leading personnel to work in the enterprise or within the system in violation of regulations;
(8) Calling and transferring personnel from the original employing enterprise with changes in positions;
(9) Privately interfering in the selection and appointment of personnel in the enterprise's invested enterprises or the original employing enterprise;
(10) Other acts of selecting and appointing personnel in violation of regulations.
Article 12 It is forbidden to engage in formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Exceeding the prescribed standards and scope in terms of performance treatment and business expenditures such as training activities, office space, official vehicles, business entertainment, and travel expenses;
(2) Paying with public funds or transferring expenses that should be borne by individuals to the enterprise's invested enterprises and other units and individuals;
(3) Accepting or providing banquets or arrangements for tourism, fitness, entertainment, and other activities that may affect the fair performance of duties;
(4) Engaging in a sea of documents and meetings, superficial articles, adding layers upon layers, excessive retention of traces, and excessive and frequent supervision, inspection, and assessment, increasing the burden on the grassroots;
(5) Empty slogans, perfunctory responses, and buck-passing in work, or mechanically implementing the deployment requirements of superiors;
(6) Ignoring the legitimate demands of employees and infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of employees;
(7) Other acts of engaging in formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance.
Chapter III Implementation and Supervision
Article 13 Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should listen to work reports on the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises at least once a year and promptly study and resolve major issues.
Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should focus on the performance of duties, use of power, and self-discipline of members of the enterprise Party organization leadership team, especially the "top leader," in the inspection and supervision work of enterprise Party organizations, and urge enterprise Party organizations to grasp the rectification and implementation of the feedback problems of inspection and supervision.
Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should establish and improve a working mechanism with internal Party supervision as the leading factor, and the supervision of investors, the supervision of competent departments, audit supervision, financial and accounting supervision, and democratic supervision of employees organically connected and coordinated with each other.
Article 14 Party committees (Party groups) at all levels and their organization (personnel) departments, discipline inspection and supervision organs, departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets should broaden education platforms and channels, enrich education methods, conduct regular education for leading cadres of state-owned enterprises within their jurisdiction, strengthen ideals and beliefs, the Party's purpose, revolutionary traditions, and Party conduct and clean governance education, promote Party discipline study and education and style education on a regular and long-term basis, and carry out in-depth warning education.
Article 15 Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should play the role of the Party and the state's special supervisory organs, strengthen political supervision of state-owned enterprises, refine and implement daily supervision, and carry out special supervision for outstanding problems; play the leading role of handling cases, deepen the simultaneous investigation and treatment of style and corruption, strengthen the simultaneous investigation of bribery and bribery, and thoroughly investigate new types of corruption and hidden corruption, and enhance the effectiveness of promoting reform and governance through cases. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies stationed in state-owned enterprises should report important issues and important matters concerning the integrity of the leadership team and its members to the dispatching agency in a timely manner.
Internal discipline inspection agencies and discipline inspection members of state-owned enterprises should strengthen the supervision of the integrity of the enterprise's leading personnel within the scope of their duties, and report important issues and important matters to the Party organization at the same level (where they are located) and the higher-level discipline inspection agency in a timely manner.
Article 16 Organization (personnel) departments at all levels, departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets should take integrity as an important content for the inspection and assessment of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises and an important basis for selection and appointment and evaluation and commendation.
Departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets should combine with reality to improve the operating performance assessment, salary management, and accountability systems for leading cadres of state-owned enterprises, and improve the incentive and restraint mechanisms.
Departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets should strengthen the construction of supervision informatization, use big data and informatization methods to supervise the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises in accordance with regulations and laws, strengthen comprehensive data analysis and dynamic research and judgment, focus on corruption problems behind investment and operation risks, and enhance the ability of penetrating supervision.
Article 17 The departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets shall pay attention to the supervisory role of external directors appointed or dispatched by them, and establish and improve the mechanism for external directors to report abnormal situations of integrity and professional conduct of leaders of state-owned enterprises to them.
Article 18 Audit institutions shall carry out various audit supervisions in accordance with regulations and laws, strictly implement the system regulations such as economic responsibility audits of leaders of state-owned enterprises, and reveal and reflect major, key, and typical problems existing in the process of leaders of state-owned enterprises performing their economic responsibilities.
Article 19 The finance departments shall strengthen the supervision of the financial and accounting behaviors of state-owned enterprises, and severely investigate and deal with problems such as falsification of financial data and failure of internal supervision of state-owned enterprises.
Article 20 The Party organizations of state-owned enterprises shall bear the primary responsibility for implementing these provisions in their respective enterprises, the Party Secretary shall perform the duties of the first responsible person, and other members of the leading group shall perform the "one post, two responsibilities" and grasp the work of integrity and professional conduct of leaders of state-owned enterprises in combination with their business divisions.
State-owned enterprises shall formulate rules and regulations in accordance with these provisions or incorporate the requirements for implementing these provisions into the company's articles of association, integrate them into the whole process of corporate governance and business management, and establish and improve supervision and restriction mechanisms such as internal control, compliance management, risk management, internal audit, and prevention of conflicts of interest to ensure the implementation of these provisions.
Article 21 State-owned enterprises shall clarify decision-making principles and procedures, and report the decision-making of major production and operation decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and large-amount capital operation matters to the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets within the prescribed time limit.
Article 22 State-owned enterprises shall establish and improve the management system for the performance treatment and business expenditures of their leaders, and report them to the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets for record in accordance with regulations.
Article 23 State-owned enterprises shall improve the enterprise democratic management system with the workers' congress as the basic form, listen to the opinions of workers on major decisions, and major issues involving the vital interests of workers must be deliberated by the workers' congress or the workers' assembly.
State-owned enterprises shall promote factory affairs disclosure, and disclose the salary information of the leaders of the enterprise and the management system for performance treatment and business expenditures, as well as the implementation status, to the workers.
State-owned enterprises shall improve the system of employee directors, and support and encourage employee directors to fully express their opinions and reflect the reasonable demands of employees when the board of directors studies and decides on major issues of the enterprise.
Article 24 State-owned enterprises shall establish and improve the management system and mechanism for related-party transactions, strengthen the identification, reporting, information collection and management of related parties, clarify the pricing, review, avoidance, reporting, disclosure and other contents of related-party transactions, and prevent the transfer of benefits through related-party transactions.
Article 25 State-owned enterprises shall reasonably set up compliance management departments or personnel according to the enterprise's scale, business scope, and operating income, formulate integrity and compliance management systems for key areas such as anti-commercial bribery and foreign-related business, as well as businesses with high compliance risks, improve the integrity and compliance operation mechanism, and integrate integrity and compliance management into the whole process of business operation decision-making, execution, and supervision.
Article 26 State-owned enterprises shall strengthen the prevention and control of integrity risks for key overseas positions, major funds, and major projects, and take measures such as directly dispatching overseas financial officers and rotating overseas personnel in accordance with regulations to strengthen the supervision and management of overseas personnel, funds, and projects.
Article 27 State-owned enterprises shall establish and improve the commitment system for integrity and professional conduct of leaders in combination with these provisions, and standardize the professional conduct of leaders and related behaviors after resignation and retirement.
If leaders of state-owned enterprises resign for personal reasons, they shall be strictly approved. For those who have been approved to resign, state-owned enterprises shall strengthen follow-up management, and report problems found in a timely manner to the organization (personnel) departments and the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities that perform the duties of investors of state-owned assets, and notify the new employer of the resigning personnel.
Article 28 State-owned enterprises shall strengthen the construction of integrity culture in the new era, integrate integrity requirements into the enterprise's daily management, internal control compliance, business operations and other work, as well as professional ethics construction, give full play to the value orientation of integrity culture, guide leaders of state-owned enterprises to cultivate themselves and discipline themselves, strengthen family education and family style construction, and build a solid ideological and moral defense line.
Article 29 Leaders of state-owned enterprises shall strengthen their awareness of discipline, rules, and organization, and truthfully report personal matters to the organization as required.
Leaders of state-owned enterprises shall take the implementation of these provisions as an important content of democratic life meeting comparison and inspection, annual report on performance and integrity, and democratic evaluation by the workers' congress, and accept supervision and democratic evaluation.
Chapter IV Handling of Violations
Article 30 If leaders of state-owned enterprises violate these provisions, the relevant Party organizations, units, and discipline inspection and supervision organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority, give them conversation reminders, criticism and education, orders to make inspections, admonishments, organizational handling, or Party disciplinary and administrative sanctions in accordance with the nature and severity of their behaviors; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
For leaders of state-owned enterprises who violate these provisions and need to be removed or dismissed, they shall be removed or dismissed in accordance with the law.
The Party organizations of state-owned enterprises shall regularly report the handling of the leaders they manage to the organization (personnel) departments of the higher-level Party committee (Party group) for record.
Article 31 If leaders of state-owned enterprises are punished for violating these provisions, the enterprise where they are located shall deduct and recover performance-based annual salary or term-of-office incentive income, terminate or recover medium- and long-term incentive benefits, or cancel the qualification to participate in medium- and long-term incentives in accordance with regulations.
Article 32 The improper economic benefits obtained by leaders of state-owned enterprises in violation of these provisions shall be confiscated, recovered, or ordered to be returned in accordance with regulations and laws; if economic losses are caused to state-owned enterprises, they shall bear economic compensation liability in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state or the enterprise.
Other benefits such as positions, job grades, rewards, and qualifications obtained by leaders of state-owned enterprises in violation of these provisions shall be corrected in accordance with relevant regulations.
Article 33 Leaders of state-owned enterprises who are demoted for violating these provisions shall not be promoted to positions or job grades or further used within 2 years.
Those who are dismissed shall not hold leadership positions in state-owned enterprises within 2 years; those who are dismissed for causing major losses of state-owned assets shall not hold leadership positions in state-owned enterprises within 5 years.
Those who cause particularly serious losses of state-owned assets or are sentenced to criminal penalties for constituting a crime shall not hold leadership positions in state-owned enterprises for life.
Article 34 If the behavior of leaders of state-owned enterprises in performing their duties causes losses or consequences, but it is not due to intentional or negligent reasons, but due to force majeure or other reasons, no responsibility shall be pursued.
If leaders of state-owned enterprises are falsely accused or wrongly accused, and it is necessary to clarify them, the relevant Party organizations, units, and discipline inspection and supervision organs shall clarify them in accordance with regulations.
Chapter V Supplementary Provisions
Article 35 In state-owned wholly-owned and wholly-funded enterprises and state-owned holding enterprises and state-owned de facto control enterprises (including state-owned wholly-owned and wholly-funded financial enterprises and state-owned holding financial enterprises and state-owned de facto control financial enterprises) and their branches, the personnel who are responsible for the operation and management of state-owned assets outside the scope of Article 2 of these provisions, as well as the leaders of affiliated institutions, shall be implemented with reference to these provisions.
The personnel who are responsible for the operation and management of state-owned assets in state-owned joint-stock enterprises (including state-owned joint-stock financial enterprises) shall be implemented with reference to these provisions.
Article 36 The Central Financial Work Committee (中央金融工委), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委), and the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate implementation measures in accordance with these provisions.
Article 37 These provisions shall be interpreted by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission (中央纪委国家监委) in consultation with the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部).
Article 38 These provisions shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 22nd. On March 21st, the 10th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (拉美和加勒比国家共同体) was held in Colombia (哥伦比亚), the rotating presidency country. President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory message to the summit.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that since its establishment, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (拉美和加勒比国家共同体) has been committed to promoting peace, stability, development, and prosperity in the Latin American and Caribbean region, injecting new impetus into the solidarity, cooperation, and common development of the Global South. In May last year, the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum (中国—拉共体论坛) was successfully held in Beijing (北京). I attended the opening ceremony and announced that China (中国) and Latin America (拉美) would jointly launch five major projects: solidarity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people connectivity, which received a positive response from the Latin American side. Over the past year, China (中国) and Latin America (拉美) have worked closely together to promote the continuous deepening and implementation of the five major projects, bringing tangible benefits to the people of both sides.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China (中国) will always be a good friend and good partner of Latin American and Caribbean countries, support Latin American and Caribbean countries in safeguarding their own sovereignty, security, and development interests, and is willing to work with the Latin American side to jointly defend international fairness and justice, and jointly write a new chapter in building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘成友 刘佳华
Doing handicrafts in the community activity room in the morning, having lunch at the caring canteen at noon, taking a walk in the pocket park after the meal, learning calligraphy with granddaughter in the community study room in the afternoon, and strolling around the Laobeishi block with family in the evening... This is a day in the life of Lu Yunzhen (芦云珍), a resident of Shandongbao Community (山东堡社区), Shenhe District (沈河区), Shenyang City (沈阳市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省).
A few years ago, Lu Yunzhen (芦云珍) was still worried about the trouble of cooking and the inconvenience of taking a walk. "Now, the city is becoming more and more beautiful, life is becoming more and more convenient, and the community has become a 'lovely home' in everyone's heart."
From renovating old residential areas to building pocket parks, from restoring historical blocks to building complete communities, the subtle changes in residents' lives record Liaoning's (辽宁) progress in urban renewal.
In January 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Liaoning (辽宁): "Urban renewal should be adapted to local conditions and combined with community construction, with everything focused on benefiting the people, facilitating the people, and ensuring the safety of the people." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes: "Accelerate the construction of complete communities and improve the implementation mechanism of urban renewal."
Deeply implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, Liaoning (辽宁) is promoting high-quality urban renewal in accordance with local conditions, based on benefiting the people, facilitating the people, and ensuring the safety of the people, and coordinating the construction of good houses, good residential areas, good communities, and good urban areas. The vitality of the city is gradually emerging, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security are constantly increasing.
Renovating old residential areas and improving community functions, turning "worrisome housing" into "high-quality housing" -
In old photos, the community was old, dirty, and chaotic, the road bricks were broken, and the unit doors were rusty; now, the asphalt roads are flat, the parking space markings are clear, and the unit doors are solid and beautiful... After the renovation, the Wanquan Community (万泉小区) in Longshun Community (隆顺社区), Shuncheng District (顺城区), Fushun City (抚顺市) has taken on a new look. "The renovation plan has been adjusted four times, incorporating more than 300 residents' opinions," said Chen Junfei (陈隽斐), secretary of the community party committee.
"It has both 'face' and 'lining'. The heating pipes, gas pipes, and water pipes have all been replaced," said Wang Shufen (王淑芬), a veteran party member, praising it. "A party member agency station has also been built to provide services for the 'elderly and young'."
Liaoning (辽宁) started urbanization early and has many old residential areas. Focusing on the urgent needs and expectations of the masses, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Liaoning (辽宁) renovated 5,475 old residential areas, benefiting 2.23 million households, ranking among the top in the country in terms of scale.
Improving the living environment and enhancing urban resilience, turning "rust belts" into "show belts" -
In the eastern part of Anshan's (鞍山) urban area, the Nansha River (南沙河) used to be prone to flooding, leading to inconvenient traffic and barren riverbanks. Anshan (鞍山) implemented environmental remediation of the Nansha River Basin (南沙河流域) and the transformation of Qianshan Bay (千山湾), widening the river channel, clearing silt, and reinforcing the revetment. In May 2025, Qianshan Bay Park (千山湾公园) opened, with steel gate dams precisely controlling the water flow, newly built bridges with smooth traffic, clear water and green banks, and winding boardwalks, becoming a good place for citizens to relax.
Liaoning (辽宁) is strengthening the renovation of urban infrastructure, restoring urban ecosystems, and creating livable, resilient, and smart cities. In the past five years, the province has renovated 34,300 kilometers of old urban pipelines, built 4,746 pocket parks, and the centralized collection rate of urban domestic sewage has exceeded 73%, and all 14 prefecture-level cities have achieved "zero landfill" of primary domestic waste.
Protecting the city's history and continuing the city's cultural heritage, turning "old blocks" into "new landmarks" -
Strolling through Bajing Coffee Alley (八经咖啡小巷) in Heping District (和平区), Shenyang City (沈阳市), historical buildings are scattered in a well-proportioned manner, and the aroma of 178 coffee shops is pervasive. Holding a cup of hot coffee, citizen Xu Congcong (徐聪聪) said with emotion: "Old industrial cities also have a different kind of poetry."
In this 3.44-square-kilometer block, old buildings have been restored to their original state, and new scenes with coffee as the main theme have been added to create a "city living room", which attracted about 2 million Chinese and foreign tourists last year.
In Shenyang Hongmei Cultural and Creative Park (沈阳市红梅文创园), the fermentation workshop of the old monosodium glutamate factory has been transformed into an art exhibition center; in Dongguan Street (东关街), Dalian City (大连市), tourists take trams through modern building complexes; in Liaohe Old Street (辽河老街), Yingkou City (营口市), the past prosperity is reproduced, like a century-old commercial port museum... Liaoning (辽宁) has restored and revitalized historical and cultural blocks, retaining the city's memory.
Issuing provincial urban renewal regulations, releasing more than 50 local standards such as non-destructive testing of underground pipelines, and comprehensively carrying out urban physical examinations... During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Liaoning (辽宁) implemented 4,401 urban renewal projects, completing an investment of 169.5 billion yuan, helping to improve both economic development and people's livelihood security.
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan", Liaoning (辽宁) will continue to fully plan and implement urban renewal projects, focusing on the implementation of area renewal, and coordinating the promotion of various special renewals. At the same time, it will improve urban renewal policies to ensure the implementation of projects.
"Following the direction pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and striving forward in the '15th Five-Year Plan', Liaoning (辽宁) will focus on urban renewal with systematic thinking and problem orientation, vigorously promote urban structure optimization, kinetic energy conversion, quality improvement, green transformation, cultural heritage continuation, and governance efficiency enhancement, so as to contribute to taking a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics," said Xu Kunlin (许昆林), Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 22nd (Reporters Chen Shangwen (陈尚文) and Li Xinping (李心萍)) On the morning of March 22nd, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) attended the opening ceremony of the China Development Forum 2026 Annual Meeting in Beijing (北京) and delivered a keynote speech.
Li Qiang (李强) stated that the current international situation is undergoing profound and complex changes. As President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, this is an era full of challenges, but also an era full of hope. Looking at the world, we see a picture of multiple situations coexisting, intertwined, and colliding: unilateralism and protectionism are rampant, while the forces seeking cooperation and promoting development are also constantly growing; economic growth in traditional fields faces difficulties, while the development momentum in emerging fields is also booming; the international rules and order are suffering serious damage and impact, while many countries are also actively promoting the reform and improvement of global governance; power politics is rampant and reckless, while the calls for defending fairness and justice are also rising. These phenomena deeply reflect the conflict of ideas, and from the perspective of economic development, the main issues are how to view the market, how to view development, and how to view the future. Here, I would like to share three thoughts.
First, the market has become a scarce resource, but it can be continuously created. Looking back at history, every time the world economy has emerged from difficulties and moved towards prosperity, it has not been by competing for existing markets, but by creating incremental markets through openness and technological progress. Protectionism is not a panacea for solving problems. We should adhere to openness and pioneering spirit, expand free trade, and actively promote innovation. China's imports and exports are fair trade conducted within the framework of rules. China will unswervingly promote high-level opening up to the outside world, import more high-quality foreign goods, and work with all parties to promote the optimized and balanced development of trade, and jointly enlarge the global economic and trade pie.
Second, development is inevitably accompanied by competition, but benign competition and cooperation can bring mutual benefit and win-win results. Viewing competition with a positive attitude and promoting cooperation with pragmatic measures can empower each other and learn from each other's strengths. The competitive advantages of China's related industries are not achieved through subsidies and protection, but from unremittingly deepening reform, deeply promoting innovation-driven development, and most importantly, the hard work of the Chinese people and Chinese enterprises. We oppose disorderly and irrational malicious competition, but in a market economy, benign competition can stimulate greater development momentum. China will continue to work hard to maintain a fair competitive market order, and is willing to strengthen communication and cooperation with all parties to jointly promote the stability and security of global production and supply chains.
Third, although the road ahead is full of challenges, a better future is even more promising. Only by strengthening confidence, shouldering responsibilities, and taking practical actions can we move forward bravely and shape a future worth looking forward to. China is committed to being the "cornerstone of certainty" and the "haven of stability" for the world. The "15th Five-Year Plan" is not only a "new blueprint" for China's development, but also a "new opportunity" for world development. China will focus on promoting high-quality development, strive to maintain stable economic growth, and continue to create a good business environment, fully implement national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises, and allow foreign companies in China to develop with peace of mind and achieve great success.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) attended the opening ceremony.
The annual meeting was hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council (国务院发展研究中心). New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff (罗塞芙), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President Zou Jia Yi (邹加怡), and about 750 representatives from domestic and foreign business circles attended the opening ceremony.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 屈信明
Robots now have "accident insurance." The nation's first "insurance + leasing" policy for embodied intelligent robots has been launched in Shanghai (上海). By integrating equipment management data from leasing scenarios with risk data from insurance companies, insurance institutions are able to accurately assess and dynamically price the risks associated with robot usage, breaking through the bottleneck of "fear of damage, reluctance to use" in application promotion.
The low-altitude economy now has a "safety belt." The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and other departments have issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development of Low-Altitude Insurance." Chongqing (重庆) has established the nation's first low-altitude economy co-insurance consortium, and Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) has released guidelines for third-party liability insurance services for unmanned aerial vehicles. A series of practical measures are helping the low-altitude economy to "fly" more steadily.
Building a modern industrial system and achieving an overall leap in the industrial system are important strategic tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Optimizing insurance protection and orienting services towards "new" developments to support the development of emerging and future industries are the duties, missions, and values of the insurance industry, as well as a microcosm of the industry's provision of high-quality services for economic and social development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized the need to leverage the economic shock absorber and social stabilizer functions of the insurance industry, develop commercial pension insurance, health insurance, technology insurance, green insurance, and agricultural insurance, build a reinsurance market, and establish and improve a national catastrophic insurance protection system.
Focusing on the financial and insurance needs of major strategies, key areas, and weak links, the insurance industry is continuously innovating customized risk protection services, increasing the support of long-term capital and patient capital, and contributing stronger financial power to economic and social development.
Helping to drive innovation and accelerating the cultivation and growth of new drivers of growth:
In Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), a patented material from Shandong Baiderui Rail Transit Technology Co., Ltd. (山东百德瑞轨道交通科技有限公司) has completed a series of tests and reviews and has received mass production orders from target customers.
For small and medium-sized enterprises, turning patents into products often faces risks: pilot and intermediate trials may fail; there may be intellectual property infringement disputes during the industrialization process.
"This time, we have a 'new helper' to assist, and the patent is on an 'accelerated run,'" said Wang Zhenning (王震宁), the relevant person in charge of Baiderui Company. The "new helper" is a customized technology insurance plan. PICC Property and Casualty Qingdao Branch (人保财险青岛分公司) combines the company's full-chain risk management needs for patent industrialization and provides comprehensive protection against risks such as patent infringement and implementation cost losses. "With insurance as a backstop, companies can unload their burdens, and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is accelerated," said Wang Zhenning (王震宁).
Around the risk protection needs of the entire cycle of technological innovation, "new faces" of insurance services are constantly emerging. Shaanxi (陕西) has launched the nation's first integrated circuit operation period comprehensive insurance, solving the pain points of related companies such as high-value asset protection and technical sensitivity risk management; concept verification insurance for universities and research institutes is constantly expanding the coverage of protection for innovation entities.
"Developing technology insurance is of great significance for accelerating high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement," said Xiang Dong (向东), Chief Risk Officer of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局). Technology insurance is conducive to reducing the trial and error costs of enterprises, smoothing financial curves and technological cycles, and allowing technological innovation entities to focus more on technological breakthroughs and value creation. In addition, the industry actively leverages the patient capital advantages of insurance funds to increase investment in helping to develop new quality productive forces.
"During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, the industry will accelerate the construction of a comprehensive and multi-level technology insurance service system to build a solid safety barrier for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the deep integration of industry," said Zhao Yulong (赵宇龙), President of the Insurance Association of China (中国保险行业协会).
Practicing financial services for the people and enhancing the inclusiveness and accessibility of insurance services:
Recently, Zhao Xiaohua (赵效花), a tea picker in Anji County (安吉县), Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江), said: "Tea picking is hard work. Last year, I accidentally slipped and fractured my bone, and the surgery cost more than 30,000 yuan. Fortunately, I had insurance claims, which reduced a lot of burden."
White tea is a local characteristic industry that enriches the people. Tea pickers work in the mountains all year round, and they are prone to falling when the weather changes. In response, China Life Zhejiang Huzhou Branch (中国人寿浙江省湖州分公司) launched the "Anji Tea Picker Accidental Injury" protection plan, which covers disability, accidental medical expense compensation, and other protections. Last year, about 40,000 tea pickers in the area received this protection.
In Shanghai (上海), "Hu Qi Bao" (沪骑保) and "Hu Ye Bao" (沪业保) provide protection for flexible employment groups and service industry operators; in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), relevant departments have insured elderly accident insurance for local elderly people over 60 years old, and insurance companies are exploring providing intimate services such as installing elderly-assisted handrails; many cities have launched low-threshold, low-premium, and high-protection city-customized commercial medical insurance and family property insurance, which are popular among consumers.
Data show that in 2025, agricultural insurance will provide 5.32 trillion yuan in risk protection; during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, commercial health insurance has cumulatively paid about 1.8 trillion yuan for people with illnesses.
The improvement of the diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility of insurance services is not only a vivid footnote to the industry's deep practice of financial services for the people, but also a "fruitful result" of the vigorous development of digital finance. In recent years, the industry has continued to deepen its digital transformation, and the convenience of online insurance and claims has been continuously improved. The automatic claims rate of commercial medical insurance in many places exceeds 90%, and one-stop settlement services for commercial insurance and medical insurance are constantly being promoted.
Leveraging professional advantages to enhance disaster response and social governance effectiveness:
Enhancing the ability to prevent, mitigate, and relieve disasters, the functional value of insurance is becoming increasingly prominent. In September last year, continuous rainy weather occurred in the Huanghuai area, and the insurance industry paid a total of more than 13 billion yuan in various types of autumn grain loss claims and invested more than 85 million yuan to support disaster relief.
Not only responding to major disasters, but also serving production and life. Fuding City (福鼎市), Fujian (福建) and other places are exploring the "social governance + insurance" service model to provide assistance to casualties and people with difficult lives in various cases; safety production liability insurance is accelerating innovation and implementation, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of risk reduction services, and helping mines, hazardous chemicals, and other industries to identify hidden dangers and ensure safe production; the social assistance fund for road traffic accidents provides "timely help" to victims of traffic accidents.
Safety is the prerequisite for development, and development is the guarantee of safety. By deeply exploring the risk protection needs in the development process of various fields and innovating and optimizing insurance products and services in a targeted manner, the insurance industry will be able to better play the role of economic shock absorber and social stabilizer, shelter the real economy from "wind and rain," and help the Chinese economy move steadily and far.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) March 22nd (Reporters Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬) and Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)) On March 22nd, Capital Airlines JD488 flight under HNA Group, flew from Colombo (科伦坡), Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡) to Beijing Daxing International Airport (北京大兴国际机场). After the ceramic ornaments on board were unloaded, they were transported to Xiong'an (雄安), Hebei (河北) to complete customs inspection. This marks the official launch of Xiong'an International Airport (雄安国际空港), the first non-airport port in the country relying on a comprehensive bonded zone superimposed with the aviation three-letter code.
This air cargo operation uses Xiong'an's (雄安) aviation three-letter code "NXA". With the exclusive code as an "identity certificate," international cargo can be directly linked to the world, and Xiong'an International Airport (雄安国际空港) officially has the functions of an international air transport port of origin and port of destination. To ensure the smooth landing of the first business, the Xiong'an Free Trade Pilot Zone (雄安自贸试验区) Management Committee deepened cooperation with Beijing BGS Aviation Ground Service Co., Ltd. (北京首新航空地面服务有限公司) to build Xiong'an International Air Cargo Station (雄安国际航空货站) to a high standard.
Return to TopBeijing, March 22nd (People's Daily reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)) - The reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部): In the first two months of this year, 8,631 new foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 14%; the actual use of foreign capital amounted to 161.45 billion yuan.
From an industry perspective, the actual use of foreign investment in manufacturing was 47.52 billion yuan, and the actual use of foreign investment in services was 111.22 billion yuan. The actual use of foreign investment in high-tech industries was 63.21 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%, accounting for 39.2% of the country's actual use of foreign investment, an increase of 8.5 percentage points compared with the same period last year. In terms of source, actual investment in China from Canada, Switzerland, and France increased by 210%, 41.3%, and 3% respectively (including investment data through free ports).
Return to TopAccording to the "National Land Geochemical Monitoring Report 2025" recently released by the China Geological Survey Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), China's land quality is generally stable and improving, and the soil is becoming more fertile and "healthy."
Researchers analyzed more than 500,000 related monitoring data from three periods in 1995, 2016, and 2023 and found that in 2023, the proportion of national land geochemical comprehensive grades of medium and above accounted for 92.6%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared with 1995. The overall production and ecological functions of the land are generally stable and improving, the potential for soil nutrient supply is generally improved, and the functions of soil water and fertilizer retention and mitigation of climate change are generally improving. During the monitoring period, the proportion of medium and above points in the comprehensive geochemical grade of land in Northeast, Northwest, and Qinghai-Tibet (青藏) regions has increased; the median value of organic carbon content in the Qinghai-Tibet (青藏) region has increased by 141.4%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈一鸣 时元皓 谢佳宁
On March 21st, the 10th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (拉美和加勒比国家共同体) was held in Colombia (哥伦比亚), the rotating presidency country. Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) sent a congratulatory message to the summit. Latin American and Caribbean figures interviewed by this newspaper believe that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory message expressed his good wishes for the development and revitalization of Latin American and Caribbean countries, demonstrated China's high regard for promoting the long-term development of China-Latin America relations, and injected strong confidence and impetus into both sides working together to defend international fairness and justice and jointly write a new chapter in building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
"Reflects China's firm support for strengthening unity and cooperation among the Global South"
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his congratulatory message that since its establishment, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (拉美和加勒比国家共同体) has been committed to promoting peace, stability, development, and prosperity in the Latin American and Caribbean region, injecting new impetus into the unity, cooperation, and common development of the Global South.
"Currently, the international landscape is undergoing profound adjustments, and the representation and voice of developing countries in the global governance system need to be enhanced. As an important regional cooperation mechanism, CELAC has played an important role in promoting political dialogue, promoting economic cooperation, and strengthening regional coordination," said Evandro Carvalho, professor at the Federal Fluminense University (弗鲁米嫩塞联邦大学) in Brazil and an expert on international issues. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory message highly praised CELAC's contribution to promoting regional peace, stability, development, and prosperity, "reflecting China's firm support for strengthening unity and cooperation among the Global South."
Mauricio Cárdenas, professor of international relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia (哥伦比亚埃斯特尔纳多大学), said that China has always firmly supported Latin American and Caribbean countries in advancing regional integration, and has continuously deepened cooperation in infrastructure construction, economic and trade exchanges, and cultural exchanges. "This cooperative relationship, based on mutual respect, not only enhances political mutual trust between Latin America and China, but also creates favorable conditions for regional countries to enhance their development capabilities." Cárdenas believes that in the current international situation, the stable development of China-Latin America relations has important demonstrative significance.
"CELAC adheres to the principle of independence and self-determination, which helps enhance the strategic autonomy of regional countries and provides an important platform for the Global South to speak with one voice in international affairs," said Mercedes Pitas, communications director of the Sustainable World Foundation (厄瓜多尔可持续世界基金会) in Ecuador. China has always adhered to multilateralism, opposed unilateralism and protectionism, and advocated cooperation and win-win results, playing an important role in safeguarding the interests of developing countries.
"In the current international situation, the Global South must continue to strengthen unity and cooperation," said Marcela Vera, an economist at the University of Santiago (圣地亚哥大学) in Chile. Unity and cooperation among developing countries is conducive to promoting the modernization process of their respective countries. "By strengthening cooperation, we can better integrate resources, enhance industrial capabilities, and narrow development gaps." Vera believes that China has made remarkable achievements in the fields of technological innovation, social development, and environmental governance, "providing a development path that can be learned from by the Global South, and also providing important help for jointly responding to external challenges."
Eduardo Tzili-Apango, associate professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (墨西哥大都会自治大学) in Mexico, said that strengthening unity and cooperation among the Global South helps promote a more balanced development of international relations. "In the Latin American and Caribbean region, relevant cooperation is not only reflected in the regional integration process, but also in the coordinated progress in key areas such as infrastructure construction, the digital economy, and green development." Tzili-Apango said that the continuous deepening of relevant cooperation "reflects that the international landscape is developing in a multipolar direction."
"Cooperation with China provides new development opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean countries"
In May last year, the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum (中国—拉共体论坛) was successfully held in Beijing (北京). President Xi Jinping (习近平) attended the opening ceremony and announced that China and Latin America would jointly launch five major projects of unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people exchanges, which received a positive response from the Latin American side. President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his congratulatory message that over the past year, China and Latin America have worked closely together to continuously deepen and solidify the five major projects, bringing tangible benefits to the people of both sides.
Claudia Yañez, president of the Brazil-China Innovation Economics Research Institute (巴西中国创新经济研究院), said that the five major projects provide a clear path for China-Latin America cooperation. "In the fields of infrastructure construction, technological innovation, and cultural exchanges, a series of cooperation projects are steadily advancing, and are being transformed into visible and tangible development results." Yañez believes that cooperation not only helps enhance regional economic vitality, but also further enhances the sustainability of China-Latin America relations.
Marco Carrasco, a researcher at the National University of San Marcos (秘鲁国立圣马科斯大学) in Peru, said that China's development experience has important reference significance for the Global South. "China has accumulated rich experience in promoting industrialization, developing the digital economy, and promoting technological innovation." Carrasco said that China is not only an important trading partner of Latin American and Caribbean countries, but also plays an active role in promoting regional industrial upgrading, "This cooperation helps enhance the independent development capabilities of regional countries."
"Cooperation with China provides new development opportunities for Latin American and Caribbean countries," said Magaly Caicedo, president of the Ecuador-China Chamber of Commerce (厄瓜多尔—中国商会). Cooperation with China promotes the entry of regional products into a broader international market, "This diversified cooperation pattern provides a more solid support for regional economic development."
Fernando Reyes Matta, director of the Latin American-China Studies Center at the Andrés Bello University (智利安德烈斯·贝略大学) in Chile, said that China-Latin America cooperation in trade, investment, and technology is constantly deepening, "It has gradually expanded from cooperation in a single field to comprehensive cooperation at multiple levels and in multiple fields. This cooperation model helps promote the optimization of regional economic structure and create favorable conditions for achieving more inclusive and sustainable development."
"In recent years, China-Latin America pragmatic cooperation has continued to deepen, and positive progress has been made in the fields of economy, trade, science, technology, and culture," said Si Lan, director of the China Research Center at the National University of La Plata (阿根廷拉普拉塔国立大学) in Argentina. China has become an important partner in promoting cooperation among the Global South. China and Latin America are continuously promoting connectivity and industrial cooperation under the framework of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), "injecting new impetus into regional economic development."
"Promote the continuous deepening and solidification of China-Latin America relations"
President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his congratulatory message that China will always be a good friend and good partner of Latin American and Caribbean countries, support Latin American and Caribbean countries in safeguarding their own sovereignty, security, and development interests, and is willing to work with the Latin American side to defend international fairness and justice and jointly write a new chapter in building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
Cuauhtémoc Alcántara, director of the Historical Archives Communication Office at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (墨西哥国立自治大学), said that in recent years, China-Latin America relations have continued to deepen, presenting a good development trend based on mutual respect and common development. "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory message further released a positive signal of promoting China-Latin America relations to a higher level. Against the background of multiple challenges facing the world, this stable cooperation is particularly important," Alcántara said.
"The third policy document on Latin America released by China in December last year provided important guidance for deepening China-Latin America cooperation," said Eduardo Regalado, a China expert at the Cuban International Political Research Center (古巴国际政治研究中心). This policy document clarifies China's policy propositions for carrying out exchanges and cooperation in more than 40 fields in the next stage, and actively responds to Latin America's cooperation needs and concerns in the fields of trade, investment, finance, technological innovation, and climate change, providing a long-term plan for the development of China-Latin America relations. "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory message once again shows that China is willing to strengthen cooperation with the Latin American side to promote the continuous deepening and solidification of China-Latin America relations."
Aymara Gerdel, director of the Venezuelan Center for Chinese Studies (委内瑞拉中国问题研究中心), said that China-Latin America cooperation demonstrates strong resilience and development potential. The two sides strengthen coordination within the multilateral framework, which will inject more certainty and stability into global development.
Adair Carneiro, president of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association Federation (巴西外贸商会联合会), said that China-Latin America cooperation in addressing climate change and promoting green development is constantly deepening. China provides important support for promoting regional economic diversification, which not only promotes regional economic growth, but also helps enhance the ability of regional countries to cope with global challenges.
"The China-Latin America cooperation mechanism is constantly improving, providing an important platform for developing countries to strengthen coordination," said Rebecca Lemos, Secretary-General of the Latin American Social Science Council (拉丁美洲社会科学院). By strengthening dialogue and cooperation, the representation and voice of the Global South in international affairs are constantly increasing, which is of great significance for promoting the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction.
(Reported from Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢) and Mexico City (墨西哥城) by this newspaper on March 22nd)
Return to TopFrom the perspective of zero-sum games and prioritizing one's own country, the world is narrow, crowded, and full of confrontation; from the perspective of shared destiny, cooperation, and win-win outcomes, the world is broad, vast, and full of unlimited opportunities.
On March 23, 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, innovatively proposing the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, guiding the direction of world development and progress with a broad vision. Over the past 13 years, from beautiful visions to rich practices, people of all countries have increasingly realized the contemporary value and truth power of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, which is like a lighthouse, illuminating the way forward for mankind.
The intertwined and chaotic international situation increasingly highlights the historical foresight and global significance of the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind. At present, mankind is in an era full of challenges. Hegemonism and power politics are rampant, unilateralism and protectionism are surging against the tide, and multilateralism and free trade are severely impacted. From the perspective of zero-sum games and prioritizing one's own country, the world is narrow, crowded, and full of confrontation; from the perspective of shared destiny, cooperation, and win-win outcomes, the world is broad, vast, and full of unlimited opportunities. The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind follows the laws of development of human society, conforms to the trend of peaceful development of the times, and demonstrates to the world that in the face of common challenges, no one or any country can be immune, and the only way out for mankind is to work together in harmony. John Milller-White, Executive Chairman of the US-China Cooperation Foundation, believes that the West usually believes that "there must be a winner and a loser." When President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind in 2013, it greatly shocked the West's inherent cognition. Now, this concept "has become a new way of operating the world."
Just causes are bound to receive the support of all countries and gather the strength of the people. The concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, has been written into the United Nations General Assembly resolutions for nine consecutive years, has received support from more than 100 countries and international organizations, and dozens of countries and regions have reached a consensus with China on building different forms of community with a shared future. The construction of a community with a shared future in various fields such as cyberspace, nuclear security, health, human and nature, and the ocean is steadily advancing, and its appeal and influence are constantly highlighted. The 2025 China International Image Global Survey Report shows that nearly 80% of foreign respondents agree with the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, the international community's favorability towards China continues to increase, and they expect China to play a greater role.
China's actions to benefit the world are gathering the power of unity, cooperation, and shared responsibility. In the face of the global development dilemma, China has vigorously promoted the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, granted zero-tariff treatment to 100% of tariff items for the least developed countries that have established diplomatic relations with China, promoted the implementation of zero-tariff measures for 100% of tariff items for 53 African countries that have established diplomatic relations with China, and built exchange and cooperation platforms such as the China International Import Expo, the China International Fair for Trade in Services, and the China International Consumer Products Expo, and continues to share opportunities with other countries through higher-level opening up. "A port for everyone, for all." This slogan on the shore bridge of the Port of Chancay (钱凯港) in Peru demonstrates China's commitment to "not let any country fall behind on the road to modernization." In the face of the world's chaos, China actively plays the role of a responsible major country, contributes Chinese solutions to应对应对 global challenges, and makes unremitting efforts to create conditions for peace and gather consensus; it has proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative. The four global initiatives meet the urgent needs of today's world and have become widely welcomed international public goods, providing strategic guidance for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
In the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline, "Promoting the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind" is a separate chapter, once again demonstrating China's responsibility as a major country to work with other countries to build a better world. Entering the "15th Five-Year Plan," a China that is developing rapidly, moving forward steadily, and has a clear direction will be committed to being the "certainty cornerstone" and "stability harbor" of the world, and will work with all parties with firm beliefs and pragmatic actions to continuously turn the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind into reality and make greater contributions to human development and progress.
Return to TopBy: 伊希尼奥·波洛
In an era marked by the convergence and overlapping of global challenges, China's development practices offer solutions that can be learned from, demonstrating the profound significance of Chinese-style modernization for the cause of human development.
The world today faces many challenges such as hunger and poverty, and unilateralism and protectionism are constantly on the rise, presenting humanity with a crucial choice regarding the direction of development. I have visited China many times and have deeply felt China's people-centered development philosophy and its cooperative concept of openness and win-win results, which provide valuable experience for addressing global challenges.
China's development has always revolved around the goal of creating a better life for its people, providing a new choice for countries around the world to explore the path to modernization. In the past few decades, I have visited many cities such as Shenzhen (深圳), Guangzhou (广州), Chengdu (成都), and Chongqing (重庆). The rows of modern buildings and vibrant science and technology parks outline a vivid picture of China's high-quality development. Taking Chongqing (重庆) as an example, it not only gathers high-end industries such as robotics, "dark factories," aerospace, and bio-manufacturing, but also relies on big data and Internet of Things technology to efficiently manage energy and public services, allowing citizens to enjoy more efficient urban governance and convenient life services. From the extensive high-speed rail network to the efficient and convenient mobile payment and cashless life; from the frequent and clean urban subways to the establishment of the "15-minute living circle," China deeply integrates technological innovation with improving people's livelihoods, allowing the fruits of modernization to benefit all people fairly. This livelihood-oriented development model provides profound insights for countries to solve the problem of unbalanced development.
China advocates the concept of "open source" development, which transcends the traditional "center-periphery" pattern and injects strong momentum into global development transformation. China actively promotes the application of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, and has formed a global leading advantage in emerging fields such as electric vehicles and green hydrogen energy, which not only helps its own economic structure to optimize and upgrade, but also helps the global decarbonization process through technology sharing and production capacity cooperation. Through the "Digital Silk Road" (数字丝绸之路) and "Green Silk Road" (绿色丝绸之路), China actively promotes the popularization of digital infrastructure and clean energy technology to countries in the Global South, promotes knowledge transfer and industrial collaboration, effectively inhibits the fragmentation trend of global technological development, and vividly interprets the cooperative spirit of mutual benefit, win-win results, and inclusive benefits.
When individual countries build high walls and pursue protectionism, China responds with firm actions to expand opening up, injecting certainty into global development. The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative proposed by China has entered a new stage of high-quality development, becoming an open and inclusive cooperation platform and a global public product. At present, more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations have participated in related cooperation, with a cumulative investment of more than 1 trillion US dollars in projects, continuously activating global development momentum. China continues to expand its visa-free policy, promote the digitalization of entry and exit customs clearance, and proactively lower market access thresholds, opening up green channels for products from developing countries to enter the Chinese market, fully demonstrating China's determination to promote the construction of an open world economy.
Currently, unilateral bullying is rampant. The four major global initiatives proposed by China provide solutions to break the global governance dilemma. Among them, the Global Development Initiative focuses on the issue of unbalanced development and regards the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as an important task; the Global Security Initiative advocates a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and advocates that the security of one country should not be at the expense of the security of other countries; the Global Civilization Initiative advocates respect for the diversity of world civilizations and promotes exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations; the Global Governance Initiative firmly safeguards the status and authority of the United Nations and strives to enhance the representation and voice of developing countries in global governance. These four major global initiatives are based on the common interests of mankind and constitute an organic whole, profoundly clarifying that development is the foundation of security and security is the prerequisite for development, revealing that civilization has diversity and that modernity is not just one form, providing a systematic idea for improving global governance.
China's long-term planning, development experience, and firm support for developing countries have become an important driving force for mankind to cope with common challenges. Just as the open atmosphere shown in the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's (李白) poem "Sea Merchants Talking about Yingzhou" (海客谈瀛洲), China is actively participating in the world stage with an open attitude, and is uniting global development consensus through mutually beneficial cooperation. In an era marked by the convergence and overlapping of global challenges, China's development practices offer solutions that can be learned from, demonstrating the profound significance of Chinese-style modernization for the cause of human development.
(The author is a Spanish historian)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄炜鑫
The first season finale of "Sing Africa," a large-scale music talent show co-created by China and Kenya, was recently broadcast. After fierce competition, Kenyan drama teacher Phanuel Muluwa won the championship. He said, "I look forward to collaborating with Chinese musicians, singing together, and promoting cultural exchange."
The first season of "Sing Africa" focused on Kenya. After the news of the audition launch was released at the end of November last year, more than 5,000 people signed up. The champion and the three most popular contestants will have the opportunity to go to China for exchange. The program is jointly initiated by Hunan Broadcasting System International Channel (湖南广播电视台国际频道) and Xinhua News Agency Africa General Branch (新华社非洲总分社), and jointly created with local mainstream television platforms and production teams in Africa. Wan Shaoguang (万韶光), Deputy Director of Hunan Broadcasting System International Channel and producer of "Sing Africa," said that the program is committed to building a sustainable platform for Sino-African cultural exchange, using music as a medium to deepen the emotional connection and cultural resonance between China and Africa, and opening a new door for African music to go to the world.
During the audition, Lewis Mwaura from the University of Nairobi sang a Peking Opera adaptation, "Wujiapo (武家坡)," stunning the audience as soon as he opened his mouth. Mwaura is a huge fan of Chinese opera. Although he ultimately stopped in the top 21, he gained the opportunity to go to China for exchange due to his popularity. "It is my dream to show my talent to more audiences in Kenya and China, and this large-scale music competition gave me the opportunity," he said.
Sammy Dee, director of the local Kenyan production team, said that the experience of working with the Chinese team was unforgettable. "The Chinese team has rich experience in program production, and we have learned a lot. The Chinese team spared no effort to guide us, help us improve our production level, and create a high-quality music program."
"This is an excellent platform for Sino-African cultural exchange," said Motiff Di Don (莫蒂夫·迪·唐), a well-known Kenyan musician and music director of the program. He has been committed to promoting Kenyan music to the world. When creating the theme song for the program, he specially incorporated Chinese bamboo flute elements, hoping to bring a different experience to the audience. "I plan to go to China more often to gain an in-depth understanding of the development model of the Chinese music industry and bring advanced experience back to Kenya to promote the development of the local music industry."
2026 is the "Year of China-Africa People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges." The organizers said that they also plan to launch a female version of the competition this year to provide a platform for more young people to showcase themselves. "Kenyan-Chinese connections are becoming closer through songs," Kenyan media reported, adding that "Sing Africa" provides a platform for young people to help them start their careers in the arts. Bernard Ngoso (伯纳德·恩戈索), an official from the Kenyan Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports, said that new forms of people-to-people and cultural exchanges are more attractive to young people and will bring more opportunities for the development of young people in Africa and China.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 22nd. He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with a delegation from the US-China Business Council in Beijing on the afternoon of the 22nd.
He Lifeng (何立峰) stated that China-US relations are the most important bilateral relationship in the world today. He expressed hope that the US-China Business Council would continue to play a bridging role in promoting friendly exchanges and the stable and healthy development of economic and trade relations between China and the United States. He also expressed hope that American companies would fully grasp the opportunities presented by China's development, take advantage of the potential of the Chinese market, and inject more stability and positive energy into China-US economic and trade relations.
Craig Allen, President of the US-China Business Council, and Board Chairman Marc Casper stated that the American business community is optimistic about the prospects for China's economic development and is willing to continue to deeply cultivate the Chinese market, play an active role, and continuously promote the deepening of US-China economic and trade cooperation.
Return to TopOn March 21st, the world ushered in the first "International Taijiquan Day." This is the first international day named after a martial arts project in the United Nations system. Following the inclusion of Taijiquan on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, this is another international recognition of this treasure of traditional Chinese sports culture, marking a new stage in its global influence as a common cultural asset of mankind.
The picture shows Chen Min (陈敏) (center), founder of the Argentine Wushu Club, demonstrating Taijiquan with local martial arts enthusiasts on the 21st. On the same day, more than 100 Argentine martial arts enthusiasts celebrated the arrival of "International Taijiquan Day" in Buenos Aires (布宜诺斯艾利斯), Argentina. The event was organized by the Argentine Wushu Club and attracted martial arts enthusiasts of all ages.
Photo by Martin Sabala (马丁·萨巴拉) (Xinhua News Agency).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 22nd (Reporter Wang Li (王莉)) - The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) held an exchange meeting in Beijing on the 20th for diplomatic envoys from various countries stationed in China. Ambassadors, diplomats, and representatives from relevant international organizations from 40 countries attended. The participating guests exchanged their experiences and insights from visiting Xinjiang (新疆) during the meeting, jointly discussed the economic and social development and human rights achievements of Xinjiang (新疆), shared stories of Xinjiang (新疆) in the new era, and jointly expressed friendly sentiments.
Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织) Deputy Secretary-General Sohail Khan highly praised the development achievements of transportation infrastructure in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区). He said that the modernization of border ports and the construction of new transportation channels are transforming Xinjiang (新疆) into a key hub for Eurasian logistics.
Cameroonian Ambassador to China Martin Mpana said that Xinjiang's (新疆) rich experience in developing desert agriculture and renewable energy provides valuable lessons for Cameroon.
Before the exchange meeting, the guests visited the Exhibition on the History and Development Achievements of Xinjiang (新疆历史与发展成就展). Vivid images reflected the historical changes and high-quality development achievements of Xinjiang (新疆), winning high praise from the guests.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
"Arriving in 10 minutes, prepare to unload." A stainless steel coil transport truck drove out of the Chongfu Interchange (崇福互通口) of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) and soon arrived at Zhejiang Xinguang Metal Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江新广金属科技股份有限公司). This company is located in Chongfu Town (崇福镇), Tongxiang City (桐乡市), Jiaxing City (嘉兴市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), and is engaged in the processing of large stainless steel materials. The company's factory area is less than 5 kilometers away from the Chongfu Interchange (崇福互通口) of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速).
"Before the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) was built, it took 30 minutes to drive to the highway interchange in Chang'an Town (长安镇), Haining City (海宁市), Jiaxing (嘉兴), before we could get on the highway. Now, the Chongfu Interchange (崇福互通口) of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) is built at our 'doorstep'. It only takes 1 hour to drive to Ningbo (宁波). The route is shorter, and the toll fees are much lower." Wang Wenping (王文平), the company's general manager, travels between Wuxi (无锡), Jiangsu (江苏) and Shaoxing (绍兴), Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江) all year round. "The raw materials mainly come from Wuxi (无锡). After the expressway opened to traffic, the transportation cost per ton decreased from 110 yuan to 100 yuan. In terms of transportation alone, the company reduces costs by more than 200,000 yuan per year."
The Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) will be fully opened to traffic in September 2025. This highway starts in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), passes through Huzhou (湖州), Jiaxing (嘉兴) in Zhejiang (浙江) to Taizhou (台州), connecting many important cities in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) and becoming a major transportation route from southern Jiangsu (苏南) to northern and eastern Zhejiang (浙北、浙东).
As an important inter-provincial channel in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, many issues need to be considered when planning the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速). For example, whether to build a two-way four-lane or six-lane road, where to choose the inter-provincial connection point... "All parties comprehensively considered finance, land, and economic benefits, and finalized the construction sequence, technical standards, and inter-provincial interface location to avoid building a 断头路 (duàn tóu lù - "broken head road," dead-end road)." said Ye Jianfeng (叶剑锋), Deputy Director of the Planning Department of the Department of Transportation of Zhejiang Province (浙江省交通运输厅规划处).
Driving on the Taoyuan Grand Bridge (桃源特大桥) of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速), the two-way six-lane bridge deck is wide and flat. "You have entered Jiangsu Province (江苏省)." With the prompt in the car, the reporter realized that although the vehicle was still running on the bridge deck, it had already crossed the provincial border. Looking out of the car, there was no difference in the road facilities at the junction of Zhejiang (浙江) and Jiangsu (江苏) provinces.
Wu Tao (吴涛), Minister of the Transportation Engineering Department of Nanxun District Jiaotong Group (南浔区交投集团交通工程部), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), one of the highway construction parties, explained the reason: a bridge connects the two provinces, and the Jiangsu (江苏) section is longer. In order to ensure the integrity of the bridge structure and avoid connection problems caused by separate construction in the two provinces, Zhejiang (浙江) entrusted the Jiangsu (江苏) construction party to build the entire bridge on its behalf and paid the construction fee, while each party did a good job in land acquisition and demolition and other element guarantees within its jurisdiction.
This is an epitome of inter-provincial interconnection through mechanism collaborative innovation. In 2018, the transportation authorities of Shanghai (沪), Jiangsu (苏), Zhejiang (浙), and Anhui (皖) jointly signed the "Cooperation Framework Agreement on Opening up Inter-Provincial Dead-End Roads in the Yangtze River Delta Region (长三角地区打通省际断头路合作框架协议)", and the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) is one of the contents of the agreement.
"Design speed of 120 kilometers per hour, subgrade width of 34.5 meters. Agreed that the provincial boundary connection point should be located near Guangfu Village (广福村), Taoyuan Town (桃源镇), Wujiang District (吴江区), Suzhou City (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) and Xinglong Village (兴隆村), Nanxun Town (南浔镇), Nanxun District (南浔区), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省)..." At the Department of Transportation of Zhejiang Province (浙江省交通运输厅), the reporter saw the inter-provincial connection plan agreement of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) signed by Zhejiang (浙) and Jiangsu (苏) provinces in 2020, which clarified the project technical standards, inter-provincial interfaces, construction sequence, construction mode, etc.
"The two parties also established a joint special class for the feasibility study of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) project, clarified the approval standards and responsibilities, and achieved 'one survey and confirmation by two provinces', which shortened the duration of the preliminary work by half." introduced Ma Ying (马莹), Deputy Section Chief of the Preliminary Section of the Huzhou Public Transport Center (湖州市公运中心前期科).
Reaching a consensus on planning is more important to put into practice. Dong Youbang (董友邦), a member of the planning team of the Department of Transportation of Zhejiang Province (浙江省交通运输厅), still remembers the scene of the project docking video conference of the transportation departments every quarter, where the two parties communicated the progress of the project.
"Problems that need to be coordinated and resolved are raised, and everyone speaks freely and studies solutions." said Dong Youbang (董友邦). The transportation departments of the three provinces and one city jointly established a special cooperation group for transportation in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region. Each year, annual work points are compiled and issued, clarifying annual goals and tasks, key projects, responsible units, and time nodes; two working meetings of the heads of transportation departments of the three provinces and one city are held each year to negotiate major matters of inter-provincial transportation cooperation; and a number of inter-provincial cooperation agreements are signed each year. Since 2018, a total of 27 inter-provincial cooperation agreements such as "inter-provincial interconnection" have been signed, covering infrastructure, transportation services, industry governance, and other fields, as well as more than 80 key projects such as railways, highways, and waterways.
The project department of the Nanxun (南浔) section of the Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) has long been withdrawn, but the awards obtained for the project construction are still kept in Wu Tao's (吴涛) office. "The transportation department will go to the project site to investigate, identify existing problems, and check the progress of the project. The Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) project is relatively smooth, and the progress has always been leading." said Wu Tao (吴涛).
Wu Tao (吴涛) also has the mobile phone number of the person in charge of the Jiangsu (江苏) project department in his mobile phone. "We were still communicating until a few days before the highway officially opened to traffic." said Wu Tao (吴涛). At that time, at the inter-provincial interface in Guangfu Village (广福村), Jiangsu (江苏) and Xinglong Village (兴隆村), Zhejiang (浙江), the construction personnel of both parties were also making final preparations for the opening of traffic.
Six months after the full opening of the highway, Wang Wenping (王文平) said: "The Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) connects the industrial corridors of the two provinces, helping us to reduce costs and increase efficiency."
Tan Wenhong (谈文洪), Secretary of the Party Committee of Maming Village (马鸣村), Zhouquan Town (洲泉镇), Tongxiang City (桐乡市), also planned a one-day tour of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) for the villagers: "The Sutai Expressway (苏台高速) connection line is built to our 'doorstep'. It's just a matter of stepping on the gas to go to the Suzhou Gardens (苏州园林) on the weekend."
Wang Dongjie (汪东杰), Deputy Director of the Department of Transportation of Zhejiang Province (浙江省交通运输厅), said that based on the good cooperation foundation of the three provinces and one city, they will also cooperate with other surrounding provinces and cities in the future, improve the collaboration mechanism for cross-provincial and municipal transportation infrastructure projects, continue to open up difficult and blocked points, and do a good job in the efficient implementation of key projects.
This issue is coordinated by: Han Wenrong (韩文榕)
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Focusing on the two keywords of "integration" and "high quality," the Yangtze River Delta integration has continuously achieved new progress.
The interconnection of infrastructure is accelerating. The first batch of 17 inter-provincial "dead-end road" projects in the Yangtze River Delta have all been completed. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Yangtze River Delta railway has cumulatively completed construction investment of over 640 billion yuan, and opened 21 key projects such as the Shanghai-Suzhou-Huzhou High-speed Railway; 34 railway projects under construction, such as the initial construction section of the Shanghai-Hangzhou High-speed Railway, have a total investment scale of over 900 billion yuan. The digital platform for shipping trade is accelerating construction, launching 197 application scenarios such as electronic bills of lading, electronic cargo release, and electronic letters of credit. The Shanghai Airport-Suzhou Front Cargo Station was officially put into use, realizing integrated supervision of civil aviation customs across provinces and customs districts, saving 12-24 hours of logistics time and reducing ground logistics costs by 10%-30% compared with the conventional model.
The level of convenient sharing of public services continues to improve. The Yangtze River Delta "One Network for All Services" platform has opened more than 300 trans-provincial government services, with a cumulative total of over 15.21 million online transactions and shared mutual recognition of more than 40 types of high-frequency electronic licenses.
Progress has been made in the construction of an integrated regional market. The three provinces and one city have jointly carried out anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition actions, and 32 cities have carried out cross-regional remote evaluation based on the Yangtze River Delta remote off-site evaluation system. Give play to the role of the Yangtze River Delta Credit Chain platform, share 31.52 million credit reports on the chain, 23.29 million enterprises on the chain, and provide financial institutions with 11.22 million credit report inquiries. The Yangtze River Delta Data Sharing Platform has cumulatively aggregated 913 data catalogs, registered 1348 data resources, and cumulatively shared and exchanged 18.175 billion pieces of government affairs data.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the Yangtze River Delta will take the lead in demonstrating the in-depth promotion of the construction of a unified national market, and continuously improve the uniformity of policies, the consistency of rules, and the coordination of execution. Strengthen the planning of cross-regional infrastructure to achieve a higher level of "hard connectivity." Promote the construction of a 1-hour commuting circle, and enhance the economic density, industrial energy level, and value creation capabilities of metropolitan areas; improve the energy level of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor (G60科创走廊) and the industrial innovation belt along Shanghai-Nanjing (沿沪宁产业创新带); plan to create a number of key cross-regional development areas with relatively appropriate spatial scales and stronger functional radiation driving effects.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission (上海市发展改革委) and Executive Deputy Director of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation Office (长三角区域合作办公室). This article was compiled and edited by Jv Yunpeng (巨云鹏), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 林丽鹂
The State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) and nine other departments recently jointly issued the "Low-Altitude Economy Standard System Construction Guide (2025 Edition)." What changes will the standard system bring to the low-altitude economy industry? A reporter interviewed relevant负责人 of the Standards Technology Management Department of the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局标准技术管理司) and Wan Fujun (万福军), associate researcher at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Standardization Research Institute of the China National Institute of Standardization (中国标准化研究院无人机标准化研究所).
New Technologies, New Products, and New Scenarios Urgently Need to Establish a Unified Standard System
Q: Why is it necessary to strengthen the construction of a low-altitude economy standard system?
A: China's low-altitude economy has initially formed a complete chain ecosystem spanning technology research and development, equipment manufacturing, infrastructure, and operation services. However, new technologies, new products, and new scenarios have not yet established a unified standard system. The collaborative efficiency of various links in the industrial chain needs to be improved. Infrastructure construction such as unmanned aerial vehicle nest systems and intelligent communication and navigation needs standardized guidance. There is insufficient standard supply for application scenarios such as urban logistics and emergency rescue, and the coverage of safety risk prevention and control standards is incomplete. It is urgent to establish and improve a unified and coordinated standard system to achieve standardized development.
Q: What does the low-altitude economy standard system mainly include? Is there a timetable for the construction of the standard system?
A: The guide clarifies the specific content and standard construction focus of low-altitude aircraft, low-altitude infrastructure, low-altitude air traffic management, safety supervision, and application scenarios. According to the guide, the low-altitude economy standard system will be basically established by 2027; by 2030, the number of standards in the low-altitude economy field will exceed 300, and a low-altitude economy standard system with optimized structure, advanced rationality, and international compatibility will be basically formed.
Q: In terms of system design, how can we avoid the "fighting" of low-altitude economy standards in various regions?
A: Strengthen central and local overall planning and cross-regional collaboration, improve the normalized coordination mechanism across departments and regions, promote local standards to benchmark against the national top-level framework, and prevent "fighting" between standards from the source. At the same time, improve the standard dynamic optimization mechanism, promptly clean up and standardize local standard differences, cross-repetition, and conflicting clauses, and accelerate the construction of a nationally unified, upwardly connected, and coordinated standardized development pattern.
Promote the More Standardized and Efficient Integration of the Low-Altitude Economy into Production and Life
Q: How will standards lead and promote the high-quality development of the low-altitude economy?
A: Use standards to build a solid safety bottom line and consolidate the foundation for development. By formulating and implementing technical and safety standards for complete aircraft and key components, reduce flight safety risks from the source of design; by establishing unified air traffic management, data link security, and other standards, provide a stable environment for industrial development.
Use standards to drive technology integration and innovation and enhance industrial competitiveness. Guide all parties in industry, academia, and research to deeply integrate standard development into the entire chain of technology research and development, and promote the accelerated transformation of innovative achievements from the laboratory to the market. For example, accelerate the standard development of low-altitude intelligent networked systems, low-altitude communication equipment, and other infrastructure, and promote the integrated application of new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data.
Use standards to promote industrial collaboration and linkage and gather development synergy. By standardizing the barriers between industrial chain links such as aircraft manufacturing, infrastructure construction, and operation services, promote the cluster development of the low-altitude economy. For example, by coordinating the formulation and implementation of standards related to unmanned aerial vehicles and nests, reduce the adaptation costs between enterprises and improve the collaborative efficiency of the industrial chain and supply chain.
Use standards to release consumption potential and expand market space. Through the standardized construction and implementation of typical application scenarios such as low-altitude logistics and distribution, improve service quality and operational reliability, promote the deep integration of the low-altitude economy into mass production and life, and effectively stimulate and drive consumption demand.
Q: How will the construction of the standard system affect the lives of ordinary people?
A: The construction and implementation of the low-altitude economy standard system will allow low-altitude economy application scenarios to be integrated into production and life in a more standardized and efficient manner. The formulation and implementation of low-altitude distribution standards can provide efficient unmanned aerial vehicle distribution services for takeaway online shopping; the application of agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle operation standards can provide convenient unmanned aerial vehicle professional services for the majority of farmers. During the busy farming season, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles for sowing, fertilization, plant protection, and other agricultural operations will greatly save farmers' labor and material costs; improving unmanned aerial vehicle traffic emergency operation standards can help unmanned aerial vehicles carry out traffic patrols, emergency rescue, and other operations in scenarios such as peak travel, holiday traffic, and emergency accident handling; improving unmanned aerial vehicle operation standards for high-altitude and high-risk scenarios can promote unmanned aerial vehicles to carry out power line inspection, pipeline detection, high-altitude exterior wall cleaning, and other activities, which can not only reduce safety risks but also improve urban operation and maintenance efficiency.
Docking with Industrial Innovation Needs to Iterate and Improve Standards
Q: Technological innovation and iterative upgrades in the low-altitude economy are constantly accelerating, and the application of scenarios is also continuously expanding. How can standards keep up with the speed of industrial innovation?
A: Strengthen standard pre-research and pre-emptively deploy standard reserves in cutting-edge fields. Based on the industrial characteristics of the low-altitude economy, such as rapid technology iteration, multiple innovation directions, and wide application scenarios, focus on unmanned aerial vehicles, infrastructure, application scenarios, and other aspects to carry out systematic standard pre-research and tackling key problems.
Establish a dynamic update mechanism to accurately dock with industrial innovation needs to iterate and improve standards. According to the guide, standard formulation needs to closely track technological breakthroughs and industrial dynamics in low-altitude flight, unmanned aerial vehicle applications, low-altitude air traffic management, low-altitude communication and navigation, low-altitude safety assurance, and other aspects. For new business forms, new models, and new scenarios such as low-altitude logistics, standard formulation should be initiated in a timely manner to effectively solve the bottleneck of standards lagging behind industrial innovation and ensure that standards resonate and accurately adapt to industrial development.
Accelerate the standard transformation of practical experience and innovative technologies. Encourage industry entities to actively summarize mature practical experience and breakthrough innovative technologies in the low-altitude economy, and timely refine, integrate, and transform technical achievements and operation models that have been tested by the market and have the value of large-scale promotion into national standards.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥文并图
In spring, it is the time when winter wheat turns green and begins to joint. In Kunyu City (昆玉市), Xinjiang (新疆), on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), the rate of seedling protection in the 8,200-plus mu wheat planting base remains above 90%. Here, one cannot see the figures of farmers, only "big guys" leisurely working in the circular wheat fields.
These "big guys" refer to center pivot irrigation systems, which are more than 380 meters long. The reporter walked to the support and observed at close range that the sprinklers hung down from the upper water pipes, like showerheads, washing the wheat seedlings green.
"Watering and fertilizing are done by center pivot irrigation systems, patrolling the fields is done by drones. I go to the fields less often, but the crops grow better," said Li Daoqing (李道庆), the administrator of the planting base, who rushed from the nearby office to the field. The planting base is evenly divided into 12 circular plots, and the support of the sprinkler is located in the center of each wheat field. As long as the parameters are adjusted and enough fertilizer is added, the machine can be turned on with one key. Little manual participation is needed, the degree of automation is high, saving time and effort, and is efficient and convenient.
Overlooking from high altitude, the circular wheat fields resemble the dials of clocks, and the long sprinklers are like hands, slowly making uniform circular motion around the support as the axis.
How slow is it? "The fastest rate has now been set, and it still takes nine and a half hours to 'walk' a circle," said Li Daoqing (李道庆).
How is the speed determined? "The seedlings have been 'huddled' for a winter, and are finally turning green. We need to water them frequently and choose the right time to topdress them, so that the seedlings are 'well-fed', more solid, and have more energy to grow upwards. When they grow taller, the frequency of fertilization should be reduced, and the speed should also be reduced. It takes about 36 hours to 'walk' a circle."
Don't think Li Daoqing (李道庆) is talking so fluently, he has only been in contact with this new equipment for half a year. In 2024, the site of this planting base was still a continuous stretch of sand dunes. Kunyu City (昆玉市) combined grain increase with desert control, leveled the sand dunes into land that could be cultivated, and handed it over to Xinjiang Kunyu Agricultural Investment Co., Ltd. (新疆昆玉农业投资有限责任公司) for operation. In order to solve the problem of water use in desert planting, a reservoir was built to support the base, and water was drawn to the fields through pipelines.
At the beginning of the trial planting, drip irrigation was used, but as a result, many seedlings were "slapped to death" by the wind and sand, "and the survivors were particularly short and had no yield." Cui Gangchuang (崔刚闯), the head of the planting base, said that when cultivating new land in the desert, the first thing to do is to protect the seedlings before talking about protecting the yield.
Cui Gangchuang (崔刚闯) went to Hotan Prefecture (和田地区), also on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), to investigate and found that compared with drip irrigation, sprinkler irrigation can better protect seedlings in arid, rainless, and windy areas. Traditional lateral move irrigation systems often need to replace sockets along the line to power on during the moving process, requiring at least one person to watch over the entire process. "With the center pivot irrigation system, the work that used to require 30 people can now be done by 4 people."
Standing in the field and looking into the distance, the sand dunes are "waiting for an opportunity to move," waiting to sweep in when the wind rises. Only by resisting the wind and sand can the seedlings be protected.
"The center pivot irrigation system rotates continuously, and the sprinklers spray water, keeping the soil moist. When wind and sand come, the sand quickly settles when it encounters moist soil at the edge of the wheat field. Although a small portion of the seedlings at the edge is sacrificed, the vast majority of the inner circle is protected," said Cui Gangchuang (崔刚闯). In the early stage of new land development, sand is suppressed by sprinkler irrigation to protect seedlings. In the later stage, with the planting and growth of protective forests, wind and sand will be further blocked.
The water sprayed by the sprinklers also has a wonderful use. On the edge of the desert, the occasional wind and sand cover the plants with floating dust, while the continuous spraying of water by the sprinklers is like giving the seedlings a shower, washing away the floating dust, so that the wheat seedlings can better absorb sunlight and carry out photosynthesis.
In the desert, the frequent visits of hot and dry winds can cause water imbalance in wheat, affecting grain filling. The atomized water vapor generated during the sprinkler spraying process can improve the air humidity in the field to a certain extent and improve the microclimate.
The pivot moves circle after circle, and the green wheat fields beside the vast yellow sand are growing vigorously.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 22nd (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)) The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) and the Ministry of Finance (财政部) recently jointly issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Employment of College Graduates and Other Young People in 2026," proposing 16 policy measures to fully promote the employment of college graduates and other young people.
Implement the private enterprise employment promotion action, focusing on advanced manufacturing, modern services and other industries, tap the employment potential of industry leading enterprises, specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises, organize human resources and social security commissioners to visit enterprises to expand job opportunities, and gather more employment positions suitable for college graduates and other young people. Guide college graduates to help the development of county economy, and qualified places can increase policy support for college graduates who go to small and medium-sized micro enterprises in counties and townships to work.
Implement the employment and entrepreneurship policy implementation action, make good use of social insurance subsidies, tax reduction and exemption and other policies, promote the direct and rapid enjoyment of policies, and encourage enterprises to absorb more college graduates for employment. Launch the fifth round of the "Three Supports and One Assistance" program, and encourage all localities to develop local grass-roots service projects in combination with their actual conditions. Combine with the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, grass-roots governance and other needs, expand post resources, and enhance the employment carrying capacity of urban and rural grass-roots levels.
Carry out the "Job Leads the Future" series of recruitment activities without interruption, strengthen the high-quality supply of services, and improve the effectiveness of recruitment activities. Carry out employment training activities, organize the 2026 graduates who have left school and have not yet found employment and registered unemployed youth to carry out on-the-job training, and provide employment and entrepreneurship service subsidies in accordance with the regulations. Implement the youth skills improvement action, develop training projects in the field of new quality productivity, and encourage youth skills employment. Implement a million employment internship post development plan, increase the development of high-quality internship posts, and implement the employment internship subsidy policy in accordance with the regulations.
Implement the employment service tackling action for graduates who have left school and have not yet found employment, and unblock online and offline help channels. Do a good job in providing assistance to those in need, and take the low-income families, zero-employment families, families to prevent returning to poverty and families with disabled 2026 unemployed college graduates as key assistance objects, and implement "one person, one file" precise assistance. Implement the Youth Employment Sailing Plan to provide registered unemployed youth with vocational guidance, practical guidance, and employment assistance and other services.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 22nd (Reporter Qu Xinming (屈信明)) that the reporter learned from the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局): As of the end of December 2025, the number of six types of local financial organizations, including microloan companies, financing guarantee companies, pawnshops, financial leasing companies, commercial factoring companies, and local asset management companies, decreased by 26% year-on-year, and decreased by 55% compared with the historical peak. Since 2024, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) has focused on the main line of strengthening supervision and strict regulation, coordinated and dispatched, implemented classified policies, and guided various localities to deeply promote the special regulation and rectification of six types of local financial organizations, and has cumulatively cleared out more than 5,600 non-compliant institutions.
The relevant person in charge of the department of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) said that they vigorously cleared out non-compliant institutions such as "disconnected" and "shell" companies and those with serious violations of laws and regulations, and strictly governed market chaos such as excessive interest rates, disguised multiple charges, and improper collection. Various localities have improved and perfected regulatory mechanisms, strengthened departmental coordination and linkage, and continuously improved the industry's ecological environment through methods such as publicizing non-compliant institutions, revoking business operation qualifications, implementing credit punishments, and clearing out.
The National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), together with the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行), the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (中国证监会) and other departments, guided various localities to continue to deepen the regulation and rectification, focused on governing chaos in key areas, urged and guided local financial organizations to focus on their main business, return to their origins, reduce quantity and improve quality, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers, give play to differentiated functional advantages and misplaced development, and better serve the real economy and social people's livelihood.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘佳华 李 蕊 范昊天
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Improve the public cultural service system and increase the coverage and applicability of basic public cultural services."
In Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁) Province, the Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) has been renovated and reopened to enhance the viewing experience of the public. In Jiaxiang (嘉祥), Shandong (山东), street cultural centers are creating "small but beautiful" cultural spaces. In Songzi (松滋), Hubei (湖北), a library system of main and branch locations is being built, allowing high-quality books to reach both urban and rural areas. In recent years, public cultural services in various regions have been continuously upgraded, responding to expectations with precise supply and permeating people's hearts with universal warmth.
-- Editor
Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) Exhibition Hall Upgrade –
Greater Public Participation in Viewing Exhibitions
"Both the hardware and software have been upgraded, making the experience better!" Walking through the new exhibition hall, Xu Peng (徐鹏), a citizen of Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), praised repeatedly.
On weekends, Exhibition Hall No. 18 on the third floor of the Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) is crowded with visitors. This exhibition hall, which showcases the historical features of the "Liao-Jin Period" in ancient Liaoning (辽宁), has been renovated and upgraded, and has attracted many visitors since its official opening on November 11, 2025.
"The 'Liao-Jin Period' exhibition hall was opened to the public as early as 2017," said Liu Ning (刘宁), Party Secretary and Deputy Director of the Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆). "As time went by, the exhibition facilities and equipment gradually aged, and with new archaeological discoveries and research in recent years, the upgrading and renovation of the basic exhibition was put on the agenda."
"The purpose of the renovation and upgrade is to give the audience a better viewing experience," Liu Ning (刘宁) said. "Technically, low-reflection glass is installed to reduce the reflection rate and better present the details of the exhibits. Spatially, interactive game experience areas and photo check-in areas are set up to make the viewing more interesting and participatory."
"This is a multimedia display, which is more detailed and richer than relying solely on text descriptions in the past; this is a double-sided display case, which makes the entire exhibition hall more transparent..." Xu Peng (徐鹏), who used to be a volunteer docent in Exhibition Hall No. 18, spoke with great interest about the new changes and experiences of the visit.
Standing in front of the interactive touch display case of the "White Glazed Black Flower Gourd-shaped Inverted Flow Pot," Xu Peng (徐鹏) raised his hand and tapped the glass panel. The image of the inverted flow pot was presented in three dimensions, and the bottom and sides could also be seen. "This inverted flow pot used to be placed upright, so you couldn't see the bottom. Now you can watch it without dead ends, which is so convenient," Xu Peng (徐鹏) said with emotion.
"There are many stories to tell about the Liao-Jin period," Xu Peng (徐鹏) said with a smile. "I plan to learn new content and come back to be a docent."
Near noon, the number of visitors entering the hall did not decrease. In front of the large bronze bell Lubo Bell, people watched the circular screen to learn about the history behind the ancient bell; in the Shuanglu chess interactive area, parents took their children to carefully learn the rules...
"Now is the off-season, but the daily number of visitors to the exhibition hall still exceeds 4,000," Liu Ning (刘宁) said. "The museum will work hard to do the 'second half' of the renovation and upgrade, and continue to meet the expectations of the audience."
Shandong Jiaxiang (山东嘉祥) Cultural Center Renovation and Upgrade –
Breaking Through the "Last Mile" of Cultural Benefits for the People
At dusk, in the Wolongshan (卧龙山) Street Comprehensive Cultural Center in Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县), Jining (济宁), Shandong (山东) Province, 83-year-old Ban Yunquan (班运全) and his wife picked up their pens and painted, calmly and freely between strokes.
"In the past, if we wanted to find a place to do activities, we could only go to the small square on the side of the road. It was sunny in the summer and windy in the winter." Since the establishment of the new cultural center, Ban Yunquan (班运全) has become a regular here. "The hall is bright, with heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. I also learned how to paint landscapes here."
Such a warm scene is a vivid microcosm of Jiaxiang County's (嘉祥县) efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services.
"In the past, the facilities were old, the venue was small, and most of the books were more than ten years old, so residents were unwilling to come," said Yao Jihua (姚继华), director of the cultural center. The change occurred in 2023, when the local government established a new cultural center, which shares the venue with the Wolongshan Street (卧龙山街道) New Era Civilization Practice Institute. The center is fully equipped with a digital reading area, a children's playground, and VR Party history experience equipment.
Changes are not only happening in urban areas. The Zhifang Town (纸坊镇) Comprehensive Cultural Center in Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) has been transformed into a "Non-Heritage Inheritance Base." In the traditional textile and woodworking carving experience area, children are learning to spin thread around the teacher; the Machun Town (马村镇) Farmhouse Bookstore has set up a "Science and Technology Planting" special bookshelf according to the farming season, which is popular among the villagers...
"These 'small but beautiful' spaces have broken through the 'last mile' of cultural benefits for the people," said Zheng Yuxin (郑玉鑫), Executive Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) Party Committee.
Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) has upgraded the cultural centers in all 13 towns and streets in the county, guiding the towns and streets to revitalize cultural center resources through renovation, updating, and expansion. At the same time, it has formed 7 literary and artistic teams to go to various towns and streets to carry out public welfare training in square dancing, calligraphy, painting, etc., to help cultivate mass literary and artistic backbones, and transform "sending culture" into "planting culture." Relying on cultural centers at all levels, Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) has carried out more than 2,000 mass cultural activities such as square dancing, seasonal village evenings, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, and national reading since 2025.
"Next, we will focus on the new expectations and needs of the masses, promote the leap from universal and equal services to high-quality and efficient services, and make the 'ordering' of the masses and the 'delivery' of the government more precise," said Sun Youke (孙有科), Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县).
Hubei Songzi (湖北松滋) Builds a Library System of Main and Branch Locations –
Good Books from the City Reach the Grassroots Level
"'Guan Guan (关关) cries the osprey, on the islet in the river,' our Guanzhou Village (关洲村) in Wangjiaqiao Town (王家桥镇), Songzi (松滋) City, is named after this." In a Chinese class at Wangjiaqiao Middle School (王家桥中学) in Wangjiaqiao Town (王家桥镇), Songzi City (松滋市), Jingzhou (荆州), Hubei (湖北), teacher Zhao Ge's (赵革) narration aroused a strong interest in the Book of Songs in student Qin Siyu (覃思雨).
Qin Siyu (覃思雨) came to the school library and wanted to borrow a copy of the *Annotations of the Book of Songs* recommended in class, but was told that there was no such book. Learning that many students had borrowing needs in this regard, the staff of the school library quickly submitted a list of reading needs to the Wangjiaqiao Library (王家桥图书馆) branch.
After checking the branch's collection without success, the staff further reported the list to the Songzi City Library (松滋市图书馆) main library. According to the theme, the main library transferred more than 50 classic books suitable for junior high school students from its collection, including the *Annotations of the Book of Songs*, to Wangjiaqiao Middle School (王家桥中学).
"I didn't expect to be able to read my favorite books so quickly. I have a deeper understanding of the Book of Songs," Qin Siyu (覃思雨) said. "Now the city's book resources can be borrowed at school."
In July 2024, the "Standardized Pilot Project of County-level Library System of Main and Branch Locations" undertaken by the Songzi City Library (松滋市图书馆) was approved as a Hubei (湖北) provincial-level pilot project. Yang Juan (杨娟), a member of the Party Group of the Songzi City Culture and Tourism Bureau (松滋市文化和旅游局) and Director of the City Library, introduced that in January of this year, the Songzi City Library (松滋市图书馆) main and branch library digital platform was officially launched. After logging in, the administrators of each branch library can directly initiate reading orders and activity order applications, which will be subsequently reviewed and implemented by the main library.
Songzi City (松滋市) has also established a city-wide book resource database, realizing "one card access and full-area borrowing" through self-service equipment, making it convenient for the masses to "borrow books in the city (countryside) and return them in the countryside (city)." Xiao Lili (肖莉莉), who lives in the urban area of Songzi (松滋) and works in Nanhai Town (南海镇), can return the books she borrows from the nearby farmhouse bookstore on weekdays in the city on weekends, saving a lot of time.
Since 2024, the Songzi City Library (松滋市图书馆) has distributed orders to schools, farmhouse bookstores, etc. 96 times, with more than 41,000 books, and organized 54 high-quality reading activities.
Return to TopBy: 尹双红
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, there will be more uncertain and unpredictable factors. What should we do? At the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) earnestly said: "We must put effort into studying new situations and solving new problems, and gain experience."
To study new situations and solve new problems, conducting thorough investigation and research is a fundamental skill. The story of Comrade Xi Jinping's (习近平同志) "cycling to the countryside" in Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北) provides enlightenment.
In the 1980s, an old Phoenix-brand "28" bicycle accompanied Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) throughout the county's 25 communes and more than 220 brigades. "Although it was a bit hard, it did clarify the situation and brought me closer to the grassroots cadres and the people, enhancing our feelings."
In reality, why do some investigations keep the masses at a distance, while others have people vying to confide? On the surface, it is a matter of methods, but in essence, it points to the underlying orientation of the view of achievements. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) once incisively pointed out: "To gain recognition, one must show off, and in the end, showing off becomes the work and the achievement. This is the mischief of selfish and distracting thoughts."
Investigation and research seek the truth of objective reality.
In Zhengding (正定), he set up a table on the street with his staff, and when villagers passed by on market days, he would proactively hand out questionnaires. In Fujian (福建), he deliberately arranged to visit shantytowns during the hottest time of summer, "just to let everyone experience the hardships of the people firsthand." Seeing on the spot, listening face-to-face, and asking directly, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) always insisted on thoroughly understanding the situation before finding solutions and devising good strategies.
Back then, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) visited impoverished areas deep in the Taihang Mountains (太行山), why did he say, "It would be worth it if I could see true poverty"? It is precisely because seeing the real situation will stimulate real emotions, discover real problems, and promote genuine hard work. It is worth it because sitting on the same bench with the masses, making friends, chatting casually, asking about their well-being, and seeking their needs and advice allows the masses to "speak frankly and openly."
Investigation and research are face-to-face, but also heart-to-heart. Only by getting mud on your shoes can you feel the weight of "stepping on the earth." If you just make a superficial observation, put on a show, and make decisions without grasping the facts, you will only encounter obstacles in implementation.
Investigation and research serve the reality of governing for the people.
Whether investigation and research are done well depends on the actual effectiveness of solving problems. If you are earnest when you come but disappear without a trace after you leave, only listening but not acting, over time, the masses will not be willing to speak their minds, feeling that "it's better not to say anything because it's useless."
The story of the Lianjia boat people (连家船民) coming ashore is an example of promoting problem-solving through investigation.
Without land, without houses, and without household registration, the Lianjia boat people (连家船民) of Fujian (福建) drifted at sea all year round. Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) conducted multiple investigations and was determined to solve the problem of coming ashore. Houses were built, but during return visits, it was found that many people had returned to their boats. He once again went into the cabins, found the key to the problem, and made systematic arrangements for the boat people to come ashore, settle down, and find employment. People came ashore, their hearts settled down, and the historical problem was solved.
Observing the real situation, solving the people's worries, and producing genuine achievements are essential qualities for party members and cadres. Having a clear understanding of resource endowments, knowing the strengths and weaknesses, and constantly caring about what people think and expect will naturally promote development and benefit the people steadily and rapidly.
Investigation and research seek a strategy for sustainable development.
"Whether a county relies on a single industry for development requires in-depth investigation and research." The 832 counties that have been lifted out of poverty have cultivated 2 to 3 leading industries with prominent advantages and strong driving forces, with a total output value of over 1.7 trillion yuan during the 5-year transition period.
"Correct decisions cannot be made without investigation and research, and correct implementation also cannot be made without investigation and research." Various regions are developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, with deep integration of science and technology and industry, and innovative achievements are emerging in large numbers.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) emphasized that in planning economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, all regions "must conduct in-depth investigation and research, adhere to the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, and pay attention to reflecting their own characteristics and leveraging comparative advantages when determining development ideas and strategic measures."
Seeking truth and being pragmatic, the more we polish the "golden key" of investigation and research, the more solid the achievements in promoting high-quality development will be.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京) March 22nd (date as is in source). Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Regulations on the Integrity of Leading Cadres of State-Owned Enterprises" and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to earnestly comply with them.
The full text of the "Regulations on the Integrity of Leading Cadres of State-Owned Enterprises" is as follows.
Regulations on the Integrity of Leading Cadres of State-Owned Enterprises
(Approved by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) on May 22, 2009; issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) on July 1, 2009; revised by the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) on February 28, 2026; issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) on February 28, 2026)
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the "Code of Integrity and Self-Discipline for the Communist Party of China (中国共产党廉洁自律准则)," the "Regulations on Internal Supervision of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党党内监督条例)" and other Party regulations, and the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国监察法)" and other laws, in order to regulate the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises and strengthen the building of Party conduct and clean governance and anti-corruption work in state-owned enterprises.
Article 2 These Regulations apply to the following leading cadres of state-owned wholly-owned and state-controlled enterprises and state-owned de facto controlled enterprises (including state-owned wholly-owned and state-owned holding financial enterprises and state-owned de facto controlled financial enterprises) and their branches:
(1) Members of the Party organization leadership team;
(2) Members of the board of directors and members of the management team who are under the management of higher-level Party organizations;
(3) Other senior managers who are under the management of higher-level Party organizations or managed by the Party organizations of the enterprise.
Article 3 Strengthening the work of promoting integrity among leading cadres of state-owned enterprises must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as guidance, adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth, strengthen the supervision of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises in performing their duties, exercising their powers, and practicing self-discipline, and promote the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, so as to provide a strong guarantee for strengthening, optimizing, and expanding state-owned enterprises and state-owned capital.
Article 4 Leading cadres of state-owned enterprises should achieve the following in practicing integrity:
(1) Be loyal to the Party, firm in ideals and beliefs, resolutely implement the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央), actively serve the national development strategy, and earnestly safeguard national interests;
(2) Take responsibility and be courageous in innovation and forge ahead, practice the correct view of political achievements, and promote enterprises to continuously enhance their core functions, enhance their core competitiveness, and realize the preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets;
(3) Abide by Party regulations, Party discipline, national laws and regulations, and enterprise rules and regulations, exercise power prudently, strictly adhere to the bottom line, be fair in public and private matters, be honest and trustworthy, and prevent and resolve risks;
(4) Guarantee people's livelihood, fulfill social responsibilities, and safeguard social public interests and the legitimate rights and interests of employees;
(5) Have a solid work style, thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation (中央八项规定精神), practice thrift and oppose waste, and inherit and promote the fine traditions and work style of state-owned enterprises.
Article 5 Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should strengthen the leadership of the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in state-owned enterprises, strengthen the specific responsibilities of Party working organs, and take promoting the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises as an important task to be grasped firmly and practically, and create a good political ecology and development environment for state-owned enterprises. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should assist Party committees (Party groups) in strengthening the supervision and inspection of the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises, and focus on punishing systemic corruption such as relying on enterprises to eat enterprises and setting up rents to seek rents.
People's governments at all levels and their departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets should strengthen the management of state-owned assets and strengthen the management and supervision of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises in accordance with their functions and responsibilities.
Chapter II Norms of Integrity Conduct
Article 6 It is forbidden to abuse power to damage the rights and interests of state-owned assets. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Violating decision-making principles, procedures, and responsibilities and authority to decide on major decisions concerning the production and operation of enterprises, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and large-scale capital operation matters;
(2) Violating regulations in handling matters such as enterprise restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, bankruptcy, asset evaluation and disposal, property rights registration and transactions;
(3) Violating regulations in investing, issuing loans, financing, guaranteeing, lending funds, entrusting financial management, opening letters of credit for others, purchasing and selling goods and services, and bidding;
(4) Instructing, directing, or forcing relevant personnel to carry out activities that violate national financial discipline and enterprise financial and accounting systems;
(5) Without the approval of the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets, or higher-level enterprises with management authority, deciding on the salaries, bonuses, allowances, subsidies, and other welfare monetary income of leading cadres at the same level;
(6) Donating or sponsoring assets owned by the enterprise to the outside world in the name of individuals, or deciding on donation or sponsorship matters without collective research by the enterprise leadership team, or although the enterprise leadership team has conducted collective research, but without the approval or filing of the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets, or higher-level enterprises with management authority, deciding on large-scale donation or sponsorship matters;
(7) Other acts of abusing power to damage the rights and interests of state-owned assets.
Article 7 It is forbidden to use power or influence to seek personal gain. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Accepting or soliciting gifts, gift money, securities, virtual currencies, and other properties provided by the enterprise's affiliated enterprises, enterprises that have business relations with the enterprise and its investing enterprises, as well as management and service objects, or agreeing to accept them after leaving office or retirement;
(2) Purchasing or leasing houses, cars, and other items from others at prices significantly lower than the market price, or selling or renting them to others at prices significantly higher than the market price, as well as illegally accepting other people's property in other forms of transactions;
(3) Entrusting others to invest in securities, futures, funds, or in the name of other entrusted financial management, without actually contributing capital but obtaining income, or although actually contributing capital, but obtaining income significantly higher than the income that should be obtained from the contribution or being compensated for losses after losses;
(4) Engaging in power-for-money transactions by means of hidden shareholding, holding shares by others, or acting as an agent to carry out business activities;
(5) Obtaining large amounts of returns through financial activities such as private lending that may affect the fair performance of duties;
(6) Using internal information or other undisclosed information, trade secrets, as well as intangible assets or resources such as the enterprise's intellectual property rights and business channels to seek personal gain;
(7) Embezzling, manipulating behind the scenes, or fabricating names and falsely increasing commercial links to illegally possess or misappropriate the property and customer assets of the enterprise and its affiliated enterprises;
(8) Taking discounts and intermediary fees in the enterprise's economic exchanges, and property rewarded and returned by relevant departments and units due to the enterprise's behavior as one's own or privately dividing them;
(9) Using the original power or influence to seek personal gain after leaving office or retirement;
(10) Other acts of using power or influence to seek personal gain.
Article 8 It is forbidden to engage in profit-making activities in violation of regulations. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Engaging in for-profit business activities and paid intermediary activities in one's own name or in the name of others;
(2) Investing in shares in the enterprise's similar business enterprises, affiliated enterprises, or enterprises that have business relations with the enterprise and its investing enterprises, either directly or in the form of entrusted holding or hidden investment;
(3) Holding concurrent positions in the enterprise's invested enterprises or other enterprises, institutions, social organizations, intermediary agencies, foundations, international organizations, etc. without approval or filing, or holding concurrent positions with approval or filing, but receiving additional benefits such as salaries, bonuses, allowances, and subsidies;
(4) Within 3 years after leaving office or retirement, holding positions or investing in shares in enterprises and intermediary agencies that have business relations with the original employing enterprise and its investing enterprises, or engaging in or acting as an agent for business activities related to the business operations of the original employing enterprise and its investing enterprises;
(5) Other acts of engaging in profit-making activities in violation of regulations.
Article 9 It is forbidden to use power or influence to seek benefits for spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) The individual's spouse, children and their spouses, and other specific related persons investing in shares in the enterprise's affiliated enterprises, enterprises that have business relations with the enterprise and its investing enterprises;
(2) Entrusting, leasing, or contracting state-owned assets to the spouse, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons for operation;
(3) Providing convenient conditions for the spouse, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons to engage in profit-making activities;
(4) Providing convenient conditions for each other's spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons to engage in profit-making activities;
(5) Economic and business dealings between the enterprise invested or operated by the individual's spouse, children and their spouses, and other specific related persons and the enterprise and its investing enterprises that may infringe on public interests and enterprise interests;
(6) Providing assistance for the spouse, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons to absorb deposits, issue loans, and promote financial products;
(7) Failing to avoid holding office and performing official duties as required due to the involvement of the spouse, children and their spouses, and other relatives;
(8) Using the original power or influence to seek benefits for the spouse, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons after leaving office or retirement;
(9) Other acts of using power or influence to seek benefits for the spouse, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons.
Article 10 It is forbidden to blindly pursue political achievements and damage national interests. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Exceeding the reasonable asset-liability ratio level and asset-liability structure, resulting in excessive debt;
(2) Deviating from the main responsibility and main business and engaging in irrelevant diversified operations;
(3) Establishing a multi-layered enterprise organizational structure to evade supervision and carry out disorderly expansion;
(4) Holding but not controlling shares or participating but not exercising rights in enterprise mergers and acquisitions and mixed ownership reforms, resulting in loss of management and control of the enterprise;
(5) Engaging in false holding in enterprise cooperation and falsely increasing operating performance;
(6) Engaging in data fraud to conceal the true situation of the enterprise;
(7) Carrying out financing trade or false transactions;
(8) Engaging in affiliated operations and piecing together enterprise scale by means of leasing or lending the name of state-owned enterprises, the trade name in the enterprise name, qualification certificates, or false joint ventures;
(9) Expanding overseas business in violation of compliance and integrity requirements;
(10) Other acts of blindly pursuing political achievements and damaging national interests.
Article 11 It is forbidden to select and appoint people in violation of regulations. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Practicing favoritism, excluding dissidents, and making promises of official positions in the enterprise's selection and appointment of personnel;
(2) Hastily promoting and adjusting enterprise personnel during enterprise restructuring, when the main leading members are about to reach the age limit for holding office, the age limit for retirement, or have been clearly informed that they are about to leave office;
(3) Selecting and appointing enterprise personnel without following the prescribed number of positions and qualification conditions;
(4) Initiating, recommending, investigating, discussing, and deciding on the appointment and removal of enterprise personnel without following the procedures, or having the main leading members decide on the appointment and removal of enterprise personnel individually;
(5) Privately disclosing relevant information on research and judgment, initiation, democratic recommendation, democratic evaluation, investigation, deliberation, and decision-making on personnel appointments and removals;
(6) Failing to fulfill the procedures for requesting instructions and reporting and filing for approval for important personnel appointments and removals as required;
(7) Recruiting and arranging the spouses, children and their spouses, and other relatives and other specific related persons of oneself or other leading personnel to work in the enterprise or within the system in violation of regulations;
(8) Calling and transferring personnel from the original employing enterprise with job changes;
(9) Privately interfering in the selection and appointment of personnel in the enterprise's invested enterprises or the original employing enterprise;
(10) Other acts of selecting and appointing people in violation of regulations.
Article 12 It is forbidden to engage in formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. The following behaviors are not allowed:
(1) Exceeding the prescribed standards and scope in terms of performance treatment and business expenditures such as training activities, office space, official vehicles, business entertainment, and travel expenses;
(2) Paying with public funds or transferring expenses that should be borne by individuals to the enterprise's invested enterprises and other units and individuals;
(3) Accepting or providing banquets or arrangements for tourism, fitness, entertainment, and other activities that may affect the fair performance of duties;
(4) Engaging in paperwork and meetings, superficial articles, adding layers and excessive traces, and excessive and frequent supervision, inspection, and assessment, increasing the burden on the grassroots;
(5) Empty slogans, perfunctory responses, and shirking responsibilities in work, or mechanically implementing the deployment requirements of superiors;
(6) Disregarding the legitimate demands of employees and infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of employees;
(7) Other acts of engaging in formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance.
Chapter III Implementation and Supervision
Article 13 Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should listen to work reports on the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises at least once a year and promptly study and resolve major issues.
In carrying out inspections and patrols of Party organizations of state-owned enterprises, Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should focus on the performance of duties, exercise of power, and self-discipline of members of the enterprise Party organization leadership team, especially the "top leader," and urge the enterprise Party organization to grasp the rectification and implementation of the problems fed back by the inspections and patrols.
Party committees (Party groups) at all levels should establish and improve a working mechanism with internal Party supervision as the leading factor, and the supervision of investors, the supervision of competent departments, audit supervision, financial and accounting supervision, and democratic supervision of employees organically connected and coordinated with each other.
Article 14 Party committees (Party groups) at all levels and their organization (personnel) departments, discipline inspection and supervision organs, departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets should broaden education platforms and channels, enrich education methods, conduct regular education for leading cadres of state-owned enterprises within their jurisdiction, strengthen ideals and beliefs, the Party's purpose, revolutionary traditions, and education on Party conduct and clean governance, promote Party discipline learning and education on work style on a regular and long-term basis, and carry out in-depth warning education.
Article 15 Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels should give play to the role of the Party and the state's special supervision organs, strengthen political supervision of state-owned enterprises, refine and solidify daily supervision, and carry out special supervision for outstanding problems; give play to the driving role of handling cases, deepen the simultaneous investigation and treatment of corruption and work style, strengthen the simultaneous investigation of bribery and bribery, and thoroughly investigate new types of corruption and hidden corruption, and enhance the effectiveness of promoting reform and governance through cases. Discipline inspection and supervision agencies stationed in state-owned enterprises should report important issues and important matters concerning the integrity of the leadership team and its members of the stationed enterprises to the dispatching agency in a timely manner.
Internal discipline inspection agencies and discipline inspection committee members of state-owned enterprises should strengthen the supervision of the integrity of the enterprise's leading cadres within the scope of their duties, and report important issues and important matters to the Party organization at the same level (where they are located) and the higher-level discipline inspection agency in a timely manner.
Article 16 Organization (personnel) departments at all levels, departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets should take integrity as an important content for the inspection and assessment of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises and an important basis for selection and appointment and evaluation and commendation.
Departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets should combine with reality to improve the performance appraisal, salary management, and accountability systems for leading cadres of state-owned enterprises, and improve the incentive and restraint mechanisms.
Departments, institutions, and other relevant competent departments that perform the duties of investors in state-owned assets should strengthen the construction of supervision informationization, use big data and informationization means to supervise the integrity of leading cadres of state-owned enterprises in accordance with regulations and laws, strengthen comprehensive data analysis and dynamic research and judgment, focus on corruption problems behind investment and operation risks, and enhance the ability of penetrating supervision.
Article 17 The departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities performing the duties of investors of state-owned assets shall pay attention to the supervisory role of external directors appointed or dispatched by them, and establish and improve the mechanism for external directors to report abnormal situations of integrity of leaders of state-owned enterprises to them.
Article 18 The audit institutions shall carry out various audit supervisions in accordance with regulations and laws, strictly implement the system regulations such as economic responsibility audits of leaders of state-owned enterprises, and reveal and reflect major, key, and typical problems existing in the process of leaders of state-owned enterprises performing their economic responsibilities.
Article 19 The finance departments shall strengthen the supervision of the financial and accounting behaviors of state-owned enterprises, and severely investigate and deal with problems such as falsification of financial data and failure of internal supervision of state-owned enterprises.
Article 20 The Party organizations of state-owned enterprises shall bear the primary responsibility for implementing these provisions in their enterprises, the secretaries shall perform the duties of the first person responsible, and other members of the leading group shall perform the "one post, two responsibilities" and grasp the work of integrity of the leaders of state-owned enterprises in combination with the division of business.
State-owned enterprises shall formulate rules and regulations in accordance with these provisions or incorporate the requirements for implementing these provisions into the articles of association of the company, integrate them into the whole process of company governance and business management, and establish and improve internal control, compliance management, risk management, internal audit, and prevention of conflicts of interest and other supervision and restriction mechanisms to ensure the implementation of these provisions.
Article 21 State-owned enterprises shall clarify the decision-making principles and procedures, and report the decision-making of major production and operation decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and large-amount fund operation matters to the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities performing the duties of investors of state-owned assets within the prescribed time limit.
Article 22 State-owned enterprises shall establish and improve the management system for the performance and treatment of leaders and business expenditures of their enterprises, and report them to the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities performing the duties of investors of state-owned assets for record in accordance with regulations.
Article 23 State-owned enterprises shall improve the enterprise democratic management system with the workers' congress as the basic form, listen to the opinions of workers on major decisions, and major issues involving the vital interests of workers must be deliberated by the workers' congress or the workers' meeting.
State-owned enterprises shall promote factory affairs disclosure, and disclose the salary information of the leaders of their enterprises and the management system and implementation of performance treatment and business expenditures to the workers.
State-owned enterprises shall improve the system of employee directors, and support and encourage employee directors to fully express their opinions and reflect the reasonable demands of employees when the board of directors studies and decides on major issues of the enterprise.
Article 24 State-owned enterprises shall establish and improve the management system and mechanism for related-party transactions, strengthen the identification, reporting, information collection and management of related parties, clarify the pricing, review, avoidance, reporting, disclosure and other contents of related-party transactions, and prevent the transfer of benefits through related-party transactions.
Article 25 State-owned enterprises shall reasonably set up compliance management departments or personnel according to the enterprise scale, business scope, and operating income, formulate integrity and compliance management systems for key areas such as anti-commercial bribery and foreign-related business, and businesses with high compliance risks, improve the integrity and compliance operation mechanism, and integrate integrity and compliance management into the whole process of business operation decision-making, execution, and supervision.
Article 26 State-owned enterprises shall strengthen the prevention and control of integrity risks for key overseas positions, major funds, and major projects, and take measures such as directly dispatching overseas financial officers and rotating overseas personnel in accordance with regulations to strengthen the supervision and management of overseas personnel, funds, and projects.
Article 27 State-owned enterprises shall establish and improve the integrity commitment system for leaders in combination with these provisions, and standardize the employment behavior of leaders and related behaviors after resignation and retirement.
If the leaders of state-owned enterprises resign for personal reasons, they shall be strictly approved. For those who have been approved to resign, state-owned enterprises shall strengthen follow-up management, report problems found in a timely manner to the organization (personnel) departments and the departments, institutions, and other relevant competent authorities performing the duties of investors of state-owned assets, and notify the new employer of the resigning personnel.
Article 28 State-owned enterprises shall strengthen the construction of integrity culture in the new era, integrate integrity requirements into the daily management, internal control compliance, business operation and other work of the enterprise, as well as the construction of professional ethics, give full play to the value orientation of integrity culture, guide the leaders of state-owned enterprises to cultivate themselves and discipline themselves, strengthen the construction of family education and family style, and build a solid ideological and moral defense line.
Article 29 The leaders of state-owned enterprises shall strengthen their awareness of discipline, rules, and organization, and truthfully report personal matters to the organization as required.
The leaders of state-owned enterprises shall take the implementation of these provisions as an important content of the democratic life meeting to check and examine, the annual report on responsibility and integrity, and the democratic evaluation of the workers' congress, and accept supervision and democratic evaluation.
Chapter IV Handling of Violations
Article 30 If the leaders of state-owned enterprises violate these provisions, the relevant Party organizations, units, and discipline inspection and supervision organs shall, in accordance with the limits of management authority, give reminders, criticism and education, order inspections, admonishments, organizational handling, or Party discipline and government sanctions in accordance with regulations and laws, depending on the nature and seriousness of their behaviors; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
For the leaders of state-owned enterprises who violate these provisions and need to be removed or dismissed, they shall be removed or dismissed in accordance with the law.
The Party organizations of state-owned enterprises shall regularly report the handling of the leaders they manage to the organization (personnel) departments of the higher-level Party committee (Party group) for record.
Article 31 If the leaders of state-owned enterprises are punished for violating these provisions, the enterprises where they are located shall deduct and recover performance annual salary or term incentive income, terminate or recover medium- and long-term incentive benefits, or cancel the qualification to participate in medium- and long-term incentives in accordance with regulations.
Article 32 The improper economic benefits obtained by the leaders of state-owned enterprises in violation of these provisions shall be confiscated, recovered, or ordered to be returned in accordance with regulations and laws; if economic losses are caused to state-owned enterprises, they shall bear economic compensation liability in accordance with the relevant regulations of the state or the enterprise.
Other benefits such as positions, job grades, rewards, and qualifications obtained by the leaders of state-owned enterprises in violation of these provisions shall be corrected in accordance with relevant regulations.
Article 33 If the leaders of state-owned enterprises are demoted for violating these provisions, they shall not be promoted to positions, job grades, or further used within 2 years.
Those who are dismissed shall not hold leadership positions in state-owned enterprises within 2 years; those who are dismissed for causing major losses of state-owned assets shall not hold leadership positions in state-owned enterprises within 5 years.
Those who cause particularly serious losses of state-owned assets or are convicted of a crime and sentenced to criminal punishment shall not hold leadership positions in state-owned enterprises for life.
Article 34 If the behavior of the leaders of state-owned enterprises in performing their duties causes losses or consequences, but it is not due to intentional or negligence, but due to force majeure and other reasons, no responsibility shall be pursued.
If the leaders of state-owned enterprises are falsely accused or wrongly accused, and it is necessary to clarify them, the relevant Party organizations, units, and discipline inspection and supervision organs shall clarify them in accordance with regulations.
Chapter V Supplementary Provisions
Article 35 In state-owned wholly-owned and wholly-funded enterprises and state-owned holding enterprises and state-owned actual control enterprises (including state-owned wholly-owned and wholly-funded financial enterprises and state-owned holding financial enterprises and state-owned actual control financial enterprises) and their branches, the personnel who are responsible for the operation and management of state-owned assets beyond the scope of Article 2 of these provisions, and the leaders of the affiliated institutions shall be implemented with reference to these provisions.
The personnel who are responsible for the operation and management of state-owned assets in state-owned participating enterprises (including state-owned participating financial enterprises) shall be implemented with reference to these provisions.
Article 36 The Central Financial Work Committee (中央金融工委), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委), and the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate implementation measures in accordance with these provisions.
Article 37 These provisions shall be interpreted by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission (中央纪委国家监委) in consultation with the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中央组织部).
Article 38 These provisions shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.
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We must adhere to the principle of "having people in mind," firmly grasp the "people" element as the key, and systematically exert effort, improve, and enhance aspects such as work concepts, policy systems, and institutional mechanisms to cultivate and form a high-level cultural talent team that is large in scale, reasonable in structure, and full of innovative spirit.
To enrich urban and rural cultural life, it is necessary not only to stimulate the enthusiasm of local cultural talents but also to organize and guide high-level cultural talents to step out of their studies and theaters, go to the grassroots level to carry out activities and provide paired assistance, and promote more high-quality cultural resources directly to the grassroots.
Cultural production is creative labor, and the core lies in people. Only with a wealth of talent and the emergence of outstanding figures can culture flourish. The continuous inheritance of Chinese civilization relies on the literary heritage of classic works and cannot be separated from the creative leadership of generations of famous masters. The reason why our Party has been able to continuously achieve new ideological and cultural awakenings, new theoretical innovation achievements, and new cultural construction achievements in the course of leading the revolution, construction, and reform is largely due to the unity and cultivation of generations of outstanding cultural talents.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), focusing on promoting cultural prosperity and building a strong cultural nation, has profoundly expounded the important significance, goals, requirements, and key tasks of cultural talent work in the new era, providing fundamental guidance for us to do a good job in cultural talent work. Now, there are less than 10 years left to achieve the goal of building a strong cultural nation. Compared with the earnest expectations of the Party Central Committee and the practical needs of the development of the cause, there are still many shortcomings and weaknesses in the construction of the cultural talent team. We must adhere to the principle of "having people in mind," firmly grasp the "people" element as the key, and systematically exert effort, improve, and enhance aspects such as work concepts, policy systems, and institutional mechanisms to cultivate and form a high-level cultural talent team that is large in scale, reasonable in structure, and full of innovative spirit.
To promote cultural prosperity, the key is to have leading cultural figures who can shoulder the responsibility. At present, problems such as quantity without quality, "plateaus" without "peaks," and experts without masters are still relatively prominent in the cultural field, and it is urgent to come up with solutions. It is necessary to give full play to the guiding role of various talent projects, adhere to the combination of selection and use, establish an achievement-oriented approach, and discover and cultivate a group of literary figures and artists with both ability and integrity, a group of leading talents in philosophy and social sciences who are proficient in studying Chinese issues and truly have academic innovation and theoretical creation capabilities, and a group of news and communication talents who know both the inside and the outside and can play a role in the international public opinion field. Give more support to outstanding talents in fields such as paleography, Dunhuang studies (敦煌学), frontier studies, and classical studies, so that "niche disciplines" have successors and are passed down from generation to generation. Give more resource inclination to young talents with solid foundations and strong innovation capabilities, consciously let them participate in major activities and key tasks, cultivate talents in use, and train talents in practice.
People often say that there are experts among the people, and there are capable people among the masses. To promote cultural prosperity and development, we need not only leading talents but also talents in various fields with unique skills. There are many cultural leaders at the urban and rural grassroots levels who are familiar with local culture and understand the needs of the people around them. We must make full use of the unique cultural resources of the grassroots, cultivate more local cultural talents rooted in the local area, provide a stage for displaying their talents, fully mobilize their enthusiasm and creativity, and drive more local talents to devote themselves to grassroots cultural construction. To enrich urban and rural cultural life, it is necessary not only to stimulate the enthusiasm of local cultural talents but also to organize and guide high-level cultural talents to step out of their studies and theaters, go to the grassroots level to carry out activities and provide paired assistance, and promote more high-quality cultural resources directly to the grassroots. In recent years, many literary and art workers have gone to the grassroots and into the squares, performing for the masses at close range, and have been widely praised. In this process, cultural talents can also draw nourishment and inspiration from the rich soil of social practice, so that they have the air of books and their works have the flavor of life.
Now, new mass literature and art and mass academics are booming, and the works of some migrant worker poets, takeaway singers, grassroots writers, and knowledge bloggers are full of the breath of life. They have real life experiences, a certain amount of talent, and are keenly aware of the hot social practice and rapid changes of the times, and have a strong desire to express and create. For these talents, we need to strengthen attention and research, guide and promote them to improve the quality of their works, and grow into a new force for cultural prosperity and development. At the same time, we must also promote professional talents to gather in the main battlefield of the Internet, create and launch more high-quality cultural works that are popular with the masses, so as to warm people's hearts and cultivate moral sentiments.
Technology is the propeller of cultural innovation and creation, and the integration of culture and technology is constantly spawning new formats, new applications, and new carriers. Whether we can seize this round of technological revolution represented by artificial intelligence is a key factor in determining whether China's culture can be full of vitality and whether it can win in international competition. We must strategically attach importance to the cultivation of cultural and technological talents, increase the coordination of resources, innovate talent training models, and create more compound talents who can combine cultural content with modern technological means. We must also see that the integration of culture and technology is not building a tower on sand or a castle in the air. We must pay more attention to the cultivation of basic liberal arts talents such as literature, history, and philosophy, increase stable support for early-career cultural talents through special basic research projects and basic scientific research business expenses, and guide them to lay a solid cultural foundation and academic foundation, so that cultural innovation and creation are more connotative and meaningful.
The growth of cultural talents has its own laws. Only with an environment that respects talents and creativity, and a mechanism that encourages concentrated research and creation, can outstanding talents stand out. We must improve the talent work mechanism that conforms to the characteristics of the cultural field, combine the resource endowments of various regions and departments, adapt to local conditions and talents, and promote the formation of a cultural scene where talents emerge in large numbers and masterpieces are produced one after another. Leading cadres of the publicity and cultural system should all value, recognize, love, and help talents, often communicate and talk with talents, and carefully protect the creativity of cultural talents. We must innovate the talent management and use mechanism, establish a positive incentive mechanism that advocates practical work and encourages responsibility, so that outstanding talents with ability and performance are respected and rewarded, and constantly enhance their sense of professional gain and honor. Improve the talent evaluation and incentive mechanism, take innovation ability, achievement quality, practical effect, and social contribution as the guidance, promote the establishment of classification evaluation standards, improve the representative work evaluation system, and do not simply judge heroes based on the number of papers and monographs. As a cultural person and engaged in cultural work, we must also have more feelings and less utilitarianism, more patience and less impetuosity, and concentrate on creation and research.
The sea allows fish to leap, and the sky allows birds to fly. In the next 5 to 10 years, the construction of a strong cultural nation calls for more cultural talents to emerge. Only by stimulating the vitality of cultural talents with more effective work, a broader stage, and a better environment can we create more famous masters and masterpieces, and promote the formation of a vivid scene of cultural prosperity and development and the continuous inheritance of cultural heritage.
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Technology transforms into well-being, requiring technology to embrace life. People's needs have rich levels, and scientific and technological innovation to solve problems also needs to be carried out step by step. The strategy of "gradient research and development, layered application" not only helps products to quickly land in clinical practice, but also promotes the continuous expansion of technology.
For a while, I was immersed in the curiosity of neuronal electrical signals, and I spent day and night in the laboratory surrounded by data and papers. "Can your work cure diseases?" My mother's soul torture made me speechless for a while, and I was deeply touched - if I spend my whole life just "circling" under the microscope and in the model, and can't really change the fate of patients, isn't it a betrayal of science and life?
I repeatedly chewed on this torture and realized that the value of science lies not only in exploration, but also in change, changing the fate of patients and improving daily life. So, my team and I set out to develop a brain-computer interface system, shifting from interest-driven to problem-oriented, and exploring the "transformation" of basic research into clinical translation.
Turning concepts into reality requires breaking down technical barriers. The adult brain accounts for only about 2% of the total weight of the human body, but it can generate consciousness and control behavior through electrical activity. However, the human brain has nearly 100 billion neurons, and the electrical signals generated are complex and extremely weak. In order to solve the problem of "signal attenuation," we chose to collect signals in the skull and innovatively launched a parallel strategy of semi-invasive "Beinao No. 1 (北脑一号)" and invasive "Beinao No. 2 (北脑二号)."
Decoding algorithms are the key to the development of brain-computer interfaces, which require interpreting brain intentions and using "thoughts" to control external devices in real time. Achieving high precision and low latency is a difficult point that must be overcome. We deeply coupled neural mechanisms and algorithm engineering to give the algorithm "cold start" capability, and the cross-day stability has also been significantly improved, laying the foundation for the long-term practical application of brain-computer interfaces. Patients can operate smoothly within a few days of implantation. To answer the questions of life with scientific and technological innovation, we need to explore at the intersection of different disciplines. Only by cultivating vertically and deeply, and also horizontally and vertically, can we find new solutions.
Technology transforms into well-being, requiring technology to embrace life. People's needs have rich levels, and scientific and technological innovation to solve problems also needs to be carried out step by step. At present, the "Beinao No. 1 (北脑一号)" intelligent brain-computer system has entered the clinical verification stage and has completed 6 implantations. Patients can turn the impossible into possible with just a flexible electrode as thin as a cicada's wing and half the size of a palm. Patients with paraplegia due to spinal cord injury can stand and walk again; patients with speech disorders can communicate with people and live as normally as possible... "Beinao No. 2 (北脑二号)" is also exploring different versions for larger information volume and wireless needs. This strategy of "gradient research and development, layered application" not only helps products to quickly land in clinical practice, but also promotes the continuous expansion of technology. Meeting market demand and serving people's lives, technology will have deeper meaning and bring more well-being.
I believe that the development of technology is beyond imagination and will bring unexpected surprises, making work and study more comfortable. But no matter how far technology develops, we should not forget why we started - to truly help those in need. There are still millions of patients with paraplegia and tens of millions of patients with speech disorders in the world. Only by constantly learning and iterating innovation can we give them more help. In recent years, many technological products that have made imagination a reality have been launched, and the discussion is very hot. But we also need to think coldly in the heat. Whether it is establishing standards, strict management, or full testing and ensuring safety, as technology evolves and iterates, relevant systems should also be improved simultaneously. Constantly "transforming" without deviating, technology can continue to develop for the better.
The "transformation record" of the brain-computer interface made me feel the power of technology and medicine. Now, I can firmly answer my mother's question: my work is benefiting patients and giving them hope to regain their lives. Imagining the chapters behind, I think the brain-computer interface will also "befriend" more technological achievements in different fields and constantly encounter more diverse needs. I will work hard to write a good "transformation record" of scientific and technological innovation, benefiting more people in need by focusing on key problems and applying solid "writing skills" and pioneering and innovating with integrated "writing methods."
(The author is the director of the Beijing Brain Science and Brain-like Research Institute (北京脑科学与类脑研究所), interviewed and compiled by Gu Yekai (谷业凯), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopAs temperatures rise, the land of China enters a crucial period of spring plowing and preparation. In the fields, rotary tillers roar, agricultural technicians provide meticulous guidance, and farmers are busy inspecting agricultural machinery and preparing sufficient agricultural materials... A busy picture of spring plowing slowly unfolds. From accurately grasping the farming season to scientifically carrying out field management, from ensuring the supply of agricultural materials to improving farming efficiency, people are diligent early in the spring, 不误农时 (bù wù nóng shí - "not miss farming time," to not delay agricultural work), and the hope for a new year's harvest is being nurtured.
This is precisely:
Accurately observe the farming season,
Machinery moves through the fields.
Spring sowing brings a thousand layers of green,
Autumn comes with ten thousand burdens of harvest.
Liao Yuanwen (廖沅文)
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Serving new employment groups well not only strengthens the foundation for stable employment but also enhances the economy's endogenous动力 (dòng lì - "driving force," internal impetus) and empowers urban development.
Recently, stories from two delivery riders, one in the north and one in the south, have garnered praise from many netizens.
Zhang Ruiqiang (张瑞强), a delivery rider, found a sense of "acceptance" at the Xinjiekou Subdistrict Parents' Canteen (新街口街道父母食堂) in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京市), which also serves as a trade union驿站 (yì zhàn - "relay station," service station): "I often come to the trade union驿站 (yì zhàn - "relay station," service station) to recharge, drink water, and take a break, which is very convenient. We also get discounts when we eat in the dining area of the Parents' Canteen (父母食堂), and the food suits our taste."
Shen Zhuangqi (沈壮奇), a delivery rider in Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海市), moved into a "New Era Urban Builders and Managers Home" (新时代城市建设者管理者之家), paying only 900 yuan per month for a fully equipped and comfortable environment. He exclaimed that it was his "dream home."
For a city, serving new employment groups well is not an optional question but a mandatory one. On the eve of the Spring Festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) praised the hard work and contributions of delivery workers during his inspection of the Xinjiekou Subdistrict Parents' Canteen (新街口街道父母食堂) in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京市): "Express delivery has now become the flowing blood of the city. You work very hard, and the city's operation cannot do without you. It is not easy. I am also very concerned about you. I hope you live well and work well."
Today, the number of new employment form workers continues to grow. They are hardworking little bees, bringing convenience to urban life, and are creators and guardians of a better life, who deserve to be rewarded by the city. More importantly, with improved services and a greater sense of belonging, the ultimate result is a win-win situation for both people and the city. Why is that?
Serving new employment groups well strengthens the foundation for stable employment.
In terms of employment quantity, the total number of new employment groups in the country currently reaches 84 million, accounting for 21% of the total number of employees, and has become an important component of China's employment fundamentals that cannot be ignored. At this stage, the pressure on China's total employment remains unabated. Giving full play to the "reservoir" role of new employment forms will provide strong support for reducing the employment pressure on disadvantaged groups and preventing large-scale unemployment risks.
In terms of employment quality, new employment forms are not limited to low-skilled, repetitive labor positions. Technology and skill-based positions based on online platforms, such as video creation, medical consultation, and e-commerce marketing, are becoming increasingly abundant. Guaranteeing the innovation and entrepreneurship needs of these workers is conducive to resolving structural employment contradictions and promoting high-quality and full employment. It can be said that serving new employment groups well is the inherent meaning of building an employment-friendly development model.
Serving new employment groups well also enhances the economy's endogenous动力 (dòng lì - "driving force," internal impetus).
On the one hand, new employment groups are mainly young and middle-aged people, mainly in urban areas, and mainly engaged in the service industry. Allowing them to have stable incomes, sufficient motivation, and the ability to stay in the city is conducive to increasing China's urbanization rate of permanent residents and cultivating and expanding the middle-income group. On the other hand, new employment forms are concentrated in service industries such as catering, domestic services, travel, and shopping. These industries have the characteristics of high consumption frequency, strong multiplier effects, and sustainable growth. Therefore, promoting the high-quality and diversified development of new employment forms is conducive to promoting consumption and expanding domestic demand.
Serving new employment groups well also empowers urban development.
Cultivating a good employment ecosystem not only demonstrates the city's warmth but also forces the city to optimize its business environment. Hunan (湖南) is comprehensively promoting the construction of new employment group-friendly scenarios to solve the problems of "difficulty entering," "difficulty finding roads," and "difficulty parking." Shenzhen (深圳) in Guangdong (广东) is promoting the construction of new employment group-friendly parks, friendly business districts, friendly buildings, and friendly communities, so that the order, environment, and services of parks, business districts, etc. are better... These measures improve the level of urban governance and promote the renewal of the business environment.
Moreover, new employment groups are also an important force in urban governance. Rectifying "ghost takeaways," addressing minor problems such as peeling wall skins and damaged sewer covers in residential areas, and providing precise assistance to elderly people living alone... Delivery riders, couriers, online car-hailing drivers, etc., who work on the front lines of the city, can often discover the shortcomings and weaknesses of urban governance. Guiding them to integrate into the grassroots governance pattern will better reflect the concept of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits in reality.
Looking at the world, serving new employment groups is a completely new topic, and there is no ready-made experience to follow. Adhering to a "win-win" mindset, allowing these workers, without whom the city cannot operate, to live well, work well, and share the fruits of development, will make their future lives more promising, and the city will be better.
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## Person
"Pai Ke" Chen Zhen (陈真)
## Story
Chen Zhen (陈真), a post-95s Henan (河南) girl, carries her photography equipment and shuttles through the streets and alleys of Shanghai (上海), recording the life stories of elderly people and capturing the traces of time in old houses. After the works were released online, many netizens were attracted by the authentic and heartfelt narratives and were moved by the preservation of urban memories. This public welfare photography road of "lower the lens and get closer to ordinary people" has been going on for 8 years, and she will continue to walk it.
## Commentary
"Ordinary people all have stories, and I want them to be the protagonists." Over the years, Chen Zhen (陈真) has grown from a college student to a photography teacher at a university. Her identity has changed, but her original intention of shooting has remained unchanged. This original intention exudes a touching sincerity.
In the lens, the fireworks of the market have their own poetic rhythm. The couple guarding the old house with a view of the Bund (外滩) could not hide their deep nostalgia for the old days before moving; the "flower-growing grandpa" in the old residential area of Yangpu (杨浦) always puts out the quietly blooming epiphyllum for people to enjoy together; Grandma Shen (沈奶奶), who runs an old-fashioned telephone booth in the city center, has been doing it for decades, just to stick to the gentle agreement with her deceased husband; the "milk tea aunt" who has been running a shop for 30 years has not only craftsmanship but also a free and easy side...
When Chen Zhen (陈真) focuses her lens on the details of ordinary days and enters the delicate and rich inner world of people, the poetry of life emerges line by line, depicting unique memories of thousands of people, and spreading a warm and harmonious urban background. Chen Zhen's (陈真) loveliness and preciousness lies in her having a pair of eyes that discover beauty, and extending her vision through the photos she takes, spreading beauty to the hearts of more people.
Sincerity for sincerity, time will not fail. In Chen Zhen's (陈真) view, those old people are not passers-by in her life, and the end of shooting is often the beginning of heart-to-heart communication. She regularly revisits the elderly, accompanies them to eat, play chess, practice calligraphy, and stroll in the park; and the elderly also treat her as their own family, often caring and warmly exhorting. In the loving interaction, a positive, optimistic, open and inclusive sincerity has received an equally kind response. The sincere communication between generations weaves a bond that strengthens the emotional connection between people.
Just do good deeds, don't ask about the future. If you identify something meaningful, you can do it without asking for anything in return, and the value of life can be realized in one practical action after another. This is not just Chen Zhen's (陈真) story, but an epitome of contemporary young people. Being able to endure hardship, being willing to work hard, being willing to dedicate, and having a heart for society are the spiritual outlook of contemporary young people who are willing to take responsibility.
Leng Xiaokun (冷晓琨), a post-90s, led the team to tackle the research and development of the high-dynamic humanoid robot "Kua Fu (夸父)", with a localization rate of more than 90% for parts and components; Zhong Lin (仲麟), a post-95s, took root in the desert and initiated the volunteer activity "Please Plant a Tree in Minqin (民勤)", with more than 5,000 mu of public welfare afforestation; Qiu Guimin (邱桂敏), the "most beautiful college graduate", returned to her hometown to reclaim the abandoned "Dou Li Tian (斗笠田)", driving farmers to increase employment and income... Engaged in different industries and choosing different paths, countless young people coexist with the land under their feet and resonate with the pulse of the times, using practical actions to interpret the sentence "The infinite distance, countless people, are all related to me," and a society has infinite vitality and positive energy.
The bright and bright heart of a child shines brightly for thousands of miles. Everyone can see the light, approach the light, and become the light. Put effort into practice, work hard on the unity of knowledge and action, believe that every drop of sweat will irrigate the flowers of ideals and decorate a better life; believe that every persistence will eventually converge into the torrent of the times and surge towards a brighter future.
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By: 本报记者 李亚楠
Construction personnel and management staff arrived, and mechanical equipment entered the site. After the winter shutdown, in March of this year, the Xinjiang G3033 Kuitun to Dushanzi to Kuqa Expressway Project (新疆G3033奎屯至独山子至库车高速公路建设项目) (hereinafter referred to as "Duku Expressway (独库高速)") gradually resumed work. The project's main line pilot section, construction roads, and power transmission and transformation projects, among other key sections, have fully returned to normal operations. The Duku Expressway (独库高速) is characterized by high altitude, high latitude, high seismicity, and highly complex geology. The total mileage is approximately 393 kilometers, and the survey and design of each kilometer is full of hardship.
The Duku Expressway (独库高速) survey and design team, composed of technical personnel from China Communications Highway Planning and Design Institute Co., Ltd. (中交公路规划设计院有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "CCCC Highway Consultants (中交公规院)"), overcame many difficulties and challenges, and used technological innovation to help build this important expressway connecting the north and south of Xinjiang (新疆). Recently, this reporter approached the survey and design team to learn about their stories of field investigation, technical research, and innovative breakthroughs in the mountains.
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At the summit of the Tianshan Mountains (天山), the snow line meanders. Before the construction of the Duku Expressway (独库高速), a group of people had been living with nature in the mountains for 8 years. From the first foray into the no-man's land of the Southern Tianshan Mountains (南天山) in the feasibility study stage of the project in 2017 to the battle in the no-man's land of the Northern Tianshan Mountains (北天山) after winning the bid for the construction drawing design in 2024, they transformed the texture of mountains and rivers into curves and data on design drawings...
They are the engineers of the CCCC Highway Consultants (中交公规院) Duku Expressway (独库高速) survey and design team, who participated in the survey and design work of the feasibility study, preliminary design, and construction drawing design stages of the Xinjiang (新疆) Duku Expressway (独库高速).
"We use our feet to measure difficult roads, so that everyone can walk smoothly."
Gong Weiqiang (公维强), the general manager of the CCCC Highway Consultants (中交公规院) Duku Expressway (独库高速) project, has a video stored on his mobile phone: the water reaches the horse's belly, the person riding on the horse's back is tense, pulling the reins tightly, and carefully crossing the river. This is the no-man's land of the Kuitun River Valley (奎屯河谷). The rushing Kuitun River (奎屯河) water blocks the way, but the survey and design team's footsteps cannot stop. In the end, the footprints of more than 90 engineers from the route, subgrade and pavement, bridge and culvert, tunnel, and interchange groups spread throughout the north and south Tianshan Mountains (天山).
In the no-man's land, there is majestic beauty, but also hidden difficulties and obstacles. "As long as you go in, it is common to not brush your teeth or wash your face for seven or eight days," said Zhang Yaoyuan (张耀元), a subgrade and pavement designer.
In October 2024, on the first night after entering the no-man's land, the team was greeted with sleet. The wind howled outside the tent, and water kept seeping into the tent. Everyone greeted the dawn in a state of half-dream and half-awake. "On the one hand, it was too cold to sleep, and on the other hand, it was fear, worrying that if we fell asleep, we would freeze," said Gong Weiqiang (公维强).
When crossing the river, Zhang Tao (张涛), the head of the bridge and culvert division, fell off his horse due to exhaustion. In the 1.5-meter-deep river, he was washed dozens of meters by the rapids, and struggled to climb ashore at a bend where the water threw him to the bank. "When I fell into the water, I couldn't see or hear anything in an instant," Zhang Tao (张涛) recalled. Everyone spared a set of cotton clothes for him to change into, and quickly returned to the camp two or three kilometers away to make a fire to keep warm. Two hours later, after drying his clothes and equipment, they set off again.
Gong Weiqiang (公维强) said that in order to ensure safety, the project team formulated an emergency plan in advance, prepared emergency supplies, and also invited the Tianshan Rescue Team (天山救援队) to conduct outdoor first aid training before departure; when working in the no-man's land, they had to report their safety to the external project resident camp by satellite phone every day.
In the no-man's land, instant noodles and nang (a type of flatbread) are the most convenient foods. "We didn't have vegetables for many days, and we lacked vitamins. After we came out, our fingers basically peeled," Zhang Tao (张涛) said, flipping out a photo: the marks of peeling were all over his ten fingers.
The conditions were difficult, but no one retreated. Qi Hongwei (齐宏伟), an engineering geological survey engineer who is nearly 50 years old, is the oldest member of the team. Because he has been working on the front line of surveying for many years, he has suffered from many ailments. He always carries boxes of pills in his bag when he goes out to work; Wang Guangxi (王广玺), a line design engineer born in 1999, is the youngest member of the team. Gong Weiqiang (公维强) was worried that he would not be able to persevere, "But I didn't expect him to say a word. We use our feet to measure difficult roads, so that everyone can walk smoothly."
"A millimeter of data error can ruin a hundred miles of engineering"
Three stages, a total design and research mileage of about 400 kilometers, 75 kilometers located in the no-man's land, and more than 160 kilometers of dangerous road sections. Over the past 8 years, horseshoes and hiking poles have witnessed the repeated inspections of the team's engineers on this line.
During the construction drawing design stage, CCCC Highway Consultants (中交公规院) was responsible for the survey and design of 57 kilometers from Dushanzi Tianshan Ski Resort (独山子天山滑雪场) to the Sancha River section (三岔河段) within the territory of Dushanzi District (独山子区) and Usu City (乌苏市). Tang Shixiong (唐世雄), a geological survey engineer, is the "most walking person" in the team. "There are a total of 450 field survey points. Others have clear goals and want to see a certain point, but I have to look back and forth, climbing slopes and going down ditches every day," Tang Shixiong (唐世雄) said. In 2024, from March to the end of May, the number of steps on WeChat was two or three thousand steps every day.
Opening the team's field work log, it reads: "When stepping on the ice river, the cold is piercing, but the data is our 'icebreaker'." Braving the wind and snow to cross the snow line at an altitude of 3,200 meters, and hiking an average of 15 kilometers per day, the team members recorded the parameters of each permafrost and landslide with their frozen fingers.
The low temperature in the mountains is unbearable not only for people, but also for instruments. "In the 'Tiger's Mouth (老虎口),' the surveying instrument was frozen and unable to work for 7 days and 6 nights. We held the instrument in our arms to let it warm up before surveying. The ground was frozen hard, and the data benchmarks had to be chiseled with ice axes," said Gong Weiqiang (公维强).
Two landslides, 3 mudslides, 19 dangerous rock collapses, 11 rock piles, 1 section of blowing snow, 1 place of icing, 9 regional fault zones and 17 related secondary faults intersecting the route... Such complex terrain has brought many difficulties to the survey and design.
In a photo displayed by Gong Weiqiang (公维强), the slope of the mountain is close to 90 degrees, and it is quite difficult for people to climb up, let alone carry equipment up. But to obtain stratum information, it is necessary to drill holes from the top of the mountain to collect rock samples and test ground stress. The team mobilized a 300-kilogram drone to disassemble the equipment weighing more than two tons into a dozen parts, use the drone to send it to the top of the mountain, assemble it, and then drill holes.
In front of the computer, Gong Weiqiang (公维强) operated the mouse, and every shrub on the mountain was clearly displayed on the computer screen - this is a three-dimensional model established by the team using three-dimensional oblique photography, "Its fineness can reach the 10-centimeter level, and every crack on the mountain is the same as what you see on site," said Gong Weiqiang (公维强).
As the general manager of the project, from 2020 to 2024, Gong Weiqiang (公维强) led the team into the no-man's land for 16 times to investigate. Once, when climbing an ice wall to confirm the line position, his fingers were frostbitten, but he still held the drawings tightly: "A millimeter of data error can ruin a hundred miles of engineering. If our feet are not solid, the subsequent design will 'step into the air'. Every piece of data is responsible for future safety."
"Every subtle adjustment is a respect for the laws of nature"
Taking off the worn-out hiking shoes, carrying a notebook full of data, and with fatigue written on their sun-peeled cheeks, the team members immediately plunged into the design work after returning to the office. Next to the computer are mountains of operation manuals, and on the huge computer screen are constantly iterating design drawings: the team finds the best construction plan through precise calculation and balance, comprehensively considering various factors.
The reporter saw on the design drawing that there were 6 design schemes for the Jiangjunmiao Interchange (将军庙互通式立体交叉) alone. "The interchange is the entrance and exit of the expressway. The main line of the Duku Expressway (独库高速) is hung on the hillside, and below is the existing Duku Highway (独库公路). The height difference between the two is about 100 meters," Gong Weiqiang (公维强) explained. This location is particularly cramped, with high mountains on one side and the Jiangjunmiao Reservoir (将军庙水库) on the other. The space available in this gap is small, but the height difference is particularly large. It was not suitable for setting up an interchange, but considering the convenience of emergency rescue in the future, the design was completed within a limited space.
If the height difference is large, the road must be lengthened so that the slope can be slowed down, but the space is small, so the road can only spiral around. Broken lines, a spiral, two spirals, an elliptical spiral... The team performed centimeter-level high-precision modeling on every dangerous rock crack, repeatedly deliberated on the route direction, and strived for "beautiful line shape, economic savings", while performing a large amount of data calculation to ensure that every bridge and tunnel is safe and reliable.
"Six schemes were designed before and after. The final scheme optimized the line position to an 'S' shape compared with the initial scheme to ensure the feasibility and controllability of the engineering scheme," said Chen Zhaohui (陈朝晖), an interchange design engineer.
According to the survey results, the team found that a bridge site in the initial design scheme crossed an active fault. To ensure the safety of the project, they had to overturn the original scheme and change it to a subgrade passage. "Nature never gives way, but technology can find another way out. Every subtle adjustment is a respect for the laws of nature," said Liu Xin (刘鑫), the head of the project survey. "Every line on the design drawing is not a simple stroke, but a commitment to future safety and happiness."
After the expressway is opened to traffic, a large number of vehicles will travel through the land that the survey and design team once measured with their feet. When vehicles speed on the Duku Expressway (独库高速), passengers will not know what kind of wisdom, youth, and love are condensed behind every gentle curve and every towering pier. The names of each of them may not be remembered, but every data point they leave behind will be transformed into the most solid foundation of this expressway.
■Extended Reading
The Duku Expressway (独库高速公路) is about 393 kilometers long, with a design speed of 100-120 kilometers per hour. The bridge-tunnel ratio of the project exceeds 50%. The project crosses the hinterland of the Tianshan Mountains (天山), with a high bridge-tunnel ratio and complex geological conditions, which puts extremely high demands on design standards, safety quality, and ecological protection.
The route of the Duku Expressway (独库高速公路) is basically the same as the existing G217 Duku Highway (G217独库公路). The opening time of the G217 Duku Highway (G217独库公路) is limited to June to October every year, and it is in a "closed" state at other times. After the Duku Expressway (独库高速公路) is completed, the travel time will be nearly 9 hours shorter than the existing G217 Duku Highway (G217独库公路), and it will realize all-weather traffic throughout the year.
The Duku Expressway (独库高速公路) plans to set up multiple interchanges and service facilities, which will promote the integrated development of "transportation + tourism". The project was included in the "National Highway Network Planning" in July 2022, completed the preparation of the project feasibility study report and passed expert evaluation in 2024, started construction in September 2025, and is planned to be completed in 2032.
(This reporter Li Yanan (李亚楠) compiled)
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Person Profile
Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚), born in Hunan (湖南) Province in 1978, is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (香港科技大学), Dean of the Von Neumann Institute (冯·诺依曼研究院), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (电气电子工程师学会会士), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (国际计算机学会会士), and an Associate Editor of the AI journal TPAMI. His main research areas are computer vision and image perception, multi-modal large models, and industrial intelligent agents. He has received honors such as "Leading Innovation Figure in Hong Kong (香港“创新领军人物”)” and "Pioneer of Youth Science and Technology Innovation (青年科创先锋人物)."
On January 22, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced its new class of 71 "ACM Fellows," and Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) (pictured, courtesy of the interviewee) was among them. He said, "Currently, I have only one goal—to use artificial intelligence to promote high-quality industrial development and benefit society." Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) obtained a doctorate in computer science four years after graduating with his bachelor's degree. At 37, he was appointed as a tenured professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大学), and at 41, he founded a company in the field of artificial intelligence, focusing on innovation, entrepreneurship, and education.
Innovation—
Conducting Research That Solves Practical Problems
Having published over 200 papers and been cited over 100,000 times... Speaking of these achievements, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) is very modest: "This is only because I entered a cutting-edge research field and established research goals that suit me."
In 1996, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) was admitted to the Department of Computer Science at Fudan University (复旦大学). In 2000, he was selected for the "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Recommended Admission Program (香港科技大学保送计划)" initiated by the Ministry of Education (教育部) to study at the university. At that time, digital SLR cameras had just been introduced, but due to technological limitations, the photos taken were not ideal.
In 2002, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚), who liked photography, bought a digital camera with his scholarship money. One day, staring at the digital photos on his computer, a thought flashed through his mind: Could computer algorithms be used to solve problems such as dehazing, deblurring, and denoising, so that the imaging effect of photos could be better? From then on, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) chose the cutting-edge field of computer vision to conduct research.
Should he focus on basic theory or applied technology development? He chose the latter—to do research that can "see results" as soon as possible, and use cutting-edge technology to solve practical problems.
In 2011, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) led his research team to solve a problem in the field of image processing—how to smooth images and remove noise without blurring or damaging the key edges and structures of objects.
In 2012, they overcame another problem—accurately separating the contours of objects from complex textures.
In addition, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) has also advanced into new fields such as multi-modal large models and industrial intelligent agents: in 2023, he released the ultra-long text extension technology LongLoRA, breaking the "long text curse" of global large language models; in 2025, he developed the open-source multi-modal foundation model DreamOmni2, with several key performance indicators surpassing Google's contemporary closed-source commercial model Nano Banana...
Entrepreneurship—
Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Manufacturing Transform and Upgrade
In 2019, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) founded SmartMore (思谋科技) in the Hong Kong Science Park (香港科学园) and simultaneously established a research and development headquarters in Shenzhen (深圳). In 2022, the company's intelligent manufacturing factory in Shenzhen (深圳) officially began operations.
"The reason for starting a business is to use AI technology to help manufacturing transform and upgrade," Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) admitted frankly that there is a huge gap between AI technology and manufacturing, and the transformation will not happen overnight. In response, Jia Jiaya's (贾佳亚) approach is to have engineers go deep into the front lines of production, understand the pain points of the industry, and then use AI technology to provide efficient solutions.
Is this path feasible? In the workshop of Huizhou Keda Industrial Co., Ltd. (惠州科达利精密工业有限公司), the reporter saw the answer.
At the discharge port of the production line, there stands a sealed detection chamber—an intelligent agent for appearance inspection of finished power battery cover plates. Through the observation window, the robot arm in the chamber quickly grabs the cover plate and transfers it to the lens at the top of the chamber for micron-level 360-degree scanning and detection, and then automatically sorts it... The entire process is completed quickly in the flickering light.
The company's self-developed "magnetic particle flaw detection intelligent integrated machine + intelligent magnetic trace visual detection system" has been implemented in CRRC (中国中车), increasing non-destructive testing efficiency by 70%; the 3C five-axis detection intelligent agent with full-link intelligent capabilities of "perception-decision-execution" significantly reduces the missed detection rate of key defects... "The application of these industrial intelligent agents is like installing a smart brain on the production line," Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) introduced that the company's self-developed industrial intelligent agents have been practically applied in automobiles, high-speed trains, new energy, precision industries, and other fields.
Education—
Cultivating Versatile Talents with Expertise in Multiple Fields
Compared with innovation and entrepreneurship, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) is more proud of talent cultivation.
Since 2005, he has trained many doctoral students. Speaking of mentoring students, Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) said that in addition to teaching by example, he has a unique educational philosophy, "I hope that the doctoral students I train are versatile talents with expertise in multiple fields." To this end, he encourages students to participate in international academic conferences as much as possible and exchange ideas with peers; he sends students to top-notch AI companies at home and abroad for internships and training to broaden their horizons and enrich their experience.
More importantly, he also teaches students to constantly "negate themselves."
"Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest-growing disciplines in academia today, and we cannot be complacent and stick to old ways," Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) said. Before 2015, he reviewed his work every five years, examined his research direction, and formulated new research plans; after 2015, this cycle was shortened to two years, and now it has been further shortened to half a year or a year. "In this way, we are not chasing the forefront, but always at the forefront," Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) said.
Being at the forefront of the artificial intelligence wave, having to conduct research, mentor students, and worry about the company's development, will he be very tired? "It will definitely be a little tiring, but I feel more excited," Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚) said. "The sense of accomplishment brought about by the process of doing research—training students—transforming research results into real productivity far outweighs the fatigue."
Return to TopThis newspaper's Haikou (海口) March 22nd dispatch (Reporter Cao Wenxuan (曹文轩)) The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Information Office of Hainan Province (海南省新闻办): The 6th China International Consumer Products Expo will be held in Haikou (海口), Hainan (海南) from April 13th to 18th. The number of participating countries and regions' exhibition groups has reached a new high, and the global consumer boutique display and trading function has been significantly enhanced.
The 6th Consumer Products Expo is the first Consumer Products Expo after the official launch of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) island-wide customs closure operation. The theme of this Expo is "Opening up to lead global consumption, innovation to drive a better life." The main venue will continue to be located at the Hainan International Convention and Exhibition Center (海南国际会展中心), with an international yacht sub-exhibition area set up in Sanya (三亚), and an international health consumption sub-exhibition area set up in the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone (博鳌乐城国际医疗旅游先行区).
According to reports, the preparations for this Consumer Products Expo are progressing smoothly, and the investment promotion and exhibition work has been completed. This Consumer Products Expo is targeting cutting-edge tracks, embracing trendy technology, widely inviting domestic and foreign consumer boutiques to participate in the exhibition, and organizing more global debut, Asia-Pacific debut, and China first show activities, to build a debut platform for international new products to seize the Chinese market and for domestic trendy products to go to the world.
This Consumer Products Expo will also hold a series of supporting activities. Focusing on the needs of exhibitors and buyers, a series of new product launch and debut activities, a series of supply and demand docking activities, etc. will be held. Focusing on the theme of promoting consumption, more than 10 series of consumption promotion theme activities such as "Export to China" and "Purchase in China" will be held. Focusing on the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港), a series of activities such as "Global Good Gifts, Consumer Products Expo Good Products" and the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) "Policy Express" consumer special event will be held.
The 6th China International Consumer Products Expo is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and the People's Government of Hainan Province (海南省人民政府).
Return to TopOn March 22nd, the "Jianghai (江海号)" tunnel boring machine on the right line of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel reached 4658 meters of excavation, completing more than half of the total excavation task. The Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel starts in Haimen District (海门区), Nantong (南通), Jiangsu (江苏) in the north and ends in Taicang City (太仓市), Suzhou (苏州) in the south, with a total length of 39.07 kilometers. It is understood that the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel is a key construction project promoted by the "Layout Plan of Yangtze River Trunk Line Cross-River Passages (2020-2035)" and the "Jiangsu Province Yangtze River Economic Belt Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Transportation Corridor Plan." The project is scheduled to be completed and open to traffic in 2028. The picture shows workers working on the main completed section of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel project on that day.
Photo by Xu Congjun (许丛军) (Xinhua News Agency) (新华社发)
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Editor's Note: The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines the need to resolutely implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, curb all kinds of unhealthy tendencies, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction. How can the management of official vehicles be standardized and transparent? How to investigate the illegal acceptance and gifting of gifts and money? How to safeguard the business environment? Recently, reporters followed discipline inspection and supervision cadres to explore how various regions are rectifying the "Four Winds" problem, creating a clean and upright political ecology and a good atmosphere for entrepreneurship.
Real-time intelligent supervision, continuously rectifying corruption in the use of official vehicles.
In the official vehicle management hall of Dongying District, Dongying City, Shandong Province, Chen Shasha, a member of the special inspection team of the District Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission, stared intently at the electronic screen of the intelligent management platform for official vehicles, screening suspicious vehicles. At the same time, Zhang Yu, the head of the inspection team, notified Sun Wanwei, the director of the official vehicle management office of the District Administration Affairs Bureau, who is also a member of the inspection team, to conduct on-site inspections according to the information of 10 randomly selected official vehicles.
"All 308 official vehicles have been included in the supervision," Sun Wanwei said, pointing to the license plate numbers of the 10 official vehicles he received. "I only got the list before departure, and I didn't know in advance. Based on the situation in the past two days, this official vehicle of the District Market Supervision Bureau has been on the list for three consecutive days."
In the parking lot in front of the office building, more than 20 official vehicles with conspicuous "Market Supervision and Management" logos were lined up. When the inspection vehicle turned into the courtyard, Zhang Tinglin, the official vehicle administrator of the District Market Supervision Bureau, was holding the official vehicle key storage box, walking around the vehicle to complete the vehicle return verification: "The staff went to the vegetable trading market at 4 am for inspection and just came back."
Sun Wanwei verified the official vehicle ledger and the actual vehicle information one by one, while Zhang Yu carefully checked the vehicle sealing, usage registration, dispatch approval and other materials: "The mileage, refueling records, usage reasons and other information are clear at a glance, and consistent with the information presented on the intelligent platform."
Zhang Tinglin told reporters that many years ago, the management of the unit's 28 official vehicles mainly relied on the signature of the vehicle user and the instructions of the administrator, and sometimes it was embarrassing to ask too many questions. In recent years, the use of official vehicles has had "hard rules," and the unit has formulated a full-process management system of dedicated personnel management, vehicle dispatch approval, and return verification. The administrators have confidence, and the vehicle users consciously implement it.
On the electronic screen, an official vehicle parked on a road outside a village suddenly attracted Chen Shasha's attention. She immediately dialed the contact number of the vehicle user, and the voice of Zhang Bingjie, the director of the Niuzhuang Prevention and Control Station in Dongying District, came: "We are doing place of origin quarantine for 26 head of beef cattle to be sent to other provinces at the breeding base. The merchants are in a hurry, and all of them must be shipped out today." After hanging up the phone, Chen Shasha dispelled the doubts in her mind.
According to reports, Dongying District has stationed vehicles in the platform for high-frequency vehicle-using units to accurately meet the needs of daily supervision and emergency response; the remaining vehicles are uniformly dispatched and used in a coordinated manner to ensure the vehicle needs of various units in the district.
Carefully identify consumption doubts, and closely monitor the problem of illegally accepting and giving gifts and money.
In the early morning, Li Caiwei, deputy director of the Party Style and Government Style Supervision Office of the Lu'an Municipal Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission, drove to the gate of the Jin'an District Government in Lu'an City, Anhui Province. Zheng Lili, director of the Party Style and Government Style Supervision Office of the Jin'an District Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission, and Lu Qiangqiang, deputy leader of the First District Party Committee Inspection Team, were already waiting here. The three gathered to carry out the day's special supervision and inspection work. "According to the work arrangement, this time we will focus on the problem of illegally accepting and giving gifts and money, and we will understand the sales of prepaid cards, cigarettes, alcohol, tea and valuable gifts in large supermarkets," Li Caiwei said.
The three came to the first location - the Green Basket Supermarket Chengtou Store. "Green Basket is a large local chain supermarket, and the Chengtou Store is located near the District Government, with a large flow of customers, so choosing to investigate here is representative," Zheng Lili said.
"Hello, we are from the Discipline Inspection Commission, and we would like to see the recent sales of cigarettes and alcohol in the store." After communication, Zheng Lili checked the sales registration form at the cashier counter.
"The alcohol sold in January and February is basically paid by scanning the code, which can be judged as personal behavior and there are no suspicious points, but two bottles of liquor are paid with shopping cards." At Zheng Lili's request, the supermarket staff found the name and contact information of the cardholder based on the shopping card number on the registration form. "Afterwards, we will confirm the shopping card through relevant departments and deal with it further depending on the situation," Zheng Lili said.
Aside, Li Caiwei and Lu Qiangqiang carefully checked the tax票 (shuìpiào - "tax invoice") situation in January and February. As the mouse scrolled, dozens of pages of tax票 (shuìpiào - "tax invoice") information were presented on the screen. "We mainly look at the buyer, the amount and the shopping details. If it is purchased by a unit and the amount is large, we need to carefully identify it," Li Caiwei pointed to the screen and introduced, "For example, several units such as the Jin'an Branch of the Lu'an Public Security Bureau bought ham sausages, instant noodles, chopsticks and other items, and the amount is only one or two hundred yuan. We judge that it is used for duty during the holidays, which is a normal situation."
"This invoice shows that a unit bought supermarket shopping cards with a face value of 1,000 yuan," Lu Qiangqiang found a suspicious point while browsing. "The buyer is a township government. First take a photo and keep it, and then go back to track the consumption of this shopping card and the reimbursement of the invoice." After investigation, the shopping card was purchased by the labor union for condolences to retired personnel, and there was no violation.
After the supervision and inspection work at the Green Basket Supermarket ended, the three rushed to the Baida Jinshangdu Shopping Center. In the conference room on the fourth floor, the three checked the sales of shopping cards separately. After about half an hour of cross-checking, no suspicious points were found, and the day's special supervision and inspection ended smoothly.
In recent years, the Lu'an Municipal Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission has adhered to the combination of node supervision and daily supervision, focusing on 13 aspects such as the problem of illegally accepting and giving gifts and money, continuously strengthening supervision and inspection, and seriously investigating and dealing with problem clues, creating a clean and upright atmosphere for entrepreneurship.
Joint supervision and inspection to effectively help enterprises solve development difficulties.
In Fuyuan County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, March is the golden time for coal enterprises to resume work and production. Without saying hello or sending a notice, the car of the Seventh Resident Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the County Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission stopped with a "creak" in front of the office building of the Xinxin Coal Mine. Walking into the conference room, the discipline inspection and supervision cadres went straight to the point, asking the person in charge of the enterprise about the work style of the enterprise-related service departments.
The energy industry is Fuyuan's "family fortune." While enterprises are resuming work and production, it is also the peak period for various inspections and acceptances, and it is also a period when "micro-corruption" is prone to occur.
Since the beginning of this year, the Fuyuan County Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission has adopted a "office-group-place" joint supervision model, forming a supervision and inspection team led by members of the County Discipline Inspection Commission team, going deep into key coal mines, electricity and other energy enterprises, focusing on investigating problems such as "pushing off," "eating, taking, and demanding" of enterprise-related law enforcement and supervision departments, understanding the difficulties of enterprises and coordinating solutions.
"In the past, before starting work, I was most afraid of receiving 'greeting calls' from individual departments." In the conference room, Wang Pinghe, the person in charge of the coal mine, frankly said that now the discipline inspection and supervision departments are keeping a close eye on it and investigating strictly, so they can concentrate on production.
Supervision is not only about finding problems, but also about consolidating the responsibility for safe production and helping enterprises solve difficulties.
In the Hongfa Coal Mine in Lao Chang Town, Fuyuan County, the conveyor belt rolled forward, carrying pieces of coal "gushing out" from underground. In the dispatch room, the staff of the County Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission carefully checked the video images of underground ventilation and drainage, gas management, etc., and checked the supervision and law enforcement and hidden danger rectification item by item against the supervision log.
"Our supervision must not only manage the deliberate 'adding weight' behaviors such as 'eating, taking, and demanding', but also manage the deliberate relaxation of supervision requirements such as 'loosening hands'," said Ao Xu, the leader of the Seventh Resident Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Fuyuan County Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission. Since the resumption of work by enterprises, the discipline inspection and supervision organs have visited more than 30 energy enterprises in a "four noes and two straights" manner to understand the actual situation of resumption of work and production, supervise the functional departments to perform their duties, and break through the "mid-obstruction" of the business environment with precise supervision.
"Our coal mine has thin and scattered coal seams. The functional departments have strict requirements for the acceptance of coal mining technology. Most of the coal mined by comprehensive mining is gangue, the mining cost is high, and the gangue is difficult to handle, which makes us very distressed." A month ago, the person in charge of a coal mine enterprise in Housuo Town confided his feelings when the special supervision and inspection team visited.
After understanding the situation, the Seventh Resident Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the County Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission coordinated relevant departments to conduct on-site inspections of geological conditions, safety risks, coal seam occurrence status, and resource recovery, and urged the formulation of a "one mine, one policy" mining plan, and approved the implementation of blasting mining technology for qualified mining working faces to help enterprises produce smoothly.
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Only by continuously reducing the burden and empowering community cadres can we enable them to embark on their tasks with ease and serve the people more precisely and efficiently.
"The introduced property management is currently providing excellent service, thanks to you!" These words of feedback and gratitude from residents warmed Xu Haiqin's (徐海琴) heart a few days ago. Xu Haiqin (徐海琴) is the Party Secretary of Gulou Community (鼓楼社区), Xingqing District (兴庆区), Yinchuan City (银川市), Ningxia (宁夏). Before the Spring Festival, Gulou Community (鼓楼社区) successfully introduced property management to five old, property management-free residential areas, which facilitated the lives of residents.
In the past, these residential areas had always been Xu Haiqin's (徐海琴) "headache" – no one cleaned up the garbage when there was too much, and no one repaired the lights when they were broken. When residents came to her, the community could only provide temporary emergency relief.
"In the beginning, when I encountered this kind of thing, I didn't know where to report it or who to ask to handle it," Xu Haiqin (徐海琴) admitted. "Now, through the 'Three Services' list, I can directly find the person in charge with one phone call. The Xingqing District (兴庆区) Property Management Office has come to the site for many surveys, helped recommend suitable property management companies, coordinated opinions from house to house, straightened out the management problems of several residential areas, and made the residents feel at ease."
What does the "Three Services" list include? This list policy, launched by the Organization Department and the Social Work Department of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区党委组织部和社会工作部) Party Committee, divides the region's 664 communities into seven types, such as those with more elderly people and children, business districts, and agricultural involvement. It lists 30 common items and 40 individual items, focusing on three aspects: basic public services, social welfare services, and convenient services for the people.
The "Three Services" list is like a community work manual, allowing community cadres to find their position and helpers more quickly. "Our community is designated as a 'business district community'. The list not only includes 30 common items that all communities must do, such as elderly care, childcare, and assistance, but also individual items that are specific to the characteristics of the business district," Xu Haiqin (徐海琴) said. For example, in response to the pain point of merchants having "difficulty in handling affairs and running errands," Gulou Community (鼓楼社区) directly "blows the whistle" through the list mechanism, linking the Yinchuan City (银川市) Approval Service Administration to enter the community's "City Living Room" and handle business license review, storefront approval, and other businesses on-site for merchants at fixed times each week.
The list not only solves the problem of "who to ask to handle it," but also gives community cadres the confidence to say "no" to "extra things." In the past, community affairs were complicated, and there were no clear regulations on what could be done and what could not be done. Community cadres handled everything, which was a heavy burden, and sometimes it would be misunderstood by the masses.
Grassroots governance is a science. How can community cadres master this science? Ningxia (宁夏) has provided an answer with a service list. Establishing and improving the grassroots duty list, clarifying the boundaries of responsibility, promoting the downward flow of resources, services, and management to the grassroots level, and continuously reducing the burden and empowering community cadres can enable them to embark on their tasks with ease and serve the people more precisely and efficiently.
(The author is a reporter from the Ningxia Branch of this newspaper.)
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Return to TopThis newspaper's Haikou (海口) March 22nd dispatch (Reporter Sun Haitian (孙海天)) - The General Office of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the General Office of the Provincial Government recently issued the "Hainan Province Business Environment Problem Verification and Handling Work Opinions." This is a full-process verification and handling mechanism for business environment issues involving enterprises, constructed by Hainan (海南) in the new stage of the free trade port's island-wide customs closure operation. It clearly states that new officials failing to address old issues will be held accountable. The "Opinions" constructs a closed-loop management system of the entire process of "acceptance—transfer—handling—feedback—return visit—evaluation," and clearly stipulates that issues that can be responded to immediately or resolved on the spot should be handled immediately; for those that need to be transferred, the undertaking unit should submit the handling result or progress within 10 working days.
In response to difficult problems such as historical legacy issues, the "Opinions" introduces a "three letters and one notice" progressive guidance and supervision mechanism, including a reminder and urging letter, an order for rectification notice, a key supervision notice, and a responsibility interview notice. For units that have problems such as shirking responsibility, inaction, or new officials failing to address old issues, a rectification notice will be issued; if the circumstances are serious or cause adverse social impact, the relevant responsible persons will be interviewed. In addition, a rule-of-law consultation mechanism has been established, led by the business environment competent department to organize experts to negotiate and promote the substantial resolution of problems. In terms of supervision and accountability, discipline inspection and supervision agencies will carry out embedded supervision and strictly investigate and deal with behaviors such as 吃拿卡要 (chī ná kǎ yào - "eating, taking, carding, demanding," extorting or demanding bribes), illegal charges, and profit-seeking law enforcement. As of the end of February this year, the completion rate of the 950 enterprise-related historical legacy issues collected throughout the province has exceeded 79%.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Hainan Provincial Department of Business Environment Construction (海南省营商环境建设厅), Hainan (海南) will continue to focus on the implementation of the "Opinions" and strive to achieve a resolution rate of more than 90% for enterprise-related historical legacy issues by 2026, so as to provide a strong guarantee for the high-quality development of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港).
Return to TopOn March 21st, Haiyan Elementary School in Huian County (惠安县), Quanzhou City (泉州市), Fujian Province (福建省), organized representatives of the Young Pioneers to come to Gangqian Village (港墘村), Chongwu Town (崇武镇), to carry out the theme activity of "Seeking Red Footprints and Remembering Revolutionary Martyrs." The picture shows the students listening to the narrator telling revolutionary stories in the local memorial hall.
Wang Sheng (王胜) photographed (Image China).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Nanning (南宁) on March 22nd (Pang Geping (庞革平), Bei Weichao (贝为超)) Guangxi (广西) continues to deepen the centralized rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, using measures such as "masses ordering topics," consolidating responsibilities, and connecting "investigation, rectification, and governance" to promote the handling of practical matters related to people's livelihoods. In 2025, Guangxi (广西) filed 21,201 cases, disciplined 14,150 people, completed 11,700 practical matters related to people's livelihoods, and resolved 20,600 urgent and difficult problems for the masses.
The Autonomous Region's Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision (自治区纪委监委) used the "masses ordering topics" mechanism, focusing on the pain points of people's livelihoods to precisely exert efforts, and held multiple consultations with departments such as letters and visits, and internet information to collect complaints about hot issues related to people's livelihoods through multiple channels, focusing on grasping basic and inclusive practical matters. In 2025, Guangxi (广西) promoted six national rectification projects, including "campus meals" and outstanding problems in the use and supervision of rural revitalization funds, deepened the rectification of six outstanding problems throughout the region, such as the procurement of medicines and consumables, and handled 15 practical matters related to people's livelihoods, involving many fields such as real estate, social assistance, property management, and tourism.
Return to TopDuring the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Kunming University (昆明学院) adhered to high-quality Party building to lead the high-quality development of various undertakings of the school, anchored the school-running orientation of "comprehensive, application-oriented, and characteristic," told the story of outstanding alumnus Nie Er (聂耳), achieved a historic leap in the level of school running, and was awarded the National Civilized Campus, Yunnan Province (云南省) Socialist Core Values Education Demonstration School, and Provincial Demonstration School for Strengthening the Awareness of the Chinese National Community, delivering a wonderful answer sheet of high-quality development on the Yunnan (云岭) land.
Focusing on fostering virtue through education, talent cultivation delivers a "high score answer sheet."
The quality of talent cultivation has steadily improved. The school closely follows the national strategic direction, focuses on the needs of regional economic and social development, adjusts and optimizes the setting of undergraduate majors, and adds five emerging majors such as intelligent manufacturing and digital economy. It has 23 national and provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and all 14 teacher-training majors have passed the Ministry of Education's (教育部) secondary certification for teacher-training majors. The strength of characteristic majors such as chemical engineering and plant protection has entered the forefront of the province.
Fruitful results in teaching reform. Four courses were recognized as national first-class undergraduate courses, 29 courses were selected as provincial first-class courses, and 7 achievements won provincial teaching achievement awards. The school passed the Ministry of Education's undergraduate education and teaching review and evaluation with high quality.
Significant results have been achieved in student growth and success. A cumulative total of more than 700 national competition awards have been won in 5 years. About 80% of graduates choose to stay in Yunnan (滇) for employment and entrepreneurship. A batch of young talents who "can go down, be used, and be retained" have been cultivated and are becoming a new force in promoting regional development.
Focusing on innovation and breakthroughs, discipline research delivers a "hardcore answer sheet."
Discipline construction is accelerating. The number of master's degree authorization points has increased from 5 to 16, and an application-oriented discipline system has basically formed. The school was successfully selected as a provincial project construction unit for doctoral degree granting, and three disciplines, Chinese Language and Literature, Physics, and Agriculture, have entered the ranks of provincial project cultivation and construction doctoral programs. Physics was selected as a provincial first-class discipline, and Cross-border Digital Economy was selected as a provincial "First-Class Discipline Cultivation Plan."
Fruitful results in scientific research and innovation. A cumulative total of 370 new national and provincial-level projects have been added in 5 years, and the first prize of the Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award has been won. The annual scientific research funding has achieved continuous and stable growth, and the level of scientific research investment per teacher has been significantly improved. Three new provincial-level key laboratories have been added, and provincial academician workstations and international joint laboratories have been approved.
Focusing on local needs, social services deliver a "responsible answer sheet."
Rooted in the Yunnan (云岭) land, serving the overall development situation. The school, together with the University of International Business and Economics (对外经济贸易大学) and other institutions, released the "China-Laos Railway Development Report," contributing wisdom to the construction of local open platforms along the border; it has hosted sub-forums of the Tengchong Scientists Forum (腾冲科学家论坛) for two consecutive years, and the academic circle of friends has continued to expand; for the first time, a Sino-foreign cooperative education project was approved, taking the initiative to serve the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路).
The integration of industry and education has deepened and become more solid. The school innovated the "Double Integration and Four Sharing" education model, jointly built a modern industrial college with enterprises, and was successfully approved as a "Specialized, Refined, and New Industrial College" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), was selected into the provincial modern industrial college support construction list, and joined hands with leading enterprises such as Kunming Shipbuilding Equipment Group (昆船集团) to create a postgraduate training base for the integration of industry and education. More than 50 patent transformations have been realized, and a number of core technologies have been applied.
Fulfilling social responsibilities and actively serving the national economy and people's livelihood. It has provided targeted assistance to 13 villages in Dongchuan District (东川区), Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County (禄劝彝族苗族自治县), and other districts and counties in Kunming City (昆明市), with a cumulative investment of nearly 10 million yuan, benefiting 20,000 people. The effectiveness evaluation of targeted assistance work has been rated as "good" for many consecutive years. It carries out more than 20,000 person-times of various social training and international skills training annually, and dispatches teachers and students to border areas to carry out sports and art immersion activities.
Looking back on the "14th Five-Year Plan," Kunming University (昆明学院) has taken every step firmly and powerfully. Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," Kunming University (昆明学院) will continue to uphold the school motto of "Integrity and Excellence, Knowledge and Action," and strive towards the goal of a distinctive comprehensive, application-oriented, and high-level university.
Data source: Kunming University (昆明学院)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王崟欣
A vibrant and modern new city, a livable and business-friendly "young city," this is the Lingang New Area (临港新片区) of Shanghai (上海).
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the Lingang New Area (临港新片区) has achieved a number of breakthroughs in urban construction, institutional innovation, industrial agglomeration, and innovation source development.
A number of innovative cases have been implemented - Lingang (临港) took the lead in exploring an institutional opening system with "five freedoms and one convenience" as the core, forming 166 breakthrough innovation cases, including 79 national pioneering institutional innovation cases, and the institutional opening system has basically taken shape.
A number of innovative institutions have gathered - Lingang's (临港) innovation source power has been continuously enhanced, with the investment in research and experimental development of the whole society accounting for 6.09% of the regional GDP, and the number of high-tech enterprises reaching 1,596. High-energy-level laboratories such as Lingang Laboratory (临港实验室), high-level scientific and technological innovation platforms, and new R&D institutions are accelerating their gathering.
A set of cutting-edge industrial systems has been built - cutting-edge industrial clusters represented by integrated circuits, high-end equipment, civil aviation, and intelligent new energy vehicles have been initially built; a series of functional platforms have been implemented in cross-border offshore finance, cross-border trade, and high-end shipping services, and industrial functions have been continuously improved, and special economic functions have continued to be nurtured.
A modern new city is growing vigorously - a large number of educational, medical, ecological, commercial, cultural, sports, tourism, and urban functional projects such as Shanghai High School East Campus (上海中学东校), Shanghai Pudong Hospital Lingang Branch (上海浦东医院临港院区), and Shanghai Astronomy Museum (上海天文馆) have been implemented, and a modern new city with "international style, sense of the future, and charm of the sea and lake" has been basically built.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the Lingang New Area's (临港新片区) regional GDP has grown at an average annual rate of 21.7%; the total industrial output value above designated size has grown at an average annual rate of 29.5%, accounting for about 2% to about 11% of the city's total; the total fixed asset investment of the whole society has grown at an average annual rate of 21.6%, of which industrial investment accounts for more than 20% of the city's total; the sales of wholesale and retail goods above the limit have grown at an average annual rate of 34.4%; the total import and export value has grown at an average annual rate of 33.9%, of which the total import and export value of goods in the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone (洋山特殊综合保税区) has grown at an average annual rate of 28.3%.
Return to TopLayout Design Cai Huawei (蔡华伟) Zhang Fangman (张芳曼)
Return to TopBy: 吕忠梅
On the journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, a legal code is undoubtedly an important benchmark for measuring the modernization level of a country's governance system and governance capacity, and a concentrated embodiment of the achievements of the rule of law construction with Chinese characteristics. The Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress deliberated and approved the *Environmental and Ecological Code of the People's Republic of China*, establishing the theories, systems, and practical achievements of ecological civilization construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in a codified manner, which has milestone significance in the history of Chinese rule of law construction and even in the history of human rule of law civilization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Only by implementing the strictest system and the most stringent rule of law can we provide a reliable guarantee for ecological civilization construction." The Environmental and Ecological Code adheres to Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization and Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law as guidance, is rooted in the profound fertile soil of outstanding Chinese traditional culture, closely integrates with China's national conditions and reality, systematically summarizes, refines, and elevates the achievements of China's ecological civilization system reform and ecological environment rule of law construction, actively responds to the people's new expectations and requirements for a good ecological environment, and contributes Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to leading global environmental governance. This "green code" concerns the country's prosperity and the people's happiness, has Chinese characteristics, embodies the characteristics of the times, reflects the people's will, and is systematically standardized and coordinated. It is a strategic layout and legal declaration for building a Chinese-style modernization in which humans and nature coexist harmoniously, and has significant political, theoretical, practical, and global significance.
The Inevitable Requirement and Important Practice of Implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization and Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law
The *Decision* of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made the strategic deployment of "compiling an Environmental and Ecological Code." Compiling an Environmental and Ecological Code can transform the Party's propositions into the will of the state and ensure its implementation with the state's coercive force, effectively promoting the comprehensive implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization and Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law in all aspects of the entire process of ecological civilization construction.
Implementing the Party's innovative theories in the form of a code makes the implementation of the Party's propositions more institutionalized, standardized, and procedural. Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization is the theoretical sublimation and practical crystallization of our Party's unremitting exploration of ecological civilization construction. Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law is a scientific summary of our Party's rich practice and valuable experience in leading the construction of the rule of law. The Environmental and Ecological Code is the legal transformation and full embodiment of its core essence, rich connotation, and practical requirements. The Environmental and Ecological Code explicitly writes in the implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, and implements the iconic content of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, such as green and low-carbon development, comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China, and the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, into the provisions of legislative purposes, guiding ideology, and basic principles, so that major concepts such as "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands are a community of life" can be institutionalized, standardized, and procedurally implemented through specific legal rules. At the same time, the Party's major policies and strategic deployments in ecological civilization construction are specified into behavioral norms, which become the criteria for the entire society to follow, and are guaranteed by detailed legal liability clauses, fully embodying Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law regarding the important requirement of comprehensively promoting the rule of law in all aspects of the country's work, demonstrating our Party's determination and ability to adhere to comprehensively governing the country according to law and building a solid legal foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
Fixing the achievements of the ecological civilization system reform in the form of a code promotes the modernization of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity. Since the new era, under the personal planning, deployment, and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the reform of the ecological civilization system has been advancing in depth, and the "four beams and eight pillars" have been established and improved, becoming an important practical achievement of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, and China's ecological civilization construction has undergone historic, transformative, and overall changes. Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law emphasizes promoting reform under the rule of law and improving the rule of law in reform, clarifies that scientific legislation is an important link in handling the relationship between reform and the rule of law, and requires that major reforms have a legal basis and that reform achievements be elevated to legal systems in a timely manner. On the basis of systematically summarizing the achievements of the ecological civilization system reform in the new era, the Environmental and Ecological Code refines regular understanding and systematically fixes a series of reform achievements that have been tested in practice and are effective in the form of a code, consolidating the institutional foundation for comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China. This is not only the legalization of the practical crystallization of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, realizing the comprehensive leadership of the Party over the construction of a beautiful China from the legal perspective, and effectively eliminating the interference of departmental interests and local protectionism; it is also a concrete embodiment of practicing Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law and adhering to the unity and coordination of reform and the rule of law, which will inevitably promote the modernization of the ecological environment governance system and governance capacity, and effectively enhance the effectiveness of ecological environment governance.
Guaranteeing ecological well-being and rights in the form of a code demonstrates the fundamental position of putting the people at the center. Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization emphasizes adhering to ecological benefits for the people, ecological benefits for the people, and ecology for the people. Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law emphasizes guaranteeing citizens' basic political rights to participate in democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision, and guaranteeing citizens' economic, cultural, social, environmental, and other rights. The compilation of the Environmental and Ecological Code has always adhered to the fundamental position of putting the people at the center, and has taken responding to the people's new expectations and requirements from "hoping for warmth and fullness" to "hoping for environmental protection" and from "seeking survival" to "seeking ecology" as the direction of efforts. On the one hand, it takes guaranteeing public health and ecological environment rights as the legislative purpose, adheres to problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and result-oriented approaches, makes clear provisions for solving prominent ecological environment problems that the people strongly reflect, and uses the thinking and methods of the rule of law to ensure that the people live in a safe and beautiful environment, continuously enhancing ecological well-being and making the law full of people's livelihood temperature. On the other hand, it guarantees and expands citizens' relevant rights to participate in ecological environment governance. The Environmental and Ecological Code makes provisions for information disclosure and public participation, better realizing citizens' right to know, right to participate, right to express, and right to supervise, making the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable. The compilation of the Environmental and Ecological Code is a vivid practice of the Party's original aspiration and mission in ecological civilization construction, fully demonstrating the sincere people-centered feelings of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization and Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law.
The Inheritance, Development, and Legal Theoretical Sublimation of Outstanding Chinese Traditional Legal Culture and Ecological Culture
Looking back at the glorious history of Chinese civilization, from the *Fa Jing* (法经) and *Tanglü Shuyi* (唐律疏议) to the *Da Qing Lüli* (大清律例), the compilation of legal codes has always been an important symbol of the continuous and unique Chinese legal system; from Confucianism and Taoism to Legalism, "harmony between man and nature" (天人合一) and "Tao follows nature" (道法自然) have always been the cultural roots that are integrated into the marrow and are constantly growing in the Chinese nation. The Environmental and Ecological Code is rooted in the profound cultural soil of Chinese civilization, safeguards the ecological environment foundation for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation with scientific legislative theory, complete legislative principles, and systematic legislative structure, embodies the legal wisdom of creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding Chinese traditional legal culture and ecological culture, and promotes the vigorous vitality of Chinese rule of law civilization in the new era.
From "integration of various laws" to "domain-type code," inheriting and promoting the legal culture and legislative technology of "compiling classics in prosperous times." Ancient China formed a legal culture of revising, sorting out, and compiling national codes and systems in every prosperous era to benefit the present and set an example for future generations. Ecological environment legislation itself has the characteristics of a "domain law" that is problem-oriented and comprehensively uses various legal adjustment methods, which is in line with the "integration of various laws" form of traditional Chinese codes. The compilation of the Environmental and Ecological Code combines the needs of the times to promote the innovative development of legislative technology on the basis of inheriting the codification concepts of "implying Tao in skills" (寓道于术) and "combining rites and laws" (礼法合治) and the codification methods of "following categories" (以类相从) and "collecting categories into chapters" (集类为篇) in the Chinese legal system. Facing the ecological environment legal system, which includes more than 30 laws, more than 100 administrative regulations, and more than 1,000 local regulations, we fully utilize the modern codification methods of "extracting common factors" and the "moderate codification" model to compile a "domain-type code" that comprehensively uses administrative, civil, and criminal means to protect the ecological environment. In particular, the general provisions of the Environmental and Ecological Code, as general institutional norms in the ecological environment field, extract, abstract, and unify the common and basic systems scattered in more than 30 separate laws, and stipulate important legal principles and basic, comprehensive, and universal legal systems in the ecological environment field, laying the foundation for forming a rule system that is internally unified, logically self-consistent, and structurally rigorous. This systematic integration fundamentally avoids the situation of separate laws "treating the head when it hurts, treating the foot when it hurts" (头痛医头，脚痛医脚 - tóu tòng yī tóu, jiǎo tòng yī jiǎo - "treat the head when it hurts, treat the foot when it hurts," to deal with problems in a piecemeal, reactive way) and even conflicting with each other, greatly improving the systematicness, integrity, coordination, and timeliness of ecological environment legislation, and is the contemporary inheritance and innovation of the legislative wisdom and legal culture of the Chinese legal system pursuing "taking the code as the key link" (以典为纲) and "having codes and rules" (有典有则).
From philosophical thought to legal concepts, creatively transforming the ecological wisdom and cultural traditions of "controlling destiny and using it" (制天命而用之) and "praising the transformation and nurturing of heaven and earth" (赞天地之化育). The Environmental and Ecological Code is a product of modern rule of law. The compilation of the Environmental and Ecological Code is not simply writing the rich ecological wisdom and cultural traditions formed by the Chinese nation since ancient times into law, but rather conducting modern transformation, legal expression, and institutional construction on the basis of careful identification. It transcends the anthropocentric legal view, takes the ecological philosophical thoughts contained in outstanding Chinese traditional ecological culture such as "harmony between man and nature" (天人合一), "Tao follows nature" (道法自然), and "benevolence to the people and love for things" (仁民爱物) as its roots, inherits the ecological wisdom of "moderate use" (取用有度) and the ecological ethics of "advising you not to hit the birds in the third month of spring, the children are waiting for their mother to return in the nest" (劝君莫打三春鸟，儿在巢中望母归), activates the concept of "ecological environment" in the Constitution, and on this basis, derives core legal concept groups such as ecological environment rights and interests, ecological environment protection, ecological environment impact assessment, ecological environment damage compensation, and ecological environment public interest litigation, linking the chapter structure, management system and mechanism, legal responsibility and relief system of the Environmental and Ecological Code, forming a Chinese independent ecological environment legal discourse system that expresses the natural view that mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands are a community of life, the value of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, and the development view that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. This not only demonstrates the code's advanced nature and leadership, embodies the ecological concern and intergenerational equity pursuit responsible for the earth's community of life and future generations, but also enables the ancient ecological wisdom such as "controlling destiny and using it" (制天命而用之) and "praising the transformation and nurturing of heaven and earth" (赞天地之化育) to achieve a leap from philosophical thought to legal concepts and even institutional forms in China's rule of law practice in the 21st century, and radiate strong cultural vitality.
A Major Measure to Improve the Socialist Rule of Law System with Chinese Characteristics from the Perspective of Ecological Environment
The compilation of the Environmental and Ecological Code is to solve the deep-seated contradictions such as the dispersion of ecological environment legislation and the restriction of governance effectiveness, and to systematically integrate, compile, revise, and integrate the existing ecological environment legal system, mechanisms, and rules and norms in China, adapt to the new situation and new requirements, carry out necessary institutional innovation, and form a codified rule system. This is a major measure to comprehensively implement the provisions, principles, and spirit of the Constitution and improve the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics from the perspective of the ecological environment. China will form an ecological environment legal system led by the Environmental and Ecological Code and jointly composed of relevant special laws, making the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics advance with the times, and be more scientific, complete, unified, and authoritative.
Implementing the provisions of the Constitution, solving the problem of legislative dispersion, and promoting the "chemical reaction" of different legal rules. China's Constitution stipulates the goal of "building our country into a strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful modern socialist power," determines the function of "the state protects and improves the living environment and ecological environment," and empowers the State Council (国务院) to lead and manage the construction of ecological civilization, laying the constitutional foundation for compiling the Environmental and Ecological Code. The Environmental and Ecological Code is based on the Constitution, and in response to the problems of cross-repetition, contradictions, and insufficient connection in some laws, it systematically integrates and innovates the relevant rules scattered in different legal departments such as administrative law and economic law, and constructs a "general-branch-general" five-part structure of "general provisions, pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, green and low-carbon development, legal responsibility, and supplementary provisions" according to the theoretical logic and practical logic of ecological environment protection, making the huge ecological environment legislation achieve a "chemical reaction" from "physical integration," greatly enhancing the scientificity, systematicness, stability, and authority of ecological environment legislation, providing stable legal expectations and clear behavioral guidelines for various entities, and laying a solid rule foundation for comprehensively promoting strict law enforcement, fair justice, and universal law-abiding.
Breaking down interest barriers, solving regional divisions, and helping to build a collaborative and efficient multi-party governance pattern. Ecological civilization construction is a profound change involving production methods, lifestyles, ways of thinking, and values, involving the readjustment of the relationship between the interests of the state, collectives, and individuals. The compilation of the Environmental and Ecological Code is to scientifically adjust various complex interest relationships between people, people and society, and people and nature through a systematic institutional arrangement, so as to realize the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. In response to practical problems such as multi-headed law enforcement, multi-level law enforcement, and difficulties in regional linkage, the Environmental and Ecological Code breaks down the barriers of departmental interests and regional divisions, constructs an integrated protection and systematic governance system and mechanism for mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, maximizes the balance between the two needs of economic and social development for protecting the ecological environment and utilizing natural resources, promotes the transformation of ecological environment governance from factor-based governance to systematic governance, promotes the coordinated cooperation of different departments and different regions, and realizes the simultaneous promotion of high-quality development and high-level protection. The Environmental and Ecological Code embodies the reform thinking of gathering ecological consensus with scientific concepts, breaking through governance bottlenecks with institutional innovation, and protecting reform exploration with forward-looking regulations, providing a strong legal guarantee for forming a "big environmental protection" pattern with clear guidance, scientific decision-making, effective execution, effective incentives, multi-party participation, and benign interaction.
Filling institutional shortcomings, improving the responsibility system, and weaving a tight legal net of strict prevention at the source, strict management in the process, and severe punishment for consequences. In response to the problems of heavy pollution prevention and control and light ecological protection, heavy end-of-pipe treatment and light source prevention, heavy administrative orders and light market regulation, low cost of violation and high cost of compliance in some previous legislations, the Environmental and Ecological Code adheres to both filling shortcomings, strengthening weaknesses, filling gaps, and improving quality, strengthening functions, and promoting advantages, and systematically upgrades the current relevant legal systems. Improve source prevention systems such as ecological environment zoning control and ecological environment impact assessment, and establish the core position of the pollutant discharge permit system in the supervision and management system of fixed pollution sources. Guarantee ecological security, and stipulate ecological environment risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, and control systems. Promote green and low-carbon development, and establish legal mechanisms such as carbon footprint management, reflecting the characteristics of the times and forward-lookingness. Establish and improve the legal responsibility system, so that violators bear huge violation costs; clarify the legal responsibility investigation procedures, and improve the ecological environment damage compensation system and ecological environment public interest litigation system with distinct Chinese characteristics, and install "teeth" for the effective implementation of the Environmental and Ecological Code.
A Model Work Contributing Chinese Wisdom and Chinese Solutions and Leading Global Environmental Governance
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Ecological prosperity leads to civilization prosperity, and ecological decline leads to civilization decline." Ecological environment problems such as climate change, biodiversity reduction, and environmental pollution are severe challenges that all mankind must face together. Standing at the global high point of ecological environment rule of law construction, grasping the development law of ecological civilization, drawing on the wisdom and concepts of outstanding Chinese traditional legal culture and ecological culture, and learning from the ecological environment legislative experience of various countries, the Environmental and Ecological Code is a major achievement of world codification in the 21st century and an important product of the institutionalization and codification of a new form of human civilization, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to leading global environmental governance.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Civilization thrives when the ecosystem thrives, and civilization declines when the ecosystem declines." Ecological and environmental problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution are severe challenges that all mankind must face together. The Ecological and Environmental Code, standing at the global high point of ecological and environmental rule of law construction, grasps the laws of ecological civilization development, draws on the wisdom and concepts of excellent Chinese traditional legal culture and ecological culture, and learns from the ecological and environmental legislation experience of various countries. It is a major achievement of 21st-century world codification and an important product of the institutionalization and codification of a new form of human civilization, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to leading global environmental governance.
It provides a Chinese paradigm of "moderate codification" for the ecological and environmental legislation of various countries. From a global perspective, countries have different paradigm choices for ecological and environmental legislation. Many of the countries that have already formulated codes are medium-sized developed countries such as France, Sweden, and Italy. It is unique in the world for a country like China, the world's second-largest economy, with a population of more than 1.4 billion, complex and diverse ecological and environmental problems, and the world's largest developing country undergoing rapid development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, to compile an ecological and environmental code in a systematic way. China not only includes all existing relevant laws in the scope of compilation, but also proposes a "moderate codification" compilation plan, forming a new codification model for adjusting the relationship between the two complex giant systems of human society and natural ecology, which not only reflects the code's pertinence, applicability, and operability, but also maintains its openness, compatibility, and adaptability to deal with new problems, providing a legal model for other developing countries and even developed countries to solve complex ecological and environmental problems through codification.
It provides Chinese solutions for global environmental governance that assume the responsibility of a major country and demonstrate the responsibility of a major country. The Ecological and Environmental Code adheres to the coordinated promotion of domestic rule of law and foreign-related rule of law, actively fulfills China's international obligations in ecological and environmental protection, and gives full play to the state's main role in the implementation of international law. On the one hand, it clearly stipulates the strengthening of international cooperation in the field of ecological environment, fulfilling international treaty obligations, and implementing the relevant requirements of international environmental conventions such as the "Convention on Biological Diversity" and the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" that China has ratified into the code, clearly showing to the international community that China is a firm defender, participant, and builder of international rules. On the other hand, it strengthens the construction of foreign-related legal systems, improves the extraterritorial jurisdiction rules of the Ecological and Environmental Code, which not only safeguards national sovereignty and national ecological and environmental interests, but also provides a legal basis for protecting the common home of mankind such as the high seas. In addition, the ecological product value realization, regional collaborative governance, and ecological and environmental public interest litigation systems established and improved based on China's successful practice of ecological civilization construction also have a leading role in the development and improvement of relevant international rules and the promotion of the transformation of the global environmental governance system.
It provides Chinese wisdom for building a clean and beautiful world with harmonious coexistence between man and nature. To some extent, ecological and environmental problems are the product of traditional industrial civilization and the ecological philosophy of "conquering nature" and "subject-object dichotomy" behind it. Facts have proved that traditional industrial civilization cannot achieve sustainable development, and a new form of human civilization must be created. The Ecological and Environmental Code constructs a rule system based on the philosophy of "man and nature are a community of life," promotes the construction of Chinese-style modernization with harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and takes the road of civilized development with production development, affluent life, and good ecology, which transcends traditional industrial civilization and meets the realistic needs of building a global ecological civilization. It is not only an institutional contribution to the global environmental governance system, but also provides important enlightenment for exploring the development philosophy and civilization paradigm that adapt to the needs of global sustainable development. The Ecological and Environmental Code, a monumental work that embodies the spirit of the times, the expectations of the people, and Chinese wisdom, promotes the solution of common, comprehensive, or universal problems restricting high-quality development and high-level protection in the field of ecological environment in a comprehensive and codified manner, and will surely become a strong rule of law engine for promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and push human rule of law civilization and global ecological civilization to a new height of development.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Environment and Resources Protection Committee of the National People's Congress)
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With the vigorous development of the platform economy and the digital economy, new employment groups such as delivery workers, food delivery riders, online car-hailing drivers, and e-commerce practitioners are constantly growing. They are busy day and night in the streets and alleys, communities and parks of cities, and have become an indispensable force in the operation of the economy and society. New employment form laborers in China are mainly young people, mainly engaged in production and living service industries. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the development of new employment groups, emphasizing that "Party committees and governments at all levels must care about them and provide good services for their lives, work, and study" and "Each period has its own problems, and each group has its own difficulties. We must pay attention to them and constantly solve them." We must adhere to the people-centered development thought, focus on improving the service management system and mechanism for new employment groups, and solve the most concerning, most direct, and most realistic interest issues for them in a targeted manner, so as to better promote their development and stimulate their creative vitality to contribute to Chinese-style modernization.
From the perspective of Marxist political economics, the "newness" of new employment groups is reflected in two aspects: productive forces and production relations. From the perspective of productive forces, driven by a new round of industrial revolution, new business forms represented by the platform economy, characterized by informatization, digitalization, and intelligence, are changing with each passing day, and the scale of aggregated laborers is constantly expanding, with young laborers in their prime as the main body. From the perspective of production relations, different from the traditional relatively stable and centralized employment model, new employment groups show significant characteristics such as the widespread distribution of fields, the flexibility of employment forms, the complexity of labor relations, the decentralization of work scenarios, and the online nature of work methods, which also reflect the employment preferences of young people in pursuit of individuality. With the accelerated breakthroughs in a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the impact of artificial intelligence technology on employment will become increasingly profound. The traditional job labor force replaced by artificial intelligence will mainly flow to the flexible employment market, and the new job positions created by artificial intelligence also show flexible characteristics. The trend of new employment groups further developing and growing and their status in the youth employment pattern rising is irreversible.
Focusing on promoting high-quality development and meeting the needs of youth development, taking improving the corresponding system and mechanism as a key starting point, and improving the service management level of new employment groups are conducive to better playing the active role of this group in improving production and living services, smoothing economic circulation, ensuring urban operation, and improving people's quality of life. Strengthening the livelihood security and education and training of new employment groups helps to closely combine benefiting people's livelihood with promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people, which can not only improve the income and public service status of new employment groups, but also enhance their consumption capacity and willingness, and also more fully release their innovation and creativity, and promote the high-quality development of new formats, new models, and new scenarios of the platform economy and the digital economy. Flexible employment and new employment forms are important employment methods for young migrant workers, and improving the service level of new employment groups is an important entry point for deeply promoting people-oriented new urbanization.
In recent years, positive progress has been made in the construction of the system and policy system for the service management of new employment groups. From the requirements of the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) to "strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of flexible employment and new employment form laborers" to the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposing to "promote the healthy development of flexible employment and new employment forms," the top-level design for the protection of the rights and interests and service support of new employment groups has gradually become clear. In March 2023, the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) was officially established, and one of its important functions is to guide the party building work of new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. In January 2026, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) stated that it would formulate the "Measures for Guaranteeing the Basic Rights and Interests of New Employment Form Laborers." At present, 17 provinces in China have carried out pilot projects for occupational injury protection for new employment form personnel, with a cumulative participation of more than 25 million people. However, at the same time, problems such as insufficient labor rights protection, lack of education and training, and inadequate public services for new employment groups still exist to a certain extent, and it is necessary to further improve the system and mechanism and continuously improve the service level.
Strengthen the labor rights protection of new employment groups. Some places such as Anhui (安徽) and Xiamen (厦门) have taken the lead in piloting and strengthening the construction of relevant local laws and regulations, which has accumulated useful experience for the national top-level design. It is necessary to accelerate the promotion of special laws and regulations and system construction to protect the basic rights and interests of new employment groups in terms of labor remuneration, rest and vacation, labor safety, social security, and social participation. Build an industry-wide and regional new employment group rights protection network of "government-led, multi-party shared, and social collaboration," and improve the new employment group labor dispute mediation mechanism. Improve platform labor rules and algorithm supervision systems, promote the development of platform labor rules and algorithm consultation, and continue to carry out special actions to govern typical problems of network platform algorithms. Further expand the coverage of occupational injury protection for new employment form personnel, accelerate the improvement of relevant system regulations, and promote flexible employment and new employment form personnel to participate in basic employee medical insurance and basic pension insurance.
Improve the employment support and training system for new employment groups. Give play to the role of "doorstep" grassroots public employment service stations and "15-minute" employment service circles to strengthen employment service support for new employment groups. Improve the market supply and demand information release, job recruitment, and employment guidance mechanism, promote live streaming job postings and remote interviews, and accurately push job information in a targeted manner. Strengthening the education and training and capacity building of new employment groups is the fundamental way to promote their high-quality and full employment. For example, in recent years, Beijing (北京) has promoted the construction of a "friendly city" for new employment groups, running schools, opening training courses, and setting up cloud classrooms to provide guarantees for the development of new employment groups. It is necessary to integrate the forces and resources of government departments, platform enterprises, expert mentors, and social colleges and universities to explore effective ways to improve the growth of new employment groups. It is necessary to provide training courses that combine the actual needs of new employment groups, and also consider their long-term career development, conform to the development trends of advanced manufacturing, the digital economy, and other industries, and layout to strengthen relevant professional knowledge and skills training.
Promote the social integration of new employment groups. Groups such as delivery workers, food delivery riders, and truck drivers have strong mobility, high labor intensity, and face specific difficulties such as difficulty entering doors, difficulty eating, difficulty parking, and difficulty resting. It is necessary to effectively promote the equal coverage of basic public services to new employment groups and solve their livelihood problems such as social security, medical care, housing, and childbirth and parenting, and children's enrollment. Promote the construction of new employment group-friendly cities, friendly communities, friendly business districts, and friendly buildings, strengthen the construction of places such as "Youth Homes" (青年之家), "Love Stations" (爱心驿站), and "Driver Homes" (司机之家), and provide comprehensive services with wide coverage, multiple levels, and practicality for new employment groups.
Strengthen the party building and social governance of new employment groups. Strengthen party building in emerging fields, promote the "two coverages" of party organizations and work through separate establishment, regional joint establishment, and industry-wide unified establishment, do a good job in ideological guidance for new employment groups, and strengthen the fortress function of grassroots party organizations in serving and managing new employment groups. On the one hand, in response to the characteristics and dynamics of new employment groups, give play to the role of grassroots governments, mass autonomous organizations, mass organizations, and social organizations to strengthen comprehensive management and prevent and resolve social contradictions and disputes. On the other hand, encourage and guide new employment groups to participate in community governance, volunteer services, and various social activities to promote joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits.
(The author is a researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委宏观经济研究院).)
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March 22 this year marks the 34th "World Water Day," and the 39th "China Water Week" kicks off simultaneously. The United Nations has designated this year's "World Water Day" theme as "Water and Gender." The theme of China's commemoration of this year's "World Water Day" and "China Water Week" is "National Water Network, Century Blueprint."
China's basic water situation has always been characterized by summer floods and winter droughts, with water resources being extremely unevenly distributed in time and space. China's per capita water resources are only 35% of the world average, and nearly 70% of the country's urban agglomerations, more than 90% of energy bases, and more than 60% of major grain-producing areas are located in water-scarce regions. The mismatch between the water resource pattern and the development and protection of national land space and the layout of population and economic development is prominent. As the impact of global climate change intensifies, the suddenness, abnormality, extremity, and unpredictability of disasters such as rainstorms, floods, and droughts in China are becoming more prominent. At the same time, new industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization are developing rapidly, and the demand for water resources is still growing. There is an urgent need to accelerate the improvement of network-based water conservancy infrastructure, give full play to the advantages and network effects of the super-large-scale water network project system, enhance the ability to prevent and control flood disasters, coordinate and allocate water resources, and ensure urban and rural water supply, so as to achieve the unity of economic, social, ecological, and safety benefits.
Successfully achieve the 2025 node target set by the "National Water Network Construction Plan Outline."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The construction of the water network will be another century-long blueprint for the Chinese nation in the course of water management, and it will be recorded in the annals of history."
Accelerating the construction of the national water network is a major strategic deployment made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally planned, deployed, and promoted the construction of the national water network, and conducted on-the-spot investigations and research on major national water network projects such as the Three Gorges (三峡) and the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调), and made a series of important expositions and instructions on the construction of the national water network. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) and the State Council (国务院) issued the "National Water Network Construction Plan Outline," which is a major event with important milestone significance in the history of water conservancy development in China. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the water conservancy department has worked with relevant departments and local authorities to fully promote the construction of the national water network, and the investment in water conservancy construction has exceeded one trillion yuan for four consecutive years. The coverage rate of the national water network has reached 80.3%, and the 2025 node target set by the "National Water Network Construction Plan Outline" has been successfully achieved, effectively ensuring flood control safety, water supply safety, food security, and ecological security.
First, the flood and drought disaster prevention and control system has been continuously improved. A number of strategic flood control projects, such as the Gu Xian (古贤) Water Conservancy Hub on the Yellow River (黄河) and the second phase of the Huaihe River (淮河) Estuary Waterway, have been started. 17,998 dangerous reservoirs have been reinforced, and 3,741 small and medium-sized rivers have been systematically managed. The three-year action plan for the standardization of important embankments on the main streams of the seven major rivers has been fully completed. 21 national flood storage and detention areas have completed their planning and construction tasks. 212 water conservancy rain-measuring radars and more than 133,000 hydrological stations have been built. It has effectively resisted the historically rare floods in the Yellow River (黄河), Haihe River (海河), and Pearl River (珠江), and achieved no breaches of important embankments of major rivers and no collapses of various reservoirs for four consecutive years. The proportion of flood disaster losses in the gross domestic product has decreased from an average of 0.28% per year during the "13th Five-Year Plan" to 0.17%. It has effectively responded to the historically rare droughts in the Yangtze River (长江), Pearl River (珠江) and other river basins, and effectively ensured the safety of drinking water for people in drought-stricken areas and the demand for seasonal irrigation water for crops in irrigation areas.
Second, the ability to optimize the allocation of water resources has been significantly improved. 181 major water conservancy projects, such as the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调) project to divert water from the Yangtze River (长江) to supplement the Han River (汉江), have been started. A number of projects, such as the water diversion project from the Yangtze River (长江) to the Huaihe River (淮河), have been completed and put into operation. The eastern and middle routes of the first phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调) project have cumulatively diverted more than 87 billion cubic meters of water, benefiting 195 million people. The national cultivated land irrigation area exceeds 1.09 billion mu, the cultivated land irrigation rate reaches 56.2%, the grain output from the cultivated land irrigation area accounts for 80.76% of the total national grain output, the popularization rate of tap water in rural areas reaches 96%, the proportion of rural population covered by large-scale water supply projects reaches 71%, and the proportion of county-level unified management of rural water supply reaches 72%.
Third, the ecological environment of rivers and lakes has been fundamentally improved. The target tasks for the restoration of 88 "mother rivers (lakes)" have been fully completed. A large number of rivers that have been cut off for many years, such as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭大运河), the Yongding River (永定河), and the Xiliao River (西辽河), have been fully connected. A large number of shrinking lakes, such as Baiyangdian (白洋淀), have restored their healthy ecosystems. A large number of exhausted ancient springs, such as the Jinci Spring (晋祠泉) in Shanxi (山西), have been revived. The situation of "all rivers are dry and all waters are polluted" in the Haihe River (海河) basin has been fundamentally reversed. The shallow groundwater and deep groundwater in the over-extraction treatment area of groundwater in North China have risen by 3.76 meters and 7.65 meters respectively compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan." The newly added area of soil erosion control exceeds 340,000 square kilometers, and the soil and water conservation rate exceeds 73%. The water quality safety of the Danjiangkou Reservoir (丹江口水库) and its upstream basin is effectively guaranteed.
Fourth, the digital twin water conservancy system is accelerating its improvement. The integrated monitoring and sensing system of "space, sky, ground, water, and engineering" is accelerating its construction. Remote sensing satellites, water conservancy rain-measuring radars, and dam hidden danger detection equipment have been put into application. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has collected 72 types of 26 million water conservancy physical object element information. The "high-fidelity" digital flow field simulation mathematical model system is accelerating its construction. Breakthroughs have been made in the research and development of the "cloud-rain" short-term precipitation forecasting model, the distributed hydrological model, and the water temperature and ice condition prediction model for the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调) project. The "one map of the national water network" has been initially constructed, and the national water network dispatch center and big data center are accelerating their construction. The construction of safe dams, ecological dams, and intelligent dams has been deepened. 11 key projects, such as the digital twin Three Gorges (三峡) and the digital twin South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调), have been put into practical application. 49 digital twin irrigation areas have been piloted, and the construction of 32 digital twin water diversion projects has achieved phased results, effectively empowering flood control, water resources management and allocation, and other business applications.
Promote the system integration and integration of water network projects and enhance the safety resilience and operational sustainability of water network projects.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China has entered a critical period of laying the foundation and fully exerting its efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. To better meet the people's growing needs for a better life, better help the high-quality development of the economy and society, promote the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and ensure China's water security at a higher level, new missions and tasks have been assigned to the construction of the national water network. The "National Water Network Construction Plan Outline" clarifies that by 2035, the overall pattern of the national water network will be basically formed, the main skeleton and main artery of the national water network will be gradually built, and the provincial, municipal, and county water networks will be basically improved. We must thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and the spirit of the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, earnestly implement the deployment of the Fourth Plenary Session, unswervingly practice General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) water management thinking of "prioritizing water conservation, spatial equilibrium, systematic governance, and making efforts with both hands" and the spirit of his important expositions on water management, and optimize the layout, structure, and functions of water network projects in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the State Council (国务院), promote the system integration and integration of water network projects, and enhance the safety resilience and operational sustainability of water network projects.
Anchor the goal of modern water network construction. Anchoring the construction goal of "complete system, safe and reliable, intensive and efficient, green and intelligent, smooth circulation, and orderly regulation and control," we must adhere to the overall situation and ensure people's livelihood, adhere to water conservation first and spatial equilibrium, adhere to the harmony between man and water and green ecology, adhere to systematic planning and risk control, adhere to reform and innovation and make efforts with both hands, coordinate stock and increment, and take networking, supplementing the network, and strengthening the chain as the focus, and accelerate the construction of a national water security guarantee system that is compatible with the basic realization of socialist modernization.
Grasp the overall layout of modern water network construction. Build the "outline" of the water network, build the middle route of the Yangtze River (长江) water diversion project to supplement the Han River (汉江) to a high standard, deepen the preliminary demonstration of the western and eastern routes of the second phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调) project, and promote the planning and construction of a number of major inter-basin and inter-regional water diversion projects. Weave the "meshes" of the water network, promote the interconnection of regional river and lake water systems and water diversion projects, and promote interconnection, joint regulation, and joint supply. Lay the "knots" of the water network, accelerate the construction of control and regulation projects and key water source projects, basically build a modern reservoir operation and management matrix, and build a number of safe dams, ecological dams, and intelligent dams. Open up the "last mile" of the water network, accelerate the modernization construction and transformation of irrigation areas, promote the comprehensive implementation of the "3+1" standardization construction and management model for rural water supply, and promote the effective connection of water networks at all levels.
Coordinate "hard investment" and "soft construction" and innovate the water conservancy investment and financing mechanism.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to strengthen the construction of the national water network and enhance the ability to prevent and control flood disasters, coordinate and allocate water resources, and ensure urban and rural water supply. The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) is focusing on key tasks, concentrating its efforts, and striving to draw a grand blueprint for the national water network.
Grasp the key tasks of modern water network construction. Accelerate the construction of a flood control and disaster reduction project system based on river basins as units, transform the traditional flood management concepts and models, build a systematic solution for flood control, flood utilization, and flood shaping, improve the river basin flood control project system, the rain and water situation monitoring and forecasting system, and the flood and drought disaster prevention and control work system, and promote the modernization of the flood control safety system and capabilities. Accelerate the construction of a water resource allocation and water supply guarantee system across river basins and regions, coordinate the collaborative and integrated construction of the national backbone network and provincial, municipal, and county water networks, promote the high-quality development of the follow-up projects of the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调), accelerate the construction of backbone water transmission and distribution channels and important regulation and storage nodes, and optimize the water resource allocation pattern. Accelerate the construction of a water ecological protection and management system focusing on ecologically fragile areas, continue to build river ethics, vigorously restore the ecological environment of rivers and lakes, strengthen the systematic management and ecological protection of important rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, comprehensively build safe rivers, life rivers, and happy rivers, and promote the harmonious coexistence of man and rivers. Accelerate the construction of a digital twin water network with forecasting, early warning, prediction, and planning functions, promote the upgrading and digital and intelligent transformation of water conservancy infrastructure, improve the integrated monitoring and sensing system of "space, sky, ground, water, and engineering," the "high-fidelity" digital flow field simulation mathematical model system, and improve the utility-oriented digital twin platform, and comprehensively improve the digital, networked, and intelligent level of water network construction, operation, and management.
Improve the modern water network construction, operation, and management mechanism. Coordinate "hard investment" and "soft construction," innovate the water conservancy investment and financing mechanism, cultivate more water conservancy infrastructure investment trust fund project issuance and listing, promote the pilot project of trading newly added cultivated land indicators for water network construction, expand green financial services such as "water conservation loans," and attract social capital to participate in project construction and operation. Actively explore and standardize the promotion of market-based transactions of water rights, deepen the reform of water supply prices for water conservancy projects, and expand the channels for realizing the value of water ecological products. Improve the construction, operation, and management mechanism of major water conservancy projects, strictly supervise the quality of the entire process of project approval, construction, and acceptance, and ensure that the construction of the modern water network can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, and with the spiritual realm of not necessarily achieving success in my term and the historical responsibility of definitely achieving success in my term, forge ahead, work hard and practically, accelerate the construction of a modern water network, and lay a solid water conservancy foundation for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
(The author is the Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部))
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Chenggong District (呈贡区), Kunming (昆明), Yunnan (云南) Province, midday, the sun is at its peak. Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞), a researcher at the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences Flower Research Institute (云南省农业科学院花卉研究所), is busy in the greenhouse. From the initial reliance on imported products to the long lines of domestically bred Chinese seedlings waiting to enter the greenhouse, Cai Yanfei, 43, and her team have carved out a new path for the breakthrough of cut flower varieties, moving from cross-border to breaking the circle.
In 2021, Cai Yanfei and her team studied soilless cultivation of roses. At that time, many domestic enterprises copied foreign models, but high investment did not translate into high returns.
How to solve the problem? Cai Yanfei's idea is to adapt to local conditions. Yunnan (云南) has low latitude, high altitude, and strong light. Why can't the greenhouse be "downgraded"? After repeated adjustments by the team, the density of the lights on the roof was reduced by 1/3; the lighting time each day was also significantly reduced, and the cost was reduced by 1/3.
With the cost reduced, will the quality of the flowers also decrease? To verify the effect, the team planted mainstream varieties in the greenhouse and sent them to the Dounan Flower Market (斗南花市) for grading and auction after harvesting.
The data is the most convincing: the proportion of A-grade and B-grade flowers exceeded 55%, which is on par with first-class foreign greenhouses.
Why take the cut flowers to the trading market for auction verification? "Agricultural research cannot only focus on projects, but also closely focus on the interests of farmers. It is only convincing after being tested by the market," said Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞).
Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) quickly had a new focus: over 90% of the "roses" sold in the domestic market are foreign rose varieties. Every time a flower is sold, a variety patent fee needs to be paid to foreign breeders. Previously, Yunnan (云南) was not short of rose breeding teams, but very few varieties were actually promoted and planted on a large scale by flower farmers.
"Since we can grow other people's well, why can't we cultivate our own?" Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) knows that breaking the situation is not easy. However, with the technology of soilless cultivation of roses and years of camellia breeding experience, Cai Yanfei's (蔡艳飞) team believes: "To catch up in a few years or more than ten years, there is no shortcut, we must rely on diligence and improve efficiency. Foreign countries screen a batch every six months, and we will carry out rolling selection and breeding throughout the year."
Before burying themselves in the study of hybridization, Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) and her team first conducted market research. What flower shape do consumers like? Which color sells better? She and her team asked flower farmers, wholesalers, and e-commerce companies. "It must be beautiful, so that consumers are willing to buy it; it must be easy to grow, so that farmers are willing to grow it; and it must be resistant to storage and transportation, so that wholesalers are willing to purchase it."
After 3 years, the diverse and colorful rose superior strains in the breeding base of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences Flower Technology Innovation Center (云南农科院花卉技术创新中心) gradually replaced the introduced foreign varieties. Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) told reporters that the number of plants selected and bred in the base has exceeded 20,000. However, only 128 varieties have actually been applied for registration.
Breeding is not difficult, but passing the market test is difficult. There are uncertainties in new varieties from planting to sales, and growers often prefer to use mature varieties; however, if no one plants new varieties and no one sells them in the market, they cannot be verified by the market.
Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) took the initiative to invite companies to select seeds at the base. "The base has become a supermarket for new flower varieties. Growers come to the base, choose whichever variety they like, and then we discuss the name of the variety with the growers," she said.
At first, she was worried that everyone would flock to popular varieties, but she found that there were only three or four overlaps among more than 100 varieties. Each company faces a different market. Some make high-end gift boxes, and some do e-commerce live broadcasts, so the demand is quite different.
In order to take the lead in the market, Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) and her team focused on selecting Chinese-style roses. "In the past, roses needed to be imported, all the way across the ocean. Fragrance was the first factor to be abandoned in the research and development process. Our own cultivated roses are picked in the morning and put on the shelves immediately. There is no need to worry about fragrance loss, and we can select more fragrant varieties," she said.
In the second half of 2025, the team's rose breeding results continued to take shape, and naming new varieties became a problem. The team members consulted classics and came up with 128 names, but they always felt that something was missing.
Changing the way of thinking opens up a wider world. The team decided to shift from the traditional "researchers naming" to "open public co-creation." Netizens brainstormed and came up with many good names, but the one that led the voting by far was "Liu Baohua Rose (刘宝华月季)". Netizens said: "Because my second uncle is called Liu Baohua (刘宝华)."
At first, Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞) and her team were a little resistant to this name and specially opened a live broadcast, the theme of which was "My name is not Liu Baohua (刘宝华)."
Unexpectedly, the live broadcast room became even more lively, and netizens began to seriously explain the rationality of the name. The research team was persuaded, and "Baohua (宝华)" was officially adopted. Taking this as an opportunity, the team successively launched a series of new variety names such as "Ordinary Light (平凡之光)" and "Heroine (巾帼英雄)". Among them, "Jiaolong Rose (娇龙月季)" and "Wenxiu Rose (文秀月季)" quickly became popular. "We hope to use flower names to pay tribute to two outstanding grassroots cadres, Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) and He Jiaolong (贺娇龙), and remember their responsibilities and commitments," said Cai Yanfei (蔡艳飞).
Return to TopOn March 21st, thousands of acres of rapeseed flowers in Kecun Town (柯村镇), Yixian County (黟县), Huangshan City (黄山市), Anhui Province (安徽省) bloomed in competition, and the local area held the 16th Rapeseed Flower Appreciation Season, attracting many tourists to visit and sightsee.
As a strong agricultural industrial town, Kecun Town (柯村镇) is based on its endowment of ecological resources, takes the rapeseed flower sea as its characteristic carrier, increases the deep integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and builds a livable, workable and beautiful countryside.
Photo by Wang Wensheng (王文生) (People's Vision)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 22nd (Reporters Qu Xinming (屈信明) and Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧)) The National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) and the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) recently jointly issued the "Provisions on Explicitly Indicating the Comprehensive Financing Cost of Personal Loan Business." To accurately and completely reflect the actual financing cost borne by borrowers in personal loan business, the "Provisions" include all costs related to personal loans into the comprehensive financing cost, including but not limited to loan interest, installment fees, credit enhancement service fees and other financing costs that borrowers need to pay under normal performance circumstances, as well as overdue penalty interest and other contingent costs that need to be paid under default circumstances.
The "Provisions" clarify that when carrying out personal loan business, lenders shall display a comprehensive financing cost disclosure form to borrowers. Lenders include financial institutions and local financial organizations such as commercial banks, rural cooperative banks, rural credit cooperatives, auto finance companies, consumer finance companies, enterprise group finance companies, trust companies, and microfinance companies. The comprehensive financing cost disclosure form shall indicate the principal amount of the loan, and list each interest and fee item charged by the lender and its cooperative institutions, as well as the charging method, charging standard, and charging entity, and on this basis, comprehensively calculate the annualized comprehensive financing cost borne by the borrower under normal performance circumstances.
The relevant person in charge of the relevant departments of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) introduced that in recent years, there have been non-standard and opaque problems in the disclosure of interest and fee information in personal loan business, which can easily lead to financial consumer disputes and affect the effectiveness of interest rate policies. The formulation and promulgation of relevant regulatory provisions, by detailing the scope, operation methods and links of personal loan business interest and fee information disclosure, and clarifying the responsibilities of all parties, is conducive to better protecting the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers and smoothing the transmission of financial policies that benefit the people.
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At 9 a.m., Zeng Qian, the shop owner of a maternal and infant products store in Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center (浙江义乌全球数贸中心), Zhejiang (浙江), was already busy. The shop, covering more than 50 square meters, was filled with new baby silicone teething mitts, anti-colic soothing pacifiers, and other products just delivered from the factory.
Indian businessman Kapadia walked into the store to inquire about prices. Zeng Qian took out a calculator and quickly gave a quote. Kapadia wrote "one yuan less" on the quotation sheet. Zeng Qian pulled up the cost details and explained in English, calculating a new price. After communication, the two shook hands and closed the deal – the first business of the day was settled.
Such transactions happen every day in the Yiwu (义乌) market, some are face-to-face negotiations in shops, and some are online connections across time zones. Not far away, foreign business operator Risa sat in his shop, sending a lipstick shipment confirmation email to a customer in Mexico. His factory in Dongyang (东阳), Zhejiang (浙江) can produce 15,000 lipsticks every day, which are continuously shipped to countries such as Mexico, Azerbaijan, and the United Arab Emirates.
After the start of the new year, Yiwu's (义乌) small commodity foreign trade orders continue to be strong. The increasing number of orders has placed new demands on customs clearance efficiency.
"As soon as I open my eyes, there are hundreds of messages on my phone urging customs declaration," said Guo Qianyun (郭前云), customs declaration supervisor of Yiwu Shiyu Cheng Trade Co., Ltd. (义乌市域乘贸易有限公司). "Customs clearance efficiency is the lifeline of the enterprise, and relevant documents must be processed as soon as possible." In order to improve customs clearance efficiency, Yiwu Customs (义乌海关) has fully launched a guarantee mechanism to "accelerate" the export channel. Data shows that since the market opened, the company has handled the export of more than 200 standard containers, and "Yiwu (义乌) manufacturing" is accelerating to Southeast Asian and African markets.
Behind the efficient customs clearance is the hard-core support of technology and the stable guarantee of electricity.
At Yiwu Port (义乌港), container trucks drive into the automatic sealing channel, which can complete the transfer and sealing in 18 seconds without any manual intervention. This system, jointly developed by Hangzhou Customs (杭州海关) and Ningbo Customs (宁波海关), integrates the latest image recognition technology, allowing transit goods to be automatically released directly through the gate, greatly saving waiting time. In the Yiwu (Suxi) International Hub Port (义乌（苏溪）国际枢纽港), new equipment such as artificial intelligence glasses and intelligent cockpits are put into the front line of customs supervision; in the Yiwu Port Customs Supervision Area (义乌港海关监管场所), the roar of container truck engines rises and falls one after another, and more than a thousand vehicles full of goods drive from here to Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) every day; at Yiwu Railway Port (义乌铁路口岸), the Zhejiang China-Europe train (Yixinou) (浙江中欧班列（义新欧）) runs 5 trains per day on average... Time-saving and efficient cargo transportation helps Yiwu (义乌) strive for a good start. State Grid Yiwu Power Supply Company (国网义乌市供电公司) has tailored power supply solutions for commercial and trade scenarios, and ensures zero power interruption in key areas such as the International Trade City (国际商贸城) and Yiwu Port (义乌港) through the "full voltage dual power supply" mode and intelligent dispatching system.
Relying on exhibitions to expand the market and taking the initiative to compete for orders. Since the beginning of this year, Yiwu (义乌) has actively organized enterprises to participate in exhibitions and expand the market: on January 12, nearly 20 Yiwu (义乌) enterprises appeared at the 52nd Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair; on January 14, 10 enterprises formed a group to participate in the 22nd Marca by BolognaFiere; on February 17, 24 Yiwu (义乌) foreign trade enterprises participated in the 2026 Las Vegas Apparel & Textile Sourcing Show; on March 10, 17 Yiwu (义乌) enterprises brought new products to the 2026 42nd Panama International Trade Exhibition... Zhu Xiaotang (朱晓棠), Deputy Director of Yiwu Municipal Bureau of Commerce (义乌市商务局), said that Yiwu (义乌) plans to help 1,500 foreign trade enterprises participate in overseas exhibitions this year to build a bridge for enterprises to connect with the global market.
"This time we brought 120 products, and new products accounted for 70%," said Wang Kexin (王可欣), marketing director of Yiwu Jubang Toys Co., Ltd. (义乌聚邦玩具有限公司). Last July, the company started preparations for the Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair and invited customers simultaneously. As an "old face" who has participated in the exhibition for many years, she knows the value of the exhibition: "This is not only a display platform, but also a key channel to solve practical problems such as production and logistics with global customers face-to-face."
The "Bobo Goose" that appeared at the Yiwu (义乌) branch venue of this year's Spring Festival Gala has been extended to more than 10 categories and more than 200 single products. "This year's sales are expected to reach 40 million yuan. We will continue to develop new products to bring Chinese original IP to the world," said Huang Changchao (黄昌潮), President of Yiwu Cultural and Sporting Goods Industry Association (义乌市文化用品行业协会).
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On March 12, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress adopted the "Environmental Code of the People's Republic of China" (中华人民共和国生态环境法典). The code actively implements the "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" strategy, pioneering the establishment of a green and low-carbon development section, which has forward-looking significance in the history of world environmental code compilation.
Achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a major decision and deployment made by China from the height of being responsible for human civilization, based on the inherent requirements of achieving sustainable development.
"Adhere to green and low-carbon development as a fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems." Responding to the needs of the times and reflecting the characteristics of the times, the Environmental Code passed by the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress has a dedicated section on "Green and Low-Carbon Development." Integrating the concept of green and low-carbon into the entire process and various fields of development will provide a more complete legal guarantee for achieving the "dual carbon" goals and accelerating the construction of a beautiful China.
Promoting the adjustment of energy structure and industrial structure, and cultivating the green foundation for high-quality development
Overlooking Qinghai's Chaerhan Salt Lake (青海察尔汗盐湖) from high altitude, patches of yellow-green salt fields are spread like emerald chessboards in the depths of the Qaidam Basin (柴达木盆地). In the roar of the "water harvesting boat" drum on the lake, the raw materials of the brine pool are continuously sent into the bin, and then "pumped" to the lithium extraction area 10 kilometers away through water pumps. Not far away, rows of wind turbine units stand on the ridge of Xitieshan Mountain (锡铁山).
"Qaidam's 'sandy, Gobi, and desert' areas are also 'treasure troves' of new energy. The new energy industry is forming a closed industrial chain in Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (海西蒙古族藏族自治州), Qinghai Province. The lithium products produced here are not only the main raw materials for downstream new energy battery factories, but also important carriers for photovoltaic and wind power energy storage." Qiao Yaqun (乔亚群), Governor of Haixi Prefecture, said that Haixi Prefecture will rely on its abundant light, wind energy and other resource advantages, seize the opportunity of the construction of the Qaidam Desert Base, implement photovoltaic, wind power, new energy storage and other projects, and promote the full-chain development of the clean energy industry.
In the past, there were obstacles in the production process of new energy lithium products in Haixi Prefecture. "The production of magnesium, lithium, etc. by salt lake electrolysis mainly costs energy consumption. However, the nearby cheap photovoltaic, wind power and other green electricity in Haixi Prefecture is difficult to directly supply to the park, and enterprises are anxious because they can see the green electricity but cannot use it." Yun Hongwei (贠红卫), Chief Representative of the Northwest Regional Headquarters of China Minmetals Corporation (中国五矿集团有限公司), said that improving the renewable energy power consumption guarantee mechanism provides a solid basis for "direct green electricity connection" for salt lake production.
China is accelerating the construction of a green, low-carbon, and circular economic system, vigorously promoting green production methods, promoting energy revolution and intensive use of resources, coordinating pollution reduction and carbon reduction to achieve synergistic efficiency, and reducing carbon in development and achieving higher quality development in carbon reduction.
Tianneng Holding Group (天能控股集团) in Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province, closely follows the national development strategy and promotes the coordinated development of power batteries and smart energy storage. "In recent years, we have insisted on developing green new quality productive forces, and have continuously made technological breakthroughs in the green transformation of lead-acid batteries and other fields, transforming from traditional industries to the new energy track." Zhang Tianren (张天任), Chairman of Tianneng Holding Group, said that after the promulgation and implementation of the Environmental Code, more traditional industries will inevitably make efforts in transformation and upgrading. "As participants and beneficiaries of ecological civilization construction, we will continue to focus on the forefront of energy transformation technology, continue to increase investment in research and development, and deeply cultivate more green application scenarios."
Promoting the transformation of production and lifestyle, and accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development
Walking into the production plant of Sichuan Chuanguo Boiler Co., Ltd. (四川川锅锅炉有限责任公司) in Jintang County (金堂县), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), welding robots operate efficiently, and under the precise control of mechanical arms, perfect welds are formed. "In the past, traditional welding used welding rods and gas shielded welding, which produced a lot of smoke and dust. Now, robot welding is used, which reduces smoke and dust, reduces spatter, and stabilizes quality." Tang Chengfeng (唐成凤), Director of the Training Center of Sichuan Chuanguo Boiler Co., Ltd., said.
Tang Chengfeng, who has been engaged in welding for nearly 20 years, has deep feelings: "In the past, when we talked about environmental protection and carbon reduction, we always felt that macro policies were far away from the front line. Now we understand that green development is hidden in specific process improvements - replacing manual labor with robots reduces pollution emissions. We developed our own equipment, which did not increase costs much, but improved efficiency. Having tasted the 'sweetness' of green development, we are even more motivated."
The "green" changes in the factory are not limited to this. Sunlight shines on the roof of the factory building, transforming into clean energy that drives equipment production and illuminates the low-carbon transformation path of this traditional manufacturing enterprise. "Photovoltaic panels are laid on the roof to meet part of the production electricity demand," Tang Chengfeng said.
From sorting household waste to reducing the use of disposable products, from encouraging and supporting the circulation and trading of second-hand goods to saving water... Qian Haijun (钱海军), community manager of the Customer Service Center of State Grid Cixi Power Supply Co., Ltd. (国网浙江慈溪市供电有限公司), Zhejiang (浙江), noticed that a series of provisions in the Environmental Code are closely related to everyone's daily life.
"Everyone can be a practitioner and promoter of green development." Qian Haijun found in his research that there is still room for improvement in the mechanism for mobilizing the whole society to widely participate in green consumption and systematic energy conservation and carbon reduction. Qian Haijun suggested building a "energy carbon efficiency" account to generate "energy carbon efficiency portraits" for regions, enterprises, and families; optimizing the old-for-new subsidy process and promoting "online application, intelligent verification, and rapid realization"; adopting a "dredging and blocking" approach to regulate the consumption of high-energy products inventory during the policy transition period; strengthening the extension of producer responsibility and supporting the construction of a "Internet + recycling" network covering urban and rural areas.
Establishing and improving relevant laws and regulations for green and low-carbon development, and synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth
Opening the Environmental Code, the section on green and low-carbon development is eye-catching.
"Setting up a separate section on green and low-carbon development is unprecedented in other countries and is a major innovation in the compilation of China's Environmental Code." Lv Zhongmei (吕忠梅), member of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress and Deputy Director of the Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, said that the compilation of the Environmental Code expands the vision from pollution prevention and control and ecological protection to promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development by legal means, and more comprehensively and completely responds to the inherent requirements of building a modern society where humans and nature coexist harmoniously, reflecting the timeliness and forward-looking nature of the code.
Zhang Yi (张毅), a senior partner at King & Wood Mallesons (金杜律师事务所), said that the compilation of the Environmental Code combines practical needs, focuses on important links and important areas of green and low-carbon development closely related to ecological and environmental protection, and establishes and improves relevant laws and regulations for green and low-carbon development.
"The Environmental Code proposes to promote the development and utilization of wind energy and solar energy, and improve the renewable energy power consumption guarantee mechanism, which provides a solid legal guarantee for the high-quality development of the new energy industry and also points out the direction for enterprises." Nan Cunhui (南存辉), Chairman of Chint Group Co., Ltd. (正泰集团股份有限公司), said.
"In order to improve the institutional design for addressing climate change, the Environmental Code has made provisions on product carbon footprint management, carbon emission trading market, and other aspects." Huang Miansong (黄绵松), Deputy General Manager of Beijing Capital Eco-Environment Protection Group Co., Ltd. (北京首创生态环保集团股份有限公司), said that upgrading climate governance from policy-driven to system-led through legal means provides a legal guarantee for achieving the "dual carbon" goals.
Achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound systemic economic and social transformation. Taking carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as the traction, synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth will accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and promote high-quality development and create a high-quality life with high-level protection.
(Our reporters Kou Jiangze (寇江泽), Qiao Dong (乔栋), You Yi (游仪), Zhang Tianpei (张天培), Qi Yukun (亓玉昆), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Wu Wei (吴未))
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During the 2026 National People's Congress (全国两会), the promulgation of the Ecological Environment Code became the focus of attention from all sectors of society. In the code, "green and low-carbon development" is independently compiled, which is the first time in the world to provide a Chinese solution for achieving the "dual carbon" goals and promoting green and low-carbon development.
Green development is accelerating: As of the end of 2025, China's total installed capacity of renewable energy reached 2.34 billion kilowatts. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, and the proportion of installed renewable energy capacity increased from 40% to about 60%. The Ecological Environment Code clarifies and improves the renewable energy power consumption guarantee mechanism. At present, the proportion of green electricity in China's total electricity consumption is close to 40%, and nearly 4 out of every 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed is green electricity. When green electricity from places such as the Qaidam Basin (柴达木盆地) continuously enters factories and urban communities, the strong momentum of green and low-carbon development continues to be released.
In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," in the process of promoting carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, the Ecological Environment Code will use the power of the rule of law to lead the whole society to form a consensus and action on green and low-carbon development, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
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March 23 this year marks the 66th World Meteorological Day. The World Meteorological Organization has set the theme as "At the Frontline of Climate Action," aiming to call on the international community to work together and take active actions to strengthen monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, better understand the changes in the Earth system, and jointly protect the human homeland.
The atmosphere is an important basic resource for human survival and economic and social development. Currently, against the backdrop of global warming, extreme weather and climate events have obvious characteristics of being numerous, widespread, concurrent, and recurrent, with more prominent extremity, high disaster-causing potential, and suddenness, and frequently exceeding historical understanding. 2025 is one of the three warmest years on record globally. In many regions of China, unconventional extreme weather events occur from time to time, and phenomena such as sudden shifts between drought and flood, and drastic changes between cold and heat are becoming more frequent. The multi-rain belt has expanded significantly northward, and rainfall and extreme heavy rainfall in northern regions have increased significantly. Facing the complex and volatile weather and climate situation, grasping the laws of atmospheric movement and its rapidly changing "pulse," improving the ability to monitor, forecast, and provide early warning of weather and climate, accurately identifying extreme weather and climate and their impacts, so as to better seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and meeting the more diverse and refined needs of the people and all walks of life for meteorological service guarantees, is the responsibility and mission of meteorological workers, and also the requirement of the times for building a lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and a clean and beautiful world.
The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the prevention and response to extreme weather and climate. Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, has made important instructions on the prevention and response to extreme weather events on many occasions. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, the 2025 Central Economic Work Conference, and the Central Rural Work Conference have all made further deployments to improve the ability to respond to extreme weather and strengthen meteorological monitoring, forecasting, and early warning. This fully reflects that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core always places the prevention and response to extreme weather and climate and the protection of people's lives and property in a prominent position. We must continue to strengthen meteorological monitoring, forecasting, and risk early warning, strengthen the research and judgment of climate change trends and the study of the laws of extreme weather and climate occurrence, and better protect the safety and well-being of the people.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives on meteorological work, based on precise monitoring, empowered by accurate forecasting, and safeguarding the national economy and people's livelihood with refined services, and accelerated the modernization of meteorological science and technology capabilities and social services, achieving fruitful results.
We have made breakthroughs towards "new," and the strength of meteorological science and technology has completed a leap from following, running in parallel, to partially leading. Fengyun meteorological satellites (风云气象卫星), Beidou sounding (北斗探空), weather radar and other detection equipment technologies have achieved a high level of self-reliance and self-improvement, numerical prediction models have achieved independent control, and artificial intelligence meteorological forecasting models such as "Fenglei (风雷)," "Fengqing (风清)," "Fengshun (风顺)," and "Fengyu (风宇)" have reached the international advanced level. The world's largest, most comprehensive, and land-sea-air-space coordinated integrated meteorological observation system has been fully built, with 10 Fengyun meteorological satellites (风云气象卫星) operating in orbit, making China the only country in the world covering 4 near-Earth orbit civilian meteorological satellites, and meteorological sounding operations have achieved upgrading and transformation.
We have cultivated deeply towards "accuracy," and the level of meteorological forecasting and early warning has been significantly improved. The accuracy rate of 24-hour heavy rain forecasts has reached a record high, and typhoon path forecasts have maintained an international advanced level. Weather forecast content has been extended to travel suggestions, risk warnings, and life references, and the number of life meteorological service indexes has increased to more than 70. The monitoring rate of meteorological disasters has increased by 12.4% compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, and the "calling" of high-level early warnings and the progressive meteorological service mechanism have been continuously refined. The proportion of economic losses caused by meteorological disasters to GDP has decreased by 0.12 percentage points compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
We have expanded towards "breadth," and the value-added effectiveness of meteorological services for economic and social development has been accelerated. We have deeply practiced the concept of great meteorological service, and refined meteorological services cover more than 70 major industries such as agriculture, transportation, energy, finance, culture and tourism, and health, strongly supporting and promoting the development of green economy, low-altitude economy and other industries. We continue to launch differentiated, professional, and digital products for rich scenarios, and meteorological services have become one of the most widely covered and most satisfactory basic public services.
We have been steadfast in our journey towards "far," demonstrating the responsibility of a major country in practicing the four global initiatives. The "MAZU" (妈祖) China solution for universal early warning has aroused widespread international resonance, and more than 40 countries use China's independently developed meteorological early warning products. We provide high-quality meteorological data services to 153 countries and regions around the world, providing strong support for international scientific research and disaster prevention and mitigation practices. We fulfill the responsibilities of 28 World Meteorological Organization global or regional meteorological centers. China has transformed from an active participant in global meteorological governance to a contributor to important agendas and a provider of global public goods.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) will keep in mind the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world unseen in a century, and draw a new blueprint for the high-quality development of meteorology with a higher position, a broader vision, and a larger pattern.
We will accelerate the construction of a meteorological disaster risk early warning system under the framework of great safety and great emergency. We will deepen the application of artificial intelligence to improve the monitoring accuracy and early warning lead time of disastrous weather. We will improve the emergency response linkage mechanism led by early warning, and promote high-level early warning "calling" and progressive meteorological services to become important systems for great safety and great emergency. We will increase the industry scenarios covered by meteorological disaster risk early warning. By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we will fully build a new generation of short-term and imminent early warning business system, and systematically improve the ability to "early detection, early decision-making, early preparation, and early prevention" of extreme and sudden disaster-causing weather.
We will focus on improving the overall development pattern of the meteorological industry and social management. We will strengthen legislation in key and emerging fields, and promote meteorological standards to be included in laws, plans, and engineering projects. We will unite with relevant departments such as natural resources, ecological environment, agriculture and rural areas, energy, transportation, aviation, and water conservancy to achieve "five unifications" in industry meteorological observation planning layout, technical standards, data collection, operation and maintenance specifications, and resource sharing. We will strengthen the collection of multi-sphere data resources of the Earth system, infrastructure construction, sharing and co-use, and safety supervision, and comprehensively improve the data service capabilities for industry applications.
We will comprehensively build an open and collaborative innovation-driven development model. We will carry out organized meteorological science and technology research, improve the entire chain layout from scientific research to technology development, achievement transformation, and business application, and strengthen the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. We will deeply study key scientific issues such as the occurrence mechanism and disaster-causing mechanism of extreme meteorological disasters, and focus on tackling key technologies such as Earth system forecasting, digital twin Earth, extreme weather forecasting and prediction, and intelligent sensing meteorological services, and significantly improve the ability to simulate and predict the multi-scale and multi-sphere interactions of the Earth system. We will build a meteorological-based Earth system data platform.
We will actively create a new model of digital and scenario-based meteorological service supply. Adhering to the concept of "observation is service," we will fully explore the value of meteorological data, climate resources and other production factors, and provide meteorological services that integrate Earth system data and economic and social information. We will improve the meteorological support system for low-altitude economy, energy, and green inclusive finance, and develop people's livelihood meteorological products such as cultural tourism and health care that closely meet needs. We will improve the level of meteorological services for the entire chain of agricultural production, and carry out monitoring and evaluation, disaster early warning, and food security risk early warning for major grain-producing areas.
We will continue to improve global monitoring, global forecasting, global service, and global governance capabilities. We will vigorously promote the "MAZU" (妈祖) China solution for universal early warning to the world, especially developing countries, actively participate in the formulation of international standards, and build an international governance system for artificial intelligence in the meteorological field. We will focus on carrying out international meteorological science and technology innovation demonstrations in the areas of disaster monitoring and early warning, climate change monitoring and assessment, and artificial weather modification. We will strengthen cross-departmental cooperation and promote the formation of a joint support mechanism for relevant departments and local foreign aid projects.
Extreme weather and climate test global governance capabilities. "At the Frontline of Climate Action" is the mission of the times and also a declaration of action. Standing at a new historical node, we will always keep in mind our entrustment and **不忘初心** (bù wàng chū xīn - "do not forget the original intention," remain true to one's original aspiration), and build a solid meteorological barrier and contribute meteorological strength with more precise monitoring, more accurate forecasting, and more refined services to promote the high-quality development of the economy and society and achieve the beautiful vision of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
(The author is the Party Secretary and Director of the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局))
Return to TopThis newspaper Hefei (合肥) March 22nd (Reporter Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋)) March 22nd is the 34th "World Water Day", and the 39th "China Water Week" is launched simultaneously. From March 22nd to 23rd, the 2026 "Water Conservation China Tour" theme publicity event was held in Hefei (合肥), Anhui Province (安徽省). The reporter learned from the event that China's water resource conservation and intensive utilization capacity has been continuously improved. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, with China's economic aggregate leaping to new levels and grain output achieving bumper harvests year after year, the total water consumption has achieved zero growth. In 2025, China's unconventional water utilization will exceed 25 billion cubic meters.
Unconventional water sources refer to reclaimed water, collected rainwater, seawater and desalinated seawater, mine pit (well) water, brackish water, etc. that can be utilized after treatment or directly utilized under certain conditions. The development and utilization of unconventional water sources has important effects such as increasing water supply, reducing sewage discharge, optimizing the water resource allocation system, and improving water resource utilization efficiency. It is an inherent requirement for high-quality development.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) stated that it is necessary to accelerate the improvement of the total water resource management and comprehensive water conservation system, comprehensively improve the intensive and safe utilization level of water resources, build a water-saving society with high quality, innovate and build a modern water-saving industrial system, comprehensively build a new pattern of unconventional water allocation and utilization, promote innovative development of contract water management, and enhance the whole society's water conservation concept and awareness, and further promote water conservation to become a national will, social consensus, and national action.
This theme publicity event was sponsored by the National Office for Water Conservation (全国节约用水办公室), the Anhui Provincial Department of Water Resources (安徽省水利厅), and the Hefei Municipal People's Government (合肥市人民政府). The event released the top ten Chinese water-saving keywords in 2025, the top ten classic Chinese water-saving cases in 2025, and the zero-water zero-carbon national practice initiative.
Return to TopIn recent days, many regions have launched themed promotional activities related to "World Water Day" and "China Water Week" to popularize water conservation and protection knowledge and enhance the entire society's awareness and consciousness of water conservation.
Return to TopOrdinance of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
No. 831
The "Regulations on Water Supply" was adopted at the 76th Executive Meeting of the State Council on December 31, 2025, and is hereby promulgated and shall come into force on June 1, 2026.
Premier Li Qiang (李强)
February 11, 2026
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated to promote the high-quality development of the water supply industry, ensure water supply security, improve the level of water supply services, and better adapt to economic and social development and the needs of the people's lives.
Article 2 These Regulations apply to activities related to water supply, the use of water supply, and related management activities.
For the purposes of these Regulations, "water supply" refers to the provision of water for living, production, and public services based on water intake, water transmission, water purification, water distribution, and other facilities, including urban water supply and rural large-scale water supply.
For the purposes of these Regulations, "rural large-scale water supply" refers to the provision of water to rural areas (including townships and villages) through centralized water supply projects with designed water supply volume and water supply population reaching the prescribed scale, or through urban water supply pipeline extension projects, excluding agricultural irrigation water supply.
Article 3 The development of the water supply industry shall implement the Party's and the State's guidelines, policies, and decisions, adhere to a people-oriented approach, urban-rural coordination, and the public welfare attribute, implement a combination of developing water sources and conserving water, continuously enhance the ability to ensure water supply security, and promote the equalization of water supply services.
Article 4 The State improves policies and measures to support the development of the water supply industry.
People's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the development of the water supply industry into relevant national economic and social development plans.
Article 5 People's governments at or above the county level shall bear the primary responsibility for water supply security within their administrative regions, strengthen the organization and leadership of water supply work, coordinate research and solve major problems in water supply work, and include the funds required for water supply work in their respective budgets.
Article 6 The competent departments of housing and urban-rural development and water administration departments of the State Council (国务院) shall be responsible for guiding urban water supply and rural water supply work nationwide, respectively. The competent departments of housing and urban-rural development and water administration departments of the people's governments of provinces and autonomous regions shall be responsible for guiding urban water supply and rural water supply work within their respective administrative regions, respectively.
The competent departments of housing and urban-rural development and water administration departments of the people's governments of municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities divided into districts, and county-level people's governments shall be responsible for the management of urban water supply and rural water supply within their respective administrative regions, respectively.
People's governments at or above the county level may determine that one department shall be uniformly responsible for guiding water supply work or responsible for water supply management work.
The disease prevention and control departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the supervision and management of drinking water hygiene.
The relevant departments of ecology and environment, market supervision and administration, and natural resources of people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for water supply-related work within their respective responsibilities.
The departments stipulated in the first, second, and third paragraphs of this article are collectively referred to as water supply competent departments.
Article 7 The State encourages and supports scientific and technological research and development, achievement transformation, and promotion and application of water supply, strengthens the training of water supply talents, promotes the progress of water supply science and technology, and improves the automation, digitization, and intelligence level of water supply work.
Article 8 Units and individuals who have made significant achievements in water supply work shall be rewarded in accordance with relevant national regulations.
Chapter II Water Supply Sources
Article 9 People's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the economic and social development and water resource endowment of their respective regions, reasonably arrange and layout water supply sources, and strengthen the construction of water supply sources.
People's governments at or above the county level shall organize the preparation of relevant plans for the construction of water supply sources according to actual needs. The relevant plans for the construction of water supply sources shall be coordinated with the territorial space plan, and the reasonable needs involving land and space use shall be incorporated into the territorial space plan implementation supervision information system for overall protection.
Article 10 The construction of water supply sources shall coordinate surface water and groundwater, local water and external water transfer, to achieve multi-source complementarity; for single-source water supply, emergency water sources or backup water sources shall be constructed in accordance with relevant national regulations; regions with conditions may carry out regional networked water supply.
Coastal water-deficient areas and islands are encouraged to promote seawater desalination as a supplementary water source in accordance with local conditions.
Article 11 When using external water transfer as a drinking water source, people's governments at or above the county level shall ensure that local water sources and external water transfer sources can be switched in a timely manner.
The management units of water transfer projects shall strengthen the monitoring, inspection, patrol, maintenance, and upkeep of water transfer project facilities and equipment to ensure the safe operation of the facilities and equipment; if facility and equipment maintenance or emergencies may affect normal water transfer, the management units of water transfer projects shall promptly notify the relevant people's governments at or above the county level in the water receiving area according to the scope of the impact.
Article 12 The relevant departments of ecology and environment and water administration of people's governments at or above the county level shall carry out standardized construction of drinking water source areas in accordance with the law, implement protection measures for drinking water source protection areas, establish a water quality monitoring and early warning and information sharing mechanism for drinking water sources, and ensure that the water quality of drinking water sources meets relevant national standards.
The water administration departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall coordinate the allocation of water volume in drinking water source areas and strengthen the monitoring of hydrology and water resources in drinking water source areas.
The ecology and environment departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, do a good job in water environment monitoring of drinking water source areas, strengthen the supervision and management of ecological environment protection of drinking water source areas, investigate and evaluate the environmental status and pollution risks of drinking water source areas, screen possible pollution risk factors, and take corresponding risk prevention measures.
The management units of water transfer projects shall take measures to ensure that the water quality of water transfer meets relevant national standards.
Chapter III Construction of Water Supply Projects
Article 13 People's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the overall planning of water supply project construction and ensure the coordinated development of water supply project construction and urban-rural construction.
People's governments at or above the county level shall update and renovate water supply facilities that affect water supply quality, endanger water supply safety, and are aging and in disrepair.
In areas where underground comprehensive pipe corridors have been built, urban water supply pipelines should be included in the underground comprehensive pipe corridors if conditions permit.
Article 14 The construction of water supply projects shall comply with the provisions of relevant laws, regulations, and rules and the requirements of relevant national standards.
The survey, design, construction, and supervision of water supply projects shall be entrusted to units with corresponding qualifications. It is forbidden to undertake the survey, design, construction, and supervision tasks of water supply projects without obtaining corresponding qualifications or exceeding the scope permitted by their qualification level.
Article 15 For concealed works in water supply projects, the unit undertaking the project construction (hereinafter referred to as the construction unit) shall conduct quality inspections and truthfully record relevant information. Before the concealment of concealed works, the construction unit shall notify the project owner unit (hereinafter referred to as the construction unit) to conduct inspections in accordance with the law. The construction unit may invite relevant units to participate in the inspection as needed.
After the completion of the water supply project, acceptance shall be organized in accordance with relevant national regulations; projects that have not been accepted or have failed acceptance shall not be put into use. After the completion acceptance of the water supply project, the construction unit shall transfer the water supply project archives to the relevant archives institutions in a timely manner in accordance with regulations.
Article 16 The water supply competent department shall, in accordance with relevant national standards and requirements, coordinate the construction of regional centralized pressure regulation and storage facilities.
For new construction, reconstruction, and expansion construction projects whose water pressure requirements exceed the service pressure of the water supply network, the construction unit shall construct supporting pressure regulation and storage facilities.
If the pressure regulation and storage facilities and other shared water supply facilities (hereinafter collectively referred to as shared water supply facilities) jointly owned by the owners in the residential building area do not meet relevant regulations and relevant national standards, the people's governments at or above the county level shall organize and implement the renovation in a planned manner in accordance with the law.
For the purposes of these Regulations, "pressure regulation and storage facilities" refers to water supply facilities used to adjust the water pressure and volume in the water supply network before transporting it to water users and individuals (hereinafter collectively referred to as users).
Chapter IV Water Supply Operation and Services
Article 17 Water supply units shall register in accordance with the law, obtain legal person status, and meet the following conditions:
(1) Have facilities and equipment adapted to the water supply activities they are engaged in;
(2) Have employees who have passed professional training, and operators in relevant positions have passed physical examinations in accordance with regulations;
(3) Have management capabilities and water quality testing capabilities adapted to the scale of water supply;
(4) Have sound management systems such as water quality testing and water supply facility operation and maintenance.
Water supply units shall obtain health permits in accordance with the law. Products used by water supply units that involve drinking water hygiene and safety shall comply with national health standards and health specifications and obtain health permits in accordance with the law.
Article 18 The water supply competent department shall clarify matters such as the relevant service scope, standards, specifications, and requirements of water supply, as well as service quality evaluation and exit mechanisms, by signing operation service agreements with water supply units.
Water supply units shall comply with relevant water supply service standards, specifications, and requirements, strengthen internal management, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of water supply services, and provide users with safe, convenient, continuous, stable, accurate measurement, and transparent water supply services.
Article 19 Water supply units shall disclose information such as water supply application and connection procedures, service standards, fee standards, and water quality testing to the public through methods that are easy for the public to know, and provide information inquiry services.
Article 20 Water supply units shall provide convenience for users to apply for water supply application and connection through various service channels such as business outlets and online processing.
If construction projects within the coverage of the water supply network need to apply for water supply connection, the construction unit shall apply for water supply connection before the start of construction, and the water supply unit shall handle it in a timely manner.
Article 21 Water supply units shall regularly test the water quality of raw water, ex-factory water, and pipeline water in accordance with the testing indicators, testing frequency, and testing methods required by national regulations and relevant standards to ensure that the water supply quality meets the national drinking water hygiene standards.
If a water supply unit finds that the raw water quality does not meet relevant national standards, it shall take corresponding measures in a timely manner and report to the water supply competent department. The water supply competent department shall promptly notify relevant departments such as ecology and environment and disease prevention and control, and the relevant departments shall promptly verify and handle it.
The water supply competent departments of people's governments at or above the provincial level shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, improve the water supply water quality monitoring system.
Article 22 Water supply units shall set up water supply pipeline pressure measurement points in accordance with relevant national regulations, do a good job in water pressure monitoring, and ensure that the pressure of the water supply pipeline meets the standards prescribed by the State.
Article 23 Water supply units shall maintain uninterrupted water supply. If it is necessary to temporarily stop water supply due to engineering construction, equipment maintenance, or other reasons, the water supply unit shall announce to the public or notify the user in writing 24 hours in advance, and strictly control the duration and scope of the water outage; if the water outage has a significant impact, it shall be reported to the water supply competent department for approval, and measures such as providing temporary water supply shall be taken to ensure the basic living water of residents.
In the event of emergencies such as natural disasters or accidents, if it is not possible to notify users in advance in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the water supply unit shall notify users while carrying out emergency repairs and report to the water supply competent department.
If a temporary water outage may affect fire fighting and rescue, the water supply unit shall notify the local fire and rescue agency in advance.
Article 24 Users shall use water safely and conserve water. Water-using equipment such as pipes and faucets equipped by water-using units themselves shall comply with relevant national standards.
It is forbidden to steal or transfer water without the consent of the water supply unit.
Article 25 Users shall pay water bills on time in accordance with the data issued by the settlement metering instruments and the water price standards; rural users who do not have water metering conditions shall pay water bills in accordance with relevant regulations or agreements.
Article 26 The formulation and adjustment of urban water supply prices shall follow the principles of covering costs, reasonable returns, and fair burden, and comprehensively consider factors such as promoting water conservation and user affordability. Urban residents' domestic water use implements tiered water prices, and non-resident water use implements progressive price increases exceeding quotas (exceeding plans). If the water supply unit has difficulty reaching the permitted income due to the inadequate adjustment of water supply prices, the urban people's government shall provide appropriate compensation. Water supply units shall take measures to effectively control production and operating costs. The urban water supply price management measures shall be formulated by the price authorities of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with the competent departments of housing and urban-rural development of the State Council (国务院).
The price authorities of the State Council (国务院) shall, in conjunction with the water administration departments of the State Council (国务院), improve the rural water supply price formation mechanism in accordance with the actual situation of rural water supply.
Article 27 Water supply units shall establish a water supply service quality complaint handling mechanism, promptly and properly handle water supply service quality and other issues reflected by users, and provide feedback on the handling results to users; if users are not satisfied with the handling results, they may complain to the water supply competent department, and the water supply competent department shall promptly respond. Users may also complain directly to the water supply competent department about water supply service quality and other issues.
Chapter V Management and Protection of Water Supply Facilities
Article 28 Water supply units shall operate and maintain their managed water supply special reservoirs, water diversion channels, water intakes, pumping stations, pressure regulation and storage facilities, well groups, transmission (distribution) water networks, metering instruments, water purification (distribution) plants, public water stations, and other water supply facilities in accordance with relevant national regulations and technical specifications, implement various safety precautions, conduct regular inspections and repairs, carry out safety risk monitoring and hidden danger investigation and management, and ensure safe operation.
Water supply units shall take measures such as updating and renovating water supply networks, regulating water supply pressure, and intelligent management to strictly control water supply network leakage.
When water supply units maintain and repair water supply facilities, no unit or individual may obstruct them, and relevant units shall provide support and assistance.
Article 29 Shared water supply facilities of newly built residential buildings and shared water supply facilities of residential buildings renovated by local people's governments shall be handed over to water supply units for operation and maintenance in accordance with the law. For shared water supply facilities of residential buildings other than those specified in the preceding paragraph, people's governments at or above the county level shall organize and gradually hand them over to water supply units for operation and maintenance in accordance with the law. If the shared water supply facilities of residential buildings are handed over to water supply units for operation and maintenance, the operation and maintenance costs shall be implemented in accordance with relevant national regulations.
If water supply facilities such as pressure regulation and storage facilities built to support other buildings other than residential buildings are entrusted to water supply units for operation and maintenance, the operation and maintenance costs shall be borne by the entrusting party and shall not be included in the water supply costs.
The operation and maintenance of pressure regulation and storage facilities shall comply with relevant national regulations and technical specifications. Relevant operation and maintenance units shall establish and improve management systems, conduct regular cleaning and disinfection, water quality testing, and disclose water quality information to ensure that water quality and water pressure meet relevant national standards.
Article 30 People's governments at or above the county level shall, according to actual needs, delineate the ground and underground safety protection scope of water supply facilities. Within the safety protection scope, it is forbidden to carry out the following activities that endanger the safety of water supply facilities:
(1) Digging pits for soil extraction;
(2) Constructing buildings and structures;
(3) Storing or dumping flammable, explosive, toxic, harmful, corrosive, radioactive, or infectious substances;
(4) Other activities that endanger the safety of water supply facilities.
Article 31 No unit or individual may arbitrarily modify, dismantle, or relocate water supply facilities.
If it is necessary to modify, dismantle, or relocate water supply facilities due to engineering construction, the construction unit shall consult with the water supply unit to determine the engineering plan and take measures to ensure the safe and stable operation of the water supply facilities. The costs of modification, dismantling, relocation, and taking measures shall be borne by the construction unit. The construction unit shall report to the water supply competent department 15 days before the start of construction.
If the modification, dismantling, or relocation of water supply facilities involves fire water supply facilities, it shall comply with fire protection technical standards and shall not affect fire fighting and fire emergency rescue. The water supply unit shall notify the local fire and rescue agency in advance.
Article 32 Before the commencement of construction, the construction unit or the construction unit shall ascertain the relevant information of the underground water supply facilities within the scope of the construction project. The water supply unit and relevant archive institutions and other units shall provide relevant information in a timely manner.
If the construction project may affect the safety of water supply facilities, the construction unit or the construction unit shall consult with the water supply unit in advance to agree on corresponding protection measures, which shall be implemented by the construction unit.
Article 33 Units that produce or use toxic and hazardous materials or corrosive, radioactive, or infectious substances shall not directly connect their production water facilities to the water supply facilities of the water supply unit.
It is prohibited to connect self-built water supply facilities to the water supply facilities of the water supply unit without authorization. If connection is indeed necessary due to special circumstances, the consent of the water supply unit shall be obtained, and necessary protective measures shall be taken at the connection point.
Without the consent of the water supply unit, it is not allowed to directly install pumps to draw water from the water supply facilities.
Article 34 The operation and maintenance unit of the water supply facility information system shall establish and improve a network security management system, implement network security protection measures and other security requirements; important network facilities and information systems therein shall be included in the scope of critical information infrastructure in accordance with the law and be subject to key protection.
Article 35 The water supply authority and other relevant departments shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, strengthen supervision and inspection of water supply operation and services, operation and maintenance of water supply facilities, and other conditions, and standardize supervision and inspection activities. The water supply authority and other relevant departments shall strengthen coordination and cooperation, implement joint inspections where possible, and conduct non-on-site inspections using non-contact technical means where possible, without conducting on-site inspections.
If the water supply authority and other relevant departments need to conduct on-site inspections of water supply units, they may require relevant units and individuals to provide explanations on relevant matters, consult and copy relevant materials, inquire about and inspect relevant information systems, and conduct on-site testing. Relevant units and individuals shall cooperate and shall not refuse or obstruct.
Chapter VI Emergency Management and Disposal of Water Supply
Article 36 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall formulate local water supply emergency plans in accordance with the law, coordinate the reserve and dispatch of water supply emergency materials, and regularly organize water supply emergency drills.
Article 37 Water supply units shall formulate specific water supply emergency plans based on the local water supply emergency plans, equip themselves with corresponding water supply emergency materials, and regularly conduct water supply emergency drills.
Water supply units shall strengthen the risk management and control of water supply safety, implement various safety precautions, and promptly investigate and eliminate potential water supply safety hazards.
Article 38 After the occurrence of a sudden event affecting water supply safety, the local people's government at or above the county level shall immediately activate the emergency response, organize emergency water supply, pollution disposal, water source switching, and other work according to the specific circumstances of the sudden event, prioritize ensuring domestic water use, and take into account other water uses, so as to minimize the impact of the sudden event.
Relevant departments of the local people's government at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the unified deployment of the people's government at the same level, do a good job in various emergency water supply disposal work.
Article 39 After the occurrence of a sudden event affecting water supply safety, the water supply unit shall take emergency disposal measures such as repairing water supply facilities, increasing water source pretreatment facilities, and upgrading and transforming water purification facility treatment processes, according to the specific circumstances of the sudden event, to ensure normal water supply. If it is indeed impossible to supply water normally due to special circumstances, the water supply unit may take measures such as reducing water supply and reducing water pressure, promptly inform users of water use precautions, and report to the water supply authority.
Article 40 Relevant units and individuals shall cooperate with the local people's government and the water supply unit in taking emergency water supply disposal measures, actively participate in emergency disposal work, and assist in maintaining social order.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 41 If the water diversion project management unit fails to monitor, inspect, patrol, repair, or maintain the water diversion project facilities and equipment, or fails to take measures to ensure the water quality of the water diversion, the water administrative department shall order it to make corrections and may impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan; if it refuses to make corrections or causes serious consequences, it shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan.
If the water diversion project management unit fails to notify the relevant local people's governments at or above the county level in the water receiving area of situations that may affect normal water diversion as required, the water administrative department shall give a warning and may impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan; if serious consequences are caused, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed.
Article 42 If the water supply unit fails to disclose to the public information such as the water supply application and connection process, service standards, and water quality testing, the water supply authority shall order it to make corrections; if it refuses to make corrections, it shall be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan.
Article 43 If a water supply unit has any of the following circumstances, the water supply authority shall order it to make corrections and may impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan; if it refuses to make corrections or causes serious consequences, it shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan:
(1) Engaging in water supply operation and services without meeting the conditions stipulated in these Regulations;
(2) Failing to comply with relevant water supply service standards, norms, and requirements;
(3) Failing to test the water quality of raw water, ex-factory water, and pipe network water as required;
(4) Failing to take measures or report to the water supply authority upon discovering that the raw water quality does not meet relevant national standards;
(5) The pressure of the water supply pipe network does not meet national standards;
(6) Stopping water supply without authorization, or failing to announce to the public or notify users in writing when it is indeed necessary to temporarily stop water supply;
(7) Failing to operate and maintain the water supply facilities under its management as required;
(8) Failing to promptly repair water supply facilities after a failure occurs.
If the operation and maintenance of pressure regulating and storage facilities do not comply with relevant national regulations and technical specifications, the water supply authority and disease prevention and control departments shall impose penalties in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, according to their respective responsibilities.
If a water supply unit uses products related to drinking water hygiene and safety that do not meet national hygiene standards and hygiene specifications or have not obtained hygiene permits in accordance with the law, the disease prevention and control department of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections and may impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan; if it refuses to make corrections or causes serious consequences, it shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.
Article 44 If the construction unit or the construction unit fails to ascertain the relevant information of the underground water supply facilities within the scope of the construction project before the commencement of construction, or fails to agree on corresponding protection measures with the water supply unit in advance, the water supply authority shall order it to stop construction, make corrections within a time limit, or take other remedial measures, give a warning, and may impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan on the unit and a fine of not more than 10,000 yuan on the individual; if it refuses to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, the unit shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 300,000 yuan, and the individual shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan.
Article 45 If there is any of the following acts that affect water supply safety, the water supply authority shall order the cessation of the illegal act, restoration to the original state, or adoption of other remedial measures, and may impose a fine of not more than 50,000 yuan on the unit and a fine of not more than 10,000 yuan on the individual; if it refuses to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, the unit shall be fined not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, and the individual shall be fined not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan; if there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated; if water supply safety is seriously affected, water supply may be suspended for a certain period of time:
(1) Implementing activities that endanger the safety of water supply facilities as stipulated in these Regulations within the surface and underground safety protection scope of water supply facilities;
(2) Modifying, dismantling, or relocating water supply facilities without authorization;
(3) Units that produce or use toxic and hazardous materials or corrosive, radioactive, or infectious substances directly connect their production water facilities to the water supply facilities of the water supply unit;
(4) Connecting self-built water supply facilities to the water supply facilities of the water supply unit without authorization;
(5) Installing pumps directly on water supply facilities to draw water without the consent of the water supply unit.
Article 46 If staff members of local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level neglect their duties, abuse their powers, or engage in malpractice for personal gain in water supply work, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Article 47 Anyone who violates the provisions of these Regulations and causes damage to others shall bear civil liability in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall impose public security administration penalties in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 48 If urban enterprises and institutions use their self-built water supply pipelines and their ancillary facilities to provide domestic and public service water to urban water users and individuals outside their units, they shall be included in urban water supply management.
Article 49 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to promote the standardized construction and professional management and maintenance of rural water supply other than large-scale rural water supply, establish and improve a water quality assurance system, and ensure that water supply meets relevant national standards. The administrative measures for rural water supply other than large-scale rural water supply shall be formulated by the water administrative department of the State Council in conjunction with relevant departments of the State Council.
Article 50 These Regulations shall come into force on June 1, 2026. The "Urban Water Supply Regulations" shall be repealed at the same time.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社) dispatch)
By: 本报记者 付明丽
Spanning from prehistoric times to the Ming and Qing dynasties, nearly 200 horse-related cultural relics excavated from Shanxi Province... The Shanxi Museum (山西博物院) presents the "Inspecting Horses - Special Exhibition of Horse Cultural Relics," vividly showcasing the historical features of horse breeding and utilization in ancient society, as well as the important role horses played in military affairs, transportation, and daily life. This exhibition will last until May 10th.
"The exhibition's name is intended to invite visitors to be 'Bole' inspecting horses," explained Liu Lin (刘琳), a guide at the Shanxi Museum (山西博物院). The exhibition is divided into two units: "Traveling with the Sun and Moon" and "Enduring with Heaven and Earth."
The "Traveling with the Sun and Moon" unit systematically sorts out the evolution of horses in Chinese civilization. Walking through the exhibition hall, a Western Zhou jade horse has become a star exhibit, attracting many people to stop and admire. "This jade horse was unearthed from Tomb No. 63 of the Jin Marquis Cemetery (晋侯墓地) in Quwo County (曲沃县), Linfen City (临汾市), and is in a standing posture, with a yellowish tinge in the green," Liu Lin (刘琳) introduced. In the pre-Qin period, chariots and horses were not only tools for conquest but also symbols of etiquette and status.
During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Shanxi (山西) became an important stage for cultural integration. The pottery horses unearthed from Lou Rui's Tomb (娄睿墓) of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Taiyuan (太原), and the "Hunting Picture" from the Jiuyuangang Northern Dynasty Mural Tomb (忻州九原岗北朝壁画墓) in Xinzhou (忻州), have become witnesses of this historical period.
The "Enduring with Heaven and Earth" unit focuses on the cultural imagery of horses. In the exhibition hall, on the brick carvings of the Jin Dynasty, children are fiercely fighting on bamboo horses, freezing a "childlike horse race" in time; looking again at the glazed general flying horse ridge ornaments of the Ming Dynasty, the general is mighty, and the flying horse is agile, carrying the auspicious meaning of warding off evil spirits and protecting the house; the Qing Dynasty's "Immediately Enfeoffed Marquis" (马上封侯) Qingyu pendant and the openwork "Immediately Enfeoffed Marquis" Baiyu belt buckle convey the good wishes of the wearer... Since the pre-Qin period, horses have begun to become cultural symbols, and horse patterns and horse-shaped sculptures have been integrated into people's daily lives, continuously inherited and enriched, becoming a material carrier for the ancients to place their philosophical views, worldviews, and cosmologies.
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Robots now have "accident insurance." The nation's first "insurance + leasing" policy for embodied intelligent robots has been implemented in Shanghai (上海). By integrating equipment management data from leasing scenarios with risk data from insurance companies, insurance institutions can accurately assess and dynamically price the risks associated with robot usage, breaking through the bottleneck of "fear of damage, reluctance to use" in application promotion.
The low-altitude economy now has a "safety belt." The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and other departments have issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Low-Altitude Insurance." Chongqing (重庆) has established the nation's first low-altitude economy co-insurance consortium, and Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) has released guidelines for third-party liability insurance services for unmanned aerial vehicles. A series of concrete measures are helping the low-altitude economy "fly" more steadily.
Building a modern industrial system and achieving an overall leap in the industrial system are important strategic tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Optimizing insurance protection and orienting services towards "new" developments to support the development of emerging and future industries is the duty, mission, and value of the insurance industry, and also a microcosm of the industry providing high-quality services for economic and social development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized the need to leverage the economic shock absorber and social stabilizer functions of the insurance industry, develop commercial pension insurance, health insurance, science and technology insurance, green insurance, and agricultural insurance, build a reinsurance market, and establish and improve a national catastrophic insurance protection system.
Focusing on the financial and insurance needs of major strategies, key areas, and weak links, the insurance industry is constantly innovating customized risk protection services and increasing long-term capital and patient capital support to contribute stronger financial power to economic and social development.
Helping drive innovation and accelerating the cultivation and growth of new drivers of growth:
In Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), a patented material from Shandong Baiderui Rail Transit Technology Co., Ltd. (山东百德瑞轨道交通科技有限公司) has completed a series of tests and reviews and has received mass production orders from target customers.
For small and medium-sized enterprises, turning patents into products often faces risks: pilot and intermediate trials may fail; there may be intellectual property infringement disputes during industrialization.
"This time, we have a 'new helper' to assist, and the patent is on the 'fast track' for implementation," said Wang Zhenning (王震宁), a relevant person in charge of Baiderui (百德瑞). The "new helper" is a customized science and technology insurance plan. PICC Property and Casualty Qingdao Branch (人保财险青岛分公司), combined with the company's full-chain risk management needs for patent industrialization, provides comprehensive protection against risks such as patent infringement and implementation cost losses. "With insurance as a backstop, companies can unload their burdens, and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is accelerated," said Wang Zhenning (王震宁).
Around the risk protection needs of the entire cycle of scientific and technological innovation, "new faces" of insurance services are constantly emerging. Shaanxi (陕西) has implemented the nation's first integrated circuit operation period comprehensive insurance, solving the pain points of relevant enterprises in protecting high-value assets and controlling technically sensitive risks. Concept verification insurance for universities and research institutes is constantly expanding the coverage of protection for innovation entities.
"Developing science and technology insurance is of great significance for accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement," said Xiang Dong (向东), Chief Risk Officer of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局). Science and technology insurance is conducive to reducing the trial and error costs of enterprises, smoothing financial curves and technological cycles, and allowing scientific and technological innovation entities to focus more on technological breakthroughs and value creation. In addition, the industry actively leverages the patient capital advantages of insurance funds to increase investment in helping develop new quality productive forces.
"During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, the industry will accelerate the construction of a comprehensive and multi-level science and technology insurance service system to build a solid safety barrier for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the deep integration of industry," said Zhao Yulong (赵宇龙), President of the Insurance Association of China (中国保险行业协会).
Practicing financial services for the people and enhancing the inclusiveness and accessibility of insurance services:
Recently, Zhao Xiaohua (赵效花), a tea picker in Anji County (安吉县), Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江), said: "Tea picking is hard work. Last year, I accidentally slipped and fractured my bone, and the surgery cost more than 30,000 yuan. Fortunately, I had insurance claims, which reduced a lot of burden."
White tea is a local characteristic industry that enriches the people. Tea pickers work in the mountains all year round, and they are prone to falling when the weather changes. In response, China Life Huzhou Branch of Zhejiang Province (中国人寿浙江省湖州分公司) launched the "Anji Tea Picker Accidental Injury" protection plan, which covers disability, accidental medical expense compensation, and other protections. Last year, about 40,000 tea pickers in the area received this protection.
In Shanghai (上海), "Huqi Bao" (沪骑保) and "Huye Bao" (沪业保) provide protection for flexible employment groups and service industry operators. In Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), relevant departments provide accident insurance for the elderly over 60 years old with local household registration, and insurance companies are exploring providing considerate services such as installing assistive handrails for the elderly. Many cities have launched urban customized commercial medical insurance and family property insurance with low thresholds, low premiums, and high protection, which are welcomed by consumers.
Data shows that in 2025, agricultural insurance will provide 5.32 trillion yuan in risk protection. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, commercial health insurance has cumulatively paid approximately 1.8 trillion yuan for people with illnesses.
The improvement of the diversity, inclusiveness, and accessibility of insurance services is not only a vivid portrayal of the industry's deep practice of financial services for the people, but also a "fruitful result" of vigorously developing digital finance. In recent years, the industry has continued to deepen its digital transformation, and the convenience of online insurance purchase and claims settlement has been continuously improved. The automatic claims settlement rate of commercial medical insurance in many places exceeds 90%, and one-stop settlement services for commercial insurance and medical insurance are constantly being promoted.
Leveraging professional advantages to enhance disaster response and social governance effectiveness:
The value of insurance functions is increasingly prominent in enhancing disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief capabilities. In September last year, continuous rainy weather occurred in the Huanghuai area, and the insurance industry paid more than 13 billion yuan in various types of autumn grain loss claims and invested more than 85 million yuan to support disaster relief.
Not only responding to major disasters, but also serving production and life. Fuding City (福鼎市), Fujian (福建) and other places are exploring the "social governance + insurance" service model to provide assistance to casualties and people in need in various cases. Safety production liability insurance is accelerating innovation and implementation, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of risk reduction services, and helping industries such as mines and dangerous chemicals to identify hidden dangers and ensure safe production. The social assistance fund for road traffic accidents provides timely help to victims of traffic accidents.
Safety is the prerequisite for development, and development is the guarantee of safety. By deeply exploring the risk protection needs in the development process of various fields and innovating and optimizing insurance products and services in a targeted manner, the insurance industry will be able to better play the role of economic shock absorber and social stabilizer, shelter the real economy from "wind and rain," and help the Chinese economy move steadily and far.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 馨 郭梓云
"Everything is fine in Greenland (格陵兰岛) right now, and we hope to restore the peace of the past." A reporter recently took a nearly 5-hour flight from Copenhagen Airport (哥本哈根凯斯楚普国际机场) in Denmark (丹麦) to Greenland (格陵兰岛), the world's largest island, and a passenger from Greenland (格陵兰岛) on the same flight expressed his wish to the reporter.
Most of Greenland (格陵兰岛) is located within the Arctic Circle and is known for its cold, vastness, and desolation. Since last year, the peaceful life here has been disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump's (特朗普) repeated threats to acquire Greenland (格陵兰岛). During a few days of visiting Greenland (格陵兰岛), the reporter found that locals talked more about the weather and fishing when they met. Their words were friendly, humorous, and talkative. At the same time, topics such as "What did the U.S. say again?" and "Is the U.S. really seizing the island?" are frequently integrated into their daily conversations, with weariness and anxiety in their eyes, and confusion and unease in their tone.
"Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人) only ever want to be Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人)"
In Nuuk (努克), the capital of Greenland (格陵兰岛), the streets are filled with quiet pedestrians and a constant flow of vehicles, and the harbor has small boats returning from fishing and seabirds circling in the sky. In the downtown commercial street, a store displays hoodies and posters with the words "Greenland (格陵兰岛) is not for sale" at the entrance. A salesperson said, "This series of clothes and cloth bags is very popular and often sells out."
As the most important cultural venue on the island, the Greenland (格陵兰岛) Cultural Center has a modern and simple appearance, and it often hosts a variety of activities such as exhibitions, concerts, recitals, and film screenings. Walking into the hall, the reporter was stopped for a long time by the paintings and photos covering two walls. Hundreds of paintings vary in size and color. The paintings include people holding their national flags, holding fists and leaning on each other, maps connecting mainland Denmark (丹麦) and Greenland (格陵兰岛), and the natural scenery of Greenland (格陵兰岛). Next to them are written words such as "Don't bother us," "You are so barren, so you want to 'buy' us, you are so pathetic," and "When we come together, things will always turn around," silently expressing anger and anxiety.
At one end of the gallery, the reporter saw a giant photo: on a mountain where the snow has not yet melted, people are holding local flags, and under the mountain, a crowd of people are raising signs protesting against the United States. Not long ago, the Danish Press Photographers Association (丹麦新闻摄影师协会) announced the 2025 press photo, and this photo showing the anti-American demonstration of the Greenlandic people won the grand prize. Greenlandic (格陵兰岛) media photographer Oscar Scott Carl (奥斯卡·斯科特·卡尔) reiterated "Greenland (格陵兰岛) is not for sale" when he accepted the award.
"Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人) only ever want to be Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人). I didn't expect that the former close ally, the United States, is now threatening us," said Aqqalukuluk Fontain (阿卡卢库卢克·方丹), chairman of the Greenland Inuit (格陵兰因纽特人) Youth League and customer manager of an information technology company. "I think anything can happen in the future. The United States may buy Greenland (格陵兰岛), or it may invade." Anders (安德斯), a Greenlandic (格陵兰岛) telecommunications engineer, told reporters, "We like to live freely and don't want to be part of the United States."
A recent poll conducted by the Danish newspaper *Copenhagen Post* (《哥本哈根邮报》) in Greenland (格陵兰岛) showed that 76% of Greenlanders (格陵兰岛民众) strongly opposed becoming part of the United States. "The threat from the United States has aroused a strong sense of national consciousness, dignity, and pride among the Danish people, showing an unprecedented 'sense of unity' and cohesion," said Jasper Vestergaard (雅斯珀·斯基尔), co-publisher of the *Copenhagen Post* (《哥本哈根邮报》), to reporters.
"We are a nation that defends individual freedom and sustainable development"
Greenland (格陵兰岛) is vast, and the common weather of fierce cold winds and snow did not stop the Inuit (因纽特人) from living and multiplying, but instead gave birth to a unique Inuit (因纽特) culture. In the Greenland (格陵兰岛) National Museum & Archives, six compact exhibition halls display the history of Greenland (格陵兰岛) for more than 4,000 years. In Sisimiut (西西缪特), the second largest city in Greenland (格陵兰岛), the local museum tells the historical evolution of this land through a group of small historical buildings, with the help of museum collections and miniature models.
Dorthe Olsen (多特·奥尔森), curator of the Sisimiut (西西缪特) Museum, proudly stated that the Sisimiut (西西缪特) Museum is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary, and she is the first Inuit (因纽特人) to serve as curator. "'Greenland (格陵兰)', in the local language, means 'the land of the Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人的土地)'. We focus on telling history from our own perspective." Shuttleing through the wooden houses with a history of more than 200 years, Olsen (奥尔森) enthusiastically gave the reporter a tour. "From the seaside to the depths of the inland, this is one of the largest cultural heritage sites in the world, and we are very proud of it." In the "Inuit (因纽特人) Hunting Ground" exhibition area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Olsen (奥尔森) talked about the endless life of this land, "Our ancestors used to live there, and there are still hunters living there today." "Respect" is a keyword that Olsen (奥尔森) often mentions, "We respect the cultures of other parts of the world, and we also ask you to respect our culture. This is mutual. This is very important."
In 2018, "Aasivissuit-Nipisat Inuit (因纽特人) Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea" was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the first cultural heritage site within the Arctic Circle. The World Heritage Site stretches from the ocean in the west to the dynamic ice sheet in the east. For 4,200 years, Aasivissuit (阿斯维斯尤特) near Kangerlussuaq (康格鲁斯瓦克) has been a summer hunting camp, while Nipisat (尼皮萨特) near Sisimiut (西西缪特) has been a winter coastal settlement where people fish. Olsen (奥尔森) said that Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人) have always maintained a close relationship of harmonious coexistence with nature. Not over-consuming, not 竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch the fish," to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs), and arranging work and life in accordance with the seasons and weather changes are still the code of conduct for Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人).
Ancient Greenland (格陵兰), resilient Greenland (格陵兰). It is the people who have lived on this land for generations that have made Greenland (格陵兰岛) endless and allowed this unique cultural context in the human family to continue to this day. At the home of Jens (延斯), a professional hunter in Nuuk (努克), the reporter saw many distinctive handicrafts. The meat, fish, and small berries on the table are the results of Jens' (延斯) hunting and gathering. Jens (延斯) introduced the name of each food and the corresponding "hunting season" one by one, demonstrating how to cut, eat, and freshen each food. "My grandfather taught me the skills of hunting and fishing, and I passed them on to my son." Today, Jens' (延斯) son, who is in his early 20s, is also a professional hunter.
"We have lived here for thousands of years, and we are not going anywhere," said Aaju Peter (阿朱·彼得), a Greenlandic (格陵兰岛) lawyer. "We like the cold weather, we like our culture, we like our language... When we get together, we support each other and comfort each other."
"Greenland (格陵兰岛) cannot be simplified into a collection of military and mineral resources. We are a nation that defends individual freedom and sustainable development," said Aqqalukuluk Fontain (阿卡卢库卢克·方丹). Nivi Olsen (尼维·罗辛), a member of the Greenlandic (格陵兰岛) Parliament, said, "We have our own unique land, culture, and language. Greenland (格陵兰岛) is not a commodity, and our rights should be taken seriously and respected."
"Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人) have a very strong sense of identity with this land"
During the reporter's interview in Sisimiut (西西缪特), the local Greenland (格陵兰) annual sled dog selection competition was held. As a unique dog breed in the Arctic, sled dogs continue to serve as working partners for thousands of years, assisting in hunting and transportation, and also carry new roles in tourism and family leisure life. "When you come to Sisimiut (西西缪特) again, I will take you out with sled dogs in my personal capacity," said Malik Berthelsen (马利克·贝特尔森), the mayor of Sisimiut (西西缪特), who owns 14 sled dogs, enthusiastically.
Local souvenir shops display ornaments and clothing made of seal fur, special teas made from local grass leaves, etc. Some local ladies on the streets wear traditional shawls with diamond patterns and bright colors, and some people show reporters their special earrings made of bird beaks, showing the Greenlanders' (格陵兰岛人) inheritance and love for their local culture. "The museum holds regular lectures and also broadcasts our activities live on social platforms. The younger generation can learn more about the lives of their ancestors and understand their own culture through these methods," said Olsen (奥尔森).
During the interview in Greenland (格陵兰岛), "We just want to live peacefully, please respect our culture" was the most frequently heard phrase by the reporter. Anda Larsen (安达·拉尔森), who is studying at the University of Greenland (格陵兰岛大学), said, "The United States' proposal to 'buy the island' and threaten Greenland (格陵兰岛) is an insult to us and cannot be accepted." "Buying the island is an absurd thing, unbelievable," said a taxi driver in Sisimiut (西西缪特). "I am also worried that the United States will forcibly 'seize the island', so I have stored 5 freezers of food at home, which makes me feel a little more at ease."
"Greenlanders (格陵兰岛人) have a very strong sense of identity with this land. We have civil rights like people in other places. We are not people who are greedy for money and will not be bought by money," said Berthelsen (贝特尔森). "I participated in the anti-American parade. The attitude towards the United States here is undergoing tremendous changes, and the alliance relationship since World War II has been destroyed."
"We have always been the users of this land, and only we know our own stories best," Nasonvuaq (娜松瓦克), head of the Arctic Circle Business Association, told reporters. "Cooperating with scientists from various countries to present our unique way of life is the key to attracting tourists." In today's turbulent world pattern, respecting every piece of land and the people who live and grow on it, and living in harmony, is the right direction for development.
(Reported from Nuuk (努克), Greenland (格陵兰岛) by this newspaper)
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Data recently released by the UK Office for National Statistics shows that the UK's GDP in January 2026 was flat month-on-month, lower than market expectations. Currently, the UK economy has recovered somewhat but remains weak, corporate investment intentions are not strong, and inflation is higher than the target level. The UK Office for Budget Responsibility previously issued a statement lowering its forecast for UK economic growth in 2026 from 1.4% to 1.1% in its previous forecast. Faced with the dilemma of "low growth, high costs, and weak confidence," coupled with external energy shocks, the UK government is trying to promote economic recovery and growth through various measures.
In the past few years, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine crisis, and dramatic fluctuations in energy prices, the UK's public finances have been under unprecedented pressure. To cope with high inflation and fiscal deficits, the government has adopted a fiscal strategy centered on "tax increases + targeted spending." The 2025 budget proposed a tax increase plan totaling approximately £26.1 billion, while also supporting measures such as household energy subsidies, minimum wage increases, and increased local government funding to promote short-term price stability and long-term fiscal sustainability. Data shows that the UK's inflation rate has fallen significantly from its peak in recent months, and the trend of price stabilization has initially emerged. However, tax increases have also pushed up corporate operating costs and passed them on to consumers. Coupled with factors such as commercial tax rate adjustments and welfare policy tightening, the prices of core commodities such as food and energy are still higher than pre-pandemic levels, and the inflation rate in January 2026 is at a high of 3.2%.
The service industry has always been the core pillar of the UK economy, accounting for more than 80% of GDP. However, in recent years, the industry's growth momentum has weakened significantly, with the UK service industry growing by only 0.2% in the third quarter of 2025. At the same time, the decline in manufacturing and the hollowing out of some industries have also constrained the UK's economic vitality. Against this backdrop, the UK government released the "Modern Industrial Strategy" in June 2025, proposing a blueprint for industrial revitalization for the next 10 years. The strategy focuses on eight areas: advanced manufacturing, clean energy, digital technology, life sciences, financial services, creative industries, defense, and professional services. It aims to reshape national industrial competitiveness and inject momentum into long-term growth by increasing R&D investment, optimizing skilled talent training, simplifying corporate regulation, and reducing innovation costs. Since the implementation of the policy, investment in related fields has shown signs of recovery, especially in the green energy and artificial intelligence tracks, attracting a number of multinational companies to increase their investment and layout.
After Brexit, the labor supply has contracted, coupled with aging and skills mismatch, the UK is facing a persistent "labor shortage." In 2025, the UK adjusted its skilled worker visa system, retaining flexible channels for shortage industries such as IT, construction, and healthcare, and plans to establish a special agency to review the demand for low-skilled foreign workers. At the same time, the government continues to raise the minimum wage standard and increase investment in vocational skills training, trying to alleviate structural imbalances from both the supply and demand sides. However, the UK's hourly labor output is still far below the G7 average. How to effectively connect labor policies with industrial upgrading and truly transform them into productivity improvements has become an important yardstick for testing the effectiveness of reforms.
The UK continues to promote the "Global Britain" strategy. At the end of 2024, it officially joined the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), marking a substantial step in expanding its economic and trade network to the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, the UK is accelerating free trade negotiations with Gulf countries and others, striving to build a more diversified export and investment pattern. Against the backdrop of rising global economic uncertainty, the UK industry is paying more attention to the stability and growth potential of the Chinese market. China's leading advantages in green technology, infrastructure, and consumer goods manufacturing complement the UK's advantages in finance, education, creativity, and high-end manufacturing. Deepening Sino-British pragmatic cooperation will not only help the UK expand non-EU markets and smooth supply chain risks, but also provide a collaborative space for the two countries on global issues such as climate change and technological innovation.
The current UK economy faces not only cyclical fluctuations, but also deep-seated structural challenges. Repairing finances, revitalizing industries, improving the labor market, and carrying out foreign cooperation constitute important measures for its economic breakthrough, and its effectiveness depends on the implementation efforts and the cooperation of the external environment. Historical experience shows that economic transformation is difficult to achieve overnight. In a turbulent international situation, only through a series of reforms, activating local growth momentum, and carrying out multilateral cooperation can the UK economy better achieve steady growth.
(The author is an associate researcher at the China Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) Cultural Development Promotion Center (文化发展促进中心))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Geneva, March 22 (Reporter Shi Song (石松)) During the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, United Nations independent experts and people from all walks of life in China and abroad urged Japan to face up to the "comfort women" history, called on the international community to pay close attention to it, and promoted Japan to earnestly assume its historical responsibility.
A few days ago, 16 experts from the special mechanisms of the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a joint press release, expressing serious concern about Japan's deprivation of "comfort women" victims' rights to seek truth, justice, and compensation, calling on Japan to formally apologize, provide full compensation, and protect relevant historical records in textbooks.
The experts pointed out that as many as 200,000 women and girls were arbitrarily deprived of their freedom under the Japanese so-called "comfort women" system, subjected to human trafficking, rape, and sexual slavery, and even forcibly disappeared in some cases. Survivors from countries such as China (中国), South Korea (韩国), the Netherlands, East Timor, Indonesia, and the Philippines have mostly passed away, and the remaining survivors are also elderly. The experts stated that Japan had "failed to achieve survivor-centered justice."
He Junyao (何君尧), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and a member of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区立法会议员), pointed out at a seminar held in Geneva, Switzerland recently that during Japan's aggression and expansion in Asia, it implemented large-scale plunder, massacres, organized atrocities, and human experimentation, which seriously violated human rights, with Unit 731 (731部队) being a typical example of these crimes. In addition, the Japanese army forcibly conscripted "comfort women" during the war, subjecting women from China (中国), South Korea (韩国), the Philippines, and other countries to sexual slavery, and related issues have not been resolved fairly to this day.
He stated that Japan has failed to effectively fulfill its international human rights obligations on the above issues, has long evaded historical responsibility, and has not made due compensation to the victims. At the same time, some forces in Japan are promoting historical revisionism, attempting to downplay or even deny the history of aggression, mislead public perception, and weaken reflection on war crimes.
Stanley Woden, an American legal expert, said at the meeting that Japan's previous statements of remorse and apology were vague, inconsistent, and lacked substantive content. He emphasized that the international community should remain vigilant and restrain Japan's expansion of armaments until it sincerely apologizes for the serious atrocities committed against the people of China (中国) and other countries.
He Chaoqiong (何超琼), chairperson of the Hong Kong Federation of Women's Associations (香港各界妇女联合协进会主席), said that Japan's forced conscription of "comfort women" during World War II was not an accidental phenomenon in the war, but an organized and premeditated systemic act of infringement, which is an extremely dark page in Japan's history of aggression and must be faced squarely and reflected upon.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵益普
Since late January of this year, many parts of India have continued to face a water supply crisis. The latest report from the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) shows that about 600 million people across India have been affected by this round of water supply crisis. The Delhi Jal Board (新德里水务局) stated that due to severe ammonia pollution in the Yamuna River (亚穆纳河), a tributary of the Ganges River (恒河) that supplies about 40% of the city's water, six of New Delhi's nine major water plants have suspended operations due to their inability to purify the water source. A total of 43 communities, with approximately 2 million residents, have been affected by interruptions in domestic water supply, with water outages lasting as long as three or four days in many areas. Other parts of India are also facing water supply crises due to reduced rainfall, groundwater depletion, and water pollution.
According to The Indian Express, New Delhi's daily water demand is 1.25 billion imperial gallons (approximately 4.546 liters per imperial gallon), but the city's actual water supply is 1 billion imperial gallons. Its water supply pressure mainly stems from an imperfect water supply network, aging infrastructure, and insufficient water plant purification capacity. Affected by high population density, unstable monsoons, and groundwater depletion, other major cities in India such as Bangalore (班加罗尔) and Mumbai (孟买) experience varying degrees of water supply crises almost every year. Dhruva Jaishankar, Vice President of the Observer Research Foundation (印度观察家研究基金会), stated that groundwater supports about 62% of India's irrigation water and 85% of its domestic water, and is crucial for food production and drinking water security. The increasing depletion of groundwater will further complicate India's water shortage problem, and more effective implementation of water resource management is urgently needed.
World Bank data shows that India accounts for 18% of the world's total population, but only 4% of the world's water resources, making it one of the countries with the greatest water stress in the world. It is estimated that by 2030, India's water demand will reach twice the supply. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) predicts that by 2050, 820 million people in India will have an average annual water withdrawal close to or below 1,000 cubic meters, which is in a state of severe water shortage or "water stress" as defined by the United Nations.
The Sunday Guardian (印度《星期日卫报》) commented that India is not facing a temporary water shortage, but a structural imbalance in water resources. To alleviate the water supply crisis, governments and city managers need to develop long-term plans that combine urban development with the sustainable use of water resources, focusing on restoring urban water bodies, promoting rainwater harvesting, and continuing to improve sewage treatment and water recycling systems. In vast rural areas, protecting wetlands, building reservoirs, and restricting the exploitation of groundwater are particularly urgent. "Placing the sustainability of water resources above short-term water use expansion is the only way to truly ensure India's water security."
Various parts of India are taking measures to alleviate the water shortage problem. To cope with the upcoming high temperatures and peak water consumption, the Delhi Jal Board (新德里水务局) has temporarily deployed nearly 200 water tankers. Regarding the issue of water pollution, New Delhi Chief Minister, Alka Gupta (瑞卡·古普塔), stated that the government is striving to increase the city's sewage treatment capacity to 1.5 billion imperial gallons per day by 2028. The government of Telangana (特伦甘纳邦), in southern India, has launched a "Rainwater Harvesting Project," calling on local people to actively collect rainwater and organizing the clearing of silt from multiple reservoirs in the state to restore the reservoirs' water storage capacity. In the northwestern states of Gujarat (古吉拉特邦) and Rajasthan (拉贾斯坦邦), ancient stepwells are being reused. After dredging and renovation, these stepwells can play a role in storing water and replenishing groundwater.
Return to TopAccording to a report by Xinhua News Agency, Beirut (贝鲁特) (reporters Cao Changhao (曹昌浩) and Shen Feng (申峰)), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (联合国西亚经济社会委员会) recently released a briefing stating that the conflicts in the Middle East have caused significant economic losses to the entire Arab region. If the conflict lasts for a month, the losses could climb to nearly $150 billion, accounting for 3.7% of the region's gross domestic product (GDP).
The briefing stated that preliminary estimates of economic losses in the Arab region within two weeks are approximately $63 billion, and the economic shockwaves from the war have affected multiple sectors, including energy, trade, aviation, and finance. According to the briefing, shipping volume in the Strait of Hormuz (霍尔木兹海峡) has plummeted by 97% to date, with the scale of daily obstructed cargo transport estimated at approximately $2.4 billion. From February 28 to March 12, nearly 19,000 flights were canceled at nine major airports in the Arab region, resulting in approximately $1.9 billion in revenue losses for airlines. The briefing also stated that prior to this escalation of conflict, the Arab region's economy was already in a fragile state, with approximately 210 million people living in conflict-affected areas, of whom 82 million require humanitarian assistance.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed cultivating more distinctive mass sports events and activities. In recent years, the enthusiasm of the people for participating in sports has been high, and various mass sports events and activities have flourished. The second "ZheBA" (浙江省城市篮球联赛) (Zhejiang Provincial City Basketball League) recently announced a new competition system, which will continue to combine advantages to explore characteristics, allow grassroots players to pursue their dreams, empower with new technology, and promote the "multi-directional rush" of event cultivation, national fitness, and urban development.
——Editor
On March 14, in the basketball hall of Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County (嘉善县), Jiaxing (嘉兴), Zhejiang (浙江), players were conducting tactical coordination training in preparation for the selection competition for the second "ZheBA" (浙江省城市篮球联赛) (Zhejiang Provincial City Basketball League). "ZheBA" announced a new competition system on March 10, and the city-level preliminary competition is scheduled to start in May or June.
The first "ZheBA" competition ended on February 6, with a total of 487 related events held, online live broadcast views exceeding 1 billion, and driving integrated cultural tourism and sports consumption of over 10 billion yuan. Nowadays, various distinctive mass sports events and activities are in full swing across the country. What are the different highlights of "ZheBA"? What new changes are there in the new season? The reporter conducted interviews.
Grassroots Players "Busy with Work During the Day, Grabbing Rebounds at Night"
According to the new competition system, the number of participating teams in the "ZheBA" City Hegemony Competition has expanded from 22 to 28, and all 6 newly added places are reserved for the "County Teams" that break through from the revival competition.
Mao Genhong (毛根洪), member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau (浙江省体育局), said that this means that more county teams will have the opportunity to appear on the provincial stage, which can directly expand the participation base of grassroots players and help discover more outstanding grassroots players.
In the first "ZheBA" competition, Pan Chengkai (潘承恺), a player from the Jiaxing Economic Development Zone (嘉兴经开区) team, won the "Most Valuable Player" title for 5 consecutive preliminary matches, averaging 32.6 points per game, and bravely scored 39 points in a single game in the City Hegemony Competition. The 193 cm tall Pan Chengkai is an assistant engineer at a home furnishing company. He has excellent basketball skills and has gained attention for his outstanding performance.
Mao Genhong introduced that athletes who have been professional players or registered in professional clubs (including youth teams) are not allowed to register for the competition, which ensures the mass character of "ZheBA".
"Busy with work during the day, grabbing rebounds at night." Grassroots players standing on the field provide a larger stage for dreams to blossom. On the "ZheBA" field, there are many grassroots players like Pan Chengkai. They come from all walks of life, and while bravely pursuing their dreams, they also drive the enthusiasm of local people to participate in basketball.
From professional venues in cities to simple outdoor courts in towns and communities, the dynamic figures of basketball enthusiasts can be seen everywhere. Staff from Hangzhou West Lake Culture and Tourism Group (杭州西湖文旅集团) provided a set of data: From the beginning of July last year to now, the two popular local sports venues, West Lake Gymnasium (西湖体育馆) and West Lake District Cultural and Sports Center (西湖区文体中心), have received more than 800,000 citizens participating in sports activities such as basketball, an increase of nearly 55% compared to before the "ZheBA" competition.
Technology Enhances Viewing Experience and Event Popularity
With the second "ZheBA" about to start, Xu Guangchao (徐广超), a supplier for the first "ZheBA", is ready. Xu Guangchao's company is in Hangzhou (杭州) and specializes in technological sports fabrics. It designed the competition uniforms for the first "ZheBA" All-Star Game and is currently closely following the official investment promotion dynamics. "In the new season, technology is still the main focus. We hope to help players through new technological fabrics," said Xu Guangchao.
In the first competition, behind the fierce competition, technology has been integrated into the arena inside and out: event cameras with artificial intelligence body analysis technology record wonderful moments for the audience; cold therapy cabins and hot flotation beds help players with daily training and post-match recovery; the application of "artificial intelligence + production and broadcasting" technology has realized functions such as artificial intelligence automatic camera movement tracking, event live broadcast streaming, replay of controversial penalties, and automatic generation of highlight reels, which greatly reduces event operation costs and enhances the viewing experience and event popularity.
In addition, artificial intelligence assistant commentators "Zhe Xiaoti" (浙小体) and "Yu Dazui" (宇大嘴) provide the audience with technical analysis, background information, etc., allowing more people to understand the "ins and outs". This is Zhejiang's (浙江) innovative measure in the field of digital application of sports events, and also a brand-new practice of "ZheBA" in terms of technological empowerment.
"'ZheBA' is not only a grand event for sports competition, but also a stage for technology display and application," said Jiang Jiancheng (姜建成), Director of the Policy and Regulations Department and First-level Investigator of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau (浙江省体育局). Technology empowers the event, making viewing more convenient and interesting, while encouraging more technology companies to participate in the event and create a futuristic viewing and interactive experience.
Hot Events Drive Integrated Cultural Tourism and Sports Consumption of Over 10 Billion Yuan
"ZheBA" ignited the enthusiasm of fans for watching games and also brought popularity to the local area. How to catch the cultural tourism "good ball" from the event and further transform the event traffic into cultural tourism "retention"?
In Cangnan County (苍南县), Wenzhou (温州), the local government focuses on "event + service consumption" and "event + cultural tourism experience", and guides catering, accommodation and other business formats to launch special discounts for "event ticket stubs", and improves consumption conversion efficiency through "ticket + " activities. Zhang Weichang (章为长), member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Cangnan County Bureau of Commerce (苍南县商务局), introduced that taking Peninsula Coffee near the competition venue as an example, during the Cangnan home game of the first "ZheBA", the store's catering revenue exceeded 9 million yuan, an increase of 49.5% compared to before the "ZheBA" competition.
"We have planned a series of post-match activities to continuously explore consumption growth points," said Ji Zhongmeng (季仲孟), Director of the Market Development and Cooperation Department of the Lishui Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (丽水市文广旅体局). Not long ago, players from the Lishui (丽水) team visited multiple scenic spots such as Guyan Painting Village (古堰画乡) in Liandu (莲都), Xiandu (仙都) in Jinyun (缙云), and Yunhe Terraces (云和梯田), attracting many fans to "check in". During this year's Spring Festival holiday, Xiandu (仙都) scenic spot in Jinyun (缙云) received more than 190,000 tourists, an increase of 29.8% year-on-year, and accumulated operating income of more than 9.64 million yuan, an increase of 25.3% year-on-year.
What are the plans for the new season? "Of course, we must make good use of the spillover effect of 'ZheBA'," said Ji Zhongmeng. Lishui (丽水) will continue to optimize the "ZheBA" cultural tourism preferential policies and promote the transformation of the "ticket stub economy" to the "stay economy".
Chen Guangcheng (陈广胜), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (浙江省文化广电和旅游厅), introduced that not only Lishui (丽水), but also cultural tourism departments across the province are eager to try, combining festival nodes and local characteristics, and have launched special activities such as traveling with "ZheBA" and cultural tourism all-in-one cards, actively expanding various types of cultural tourism cooperation, and striving to transform distinctive events into urban cultural symbols.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑 轶 陶相安
The Fiemme Valley in Italy, where the Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium is located, is the venue for the cross-country skiing and biathlon events of the 2026 Milan Paralympic Winter Games. As the "March of the Volunteers" played time and again, Fu Chunshan (付春山), the 42-year-old coach of the Chinese team, watched his athletes take the stage one after another, his eyes filled with pride.
In 2006, also in Italy, he participated in the Turin Paralympic Winter Games for the first time as an athlete. Now, he is one of the few disabled coaches in the Chinese delegation to this Paralympic Winter Games. In these 20 years, accompanying the development of China's Paralympic ice and snow sports, Fu Chunshan's back has become straighter day by day.
During his childhood, a car accident took Fu Chunshan's (付春山) right leg. Through continuous efforts, he was selected for the Chinese National Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing Team. "At that time, the team's support conditions were very limited." In the early years of competing abroad, Fu Chunshan (付春山) always felt a little inferior. The strong European and American ice and snow teams had everything from equipment to support teams. Chinese coaches often held multiple positions, waxing skis, giving athletes massages and relaxation, and even acting as drivers.
2006 was the second time China sent a delegation to participate in the Paralympic Winter Games, with only 8 athletes participating in two major events: cross-country skiing and alpine skiing. Fu Chunshan (付春山) recalled: "At that time, competing abroad was just about watching and learning."
After being an athlete for nearly 10 years, Fu Chunshan's (付春山) best result was ninth place at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games. "Sometimes I also doubted myself, could it be that we really can't compare to European and American athletes?" He believes that they still lost in training and support.
In 2015, Beijing (北京) and Zhangjiakou (张家口) successfully bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games. At this time, Fu Chunshan (付春山) had become a disabled cross-country skiing and biathlon coach, "I want to recruit a group of good players and help them stand on the podium of the Paralympic Winter Games."
The opportunity of a major country hosting a major event and the development of the times have formed a strong synergy, promoting the leapfrog development of China's Paralympic ice and snow sports.
Training conditions have been comprehensively improved. Jilin Beishan (吉林北山) and Hebei Bashang (河北坝上), two year-round ski resorts, ensure that the team can train throughout the year, and they can also go to Chile (智利), Argentina (阿根廷) and other places for off-season snow training. The support team is also increasingly complete. Now, the national Paralympic cross-country skiing and Paralympic biathlon teams include Chinese coaches, team doctors, guides, equipment managers, and also "bring in" foreign coaches and foreign waxers. Training introduces a variety of technological means to scientifically formulate training plans. Fu Chunshan (付春山) cited an example: "Each athlete is equipped with a heart rate monitor and heart rate belt to monitor in real time and analyze sports performance." In the past, equipment was purchased from abroad. Later, Fu Chunshan (付春山) combined his years of training and competition experience to lead multiple upgrades and iterations of the sit-ski. As domestic manufacturing and technology become more mature, the equipment of the team members has now been basically replaced with domestic products.
The solid foundation laid by the preparations for the Beijing (北京) Paralympic Winter Games continues to this day. At the Milan (米兰) Paralympic Winter Games, the five-star red flag is raised almost every day.
In this Paralympic Winter Games cross-country skiing and biathlon competitions, Cai Jiayun (蔡佳云) won 3 gold medals, Liu Zixu (刘子旭) won two championships, and visually impaired athletes Wang Yue (王跃), Dang Hesong (党鹤松), and Yu Shuang (余爽) also won gold medals. "From Beijing (北京) to Milan (米兰), the team members have helped me realize my championship dream time and time again!" Fu Chunshan (付春山) said that from athlete to coach, "things I didn't dare to think about before" have really come true. "When foreign teams see us now, they will take the initiative to say 'The Chinese team is here'; in the competition, they will also remind athletes, 'The Chinese team is in front of you, cheer up!'" Fu Chunshan (付春山) said.
The cause of sports for people with disabilities resonates with national development and social progress. In Fu Chunshan's (付春山) view, when the country is strong, people with disabilities can have such a good environment and conditions, and have the opportunity to give full play to their strengths and show their style, "Not only in sports, but in all walks of life, as long as people with disabilities are willing to work hard and have the confidence to do it, they can achieve something."
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Wuxi (无锡), March 22nd (Reporter Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳)) The 2026 Wuxi Marathon (无锡马拉松) started on the 22nd, with more than 35,000 athletes participating. Kemal Hussein from Ethiopia won the men's title with a time of 2 hours, 07 minutes, and 07 seconds. Chinese athlete Mao Jinhu (毛金虎) won the second place. Feng Peiyou (丰配友), who broke the national men's marathon record earlier this month, finished fourth with a time of 2 hours, 08 minutes, and 10 seconds.
Mao Jinhu (毛金虎) currently holds the national record for the men's 10km road race. This Wuxi Marathon (无锡马拉松) was his first time participating in a full marathon. "I was a little scared before the race, but fortunately the race went smoothly today and I didn't encounter the difficulties I had imagined," said Mao Jinhu (毛金虎).
In the women's group, Amede Jemal from Ethiopia crossed the line first with a time of 2 hours, 24 minutes, and 14 seconds. Chinese athlete Li Meizhen (李美珍) won the second place with a time of 2 hours, 25 minutes, and 06 seconds, significantly improving her personal best.
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The goal of health management is to improve one's state of life, not to pursue perfect data. The diagnosis of a disease must be based on clinical symptoms and professional medical examinations.
Like many others, I believe, I no longer just stretch upon waking up in the morning, but also subconsciously click on the smart watch on my wrist to check the "sleep score" from the previous night. When I see the reminder that "deep sleep is insufficient," the relaxed mood instantly turns into anxiety, and I even spend the whole day wondering if I have some hidden disease.
At the first press conference of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) in 2026, it was clearly reminded that smart wearable devices are mainly used for monitoring in daily life and cannot be used as a basis for disease diagnosis and treatment, nor can they replace corresponding medical examinations and tests. In today's rapidly changing technological progress, this authoritative voice reminds us that in the era of digital intelligence, we must clarify the boundaries between health monitoring data and medical diagnosis, and avoid the convenience of technology evolving into a physical and mental burden.
At present, the booming rise of the smart wearable device market demonstrates the general improvement of the national health awareness. From heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, sleep health, to blood sugar, uric acid, blood lipids... the monitoring dimensions of smart wearable devices continue to extend. Technology does provide us with a "new window" to observe ourselves, making health risk warnings more convenient. However, we must soberly see that what we see through the window is not the whole picture of health.
There is an essential accuracy gap between consumer-grade smart wearable devices and professional medical devices. Taking the more popular sleep monitoring wristband as an example, it infers sleep stages through data such as body movement, blood oxygen saturation, and heart rate, which is easily affected by factors such as wearing method and environmental interference, and its accuracy is not comparable to hospital polysomnography. If you only rely on a monitoring value of a smart wearable device to determine that you have a "sleep disorder," this is not only a neglect of medical rigor, but also an arbitrary judgment of your own health.
What is alarming is that over-reliance on the monitoring data of smart wearable devices is creating a kind of "data anxiety." Some netizens shared their experiences: because they paid too much attention to heart rate data, they found that the data "looked higher and higher," went to the hospital for examination, but the results were normal. This anxiety does not stem from a real disease, but from the psychological suggestion triggered by the data. When a person repeatedly stares at the heart rate curve and worries that it is too fast, this tension itself will lead to sympathetic nerve excitement, which in turn will speed up the heart rate. In this way, smart wearable devices have become "anxiety generators" instead of health "guardians."
The human body is a complex and precise system, and indicators such as heart rate and blood pressure naturally fluctuate at different times and under different emotions, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. If health is narrowed down to "every data must be perfect at all times," you will fall into a digital maze and lose the most authentic perception of your body.
So, how to "reconcile" with smart wearable devices? The key is to find their role positioning. The important value of smart wearable devices lies not in the accurate determination of "instantaneous values," but in the faithful recording of "long-term trends."
Smart wearable devices should be positioned as health "sentinels." For the elderly, it can capture signals such as continuous abnormal heart rate and blood oxygen fluctuations in a "non-sense" state, providing timely risk warnings for family members and doctors. In clinical diagnosis, doctors are also happy to refer to these long-term accumulated trend clues, because they can make up for the fragmentation of outpatient examinations in terms of time span. But no matter how rich the data is, it is always just a reference. The right to diagnose must be given to licensed physicians, and the "gold standard" is still a standardized medical examination.
Correctly distinguish between normal data fluctuations and continuous abnormalities. Pay attention to the actual feelings of the body, and do not let occasional abnormal data disturb the normal rhythm of life. You may wish to set reasonable "health boundaries," try to reduce the frequency of viewing monitoring data, and listen to the inner voice of the body through breathing and exercise, rather than reading your own state through the screen.
The goal of health management is to improve one's state of life, not to pursue perfect data. The diagnosis of a disease must be based on clinical symptoms and professional medical examinations, which is not only a rigorous requirement of medicine, but also a reverence for life. We encourage making good use of technology to improve the ability to warn of health risks and guide healthy lifestyles, but we must never allow "data anxiety" to erode health.
When the technology's "sentinel" and the professional medical "backing" each perform their duties and complement each other, we can truly gain the initiative to control health in the era of digital intelligence.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨彦帆 申少铁 陆凡冰 窦瀚洋
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed, "Implement a health-first development strategy and improve the policy and system for health promotion." Physical examinations are an important defense line for maintaining health and a crucial means of promoting national health. In order to standardize adult health examinations, in October 2025, the General Office of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委办公厅) issued the "Recommended Guidelines for Adult Health Examination Items (2025 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guidelines"). Also released were the 2025 edition of the health examination self-assessment questionnaire, basic examination items, chronic disease risk screening items, adult health examination workflow chart, and common chronic disease risk assessment indicators.
Currently, there are still some non-standard phenomena in the health examination industry. Health examination institutions still have some room for improvement in terms of examination item settings and service optimization, and the public still has some concerns when choosing health examination packages. How can we ensure that the public understands health examinations and better utilizes the role of physical examinations in preventing diseases? The reporter conducted an interview.
How to Choose a Health Examination Package?
Follow the principle of "tailoring to individual needs and dynamic adjustment," emphasizing precision and personalization.
In the Health Examination Center of the Fourth Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital (中国人民解放军总医院第四医学中心), Mr. Zhao (赵大爷), a Beijing (北京) citizen, has just completed a comprehensive health check. As a retiree, Mr. Zhao pays special attention to his health.
"I am 66 years old this year. In the past, I would just listen to other people's recommendations or guess what to check based on where I felt uncomfortable," Mr. Zhao told reporters. "I completed the health examination self-assessment questionnaire in advance, and on top of the basic items, I focused on checking my cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health. It cost me less than 3,000 yuan in total, and I checked everything that needed to be checked, which made me feel at ease."
Mr. Zhao's previous confusion about "what to check" is not uncommon. The reporter found that many young people post on social media asking for help: How to choose a health examination package? They are troubled by the price differences in the package lists, fearing wasting money if they choose expensive ones and missing problems if they choose cheap ones.
"In fact, the more expensive the health examination package is, the better, nor are the more items the better, but the one that suits you is the best," said Ma Xuehua (马学华), director of the Health Examination Center of the Fourth Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital. The "Guidelines" are equivalent to establishing a "new national standard" for the health examination industry.
To address the public's confusion about "difficulty in choosing a package," the biggest highlight of the "Guidelines" is the establishment of a three-level system of "health examination self-assessment questionnaire + basic examination items + chronic disease risk screening." Ma Xuehua introduced: "This changes the previous fixed package approach. The current logic is '1+X': '1' is the basic item, and 'X' is the personalized additional item based on the questionnaire assessment."
Experts said that different groups of people should follow the principle of "tailoring to individual needs and dynamic adjustment," selectively choose examination items, and adjust them according to their age and physical condition.
Chen Xi (陈曦), chief physician of the General Medicine Health Management Center of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital (浙江省人民医院), suggested that first, one should choose a qualified and formal medical institution or health examination institution. The medical institution's practice license should have a health examination record, which is the health administrative department's recognition of the institution's health examination qualification.
"Formal institutions generally set up different packages according to age and gender, because the disease spectrum and health risks faced are different for different age groups and genders," Chen Xi said. For example, young people are in a stage of vigorous metabolism and active physical functions, so the main focus is on checking basic physical conditions and disease risk factors. Women in this age group should pay attention to checking cervical TCT (ThinPrep Cytologic Test) + HPV (Human Papillomavirus), breast ultrasound, and uterine adnexal ultrasound; the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and malignant tumors increases significantly in middle-aged people, so it is important to focus on tumor markers, large vessel ultrasound, and lung CT, and complete gastroscopy and colonoscopy; the physical functions of the elderly are in a period of decline, so a more detailed assessment of the risk of important organ diseases should be carried out, focusing on cardiac coronary CTA (CT angiography), cranial MRI, and other examinations.
How to Set Up Health Examination Items?
Comprehensively analyze and accurately set up items to meet the needs of different groups of people.
Not long ago, Yu Yifan (俞一凡), a citizen of Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, who is engaged in overseas e-commerce, came to the Health Examination Center of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital to prepare for a thorough examination of his body. After the pre-examination consultation, the staff first guided him to fill out the pre-examination questionnaire, and then helped him recommend a basic package and several additional items according to his personal situation and wishes, customizing a personalized health examination package for him.
Among these items, what Yu Yifan was most interested in was scientific weight loss. "I had tried to lose weight before, but I didn't succeed. I didn't dare to try weight loss products on the market easily, because I was afraid of side effects," he said.
Chen Xi introduced that scientific weight loss is a health management combination project that includes examination, evaluation, and intervention, including human body composition examination, dietary assessment, exercise evaluation, and the "five-teacher co-management" service of traditional Chinese medicine doctors, Western medicine doctors, nutritionists, sports coaches, and health managers. The whole process takes 3 months. "From the effect of the recent 225 weight loss customers, the average weight loss is 3 kg, the visceral fat has decreased significantly, and the muscle content remains unchanged, so it is very popular," Chen Xi said.
Chen Xi introduced that the Health Examination Center comprehensively analyzes the annual disease flow surveys of Zhejiang Province and Hangzhou City, as well as the high-frequency words in the health examinations of tens of thousands of people in the center every year, to formulate the health examination package for the next year for units and individuals to choose, which can meet the needs of different groups of people. For personalized needs, the Health Examination Center implements "1+X+Y" personalized health examinations. Before the examination, it will fully communicate with the examinee about the intention of the examination, formulate a basic package according to gender and age, and then combine the health risk factors in the questionnaire and the examinee's key intended examination directions to add X examination items, and supplement Y items according to the shortcomings in the customer's past health examination items to form a personalized health examination plan.
At the triage desk of the Health Examination Center of the Fourth Medical Center of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, the reporter saw medical staff guiding a young man to fill out the "Health Examination Self-Assessment Questionnaire." The main questions are: "Do you have a diagnosed disease or surgical history?" "Do any of your immediate family members have a history of major diseases?" "Do you usually smoke or drink alcohol?" "What are your eating and exercise habits?"
"This questionnaire is the 'first stop' for implementing targeted and personalized health examinations based on the actual situation of the examinee," Ma Xuehua explained. The "Guidelines" particularly emphasize the importance of the self-assessment questionnaire. Like a doctor's consultation, it collects information such as the examinee's family history, past medical history, and lifestyle, providing a key basis for the subsequent formulation of personalized examination plans.
At present, many hospitals have optimized and upgraded their health examination work by benchmarking the 2025 edition of the health self-assessment questionnaire, such as optimizing the health examination questionnaire form in the online health examination appointment system, changing the original optional filling to mandatory filling. Only after completing the questionnaire form can the examinee enter the health examination appointment process.
Fei Yunyun (费允云), director of the Health and Medical Department of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院), introduced that Peking Union Medical College Hospital provides a health examination package system divided into four categories for different ages and genders: "Basic Screening Type," "Specialized In-depth Type," "Comprehensive Enjoyment Type," and "Enjoyment and Health Type (Silver-haired People)." Corresponding health examination packages are also temporarily provided for children and adolescents during the summer and winter vacations each year. Before the health examination, the hospital arranges a one-on-one consultation with a doctor for each online health examination package appointer to personalize the adjustment of items.
However, promoting the precise setting of health examination items also faces challenges. Ma Xuehua admitted that the compliance of some examinees is not enough, and they feel that filling out the form is troublesome. In this regard, the medical staff of the Health Examination Center will patiently guide and explain the importance of the questionnaire for customizing a scientific health examination plan. For unit group examinations, the hospital will send the questionnaire to the unit contact person in advance, and through stratified evaluation, such as grouping by age group, occupation, and gender, a more reasonable health examination plan will be formulated in advance through data analysis.
How to Optimize Health Examination Services?
Strive to achieve service upgrades in the three dimensions of pre-examination, during-examination, and post-examination.
Currently, public hospitals often have poor service experiences due to tight resources, while some private institutions have problems such as sales and bundling of health examination items, and service quality is questioned. How to optimize health examination services and ensure health examination quality is a common problem faced by health examination institutions.
Ms. Yu (俞女士), a citizen of Beijing, told reporters that she pays more attention to the professionalism of doctors and the service experience. The health examination centers of some hospitals have many procedures and long waiting times. When she had a health examination in a private institution, she encountered medical staff suggesting adding items and offering discounts for adding items on the same day, but she did not know whether it was necessary.
"What I value most is the post-examination service," Yu Yifan said. "We sometimes don't understand the professional terms and 'arrows' up and down on the report. I hope that after a problem is found, the hospital can tell me what it means, whether it is serious, whether it needs treatment, and where to go for treatment."
In addition, some examinees mentioned the fear of pain during the health examination, long waiting times, and the embarrassment of some invasive examinations (such as digital rectal examination).
Experts said that to further promote the healthy development of the industry, it is necessary to strengthen industry self-discipline, formulate industry standards, ensure health examination quality, and meet the health examination needs of more people. On the other hand, it is also necessary to implement a number of measures to strive to achieve service upgrades in the three dimensions of pre-examination, during-examination, and post-examination.
Some hospitals have already made beneficial explorations. In the during-examination stage, the Health Examination Center of Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital implements time-sharing real-name registration and uses an intelligent guidance system to ensure the optimal fasting priority path based on big data, shortening the average health examination time to 1.5 hours; it adopts a "color block + letter" partition combined with VR navigation to guide the route, making it easier for examinees to clearly identify and quickly find the examination area, making the connection of health examination items smoother. In the post-examination stage, Peking Union Medical College Hospital opened a post-examination clinic in the Department of Health and Medicine in April 2024, with specialist doctors providing services such as health examination report interpretation, re-examination appointment, and treatment recommendations for health examiners.
"In order to ensure the safety of health examiners and improve the quality of health examinations, the Department of Health and Medicine of Peking Union Medical College Hospital has specially formulated a critical value management system, including critical value definition, early warning, reporting, and hierarchical management. Once staff members discover high-risk abnormal values during the inspection and examination process, they immediately initiate the critical value registration, reporting, and notification process," Fei Yunyun said. In order to facilitate health examiners who cannot come to the site for consultation, Peking Union Medical College Hospital also provides health examiners with intelligent interpretation of health examination reports on the official APP. Currently, about 1/3 of health examiners use the "Intelligent Interpretation of Health Examination Reports" tool online.
"The most critical significance of health examinations lies in early detection and early intervention, preventing the 'germination' of diseases in advance, and maximizing the reduction of disease hazards," Fei Yunyun suggested that health examination institutions should make effective connections between health examinations and health management, and do a good job in health intervention or treatment for patients who have been found to have health problems in a timely manner.
Return to TopBy: 主讲人：国医大师、成都中医药大学教授 刘敏如
In the eyes of acquaintances, I, this 93-year-old "Sichuan girl," live a daily life that is "capricious" and doesn't quite resemble that of a master of traditional Chinese medicine. A few days ago, while eating at a hot pot restaurant in Chengdu (成都), I specifically ordered an entire portion of pig brain and ate it all up. The student sitting across from me quickly whispered a reminder: "Teacher Liu (刘老师), this will increase your cholesterol..." I waved my hand and said, "I only eat it once a year, what's there to be afraid of!"
Sometimes I eat five pieces of sweet steamed pork belly in one meal, and I also stay up late to write articles when I'm busy with work, but I'm still mentally sharp and can still see patients. Therefore, younger generations often ask me: You're already 93 years old, how are you still so energetic? Do you have any health secrets?
In fact, my health experience can be summarized in six words: freedom, self-discipline, self-action.
Freedom: Eat what you want, health doesn't depend on calculating every meal.
My freedom is first reflected in being honest with my body.
I don't set an alarm clock, and I don't have a fixed health schedule. If I worked late last night, I can sleep until noon today. I didn't have the conditions when I was young, but now I can enjoy this freedom in life.
This freedom extends from the bedside to the dining table. Faced with a table of delicious food, many people are afraid of high cholesterol and avoid fatty meat, but I don't have too many restrictions. In my opinion, if I eat it today and satisfy my appetite, the sky won't fall. Occasional relaxation of requirements is kindness to the body and mind, not indulgence. Whether you are healthy or not does not depend on calculating every meal. Eating a piece of fatty meat won't immediately clog your blood vessels; eating pig brain once won't ruin your body. What's more important is whether the long-term dietary structure is reasonable.
Self-discipline: One egg and one milk a day, accumulating energy for freedom.
From elementary school to middle school to university, I have never been absent for a single day. Even now, I still haven't given up academic research and writing. In addition, I insist on drinking a glass of milk and eating an egg every day. Academic, work, and life self-discipline are the foundation of my freedom to "eat what I want and sleep when I want."
I often say that freedom is freedom, but basic nutrition cannot be taken lightly. For example, insist on one egg and one milk a day, because this is the highest quality, cheapest, and easiest to obtain protein. Daily diet should also focus on the balance of various nutrients. For example, if you eat more high-protein foods for lunch, eat more vegetables and fruits for dinner, which is beneficial for digestion and can also supplement dietary fiber and vitamins.
If life is compared to breathing, freedom is like a long exhalation, it is relaxation, release, it is the process of "occasionally eating 5 pieces of sweet steamed pork belly" following one's heart; while self-discipline is like a stable inhalation, it is intake, adherence, it is the process of "one egg and one milk a day" accumulating energy. Inhale and exhale, both are indispensable.
This freedom and self-discipline are not contradictory. The key lies in mastering the balance, like the Tai Chi diagram, you are in me, and I am in you. The human body also achieves balance and completeness in this dynamic change.
Self-action: Maintain inner cultivation, coexisting with freedom and self-discipline.
Self-action refers to a kind of inner cultivation. For example, for many years, I have been striving to maintain this kind of mentality: maintain confidence, but not stubbornness, often reflect on myself, and insist on making a difference.
The motto of my alma mater, Chengdu Experimental Primary School (成都市实验小学), "Be upright in character, be diligent in work" is always engraved in my heart. In 2015, when I was already 82 years old, I led colleagues to Sichuan (四川), Shaanxi (陕西), Henan (河南) and other places to train local Chinese medicine practitioners and provide free clinics for local people.
I go back to my alma mater every year to see it. When I went back this January, the children all called me "Senior Granny," their youthful enthusiasm and innocence deeply infected me. For me, going back every year is a re-education and a healthy "energy boost."
There is a connection between freedom, self-discipline, and self-action. I believe that a free heart is broad, self-discipline does not overstep the rules, and self-action has something to do. The coordination and use of the three benefits the five internal organs, yin and yang are balanced, and health is achieved. It is this self-action that makes my life rich and colorful. In my spare time, I like to play the piano, and I often sing and paint with friends. Enriching your spare time and maintaining a happy mood will lead to longevity.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes individual differences and temporal variations. Health preservation is not a mathematical problem of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but an art of life about how to get along gently with one's own body and with this world. I believe that although beauty does not have a unified standard, health is the common foundation of beauty; the ultimate goal of health preservation is not longevity, but to live a healthy and free life.
(Interview and compilation by Zhang Shuang (张爽), Health Times reporter)
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By Wang Hailin (王海林), Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦), and Guo Mulong (郭牧龙) from this newspaper.
Entering the Zheng He Memorial Hall (郑和纪念馆) in Kunming (昆明市), Yunnan (云南), one can listen to ancient and modern stories of civilization exchange and mutual learning. Visiting the Green and Efficient Flower Production Demonstration Base in Jinning District (晋宁区), Kunming (昆明市), one discovers the continuous innovative power of "Yunnan Flowers" (云花). Inspecting Xianrendong Village (仙人洞村) in Puzhehei (普者黑), one experiences the achievements of comprehensive rural revitalization and cultural tourism integration. Exploring the China Datang Yunnan Jinping Wind Farm (中国大唐云南锦屏西风电场), one feels the solid steps China (中国) has taken in the field of green energy development. Members of the 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum Joint Interview Group went deep into many places in Yunnan (云南) to conduct on-the-spot visits. Members said: "The model of coordinated promotion of ecological civilization and economic development is worth learning from, and China (中国) is constantly bringing cooperation opportunities to the world."
Yunnan (云南) is the hometown of Zheng He (郑和). The "Zheng He·World Navigation Stamp Exhibition Hall" in the Jinning Museum (晋宁博物馆) houses 8,258 stamps commemorating Zheng He (郑和) and navigation themes issued by more than 230 countries and regions around the world. In Zheng He's (郑和) nautical charts and stamps, the members of the interview group touched history, explored civilization, and felt the civilized genes of China (中国) constantly spreading peace, friendship, and cooperation to the outside world since ancient times.
Treasure ships and friendship are immortalized in history, and openness and win-win cooperation bring fragrance to the world. Jinning District (晋宁区) is an important fresh-cut flower production area in the country. Ahmedou Barikala, President of the Mauritanian People's Newspaper, carefully inquired about the technical details of fresh-cut flower production at the Green and Efficient Flower Production Demonstration Base in Jinning District (晋宁区). He said: "The cooperation is efficient, and the government provides stable financial and talent support. I admire this cooperation model." Abdul Majeed Haji, General Manager of the Bahrain Gulf News, kept taking pictures: "I want to record all the scenes in front of me. Through the globally circulated fresh flower industry, I saw how the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' is promoting global interconnection."
Xianrendong Village (仙人洞村) in Shuanglongying Town (双龙营镇), Qiubei County (丘北县), Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山壮族苗族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), is located in the Puzhehei Scenic Area (普者黑风景区). Many years ago, it was still a "pocket village" where "the mountains and rivers were rich, but the people were poor," and the villagers relied on fishing for a living. In 2014, Xianrendong Village (仙人洞村) underwent overall renovation, retaining the local flavor to the greatest extent. The villagers retreated from their houses to make way for roads and greenery, and the village environment was greatly improved.
Ali Al Rahbi, Vice President of the Muscat Media Group of Oman, kept praising: "The natural scenery here is unique, and the cultural tourism integration model is worth learning from in Oman." He said: "I will record the beautiful scenery and development experience here so that more people can understand China's (中国) high-quality development achievements."
Haitham Mouzahem, Director of the Lebanese Center for Asian and Chinese Studies, said after experiencing traditional Chinese medicine treatment at the Yanshan Kangyang Center (砚山康养中心) in Wenshan Prefecture (文山州): "Traditional Chinese medicine is an ancient and effective medical method, and we should vigorously promote it."
Among the mountains in Niejiao Yi Ethnic Township (腻脚彝族乡), Qiubei County (丘北县), wind turbines painted with Miao butterfly patterns and Yi flame patterns rotate in the wind. This is the China Datang Yunnan Jinping Wind Farm (中国大唐云南锦屏西风电场), an important part of the million-kilowatt-level wind power base in the plateau mountains.
Li Tongsheng (李通盛), member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Datang Yunnan Power Generation Co., Ltd. (大唐云南发电有限公司), introduced that the base has a total installed capacity of 1.103 million kilowatts and an annual on-grid power generation of approximately 2.6 billion kilowatt-hours. It is estimated that it can save 806,500 tons of standard coal, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2.165 million tons, sulfur dioxide by approximately 416.28 tons, and smoke and dust by approximately 83.26 tons each year.
Chabel Barakat, Director of the International News Department of the Kuwait Al-Anba newspaper, said: "This is a wonderful example of the harmonious coexistence of advanced technology and nature, which is impressive." He said that he would introduce China's (中国) advanced technological achievements in the field of clean energy to the Kuwaiti people in detail. Muaz Al-Amoudi, a member of the Digital Department of Al Jazeera Media Network of Qatar, said: "These giant wind turbines can not only supply power to the local area, but also meet the energy needs of surrounding cities, which is a respectable feat."
(Reporter Cui Yan (崔妍) of this newspaper also contributed to this article)
Drawing a New Picture of High-Quality Development with Open Practice
By Yin Yan (银燕) and Zhao Mengyang (赵梦阳) from this newspaper.
Four high-power diesel generators of Gansu Lanshi Group (甘肃兰石集团) completed customs clearance in the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone (兰州新区综合保税区) and were shipped overseas. This is the first bonded export business of diesel generators in the Lanzhou New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone (兰州新区综合保税区), adding another achievement to the overseas expansion of the New Area's equipment manufacturing industry. At the production base of Lanshi Group (兰石集团), in addition to the accelerated "sailing overseas" of diesel generators, oil drilling rig components on the drilling rig assembly and test site are also being assembled in an orderly manner and will soon cross mountains and seas to be shipped to markets such as South America and the Middle East.
The 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum Joint Interview Group entered Lanshi Group (兰石集团) to deeply explore the development path of this leading equipment manufacturing enterprise rooted in Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) and personally feel the strong vitality of the New Area's equipment manufacturing industry integrating into the global industrial chain and moving towards high-end.
In the Lanshi Exhibition Hall (兰石展览馆), Gao Jianping (高建平), Deputy General Manager of the International Business Department of Lanshi Group (兰石集团), introduced the breakthroughs of Lanshi Group (兰石集团) in internationalization, technological innovation, and product research and development to the interview group. "I was deeply shocked by visiting the Lanshi Industrial Park and its exhibition hall. I noticed that Lanshi Group (兰石集团) has established cooperative relations with Azerbaijan, which will surely become another bridge connecting the two countries and bring our economic and trade exchanges to a new level," said Shahin Kazymzade, Editor-in-Chief of the Azerbaijan State News Agency.
Faced with the global energy transition trend, Lanshi Group (兰石集团) is actively deploying in the new hydrogen energy track and implementing the "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and network connection" action.
Today, the coverage rate of digital design tools of Lanshi Group (兰石集团) has reached more than 95%, the numerical control rate of key processes has exceeded 80%, the maturity of intelligent manufacturing has reached level 4, and the group has been selected into the list of excellent intelligent factories and the main body for the construction of manufacturing digital transformation promotion centers by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. At present, Lanshi Group (兰石集团) has 4 national-level innovation platforms, and a number of major equipment technology achievements such as the 125MN fast forging hydraulic press unit have reached the domestic first-class level. It has built an integrated test demonstration project of green hydrogen "production, storage, transportation, and application." The order amount of scientific and technological achievements transformation in the past 3 years has exceeded 4 billion yuan, and the new orders and total industrial output value in 2025 have both exceeded 10 billion yuan.
This "intelligent change" can be seen everywhere in the equipment manufacturing industry of Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区). At present, the numerical control rate of key processes of manufacturing enterprises above designated size in the New Area has reached 72.2%, and the popularization rate of digital R&D and design tools has reached 67.6%.
During the investigation, the interview group came to Lanzhou Foci Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (兰州佛慈制药股份有限公司). In the intelligent extraction workshop of the Foci Pharmaceutical Science and Technology Industrial Park (佛慈制药科技工业园), real-time process parameters are displayed on the digital control screen, and medicinal materials such as Angelica and Astragalus are precisely extracted in closed pipelines. The modern production line for producing 11 dosage forms of medicines such as concentrated pills, tablets, and capsules is operating at full capacity.
"The company's products have been exported to 32 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, Japan, and Singapore." The introduction of the staff aroused the strong interest of the interview group members. "Through this on-the-spot visit, I not only saw the profound heritage of the 'China Time-Honored Brand', but also felt the solid steps taken by traditional Chinese medicine in standardization, modernization, and globalization," said Faridun Usmonov, President of the Dushanbe Media Group of Tajikistan.
Standing at the new starting point of the "15th Five-Year Plan", Lanzhou New Area (兰州新区) will embrace the world and connect the future with a more high-spirited attitude and a broader mind, and write a new chapter in the inland open economy in the great practice of jointly building the "Belt and Road" with high quality.
Promoting High-Quality Development with "Technology + Culture"
By Li Yidan (李一丹), reporter of People's Tribune.
Chongqing (重庆), located at the confluence of the Yangtze River (长江) and the Jialing River (嘉陵江), is surging with innovative vitality. In the western trough of Chongqing (重庆), the Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) relies on its own scientific and educational resources, industrial foundation, and innovation ecology. On the one hand, it vigorously deploys cutting-edge technology and focuses on developing leading industries such as new-generation information technology, advanced manufacturing, big health, and high-tech services. On the other hand, it actively cultivates new forms and models of cultural and creative industries, using "technology" and "culture" as dual engines to depict a new picture of high-quality development.
Germplasm is known as the "chip library" of modern agriculture and is the cornerstone of food security and ecological security. The Western (Chongqing) Science City Germplasm Creation Major Science Center (西部（重庆）科学城种质创制大科学中心) gives full play to the disciplinary advantages in key fields such as modern agriculture, omics big data, and biotechnology, and produces a number of important new varieties of animals and plants with independent intellectual property rights, injecting technological power into firmly holding the "Chinese rice bowl."
Under the guidance of the "Belt and Road" initiative, agricultural science and technology innovation achievements have also provided Chinese solutions for agricultural modernization for many countries and regions. It is understood that the potato pathogen rapid detection kit developed by the Western (Chongqing) Science City Germplasm Creation Major Science Center (西部（重庆）科学城种质创制大科学中心) has been promoted to more than 10 "Belt and Road" countries and regions including Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Russia, and Iran, providing more than 1,000 sets of accurate service assistance kits, providing efficient and low-cost quality assurance solutions for the local potato industry.
At the same time, Chongqing High-tech Zone Hongyi Jiuzhou International Culture and Art Development Co., Ltd. (重庆高新区泓艺九洲国际文化艺术发展有限公司) is constantly improving the "soft power" to promote Chinese culture to go global.
Hongyi Jiuzhou (泓艺九洲) is committed to bonded display, transaction auction, warehousing logistics, evaluation and identification of cultural and artistic works. In the company's exhibition hall, exquisite Shu embroidery, elegant lacquerware and contemporary oil paintings complement each other, and through innovative models such as blockchain rights confirmation and cross-border e-commerce, they are active in the "cloud" and offline of international cultural trade. Katherine Gurua, founder, general manager and editor-in-chief of the Georgian Mutavari Media Center, said during the visit: "I have published more than 500 reports on China (中国). My family and friends like photos and videos about China (中国) and want to know more about China (中国)."
Art has a unique power that transcends geography, culture and language. At present, the "China Impression" brand activity created by Hongyi Jiuzhou (泓艺九洲) through the "cultural tour exhibition and sales" model has been launched in France, Thailand and other countries. "We are not only operating art, but also building a cultural bridge connecting China (中国) and the world," said Zhang Hang (张航), chairman of Hongyi Jiuzhou (泓艺九洲).
Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) is bringing development opportunities to more countries and regions, and showing the world the vivid practice of China's (中国) high-quality development.
People's City Draws a New Picture of the Digital Economy
By Cui Yin (崔寅) from this newspaper.
In Shanghai (上海市), the Yangpu Bridge (杨浦大桥) spans the river, its lines like rainbows, and the buildings in Lujiazui (陆家嘴) stand tall on the opposite bank. The once roaring industrial riverside has now become a leisure waterfront for citizens to enjoy. This change is inseparable from Yangpu District's (杨浦区) transformation practice from an industrial base to an innovation highland.
The 2025 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum Joint Interview Group came to Shanghai Yangpu (上海杨浦) to visit the "V Gathering Place" Creative Workshop, understand the upgrading and transformation process of Yangpu Riverside (杨浦滨江), and deeply explore the development code here to optimize the innovation ecology and achieve leapfrog transformation.
In the Shanghai People's City Practice Exhibition Hall (上海人民城市实践展示馆), members of the interview group are stopping to take pictures of Yangpu Riverside (杨浦滨江) before the transformation. The exhibition hall has a total of 5 theme exhibition areas and 25 special exhibition items, using a variety of digital exhibition methods to vividly present the process of Yangpu District (杨浦区) practicing the concept of the people's city.
"Yangpu Riverside (杨浦滨江) is one of the earliest and largest areas for modern Shanghai's (上海) industrial development," said the relevant person in charge of Yangpu Riverside Group (杨浦滨江集团). In 2002, Shanghai (上海) launched the development plan for the areas on both sides of the Huangpu River (黄浦江). Yangpu Riverside (杨浦滨江) explored a road with its own development characteristics: leaving the valuable waterfront space to the people, retaining industrial relics through the urban renewal strategy of "repairing the old as old," and activating the driving force of urban development.
Today, it has transformed from a production coastline to a life, ecological and landscape coastline: green parks and winding trails are good places for nearby residents to take a walk in the evening; old factories and old buildings are "turned waste into treasure" and updated into cafes and leisure stations.
The 228 Neighborhood of Changbai New Village Street (长白新村街道) in Yangpu District (杨浦区) was once the first generation of workers' new villages in Shanghai (上海), and was called "20,000 households" by the neighborhoods. The residents are mainly the first generation of industrial workers in New China. In the urban renewal plan launched in 2016, the area achieved overall renewal through the renovation of old houses and the upgrading of public spaces. In November 2023, Shanghai's (上海) first workers' new village theme exhibition hall opened to the public in Building 8 of the 228 Neighborhood, fully presenting the development history of the workers' new village.
The 228 Neighborhood makes urban renewal practice more vivid and perceptible. It integrates functions such as commerce, culture, sports, and life services: community canteens, clean vegetable supermarkets, affordable gyms, and public green spaces are all available, meeting the diverse needs of more than 100,000 residents in the surrounding area in one stop, and building a "15-minute community life circle."
"I have lived here for more than 20 years. It was not so convenient before. Now it is just a few steps to the vegetable market," said Mr. Chen (陈先生), a citizen. "The environment has also improved. Our old neighbors often chat by the lawn."
In the Yangpu Dazhihui Innovation and Development Demonstration Park (杨浦大创智创新发展示范园区), the mode of coordinated promotion of digital innovation by the "three-zone linkage" of public communities, science and technology parks, and university campuses has attracted the attention of the interview group members.
The staff introduced: "Yangpu (杨浦) gathers many well-known universities and 8,300 digital economy enterprises. Universities research and develop technology, science and technology parks implement applications, and communities provide life support." The "three-zone linkage" model gives full play to the characteristic advantages of "technological innovation + digital economy" and "university + large factory," gathers industry leaders and many innovative enterprises, and forms an industrial ecology of coordinated development of large, medium and small enterprises.
The digital transformation of Yangpu District (杨浦区) is still continuing. In 2025, "V Gathering Place," a brand-new digital content space integrating "incubation-creation-training-live broadcast," was put into use. As the first scene to implement Yangpu District's (杨浦区) "Shanghai Nine Articles" and other innovative policies, it attracted 21 creative teams and MCN institutions to settle in within two months.
Zubair Hasan, Senior Reporter of The Financial Express of Bangladesh, exclaimed after the visit: "The cultural atmosphere here is strong, and fresh materials can be captured every day. The open collaborative environment constantly stimulates creative sparks, and I hope to introduce this experience to my own country."
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Return to TopMaking erroneous statements on the Taiwan issue, forcibly advancing missile deployment plans, plotting to revise the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," and writing the Self-Defense Forces into the Constitution... The various words and actions of the Japanese Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) government seriously challenge the post-World War II international order and pose a substantial threat to regional security, representing a dangerous trend of "new militarism" emerging. The international community needs to be vigilant about Japan's attempts to strengthen its military power and break through the post-war peace system, firmly defend the achievements of World War II victory, maintain the international order based on international law, and resolutely oppose Japan from taking the old and evil path of militarism again. This issue invites five domestic and foreign experts to deeply analyze the manifestations, essence, and harm of Japan's "new militarism."
Huang Zijian (黄子坚) (Academician of the Malaysian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya)
Yuri Tavrovsky (尤里·塔夫罗夫斯基) (Vice Chairman of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association, Russian Chairman of the Expert Council of the Sino-Russian Friendship, Peace and Development Committee)
Atsushi Koketsu (纐缬厚) (Professor Emeritus, Yamaguchi University (山口大学), Japan)
Kwon Ki-sik (权起植) (Chairman of the Korea-China City Friendship Association)
Xiang Haoyu (项昊宇) (Distinguished Researcher, Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies, China Institute of International Studies)
"New militarism" permeates Japan's military, diplomatic, and cultural levels, profoundly changing the direction of Japan's political development.
Xiang Haoyu (项昊宇): Japanese militarism refers to an ideology and national system formed in Japan during its modernization process after the Meiji Restoration (明治维新), with military expansion as its core and the military controlling the government. By establishing the absolute authority of the Emperor and advocating the spirit of Bushido, it demonstrated the great power ambitions of 穷兵黩武 (qióng bīng dú wǔ - "exhausting military strength and indulging in war," to engage in constant warfare and military expansion) and pushed the country's major policies onto the track of foreign aggression and expansion. Under this system, the state apparatus served the needs of war, military industry was given priority, and national education was forcibly instilled with extreme nationalism and loyalty to the emperor. Japan used force to occupy the territory of other countries, massacre civilians, and plunder resources, bringing profound disasters to Asian countries, including China, and the world.
The "new militarism" that is rising in Japan today is inherited from the past militarism in terms of its ideological roots and political driving force, both showing a tendency to advocate a strong military and expand armaments, and a fascination with the external expansion thinking of resolving disputes by force. "New militarism" permeates Japan's military, diplomatic, and cultural levels, profoundly changing the direction of Japan's political development, and may lead it to a "war country" again.
Huang Zijian (黄子坚): At the diplomatic level, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (安倍晋三) and current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) both promote "new militarism." Unlike the previous relatively subtle and obscure practices, Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) statements on World War II history and regional security issues are more direct and high-profile, objectively amplifying the social impact of right-wing voices and reducing the space for rational diplomacy between Japan and its neighboring countries.
At the military level, the Japan Self-Defense Forces (自衛隊) already possess the core elements of a modern army in terms of equipment, technology, and training level, and are currently only nominally restricted at the legal level. For some time, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) has been trying to build Japan into a highly offensive "war country" by revising the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and the "Peace Constitution." Once the constitution is revised or policies are adjusted, Japan's military power will break through the post-war international order's restrictions on its war powers.
At the ideological and cultural level, some Japanese politicians and scholars advocate reshaping historical memory with "new militarism." For example, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) went to the Japanese cemetery in Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), Malaysia, to "pay tribute" to the Japanese soldiers who died in World War II. This behavior of beautifying aggressors as "national victims" blurs the historical boundaries between perpetrators and victims, and seriously impacts the historical consensus formed by the post-war international community.
Yuri Tavrovsky (尤里·塔夫罗夫斯基): The rampant momentum of "new militarism" in Japan and the intervention and connivance of extraterritorial forces such as the United States are important external factors. In recent years, in order to maintain and promote its own hegemony, the United States has promoted the "Indo-Pacific Strategy" in the name of so-called "freedom and openness," formed "small circles" in the Asia-Pacific region, and created and provoked camp confrontation. In order to realize its own geopolitical interests, the United States has encouraged Japan to increase arms exports, relax restrictions on Japan's military expansion, and fuel its "remilitarization" momentum. Japan is working hard to follow the United States, cooperating to promote the construction of the so-called "Asia-Pacific version of NATO," and attempting to seek further tacit approval and support from the United States for its military strengthening and armament expansion.
After World War II, Japanese militarism was not completely liquidated, which also allowed "new militarism" to grow and spread. Today, right-wing forces in Japan are rampant, and their ambition to carry out external military expansion has been extremely inflated. Sanae Takaichi's (高市早苗) previous provocative remarks involving Taiwan are an example. The intention of Japanese right-wing forces to find excuses for expanding military preparations by playing the "Taiwan card" and hyping up surrounding threats is obvious.
The resurgence of Japanese militarism is the result of the resonance of the international pattern, domestic politics, and social trends.
Xiang Haoyu (项昊宇): The resurgence of Japanese militarism is the result of the resonance of the international pattern, domestic politics, and social trends. From an external perspective, against the background of changes in the balance of power between China and the United States and the frequent occurrence of geopolitical conflicts, Japanese right-wing forces have taken the opportunity to incite national crisis narratives, arguing that they cannot simply rely on the security guarantee of the United States and must fundamentally strengthen their independent defense capabilities and develop active offensive capabilities.
From the perspective of social trends, the emergence of Japan's "new militarism" relies on a carefully designed identity construction project. In the early 1990s, Japan fell from the peak of economic development and experienced the "lost thirty years." Society became increasingly closed and conservative. Right-wing forces used the public's pessimistic and confused mentality about the prospects of national development to incite the nationalist narrative of "rebuilding a strong Japan," guiding social public opinion towards the pursuit of "restoring the glory of a great power" and "regaining national pride," and gradually gathering recognition for the "constitutional amendment and strengthening of the military" route. In this process, Japanese right-wing forces manipulated the direction of public opinion, portraying China's rise as the biggest threat and challenge facing Japan.
From the perspective of domestic politics in Japan, after the opposition pattern of "conservatives versus progressives" in the political arena was broken, the Liberal Democratic Party (自民党) has been "dominant for a long time," the political spectrum has become increasingly right-leaning, and the right-wing populist agenda has been strongly promoted from top to bottom in the absence of effective checks and balances. The "new defense tribe" in the Japanese political world has formed a solid interest group with the Self-Defense Forces (自衛隊), military industrial enterprises, and groups such as the "Japan Conference (日本会議)," becoming a powerful political driving force for promoting the military relaxation agenda.
Yuri Tavrovsky (尤里·塔夫罗夫斯基): From the perspective of ideological roots, "new militarism" is a "summoning of souls" and "resurrection" of militarism. Both essentially advocate external military expansion and are closely related to ideological concepts such as Japan's historical "concept of the divine nation," "imperial state historiography (皇国史観)," and "superiority of the Yamato race (大和民族優越論)" that served aggression and expansion. Since modern times, especially after the Meiji Restoration (明治維新) in Japan, the Japanese ruling group systematically mixed, alienated, and transformed the above-mentioned ideological concepts with Bushido, Shintoism, and other things, while applying the robber colonial theory of the Western powers at that time that "the weak are prey to the strong," and "sanctified" and "justified" the war of aggression in the name and excuse of so-called "national survival," gradually transforming militarism into a deeply rooted ideology and national system. The state resources and people's lives in Japan's political, economic, cultural, and educational fields have all been reduced to "consumables" and "sacrifices" for the ruling group to launch external colonial expansion and wars of aggression.
Kwon Ki-sik (权起植): The biggest problem and danger in Japanese politics today is packaging "new militarism" as conservatism. "New militarism" beautifies Japan's atrocities of invading neighboring countries, instills false and distorted history in young people, leading some Japanese people to mistakenly believe that "new militarism" political forces are conservative politicians, and further allowing "new militarism" politicians to manipulate the Japanese political arena. As a result, Japan has not only failed to thoroughly reflect on its past acts of aggression, but has also embarked on a dangerous path of attempting to revise the "Peace Constitution" and accelerate "rearmament." What makes the outside world highly vigilant is that Japanese politicians openly clamor for "nuclear weapons" and seek to revise the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," which is the biggest disaster for regional peace and development.
Atsushi Koketsu (纐缬厚): With Japan's domestic economic recession and the development of Asian neighbors such as China, Japan's reliance on military power has increased to replace its declining economic strength. Some extraterritorial countries regard Japan as a forward stronghold to deal with China. Japan complies with the intentions of these countries, regards China as an "unprecedented and greatest strategic challenge" in its national security strategy documents, and takes the opportunity to greatly expand its military equipment, increase its defense budget, and even attempt to "possess nuclear weapons."
Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) openly made remarks involving Taiwan, hyping up the absurd logic of "a Taiwan emergency is a Japan emergency," implying that it will exercise the right to collective self-defense and provide political legitimacy for military intervention in Taiwan affairs. Behind these erroneous remarks is the Japanese "new militarism's" abandonment and denial of the one-China principle promised in the Sino-Japanese Joint Statement (《中日联合声明》). Under the manipulation of right-wing forces who have long spread anti-China narratives, being tough on China has gradually become "politically correct" in the Japanese political arena, moderate and rational voices continue to be suppressed, and people who know and are friendly to China are maliciously labeled as "pro-China factions" and forced to remain silent, destroying the healthy and rational political environment needed for the development of Sino-Japanese relations.
"New militarism" is not only a stumbling block for Japan to take the path of peace, but also a catalyst for Japan to slide into the evil path of a military country.
Atsushi Koketsu (纐缬厚): Japan's policy of promoting military expansion has had an adverse impact on the lives of the Japanese people. Most Japanese people hope that the government will pay attention to people's livelihood rather than military affairs, and hope for peace rather than war. However, the Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) government has ignored the depreciation of the yen, soaring prices, and increasingly serious poverty problems. Militarism has caused great harm to Asian neighbors and made the Japanese people suffer. However, this history is being forgotten by Japan. "New militarism" is not only a stumbling block for Japan to take the path of peace, but also a catalyst for Japan to slide into the evil path of a military country. It must be recognized that thoroughly liquidating militarism is the only choice for Japan to win the trust and respect of the international community.
Huang Zijian (黄子坚): Japan's "new militarism" has impacted the post-war order principles centered on reflecting on the history of aggression and restricting war powers, damaged the foundation of mutual trust between regional countries, and destroyed the social soil of civil exchanges between Asia-Pacific countries. Curbing the threat of Japan's "new militarism" requires international joint efforts. First, relevant countries should clearly express their concerns in bilateral and multilateral occasions and adhere to the bottom line of historical truth and the post-war international order. Second, the international academic community should continue to speak out, exposing Japan's attempts to erase historical facts, and should point out the dangers of "new militarism" to prevent extreme views from affecting the younger generation. Third, all countries should maintain the long-term foundation of civil friendship, avoid letting political extremism kidnap overall social cognition, and remain vigilant against words and deeds that deny the history of aggression.
Xiang Haoyu (项昊宇): As a country that has suffered deeply from Japanese militarism, China is highly vigilant about Japan's "new militarism" and has taken countermeasures. China has launched a resolute struggle against the erroneous remarks of Japanese leaders involving Taiwan, effectively打击 (dǎ jī - "to strike," to crack down on) the arrogance of Japanese right-wing forces and forming a powerful deterrent to Japan's adventurous impulse of "remilitarization." In response to Japan's dangerous attempts to break through the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and even "possess nuclear weapons," China has adopted precise economic and trade countermeasures, committed to maintaining the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and weakening the spillover impact of Japanese military adventurism. In response to Japan's historical revisionism, China actively promotes the correct view of World War II history internationally, effectively exposing Japan's dangerous attempts to whitewash the history of aggression and challenge the post-war international order. These measures are not only an inevitable choice to safeguard China's core interests, but also a precautionary measure against the spillover impact of Japan's "new militarism," in order to better safeguard the overall situation of Sino-Japanese friendship and cooperation and regional peace and stability.
Yuri Tavrovsky (尤里·塔夫罗夫斯基): All countries in the international community that cherish peace should be highly vigilant about Japan's "new militarism" and must resolutely oppose the series of political and military adventurous acts of Japanese right-wing forces. As an important achievement of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, the international system with the United Nations as its core ensures the basic pattern of overall world peace. All countries should firmly safeguard the authority of the United Nations and its main platform status in global security governance, strengthen communication and coordination through the United Nations and other multilateral platforms, jointly criticize and resist "new militarism" and Japan's attempts to break through relevant post-war international arrangements, and work together to defend the post-war international order and promote world peace and development.
The world needs to learn from history and gather a powerful force to maintain peace. Faced with the words and deeds of Japanese right-wing forces attempting to cover up, beautify, and even deny the crimes of aggression, all countries should strongly condemn them, and at the same time, hold more historical theme publicity activities to jointly promote the correct view of World War II history and never allow historical tragedies to be repeated.
(Reporters Zhang Bolan (张博岚), Yue Linwei (岳林炜), Zhang Niansheng (章念生), Bai Yuanqi (白元琪), Xiao Xinxin (肖新新), and Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨) of this newspaper compiled and organized the interviews)
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Consumption vouchers are becoming an important means of stimulating the spring economy.
Since March of this year, Fujian (福建), Hubei (湖北) and other places have issued a new round of consumption vouchers, covering catering, retail, culture and tourism, home appliances, automobiles and other fields. For example, Fujian (福建) issued "Fujian You Koufu (福建有口福)" catering consumption vouchers, setting three denominations of 50 yuan, 100 yuan, and 300 yuan, which directly reduced consumers' dining costs; Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) issued 10 million yuan in consumption vouchers during the Wuhan (武汉) Sports Consumption Week, precisely reaching sports consumers. The two-way rush between policy guidance and people's livelihood needs will further promote the expansion, improvement and upgrading of the consumer market.
In recent years, issuing consumption vouchers has become an important way for various regions to boost consumption. In practice and exploration, the consumption voucher model has been continuously innovated, improving policy effectiveness. The design is more precise, often associated with specific consumption scenarios, consumer groups, or consumption behaviors, which not only stabilizes basic livelihood consumption, but also precisely benefits key areas and new business forms. The distribution method is more diverse, and the "instant enjoyment" model simplifies the voucher usage process, lowers the participation threshold, and achieves "consumption is preferential, and payment is verified." In some places, consumption vouchers have achieved normalized issuance, deeply integrated into the local economic governance system, and become a core tool for cultivating consumption hotspots.
Overall, the consumption voucher policy has given full play to the guiding and leveraging role of fiscal funds, forming a significant multiplier effect. Data shows that in 2025, Yunnan (云南) Caiyun (彩云) series consumption vouchers issued a cumulative total of more than 11 million, with verified fiscal funds at all levels of approximately 700 million yuan, directly driving consumption of over 14.5 billion yuan, with a comprehensive leverage ratio of 1:21. That is to say, every 1 yuan of local fiscal subsidy drove 21 yuan of consumption expenditure. The government used limited fiscal funds to stimulate several times the consumption expenditure, playing a role of 四两拨千斤 (sì liǎng bō qiān jīn - "four ounces deflect a thousand pounds," to use minimal force to achieve a great effect).
From "flood irrigation" to "precision drip irrigation," from "extensive management" to "digital intelligence closed loop," the popularization and optimization of the consumption voucher model reflects the continuous improvement of China's ability to manage complex economic systems and optimize resource allocation. In the implementation process, the more prominent pain points of the consumption voucher policy include high usage thresholds and complicated usage procedures. By optimizing policy design, the fairness, accuracy, and scientific nature of the consumption voucher model are all improving. For example, the introduction of a notarized lottery mechanism breaks the unfairness that the network and equipment may bring during "voucher grabbing"; the combination of digital RMB and consumption vouchers realizes "automatic triggering, targeted use, and closed-loop circulation" of funds.
The popularization of the consumption voucher model across the country is backed by the smooth operation and efficient coordination of China's policy system. Early consumption voucher issuance was mainly led by commercial departments, focusing on retail and catering, but now it has achieved cross-regional linkage, cross-level coordination, and cross-field integration. From a macro perspective, consumption voucher issuance is a systematic project involving the entire chain of "funding guarantee, scenario design, merchant management, and risk prevention," requiring the coordinated efforts of finance, commerce and other departments. From a micro perspective, the consumption voucher policy serves as a link connecting diverse consumption scenarios, enhancing the people's sense of happiness, and can also drive increased income for small and medium-sized businesses, and promote the integrated upgrading of related business formats such as culture and tourism, and catering. With further optimization of the entire process of design, issuance, use, and supervision, consumption vouchers are expected to become an important medium connecting policy and the market, and integrating technology and life.
Changing governance concepts, improving accuracy and scientificity; policy synergy, realizing government-bank-enterprise linkage and cross-departmental collaboration; building a long-term mechanism that both stimulates consumption growth and cultivates new consumption hotspots... The good results achieved by the consumption voucher policy bring us many inspirations. "Adhering to domestic demand as the mainstay and building a strong domestic market" is the key task of this year's economic work, and a series of policies to expand domestic demand and promote consumption have been introduced intensively. We look forward to existing policies continuing to play their role, incremental policies being implemented as soon as possible, building synergy, timely optimization, and continuous innovation, continuously releasing policy dividends, and enhancing the endogenous driving force of economic development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉 《中国经济周刊》记者 孙 冰 孙庭阳
Currently, "scenarios" are becoming a popular economic term.
"Accelerate the construction of application scenarios and ecosystems," "Implement large-scale application demonstration actions for new technologies, new products, and new scenarios, and increase the cultivation and opening of scenarios," "Promote the opening of application scenarios in emerging fields to private enterprises"... The term "scenario" appears frequently in the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline.
In November of last year, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Cultivation and Opening of Scenarios to Promote the Large-scale Application of New Scenarios," systematically deploying scenario cultivation and opening at the national level for the first time. This year's "Government Work Report" proposed encouraging central state-owned enterprises to take the lead in opening up application scenarios.
"Scenarios can be understood as specific situations for the innovative application of new technologies, new products, and new business formats. What is carried out in the scenario is systematic verification, including both the 'hard verification' of technical products and supporting infrastructure, and the 'soft verification' of business models and institutional reforms," said Li Chunlin (李春临), Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (国新办).
Driven by policies, many localities have taken the lead in piloting and established "Scenario Offices" (场景办) (referring to companies or institutions that promote scenario innovation work), striving to connect "what the government can do" with "what enterprises need."
What is the value of "scenarios"? How can we do a good job in cultivating and opening up scenarios? Recently, reporters visited "Scenario Offices" in Zhejiang (浙江), Guangdong (广东), Anhui (安徽) and other places for interviews.
Giving scenarios is better than giving money or land, promoting the "two-way rush" of policy and market.
At a terminal under Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) in Zhejiang, a four-legged "robot dog" flexibly walks through the containers. It can not only automatically identify container numbers and inspect empty containers, but also automatically alert after discovering foreign objects.
This "robot dog" from Unitree Technology (宇树科技) is now a special "new employee" at the terminal. According to the relevant person in charge of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, with the help of the "robot dog," the inspection time of a single container is reduced to about 2 minutes, and the foreign object detection rate reaches 95%, which significantly improves loading and unloading efficiency and safety level.
How can the "robot dog" be "employed" in the port? The opportunity stemmed from the first batch of open scenario lists in all fields released by state-owned enterprises in Zhejiang Province (浙江省) at the end of last year. This list covers 26 high-quality scenarios in seven key industries, and issued a "cooperation invitation" to the whole society.
"Promoting scenario opening is a 'two-way rush' of policy and market," said Zhao Lei (赵磊), general manager of Hangzhou Scenario Innovation Center Co., Ltd. (杭州市场景创新中心有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Hangzhou Scenario Company" (杭州场景公司)).
On the policy side, scenarios are not only a key link to promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, but also an important starting point for optimizing the business environment. "Giving scenarios has become an important policy expectation of business entities," said Zhao Lei (赵磊).
On the market side, for many technology-based enterprises, "lack of market, lack of opportunities, and lack of orders" are sometimes more urgent than "lack of funds." "Scenarios are the key to solving these problems. Giving scenarios is better than giving money or land. Scenarios that can bring development opportunities are very attractive to enterprises," said Zhao Lei (赵磊).
In recent years, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation has been developing in depth, and a large number of new business forms and new fields have emerged, which urgently requires further innovation in systems and mechanisms, optimization of the access environment, and promotion of better and faster development of new business forms and new fields.
A research report shows that by 2025, 83 cities across the country will have carried out scenario innovation-related work:
Kunshan (昆山), Jiangsu (江苏) has established a "Scenario Office" (场景办), twisting the departmental forces that understand the industry, understand policies, and are good at coordination into one rope, to find applications for products, find technologies for scenarios, and plan for the future of the industry; Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽) has established Hefei Market Scenario Application Innovation Promotion Center Co., Ltd. (合肥市场景应用创新促进中心有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Hefei Market Scenario Company" (合肥市场景公司)), to coordinate the innovation of the whole market scenario and link the resources of the whole market scenario; Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Application Scenario Innovation Center (粤港澳大湾区应用场景创新中心) (hereinafter referred to as "Greater Bay Area Scenario Center" (大湾区场景中心)) is an important hub for scenario innovation work in Guangdong Province (广东省), and undertakes the important role of serving the Bay Area, linking Guangdong (广东), and radiating the whole country...
Wang Chenwei (王琛伟), director of the Research Office of the Institute of Economic System and Management of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委经济体制与管理研究所), believes that gradually opening up the scenario resources of local governments and central state-owned enterprises to social capital and private enterprises in an orderly manner, especially opening up some scenario resources with high market value, will help reduce the institutional constraints of new business forms and new fields, promote various business entities to jointly participate in the construction of new scenarios, and jointly promote industrial upgrading and high-quality development.
Find a "training ground" for new technologies and help commercialization run out of "acceleration."
The goal of scenario opening is to make the "cake" bigger.
"We focus on opening up business scenarios such as container empty container inspection, mainly targeting the links in port operations that are labor-intensive, have high safety risks, and have relatively harsh working environments. We hope to realize 'machine replacement' in these scenarios with high manual load and high safety risks," the relevant person in charge of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) told reporters, "If we rely on internal investment to achieve this goal, we will face multiple constraints such as technology and talent, and by opening up scenarios and using the latest technological achievements of high-quality technology enterprises, we can quickly make up for shortcomings and achieve 'low-cost, high-efficiency' transformation."
A successful practice of scenario opening reflects the traction of scenarios on enterprise development.
Scenarios provide a "training ground" for new technology applications.
In December of last year, driven by the scenario opening policy, Strong Brain Technology (强脑科技) landed and delivered a set of cognitive training and rehabilitation systems in the elderly care institutions under Wuchan Zhongda Jinshi Group (物产中大金石集团).
He Xijin (何熙昱锦), partner of Strong Brain Technology (强脑科技), believes that the biggest challenge for brain-computer interface technology to go from the laboratory to real application scenarios is on the one hand the technology itself, and on the other hand how to truly integrate the technology into the existing service system.
Taking the elderly care scenario as an example, on the one hand, the elderly population has decreased vision and hearing, inconvenient hand operation, and resistance to unfamiliar things, which requires enterprises to do the ultimate in aging-friendly design; on the other hand, elderly care institutions themselves also have operating pressure, and the introduction of new equipment means increasing training costs and adjusting work processes. If value cannot be realized quickly, it is difficult to continue to promote.
"A new scenario is not only opening up a pilot, but more importantly, allowing the company's new technology to be quickly verified in a small range. With the opportunity to truly contact users and solve practical problems, it helps to accelerate the speed of technological achievement transformation," said He Xijin (何熙昱锦).
Scenarios help commercialization run out of "acceleration."
During the Spring Festival holiday this year, tourists in Guangzhou (广州), Shenzhen (深圳) and other places in Guangdong (广东) had a new experience - taking Pony.ai (小马智行) driverless taxis.
Mo Luyi (莫璐怡), vice president of Pony.ai (小马智行) and general manager of Guangzhou R&D Center (广州研发中心), introduced that the International Advanced Technology Application Promotion Center (Greater Bay Area) (国际先进技术应用推进中心(大湾区)) and the Greater Bay Area Scenario Center (大湾区场景中心) provide a supply and demand docking platform, and Nansha District (南沙区) in Guangzhou (广州) has opened nearly 900 kilometers of test roads, covering complex scenarios such as urban roads, high-speed roads, and urban villages.
"We accumulate data and polish products in these real scenarios," said Mo Luyi (莫璐怡). A large amount of real data accumulation helps technology upgrade and also promotes a significant decrease in the cost of autonomous driving kits. "The cost of the latest generation of autonomous driving kits has decreased by 70%, of which the cost of the vehicle computing unit has decreased by 80% and the cost of lidar has decreased by 68%, which has powerfully promoted the commercialization process of the company's new technology."
Pony.ai (小马智行) driverless taxis have become a technological landscape in cities such as Guangzhou (广州) and Shenzhen (深圳). The company's autonomous driving travel services have also "taken root and blossomed" in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海) and other places, and have gone overseas to the Middle East and European regions such as the United Arab Emirates and Luxembourg.
Adapt to local conditions and promote scenario cultivation and opening with reform and innovation.
Scenario cultivation and opening is a systematic project that requires efforts in many aspects.
"As a new thing and a new type of policy tool, scenarios face many new problems in actual work, and we must promote them with reform and innovation methods," said Wang Chenwei (王琛伟). We must build an innovation ecosystem based on real market needs, so that all types of entities can participate, so that all types of elements can better nourish new technologies, and so that new technologies can be matched to applicable scenarios as soon as possible.
Build a mechanism to gather strength and make scenario innovation systematic.
In Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), scenario work is not a "one-man battle," but has formed a set of working mechanisms, coordinated by the municipal government, led by multiple departments, and Hangzhou Scenario Company (杭州场景公司) as one of the implementing entities.
Among them, Hangzhou Data Group (杭州市数据集团) is an important investor in Hangzhou Scenario Company (杭州场景公司). Zhao Lei (赵磊) said that this design gives play to the rich data resource advantages of the Data Group, which helps to find better scenarios. "In the direction of embodied intelligence, we analyzed more than 800 enterprises in the upstream, midstream and downstream of the industry, accurately learned which fields Hangzhou (杭州) is strong in and which links are insufficient, and then carried out scenario cultivation work in a targeted manner."
It is understood that since its establishment, Hangzhou Scenario Company (杭州场景公司) has cumulatively released 402 scenario opportunities (demands) and 685 scenario capabilities (products), covering six major areas such as industrial upgrading, urban governance, and social people's livelihood.
Touch demand and focus on docking to make scenario supply close to reality.
"The deep-sea aquaculture technology cooperation project of yellowfin tuna that we assisted in docking, the technology supply unit just signed a contract with the relevant demand side in the Maldives a few days ago," Zhao Hui (赵辉), executive director of the Greater Bay Area Scenario Center (大湾区场景中心), used actual cases to tell the progress of the work since this year.
Yellowfin tuna has tender meat and delicious taste, and is an important ingredient in the high-end catering industry. South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences (中国水产科学研究院南海水产研究所) (hereinafter referred to as "South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute" (南海水产研究所)) has deep-water cage culture technology for yellowfin tuna, which can solve the problems of limited wild capture resources and unstable quality.
In December of last year, the Greater Bay Area Scenario Center (大湾区场景中心) learned that relevant institutions in the Maldives urgently needed technical support, so it selected and pushed 3 technology supply units to the Maldives from the scenario resource library, and the South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute (南海水产研究所) was one of them. After the two sides reached a preliminary cooperation intention, they quickly finalized a five-year partnership and will carry out comprehensive cooperation around the entire industrial chain of yellowfin tuna.
"We link the government, enterprises, scientific research institutes, capital and other parties to carry out technology selection, scenario release, and accurate docking on a regular basis to promote the efficient allocation of scenario resources," said Zhao Hui (赵辉).
Build a platform to set a benchmark and ensure commercialization landing.
At the Hefei (合肥) branch venue of this year's CCTV Spring Festival Gala (央视春晚), EHang Intelligent (亿航智能)'s 16 "air taxis" - EH216-S unmanned aerial vehicles - flew in formation at the "Wanmei Eye" (皖美之瞳) main stage of Luogang Park (骆岗公园), attracting a lot of attention.
Hefei Luogang Park (合肥骆岗公园) used to be an old airport and is now China's first application demonstration site for "full-space unmanned system." In March of last year, after EHang Intelligent (亿航智能) obtained the first batch of manned civil unmanned aerial vehicle operation qualification certificates issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局), EH216-S quickly carried out normalized commercial trial operation in Luogang Park (骆岗公园).
"Hefei (合肥) transformed the original Civil Aviation Luogang Airport (民航骆岗机场) into Luogang Park (骆岗公园), and used the original runway facilities, airspace conditions, etc. to carry out low-altitude economy-related scenario construction, and accelerated the cultivation of the low-altitude economy industry," said Zhang Bi (张弼), deputy general manager of Hefei Market Scenario Company (合肥市场景公司). Thanks to the scenario empowerment of Luogang Park (骆岗公园), Hefei (合肥) has initially built a leading and complete low-altitude economy comprehensive demonstration system in the country, gathering more than 300 leading enterprises, and promoting the landing and operation of 13 typical application scenarios such as manned sightseeing tourism and high-speed long-endurance inspection.
"Without scenarios, technology is only 'potentially useful.' With scenarios, technology becomes 'immediately useful,'" said Zhang Bi (张弼).
When the "air taxi" crosses the low altitude, when the robot dog accurately shuttles in the terminal, when the brain-computer interface makes rehabilitation training rejuvenate... Facing the future, application scenarios that take root will continue to write vivid notes for the vigorous development of new quality productive forces.
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The "15th Five-Year Plan"纲要 proposes to adhere to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus, and to adhere to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people. Among the major strategic tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is particularly emphasized that we must adhere to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people, promote the virtuous interaction between investment and consumption, and help strengthen the domestic cycle.
From historical experience, in the development stage of rapid economic catch-up, a development model that focuses on investment and production is conducive to achieving rapid capital accumulation and high-speed economic growth. Over the years, China has laid a solid material and technological foundation for economic and social development through large-scale continuous investment in things, while also increasing employment and improving residents' income levels and consumption capacity. However, with the continuous increase in the amount of capital per capita, the rate of return on capital has shown a downward trend, which requires corresponding changes in investment concepts and directions. In terms of investing in things, we must focus more on original innovation, breakthroughs in key core technologies, upgrading of traditional industries, cultivation of emerging and future industries, and construction of modern infrastructure, which can not only improve investment efficiency but also meet high-quality consumption.
From the "15th Five-Year Plan" and even longer periods, paying more attention to "investing in people" is an inevitable requirement for China's economic and social development, which can not only optimize the structure of material capital and human capital, but also help form a cross-cycle, sustainable large-scale consumption.
Investing in people is an investment in strengthening human resource development and the all-round development of people. On the one hand, it promotes the accumulation of human capital and provides a "talent dividend" for promoting the development of new quality productive forces; on the other hand, it will also promote the all-round development of people by improving residents' consumption levels and consumption quality.
Investing in people mainly includes investing in "health" and investing in "education." Investing in "health" is the foundation of investing in people, and the policy focus includes: improving the level of social security, reducing the burden of family childbirth, medical care and elderly care, and alleviating the hindering effect of precautionary savings on boosting consumption. In terms of elderly care, implement a long-term care insurance system, improve the care system for elderly people with disabilities and dementia, and release the consumption capacity of younger generations through social security mechanisms. In terms of childbirth, gradually increase the intensity of childbirth subsidies and individual income tax deduction policies, improve inclusive childcare services, and reduce the direct costs and opportunity costs of raising children. In terms of medical care, deepen medical insurance reform, improve medical efficiency, reduce the medical burden, and guide residents to shift from passive medical expenditure to active health consumption.
Investing in "education" is the core of investing in people. It is the fundamental guarantee for promoting the accumulation of human capital, stimulating the innovation vitality of micro-subjects, and improving residents' long-term income. The policy focus includes: vigorously promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, promoting the deep synergy and organic linkage of the three, and forming a mutually supportive and dynamic innovation ecosystem. Vigorously promote the construction of a skill-based society, extend the focus of the education system from academic education to vocational skills training, improve the lifelong education system, and enhance workers' ability to adapt to industrial upgrading and technological innovation. Deepen system reform, further improve the construction of a unified national market for talent elements, improve the efficiency of labor element allocation, protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers, and make personal income more reasonably reflect the contribution of workers. Improve the system for improving human capital and income distribution, promote the continuous increase of residents' income, and thus consolidate the income base for the sustained growth of residents' consumption.
Investing in people, the most critical thing for universities is to innovate the independent training model of talents, and cultivate top-notch innovative talents based on national strategic needs. Nankai University (南开大学) adheres to the concept of "three-dimensional integration and all-round education," and comprehensively promotes the "quality revolution" of education and teaching through a joint-driven mechanism of "value shaping, professional adaptation, independent growth, system construction, and AI empowerment," and strives to build a high-level talent independent training system with Nankai characteristics. This training system has been widely recognized by experts in the audit and evaluation of undergraduate education and teaching.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大财政经济委员会) and the President of Nankai University (南开大学).)
By: 徐 颖
Lunar-Earth space usually refers to the space extending from Earth's low orbit to the Moon and as far as 2 million kilometers. Currently, it mostly refers to the vast cosmic space from 40,000 kilometers (geosynchronous orbit) to 450,000 kilometers (Earth-Moon L2 point) from Earth. As the scope of human activities expands, lunar-Earth space is becoming a new focus for cutting-edge technological exploration. Data from the European Space Agency predicts that by 2030, global governments and private enterprises are expected to have more than 100 lunar exploration missions.
Every flight across the lunar-Earth space is full of unknowns and dangers. Humans need to anchor their relative position with other spacecraft in lunar-Earth space, which requires a crucial capability—lunar-Earth navigation.
Currently, real-time navigation on Earth has been integrated into daily life. However, once crossing the large-scale space of 400,000 kilometers, spacecraft enter an "uncivilized land" without civilized markers, lacking high-precision maps and communication systems, making travel security a challenge. Therefore, for future lunar exploration and development, it is not only necessary to "build good cars" but also to "pave good roads," to be able to know one's own position, destination, and route. Lunar-Earth navigation is an important basic guarantee for us to go to the Moon and carry out daily activities on the Moon.
However, humans have rarely set foot in lunar-Earth space, and building a lunar-Earth navigation system faces many technical problems and engineering challenges. First, the time reference for lunar-Earth is distorted. The gravitational environment near the Earth and the Moon is different, and the speed of movement is also different. Since the rate of time passage is directly related to the gravitational potential and speed of movement, the lunar clock has complex changes relative to the ground clock. Therefore, Coordinated Universal Time, which is suitable for Earth, cannot be directly used on the Moon.
Secondly, the spatial reference of the lunar-Earth is volatile. On Earth, we can rely on multiple geodetic reference points to construct our Earth coordinate system, but it is impossible to establish a long-term fixed relative coordinate framework in lunar-Earth space. This congenital coordinate drift makes it extremely difficult to construct a high-precision spatial reference traceable to Earth.
Finally, navigation methods originating from Earth are inadequate. Currently, commonly used deep-space navigation methods include ground-based deep-space measurement and control networks, BeiDou (北斗) space service technology, and inter-satellite link technology, but each technology has limitations. For example, deep-space measurement and control networks are limited by resources and coverage, and BeiDou (北斗) space service technology is limited by sensitivity and geometric distribution. In addition, lunar-Earth space missions cover more than 10 stages, and the needs of each stage are different. No existing navigation technology can independently become a lighthouse illuminating the entire process of lunar-Earth space.
Building a lunar spatiotemporal reference theory that can be traced back to Earth to provide a reliable cosmic scale for lunar-Earth activities is the cutting-edge proposition that our researchers are currently working on. In near-Earth space, the BeiDou (北斗) system can be relied upon to provide initial positioning services for spacecraft; in lunar-Earth space, dedicated lunar-Earth navigation satellites can be deployed to build an autonomously operating lunar-Earth measurement network; in the near-lunar region, cooperation can be achieved through lunar surface facilities to provide services to lunar users. The three-layer network is interconnected and synchronized to jointly form a full-domain navigation system extending from the Earth to the Moon, using multi-dimensional and multi-source fusion methods to cope with unforeseen risks in the lunar-Earth environment.
Building a navigation system connecting lunar-Earth and even deep space is not only a necessary path to cross lunar-Earth space, but also a cornerstone to support the long-term operation of lunar research stations, the normalization of manned lunar landings, and even moving towards Mars and other deeper universes.
The Chang'e (嫦娥) lunar landing myth embodies the ancients' beautiful imagination of the moon. Today, as humanity's first stop towards space, the moon has been revitalized with new technological vitality. From landing on the far side of the moon to manned lunar landings, the moon, as an extension of Earth's activities, is not only a trajectory of technological breakthroughs but also a declaration of civilization extending into the depths of the universe. One day, the BeiDou (北斗) system will realize the leap from 经天纬地 (jīng tiān wěi dì - "managing heaven and earth," possessing great talent and ability) and navigating the globe to anchoring the moon and leading the universe.
(The author is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院空天信息创新研究院). This article was compiled and edited from an interview with Wu Yuehui (吴月辉), a reporter for this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 吴月辉 王嘉瑶 奚嘉悦
From the emergence of new occupations such as drone route planners, robot product managers, and agricultural solution engineers, to the rise of new entrepreneurial paradigms such as "one-person companies," emerging technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) and drones are accelerating the reshaping of the professional landscape, and also placing new demands on workers' professional skills.
Under the empowerment of emerging technologies, what new employment opportunities will the transformation of technology paradigms create? How are they different from traditional occupations? How can we better adapt to the AI era?
New Occupations Accelerate Emergence
On the rooftops of network outlets in Bao'an District (宝安区), Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), drones loaded with goods take off one after another, shuttling between city buildings along pre-set routes.
Behind the safe and orderly flight of these drones is a contribution from Xue Haoran (薛浩然), a 24-year-old SF Express (顺丰快递) drone route planner. Having only been in the industry for two years, he is already a key member of the team, rushing around every corner of the city every day with instruments, surveying terrain, planning routes, and outlining precise trajectories for low-altitude passages with his footsteps.
Drones are one of the most significant growing tracks in the low-altitude economy. In recent years, with the rapid expansion of drone scale and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, the demand for related positions has continued to increase. The drone route planner that Xue Haoran is engaged in is one of them.
"Our job is to reasonably plan the route and then let the drone operators implement the specific flight," said Xue Haoran. "After receiving the route planning task, we will conduct on-site surveys of the take-off and landing sites, including the surrounding environment and whether there are any special risks. After meeting the requirements, we will use map operations to make a route plan with the two ends as the starting and ending points. In the middle, we need to pay attention to avoiding densely populated areas and areas where there may be risks."
The planned route is not the final version and needs to be re-examined on-site in real-time with drones, reviewed in meetings, and assessed whether the route is reasonable before it is finally determined. "Compared with traditional logistics, we need to pay more attention to the requirements of the airspace management department," said Xue Haoran.
In the field of robotics, embodied intelligence is promoting humanoid robots to develop towards higher autonomy and stronger human-machine collaboration capabilities, and gradually enter real application scenarios. Wang Hongyang (王洪阳), who is in the same city as Xue Haoran, is a robot product manager at Elephant Robotics (大象机器人).
"With the maturity of artificial intelligence and robotics technology, the industry not only needs to 'build machines,' but also needs to 'make machines used,' which has spawned our profession," said Wang Hongyang. "Our core task is how to transform complex embodied intelligence technology into tools that ordinary people can easily use, combine, and innovate."
In order for the product to be "born" smoothly, Wang Hongyang and his colleagues need to coordinate the entire process from structural design and electronic engineering to front-end interface design to ensure that every link from the drawing to mass production meets expectations.
Qu Hongtao (曲洪涛) is a humanoid robot data collector at Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (北京中科慧灵机器人技术有限公司). "To be honest, when I saw the words 'humanoid robot' and 'data collection,' my mind was full of scenes from science fiction movies. So, out of curiosity, I decided to explore it," said Qu Hongtao.
From the initial part-time attempt to now making it a part of his career plan, Qu Hongtao has transformed from an observer into a "foundation" builder in the artificial intelligence wave.
In the past, AI was more about processing text and images, but humanoid robots must enter the physical world, so they must understand complex physical rules, light and shadow changes, and human actions. This requires massive, high-quality real-world data as a bridge. Humanoid robot data collectors are the pavers of this bridge. Their job is to "translate" the real world into a language that machines can understand.
How to transform abstract algorithm requirements into specific collection actions? "This requires extremely strong 'empathy,' not only empathy for people, but also empathy for machines," said Qu Hongtao. "We have to think from the machine's perspective, how will it 'see' and understand this action? For example, if the algorithm says it needs to 'walk steadily,' we have to think about which roads to walk on, how big the stride is, and how to shift the center of gravity. We need to concretize these abstract words into executable physical actions, which is actually a very interesting creative labor."
Opportunities and Challenges
Cheng Zhongyi (程忠义), 41, is a senior agricultural solutions engineer at DJI (大疆公司). Initially, he worked as a flight instructor in the company. With the promotion and application of drones in agriculture, his role has also changed to an agricultural solutions engineer.
The core of traditional agricultural technicians' work is experience and manpower, and manual operations are carried out on fixed plots. The work of agricultural solutions engineers revolves around "data" and "systems," thinking about how to make the drone, an intelligent terminal, execute agricultural tasks more accurately and automatically. In essence, it is to codify and streamline agricultural knowledge.
Cheng Zhongyi feels that this job allows him to always stand at the forefront of products and industries, and feel the great sense of accomplishment that technology is truly changing the ancient industry. "We do not serve a single plot, but design intelligent standard solutions by analyzing massive amounts of operation data and summarizing the common needs of different crops and regions," said Cheng Zhongyi.
Compared with traditional hardware product managers, Wang Hongyang feels that the biggest difference in his profession lies in "cross-disciplinary complexity" and "ecological thinking." "Traditional hardware products may pay more attention to the realization of a single function, while we not only have to consider the reliability of the mechanical structure, but also the processing of sensor data, motion control algorithms, and the friendliness of human-computer interaction. In addition, we emphasize 'ecology' more. We don't want users to just buy a 'toy,' but to provide a 'key to creation.' For example, users can use the robot's rich shared accessory ecosystem to freely combine various applications such as dancing, painting, and sorting," said Wang Hongyang.
When talking about the sense of accomplishment, Wang Hongyang said that watching the robot products he is responsible for grow from an early prototype into teaching and research platform materials for more than hundreds of universities and institutions around the world, that kind of excitement and sense of accomplishment is incomparable to any performance indicator.
"This makes me deeply realize that our job is not just to make products, but to 'sow seeds' and stimulate young people's interest and creativity in technology," said Wang Hongyang.
Some people may find the work of humanoid robot data collectors boring, but in Qu Hongtao's eyes, it is not like that. "I think I have changed from a simple executor to a 'data expert,'" said Qu Hongtao. "When I see the robot successfully complete the task through the data I collected, that sense of accomplishment is indescribable. I feel that I am not just working, but participating in an experiment about the future."
Of course, while having a sense of accomplishment, challenges are inevitable.
The work of agricultural solutions engineers is usually in the forefront of agriculture, such as tussah silkworm breeding, aquaculture feeding, etc. There are few related practices, and the work is very exploratory.
"Last year, my personal flight mileage reached 57,000 kilometers, and my footprints were all over the country, just to find more agricultural production links that can be transformed by drones," said Cheng Zhongyi.
In Wang Hongyang's view, many robots are currently still at the level of "executing instructions" and lack emotion and warmth, and his role is a "translator" and "connector." The biggest challenge facing his profession is "how to make robots truly 'understand' people" so that they can achieve natural and warm human-computer interaction.
"We want to translate cutting-edge AI algorithms and hardware capabilities into warm functions that users can perceive. For example, we are exploring how to allow robots to establish a more natural connection with users through eye contact, actions, and voice, rather than just cold mechanical arm movements," said Wang Hongyang.
New Tracks are Constantly Expanding
Today, the figures of new professional practitioners can be seen everywhere. Last year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) announced 17 new occupations and 42 new types of work, setting a record for the largest number of new types of work added each time. In the future, with the growth of emerging industries such as commercial aerospace, the low-altitude economy, and deep-sea technology, and the development of future industries such as bio-manufacturing, quantum technology, embodied intelligence, and 6G, the types of new occupations will continue to be enriched.
Wang Hongyang is full of confidence in the future. He told reporters that the current career development path is very broad. From junior engineers and product managers, they can grow into product line leaders, department directors, and even higher-level managers. In the future, with the popularization of embodied intelligence, more subdivided positions will be derived, such as robot experience designers, AI trainers, strategists, robot delivery engineers, and so on.
"The robotics industry is on the eve of an explosion, and new AI model technologies and sensor technologies are emerging every day. Our job is to stand at the forefront of these technologies and constantly explore how to apply them to actual scenarios. For example, how can the current large model technology empower robots and give them stronger understanding and planning capabilities? These are the directions we are actively exploring," said Wang Hongyang. This profession is full of unknowns and challenges, and it is this challenge that makes it full of charm.
At this year's National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议), Huang Sanwen (黄三文), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院), said that the comprehensive mechanization rate of plowing, planting, and harvesting of Chinese crops has reached 76.7%, and drones have become "new agricultural tools," making it easier and more efficient for farmers to farm. This also reflects that the agricultural drone industry has entered a stage of large-scale and mainstream application.
"The work of our agricultural solutions engineers is to promote this 'new agricultural tool' to continuously adapt to new scenarios and exert new effectiveness, so as to contribute specific technical paths and practical solutions to improving the country's agricultural mechanization and intelligence level," said Cheng Zhongyi.
Experts said that new occupations and new types of work create more high-quality employment positions, allowing workers to have broader and more diverse career development paths.
Regarding what skills and qualities talents who want to and are about to engage in new occupations need to have, the interviewees have some of their own thoughts.
"It is very important to cultivate systematic thinking, and at the same time, maintain curiosity and hands-on ability, and try and create more. Don't be afraid of failure. Every hands-on practice is the best verification of theoretical knowledge," said Wang Hongyang.
In Xue Haoran's view, technology is fundamental, and it is necessary to learn professional knowledge well. "In addition, the ability to communicate with people is also very important. Many times we need to go offline to communicate and coordinate," said Xue Haoran.
At present, new occupations still face many challenges in real development, such as the lack of clear evaluation standards and the training system is not perfect enough. In this regard, experts said that policies should "go both ways" with the market. On the one hand, it is necessary to formulate supporting standards and accelerate the construction of a training system for new occupations; on the other hand, it is also necessary to intervene from the education end to promote the forward shift of awareness of new occupations, so that more people can understand, learn, and do well.
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At 3:48 AM on March 13th, the Long March 8A (长征八号甲) carrier rocket soared into the sky from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场), sending the satellite internet low-Earth orbit 20 group satellites into their predetermined orbit. As a member of the Long March 8A (长征八号甲) rocket development team, the moment the rocket pierced the night sky, my heart was filled with new expectations: I hope the Long March 8A (长征八号甲) rocket will become a "new generation express" to support China's low-Earth orbit constellation networking.
The construction of low-Earth orbit satellite constellations places new demands on carrier rockets, requiring not only large carrying capacity but also fast launch and low cost. It is against this backdrop that the Long March 8A (长征八号甲) rocket came into being. From the design phase to the completion of its first flight, the team only spent 28 months.
In order to give the rocket a stronger carrying capacity, we made bold innovations in the overall design. The Long March 8A (长征八号甲) rocket uses a 3.35-meter universal hydrogen-oxygen upper stage for the first time, and is equipped with a 5.2-meter large fairing, which increases the carrying capacity of the 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit to the 7-ton level. In this way, the Long March 8 (长征八) series has formed a carrying capacity echelon from 3 tons, 5 tons to 7 tons, which can flexibly adapt to low-Earth orbit constellation launch missions of different scales.
In terms of specific technical details, many seemingly small changes often require repeated efforts. For example, through integrated design, we replaced the traditional adapter frame, satellite bracket, and instrument compartment with a multi-functional compartment, reducing the weight of the entire rocket by about 300 kilograms; for another example, the electro-hydrostatic servo mechanism, which is used domestically for the first time, has increased the rocket's measurement and launch efficiency by 30%.
In addition to technological innovation, launch efficiency must also be improved. The construction of low-Earth orbit constellations often requires high-frequency launches. If each launch has a long preparation cycle, it will be difficult to support large-scale networking. Therefore, we worked with the launch site team to explore the "fast measurement and launch + high-density production capacity" model. At the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场), the No. 1 position can achieve a rapid response capability of "7 days launch, 7 days recovery"; the general assembly bases in Tianjin (天津) and Hainan (海南) have also established pulsating production lines, forming a production capacity scale of 50 rockets per year.
The success of the Long March 8A (长征八号甲) rocket is inseparable from a growing professional measurement and launch team. In order to master the rocket system as soon as possible, we organized more than 80 technical briefings, and the young team members left more than 2,700 pages of study logs. From initially assisting in participation to now being able to independently complete the entire process of measurement and launch tasks, this young team has grown rapidly in repeated actual combat.
Currently, global commercial space competition is becoming increasingly fierce. The successful development and application of the Long March 8A (长征八号甲) rocket not only provides important support for China's low-Earth orbit constellation networking, but also explores new paths for the modular development of future carrier rockets.
For us, every rocket launch is a new starting point. In the future, the Long March 8 (长征八) series will continue to promote technological iteration and make continuous breakthroughs in reusability, carrying efficiency, and rapid launch, opening up a broader space for China's aerospace industry.
(The author is the chief designer of the Long March 8 (长征八) series carrier rockets of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (中国运载火箭技术研究院). This report was compiled and edited by Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), a reporter from this newspaper.)
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Having eaten in Xi'an (西安) for over 30 years, I may have become a bit numb. Eating this today and that tomorrow, I don't find anything particularly rare. But when I leave that place and other recipes enter my daily life, I gradually begin to savor the goodness of my hometown food. Especially Xi'an (西安) snacks, so abundant that you could eat something different every two weeks. My memory is repeatedly stirred, bringing me back to the grand fireworks of Chang'an (长安).
My first taste of Xi'an (西安) snacks was on a night more than 40 years ago. I took a bus from the southern foothills of the Qinling Mountains (秦岭) to the foot of Zhongnan Mountain (终南山). The bus broke down on the Qinling Ridge (秦岭梁) for six or seven hours. People from Xi'an (西安) brought parts, started the engine, and installed anti-skid chains. It slowly drove into Xi'an (西安) in the snow, arriving after 4 a.m. We thought it would be late at night and deserted, but Xi'an (西安) was already bustling. The city people get up so early. It is said that some night markets have just closed, and the nerves of the morning market are already twitching on the other side. That day was truly one of 饥寒交迫 (jī hán jiāo pò - "hunger cold press," suffering from both hunger and cold). It was so cold that I put on all three pairs of socks I had brought, but I still couldn't stand firmly, feeling numb and stiff. I had brought some dry food, but it was limited and had been eaten on the Qinling Ridge (秦岭梁). Being so hungry, leaning against a morning market stall felt like a sense of stability and a blessing from heaven.
That day I ate oily tea and fried dough twists. Let's just say, it was the best meal I've ever had in my life. Many years have passed, and I always want to find that old place outside the West Gate (西门), to eat another meal, and to find that old man and the bowl of thick oily tea he poured out. I clearly remember that the oily tea basket was woven from bamboo, possibly purple bamboo, or perhaps it was lacquered, and black in color. To keep it warm, the cylindrical bamboo basket was wrapped in a specially made floral cotton quilt, which was immediately warming. Plus, the oily tea poured out of the basket was not only warm but scalding hot, hot but not so hot that the mouth couldn't accept it, and the esophagus wouldn't burn, that just right feeling quickly brought people from head to toe back to the normal world. Only then did I bother to look at the unique shape of the basket, it was truly woven divinely, actually weaving a spout, six or seven inches long, on the huge belly of the basket. That spout faced the bowl, and just rolling the basket would give you a bowl, and the basket would immediately return to its original position. All the old man's operations were like an art, not spilling a drop, and each person's bowl was just nine-tenths full. Later, I could never find that warm and artistic feeling again. Oily tea and fried dough twists are a type of breakfast for Xi'an (西安) people. Oily tea is made from butter, flour, peanuts, sesame seeds, and other spices. Some fried dough twists are soaked in it, and some are placed at the bottom of the bowl, with oily tea covering the surface. Eating it can be crispy or soft, depending on your preference. There are many breakfasts in Xi'an (西安), but most old Xi'an (西安) people eat oily tea and fried dough twists, or meatball spicy soup. Spicy soup is a delicacy of Henan (河南) people. The reason it is popular in Xi'an (西安) is because many Henan (河南) people used to live north of the Xi'an (西安) railway. At one time, three accents were popular in Xi'an (西安): Mandarin, Guanzhong (关中) dialect, and Henan (河南) dialect. If a person cannot use the three languages to "stir the snow" back and forth, it means that you are not the most authentic Xi'an (西安) person.
Let's talk about belt noodles, which are really like belts. The wide ones can be an inch or two wide, almost as wide as the mouth, and it has to be a big mouth. As a person from southern Shaanxi (陕南), I don't quite understand why you would eat such wide noodles. Southern Shaanxi (陕南) is characterized by thin noodles. If a family's noodles are hung as thin as hair, that is "real stuff," called "melts in your mouth." Guanzhong (关中) people want to eat such "solid" pasta, I think it is related to the deep tradition of land cultivation. The eight hundred li of Qinchuan (秦川) is the national granary. When the wheat is ripe, the rolling wheat waves are eight hundred li of gold. Before the combine harvester, the "rush harvest" was a continuous cycle of life for several days and nights. If you don't eat solid food, you can't cope with the labor intensity of "seizing food from the dragon's mouth." Plus, with the new wheat flour coming out, after saving for a year, it's always good to have a good meal. Therefore, there are even more ruthless ones than belt noodles, called biángbiáng noodles. The formula for writing the biáng character is: "A dot flies to the sky, the Yellow River (黄河) bends at both ends; the character eight opens its mouth wide, the character speech goes inside. Twist to the left, twist to the right; long to the west, long to the east, with a King Ma (马大王) in the middle. Heart character bottom, moon character side, leave a hook to hang malt sugar, push a cart to visit Xianyang (咸阳)." This character can be seen everywhere in the streets and towns of Xi'an (西安) and Guanzhong (关中). It is too difficult to learn to write, but to eat, you can eat at any time by the roadside. Nowadays, city people neither plow in the spring nor harvest in the summer and irrigate in the winter. Why eat so solid? It's a thousand-year habit.
The most characteristic of Xi'an (西安) snacks is pasta, and pasta is reflected in "wide, thick, strong, and tough." Strong means strength and power, and tough means flexibility and elasticity. Whether it is belt noodles, biángbiáng noodles, oily noodles, lo mein, or saozi noodles, the center is reflected in "wide and thick." Especially when entertaining guests, is it okay to serve "thin" noodles? People look down on you as "stingy" from the bottom of their hearts. Even lo mein and saozi noodles are particular about "dry mixing." Saozi is dry saozi, the noodles are noodles without soup, and oily spicy sauce is crushed chili flakes soaked in oil. After stirring and mixing, it is a dry, hard, and red bowl. The soup is served separately. There is a shop called "Guanzhong Old Bowl" (关中老碗). Even the soup is served in an old bowl, which seems to weigh two pounds. And the old Shaanxi (陕) people also love to eat "dry rammed earth." That is a term for building adobe walls, hard pounding and hard building dry to dry, so that the walls are strong. When eating belt noodles, you also have to eat roujiamo (meat sandwich), "dry" is "dry", that is a perfect match, after eating, the whole body is simply "warm" and "solid", this strength, in those years, made the wheat harvesting skills and the good men of threshing. Today, it is not in vain to eat, two or three hours later, go to the gym to lift iron, and with a shout, you can lift a one or two hundred pound iron bar. Nowadays, even ladies in Xi'an (西安) like to eat wide and thick noodles. In the past, they talked about cherry small mouths, and they didn't like this. They also needed to twist their bodies, lower their heads, or block their mouths when eating. Most of them only liked to eat narrow and thin cold noodles and helao. Of course, that is also good, and it is also a top snack in Xi'an (西安). Modern aesthetics suddenly value the beauty of wide mouths, and the Xi'an (西安) noodle shop owners immediately have a bottom line in their hearts. No matter where you go, especially the most fashionable places, that noodle, that "belt," is definitely made wider than the mouth.
Another snack in Xi'an (西安) has a great reputation, but it is okay to talk about it. It is mutton paomo, known as the "first bowl of Chang'an (长安)". Eating this thing is even more energetic, filling, and hard-wearing. There are many mutton paomo shops all over the country, and even opened abroad, but after eating it again and again, I still think that Xi'an (西安) is authentic. This is not just my opinion, Xi'an (西安) people outside say so. I think one is the reason for the water and soil, which is easy to understand. The second is the difference in feeling. Eating and drinking also requires a "field." This "field" is roughly similar to a magnetic field, related to huge "environmental interference" and "resonance at the same frequency." Once you leave the "field" of Xi'an (西安), the mutton paomo tastes a bit bland. Even if you invite a chef from Xi'an (西安), bring the old soup, mutton, and tuotuo buns from Chang'an (长安), when you break it and eat it, you hear Beijing (北京) opera, Kunqu Opera (昆曲), Pingtan (评弹), and Errenzhuan (二人转) around you, the "field" is not right. It seems that the bun doesn't need to be broken like that, and the garlic doesn't need to be eaten like that. The entire "discourse system" has shifted, so you should quickly eat a few bites and leave. But when you eat mutton paomo in Xi'an (西安), you should take your time, slowly chatting, slowly breaking, and slowly pinching. When eating in other places, the bun is cut into small "magic cubes" by a machine. In Xi'an (西安), after breaking the bun, you have to compare with each other to see which "gourmet" is experienced, breaking it all into "soybean grains." Then a table of people has to be divided into "soup in the mouth," "dry digging," "water surrounds the city," "separate serving," and "stir-fry" to "eat each other," and then taste a few signature dishes, "beef tongue," "oxtail," "tripe," "dragon bone," and then drink a few glasses of Lao Xifeng (老西凤) before officially starting to eat. The eating method is also very particular. It is eaten by digging a little bit at a time. Sometimes half of it is eaten, and the other half is still calm, digging without falling, which is what is needed to eat the "professional level." The key is that no matter where you eat, you may hear a few Qinqiang (秦腔) opera sounds. Even if it is not an opera, the accent and the rhetoric are as generous and passionate as Qinqiang (秦腔) opera, steel-like, crisp and neat, and this mutton paomo is considered to have tasted. Therefore, when friends from other places come to Xi'an (西安), I always let them go to the streets and alleys where there are many people and a strong atmosphere to eat. That is called eating Xi'an (西安) mutton paomo.
After talking for a long time, it seems that they are all "hard food." Do Xi'an (西安) people need such "hard-wearing" and "filling" meals? There is soft food. Let's go to "Li Ji's Stirred Paste" (李记搅团). That is what I eat every time I return to Xi'an (西安), just outside the South Gate (南门), and sometimes you have to queue. Stirred paste is commonly known as "fooling uphill": it looks like you are eating enough, but carrying a hoe, you are hungry before you even get to the slope. It is made of corn flour, passed through a sieve, and the fine powder is slightly coarser than flour. It is sprinkled into a pot of boiling water, stirring until it is very sticky and the heat cannot escape, then it is scooped into a large bowl and poured with peppercorns, garlic cloves, and red peppers. You are invited to eat. Many ladies in Xi'an (西安) love this. They surround it and eat a large bowl, even slender ladies with a waist circumference of one and a half feet.
Now the way to eat stirred paste is becoming more and more particular, and a ceremony is also held. A bowl of stirred paste is solemnly brought up, and seven or eight side dishes are served, nothing more than coriander, chives, celery, and garlic sprouts. There is also a fat sister-in-law carrying a big gong, muttering words in her mouth. The stirred paste is affixed with a "ten thousand taels of gold" seal. I will summarize a few key sentences of the fat sister-in-law's "address": "...Distinguished guests arrive, full of joy. Eat stirred paste, everything goes smoothly. Thousands of scenery, not as good as health. White rice and fine noodles are not as good as coarse grains. When the gong rings, ten thousand taels of gold!" Then respectfully invite the main guest to cut the ribbon, and the fat sister-in-law suddenly "bangs" the gong, scaring you, which is considered a final decision. Opening the wooden pot lid, it is indeed a golden yellow mass. No matter what kind of world cuisine, in front of this color, aroma, and taste, you have to 拱手礼让 (gǒng shǒu lǐ ràng - "cupped hands give way," to respectfully yield). What's more, these ordinary people's shops always want to "cook all" the Xi'an (西安) snacks. Cold noodles, vinegar powder, fish noodles, zeng gao (steamed glutinous rice), thousand-layer cake, stone cake, soup dumplings, gourd chicken... Of course, no shop can achieve perfection, even "Xi'an Restaurant" (西安饭庄), a "high-ranking family," has "fish that slip through the net" in the "netting" of many snacks, let alone any street shop. You can only understand the essence of Xi'an (西安) snacks by going deep into thousands of streets and alleys and walking through them ten or eight times. Remember, eat in the folk, taste in the alleys.
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Recently, I felt some discomfort in my left chest, a dull ache, and some palpitations and shortness of breath, so I went to see a doctor. The doctor said that the examination methods include electrocardiogram, echocardiography, enhanced CT, and coronary angiography. Among them, coronary angiography relies on precise and intuitive images, which are the most accurate and detailed, and can be an important reference for the next step of treatment, so it is also called the "gold standard," and he suggested that I choose it as the first choice for examination.
After the coronary angiography, lying in the hospital bed, I couldn't help but have some associations. This is an era of "standardization," where everything emphasizes standards, but standards are not unique, so the "gold standard" stands out. Precision, reliability, and authority are the basic characteristics of the "gold standard." In this vast world, which industry does not have its own "gold standard"? No matter which industry it is, if it can strictly adhere to the "gold standard," it can produce first-class results and form a first-class situation.
Let's talk about making pickles, which can be said to be a "trivial" skill that is difficult to enter the hall of elegance, but it is not easy to make a name for yourself. Beijing's "Liubiju" pickles (六必居) are famous, and many people who come to Beijing want to take some back. "Liubiju's" "秫稻必齐，曲糵必时，湛炽必洁，水泉必香，陶器必良，火齐必得" (shú dào bì qí, qū niè bì shí, zhàn chì bì jié, shuǐ quán bì xiāng, táo qì bì liáng, huǒ qí bì dé - "glutinous rice must be complete, koji must be timely, soaking must be clean, spring water must be fragrant, pottery must be good, fire must be appropriate," six requirements for complete ingredients, timely koji making, clean tools, pure water, excellent containers, and appropriate heat), which engraves the six major requirements of complete ingredients, timely koji making, clean tools, pure water, excellent containers, and appropriate heat into the process gene, can be regarded as the "gold standard" of its production. "Liubiju" pickles have maintained their flavor for hundreds of years, which shows that the "gold content" of this "gold standard" is very high.
Being a teacher also has a "gold standard." In my opinion, the "gold standard" for teachers is not how many papers are published, how high the level of the project is, or how well-known they are in society, but teaching and enlightening, educating people and casting souls, and judging the level of achievement in teaching and educating people. Ye Qisun (叶企孙), the first head of the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University (清华大学), cultivated 2 Nobel Prize winners and 79 academicians in his lifetime, all of whom are leaders in various industries. To take a step back, even if a teacher's achievements do not reach Ye Qisun's brilliance, as long as they strive to practice Tao Xingzhi's (陶行知) concept of "bringing a heart, not taking a blade of grass" (捧着一颗心来，不带半根草去 - pěng zhe yī kē xīn lái, bù dài bàn gēn cǎo qù - "holding a heart, not taking half a blade of grass," to dedicate oneself wholeheartedly), promote Hua Luogeng's (华罗庚) "ladder spirit," and light up the life dreams of thousands of rural girls with love and wisdom like Zhang Guimei (张桂梅), they are also qualified for the "gold standard."
The "gold standard" for artists is probably best summed up by the common four-character evaluation - 德艺双馨 (dé yì shuāng xīn - "virtue and art both excellent," possessing both high moral character and superb artistic skills). But to reach this standard, it may take a lifetime of struggle. 德艺双馨 (dé yì shuāng xīn) means having both the profound foundation of artistic ethics and the solid foundation of professionalism. In addition to being of noble character, upholding the bottom line, and speaking and acting correctly, one must also be professionally excellent and have learned skills. Opera actors must be proficient in singing, reciting, acting, and fighting; film and television actors must have both form and spirit, and look like whatever they play; singers should be expressive and have a lingering sound. As for the level of remuneration, the number of fans, and the value of commercial endorsements, they have nothing to do with the "gold standard." And those artists who rely on hype to attract attention and rely on playing big names to establish a persona will eventually be abandoned by the audience, only because they have forgotten to establish themselves with art and conduct themselves with morality, falling below the "gold standard."
Among the myriad "gold standards," the "gold standard" for officials is particularly important, as it not only relates to individuals, but also to the interests of the people and the country. Gu Wenchang (谷文昌) struggled in Dongshan (东山) and kept himself clean; Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) rooted himself in Lankao (兰考) and controlled sand and water; Kong Fansen (孔繁森) cared about the plateau and gave his all; Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) devoted herself to poverty alleviation and dedicated her youth. They practiced their original intentions with practical work, exercised their power with impartiality, firmly adhered to the purpose of serving the people, adhered to the bottom line of integrity, and insisted on burying their heads in hard work, becoming models for officials. From their commonalities, we can see the clues of the "gold standard" for officials, which can be condensed into three words: loyalty, cleanliness, and responsibility.
The "gold standards" of all walks of life, although expressed differently, share the same core essence: striving for excellence, professionalism does not allow for compromise; striving for perfection, the original intention must not be betrayed; openness and fairness, trust must not be squandered. The "gold standard" is formulated by people and implemented by people. It is hidden in the words and deeds of every practitioner and guarded in the rules of every industry.
Going back to the hospitalization. After the coronary angiography, the doctor quickly understood my condition, treated me symptomatically, and the effect was very good. I was discharged from the hospital after half a month. The hospital's "gold standard" for diagnosis can make the condition clear at a glance, which is convenient for treating diseases and saving people. The "gold standards" of various industries allow people to have a measurable ruler in their hearts and allow society to have rules to follow. Only when everyone adheres to their original intentions, acts according to the rules, and does their best, can individuals achieve success in their careers, industries develop steadily and far, and families become warm and the country prosper.
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Those are lines, countless lines, hundreds and thousands of meters of lines, horizontal and vertical. Those are cuboids, countless cuboids, standing tall under the sky, staggered and varied. That is steel, countless steel, not yet colored, maintaining the solemnity of a dark meteorite.
What combines them is tower cranes, countless tower cranes. The tower cranes grow taller day by day, and the cuboids grow taller day by day. In the morning light, their figures are like a hard gray forest.
When the car drives through the Jinyang New City (金阳新城) section of the 319 National Highway (319国道), the linear, three-dimensional, and steel scenery outside the window, in the faint mist, is like a mirage with a modern atmosphere. Under the backdrop of those cuboids, the roadside trees, which used to seem quite tall, seem to have become petite and exquisite. I, and the others in the car, are also staring out the window. Not long ago, this was still a flat and open space, and the leveled land seemed to be quietly waiting for something. Unexpectedly, in a short period of time, countless towering tower cranes have sprung up.
Seeing that everyone was watching the scenery outside the window with great interest, the driver slowed down and lowered the car window. Immediately, a fresh breeze blew in. On the right side of the road, the distant green mountains are faintly visible, which are the overlapping Jiulong Mountains (九龙山). The metallic clanging sound from the nearby cuboids echoes in the ears, and you can also see blue light flashing between the steel frames, several stories high and crisscrossing, which are the many welders splicing and assembling according to the drawings...
Under the tower cranes are workshops under construction, and those workshops, hundreds or even hundreds of meters long, are piled up like building blocks. Horizontal lines and vertical lines are extending and folding, changing from a plane to a three-dimensional shape, and then magically constructing distinct cuboids. Industry, that seemingly cold word, is the quenching of iron and fire, the fusion of light and electricity, the collision of force and force, the harmony of the central control room and the assembly line, the interaction of mechanical arms and CNC machine tools, with millimeter-level precision and the magnificent beauty of roaring waves and thousands of horses galloping.
Next to this project is a completed factory area. Rows of white factory buildings are arranged in the hills, stretching as far as the eye can see. Uniquely shaped street lamps surround the factory area, like dancing notes on the blue skyline, adding a sense of layering and rhythm to the huge factory area. The completed factory area and the project under construction are like blooming flowers and buds waiting to bloom, colorful and vibrant, which is what spring should look like.
On the construction site, the lines extend to the distant future, just like the national highway we are passing through, crossing time and space, crossing the difficult journey of generations of entrepreneurs seeking, and also extending to dreams, extending to infinite possibilities.
As the car moved forward, someone suddenly exclaimed in surprise that one after another thick cement pillars were standing tall not far away. On the cement pillars, workers wearing red hard hats were busy, and the electric arcs flashed and the blue light shone during welding.
A middle-aged man said, "Do you know what this is for?"
"I don't know."
"The maglev under construction. Directly from Huanghua Airport (黄花机场) to Liuyang (浏阳)!"
Someone immediately exclaimed, "I guessed for a long time, it turned out to be maglev!"
"Under Jiulong Mountain (九龙山), there are also the Jinyang Avenue (金阳大道) and Changliuyang Expressway (长浏高速) that have already been opened to traffic. The Yuchangsha High-speed Railway (渝长厦高铁) is also under construction!"
Everyone's chatterbox was opened, and they talked about travel topics. Some people said that in the future, they can take the maglev to Huanghua Airport (黄花机场) to catch a plane. The distance is closer, and the speed is faster, which is equivalent to moving Huanghua Airport (黄花机场) to Liuyang (浏阳). Some people said that in the future, to travel to Chongqing (重庆) and Xiamen (厦门), they can take the high-speed rail in Liuyang (浏阳) to see the Three Gorges and visit the mountain city, see the sea and visit Gulangyu Island (鼓浪屿), and they can leave whenever they want. Looking forward to the scene of a family taking the maglev and high-speed rail at their doorstep, it is like the ease and boldness of 春风得意马蹄疾 (chūn fēng dé yì mǎ tí jí - "riding on horseback in the joyous spring breeze," to be successful and in high spirits).
Outside the window, among the forest-like tower cranes, a humid mist is swirling, slowly drifting with the breeze.
Return to TopOil painting "Drizzle," by Liu Chunpu (刘纯朴), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
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Crossing the stream and going against the current,
Where there are tributaries, there are beautiful little bridges.
Shrubs are like iron, and moss grows on the rocks.
Everything in sight is like ink wash painting.
The mottled stream stones cling tightly to the bottom, and egrets fly by,
Pulling the lines on the animated scroll.
The further you go, the more you feel your body approaching paper.
The stream is silent, and people enter the painting.
Sometimes, when you are in the city,
Looking down at your desk, pondering a Spring Festival couplet,
Suddenly, you look up in surprise—
Unfamiliar landscapes emerge on the wall.
Sometimes, residing here,
You are a towering boulder in the air,
Or withered grass by the stream, waiting for the spring breeze to dye it green.
You are a superfluous hiker in the painting.
He is filled with joy and does not want to break out of the paper.
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Waking up for exercise in the morning and taking a stroll in the afternoon, I always encounter a sanitation worker. He is in his 50s, holding a shovel in his right hand, a broom in his left, and pliers hanging from his waist, cleaning the streets. When we meet, he always grins, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. Over time, we became acquaintances, added each other on WeChat, and occasionally discussed literature.
I call him Master Wei (韦师傅). His parents died early, and he lives alone. Later, he became a sanitation worker. At 30, he got married. His wife is also a sanitation worker, responsible for the section of road just across the street from him. Their daughter is very promising and was admitted to a local university. The family of three is temporarily renting a place to live.
He liked reading Lu Yao's (路遥) works when he was in middle school. Perhaps because his background is similar to that of the protagonist in "Ordinary World" (《平凡的世界》), he particularly likes this novel and knows the characters in the book like the back of his hand. If anyone says anything bad about Lu Yao's (路遥) works in his WeChat Moments, he will definitely get angry and directly怼 (duì - "to rebut," to argue back). Because of Lu Yao (路遥), he also fell in love with literary creation, writing on his phone screen every day after sweeping the streets. I sometimes tease him, saying that writing is worthless, why bother? He leans on his broom: "Teacher Zhang (张老师), you don't know, I rely on these two pens to live. The broom is the big pen, and the fingers are the small pen. When I'm tired of sweeping with the big pen, I use the small pen to tap out my works. When my works are published, they give me more motivation. This is my only hobby. As my wife says, I feel uncomfortable if I don't write for a day. The leader calls me a sanitation worker writer, and I love hearing that. People always need some spiritual life, don't they?"
Master Wei (韦师傅) is serious about his work. The section of road he sweeps is always free of fallen leaves and paper scraps, and he has been repeatedly named a sanitation model worker. After sweeping his assigned section, he also goes to help his wife clean. The couple is determined to save enough money to make a down payment and buy an apartment here.
I enjoy chatting with Master Wei (韦师傅). He has published more than 1,000 essays and 500 poems on online platforms. His works have the shadow of Lu Yao's (路遥) creations, and they are all about the daily lives of sanitation workers and ordinary people. He says he has two dreams: one is to have a home of his own, and the other is to publish a collection of his personal works. I said, "With dreams, there is poetry and distance. Walking makes you closer to your dreams." He grinned again, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and then quietly told me something: he secretly saved several thousand yuan behind his wife's back, printed a batch of his selected works, bound them, and gave them to relatives and friends, which can be regarded as fulfilling a small wish. Afterwards, his wife found out and inevitably argued with him: "Several thousand yuan is enough to buy half a square meter of a house! Why are you wasting money like that?" After vividly imitating the scene, he grinned again: "It's not embarrassing to be scolded by your own wife."
He longs for his articles to be published in newspapers and magazines. When an essay was finally published in a newspaper, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep for several nights. He would get up and write, and after writing, he would read it out softly, waking his wife several times and being scolded for "acting crazy." Later, he published a short story in a literary magazine, which made him even more overjoyed. He danced and handed the magazine to his wife, picking her up and spinning her around.
Once, I ran into him and his wife having a meal. In a plastic lunch box, there was rice, salted duck egg, braised tofu, shredded potatoes, and stir-fried sliced pork. The couple shared it, one bite for you, one bite for me. His wife wanted to put a slice of pork in his mouth, but he pushed it back, insisting that his wife eat it. In the back and forth, the slice of pork fell on the ground. He picked it up, blew off the dust, and ate it himself. Master Wei (韦师傅) saw me and was a little embarrassed: "Teacher Zhang (张老师), don't laugh at us for showing affection." He pointed to the lunch box, "This was given to me by a kind young man. Look, it's so rich, I couldn't bear to eat it alone, so I called her over to eat together." His wife also smiled shyly. I saw that their hands, which they hadn't had time to wash, were dark and calloused, with thick calluses on their fingers, in stark contrast to the white plastic lunch box.
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The sun has set, or perhaps not quite yet, obscured by the woods and houses, the sky is still bright, radiantly bright.
Several magpies land back on the treetops, chirping. Perhaps there is a breeze, the treetops are swaying slightly. Immediately following, a large flock of magpies flies over, black and white, lively and cheerful. I look across the courtyard, the magpies are like a handful of black beans with tails scattered into the woods, falling into the forest like a cloud. There are not many visible nests in the trees, I don't know how so many magpies can settle. Perhaps, there are many more nests that I cannot see. The woods that envelop the village are very secluded and mysterious.
Next door, there is still a chimney on the roof, the smoke dissolving gracefully into the smoky sky. On a clear evening, standing in the courtyard quietly watching the sky is a wonderful feeling.
In the time it takes to drink a bowl of porridge, the sky darkens considerably, deep blue, then deep black, like the vast ocean at a certain moment in the evening. This is how the night comes. Green buds are beginning to bloom, what kind of scene will it be when this forest is lush and green?
Opening the curtains, avoiding the light in the room, I can clearly see the quiet courtyard. A street lamp at the village entrance, passing over the high lintel and walls, shines diagonally on the tiles of the east wing.
I sit at the head of the bed reading a book, a collection of materials about a martyr from my hometown. I imagine back then, a young man full of ideals, also in such nights, evading the pursuit of the enemy, running around, preaching, studying hard, writing the most beautiful aspirations in the night. The words restore his heartbeat, breathing, and will. A person born in a certain era, on a certain day, seems destined for something, like this hero in my mind, determined to change the country's poverty and weakness, and save the suffering masses from misery, until the last drop of blood is shed.
The night is deep, weariness strikes, I turn off the light. Suddenly, on a whim, I look out the window again, unexpectedly shocked.
A huge full moon hangs in the air, the courtyard is full of moonlight, no, moonlight is more poetic. I watched a very sentimental short video, "Do you still remember the moonlight of your childhood?" The moonlight in the video is like this, making me miss and sigh. Unexpectedly, I found the "moonlight of childhood" outside the city, still "the appearance of childhood." It turns out it hasn't changed.
Sitting in the night, I can hear the sound of blood flowing, seemingly there and not there. Most of the time, I can't see the wind. Even if there is wind, it just brushes across the back of my hands and face, without a sound. The wind here is also cautious. The earth drowns out all the noise.
Here, speaking is the sound of speaking, a grain of rice falling on the ground is the sound of a grain of rice, a magpie calling is the sound of a magpie calling. The sounds are clear, with boundaries, with layers, like the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea meeting, breaking through each other's boundaries, embracing each other, also with clear individuality and poetry. Thinking here is so pure that you won't encounter any grains of sand or specks of dust. The stillness in my mind is like a rarely visited lake on the plateau, or a majestic and silent snow peak.
For so many years in the city, I have been accompanied by a roar, my head is like stuffed with a tangled ball of yarn. Walking, eating, sleeping, reading, I am wrapped in the roar, inseparable, even tight doors and windows cannot stop their air-like penetration.
Now, I understand that the world is originally so quiet, those indelible roars, those ethereal questions and regrets, actually all come from myself.
Having heard so many years of city sounds, the sounds of traffic, how long can I linger in such silence? What I know is that the true color of the earth is actually the search and protection of the heart.
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