Summary: Guangxi is deepening its integration into the Belt and Road Initiative, focusing on becoming an important gateway connecting the initiative with ASEAN countries. Key projects include the construction of the Pinglu Canal to shorten shipping distances and reduce costs, and the development of smart ports to increase trade efficiency, particularly with Vietnam. The region is also fostering innovation and trade within the China (Guangxi) Free Trade Pilot Zone. Furthermore, cultural and educational exchanges with ASEAN countries are being promoted. Party Secretary Chen Gang stated that Guangxi will contribute to building a China-ASEAN community with a shared future and high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
Summary: Since Hainan's island-wide customs clearance operation began, its policies have boosted development, with duty-free shopping up 27.64% and foreign trade up 32.9%. Sanya has opened 34 international air routes, with international passenger throughput increasing 11.2% year-on-year. Hainan has introduced measures to optimize the business environment, attracting both domestic and foreign investment in various industries. Hainan Party Secretary Feng Fei emphasized the importance of high-standard construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port to contribute to the nation's new development pattern. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the text.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree announcing revisions to the "National Agricultural Census Regulations," effective May 1, 2026. The revised regulations emphasize "joint participation from all parties" and include new areas like rural industry development, construction, and governance in the census. They also incorporate new methods such as remote sensing and emphasize utilizing administrative records and big data. The revisions focus on strengthening data quality control, preventing data fabrication, and increasing penalties for falsification, including potential criminal charges. The updated regulations aim to ensure the accuracy and completeness of agricultural census data.
Summary: Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2024 and delivered a keynote speech emphasizing shared development and a rejection of "hegemonism." Zhao stated that China contributes approximately 30% to global economic growth and will continue to promote high-quality development and opening up. Singaporean PM Lee Hsien Loong, among other foreign dignitaries, also delivered remarks, praising China's development and global initiatives. The forum focused on multilateralism, open cooperation, and mutually beneficial outcomes in a complex global environment.
Summary: Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Huning met with Uzbekistan Presidential Advisor Umurzakov in Beijing, affirming the Xi-Mirziyoyev consensus on deepening the China-Uzbekistan comprehensive strategic partnership and building a shared future. Wang expressed China's willingness to align development strategies and strengthen party-to-party exchanges. Umurzakov reiterated Uzbekistan's adherence to the One China principle and support for Xi's initiatives, emphasizing the importance of the CCP's leadership to China's success. Wang Dongfeng was also present at the meeting. The advisor stated that China's 15th five year plan offers opportunities for cooperation between the two countries.
Summary: During his fourth visit in nine years to the Xiong'an New Area on March 23rd, Xi Jinping acknowledged the significant progress in its construction and development while chairing a symposium focused on its high-quality development. Xi Jinping emphasized focusing on residents' needs and creating a beautiful, livable city, including visiting China Huaneng Group and Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus to understand development and offer encouragement to relocated employees. He stressed reform and innovation to promote technological and industrial integration, with a focus on high-level development and high-quality public resources. Individuals involved expressed confidence in Xiong'an's prospects, highlighting improvements in living conditions and commute convenience. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made in the article.
Summary: BASF's (Guangdong) integrated base project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, has commenced full operation. With a total investment of approximately 8.7 billion euros, this project represents the largest single investment by a German company in China. The base currently boasts 18 operational units and 32 production lines, covering over 70 products including basic chemicals, intermediates, and specialty chemicals. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the Boao Forum for Asia 2026, the speaker, representing the Chinese government, emphasized the importance of unity and cooperation in addressing global challenges, while advocating for a shared future. The speaker highlighted China's economic achievements, including a 5.4% annual growth rate over the past five years and its contribution to global economic growth. China will continue to expand high-level opening up, share opportunities, and create the future with countries around the world. China aims to foster innovation, deepen external cooperation, and optimize the business environment by strengthening the rule of law. China will host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen this November.
Summary: The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2024 annual conference convened with around 2,000 representatives from over 60 countries to discuss cooperation and development under the theme "Shaping the Common Future: New Dynamics, New Opportunities, New Cooperation." Participants emphasized the need for strengthened dialogue and cooperation to address global challenges and praised China's stable development. Speakers highlighted the importance of multilateralism and international organizations, with Singapore's Prime Minister Wong stressing open cooperation. The forum also addressed technological innovation, especially the development of AI, with some participants noting China's leading role and willingness to share its experiences. A representative from Canada noted the need for resilience in the regional architecture, in order to attract further investment.
Summary: The article emphasizes China's commitment to high-level opening-up and innovation-driven development, signaling stability and opportunity for global partners. Attendees at forums like the China Development Forum and Boao Forum for Asia expressed optimism about China's "15th Five-Year Plan" and its focus on expanding domestic demand. The report characterizes China's approach as collaborative and mutually beneficial, contrasting it with unilateralism and protectionism, and highlights China's role as a "stabilizing anchor" in the region. The article also notes China's transition towards becoming a global innovation hub, particularly in renewable energy and green development. Finally, the article mentions the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and China's economic relationship with its member countries.
Summary: Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with IAEA Director General Grossi and outgoing Indian Ambassador to China Pradeep Kumar Rawat in Beijing on March 26. During the meeting with Grossi, Wang emphasized the severe consequences of targeting nuclear facilities amid escalating Middle East conflicts, advocating for immediate ceasefire and dialogue, and pledged cooperation with the IAEA to safeguard the international nuclear non-proliferation regime. In his meeting with Rawat, Wang expressed China's willingness to work with India to implement leadership consensus, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, safeguard the common interests of the Global South, and strengthen multilateral collaboration within mechanisms like BRICS. Both Wang and Grossi expressed willingness to strengthen communication and cooperation on resolving relevant hot-spot issues and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Summary: In a phone call with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed the Middle East situation and the Iranian nuclear issue. Joly outlined Canada's commitment to protecting civilians and de-escalating conflict, while Wang emphasized resolving the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue, cautioning against the use of force. Wang suggested that the U.S. and Iran should resume negotiations, and that China and Canada should play a constructive role in encouraging this. Both ministers agreed to implement the results of Prime Minister Trudeau's visit to China, restart dialogues, and promote a healthy China-Canada strategic partnership.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Xiao Jie met with Hungarian National Assembly Deputy Speaker Orosz Lajos in Beijing. They exchanged views on deepening bilateral relations, strengthening legislative exchanges, and promoting cooperation in various fields. The meeting suggests continued engagement between the Chinese and Hungarian legislative bodies.
Summary: Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met with Uzbekistan's Presidential Advisor on Strategic Development, Umurzakov, in Beijing on March 26. They exchanged views on implementing the consensus reached by the two countries' leaders, strengthening party-to-party exchanges, and jointly building a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future.
Summary: Ahead of the WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference, China hosted a high-level conference in Yaounde, Cameroon, focusing on Chinese investment in African industrialization. Commerce Minister Wang Wentao stated China's commitment to deepening cooperation with African nations in supply chains, infrastructure, human resources, and trade investment rules, leveraging China's vast market and industrial capabilities. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Cameroonian Minister of Commerce Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, along with representatives from nearly 50 African countries, expressed concerns about global trade instability and praised China's support for the multilateral trade system and African industrialization. Participants hoped to strengthen trade and investment cooperation with China. The WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference will take place from March 26-29 in Yaounde.
Summary: The Chinese Mission to ASEAN held a media and think tank salon in Jakarta to promote the spirit of the Two Sessions, focusing on China's high-quality development. Ambassador Wang Qing highlighted China's commitment to national rejuvenation, high-level opening up, and sharing development opportunities with the world, referencing the Government Work Report and the 15th Five-Year Plan. Wang emphasized that China prioritizes ASEAN in its foreign policy, and that Chinese-ASEAN cooperation provides stability and certainty to the world. He called for building a "Five Home" community and promoting Asian values. The event was attended by representatives from nearly 20 regional media outlets and think tanks.
Summary: The UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) awarded 150 members of China's second peacekeeping rapid reaction force to Abyei the UN "Medal of Peace" and the UNISFA Commander's Commendation on March 25th. The awards recognized their outstanding performance in peacekeeping operations and their significant contribution to maintaining peace in Abyei. The total number of awardees was all the members of the force. The article makes no mention of the United States.
Summary: The State Council Tariff Commission announced that, starting April 1, 2026, certain goods imported from the Republic of the Congo will be subject to preferential tariff rates, as outlined in the "Early Harvest Arrangement" of the economic partnership agreement between China and the Republic of the Congo. This decision is based on the provisions of the "Customs Law of the People's Republic of China." The announcement was made by the State Council Tariff Commission Office. The move aims to further develop economic ties with the Republic of the Congo. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A symposium was held in Beijing on March 26th to commemorate the publication of "Xi Jinping Leading the Fight Against Poverty." Li Shulei, a member of the Politburo and head of the Central Propaganda Department, and Chen Xi, president of the Central Party School, attended and spoke at the event. Attendees emphasized the book's role in portraying the Party's achievements in poverty alleviation under Xi Jinping's leadership. The meeting stressed promoting China's poverty reduction philosophy and achievements both domestically and internationally. The symposium was organized by the Central Propaganda Department and the Central Party School.
Summary: Li Hongzhong, a member of the Politburo, addressed a meeting on handling proposals from the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC), emphasizing the importance of implementing Xi Jinping Thought. He stated that the 8,406 suggestions put forward by NPC deputies would be handled by 206 undertaking units. Li stressed the need to integrate the proposals with the goals of the "15th Five-Year Plan". Officials from the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, relevant special committees of the NPC, the State Council General Office, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate attended the meeting. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's central government has released its 2026 budget, with departments mandated by the Ministry of Finance to disclose at least 60% of their general public budget, government fund budget, and state-owned capital operation budget performance goals. The budget release includes details on departmental revenue and expenditure, changes in budget items, and explanations of key areas like operational expenses, "three public expenses," and government procurement. A professor from the Central University of Finance and Economics, Bai Yanfeng, stated that enhancing fiscal transparency, especially with budget constraints, fosters societal consensus on reforms to better allocate resources. The government emphasizes that budget transparency is crucial for effective fiscal management and is committed to ensuring all levels of government meet disclosure requirements.
Summary: The Chinese government has issued guidelines to accelerate the establishment of a national long-term care insurance system, aiming for basic coverage nationwide by the end of 2028. According to Wang Wenjun, Deputy Director of the National Healthcare Security Administration, the insurance will provide financial support for basic living and medical care for insured individuals who have lost the ability to function independently. Zhang Xifan, Deputy Director of the National Healthcare Security Administration, noted that a unified national standard for disability assessment will be implemented to ensure fairness and prevent fraud. Guo Yang from the Ministry of Finance stated that government subsidies will be provided to assist low-income individuals with enrollment, with central and local governments sharing the financial burden. Huang Xinyu, Director of the National Healthcare Security Administration, highlighted the emergence of the new profession of "long-term care worker" to address the shortage of professional care services.
Summary: The Chinese government has announced the nationwide implementation of a long-term care insurance system, expanding from local pilot programs. The initiative aims to address the needs of an aging population by combining problem-solving with improved mechanisms, such as professional care institutions in Qingdao and funding models in Fuzhou, without burdening businesses. This insurance program has already spurred over 60 billion yuan in social capital investment in related industries, fostering growth in sectors like assistive device development. The policy aims to strengthen social security and improve the people's sense of fulfillment. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's State Taxation Administration, along with eight other departments, jointly launched the "Spring Rain Nourishing Seedlings" campaign for 2026, introducing 50 service measures across 15 categories to support the high-quality development of micro and small business entities. According to Shen Xinguo, Director of the Taxpayer Service Department of the State Taxation Administration, the campaign now includes the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Financial Regulatory Administration to address the needs of these businesses in tech innovation and financing. The campaign focuses on improving service efficiency, optimizing the business environment, promoting compliant operations, and supporting technological innovation, green development, cross-border operations, and rural revitalization. The initiative aims to transition into a normalized service model, enhancing communication, data sharing, and coordinated response mechanisms. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 38th Inner Mongolia Agricultural Expo was held in Hohhot on March 26th, featuring over 1,500 booths across sectors like agricultural materials, plant protection, and smart agriculture. Over 900 agricultural enterprises, research institutions, meteorological services, and insurance agencies from 28 provinces participated in the expo. Attendees observed exhibits like smart valves during the event, which demonstrates a focus on technological advancement within the sector. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: As of December 2025, China has seen widespread adoption of electronic business licenses, with 1.11 billion business entities downloading them 463 million times, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation. These licenses are used extensively for authentication, online logins, and electronic signatures, averaging over 1.2 million daily applications. The SAMR is promoting "one-license-for-all-bids" using electronic business licenses in public resource transactions and government procurement, exemplified by Beijing's pilot program. The SAMR has also established a unified "enterprise code" system based on electronic business licenses to promote integrated applications with other enterprise-related electronic licenses.
Summary: A recent national conference on cosmetics supervision reported that China's cosmetics market exceeded 1.1 trillion yuan in 2025, a 2.8% increase. Domestic brands accounted for 57.4% of sales. Cosmetic exports reached $7.82 billion, a 9.2% increase. Since 2021, when the regulatory system shifted to a dual registration and filing system, the number of new cosmetic ingredients approved has increased dramatically. The National Medical Products Administration aims to implement 24 reform measures this year to advance China's cosmetics industry.
Summary: The article discusses efforts in Anhui, Hunan and Xinjiang to enhance public cultural services, as part of the "15th Five-Year Plan." In Wuhu, Anhui, city libraries are offering cultural activities. In Changsha, Hunan, traditional operas are being brought to communities. The Xinjiang Museum is hosting a horse-themed exhibit, with related cultural products available for purchase, to both showcase local history and promote cultural identity. The museum curator, Li Zheng, connects the exhibit to cultural unity.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of enforcing existing regulations and preventing them from becoming mere "paper tigers," citing examples of corruption and lax enforcement of environmental regulations. It highlights the need for cadres to adhere strictly to the Party's directives and avoid prioritizing personal gain over national interests. The piece stresses that all levels of government must possess a strong sense of overall situation and be decisive in their executions. It also warns against privilege-seeking and other undesirable thoughts, so that cadres are not tempted to violate party rules.
Summary: China has initiated a four-year national agricultural climate resource census and regionalization project, starting March 26th. The project, conducted by the China Meteorological Administration, aims to comprehensively survey and classify five categories and 25 types of crops to understand agricultural climate resources. This initiative will scientifically assess agricultural planting boundaries and meteorological disaster risks. The project will further provide technical support for optimizing industrial layout and agricultural structure adjustment, and offer a scientific basis for agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and risk aversion. Pilot programs, jointly promoted by the China Meteorological Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs since 2023, laid the groundwork for this national rollout.
Summary: An article reports on the spring plowing preparation and the second farmer's games in Baisha Town, Hejiang County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, on March 26, 2024. The event included activities such as a water-carrying relay race. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's Ministry of Education has issued a notice to organize the National Student Safety Education Week from March 30th to April 3rd, focusing on the theme of "Joint Protection, Common Growth." The initiative aims to enhance safety awareness and self-protection skills among primary and secondary school students. Various government departments will collaborate to conduct online and offline activities covering topics such as national security, traffic safety, and cybersecurity. Schools are instructed to tailor activities to students' ages and cognitive abilities, employing methods such as simulations and emergency drills to deepen safety knowledge. The notice did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives is implementing a plan to build a modern agricultural materials distribution system by 2028. This includes constructing/renovating approximately 100 national strategic agricultural material (reserve) warehouses and 1,000 county-level distribution centers. This initiative aims to improve efficiency, lower costs, and benefit farmers nationwide. The plan focuses on key nodes in grain and agricultural product areas, transportation hubs, and distribution centers. The effort will enhance the supply and price stabilization capabilities of the supply and marketing cooperatives.
Summary: The article discusses improvements in healthcare in Tibet's Ngari Prefecture, highlighting the case of a successful cardiac intervention at the Ngari People's Hospital. Doctor Kou Huijuan, a Shaanxi-based doctor seconded to Tibet, played a key role in saving a patient suffering from cardiac arrest. Kou notes the hospital has performed over 60 similar operations by 2025, while also introducing new technologies. Du Zhuoying, from Fudan University-affiliated Huashan Hospital, helped incorporate the hospital's medical staff into an online training system. By the end of 2025, the hospital had attained "Grade Three Class A" status, meaning all of Tibet's seven regions now had such hospitals.
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Summary: The article profiles Chen Laifa, a national-level inheritor of the Puning Yingge dance, a traditional performance art from Guangdong province. Chen, who has been involved with Yingge for over 50 years, began learning the dance at 18 and has focused on its preservation and promotion. He innovated the performance by restructuring its format, enriching its narrative content, and modifying character designs to appeal to modern audiences. Despite financial challenges and initial resistance to change, Chen persevered in breaking traditional customs and promoting Yingge in schools and abroad. The article does not contain discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhang Chao and Zhang Xinyu, a married couple and researchers from Liaoning, have spent a decade in the Simian Mountain Natural Reserve in Chongqing, studying moths. They identified over 700 moth species, discovered eight new species, and accumulated valuable data on the region's biodiversity and ecological evolution. Their work extends to forest pest control, with Xinyu implementing biological methods to combat pine wilt disease. The couple's dedication has inspired others to engage in ecological research and conservation.
Summary: Ahead of the Qingming festival, China's National Forest Fire Prevention Command Office has issued directives to maintain stability in national forest and grassland fire prevention. The office emphasized strict enforcement of "seven prohibitions" within fire prevention zones, including bans on open flames and the burning of offerings. They also called for promoting eco-friendly mourning practices, enhancing public awareness, and ensuring effective implementation of fire prevention measures at the local level. They stressed the importance of safe firefighting practices, swift investigation and punishment of fire-related cases, and strengthened accountability. The directives did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on outdoor activities, such as kite flying and rope skipping, organized at Qiaodongli Elementary School in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, to allow students to enjoy the spring weather. No officials were mentioned, nor was the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum included a parallel session in Huairou Science City focusing on the open sharing of national major science and technology infrastructure. Seventeen of the 37 science and technology facilities in Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center are now open globally, serving over 1,000 innovative entities in more than 30 countries and regions. Eight major breakthroughs from the center were announced, including advances in ultrashort laser pulse technology and a domestically produced airborne glacier radar. The Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center has completed nearly 60% of its planned construction scale by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan. Four of the six major scientific facilities have passed national acceptance and are officially in operation.
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Summary: The article reports on China's push for high-quality marine economic development, highlighting the development and application of underwater robots in Liaoning Province, particularly in the Dalian area. Researcher Yuan Guoliang and Professor Fu Xianping have been developing the "Haiying" and "Haiou" series underwater robots for tasks such as underwater harvesting, data collection, and infrastructure inspection, improving efficiency and safety compared to traditional methods. These robots utilize technologies like underwater imaging, target recognition, and high-speed data transmission. The establishment of the "Wisdom Marine Information Technology Public Innovation Platform" aims to accelerate the translation of research into practical applications in the marine industry.
Summary: Liaoning province, with its extensive coastline, is strategically important for China's high-quality development and maritime power strategy. The province aims to shift its marine economy from factor-driven to innovation-driven growth by integrating technology, talent, and industry. It boasts a comprehensive innovation system with numerous universities, research institutions, and marine-related platforms. Liaoning is focused on constructing innovation consortia to upgrade marine industries by integrating resources of innovation leaders with other stakeholders. The province seeks to improve collaboration, break down barriers, deepen regional cooperation, and enhance policy and talent support to further boost its marine economy.
Summary: Wu Shudong, head of the Dongfengyuan planting cooperative in Tianshui, Gansu, is focused on improving the quality and sustainability of "Hua Niu" apples, including reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by working with experts from agricultural research institutions. He has upgraded the cold storage facilities. New roads have improved transportation efficiency. The development of the Hua Niu apple industry is bringing increased income to local villagers through employment and land transfer. By 2025, the planting area of apples in Tianshui has reached 1.327 million mu, with a total output of 2.87 million tons. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Lion Sea Channel (狮子洋通道), a major transportation project in the Greater Bay Area, has completed the main towers of the Lion Sea Bridge (狮子洋大桥), a key control project, and will now enter the upper structure construction phase. This 35km dual-layer highway channel, connecting Guangzhou Nansha and Dongguan, is designed to alleviate traffic pressure across the Pearl River Estuary. Upon completion, the Lion Sea Bridge is expected to achieve five world records in suspension bridge design. This project is intended to improve connectivity within the Greater Bay Area.
Summary: China's Ministry of Transport announced strong growth in port cargo and container throughput for the first two months of the year, with overall port cargo up 7.2% and container throughput increasing 9.8%, including a 13.7% rise in foreign trade. Total commercial freight volume also saw a 6.5% increase, reaching 8.3 billion tons. Cross-regional passenger traffic reached 12.38 billion trips. Fixed-asset investment in transportation infrastructure also remained high, totaling 355.8 billion yuan.
Summary: China's National Energy Administration reports a 15.9% year-on-year increase in total installed power generation capacity, reaching 3.95 billion kilowatts by the end of February. Solar power capacity saw a 33.2% increase, reaching 1.23 billion kilowatts, while wind power increased by 22.8% to 650 million kilowatts. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, wind and solar power have developed rapidly, with an average annual increase of 260 million kilowatts. By the end of 2025, the total installed capacity reached 1.84 billion kilowatts, accounting for 47% of the total installed power capacity, historically exceeding thermal power and becoming the largest power source in the system. The NEA plans to further expand renewable energy supply during the 15th Five-Year Plan, including the construction of new energy bases in desert areas.
Summary: An energy and technology company called Qineng Technology has built a "super energy complex" in Datong, Shanxi, which integrates computing power and renewable energy. According to Qineng Technology, Datong's climate, energy resources, and proximity to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region make it ideal for such a facility. Han Jie, the Party Secretary and Director of the Datong Data Bureau, stated that Datong is transitioning from energy to computing power, building a complete industrial chain, and has attracted over 30 billion RMB in investment in computing infrastructure. Han also noted that Datong aims to further integrate electricity and computing power, promote green energy, and enhance computing power supply.
Summary: The National Supercomputing Internet (NSCI), guided by the Ministry of Science and Technology, announced a new round of "word element" (词元) distribution activity, offering up to 30 million free units per user. Launched in April 2024, the NSCI aims to provide efficient and accessible computing services. By the end of 2025, the platform served over one million users with over 7300 applications, processing peak daily jobs of 1.03 million. The NSCI has reportedly lowered computing costs and barriers to entry, enabling faster innovation.
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Summary: The article discusses the history and significance of the *Pānzhīhuā* (攀枝花) flower, also known as the cotton tree or "hero flower," for the city of Panzhihua in Sichuan province. It highlights the flower's connection to the city's development as a steel production base during the "Third Front" construction era and its current role in promoting tourism and cultural heritage. The city leverages the flower to promote cultural tourism and integrate the "Third Front" spirit into modern development, and aims to improve the city's landscape. The city is also developing clean energy and opening itself up to global trade through railways, including those connecting to Laos.
Summary: Panzhihua city is actively protecting its ancient *panzhihua* trees, some over 300 years old, with measures like individual files and tailored strategies. After a construction project harmed a tree by the Jinsha River, local experts intervened to restore its health. Panzhihua has developed eight ancient tree parks to promote cultural tourism, attracting over 300,000 visitors annually. According to Panzhihua Forestry Bureau Director Bao Xiaoqiang, the city also focuses on protecting younger trees and plans further ecological restoration projects along the Jinsha River.
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Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of "military governance modernization" (军事治理现代化) for achieving the PLA's centennial goals and advancing high-quality development of the military. It highlights Xi Jinping's thought on military governance as a crucial development of Marxist military theory, emphasizing the need for systematic and law-based governance to enhance combat effectiveness. The author argues that military governance modernization is essential for navigating risks, improving efficiency, and gaining a strategic edge in international military competition. The article calls for transforming mindsets, clarifying key tasks, and applying scientific methods to promote military governance modernization. It also touches on the integration of military modernization with overall national modernization, and the importance of civil-military integration.
Summary: This article discusses the concept of "setting three fires" (三把火) for newly appointed officials, drawing on Xi Jinping's teachings from "Getting Rid of Poverty." It emphasizes that officials should base their initial actions on thorough investigation and the needs of the people, rather than personal ambition. The piece cautions against rash or self-serving initiatives, advocating for a pragmatic and people-centered approach to governance. It urges officials to focus on long-term development and solving practical problems for the benefit of the public. The article connects these principles to the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, urging officials to act responsibly.
Summary: The article highlights the implementation of the National Park Law in China, emphasizing its role in strengthening ecological protection and promoting harmony between humans and nature. The law divides national parks into core protected areas and general control areas, implementing differentiated management and promoting holistic conservation. It addresses fragmented management through inter-provincial collaboration mechanisms, exemplified by the cooperation between Fujian and Jiangxi provinces regarding Wuyi Mountain National Park. The law also supports international cooperation in national park development and encourages public participation through nature education, aiming for shared benefits while maintaining strict protection.
Summary: A criminal ring was dismantled in China, involving individuals who installed hidden cameras in hotel rooms to steal personal information and extort money from guests. The operation involved a complex, multi-stage process, with individuals based overseas remotely controlling domestic actors who modified cameras, installed them in hotels, stole guest information, and then blackmailed the victims. Authorities arrested 124 suspects and removed the hidden cameras, highlighting the challenges of policing evolving cybercrimes that exploit loopholes in hotel management and online sales platforms. Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei district also launched a campaign to combat the illegal production and sale of hidden cameras.
Summary: Recent revisions to the Organic Law of Villagers Committees and the Organic Law of Urban Residents Committees emphasize strengthening the Party's comprehensive leadership in grassroots governance and improving the composition and responsibilities of village (resident) committees. These revisions aim to enhance the rule of law in grassroots governance through democratic elections, consultation, decision-making, management, and supervision. The laws aim to ensure the Party's leading role in grassroots governance, providing a legal guarantee for its comprehensive leadership. The laws also seek to promote and guarantee moral governance through legal means and to create a sound legal environment through autonomy and moral governance. This is intended to provide a legal guarantee for upholding and developing whole-process people's democracy in grassroots governance.
Summary: Tianjin will launch an online system for corporate inspections on April 1, 2026, requiring inspectors to use electronic identification. The system, managed by the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Justice, aims to standardize administrative law enforcement and reduce the burden on businesses. Inspectors must display an "electronic enforcement code" and identification, allowing companies to verify their legitimacy. Post-inspection, companies can provide feedback via the "Jin Xin Ban" app. The Tianjin Market Supervision and Management Committee will integrate this system with its "double random, one open" supervision platform.
Summary: The Dexing City Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau in Jiangxi Province is conducting follow-up services and return visits for trainees who have participated in high-quality farmer training programs. The program aims to ensure the effectiveness of the training and to help trainees apply their knowledge and achieve success in their hometown entrepreneurship. As part of the program, local fruit tree experts are providing guidance on peach cultivation, including pollination, pest control, and daily management, to trainee farmers. The program, according to the article, is focused on helping former students apply what they learned to hometown business.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has announced the expulsion of Liu Hui, former deputy director of the 13th CPPCC National Committee's Committee for Education, Science, Health and Sports, from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) following a probe into "serious violations of discipline and law." Liu is accused of political opportunism, abuse of power for personal gain, accepting bribes, and interfering in law enforcement. The investigation found she violated political, organizational, integrity, and work disciplines, and is suspected of bribery crimes, and her case has been handed over to the procuratorate for prosecution. She is accused of undermining the Party's central decisions and engaging in superstitious activities.
Summary: The Hebei Province has passed the "Regulations on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency," effective May 1st, emphasizing prevention, early intervention, and tiered correction. The regulations focus on building a collaborative support system involving government, grassroots organizations, and the public. It outlines responsibilities for families, schools, and society in preventative education, and it establishes a response mechanism for monitoring, reporting, and intervening in at-risk situations. The regulations also address student bullying, outlining responsibilities for educational institutions and establishing reporting procedures for serious cases.
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Summary: Focusing on the needs of its migrant workers, Fengdu County has established "One Committee, Two Associations" (流动党委、异地商会和农民工工会联络服务站) work stations in major employment areas like Chongqing, Chengdu, and Guiyang. These stations address issues such as wage disputes, labor protection, and services for left-behind children and elderly, even helping with school transfers. The county also focuses on managing its mobile CCP members, ensuring they remain connected to the party through these organizations. These stations help provide services such as employment consulting and legal aid. To facilitate services for migrant workers, the county has established a list of 32 items in 10 categories that can be handled across provincial lines.
Summary: The article argues that China's current public resource allocation system is outdated, failing to adapt to population flows and resulting in spatial mismatch, particularly with resources concentrated in population-exporting regions while population-importing regions face shortages. To address this, the author advocates for institutional innovation focused on a "follow the person" approach, including linking resources to population movement, reforming the fiscal system, and breaking down urban-rural barriers. The Chongqing Fengdu "one committee, two associations" workstation model is highlighted as a positive example of providing public services to mobile populations. This "investment in people" strategy aligns with the broader goal of achieving Chinese-style modernization through governance and institutional modernization focused on human development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese medical experts Hu Rong and Xu Shunlin recently discussed the causes, prevention, and emergency response to sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Hu emphasized that SCA is any sudden death related to cardiovascular issues, with acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) being a major cause, often triggered in younger individuals by lifestyle factors exacerbating minor arterial plaques. Xu warned against overexertion, particularly for those over 45, as it can increase arterial hardening and the risk of plaque formation. Both doctors stressed the importance of preventative measures, regular check-ups, and immediate CPR and AED use in the event of SCA. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Guizhou barber Jiang Debing, a recognized "most beautiful volunteer," collaborated with Taiwanese singer Wu Kequn to organize a "hundred-person free haircut" charity event in Zunyi, providing free haircuts to over 200 elderly, children, sanitation workers, and disabled individuals. Wu Kequn initiated the event, inspired by Jiang's 46 years of providing free haircuts to vulnerable populations. Jiang, a 64-year-old Party member, dedicated himself to full-time volunteer work after closing his barbershop, using a modified tricycle to reach those in need. Jiang expressed his hope that his actions would inspire more people to engage in charitable work. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At a press conference held by the National Disease Control Bureau on March 26th, disease control experts emphasized the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing various infectious diseases and urged timely vaccination to build an immune barrier. Experts highlighted the importance of EV71 vaccination for young children against hand-foot-mouth disease, and measles vaccination for children and key populations like students and medical staff, citing global measles outbreaks due to declining vaccination rates. Experts also noted that influenza vaccine components are updated, encouraging vaccination between September and November, and HPV vaccines are now included in the national immunization program. The experts did not mention the United States.
Summary: Beijing's Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, in collaboration with AutoNavi (Gaode Maps), has launched the "Capital Public Employment Service Map" to address information asymmetry in the job market. The map integrates employment service stations, labor markets, training institutions, and evaluation agencies, providing users with location-based access to job-related services and information, including personalized recommendations driven by AI. Users can find information, navigate to locations, and access services like job searching and resume submission via the app or a WeChat account. The system also generates supply and demand analysis reports and salary references. The goal is to improve employment accessibility for residents of Beijing.
Summary: The article reports on the success of Ningbo's long-term care insurance (LTCI) system, highlighting the case of Zhang Youdi, a paralyzed woman who benefits from in-home care services. The system, which began piloting in 2017 and fully implemented by 2025, covers all residents and is funded by individuals, employers, and the government. A digital platform monitors service delivery, ensuring efficient use of funds. An official from the Ningbo Municipal Medical Security Bureau stated that they intend to improve the funding, management, assessment, and personnel training for the LTCI system.
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Summary: Wuhan has completed the hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor project, aiming to protect and enhance the city's environment. The project, spanning nearly a decade, involved shoreline remediation, ecological restoration with over 2.4 million square meters of new green space, and the integration of the riverfront with the city. The corridor connects attractions and commercial districts, attracting visitors and fostering new economic opportunities. The upgraded riverfront includes modernized flood control measures, such as the renovation of 63 floodgates along the Yangtze River in Wuhan. The project aims to showcase Wuhan's unique cultural elements and promote tourism through various activities and attractions along the river.
Summary: This article from the People's Daily explains the meteorological reasons behind the warming temperatures in China during spring. It attributes the phenomenon to increased solar radiation, seasonal shifts in atmospheric circulation bringing warmer, moist air from lower latitudes and the ocean, and China's diverse topography, which influences the pace of warming. Despite the overall warming trend, the article cautions that unstable weather systems and cold air activity can still lead to "sudden cold spells," advising the public to adjust their clothing accordingly.
Summary: As weather warms, Zhongwei city in Ningxia is organizing workers to replenish vegetation within the Tengger Desert's stabilization zone in Ningxia. The work involves replanting drought-resistant desert plants to solidify desertification control efforts and strengthen the ecological barrier of the upper Yellow River. The provided image shows workers replanting *Calligonum mongolicum* on the southeast edge of the Tengger Desert. No officials or statements are mentioned in the article. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "2025 Report on the Quality of the Marine Ecological Environment of the South China Sea" indicates stable ecological conditions around major islands and reefs. Surface seawater quality meets first-class standards, with typical water quality indicator variations. While floating garbage, primarily plastics, is present with higher concentrations in the western region, artificial radioactive nuclide activity is normal. The report, compiled by seven institutions, analyzes the South China Sea's marine environment based on monitoring data related to water quality, waste, greenhouse gases, and island reef ecosystems.
Summary: During the "14th Five-Year Plan," Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region reported significant progress in soil and water conservation, treating 9,649.39 square kilometers of eroded land and increasing the rate of conservation to 84.90%. The region has seen a continuous eight-year decline in both the area and intensity of soil erosion, supported by 399 soil and water conservation projects. Guangxi has focused on comprehensive management of rocky desertification, decreasing affected land by 4% and increasing vegetation cover to 47.21%. Eighty ecologically clean small watersheds have been built in the region, focusing on holistic approaches to watershed management. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The city of Xining is focused on ecological improvements to promote sustainable development, according to the Xining City Ecology and Environment Bureau. The city has seen improvements in water quality, air quality, and waste management, leading to increased citizen satisfaction and new economic opportunities. Xining is a national carbon peak pilot city, exploring the transformation of plateau cities. He Jianzhang, director of the Xining Ecology and Environment Bureau, stated that the city will adhere to high standards to build the city's ecology.
Summary: The Ministry of Water Resources announced the official commencement of preparatory work for the first phase of the Tai浦 River follow-up project on March 26th. This phase involves dredging and constructing defenses along a 22.1 km stretch of the TaiPu River in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The 7.62 billion RMB project aims to address issues like insufficient flow capacity and aging infrastructure in the river, a key waterway in the Yangtze River Delta's integrated ecological development demonstration zone. The project intends to improve flood control, water resource allocation, and ecological environment along the river. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A press conference at the Gansu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment revealed that 13 prefectures and 39 counties in Gansu have established river basin compensation mechanisms for the Yellow River, Heihe River, Shiyang River, and Bailong River, aiming for coordinated governance. The province has issued implementation plans to improve horizontal ecological compensation mechanisms within and between provinces in the Yellow River, Yangtze River, and inland river basins. Gansu has allocated 360 million yuan in provincial funds since 2020 to support water pollution prevention and ecological restoration in these river basins, adhering to the principles of shared costs, shared benefits, and collaborative governance. The plan seeks to improve ecological protection mechanisms. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article focuses on the success of Chinese goods in the global market, highlighting innovation, green development, and cultural integration. It features interviews with the heads of three companies: Gree Electric Appliances (董明珠), Magic Atom Robotics (顾诗韬), and Xinliang Ceramics (林良壁), who discuss their strategies for international success.董明珠 emphasizes Gree's "zero-carbon source photovoltaic energy storage system" (光储空系统) and its application in high-temperature regions, reducing carbon emissions. 顾诗韬 highlights the technological advancements and global collaboration driving Magic Atom Robotics' expansion into 27 countries and regions. 林良壁 discusses Xinliang Ceramics' ceramic tree exports, blending traditional Chinese craftsmanship with overseas cultural elements, capitalizing on cultural openness.
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Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed State Council Decree No. 833, revising and promulgating the "Regulations on National Agricultural Census," effective May 1, 2026. The regulations outline the objectives, organization, and implementation of the agricultural census, which is conducted every 10 years to comprehensively understand the basic situation of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in China. The regulations emphasize data accuracy, quality control, and the protection of confidential information, while also outlining penalties for falsification or obstruction of the census. The census will cover agricultural production conditions, land use, rural livelihoods, and rural governance, among other things. The State Council will lead the census effort, with local governments responsible for implementation in their respective regions.
Summary: This article reports on Guizhou Phosphate Group's efforts to ensure fertilizer supply for the spring planting season in China. The company is optimizing production and logistics, including using a smart logistics system and forward positioning of inventory in 40 warehouses, to efficiently deliver fertilizer across the country. They are also providing technical services and solutions to farmers to improve crop yields, exemplified by agronomists assisting tea farmers in Rongjiang County. The company is reported to have already signed orders for 1.83 million tons and shipped 1.3 million tons of fertilizer towards a winter storage and spring sales goal of 1.845 million tons. Guizhou Phosphate Group executives, including Deputy Chief Economist Deng Wei and Party Committee Deputy Secretary Huang Guoping, are mentioned in the report.
Summary: The article reports on equestrian training at the Hailan International Equestrian Club in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, where the Chinese National Equestrian Three-Day Event Team frequently trains. It features a photograph of athletes engaged in equestrian training at the club. The article does not mention any political figures, specific statements, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A ski instructor in Switzerland praised touchscreen-compatible, heated ski gloves manufactured in Shandong, China. The gloves, produced in Jiarxiang county, feature a carbon fiber heating system powered by a lithium battery and are now in their fifth generation. Jiarxiang, a major ski glove production base, is shifting towards innovation, with companies like Shandong Jianhua Zhongxing Gloves Co. holding over 70 national patents and exporting to over 60 countries. The county produces over 80 million pairs of gloves annually, accounting for a significant share of both the domestic and international ski glove markets. A Polish ski equipment distributor custom ordered 30,000 pairs of heated ski gloves from Jiarxiang to meet the demand for high-performance equipment.
Summary: Multiple U.S. experts and institutions are raising concerns about a potential U.S. recession, citing rising oil prices due to the Middle East conflict and its impact on inflation. Predictions indicate a growing probability of recession in the next 12 months, with some analysts forecasting oil prices could reach $130 a barrel, significantly increasing gasoline prices and household expenses. A recent poll reveals that the majority of Americans believe that the Middle East conflict's impact on rising oil prices has impacted their personal financial situation. High inflation coupled with high oil prices puts increasing strain on the U.S. economy.
Summary: The Rafah crossing, a vital lifeline for Gaza, has reopened after being closed following military strikes, allowing approximately 1,950 tons of humanitarian aid to enter. However, the article highlights that this is insufficient, as the crossing has been repeatedly opened and closed since May 2024, significantly limiting aid delivery compared to needs, especially fuel. The article also notes that the situation in Gaza is exacerbated by regional conflicts, such as those involving Iran, leading to increased fuel prices and Israeli closures of crossing points, hindering aid and medical transfers. China's Middle East envoy stated that the Palestinian issue is central to Middle East peace and stability, while also announcing $100 million in humanitarian aid to Palestine. The article mentions the role of the United States, explaining that the Rafah crossing was initially closed after military strikes, implying a connection to U.S. support for Israel.
Summary: Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Jiang Bin stated that Japan is fabricating external threats and harboring ulterior motives by exaggerating the military capabilities of China and North Korea. Jiang criticized Japan's lack of genuine reflection on its past aggression, accusing it of attempting to divert domestic issues, mislead the international community, and seek re-militarization. He warned of dangerous trends, including revising security documents, developing offensive military capabilities, and advocating for nuclear weapons. Jiang called for vigilance against the resurgence of Japanese militarism to safeguard regional peace and stability, implying that Japan's actions could affect the security of the region, including the U.S.
Summary: At a press conference on March 26th, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yongqian reiterated China's commitment to a high-level of opening up and improving the business environment. He Yongqian stated that Japanese companies in China are generally optimistic and satisfied with the business environment, and intend to further invest. He urged the Japanese government to reflect and correct course to create conditions for normal economic and trade cooperation. The statement was made in response to questions about Sino-Japanese economic relations.
Summary: The article describes Ouro Preto, a small city in Minas Gerais, Brazil, once a center of the 18th-century Brazilian gold rush and now a UNESCO World Heritage site and niche tourist destination. The city's central market features soapstone souvenirs popular with tourists, owing to the metamorphic rock's softness, ease of carving, and soapy texture. The article contains a photo report by Chen Yiming, a reporter from this newspaper.
Summary: The UN General Assembly passed a resolution defining the trafficking and enslavement of Africans as a "most serious crime against humanity," with the United States, Israel, and Argentina voting against it. Ghanian President Mahama, representing the African group, stated the draft aimed for a unified position based on truth, compassion, and education. German President Steinmeier said that trust in U.S. foreign policy has been lost, and criticized the U.S. and Israel for violating international law regarding potential military action against Iran.
Summary: South Africa's e-commerce sector is experiencing rapid growth driven by increased mobile internet access, digital payment adoption, and improved logistics. A recent report projects South Africa's online retail transactions will reach 130 billion Rand by 2025, with e-commerce now accounting for nearly 10% of total retail. The South African government is supporting this growth through initiatives like the "South Africa National Connect" project and online platforms for SMEs. Chinese e-commerce companies like Temu and Shein are playing a significant role in this expansion, with Temu establishing local warehousing to improve delivery times.
Summary: Thailand's rice exports in 2023 reached 7.9 million tons, exceeding the initial target of 7.5 million tons, bolstered by government policies reducing export fees and streamlining regulations for smaller exporters. The Thai government is actively supporting the rice industry through investments in research and development, aiming to improve yields and competitiveness amid competition from Vietnam, Myanmar, and India. Thailand's Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thammanat Prompow emphasized quality control measures to promote high-quality exports and the Ministry of Commerce is prioritizing strengthening relationships with major trading partners to expand into new markets. The Thai government also collaborates with the private sector to coordinate the entire rice production chain. Thailand actively participates in international trade fairs such as the China International Import Expo (CIIE) to promote exports.
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Summary: The article discusses a Northern Qi period (550-577 CE) yellow-glazed flat pot from the Henan Museum, decorated with a Sogdian whirl dance ("huteng wu") scene, as evidence of cultural exchange along the Silk Road. The pot exemplifies the fusion of Central Asian and Chinese artistic elements, reflecting the popularity of Western Regions music and dance in China during that era. The "huteng wu," originating from Central Asia, became a celebrated art form in China, influencing both courtly and popular entertainment. The author argues the artifact demonstrates China's inclusive cultural spirit and confidence through trade along the Silk Road. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article describes Lima and Callao, Peru, highlighting the historical and contemporary connections between China and Peru. Callao was a destination on the Maritime Silk Road, receiving its first Chinese laborers in 1849, who contributed significantly to Peru’s development. The city erected a monument to honor the Chinese immigrants 150 years after their arrival. Lima's Chinatown is the oldest in Latin America, and a Chinese artifacts exhibit was held at the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History. In 2026, China and Peru will celebrate 55 years of diplomatic relations.
Summary: The author, the deputy director of the China Association for Science and Technology and director of the National Zoological Museum, advocates for engaging with nature, particularly birdwatching, highlighting its cognitive benefits based on a UK study published in *New Scientist*. The author traces the history of birdwatching from ancient Chinese texts to its modern form originating in Europe and the United States, mentioning figures like John James Audubon. The author discusses the book *The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession* by Mark Obmascik, and the American "Big Year" birding competition. The author concludes by expressing a desire to organize a similar "Big Year" birdwatching event in China, promoting nature appreciation. The United States is mentioned in the context of the history of birdwatching.
Summary: The article describes the Ascension Cathedral in Almaty, Kazakhstan, highlighting its unique construction using traditional Russian Orthodox architectural styles combined with Central Asian decorative arts. Built in 1907, the wooden structure utilized interlocking joinery to withstand earthquakes, proving remarkably resilient during the 1911 earthquake, where most structures in the city were destroyed. The cathedral's interior features rich decorations, including the rare use of Chinese porcelain. It has become a landmark in Almaty, surviving not only seismic activity but also serving various functions before being restored to its original glory. The article makes no mention of the United States or of US-China relations.
Summary: This article provides contact information (email address and layout designer) for a section of the People's Daily newspaper. It lists the email address for international feedback. The layout designer is named Cai Huawei. There is no mention of Chinese politics, official statements, accompanying personnel, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences has released "Zhongxin You No. 1," China's first domestically produced 20K solid-phase gene chip for *Brassica napus* (rapeseed), aimed at improving breeding efficiency. This development is part of a broader national effort to bolster the seed industry, viewed as a critical "chip" for agriculture, with the goal of breaking reliance on foreign sources and promoting self-reliance in key crops. The chip enables precise detection of genes related to flowering, cytoplasmic restoration, and nuclear sterility, supporting more scientific breeding programs. The central government is promoting the industrialization of biological breeding, and also supports the development of mechanisms that accelerate the production of better breeds. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's citrus industry is undergoing a comprehensive transformation, driven by advancements in genetic research, technological processing, and cold chain logistics, leading to increased yields and extended availability. Scientists have mapped the sweet orange genome and developed breeding chips to accelerate the development of new varieties with improved traits. This has resulted in a diverse range of citrus fruits available year-round, with optimized flavors and textures. Advanced sorting and processing technologies, coupled with cold chain logistics, have enabled the industry to minimize waste, increase exports, and meet the demands of both domestic and international markets, including integration into global beverage supply chains, but there is no discussion of the United States.
Summary: A village in Zhejiang province is revitalizing its tea industry by integrating tourism and new consumption models. The village is promoting "shared tea gardens" where individuals can rent plots, experience tea harvesting, and retain the harvest. This strategy involves livestreaming, tea-themed tourism, and agritourism activities, drawing visitors and boosting local income. The village has improved infrastructure and created a tea tourism loop to further integrate the tea industry with tourism. Officials have emphasized that tea farmers are shifting from simply selling tea to selling the "experience" of tea culture.
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Summary: The article discusses China's employment situation amidst a record number of college graduates and the growing influence of AI on traditional jobs. It highlights the government's efforts to promote employment, including skill training and policies supporting flexible employment. Despite concerns about AI displacing workers, the article emphasizes new opportunities in emerging industries like digital economy, new energy, and smart manufacturing. It also points to the potential of the service sector to create jobs and mentions the government's focus on leveraging AI to create new positions. The article concludes with confidence in China's ability to maintain stable employment.
Summary: An investigation found low utilization rates of multi-story parking garages in China due to user complaints about difficulty parking and developers' concerns about high costs and low returns. Car owners find the garages unsuitable for larger new energy vehicles due to size and weight restrictions and fear damaging their cars. Developers cite high construction and operational costs, coupled with the same parking fee standards as regular lots, discouraging investment. Experts suggest revising design standards to accommodate modern vehicles and offering financial incentives to promote smart parking solutions to address these issues.
Summary: Huang Zhanhu, a restaurant owner in Guangzhou, has been offering a "free meal" (Number 2) for nearly ten years to those facing temporary hardship, inspired by his own experience of receiving help when he was struggling. He started the program in 2016 to provide meals to those in need and was inspired by a similar program he saw online. His efforts have expanded into a district-wide initiative with nearly 40 restaurants participating in Panyu District and spreading to other cities across the nation. Huang believes in paying forward the kindness he received and hopes to inspire others to do the same. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
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Summary: This article discusses the importance of curiosity and imagination in the AI era, arguing that while AI may flatten knowledge disparities, it cannot replace these uniquely human traits. The author emphasizes that scientific advancements stem from questioning existing knowledge and venturing beyond established paths, driven by curiosity and imagination. The piece criticizes standardized education models for potentially stifling these qualities and advocates for fostering diversity and individuality to promote innovation. Ultimately, the author frames technological competition as a contest of environments conducive to cultivating curiosity and imagination. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: A recent report highlights a concerning trend in China's children's book market, where books promoting "success" and interpersonal skills are dominating bestseller lists, while classic and original children's literature are declining in popularity. This shift is attributed to the rise of online retailers and the prioritization of utilitarian books by parents, driven by anxieties and influenced by new media platforms' traffic-driven algorithms. This trend is further exacerbated by low prices, piracy, and a lack of quality control, squeezing out high-quality original content. The article suggests a need for government, society, schools, and families to work together to reshape the children's book market, allowing children to read without feeling pressured to do so.
Summary: This article is an excerpt from the foreword of a book encouraging readers to find meaning in life through action and a steadfast belief in their chosen purpose. The author reflects on the common sentiment that "life has no meaning," arguing that meaning is individually constructed through one's own choices and experiences. Rather than passively dreaming, the author urges readers to actively pursue goals, find value in daily life, and live with joy, even in the face of mortality. The author emphasizes that life is short and only happens once. The author does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The author recounts attending a gathering in Hangzhou to celebrate Lu Wenli's new poetry collection, *Labor and Bloom*, reminiscing about first meeting Lu at a poetry competition in 1990 alongside colleagues like Gong Liu, Chang Yao, and Tang Xiaodu. The author praises Lu's poetry for its emotional depth, refined aesthetic, and skillful use of language, noting her ability to blend classical and modern styles. He contrasts Lu's work with contemporary poetry that he sees as either overly technical or overly self-absorbed, emphasizing the importance of sincerity and a connection to life. The author concludes by expressing hope that Lu will continue to create and that they can all find inspiration in their work, awaiting the blossoming of poetic inspiration.
Summary: This article summarizes the significance of the Chengjiang fauna, a Cambrian fossil site in Yunnan, China, highlighting its importance in understanding the "Cambrian explosion" of life. The author, a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, discusses key fossil discoveries like the *Anomalocaris* and *Kylinxia zhangi*, and the ongoing debate surrounding the *Yunnanozoon* and its potential as the earliest vertebrate. The article also mentions a recently published popular science book showcasing the Chengjiang fauna, aiming to educate the public on the site's geological importance and the broader context of life's evolution. The author emphasizes the site's role in illustrating the early diversification of animal phyla and the evolutionary relationships between different groups.
Summary: This short announcement from the *People's Daily* provides contact information (email address and designer) for the newspaper's book review section. There is no content related to statements or actions of officials, nor any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations. Thus, a summary beyond the above is not possible.
By: 本报记者 刘 泉 张云河
With the last wind turbine blade smoothly loaded onto the "Borun Jiuzhou" vessel at the Dalanping First Operation Area of Beibu Gulf Port Qinzhou Terminal (广西北部湾港钦州码头大榄坪第一作业区), the ship successfully loaded 147 wind turbine blades and set sail for ASEAN.
"We have adopted the process of interleaving and stacking blades and optimizing the number of stowage layers, which has greatly improved the scale and intensification of wind power equipment going overseas, directly reducing the comprehensive logistics costs of enterprises and shortening the logistics cycle, making the maritime channel for domestic green energy products to ASEAN smoother," said Lei Xian (雷纤), chief dispatcher of Beibu Gulf Port Qinzhou Terminal Co., Ltd. (北部湾港钦州码头有限公司).
More than 2,000 years ago, Hepu Port (合浦港) on the Beibu Gulf (北部湾) was one of the starting ports of the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Dynasty (汉代), with ships coming and going and a gathering of goods. Today, in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," the ancient port has been transformed into a modern major port.
In December 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Guangxi (广西) that Guangxi should "deeply integrate into the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'." The "15th Five-Year Plan" (“十五五”规划纲要) proposes to "promote the high-quality development of the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' in a more orderly, standardized, safe, and sustainable manner."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, Guangxi is striving to build an important gateway for the organic connection of the "Belt and Road."
Strengthening the foundation and jointly building the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) at a high level.
In January of this year, the construction of the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) ushered in new progress: the main concrete pouring of the ship lock was completed. "The concrete pouring volume is large, the temperature control is difficult, and there are many cross-operations. We have innovatively tackled key problems and developed a complete set of intelligent temperature control technology for mass concrete to build the Pinglu Canal to a high standard and high quality," said He Junhui (何俊辉), Minister of the Engineering Management Department of Pinglu Canal Group (平陆运河集团工程管理部). "In the '15th Five-Year Plan,' 'opening up' is a key word, which strengthens our confidence in helping the country's high-level opening up with the construction of the canal."
As a backbone project of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, the Pinglu Canal is making every effort to sprint for navigation within the year. After completion, the sea voyage of goods in the southwest region will be shortened by about 560 kilometers, and it is estimated that it can save more than 5.2 billion yuan in transportation costs for the areas along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor every year.
Promoting foreign trade and running the Free Trade Pilot Zone well.
Beidou navigation (北斗导航), remote dispatch, and intelligent inspection and release. Six unmanned container trucks carrying electronic products successfully passed through customs and drove to the Baoyuan freight yard in Vietnam. In December 2025, the Chinese section of the China-Vietnam Puzhai-Xinqing Freight Dedicated Channel Smart Port (中越浦寨—新清货运专用通道智慧口岸) was officially put into operation. "The smart transformation of the port has accelerated trade efficiency," said Li Kang (李康), chief of the Comprehensive Management Section of Mutual Trade at Youyiguan Customs (友谊关海关互市综合管理科). "The customs declaration time for enterprises has been reduced from an average of 10 minutes per order to 3 minutes, the throughput capacity of the Chinese section of the regulatory area is expected to increase by 100%, and the average daily customs clearance capacity has increased to 2,800 vehicles."
Smooth trade and accelerated customs clearance, the "experimental field" has yielded "bumper harvests." The China (Guangxi) Free Trade Pilot Zone (中国（广西）自由贸易试验区) has boldly tried, boldly broken through, and independently reformed, and has cumulatively incubated 254 autonomous region-level institutional innovation achievements; since its establishment in August 2019, the Guangxi Free Trade Pilot Zone has cumulatively settled in more than 120,000 enterprises, which is 34 times before its establishment. According to data from Nanning Customs (南宁海关), in 2025, Guangxi's total foreign trade import and export volume reached 819.26 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year, of which the proportion of imports and exports to countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road" exceeded 80%.
Promoting exchanges and deepening and expanding cooperation with ASEAN countries in various fields.
"The road ahead is congested, how can vehicles turn around in advance? You need a thinking turning machine." At the AI Empowering Thousands of Industries Super League, Fan Zhisong (范志松), head of creative marketing at Thai Enough Co., Ltd., took the stage to present the "Unplugged Car Turning Machine" project. With the help of artificial intelligence technology, the "turning machine" installed at the intersection can judge road conditions in advance and prompt cars to turn around. "I hope my project can bear fruit in China," said Fan Zhisong.
The league attracted a total of 10,447 teams from home and abroad, including 604 teams from ASEAN countries, and 57 technologies were included in the scope of transformation and application. This year, Guangxi will also hold the Hundred Industries and Thousand Enterprises AI Transformation Joint Competition.
With hearts connected and culture as a bond, Guangxi and ASEAN have more active cultural exchanges through the China-ASEAN Film Festival, the "Culture Walking Relatives ASEAN Tour," and the China-ASEAN (Nanning) Culture Month (中国—东盟（南宁）文化月). With hands clasped, education "goes global." Guangxi has built 17 China-ASEAN Modern Craftsman Colleges and 15 Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms in ASEAN countries. With emotions integrated, cultural tourism is even more popular. In 2025, the number of inbound overnight tourists received in Guangxi increased by 56.5% year-on-year.
In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," Guangxi will promote the concentration of more resources and industries in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone (北部湾经济区), expand opening up and cooperation focusing on ASEAN and countries and regions jointly building the "Belt and Road," and better serve the construction of a new development pattern in the overall planning of land and sea and internal and external linkage.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment and striving forward in the '15th Five-Year Plan,' Guangxi will inherit the spirit of the Silk Road, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, take Beibu Gulf Port as the sea and land gateway, take the Pinglu Canal Economic Belt as an important link, and take the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor as a strategic traction to contribute more to serving the construction of a China-ASEAN community with a shared future and jointly building the 'Belt and Road' with high quality," said Chen Gang (陈刚), Secretary of the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee (广西壮族自治区党委书记).
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Recently, Park Hye-ryeong (朴慧伶), a staff member of Dong-A Pharmaceutical (Hainan) Co., Ltd. (东亚制药（海南）有限公司), received a message with a list of potential OEM (original equipment manufacturer) companies recommended by the "Enterprise Secretary."
Since the full island closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), Haikou (海口) has continued to optimize the "Enterprise Secretary" service system, tailoring service content for enterprises. Looking at the entire Free Trade Port, the soil for enterprise growth is becoming increasingly fertile.
From December 18, 2025, to March 27, 2026, the first 100 days of full island closure operation have passed, and the policy effects of the Hainan Free Trade Port are becoming increasingly apparent, with rapid release of development vitality and a continuous rise in openness. In the first 100 days of full island closure operation, the amount of offshore duty-free shopping reached 15.62 billion yuan, an increase of 27.64% year-on-year; the total import and export volume of foreign trade exceeded 80 billion yuan, an increase of 32.9% year-on-year.
"After the closure, Hainan (海南) has the basic conditions to promote opening up on a larger scale and at a deeper level." The hot development scene confirms the accurate judgment of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平).
Liberating the mind and reforming and innovating, Hainan (海南) insists on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, and more actively promotes reform and opening up in various fields.
On March 16, a batch of food processing equipment was successfully cleared at Sanya Customs (三亚海关), which is under the jurisdiction of Haikou Customs (海口海关). "Now, enterprises do not need to submit import licenses and can achieve zero-barrier declaration relying on the Hainan Free Trade Port Intelligent Supervision Platform," said Gan Jiayong (甘佳勇), Deputy Director of Sanya Customs. The customs department will promote the implementation of more Free Trade Port opening policies to achieve practical results.
With superior systems, practical results are seen. Hainan (海南) is accelerating the improvement of the policy and institutional system of the Free Trade Port, focusing on building a special customs supervision area with international competitiveness and influence.
At the end of last year, the first domestic seventh freedom passenger route from Sanya (三亚) to Prague, Czech Republic, was opened. "As of March 23, more than 1,700 passengers have been transported," said He Bang (贺邦), Director of the Civil Aviation Office of the Hainan Provincial Department of Transportation (海南省交通运输厅). In early February this year, the T3 terminal of Sanya Airport (三亚机场) was officially put into operation, and the airport's support capabilities have been further enhanced. At present, Sanya (三亚) has opened 34 overseas routes, and the international passenger throughput has increased by 11.2% compared with the same period last year.
Putting institutional integration and innovation in a prominent position, Hainan (海南) is accelerating the creation of a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized.
At the beginning of the full island closure operation, Hainan (海南) launched the first batch of 72 high-quality projects for private capital. The Hainan Provincial Development and Reform Commission (海南省发展改革委) and other departments jointly built a docking platform to simultaneously solve the dilemma of "having money but not finding good projects, and having projects but not finding money."
With strong policies and optimized environment, enterprises' investment enthusiasm is high. The Guoquan International Food Industrial Park (锅圈国际食品产业园) located in Danzhou Industrial Park (儋州工业园) started construction immediately after acquiring the land for the first phase, and the land guarantee for the second phase is in place, with the construction progress exceeding expectations. In the Xiangqiong Industrial Park (湘琼产业园), about 30 advanced manufacturing enterprises such as Sany Group (三一集团) are gathered, with a planned total investment of 13.922 billion yuan. A number of landmark foreign-funded projects such as Siemens Energy (西门子能源) of Germany and Mayoly Spindler (迈优力制药集团) of France are accelerating their landing and construction.
Since the full island closure operation, Hainan (海南) has added a total of 85,000 new business entities, an increase of 39.87% year-on-year.
On March 21, Hainan (海南) issued the "Twenty Key Measures for Stabilizing Business and Benefiting Enterprises," building a comprehensive enterprise service system, promoting the market-oriented allocation of factors, and promoting the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain.
The attractiveness of the Free Trade Port policy is being transformed into a driving force for high-quality development. At present, Hainan (海南) is focusing on building a modern industrial system with Hainan characteristics and advantages, continuously promoting the optimization and upgrading of the four leading industries of tourism, modern service industry, high-tech industry, and tropical characteristic high-efficiency agriculture, cultivating and strengthening the characteristic industrial chains oriented towards seeds, the sea, the sky, green development, and digital technology, and consolidating the foundation for the development of the Free Trade Port.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes: "Build the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) to a high standard, implement the full island closure operation at a high level, continuously improve the level of opening up in key areas such as trade, investment, and factor flow, and gradually build a policy and institutional system adapted to a high-level Free Trade Port." Hainan (海南) further deployed the construction tasks for the first year of the full island closure operation, expanding high-level opening up with greater determination and efforts, stepping up efforts to cultivate and strengthen new driving forces, and expanding new space for domestic demand growth.
"This year is the opening year of the '15th Five-Year Plan' and the first full year after the full island closure operation. Hainan (海南) must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, seize the time and race against the clock to implement it, take the high-standard construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) as the general starting point, comprehensively improve the level of economic and social development in Hainan (海南), and better help the country build a new development pattern," said Feng Fei (冯飞), Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee (海南省委书记).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) recently signed a State Council decree, announcing the revised "National Agricultural Census Regulations" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will come into effect on May 1, 2026. The "Regulations" consist of 7 chapters and 44 articles, and the main revisions are as follows:
First, improve the basic system of the agricultural census. Add "common participation of all parties" as a principle for organizing and implementing the agricultural census. Add rural industrial development, rural construction, and rural governance as agricultural census content. Add new census methods such as remote sensing measurement, and clarify that the agricultural census should make full use of administrative records, social big data, and other materials.
Second, strengthen data quality control and data management. Improve the post-census quality spot check system, clarify that the Office of the Leading Group of the State Council for the Agricultural Census formulates a post-census quality spot check plan, uniformly organizes the post-census quality spot check work, and uses the spot check results as an important basis for evaluating the quality of national and local agricultural census data. Clarify the confidentiality obligations of the census office and census personnel, and stipulate corresponding legal responsibilities for relevant acts of leaking secrets. Make provisions for the census office to establish and improve the preservation and management system of agricultural census data, and do a good job in the archiving and handover of agricultural census data.
Third, prevent and punish data fraud. Add the requirement of ensuring the authenticity and completeness of agricultural census data to the legislative purpose. Add provisions that the heads of all localities, departments, and units must not require the census office or census personnel to fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data in any way, and must not explicitly or implicitly instruct subordinate units and their personnel or agricultural census subjects to fill in false agricultural census data. Require agricultural census subjects to provide the information required for the agricultural census on time, and must not provide untrue or incomplete agricultural census data, and must not delay, refuse to report agricultural census data, etc. Stipulate that the census office and census personnel shall truthfully collect and report agricultural census data, must not fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data, and must not require agricultural census subjects to provide untrue agricultural census data in any way. Clarify that statistical fraud and other fraudulent acts in agricultural census work will be investigated and held accountable in accordance with the law, increase the amount of fines, and increase the severity of penalties up to the point of pursuing criminal responsibility.
(The full text of the "Regulations" can be found on page 14)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Boao, Hainan, March 26 (Reporters Li Yan (李琰) and Zhao Xiaoxi (赵晓曦)) Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the plenary session of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026 in Boao, Hainan on the morning of the 26th, and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Grasping the Correct Direction and Creating a Better Future." Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黄循财), Azerbaijani National Assembly Speaker Sahiba Gafarova (加法罗娃), Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena (维克拉马拉特纳), First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Roman Sklyar (斯克利亚尔), Chairman of the Board of the Forum Ban Ki-moon (潘基文), and more than 1,600 representatives from political, business, think tank, and media circles from more than 60 countries and regions attended.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Boao Forum for Asia. Over the past 25 years, the forum has been rooted in Asia and oriented towards the world, deepening dialogue and cooperation, and building consensus among all parties, becoming a "golden brand" for promoting exchanges, mutual learning, unity, cooperation, and common development among Asian countries and countries around the world. In today's world, the desire of people of all countries for peace and development is more urgent, and the call for fairness and justice is stronger. The theme of this annual conference, "Shaping a Common Future: New Situation, New Opportunities, New Cooperation," has strong practical significance.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) emphasized that in the face of the changes of the world, the changes of the times, and the changes of history, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, which have pointed out the correct direction for where the world's century-old changes are heading. We must follow the trend of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results, jointly build a good Asian home, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind. We must abandon conflict and confrontation and create a better future of peace and tranquility; abandon closed exclusiveness and create a better future of cooperation and win-win results; abandon power politics and bullying and create a better future of fairness and justice; and abandon suspicion and estrangement and create a better future of mutual respect and mutual trust.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) pointed out that China has always been committed to developing its economy and improving people's livelihoods, and promoting the common development of all countries while developing itself. China's contribution to global economic growth has stabilized at around 30%, and it continues to be an important engine of the world economy. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines the main goals and major tasks for national development in the next five years. China will fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, further expand high-level opening up to the outside world, and share opportunities with countries around the world. China will adhere to expanding domestic demand and continuously release the dividends of its super-large-scale market; adhere to innovation-driven development and continuously stimulate growth momentum; adhere to free trade and continuously deepen foreign cooperation; and adhere to the comprehensive rule of law and continuously optimize the business environment. We welcome companies from all countries to explore and cultivate the Chinese market, and China will long be a fertile ground for foreign-invested enterprises to invest and develop. (The full text of the speech is on the second page)
Ban Ki-moon (潘基文) delivered a welcome speech. Lawrence Wong (黄循财), Sahiba Gafarova (加法罗娃), Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena (维克拉马拉特纳), and representatives from the business community delivered speeches successively, and South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (金民锡) delivered a video speech. They said that in the face of the complex and volatile international situation, China's development has brought opportunities to Asia and the world, and the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and a series of global initiatives proposed by China are of great significance. This year's Boao Forum for Asia is conducive to deepening exchanges, strengthening cooperation, and jointly responding to challenges. All parties should adhere to multilateralism, adhere to openness and inclusiveness, adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results, and jointly promote world peace, development, and prosperity.
Mu Hong (穆虹), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. Wang Huning (王沪宁), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), met with Uzbekistan's Presidential Advisor on Strategic Development, Urmurzakov, in Beijing (北京) on the 26th.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) stated that President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Mirziyoyev maintain close communication, which has drawn a new blueprint for promoting the development of the China-Uzbekistan new era all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership and building a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future. China is willing to work with Uzbekistan to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, firmly support each other in advancing the path to modernization, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, strengthen inter-party exchanges, and jointly safeguard world and regional peace and stability. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) of China is willing to make positive contributions to this end.
Urmurzakov stated that Uzbekistan-China relations are developing at a high level. Uzbekistan adheres to the one-China principle, supports the major initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and is willing to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state. The leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is key to China's success, and China's "15th Five-Year Plan" brings opportunities for cooperation between the two countries. Uzbekistan is willing to learn from the experience of the CPC.
Wang Dongfeng (王东峰) and others attended the meeting.
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More than 5,300 buildings have sprung up, the forest coverage rate has increased to 35.1%, and the permanent population has reached 1.41 million... A preliminary image of a modern city has emerged.
"The construction and development of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has achieved major phased results." On March 23, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北) and chaired a symposium on further promoting the high-quality construction and development of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区). This was also the fourth time in nine years that the General Secretary had come here.
Visiting the China Huaneng Group Co., Ltd. (中国华能集团有限公司) and the Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) learned about the construction and development of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) and cordially greeted representatives of cadres and employees of the relocating units that have moved in or are under construction.
"Being a Xiong'an (雄安) person is a matter of pride." The General Secretary's words made the people of Xiong'an (雄安) feel extremely encouraged.
"I didn't expect that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) would come to see us in less than half a year after I came to work in Xiong'an (雄安)!" Zhu Fuqiang (朱富强), an employee, recalled the scene when the General Secretary inspected the third floor of the China Huaneng Headquarters Building (中国华能总部大厦), unable to hide his excitement. As one of the first central enterprises to be relocated, more than 1,000 employees from the headquarters and directly affiliated units of China Huaneng Group (中国华能集团) moved into the office last autumn.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) care and affirmation made us feel very warm and full of energy." Li Lailong (李来龙), Deputy Chief Economist and Director of the Strategy Department (New War Department) of China Huaneng (中国华能), said, "We deeply feel that the responsibility for promoting the high-quality development of Xiong'an (雄安) is even greater."
Paying attention to the real needs of the relocated groups, striving to create "Xiong'an Quality," and building a beautiful Xiong'an (雄安) with blue skies, green land, and clear water... General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) gave very practical and detailed instructions on this "city of the people" suitable for living and working in the new era.
"'Xiongcai Card' allows me to enjoy high-quality and convenient services in medical health, transportation, cultural and sports leisure, and other aspects." Jia Mengshuang (贾梦霜) is an employee of China Telecom Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. (中电信数字城市科技有限公司) and has been rooted in Xiong'an (雄安) for nearly 5 years. "Xiong'an (雄安) is committed to building a 'city without traffic jams.' The large-scale regional digital road project I participated in allows drivers to travel with 'green waves.'"
"Care for the physical and mental health of children with heart and soul, and promote the all-round development of children." Du Qianran (杜倩然), a teacher at Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区), kept the General Secretary's instructions firmly in mind. "After coming here to work, I realized that I should pay more attention to students' comprehensive abilities," Du Qianran (杜倩然) said.
Qiao Zixuan (乔梓轩), 14, studied in Beijing (北京) from an early age. It was his own choice to come to Xiong'an (雄安) with his mother. "Now it's very convenient to go to and from school, and I have more time to play basketball," Qiao Zixuan (乔梓轩) said.
"Run schools with an open mind" "What we do today is not in a hurry to achieve success tomorrow, but more to lay the foundation for the day after tomorrow"... In the teaching and research exchanges between Beijing (京) and Xiong'an (雄安), Yu Pengbin (于鹏斌), Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区), continuously brought mature and effective training experience to Xiong'an (雄安).
"'The introduction of high-quality educational resources such as Beijing No. 4 High School (北京四中) is for the construction of Xiong'an (雄安) and for the healthy growth of children.' The General Secretary's earnest instructions are inspiring," said Huang Chun (黄春), Principal of Beijing No. 4 High School Xiong'an Campus (北京四中雄安校区). "What I can do is to take root here, use the best education to lay the foundation for Xiong'an (雄安), and lay the foundation for the lifelong development of students."
"We are full of confidence in the development prospects of Xiong'an (雄安)," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) said with emotion.
The confidence of the people of Xiong'an (雄安) comes from the rapid changes in the past 9 years.
For Du Qianran (杜倩然), a new Xiong'an (雄安) person, the most direct change is that commuting is becoming more and more convenient. "Now a special 'school bus line' has been opened, which can cover the surrounding schools. Not only is it convenient for students to go to school, but it only takes more than ten minutes for teachers to go to work."
For Zhao Shuhong (赵书红), a local, she is delighted with the improvement of the living environment. "I'm 60 years old, and I'm really enjoying living in a new house!" In 2022, she moved from Liutong Village (留通村), Rongcheng County (容城县) to Cuixiu Garden Community (翠秀庭小区), Rongdong Area (容东片区). "Now I can go to the park for a walk as soon as I leave the community."
The confidence of the people of Xiong'an (雄安) comes from the atmosphere of working hard and starting a business towards the future.
"What wakes me up every day is not the alarm clock, but the expectation for the future!" Like Jia Mengshuang (贾梦霜), many people in Xiong'an (雄安) carefully examine the buildings lined up next to Yanzhao Street (燕赵大街) on their way to Xiong'an Station (雄安站).
Beijing Jiaotong University Xiong'an Campus (北京交通大学雄安校区), China University of Geosciences (Beijing) Xiong'an Campus (中国地质大学（北京）雄安校区)... "Almost every time I pass by, I find new changes in these universities," Jia Mengshuang (贾梦霜) said. Universities will not only bring more popularity, but also bring innovation vitality.
In October last year, the first "Xiong'an-made" satellite was completed and rolled off the production line. A satellite not only marks the realization of the "from 0 to 1" leap in the intelligent manufacturing capability of the aerospace information industry in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), but also demonstrates the endogenous development momentum led by reform and innovation.
"Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) should take reform and innovation as the driving force to promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation," General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech pointed out the direction.
Building "a city with a high level of development" and "a city with a concentration of high-quality public resources," "building a new era of innovation highland and promoting a model of high-quality development"... General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has high hopes for this city of the future.
"As the 'Xiong'an Generation,' we may leave something for the cultural temperament of this hot land." After listening to the General Secretary's speech on the spot, Huang Chun (黄春) said firmly, "This temperament must include the pride of being a Xiong'an (雄安) person!"
Return to TopOn March 26, the BASF (Guangdong) Verbund site project in Zhanjiang City (湛江市), Guangdong (广东) Province, was fully put into operation. With a total investment of approximately 8.7 billion euros, the project represents the largest single investment by a German company in China. Currently, the site has 18 plants and 32 production lines in operation, covering more than 70 products including basic chemicals, intermediates, and specialty chemicals. The picture shows the BASF (Guangdong) Verbund site.
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Return to TopBy: 中国全国人大常委会委员长 赵乐际
Distinguished Heads of State and Government,
Distinguished Heads of International Organizations,
Distinguished Members of the Board of Directors of the Boao Forum for Asia,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends,
It is a great pleasure to gather with old and new friends in Hainan (海南), to attend the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026. First of all, on behalf of the Chinese government, I would like to extend my warm congratulations on the opening of the annual conference! I would like to extend my sincere welcome to all the guests attending the conference! And I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone for your long-term concern and support for China's development!
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Boao Forum for Asia. Over the past 25 years, the forum has been rooted in Asia and oriented towards the world, deepening dialogue and cooperation, and building consensus among all parties, becoming a "golden brand" for promoting exchanges, mutual learning, unity, cooperation, and common development among Asian countries and countries around the world.
The theme of this annual conference, "Shaping a Common Future: New Situation, New Opportunities, New Cooperation," has strong practical significance. In today's world, geopolitical conflicts and local wars are flaring up one after another, unilateralism and protectionism are rampant, the threats of hegemonism and power politics are rising, and the old thinking of civilizational division and camp confrontation is resurfacing. The people of all countries are more eager for peace and development, and the calls for fairness and justice are stronger. History has proven and will continue to prove that unity is strength, cooperation leads to win-win results, and humanity can only work together and move forward hand in hand to cope with global risks and challenges and create a better future.
In the face of the changes of the world, the times, and history, President Xi Jinping (习近平) has proposed the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, pointing out the right direction for where the world's century-long changes are heading. We must follow the trend of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results, strengthen our confidence, be brave and determined, jointly build a better Asian home, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind. Here, I would like to share a few thoughts.
-- Abandon conflict and confrontation and create a better future of peace and tranquility. The people of Asia have suffered greatly from war and turmoil and deeply understand the preciousness of peace and stability. We must practice a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, adhere to non-interference in other countries' internal affairs, resolve contradictions and differences politically through peaceful means, promote the construction of an Asian security model of shared security, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and dialogue and consultation, and jointly safeguard regional and world peace and stability.
-- Abandon closed-door exclusiveness and create a better future of cooperation and win-win results. Over the past few decades, Asian countries have adhered to open regionalism, embarked on a path of mutual benefit and win-win results, and created the world-renowned "Asian miracle." We must advocate inclusive economic globalization, adhere to open cooperation and mutual achievement, give play to comparative advantages, break down various barriers, deepen regional integration, jointly maintain the stability and smooth flow of industrial and supply chains, and inject more stability and positive energy into global economic growth.
-- Abandon power politics and bullying and create a better future of fairness and justice. The people of Asia have a glorious tradition of resisting colonialism, imperialism, and hegemonism, and all cherish and pursue independence, self-reliance, peaceful coexistence. We must practice the global governance concept of consultation, joint construction, and sharing, adhere to true multilateralism, firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core and the international order based on international law, advocate equal and orderly multipolarization of the world, and promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
-- Abandon suspicion and estrangement and create a better future of mutual respect and mutual trust. Asia is an important birthplace of human civilization. Various civilizations reflect each other on this land, and the ancient Silk Road witnessed the history of friendly exchanges, mutual learning, and mutual appreciation among the Asian people. We must practice the Global Civilization Initiative, respect the diversity of world civilizations, promote the common values of all mankind, oppose civilization clashes and ideological confrontation, strive to create a new situation of people-to-people exchanges, cultural integration, and heart-to-heart communication among countries around the world, and jointly promote the development and progress of human civilization.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends!
China has always been committed to developing its economy and improving people's livelihoods, and promoting the common development of all countries while developing itself. After five years of unremitting efforts, China's "14th Five-Year Plan" has come to a successful conclusion, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new and solid steps. Over the past five years, China's economy has achieved an average annual growth rate of 5.4%, its economic aggregate has exceeded 140 trillion yuan, its per capita gross domestic product has exceeded 13,000 US dollars, and its contribution to global economic growth has remained stable at around 30%, continuing to be an important engine of the world economy.
Not long ago, China's National People's Congress reviewed and approved the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, which identified the main goals and major tasks of national development for the next five years. China will fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, promote the effective improvement of the quality and the reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy, and promote solid progress in the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all the people. China will further expand high-level opening up to the outside world and share opportunities and create the future with countries around the world.
China will adhere to expanding domestic demand and continue to release the dividends of its super-large-scale market. With a population of more than 1.4 billion and the world's largest and fastest-growing middle-income group, there is huge investment and consumption potential. We will adhere to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihoods and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people, actively expand investment and consumption in telecommunications, education, medical care, elderly care, and childcare, and continue to run the China International Import Expo, Canton Fair, Consumer Goods Expo, Supply Chain Expo, Service Trade Fair, and Investment and Trade Fair well. We welcome companies from all countries to explore and cultivate the Chinese market and win the first opportunity in global competition.
China will adhere to innovation-driven development and continue to stimulate growth momentum. In 2025, China's innovation index ranked among the top ten in the world for the first time, and the research and development and application of artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and other fields are at the forefront of the world, building the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system. We will adhere to innovation-driven development, accelerate high-level self-reliance in science and technology, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and continuously generate new quality productive forces. At the same time, we will actively participate in global science and technology governance, implement the International Science and Technology Cooperation Initiative and the Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative, so that the achievements of scientific and technological innovation can better benefit the people of all countries.
China will adhere to free trade and continue to deepen foreign cooperation. This year marks the 25th anniversary of China's accession to the World Trade Organization. China is already the main trading partner of more than 160 countries and regions, and has signed 24 free trade agreements with 31 countries and regions. The full island customs clearance operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) has become an important gateway leading China's opening up to the outside world in the new era. We will steadily expand institutional opening up, improve the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation, jointly build the "Belt and Road" with high quality, promote the liberalization and facilitation of global trade and investment, and maintain and develop an open world economy.
China will adhere to comprehensively governing the country according to law and continue to optimize the business environment. The rule of law is an important guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. China currently has 310 effective laws, more than 600 administrative regulations, and more than 14,000 local regulations, providing guarantees for the legalization of all aspects of work with a scientific, complete, unified, and authoritative legal system. Last year, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China formulated and revised laws such as the Private Economy Promotion Law, the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, the Arbitration Law, the Maritime Law, and the Foreign Trade Law to promote the construction of a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy. We will continue to create a first-class market-oriented, rule-of-law, and internationalized business environment, protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors in accordance with the law, fully implement national treatment, and effectively ensure consistency in the application of laws and equality in status and treatment. China will long be a fertile ground for foreign-funded enterprises to invest and develop their businesses.
This November, the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will be held in Shenzhen (深圳), China. China is willing to take the opportunity of serving as the host to work with all parties to build an Asia-Pacific community and inject greater vitality and stronger impetus into Asia-Pacific development.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends!
"When hundreds of boats race, the oarsmen who row vigorously are the first; when thousands of sails compete, the brave are the winners." Let us hoist the sails of cooperation high, anchor the goal of building a community with a shared future for mankind, brave the wind and waves, row vigorously forward, and jointly create a better future for Asia and the world!
Finally, I wish the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2026 a complete success! Thank you all!
(Xinhua News Agency, Boao, Hainan (新华社海南博鳌), March 26)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 琰 刘 歌 赵晓曦 王东辉
On the morning of March 26, the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2026 plenary session was held, bringing together approximately 2,000 representatives from political, economic, business, and academic circles from more than 60 countries and regions. They gathered to discuss the major issues of cooperation and development in Asia and the world, centering on the theme of "Shaping a Common Future: New Situation, New Opportunities, New Cooperation."
The Chinese and foreign guests at the meeting highly affirmed China's continuous injection of certainty and positive energy into the world through stable and predictable development. They believed that strengthening equal dialogue and promoting unity and cooperation are the fundamental ways to overcome the current global difficulties, and called on all parties to work together to address global risks and challenges and jointly create a better future.
"Strengthening dialogue and cooperation is no longer an option, but an inevitable requirement"
Currently, global challenges are emerging one after another, and humanity is standing at a new crossroads. "Strengthening unity and cooperation" has become a high consensus among the participating guests.
"Asia's future depends on the choices we make. If we choose openness and cooperation, Asia will continue to be a source of stability for the world." Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黄循财) said that in the complex and volatile world situation, the role of multilateralism and international organizations should be strengthened, and like-minded countries should be encouraged to work together to jointly safeguard world fairness, justice, and development.
"Faced with many challenges such as regional conflicts, unbalanced economic and social development, and environmental pollution, strengthening dialogue and cooperation is no longer an option, but an inevitable requirement." Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, Sahiba Gafarova, said that China's proposed four global initiatives have pointed the way for building a safe and sustainable world.
"The theme of this year's annual conference of the forum is 'Shaping a Common Future: New Situation, New Opportunities, New Cooperation.' This sends a strong signal: creating the future requires openness and cooperation, and achieving win-win results through cooperation." South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok (金民锡) said that countries should conduct in-depth exchanges and dialogues in the fields of technological innovation, institutional coordination, and infrastructure interconnection, learn from each other's strengths, and make progress together.
Sri Lankan Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said that the vast number of developing countries need to expand cooperation space and jointly address challenges. "China has made remarkable achievements in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence. It is hoped that Sri Lanka and China will strengthen cooperation ties and jointly achieve sustainable development."
"Promoting a higher level of integration to make Asia's economic foundation more solid"
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA). Since its establishment, the forum has always adhered to being based in Asia and facing the world, gathering Asian consensus, promoting cooperation among all parties, and playing a positive role in promoting economic globalization and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
"Over the past 25 years, the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) has promoted a higher level of integration, making Asia's economic foundation more solid, maintaining its position as a major engine of the world economy with abundant vitality, resilience, and vitality, and becoming a major contributor to global development." Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Ban Ki-moon (潘基文) said that today, the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) has become an important platform for advocating multilateralism, free trade, and globalization, and is a firm force in practicing open regionalism and promoting international cooperation.
"The development history of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) reflects Asia's firm commitment to continuously promoting dialogue, mutual respect, and cooperation. These insistences are rooted in the rich cultural traditions of the Asian region and play an important role in addressing today's global challenges." Secretary General of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Kairat Sarybay said that entering a new stage of development, he believes that the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) will continue to play a platform role and contribute to building an open, inclusive, and prosperous Asia.
"I look forward to the annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) every year. While sharing China's policy dividends, everyone also exchanges and learns from each other." One of the founders of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) and Senior Chairman of Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group Dhanin Chearavanont (谢国民) said that the implementation of China's "15th Five-Year Plan" will bring new opportunities. "China's political stability, remarkable achievements in high-quality development, and unwavering expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world have brought unprecedented development space for foreign companies."
"This is my first time attending the annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), and I have gained a lot. Representatives from all over the world attended the meeting, which is enough to prove that the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) has a strong attraction." President and CEO of the Business Council of Canada Goldy Hyder said that in the face of global challenges, all parties need to work together to build a more trustworthy and resilient regional architecture, create a stable and predictable policy environment through forward-looking regulatory innovation, thereby attracting more investment and injecting new vitality into the Asia-Pacific regional economy.
"Sharing valuable experience to help countries achieve common development"
"Artificial intelligence" and "digital economy" have become hot topics of discussion at the forum's annual meeting. The participating guests had a lively discussion on how to seize the historical opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, so that the achievements of technological innovation can better benefit the people of all countries.
"China is one of the leaders in the development of humanoid robots in the world, and one of its core advantages lies in its strong manufacturing base and deep talent pool." Senior Advisor of the AI Governance Initiative at the University of Oxford's Martin School, Sam Daws, said, "China has always been happy to share valuable experience to help countries achieve common development."
China is AstraZeneca's second largest market in the world and its strategic hub for global innovation. "We are actively using cutting-edge digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, to continuously promote scientific innovation and support sustainable development," said Leon Wang (林骁), General Manager of AstraZeneca China.
Honorary Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University Justin Yifu Lin (林毅夫) said that economic development needs to rely on technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and the continuous emergence of new quality productive forces. "China has a super-large domestic market and also has various application scenarios in fields such as artificial intelligence. This is an advantage that other countries do not have."
As a member of the Board of Directors of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) and its strategic partner for five consecutive years, vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (维沃移动通信有限公司 (vivo)) showcased its "Blue Technology" matrix and the latest technological achievements in artificial intelligence, 6G, mixed reality, and other fields at the forum's annual meeting. "In this round of new technological revolution with artificial intelligence as the core, mobile phones are the first scene for the implementation of artificial intelligence. In the future, we will build a perception system based on images to drive artificial intelligence to achieve a key leap from the digital world to the physical world." vivo President and Chief Operating Officer Hu Baishan (胡柏山) said that vivo is willing to work with global partners to jointly innovate, trust each other, and achieve win-win results, and provide assistance for people to pursue a better life.
"China's leading technologies in battery power systems, solar energy, wind energy, and other fields are bringing opportunities for the low-carbon transition and green development of various countries." Executive Chairman of Australia's Fortescue Metals Group Andrew Forrest believes that the Chinese government is actively carrying out energy transition and has built a world-leading green energy system, making positive contributions to global climate change response.
(Reporters Zhai Qinqi (翟钦奇), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Wang Shuohan (王硕涵), and Ren Xiaonan (任筱楠) participated in the writing of this article. Mike Oduro, Peng Xiangshan (彭向善), and Hannan Jilani also contributed to this article.)
Return to TopChina's "stability" is not a self-serving, conservative stability, but a steady progress of open collaboration and mutual benefit; China's "progress" is not a unilateral advance of exclusive achievement, but a common endeavor to empower the world and work together.
In March, China hosted two international forums: the China Development Forum 2026 Annual Meeting and the Boao Forum for Asia (博鳌亚洲论坛) 2026 Annual Meeting. From Beijing (北京) to Hainan (海南), the two forums jointly released a clear signal: no matter how turbulent the world is, China's determination to expand high-level opening up will not waver, and the pace of promoting innovative development will not stop. A China with steady steps and surging vitality will always be a stability anchor and a haven of certainty for global development.
"China is very reliable and forward-looking in its long-term planning and always achieves its set goals," "China's '15th Five-Year Plan' clearly places expanding domestic demand and boosting consumption in a prominent position, which is highly consistent with PepsiCo's business priorities," "Mercedes-Benz plans to launch dozens of new products in China in the next two years"... During the forum, participating guests saw a clear direction for China's development from the "15th Five-Year Plan," and saw broad prospects for deepening their presence in China and sharing opportunities.
Basing oneself on long-term planning and maintaining strategic focus is the foundation for development certainty. From fully implementing the "Artificial Intelligence +" action to promoting the "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and networked interconnection" of the manufacturing industry; from adhering to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people, to synergistically promoting carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, China's "15th Five-Year Plan" demonstrates clear strategic goals and policy orientations. Turning the blueprint into reality step by step, China's development is a process of focusing on the long term and continuous advancement.
China's "stability" is not a self-serving, conservative stability, but a steady progress of open collaboration and mutual benefit; China's "progress" is not a unilateral advance of exclusive achievement, but a common endeavor to empower the world and work together.
Zafar Udin Mahmood, news consultant of the Boao Forum for Asia (博鳌亚洲论坛) Secretariat, said with emotion that China has transformed from a "world factory" to a world innovation center, leading the world in renewable energy, green development, artificial intelligence, and other fields, benefiting more countries around the world. A large number of cooperative cases have confirmed this observation: in line with the wave of intelligent transformation of China's manufacturing industry, Michelin Shenyang Tire Co., Ltd. has systematically applied artificial intelligence, machine vision, and other technologies in tire manufacturing, and has successfully been selected as a new batch of "lighthouse factories" by the World Economic Forum; relying on China's continuously improving renewable energy system, Apple has more than 90% of its production in China powered by clean energy, directly supporting its global carbon neutrality goals... From innovation-driven to green transformation, China continues to contribute cooperation increments and expand win-win space for the world.
Faced with sluggish global growth and the resurgence of unilateralism and protectionism, China has always viewed the world with an open, inclusive, and shared future, and unswervingly promoted the construction of an open world economy. The full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) has become a vivid practice of China's promotion of institutional opening up. In 2025, China's imports and exports to other members of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》) reached 13850.3 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3% over the previous year, adding resilience and vitality to the Asia-Pacific industrial chain and supply chain. The "Asian Economic Outlook and Integration Process 2026 Annual Report" released by the Boao Forum for Asia (博鳌亚洲论坛) 2026 Annual Meeting pointed out that China's position as a regional "anchor of stability" continues to stand out, continuing to play a key role in linking diverse markets and global value chains, and constantly providing new impetus for global economic growth.
独木不成林，单弦不成音 (dú mù bù chéng lín, dān xián bù chéng yīn - "a single tree does not make a forest, a single string does not make music," meaning that one person alone cannot accomplish much; cooperation is essential). A China that is steadfastly advancing on the path of Chinese-style modernization will always be a "stability anchor" in a turbulent world, adding momentum to regional prosperity and injecting confidence into global development.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Director General Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the outgoing Indian Ambassador to China, Pradeep Kumar Rawat (罗国栋), in Beijing on the 26th, respectively.
When meeting with Grossi, Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the Middle East war is spreading and expanding, and its impact is accelerating, especially if nuclear facilities are used as targets, it will bring immeasurable serious consequences. Only an immediate ceasefire and cessation of hostilities, and the resumption of dialogue and negotiations, can truly eliminate the root causes of the conflict. China is willing to strengthen cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency to defend the international nuclear non-proliferation system and make efforts to maintain peace.
Grossi said that the International Atomic Energy Agency is willing to deepen communication and collaboration with China in resolving relevant hotspot issues and promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy, jointly maintain the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and safeguard world peace and stability.
When meeting with Pradeep Kumar Rawat (罗国栋), Wang Yi (王毅) said that under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, China-India relations have embarked on the right track of improvement and development. Facing the intertwined international situation, China is willing to work with India to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, safeguard the common interests of the Global South, and strengthen multilateral cooperation in mechanisms such as BRICS.
Pradeep Kumar Rawat (罗国栋) thanked China for its strong support during his tenure, and said that India is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with China, strengthen high-level exchanges, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, promote multilateral cooperation, and jointly safeguard world peace, stability and development.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke by telephone with Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand (阿南德) on the 26th at her request.
Anand (阿南德) introduced Canada's position on the Middle East situation, stating that Canada is committed to protecting civilians in the conflict, promoting de-escalation, preventing the conflict from spilling over, and reducing the impact on the global economy and supply chains. The Iranian nuclear issue concerns the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and ensuring safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is in the common interest of all parties. Canada is willing to work with China to promote peace and cessation of hostilities and promote regional peace and stability.
Wang Yi (王毅) elaborated on China's principled position, stating that the Iranian nuclear issue should be resolved through dialogue and should not be used as a reason for resorting to force. The abuse of force will only bring serious sequelae, and the spillover of war threatens regional security and stability. The United States and Iran both have the willingness to restart negotiations, and the international community should encourage both sides to return to the negotiating table and seek effective ways for political resolution. China and Canada can jointly play a constructive role in this regard.
The two sides also exchanged views on China-Canada relations and agreed that the results of Prime Minister Carney's (卡尼) visit to China should be implemented with a positive and pragmatic attitude, restarting dialogue at all levels, expanding mutually beneficial cooperation, and promoting the stable and healthy development of a new type of China-Canada strategic partnership.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. Xiao Jie (肖捷), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with Orosz Lajos, Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, in Beijing (北京) on the 26th. The two sides exchanged views on deepening friendly relations between the two countries, strengthening exchanges between legislative bodies, and promoting cooperation in various fields.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), met with Umurzakov, Strategic Development Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan, in Beijing (北京) on the 26th. The two sides exchanged views on jointly implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthening inter-party exchanges, and promoting the building of a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future.
Return to TopThis newspaper Yaoundé, March 26 (Reporters Yang Ou (杨讴), Dai Kairan (戴楷然), Zheng Xiang (郑翔)) Before the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held, China held a high-level conference on "Helping Africa's Industrialization: Chinese Investment" in Yaoundé (雅温得), the capital of Cameroon (喀麦隆), on the 25th. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (伊维拉) and ministers or representatives from nearly 50 African members, including Cameroon (喀麦隆), attended the meeting.
When Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao (王文涛) of China delivered a keynote speech at the meeting, he stated that holding this high-level conference is a concrete action to implement the important consensus of Chinese and African leaders, a responsible commitment of China as a sincere friend and reliable partner, and a pragmatic measure to promote the upgrading of China-Africa cooperation and achieve common development. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with African countries, closely connect with the economic and social development needs of various countries, give full play to China's advantages such as its super-large market and complete industrial system, and deepen cooperation in the four major areas of production and supply chains, infrastructure, human resources, and trade and investment rules.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (伊维拉), Chairman of the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference and Minister of Commerce of Cameroon (喀麦隆), Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana (阿坦加纳), and representatives of ministers from some African members spoke, emphasizing their concern about the current turbulent global trade situation, and highly praised China's practical actions and positive contributions in maintaining the multilateral trading system with the WTO as the core and supporting the African industrialization process. They expressed their hope to further strengthen trade and investment cooperation with China to help Africa's industrialization process and economic and social development.
The 14th WTO Ministerial Conference will be held in Yaoundé (雅温得) from March 26 to 29.
Return to TopJakarta, March 26th (Reporter Cao Shiyun (曹师韵)) On March 26th, the Chinese Mission to ASEAN held a media think tank salon themed "Sharing New Opportunities from China's High-Quality Development" to promote the spirit of the National People's Congress (全国两会). Representatives from nearly 20 regional media think tanks attended.
Chinese Ambassador to ASEAN Wang Qing (王擎) provided an in-depth interpretation of the "Government Work Report" and the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, emphasizing that China will focus on the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, adhere to high-quality development and high-level opening up to the outside world, and share development opportunities with the world. China always regards ASEAN as a priority direction for its neighborhood diplomacy. China-ASEAN cooperation has continued to achieve fruitful results, injecting stability and certainty into a world intertwined with changes and chaos. The two sides must adhere to their original aspirations, jointly build a "five homes," jointly promote Asian values, and promote continuous new progress in the comprehensive strategic partnership.
Return to TopThis report Nairobi March 26 (Reporter Huang Weixin (黄炜鑫)) Local time March 25, the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) awarded the United Nations "Medal of Honor of Peace" to 150 officers and soldiers of the second Chinese peacekeeping quick reaction force to Abyei, and awarded the UNISFA Commander's Commendation to all officers and soldiers, in recognition of their outstanding achievements in performing peacekeeping missions and their outstanding contributions to maintaining the cause of peace in Abyei.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. According to a reporter's understanding on March 26th from the Office of the State Council Tariff Commission (国务院关税税则委员会办公室), the State Council Tariff Commission (国务院关税税则委员会) recently issued an announcement stating that, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Customs Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国关税法》), starting from April 1, 2026, certain imported goods originating from the Republic of the Congo (刚果（布）) will be subject to the agreement tax rates as per the "Arrangement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of the Congo on Early Harvest of the Agreement on Jointly Developing Economic Partnership" (《中华人民共和国政府与刚果共和国政府关于共同发展经济伙伴关系协定早期收获的安排》).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th. A symposium on the publication of "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) Leads the Fight to Win the Battle Against Poverty" was held in Beijing (北京) on the 26th. Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), and Chen Xi (陈希), President of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）), attended and delivered speeches.
Attendees agreed that since the new era, facing the global challenge of eradicating poverty, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has completed the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, delivering a satisfactory answer to the people and a remarkable achievement to the world. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) Leads the Fight to Win the Battle Against Poverty" gives full play to the unique role of oral history, which is to "interpret major strategies with small stories and reflect the great era with small perspectives." It restores the historical picture of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) at its core, uniting and leading the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to implement targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication. It vividly demonstrates the historic achievements made in poverty alleviation and the poverty alleviation spirit forged, and fully demonstrates the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments."
The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to take the publication of this book as an opportunity to deeply study Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and further improve the publicity and reporting and international communication of China's (中国) poverty reduction concepts and achievements. Oral history should be used as an important research resource and method to deepen the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences and the education of party members and cadres. It is necessary to summarize experiences and practices, and promote the collection and collation of oral materials on the "historic achievements and historic changes" in the new era with high quality.
The symposium was hosted by the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部) and the Central Party School (中央党校). About 100 people attended, including responsible comrades from relevant central departments, representatives of interviewees, experts and scholars, and students from the Party School.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Peng Bo) Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the representative proposal handling meeting of the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing on the 26th and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to take Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as guidance, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, handle proposals well, do a good job, and contribute to achieving a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) pointed out that during the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress, the National People's Congress representatives conscientiously performed their statutory duties and legally put forward 8,406 proposals on various aspects of work. The Representative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, together with relevant parties, comprehensively sorted out and analyzed the representatives' proposals and legally handed them over to 206 undertaking units for research and handling. It is necessary to deeply understand General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important thought on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses, improve the political stance and conscious action of doing a good job in handling representatives' proposals, effectively transform the public opinion and wisdom reflected by the representatives into institutional policies and work measures, and truly transform institutional advantages into development momentum and governance effectiveness.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) emphasized that it is necessary to effectively combine the implementation of the goals, tasks, and strategic measures of the "15th Five-Year Plan" development and doing a good job in this field and department with the research and absorption of representatives' proposals, and give full play to the role of representatives' proposals in helping the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment on the "15th Five-Year Plan" development to be implemented. It is necessary to adhere to taking the in-depth promotion of the "two connections" as the starting point to improve the quality of handling representatives' proposals.
Responsible comrades from the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, relevant special committees and working committees of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, the General Office of the State Council, relevant departments, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate attended the meeting.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵)) The 2026 central department budgets were centrally released to the public on the 26th. According to the requirements of the Ministry of Finance (财政部), all departments should, in principle, publicly disclose the performance target statements for general public budget Level 1 projects, government fund budget projects, and state-owned capital operation budget projects, with the proportion of disclosure not less than 60% of the number of projects.
The 2026 central department budget disclosure covers the overall departmental revenue and expenditure budget, the financial appropriation revenue and expenditure budget, and explanations of key matters. Among them, explanations are provided for changes in budget revenue and expenditure, arrangements for operating expenses of government offices, "three public" expenses, government procurement, state-owned asset occupancy, budget performance management, and projects submitted to the National People's Congress (全国人大) for review, and explanations are provided for highly specialized terms. In addition, in order to make it easy for the public to find, understand, and supervise, the departmental budgets of each department, in addition to being published on their own websites, will continue to be centrally published on the "Central Budget and Final Accounts Disclosure Platform" established on the website of the Ministry of Finance (财政部), so as to facilitate the people to supervise the government's financial work.
"Fiscal funds are derived from the people and should be used for the people, and should be used better and better. Budget disclosure is not only an inevitable requirement for implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party and the state, but also an important means of continuously improving the level of scientific financial management." Bai Yanfeng (白彦锋), a professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics (中央财经大学), said that against the background of the current fiscal **过紧日子** (guò jǐn rì zi - "living a tight life," a period of austerity or financial constraint), increasing the intensity and scope of fiscal budget disclosure will help to build a consensus on reform among all sectors of society, and better gather reform synergy in strengthening the overall planning of fiscal resources, promoting zero-based budgeting reform, and revitalizing existing fiscal resources, so as to concentrate more fiscal funds on serving the overall situation of the Party and the state and further improving people's livelihoods.
The disclosure of performance targets is a powerful measure to improve the readability of budget disclosure and strengthen public supervision. The number of performance target disclosures has gradually increased from 10 in 2017 to 809 in 2025. Bai Yanfeng (白彦锋) said that maintaining a large proportion of 60% of budget performance target disclosures in 2026 will not only help guide relevant budget units to further improve the efficiency of fiscal expenditure and optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure in accordance with budget performance targets, but also help everyone see both the immediate fiscal input data and the future output, effectiveness, and impact of fiscal input, so as to realize the government budget from "visible" to "deeply visible" and "far-sighted."
Budget disclosure is an important part of government information disclosure, an important aspect of scientific financial management, and an inevitable requirement for improving the budget system. In 2008, 11 departments, including the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), conducted internal pilot projects for departmental budget disclosure. In 2010, 78 central departments disclosed their departmental budgets. In 2011, the number of central departments disclosing departmental budgets increased to 96, and the budget for "three public" expenses of central departments was disclosed to the public for the first time. In 2013, the central department budgets were disclosed by all departments on the same day for the first time. Since 2017, the departmental budgets disclosed by each department on its own website have been centrally displayed on the "Central Budget and Final Accounts Disclosure Platform" established on the website of the Ministry of Finance (财政部), improving the accessibility of budget disclosure.
In recent years, the Ministry of Finance (财政部) has continuously increased its guidance to local governments, urging local governments to implement the main responsibility for budget disclosure, conscientiously organize and do a good job in budget disclosure, and ensure that all information that should be disclosed is disclosed. According to statistics, since 2022, the budget disclosure rate of local governments at all levels has been 100%, and the budget disclosure rate of departments at the provincial, municipal, and county levels has reached more than 99%. At present, the budgets of all provincial governments have been proactively disclosed. The Ministry of Finance (财政部) has established a "Provincial Budget and Final Accounts Disclosure Column" on its website, which brings together the budget disclosure platforms or columns of various provinces and centrally displays them in the form of map links.
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Based on summarizing pilot program experiences, 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) recently issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Long-Term Care Insurance System." On March 26, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation.
Wang Wenjun (王文君), Deputy Director of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), introduced that long-term care insurance is a new type of social insurance. Through universal participation and fundraising, it provides basic living care and medical care for insured individuals who have lost normal activity capabilities, and reimburses the care expenses incurred. The Opinions require that a long-term care insurance system that adapts to China's basic national conditions be basically established in about three years, marking the transition of the system from local pilot programs to national implementation, which is of great significance.
How to apply for participation?
National unified assessment standards, in principle, no direct cash distribution
Disabled individuals or their family members can submit applications and materials to the medical insurance service window or the local online processing channels provided. The materials mainly include ID documents, application forms, inpatient medical records, or diagnosis certificates. After the handling agency approves the application, it will organize an assessment agency to conduct a disability level assessment for the insured person. After the assessment is passed, the handling agency will negotiate the service method with the disabled person, formulate a nursing service plan, and guide relevant institutions to provide services to the disabled person according to the plan.
Zhang Xifan (张西凡), Deputy Director of the Benefit Security Department of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), introduced that all insured persons who meet the conditions for enjoying benefits after being assessed for disability level can enjoy corresponding care services and receive reimbursement. According to the current assessment standards, disability is divided into three levels: mild, moderate, and severe. In the initial stage of the system, the insured objects are the severely disabled people who are most in need and have the heaviest family burden, mainly those who are bedridden for a long time, unable to take care of themselves, and need care from others. With economic development and improved security capabilities, the state will uniformly study expanding to moderately disabled people, etc. To ensure benefit fairness and fund security, all regions will use a "common yardstick" to determine disability levels and use nationally unified assessment standards.
Zhang Xifan (张西凡) introduced that the long-term care insurance fund is mainly used to pay for the expenses incurred for the basic long-term care services that meet the regulations, and in principle, no cash is directly distributed to disabled individuals.
According to the Opinions, the long-term care insurance rate is uniformly controlled at about 0.3%, and the payment base is linked to income level. Specifically, the employee rate is shared by employers and individuals in the same proportion, and the individual payment base is the individual's wage income; the retiree rate is 0.15%, the payment base is linked to the pension level, and is paid by individuals; the rate for unemployed urban and rural residents starts at about 0.15% and transitions to about 0.3% in about 5 years, and the funding is reasonably shared by individuals and the government.
Long-term care insurance does not have a deductible. For areas where the actual payment levels of urban and rural residents and employees of units differ greatly, the reimbursement ratio of the two types of people is different, reflecting the equivalence of rights and responsibilities. To ensure the sustainability of the fund, the maximum annual payment limit of the fund is determined, that is, no more than 50% of the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in the pooled area in the previous year.
Guo Yang (郭阳), Director of the Social Security Department of the Ministry of Finance (财政部), said that the government will provide subsidies to urban and rural residents who participate in insurance according to regulations. At the same time, the government will also provide classified assistance to people in need to participate in insurance, helping people in extreme poverty, low-income people, etc. to reduce the pressure of payment. These government subsidies are jointly borne by the central and local finances, and arrangements have been made in the central transfer payment budget to local governments in 2026. This year, the central government's subsidies to local governments will be pre-allocated according to the estimated number of participants in each region, and then the actual number of participants will be used for real settlement in the next year to ensure that the subsidy funds can be fully allocated. As the number of participants increases, the financial subsidy will continue to increase.
What services are available?
Encourage the use of home and community care services, and give priority to hiring long-term care workers
In terms of service items, the state has formulated a unified catalog, including two categories: life care and medical care, and included 36 service items urgently needed by severely disabled people in the payment scope, and made regulations on service operation requirements, service personnel, and service duration.
At present, there are mainly three types of places that provide long-term care services for disabled people, which are chosen independently by the insured. Those who choose home care will have people sent to their homes by designated institutions; those who choose community institutions such as designated day care centers will receive non-full-day services nearby; those who choose to stay in designated institutions will be provided with full-day services by the institutions. Since most elderly people's wish is to "age at home," the Opinions encourage the use of home and community care services and give preference to the payment ratio.
The total number of national designated long-term care service institutions has reached 12,000, with approximately 370,000 employees. The National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) issued the Measures for the Designated Management of Long-Term Care Insurance Nursing Service Institutions to promote service standardization.
The National Healthcare Security Information Platform has launched a long-term care insurance subsystem to support local areas in carrying out full-process information management services such as disability level assessment, designated management, and expense settlement, and to promote the realization of online service order placement, intelligent location check-in for door-to-door services, and automatic recording of service duration. Some places have also explored functions such as monitoring and early warning through millimeter-wave radar to improve service quality and efficiency.
Huang Xinyu (黄心宇), Director of the Medical Service Management Department of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), introduced that in order to effectively alleviate the current shortage of professional care services for disabled people and solve the problem of "not being able to buy services or not being able to buy high-quality services," with the strong support of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other relevant departments, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) promoted the establishment of the new occupation of "long-term care worker." The total number of long-term care workers nationwide has started from zero, and by the end of 2025, it has exceeded 10,000, basically achieving that every province has certified long-term care workers. Encourage and guide designated service institutions to give priority to hiring long-term care workers. Promote the establishment of a differentiated payment mechanism linked to occupational skill levels, and encourage more employees to improve their occupational skills, so that high-quality service talents can stay and be used well.
How to promote the system?
Starting from city-level pooling, basically achieving full national coverage by the end of 2028
For disabled people, professional care can greatly improve the quality of life of disabled people, making bathing, haircuts, eating, and changing medicines no longer a "luxury on the sickbed." Long-term care insurance maintains the dignity of disabled people.
For families, through system security, the family's economic burden and care burden can be reduced, and the dilemma of “一人失能、全家失衡” (yī rén shī néng, quán jiā shī héng - "one person disabled, the whole family is unbalanced," the situation where one family member's disability throws the entire family into disarray) can be alleviated. With socialized and professional services, family members can also devote themselves to normal work and life.
For the industry, the establishment of the system has spawned new formats and new models such as disability level assessment, auxiliary equipment production and leasing, and social forces participating in management. The nursing service industry and the health industry have stable capital investment, forming new economic growth points. According to incomplete statistics, since the pilot program, long-term care insurance has driven social capital investment in related industries to exceed 60 billion yuan, and related employment positions have also increased significantly.
According to the Opinions, by the end of 2028, the long-term care insurance system will basically achieve full coverage nationwide. In terms of pooling level, it can start from city-level pooling, and places with conditions can explore provincial-level pooling. In terms of promotion rhythm, each province determines the rhythm of cities and promotes reform in batches and in stages according to the actual situation. Cities with conditions can take the lead, and cities without conditions should consolidate the conditions before implementation, and do not engage in “一刀切” (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," a one-size-fits-all approach). In terms of population coverage, it can start with employees first, and then gradually cover urban and rural residents; it can also include employees and urban and rural residents in the insurance coverage at the same time.
For the original pilot areas, the Opinions require adjusting and improving policies, gradually moving closer to national regulations, and basically achieving a smooth transition by the end of 2028. In order to ensure the stability of the treatment of the people in the pilot areas, some pilot practices that conform to the development direction of the system will not be rigidly adjusted.
In terms of strengthening fund management and supervision, the Opinions clarify that the fund should be included in the special financial account of the social security fund, with separate accounts, separate management, and special funds for special purposes. Zhang Xifan (张西凡) said that the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) will guide all regions to learn from the experience and practices of medical insurance fund supervision and establish a regulatory system and mechanism that adapts to the operational characteristics of long-term care insurance. "False assessment, false service, and false disability" will be included in the scope of special inspections of long-term care insurance. "False assessment" behaviors such as lowering assessment standards, tampering with scores, and falsely increasing disability levels, "false service" behaviors such as forging or altering service materials and fabricating service records, and "false disability" behaviors such as fraudulently obtaining insurance benefits by impersonating others or colluding with institutions to forge, alter, fabricate, or conceal relevant information will be severely punished in accordance with the law once verified, and those suspected of committing crimes will be transferred to public security organs in a timely manner.
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Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中办) and the General Office of the State Council (国办) issued opinions on accelerating the establishment of a long-term care insurance system, marking a shift from local pilot programs to nationwide implementation.
As development moves forward and people's livelihoods improve, this embodies the value pursuit of putting the people first and the wisdom of a gradual approach. How can we write a satisfactory answer sheet for the implementation of the system and its continued benefit to the people?
The key lies in combining problem orientation with mechanism improvement. Faced with a shortage of caregivers, Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) coordinates various forces to cultivate professional care institutions in a market-oriented manner. Regarding the source of funding, Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建) designed a fundraising mechanism that does not increase the burden on enterprises, but leverages an average annual fundraising of 136 yuan per person to provide severely disabled individuals with a monthly long-term care insurance payment of 1,800 yuan. Adapting to local conditions and innovating explorations ensures that the policy's effectiveness is more precise and sustainable.
The focus lies in integrating the resolution of people's urgent needs and concerns with the increase of new development space. Since the pilot program, long-term care insurance has driven more than 60 billion yuan of social capital investment in related industries. Adapting to the silver economy trend and fostering industries such as the research and development and production of assistive devices, new growth points will continue to emerge.
Where the people's thoughts lead, action follows. The more robust the institutional guarantees, the stronger the people's sense of gain.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Wang Guan (王观)) that recently, the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), together with the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部), the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联) jointly issued a notice to launch the "Spring Rain Nourishing Seedlings" Special Action for promoting the development of small and micro business entities in 2026. They introduced 15 items and 50 service measures to help small and micro business entities achieve high-quality development.
"Since its initial launch in 2021, the special action has successively launched 13 thematic activities and 58 specific measures, serving 180 million small and micro business entities and jointly responding to 102,800 suggestions and demands from them," introduced Shen Xinguo (沈新国), Director of the Taxpayer Service Department of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局纳税服务司司长). This year's "Spring Rain Nourishing Seedlings" Special Action adds the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部) and the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局) as joint departments to better address the needs of small and micro business entities in terms of technological innovation and financing support.
In terms of improving service effectiveness and optimizing the business environment, the tax authorities, together with relevant departments, promote the efficient and intensive handling of matters such as enterprise establishment, cross-regional relocation, and enterprise deregistration, upgrade the "one-stop joint handling" service model for social security and medical insurance, increase the cultivation and assistance for "individual to enterprise" transformation, and carry out activities such as "Small and Medium Enterprise Service Month" and "National Individual Business Service Month."
In order to guide compliant operation and promote standardized development, the tax authorities, together with relevant departments, integrate preferential policies and service measures involving small and micro business entities, guide small and micro business entities to strengthen compliance construction, and jointly deepen "tax-bank interaction" cooperation with financial regulatory departments and banking institutions.
In addition, focusing on technological innovation, they will strengthen policy guidance for science and technology business incubators and their incubated objects, and jointly strengthen industry-university-research docking and achievement transformation services with universities and research institutes. Focusing on green development, they will give full play to the regulatory role of green tax systems and other measures. Focusing on cross-border operations, they will promote the integration of the "Tax Road Link" service brand into the national overseas comprehensive service system. Focusing on the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, they will provide integrated services to agricultural small and micro business entities.
This year, the focus is on promoting the "Spring Rain Nourishing Seedlings" Special Action to a normalized service, and improving the regular communication and contact mechanism. Improve the data sharing and application mechanism, and promote the creation of a number of innovative application scenarios in terms of efficient government services, compliance prompts and reminders, and credit value-added applications. Improve the linkage demand response mechanism to upgrade from "jointly solving one thing" to "jointly handling one type of thing."
Return to TopOn March 26th, the 38th Inner Mongolia Agricultural Expo was held in Hohhot (呼和浩特). The expo featured exhibition areas for agricultural materials and plant protection, smart agriculture, and more, with over 1,500 booths. More than 900 agricultural enterprises, as well as research, meteorological, and insurance institutions from 28 provinces participated in the exhibition. The picture shows visitors viewing a smart valve.
Wang Zheng (王 正) photographed (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)): The reporter learned from the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) on March 26th that as of the end of December 2025, 111 million business entities nationwide had downloaded electronic business licenses 463 million times. Electronic business licenses have been used cumulatively for over 1.002 billion identity verifications, online logins, electronic seals, and other services, with an average daily usage of over 1.2 million times. More than 1,900 business systems in various regions and departments have achieved application docking with electronic business licenses.
The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) has deployed Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and other regions to promote the "one-license-for-all-bids" (一照通投) electronic business license in the fields of public resource trading and government procurement. Any enterprise nationwide can complete the entire process of electronic bidding online with just an electronic business license, reducing the institutional transaction costs for enterprises. For example, Beijing (北京) is exploring the "one-license-for-all-bids" model for government procurement. In 2025, over 32,000 business entities used electronic business licenses to participate in Beijing (北京市) government procurement activities, of which 4,642 were business entities from other regions bidding across regions, using the "one-license-for-all-bids" service a total of 377,000 times, effectively saving enterprises' time, labor, and capital costs.
At the same time, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), in accordance with the relevant standards for enterprise service codes, has established a unified "enterprise code" creation and verification mechanism based on the electronic business license system, continuously promoting the application of "one enterprise, one license, one code" (一企一照一码), and strengthening the information association, integration, and integrated application of the "enterprise code" and other enterprise-related electronic licenses. For example, Zhejiang (浙江) has built a digital service system of "one code for all services, one code for all exhibitions, and one code for all services," with the download rate of electronic business licenses exceeding 86% in the province, connecting to more than 105 applications at all levels and types, and accumulating 30 million scans.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Shen Shaotie (申少铁)): It was learned from the National Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Work Conference 2026 held recently that in 2025, China's approved registration of new raw materials and newly added record-filing of new raw materials increased by nearly 90% year-on-year. In 2025, China's cosmetics market size exceeded 1.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.8%. The sales of domestic brands accounted for 57.4%. In 2025, the total export value of cosmetics reached 7.82 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 9.2%, maintaining rapid growth for many consecutive years.
Before 2021, China implemented a registration system for all new cosmetic raw materials, and only 14 new raw materials were approved in more than 30 years. After the implementation of the "Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulations" in 2021, China's management of new cosmetic raw materials was adjusted to a dual-track system of registration and record-filing, and the number of new raw materials showed explosive growth. Relevant officials from the National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局) stated that the development of the cosmetics industry generally shows a good trend, and the advantages of scale, market vitality, and development resilience are further demonstrated. This year, the National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局) will promote the implementation of 24 reform measures to accelerate China's transition from a major cosmetics manufacturing country to a strong cosmetics manufacturing country.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田先进 杨 迅 尚嵘峥
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要) proposes: "Relying on urban study rooms, community cultural stations, cultural corridors, and other facilities to develop new types of public cultural spaces, providing more cultural services close to the people."
In recent years, various regions have continued to improve the public cultural service system and constantly enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses. Wuhu (芜湖), Anhui (安徽) relies on urban academies to create reading and cultural experience spaces at people's doorsteps; Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) brings professional theatrical performances into communities, allowing the charm of opera to permeate people's daily lives; the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum (新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆) launches special themed exhibitions, using cultural relics to tell history and cultural creations to connect with life.
Recently, reporters visited the three places to experience how high-quality public cultural services are brightening people's lives.
——Editor
"The academy is our first choice for weekends"
At 3 pm, walking into the Jiangwan Academy (江湾书院) of Wuhu Study Room (芜湖书房) in Yijiang District (弋江区), Wuhu City (芜湖市), Anhui (安徽), sunlight shines through the glass into the room, reflecting on the water ripple decorations on the wall, making the entire academy more culturally charming.
"Does everyone know the history of shadow puppetry? What are the different styles of lanterns often hung during the New Year..." Following the sound, in the children's reading area on the first floor, a special event themed "Jiangwan Intangible Cultural Heritage" (江湾非遗文化) is underway, with staff introducing relevant content to the children using slides.
"Today, more than 20 children are participating in the event. Parents signed up online very early after the event announcement was released," said Xu Tingting (徐婷婷), store manager of Jiangwan Academy. "We want to let children get in touch with intangible cultural heritage and understand traditional culture through lectures, experiences, and parent-child co-creation."
Xie (谢) from Wuhu (芜湖) and her son Liu Liu (六六) are regulars at Jiangwan Academy (江湾书院), and the two are working together to assemble paper lanterns.
"The instructions have installation steps, and there are finished lanterns next to them for reference. Try it yourself first, and Mom will help you if you can't," Xie (谢) encouraged. Before long, under her mother's guidance, the paper lantern was completed in Liu Liu's (六六) hands.
"During this process, the child can learn about folk customs and exercise their hands-on skills. With such rich activities, the academy is our first choice for weekends," Xie (谢) said.
"In terms of event planning, we adhere to cultivating people with books, benefiting the people with culture, co-building schools and communities, and sharing with all people, linking surrounding schools and communities, and combining reading, practice, and traditional culture," said Xu Tingting (徐婷婷). "The academy has limited staff, and many volunteers join in when holding events, enriching the content and form of the activities."
While holding events, the reading space of Jiangwan Academy (江湾书院) is normally open, and readers come to read books in an endless stream.
"Jiangwan Academy (江湾书院) has a rich collection of books and a very good environment. I have been a regular here since 2023," said Han Wentao (韩文涛), a citizen. To avoid affecting readers during events, the academy thoughtfully informs them in advance and strictly controls the duration of the activities.
"Many children have become confident and generous by participating in academy activities. Seeing them grow up here is the most satisfying moment for me," said Xu Tingting (徐婷婷).
"In the future, we will closely focus on the construction requirements of public cultural spaces, accurately cater to regional positioning and the needs of different groups, and strive to create cultural brands with distinct identities and full of vitality, making study rooms an important position for conveying warmth and gathering people's hearts," said Huang Xin (黄馨), deputy curator of the Yijiang District Cultural Center (弋江区文化馆).
"Bringing opera to the community brings it to our hearts"
The Jinshali Community (金沙里社区) of Dingwangtai Street (定王台街道), Furong District (芙蓉区), Changsha City (长沙市), Hunan (湖南) is gathering enthusiastic residents, and a charm of opera is spreading.
Amidst full expectations, the cultural benefit performance of bringing opera to the community, brought by the Changsha Xiang Opera Protection and Inheritance Center (长沙市湘剧保护传承中心), kicked off.
On the stage, gongs and drums were loud, and good plays followed one after another - the Xiang Opera (湘剧) Tanqi Opera Excerpt "Raising the Lion to View the Picture" (举狮观图), with its high-pitched and melodious singing and agile movements, won a full house of applause; classic operas such as "Wujiapo" (武家坡) had a long-lasting charm; the instrumental ensemble "Galloping Horses" (扬鞭赛马) was played heartily...
Offstage, the audience was immersed in it, and some were even singing along. Audience member Zhang Yueying (张月英), an elderly woman, sat on her own small stool, tucked in her granddaughter's clothes, and said with a smile: "I heard there was a performance, so I couldn't miss it."
"Performing traditional opera in the community is both inheritance and companionship," said Zhou Fan (周帆), winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and deputy director of the Changsha Xiang Opera Protection and Inheritance Center (长沙市湘剧保护传承中心). Every time they go to the community, rehearsals are never discounted. "The more effort we put on stage, the more recognition we get off stage."
Community resident Li Hao (李浩) brought his family of five and secured a good spot early. He usually likes to listen to Huagu Opera (花鼓戏), but this time he watched authentic Xiang Opera (湘剧) for the first time and repeatedly praised it: "The singing, movements, and costumes are exquisite. It's different from the liveliness of Huagu Opera (花鼓戏), it's another kind of profoundness." He said that in the past, if he wanted to see a good show, he had to run very far, but now he doesn't have to. "Bringing opera to the community brings it to our hearts."
In addition to Xiang Opera (湘剧), authentic Huagu Opera (花鼓戏) was also brought to the masses, and the cultural square in Dachengqiao Town (大成桥镇), Ningxiang City (宁乡市), Hunan (湖南) was equally lively. In the Huagu Opera (花鼓戏) "New Six-Foot Lane" (新六尺巷), the melodious tune paired with the authentic Changsha (长沙) accent made the villagers feel close. Wang Yong (王勇), director of the Changsha Huagu Opera Protection and Inheritance Center (长沙市花鼓戏保护传承中心), and young actress Zhao Yuehong (赵月红) and others vividly portrayed the transformation of Changsha's (长沙) nameless alley from congested to open, integrating the traditional virtues of courtesy and tolerance, the warmth of neighborhood, and convenient measures for the people, singing the temperature of urban people's livelihood and the picture of happiness into the hearts of the audience, and the applause offstage was continuous.
As the curtain fell on the stage, the charm of the opera had not dissipated, and villagers still surrounded the actors asking questions. An old villager held Zhao Yuehong's (赵月红) hand and asked: "When will you come again next time? We're waiting for you."
In 2026, the Changsha Huagu Opera Protection and Inheritance Center (长沙市花鼓戏保护传承中心) plans to carry out 160 benefit performances of bringing opera to the countryside and communities (villages), adhering to the "online + offline" synchronous model to bring wonderful performances to the masses.
The wind blows from the fields, filling the air with the breath of spring. In the land of Hunan (湖南), traditional opera makes the cultural atmosphere of the community more vibrant.
"Feel the close connection between horse culture and daily life"
The lobby of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum (新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆) is decorated with horse culture check-in points, and the creative exhibition board features two "horses" - one in a running state, carrying a man wielding a stick to play polo; the other in a standing state, quiet and gentle, with a lady wearing a high hat riding calmly - these are the museum's collection of painted clay polo figurines and veiled lady riding figurines.
Walking into the "Qiji Chichun" (骐骥驰春) exhibition with the theme of horse culture, you can see exhibition boards and illustrations introducing different types of horses: "Qi" (骐), a horse with blue-black patterns; "Ji" (骥), a thousand-mile horse...
"Look, even though they are both horses, there are so many characters to express their meaning," said Ms. Liu (刘) to her son, who is under 10 years old, pointing to the characters on the exhibition board.
"In Chinese culture, horses are not only transportation tools and human partners, but also cultural images and spiritual symbols," said Li Zheng (李政), director of the display department of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum (新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆). The museum has a large collection of cultural relics related to horses, and this year is the Lunar Year of the Horse, so it is a good opportunity to plan and launch a horse culture-themed exhibition.
The exhibition focuses on the Tang Dynasty (唐代) painted equestrian figurines unearthed from the Astana Tombs (阿斯塔那古墓群) in Turpan (吐鲁番). "Combined with horse equipment and paintings from past dynasties, incorporating poems, calligraphy and paintings related to horses, and corresponding knowledge links, viewers can not only appreciate the majestic charm of the Tang Dynasty (唐代) painted equestrian figurines, but also feel the close connection between horse culture and daily life, and experience the common emotional memory of the Chinese nation," said Li Zheng (李政).
"The various equestrian figurines unearthed from the Astana Tombs (阿斯塔那古墓群) have full bodies, slender limbs, and necks and backs full of tension, making them lifelike. The riders are calm and composed, and even the patterns and ornaments of the fabrics can be seen, reflecting the social landscape of the integration of multiple ethnic groups in the Western Regions (西域) during the Tang Dynasty (唐代)," Li Zheng (李政) introduced.
After visiting the exhibition, Ms. Liu (刘) took her son to the cultural and creative area. "Mom, this pattern is exactly the same as what I saw just now!" Ms. Liu's (刘) son said, pointing to a sachet.
"The design of this sachet is taken from the veiled lady riding figurine in the museum's collection, and it smells fragrant but not greasy," introduced Ha Wenxuan (哈文轩), a staff member of the museum's cultural and creative department.
"One of each of these two sachets." After Ms. Liu (刘) finished selecting cultural and creative products, a queue had formed in front of the cashier. In the queue, many tourists bought sachets, and young people were holding newly launched "Xinjiang Horse Galloping" (疆马奔腾) lucky blind boxes.
"We hope that the audience can feel the charm of horse culture through the exhibition, which is also a manifestation of cultural enrichment of Xinjiang (文化润疆) and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation (铸牢中华民族共同体意识)," said Li Zheng (李政).
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Rules are established to be followed, known, and, more importantly, acted upon. If the cage of regulations is as fragile as paper, it cannot contain the willful power of "tigers," leading to the phenomenon of "paper cages failing to restrain tigers."
For example, in the television documentary "Unceasing Steps, No Retreats," the "Jiang Brothers Trio" revealed a detail: when the eldest brother, Jiang Chaoliang (蒋超良), served as the Provincial Party Secretary, he accepted all illegal merchants and bosses introduced by his two younger brothers. A simple greeting could bring in a huge bribe, often from people he had never even heard of.
A mere "greeting" could penetrate the institutional regulations for loan approvals, project contracting, and other major matters. Layers of checkpoints were successively breached, exposing the deep-seated problems of institutional inaction and non-implementation in certain localities and fields.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must devote great efforts to build institutions and establish rules, and even greater efforts to implement and enforce them." Since the new era, our Party has simultaneously focused on establishing rules and regulations and on implementing them. We have taken a zero-tolerance approach to unhealthy tendencies and corruption, severely investigating and punishing them, and promoting the strict adherence of Party members and cadres to their duties, powers, and work in accordance with the system. In particular, the Central Eight-Point Regulation establishes ironclad rules and strong constraints, with a prominent feature being the improvement of institutional enforcement, "ensuring that institutional regulations truly become electrified high-voltage lines."
Only when the cage is strict and solid will "tigers" not have opportunities to exploit.
Once a system is established, it must be implemented with concrete action and a genuine display of strength. It cannot be merely spoken of, hung on the wall, or written on paper. Having a system but not enforcing it easily induces the "broken window effect," which is more harmful than having no system at all.
At the Ju Hu Geng No. 5 well in the Muli Coalfield of Qinghai (青海木里煤田聚乎更五号井), a large, bright red character "警" (jǐng - warning) painted on the rock wall is thought-provoking. This area was once scarred with deep pits and devastation, "as if a large piece of flesh had been carved out of the plateau."
Protecting the ecological environment of Qinghai (青海) is a matter of national importance, and the regulations are undeniably strict. How could the "paper cage fail to restrain the tiger?" The crux of the problem lies in the fact that individual leading cadres disregard orders and prohibitions, only considering small gains, immediate benefits, and their own interests, casting discipline and rules aside.
The rigid constraints of the system are manifested in impartial, inflexible, and undistorted implementation. More importantly, they require frequent benchmarking and alignment in implementation to promptly correct deviations.
A window staff member collected 16.14 million yuan in bribes over eight years; one reason led to fining the same investment project seven times in three years... Not long ago, Liaoning (辽宁) dared to expose its own shortcomings, demonstrating its determination to never tolerate such behavior, severely punishing those who undermine the business environment, and safeguarding the "lifeline" of investment attraction.
Regardless of the position or location, the Party Central Committee's (党中央) advocacy must be resolutely responded to, the Party Central Committee's decisions must be resolutely followed, and the Party Central Committee's prohibitions must be resolutely avoided. This must become the political, ideological, and behavioral consciousness of the broad masses of Party members and cadres in promoting the development of the cause.
"Once something is decided, it must be implemented, and all levels and departments must have a sense of the overall situation and the ability to execute." From a sense of the overall situation to the ability to execute, what is ultimately tested is the concept of performance. Some believe in "notes from officials are better than regulations," which is rooted in the prevalence of the "official-centered" mentality. Others attempt to "race against policies and compete with regulations," which stems from a lack of Party spirit cultivation that fosters a sense of awe, caution in speech, and restraint in action. In this sense, strengthening the rigidity of the system also requires forging an "iron cage" in ideology, and all "tigers" of privilege thinking, materialism, and scheming ideas should be confined as much as possible, resolutely avoiding crossing the "Lei Pool" and running red lights.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes: "Improve the unified, clear, transparent, and traceable system mechanism for authorizing, using, and restricting power, enhance the enforcement of laws and regulations, and create a clean and upright political ecology." The more important the time node for the unfolding blueprint, the more necessary it is to strictly enforce discipline and rules, and to take solid steps to translate the Party Central Committee's (党中央) decisions and deployments into action and results.
Return to TopBeijing, March 26 (Reporter Li Hongmei (李红梅)) - This reporter learned from the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) that on March 26, the national agricultural climate resource census and zoning work was launched. In the next four years, it will comprehensively promote the census and zoning of five major categories and 25 kinds of crops nationwide, clarify the agricultural climate resource base, scientifically evaluate agricultural planting boundaries and meteorological disaster risks, provide technical support for optimizing industrial layout and agricultural structure adjustment, and provide a scientific basis for agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and benefit maximization.
The new round of national agricultural climate resource census and zoning work will be carried out in all provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government), cities, and counties across the country. The census content includes agricultural climate resource census and agricultural production survey. Agricultural climate zoning is divided into four levels: national, provincial, municipal, and county comprehensive agricultural climate zoning, planting system climate zoning, animal husbandry climate zoning, fishery climate zoning, facility agriculture climate zoning, and climate zoning for 25 major crops.
Since 2023, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) have jointly promoted the pilot work of census and zoning. The pilot scope has gradually expanded from points to areas, and the types of crops have gradually increased and covered in stages, forming an efficient and smooth working mechanism, establishing a scientific and standardized technical path, achieving a number of distinctive innovative results, and exploring a number of application scenarios with initial results. During the pilot period, a total of 19 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government), 104 cities, and 673 counties completed the agricultural climate resource census, 615 counties completed the agricultural production survey, and 186 cities and 1060 counties completed the pilot crop climate zoning, laying a solid foundation for the comprehensive launch of related work.
Return to TopOn March 26th, in Hejiang County (合江县), Luzhou City (泸州市), Sichuan Province (四川省), the 2026 Spring Ploughing Production and the Second Farmers' Games in Baisha Town (白沙镇) were held in full swing. The picture shows the contestants participating in the relay water-carrying competition.
Photo by Li Guiping (李贵平) (Image China (影像中国))
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 26th (Reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵)) This year, March 30th is the thirty-first National Primary and Secondary School Student Safety Education Day. In order to further strengthen safety education work and enhance primary and secondary school students' safety awareness and self-protection capabilities, the Ministry of Education (教育部) recently issued a notice deciding to organize the National Primary and Secondary School Student Safety Education Week from March 30th to April 3rd. The theme of the event is "Protect Together, Grow Together."
The notice clarifies that all regions and schools should focus on the theme of the event, and, in conjunction with public security, emergency management, market supervision, fire and rescue, earthquake and other departments, adopt a combination of online and offline methods to widely carry out national security, traffic safety, fire safety, food safety, network security, and anti-bullying, anti-drowning, anti-sexual assault, anti-trafficking, anti-fraud, anti-violent injury, anti-drug, and mental health and other types of safety-themed education activities to guide students to learn safety knowledge, master protection skills, and enhance safety awareness and self-protection capabilities.
The notice requires that all regions and schools should, in light of their local conditions, based on the age characteristics and cognitive patterns of students, scientifically design activity carriers, and through safety knowledge competitions, theme class (league, team) meetings, emergency evacuation drills, scenario simulations, theme speeches, special lectures, warning with cases and other forms, allow students to deepen their safety awareness through personal participation, immersive experience, and interactive communication.
Return to TopAccording to the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, the national supply and marketing system is currently implementing the "Special Plan for the Construction of Agricultural Supply Network System of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (2024-2028)". It aims to build or renovate approximately 100 national strategic agricultural material (reserve) warehouses and approximately 1,000 county-level agricultural material distribution centers by the end of 2028. This will accelerate the construction of a modern agricultural material circulation system for supply and marketing cooperatives that is rationally laid out, functionally complementary, and efficiently operated, thereby improving circulation efficiency, reducing circulation costs, and benefiting the vast number of farmers. Relying on the "six horizontal, seven vertical, and two coastal" national agricultural material circulation corridors, the construction and renovation of national strategic agricultural material (reserve) warehouses will be accelerated. By the end of the 15th Five-Year Plan, these warehouses will cover key nodes such as major grain and important agricultural product producing areas, major transportation hubs, and important agricultural material distribution centers, further enhancing the supply and marketing cooperatives' ability to ensure the supply and stabilize the price of agricultural materials.
(Reporter Qi Zhiming (齐志明))
All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (中华全国供销合作总社)
By: 本报记者 徐驭尧
Optimize the functional positioning and layout of medical institutions and improve the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline
Not long ago, Kou Huijuan (寇惠娟), a Shaanxi (陕西) aid-Tibet doctor and vice president of the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital, received a call in the early hours of the morning: "This is Ge'gyai (改则) County, we have a patient with a myocardial infarction who needs to be sent over today."
Ge'gyai County (改则县) in Ngari (阿里) Prefecture is more than 400 kilometers away from Gar (噶尔) County, where the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital is located, a drive of six or seven hours. Kou Huijuan (寇惠娟) assisted the doctors at the Ge'gyai County (改则县) People's Hospital through the internet to perform emergency intravenous thrombolysis on the patient. After two hours of emergency rescue, the patient's vital signs gradually stabilized, creating conditions for long-distance transfer.
After the patient was transferred to the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital, Kou Huijuan (寇惠娟) found that the situation was more complicated than expected: the patient not only had heart problems, but also had a severe lung infection. The doctors decided to control the infection first, and then perform surgery. In the following days, Kou Huijuan (寇惠娟) and others continued to carry out treatment, finally enabling the patient to meet the conditions for surgery.
Subsequently, Kou Huijuan (寇惠娟) and two local doctors performed stent implantation surgery. Finally, a stent was precisely implanted into the blocked area of the patient's heart blood vessel, and the operation was successful.
"In 2025, we have performed more than 60 similar operations, and the related technology has become increasingly mature. In addition, we have successively introduced a series of new technologies such as leadless pacemakers and enhanced external counterpulsation therapy for cardiac rehabilitation," Kou Huijuan (寇惠娟) introduced.
The improvement of the cardiology department's treatment capacity is a microcosm of the hospital's changes. Relying on the creation process of a tertiary first-class hospital, the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital, based on local medical needs, introduced aid-Tibet talent experts, focusing on building a number of departments, and effectively improving local medical service capabilities. At the end of 2025, the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital successfully became a tertiary first-class hospital, which also means that all seven prefectures and cities in Tibet (西藏) are equipped with tertiary first-class hospitals.
The process of creating a tertiary first-class hospital is also a process of continuous improvement of various systems. "Previously, many of the hospital's work relied on experience, and not enough attention was paid to standardized systems," recalled Du Zhuoying (杜倬婴), a member of the 25th "Doctor Service Group" and vice president of the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital.
To this end, Du Zhuoying (杜倬婴) specially coordinated with his sending unit, Huashan Hospital (华山医院) affiliated to Fudan University (复旦大学), to include the medical staff of the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital into the online training system, and opened a series of courses related to the institutional norms of tertiary first-class hospitals.
Data shows that the outpatient volume of the Ngari (阿里) Prefecture People's Hospital in the fourth quarter of 2025 increased by 18.2% compared with the same period last year. "The increase in the number of patients is behind the improvement of trust," Du Zhuoying (杜倬婴) said with emotion, "A tertiary first-class hospital means a higher platform, better resource allocation, and also puts forward higher requirements, which forces hospital workers to continuously improve their skills and constantly meet the expectations of the masses."
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Biography
Chen Laifa (陈来发), born in 1957 in Puning (普宁), Guangdong (广东) Province, is the representative inheritor of Puning Yingge (普宁英歌), a national intangible cultural heritage. He joined the Nanshan Yingge Team (南山英歌队) at the age of 18, systematically learning the mallet techniques, and has since dedicated himself to inheriting and promoting this traditional art. He leads the Nanshan Yingge Team (南山英歌队) in continuous breakthroughs and innovations, breaking the traditional choreography, deeply exploring story themes, sorting and creating traditional Yingge (英歌) into multiple "short segments" with storylines, and adding new characters and improving facial makeup designs, making the ancient skills more culturally rich and modernly aesthetic. He has received honors such as the 2024 "Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Figure of the Year."
At the Nanshan Yingge Team (南山英歌队) training base in Nanshan Village (南山村), Puning City (普宁市), Jieyang City (揭阳市), Guangdong (广东省) Province, powerful drumbeats and mallet strikes resonate every morning and evening. Inside the base, Yingge (英歌) team members practice their movements with mallets, while Chen Laifa (陈来发), the coach of the Nanshan Yingge Team (南山英歌队) and the national representative inheritor of Puning Yingge (普宁英歌), carefully instructs them. "During the Spring Festival this year, we participated in many performances. Seeing so many people like Yingge dance, everyone is more motivated to train and wants to perform better," said Chen Laifa (陈来发).
"I started learning Yingge dance at the age of 18, and it has been more than 50 years now," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). "Inheriting and promoting Yingge dance is the most important thing for me right now."
A Part-Time "Career" with No Stable Income, Pursued for Decades
Born in 1957, Chen Laifa (陈来发) had a difficult family life as a child. "There was joy in the hardship. Practicing Yingge dance was my greatest pleasure at the time," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). He was exposed to Yingge dance in the village when he was in elementary school. "At that time, watching the seniors put on facial makeup and wave their mallets, they were mighty and majestic, and I admired them very much."
At the age of 18, Chen Laifa (陈来发) officially joined the Nanshan Yingge Team (南山英歌队) and began to systematically learn the mallet techniques. "Perhaps because I had early exposure, I mastered many movements in just three days, and my master praised me for making rapid progress," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). "But quick entry doesn't mean much. Yingge dance is a full-body exercise. It's very impressive to be able to persist through 5 minutes of basic movements. At the same time, it requires the movements to be extended and in place, vigorous and powerful, which is a great test of physical strength."
During training, blisters on the palms, sore shoulders, and swollen legs and feet were common occurrences. Occasionally, they would hit their hands during performances, but they had to grit their teeth and persevere. "Because I like it, I have to persevere no matter how hard it is," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). This pure love supported his skills from being inexperienced to being proficient.
The physical hardship was only one aspect; the difficulties in life were even harder to overcome. "Participating in Yingge dance performances only provided a small subsidy. Some team members said that earning money through odd jobs was more than the subsidy, so some people gradually gave up," Chen Laifa (陈来发) recalled.
Chen Laifa (陈来发) did not waver. He made a living by doing business during the day and participated in Yingge dance training and performances in the evenings and on holidays. He pursued this part-time "career" with no stable income for decades.
"The Yingge team is busiest during the Spring Festival, from training before the New Year to performing from the first day of the Lunar New Year. We are basically not at home during the Spring Festival, but my family understands very well," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). For decades, he has hardly eaten a New Year's Eve dinner at home, dedicating himself wholeheartedly to the organization, rehearsal, and performance of the team. "If my family didn't support me, it would be difficult for me to persevere."
Innovative Program Arrangement, Giving Yingge Dance More Cultural Connotation and Modern Aesthetics
Since 1990, Chen Laifa (陈来发) took over the coaching work of the Yingge team, and his attention began to shift from "dancing Yingge well himself" to "how to better promote Yingge dance."
In 1992, Chen Laifa (陈来发) led the team to Tianjin (天津) to participate in the China Tianjin International Friendship Cities Art Festival and the National "Nankai Cup" Folk Square Art Invitational Tournament. Chen Laifa (陈来发) keenly realized that the traditional square performance format was not effective. "In the past, the choreography mode for square performances was that the team members would form a circle after entering the stage, so some team members would have their backs to the audience, which was not good for viewing."
"The formation must be changed to face the audience in order to have a better performance effect," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). "Don't underestimate the small change in formation. This not only breaks the tradition, but also changes the cooperation between the team members, and some old team members are unwilling."
Chen Laifa (陈来发) withstood the pressure and persuaded the team members to change the formation to face the audience. This change not only made Yingge dance more suitable for modern theater viewing, but also laid the foundation for it to be on higher-level performance platforms in the future.
At the age of 39, Chen Laifa (陈来发) became the captain of the Nanshan Village (南山村) Yingge Team (英歌队). "The content of Yingge dance must also be rich and innovative in order to attract more people to like Yingge dance," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). In the past, many people watched Yingge to "watch the excitement" without knowing why. He believed that they should think about how to make Yingge dance more prominent in cultural connotation and storytelling.
For example, around the theme of Water Margin, Chen Laifa (陈来发) sorted out and created traditional performances into multiple "short segments" with central plots. Each "short segment" showed the progress of the story through formation changes and action designs, making a performance have a beginning, development, turning point, and climax. He also innovatively added new characters, improved character facial makeup and action designs, and enhanced character recognition. Chen Laifa (陈来发) also made modifications to some specific actions to make them more in line with modern aesthetics. "Coach Chen has very high requirements for the movements. If the movements are not in place, we have to keep practicing until we form muscle memory," said team member Chen Junjie (陈俊杰).
Breaking Old Rules and Customs, Promoting Yingge Dance to a Broader Stage
In the past, Nanshan Yingge Dance (南山英歌舞) had some unreasonable old customs regarding the selection of inheritors. After Chen Laifa (陈来发) took over, he deeply felt that this was not conducive to promoting it.
"I also liked Yingge dance since I was a child. When I saw some children sad because they couldn't learn Yingge dance, I was very touched," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). As Puning Yingge (普宁英歌) skills were included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006, "Yingge dance is not just Nanshan's (南山), it must be protected and inherited in a wider range."
But breaking the old rules was met with great resistance. Chen Laifa (陈来发) communicated with older performers many times, persuading everyone to say: "Breaking unreasonable old customs is only for better inheritance. If we continue to restrict it, Yingge dance will not be able to be promoted." Under his unremitting efforts, the old rules and customs that restricted the development of Yingge were gradually broken. In 2017, he promoted Yingge skills into schools, first piloting in Nanshan Primary School (南山小学). Regardless of whether they were from this village or other villages, boys or girls, as long as they were willing to learn, they could sign up, attracting more than 380 students at once, greatly expanding the foundation of inheritance.
In the past, Yingge team training was often conducted in the village committee compound or open-air venues, with simple conditions. In 2024, with the support of the local government, the Nanshan Yingge Team (南山英歌队) training base was built and put into use. The training base is not only a place for daily training, but also a center for inheritance activities. "The base is our home," said Chen Laifa (陈来发).
In order to build a tiered talent team, Chen Laifa (陈来发) divided the team members into adult teams and youth teams. Adult team members come from all walks of life and participate in their spare time, persisting out of love. But he requires each team member to learn all positions and skills to ensure that "if someone doesn't come, they can be replaced immediately." Through Yingge skills entering schools, the youth Yingge team was established, and students used after-school, weekend, and summer vacation time for systematic training. "Not only is it free, but we also have to spend money to arrange coaches. Some of the good seedlings cultivated from the students have joined the adult team after graduation, forming a virtuous circle," said Chen Laifa (陈来发).
"Yingge dance must go out," said Chen Laifa (陈来发). In recent years, the Yingge team has conducted cultural exchanges in many occasions at home and abroad. These activities not only promoted the excellent traditional Chinese culture, but also enhanced the team members' sense of honor and cohesion. Chen Laifa (陈来发) admitted, "The greater the honor, the greater the pressure." Team members are all part-time and need to coordinate their respective times; although there is support for inheritance activities, funding is always tight; social attention is high, and continuous innovation is not easy... Although there are so many difficulties, Chen Laifa (陈来发) firmly said: "Yingge dance has a strong vitality. The drum sound of Yingge dance comes from history and will continue to sound loudly."
■Extended Reading
Yingge (英歌) is widely spread in various places in Chaoshan (潮汕), Guangdong (广东), especially in Puning (普宁), Chaoyang (潮阳), and Chaonan (潮南). Puning Yingge (普宁英歌) skills, as a folk art that integrates dance, southern boxing techniques, and drama, is said to have a history of more than 300 years and was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.
Yingge (英歌) is often performed during festivals. The dancers are mostly in even numbers, each holding a pair of colored wooden sticks, cooperating with gongs and drums and shouts, waving the sticks to cross and turn and knock, walking and dancing; the performance is divided into two sections, "front stage" and "back stage". The "front stage" is the gong and drum music performance and Yingge dance, and the "back stage" is small plays with unique characteristics and signature programs.
Yingge dance has a distinct heroic spirit and is considered a symbol of promoting righteousness and suppressing evil, auspiciousness and peace. Every major festival, the sound of Yingge gongs and drums resounds throughout the towns and villages, and is deeply loved by the local people. Puning Yingge (普宁英歌) currently has more than 200 teams, divided into three different genres according to rhythm and beat: allegro, moderato, and adagio.
(Compiled by Li Zong (李纵), reporter of this newspaper)
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This couple from Tieling (铁岭), Liaoning (辽宁), conduct interviews like performing Errenzhuan, lacking the "serious" demeanor of scientific researchers.
He is Zhang Chao (张超), and she is Zhang Xinyu (张芯语), both born in the 90s. By chance, they became classmates, and unintentionally started studying inconspicuous moths. Together, they came to Jiangjin (江津), Chongqing (重庆), and have been working in the Simian Mountain (四面山) Nature Reserve for 10 years.
Some people don't understand: Giant pandas need protection, but what's the point of protecting small moths? Zhang Chao (张超) can't stand hearing this: "Moth insects form the base of the ecological pyramid." There are many kinds of moth insects, about 10 times more than butterflies, and the population is also extremely large. If there is a problem, birds will lack food, and plant seed dispersal will be affected, and the forest ecological chain may be broken.
In the past 10 years, the couple has found "identity cards" for more than 700 kinds of moth insects, and also discovered and identified 8 new species in the world, accumulating valuable first-hand information for studying the origin, evolution, distribution, survival status and changes of species in the local and surrounding areas.
Drawn to Entomology, Heading Southwest for the Love of It
The first time the two met, it wasn't a pleasant experience in retrospect.
Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) was admitted to the landscape architecture major of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (西北农林科技大学). Her high school teacher was very enthusiastic: "There was a student who was admitted there before, you can send your luggage to him." When she reported, her parents accompanied her to pick up her luggage. As soon as they entered the dormitory, they were stunned: the table was densely covered with insect specimens.
Zhang Chao (张超) has liked this since he was a child, and his major in college was also biological science. The unforgettable and even "thrilling" first impression scared Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) so much that she didn't contact him much after that.
Later, Zhang Chao (张超) went to Northeast Forestry University (东北林业大学) to pursue a master's degree, with the direction he wanted: forest entomology. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) faced transfer when she took the postgraduate entrance examination, and found Zhang Chao (张超) for consultation again. "Don't underestimate insects, nature can't do without the microscopic world!" Under a "fudge", the two not only studied the same major, but also became classmates.
"You won't be afraid after seeing too many bugs, challenge yourself!" Zhang Xinyu's (张芯语) idea is very simple, she chose to study hard. Field investigation, specimen collection, classification research... She really fell in love with this major, and the more she learned, the more interesting it became, but this senior was quite "annoying", "From the field to the laboratory, he has to take care of everything, and he can't wait to teach me hand in hand." As time went by, people in the same school saw the "clue": the classmates were in love.
They have studied and lived in the Northeast and Northwest, but their work has taken them to the Southwest. In 2017, Zhang Chao (张超) joined the Forest Resources Protection Section of the Simian Mountain (四面山) Forest Resources Service Center in Jiangjin District (江津区), Chongqing (重庆), to "explore the way" first.
Why such a big span? Zhang Chao (张超) said: "There are many kinds of insects in the southwest, which is interesting."
The unit welcomed and worried about the enrichment of young scientific research forces: highly talented students, or people from other places, who came all the way to the front line of the deep mountains, could they be retained?
The following year, Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) also applied for the job. Wang Xiaocui (王小翠), deputy director of the Simian Mountain (四面山) Forest Resources Service Center, repeatedly said "unexpected joy", "They really came to 'settle down'!" Both parents are very open-minded: you have a companion, do what you like, and support you no matter how far away.
Sticking to Simian Mountain (四面山), Identifying More Than 700 Kinds of Moths
Simian Mountain (四面山) in Chongqing (重庆) is located at the junction of Chongqing (渝), Sichuan (川) and Guizhou (黔) provinces and cities, and the northern part of the Dalou Mountains (大娄山脉), with a prominent ecological status.
The couple took moth insects as the main direction of research. But studying moth insects in the mountains is very difficult: they are nocturnal animals, and field investigations can only be carried out late at night; collection depends entirely on light trapping, setting up a high-pressure mercury lamp and hanging a fiber cloth, and they stay in the valley all night; in the mountainous areas of southwest China, mosquitoes are rampant in the midsummer, and it is cold and humid in the winter, and wasps and ichneumon wasps attack from time to time and sting people through their pants...
The high-pressure mercury lamp is like the moon, attracting moths and beetles from all around, not only crawling all over the curtain, but also bumping and drilling into people's faces and clothes, forcing them to block their ears. Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) happens to be allergic, and gets itchy when she touches moth scales. She invented a protective method: wearing beekeeper's clothes, and over time, she was fine. "I completed psychological desensitization at school, and physical desensitization at Simian Mountain (四面山)," Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) said with a smile.
Long night, deep mountains. The couple took pictures, recorded, collected, and looked around at the moths that came for the light.
Ten years of perseverance, they have accurately identified more than 700 kinds of moth insects, collected more than 1,000 important specimens, and published an atlas of Lepidoptera insects in Simian Mountain (四面山), accumulating valuable first-hand information for studying the origin, evolution, distribution, survival status and changes of species in the local and surrounding areas.
Zhang Chao (张超) is most proud of the fact that they have discovered and identified 8 new species, such as Simian Mountain (四面山) Di苔蛾, Simian Mountain (四面山) Striated Thorn Moth, and Simian Mountain (四面山) Satin Spot Moth.
Late at night on March 3, 2019, a moth caught their attention: the wingspan was as wide as a palm, ochre red, slightly yellowish, with distinct characteristics, and they had never seen it before. In order to be more rigorous, the two tracked and collected evidence again, repeatedly compared with other experts, and sequenced genes. After three full years, they finally published and identified this new species in an international authoritative journal.
At that time, their daughter "Little Moon" was already half a year old. Zhang Chao (张超) prepared a special gift for his wife, naming the new species after her name: Xinyu (芯语) Red Hawk Moth.
Zhang Chao (张超), who is very familiar with his profession, said the most romantic words in the most scientific tone: "Moth insects have lived on the earth for at least 100 million years. When future generations see its name, it is the best proof of the love and passion between me and Xinyu (芯语)."
Exploring Protection and Prevention, Using Love to Drive More People
All things in nature coexist and depend on each other. For moth insects, protection and prevention are two sides of the same coin.
Zhang Chao (张超) now has a new position: Director of the Wildlife Epidemic Source and Disease Monitoring Station of the Simian Mountain (四面山) Forest Resources Service Center in Jiangjin District (江津区), Chongqing (重庆). Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) has also begun to contact forest pest forecasting work. She said: "It's not that the more insects the better, the ecosystem needs to maintain a dynamic balance." She identified more than 10 kinds of newly occurring pests, and released the dynamic of insect conditions such as the Yellow Two-Star Boat Moth in Chongqing (重庆) for the first time... Rich experience in moth species research has brought new explorations for forest pest control.
Pine wilt disease is known as the "cancer" of pine trees. Nematodes are very small and are spread by the host pine sawyer beetle. "The diseased pine trees die in more than 30 days, and the entire forest turns red." Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) innovatively used biological control methods, using the natural enemy of the beetle, the flower velvet beetle, to accurately control pests. "From the laboratory to the promotion and application, the number of pest spots, diseased areas, and dead pine trees is expected to continue to decline, bringing significant economic, ecological, and social benefits."
In 2024, Zhang Chao (张超) and Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) won the title of "Good People in China (中国好人)". Turning a "niche" major into a passion, the couple's choice has driven more people: Cheng Lei (程磊), a young colleague born in 1999, was also "brought into the pit" by them, self-taught observation and monitoring software, and became fascinated by the myriad colors of the microscopic world; Xiong Gang (熊刚), a patroller of the Simian Mountain (四面山) Nature Reserve, developed a strong interest in bird protection, bought professional bird watching equipment himself, and turned patrolling the mountains into a pleasure...
A couple, heading south for thousands of miles; a deep mountain, 10 years of perseverance. The life that is boring, hard, or even "weird" in the eyes of others is love, daily life, and happiness for them.
The night is dark, in Simian Mountain (四面山), Zhang Chao (张超) and Zhang Xinyu (张芯语) are still guarding the lights, guarding the moths, and guarding the mountains. Enjoying it, with their own light.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 26th (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)): As the Qingming Festival (清明节) approaches, to ensure the overall stability of national forest and grassland fire prevention and control, the State Council Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters Office (国家森防指办公室) recently made special arrangements to do a good job in forest and grassland fire prevention and control during the Qingming Festival (清明节) period.
The State Council Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters Office (国家森防指办公室) emphasized that during the fire prevention period, forest and grassland fire prevention zones must strictly implement the "Seven Prohibitions": Strictly prohibit carrying fire sources and flammable and explosive materials; strictly prohibit burning paper money and setting off fireworks, etc.; strictly prohibit making fires for heating, picnicking, barbecuing, and lighting; strictly prohibit burning mountains and wastelands without approval; strictly prohibit smoking and littering cigarette butts in the wild; strictly prohibit hunting and setting fires to drive away animals; strictly prohibit illegal fire operations.
The State Council Forest Fire Prevention Headquarters Office (国家森防指办公室) requires that forest and grassland fire prevention and control work be carried out with stricter requirements and greater efforts, achieving "Six Musts": It is necessary to vigorously promote green and low-carbon tomb sweeping, guiding the public to adopt methods such as offering flowers and planting trees to remember and cherish the deceased; it is necessary to increase publicity efforts and actively create a strong atmosphere of "fire-free tomb sweeping, jointly protecting green mountains"; it is necessary to ensure that forces are deployed downwards, guarantees are inclined downwards, and checkpoints are moved forward, and to make every effort to open up the "last mile" of work implementation; it is necessary to ensure fire fighting safety and strictly implement safety rules; it is necessary to strengthen the investigation and handling of fire cases, quickly investigate, quickly handle, and quickly expose fire cases, strengthen the connection between administrative and criminal justice, and seriously pursue accountability; it is necessary to strengthen warning education, use cases to warn and promote rectification, and form a strong deterrent.
Return to TopOn March 26, Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), Hebei Province (河北省), Qiaodongli Primary School (桥东里小学) in Haigang District (海港区) carried out outdoor activities such as kite flying and rope skipping, allowing students to enjoy the warm spring sunshine. The picture shows students skipping rope.
Photo by Cao Jianxiong (曹建雄) (Image China (影像中国))
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 26th (Reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男)): On March 26th, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (中关村论坛) Annual Parallel Forum—National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure Open Sharing Forum and the Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center (怀柔综合性国家科学中心) Major Achievement Release Conference was held in the Huairou Science City (怀柔科学城) · City Living Room. The reporter learned that among the 37 science and technology facilities planned for the Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center (怀柔综合性国家科学中心), 17 science and technology facilities have been opened to the world, serving more than 1,000 innovation entities in more than 30 countries and regions.
At the event, eight major breakthrough achievements of the Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center (怀柔综合性国家科学中心) were released, including the ultra-short laser pulse width breaking through to below 50 attoseconds, achieving internationally leading ultrafast time resolution; the first domestic airborne glacier three-dimensional perspective radar achieving a major breakthrough; the China (中国) Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station realizing the official operation of a five-station network; and the first discovery of "quasi-solid" water, etc.
The Huairou Comprehensive National Science Center (怀柔综合性国家科学中心) has a planned area of over 100 square kilometers. As of the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan," the completion rate of the planned building scale is nearly 60%, the realization rate of the starting area plan reaches 85%, and the infrastructure completion rate reaches 91%. Currently, 4 of the 6 large scientific facilities have passed national acceptance and are officially operating.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘洪超
Promoting Chinese-style modernization requires the efficient development and utilization of the ocean. Last year, China's gross ocean product exceeded 11 trillion yuan, indicating enormous development potential. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to promote the high-quality development of the marine economy. How should this be coordinated and advanced? General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that, in terms of overall thinking, we must "pay more attention to innovation-driven development," "pay more attention to efficient collaboration," "pay more attention to industrial upgrading," "pay more attention to harmony between people and the ocean," and "pay more attention to cooperation and win-win results." Starting today, this edition launches a series of reports titled "Economic Focus: Focusing on the Marine Economy" to showcase the vigorous vitality of the marine economy as it rides the waves and develops towards new horizons.
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In the northern sea area of the Manyhua Wharf in Suoyu Bay (梭鱼湾) in Dalian (大连), Liaoning (辽宁), waves gently lap against the shore. Yuan Guoliang (袁国良), a researcher at the Liaoning Provincial Underwater Robot Engineering Research Center, is bending over to debug equipment. With a light press of his fingertip, an orange underwater robot slowly dives into the water. On the screen, underwater pile foundations, details of the shoreline, and other features are clearly visible. The robot transmits real-time data on water quality, siltation, and other factors, accumulating crucial data for the restart of this old wharf.
Aiming at the front line of the marine industry, developing underwater harvesting robots
"Wearing a heavy diving suit and plunging into the icy sea, you can only work for four or five hours a day at most, and you need four or five people to assist, including a captain and observers." Recalling the past few years, Ma Yongxiang (马永祥), head of Dalian Yixian Cold Water Seafood Company, couldn't help but sigh. In Dalian (大连), people call those engaged in underwater aquaculture and harvesting "Hai Pengzi (海碰子)." This special occupation carries the livelihood of coastal people, but also involves risks and hardships.
Underwater currents surge, and water pressure is ever-present. Carelessness can easily lead to danger. Long-term underwater work is also a test of physical strength. "Nowadays, not many young people are willing to do this hard work." However, the harvesting of bottom-sown and cultured sea treasures such as abalone and sea cucumber in China has not yet broken away from the "manual diving + traditional tools" model.
"If the industry has needs, we must respond in a timely manner," said Fu Xianping (付先平), Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology at Dalian Maritime University and Director of the Liaoning Provincial Underwater Robot Engineering Research Center. The center has rooted itself in the front line of the marine industry, focusing precisely and tackling key problems in a targeted manner.
After years of refinement, the center's independently developed "Haiying (海鹰)" series of underwater harvesting robots are equipped with customized special harvesting grippers that can accurately identify and grab sea cucumbers, abalone, and other items, and can also automatically collect them. Operators at the ground station on the shore can see the underwater environment in real time through the screen. After the operation, the robot can also autonomously surface and complete recovery, without the need for personnel to enter the water throughout the entire process.
In the sea area of Xiaochangshan Island (小长山岛) in Changhai County (长海县), Dalian (大连), the "Haiying (海鹰)" underwater robot is flexibly shuttling on the seabed in the aquaculture base of Dalian Yixian Cold Water Seafood Co., Ltd., systematically sampling seafood. "In the past, manual sampling could only complete 3 to 4 points per day at most. Now with this robot, we can handle more than 40 points a day, increasing efficiency several times over," said Ma Yongxiang (马永祥), squatting on the shore and introducing the robot on the screen.
Multi-disciplinary integration to tackle key problems, building an integrated intelligent equipment collaborative system
The marine environment is complex and changeable, making it a natural testing ground for underwater robot development. Nearshore shallow seas have rapid currents and turbid water, with extremely low underwater visibility, making it difficult for ordinary cameras to see targets clearly. The impact of currents also affects the robot's operating accuracy. More challenging is the inconvenience of underwater data transmission, making it difficult to achieve real-time control. These problems have long restricted the development of underwater intelligent equipment.
In order to overcome these difficulties, the Liaoning Provincial Underwater Robot Engineering Research Center has established a multi-disciplinary integration mechanism, with more than 80 researchers from different colleges working together to carry out technical research.
To enable the robot to see clearly and find the right objects in turbid seawater, it must first be equipped with eyes. The team spent two years building an accurate optical imaging model for turbid water, and innovatively proposed an underwater image clear imaging technology based on polarization characteristics, successfully solving the problem of blurred underwater visual perception.
Addressing the difficulty of underwater target recognition, the team drew on the selective attention mechanism of the human brain's vision and proposed a sensitive spectral fingerprint feature extraction technology, enabling the robot to accurately distinguish sea cucumbers, abalone, and seabed rocks and seaweed, avoiding mis-grabs and missed grabs, and improving operational efficiency.
Regarding underwater communication, the team proposed an underwater high-speed data transmission technology based on visible light arrays, enabling efficient collaborative operation of multiple robots. At the same time, it built an integrated intelligent equipment collaborative system of "underwater-surface-low altitude," comprehensively utilizing multi-source information perception to break through the perception limitations in complex marine environments.
Today, the "Haiying (海鹰)" and "Haiou (海鸥)" series of underwater robots independently developed by Fu Xianping's (付先平) team have been applied in many scenarios in Dalian's (大连) marine industry. Various sensing devices carried by the robots can accurately collect environmental parameters such as temperature and salinity in different underwater layers. The visual system captures real-time growth images of sea treasures, and combined with intelligent models, it can also assist in judging the health status of organisms. The execution end, equipped with customized robotic arms and harvesting equipment, can achieve precise harvesting of sea treasures, making aquaculture and harvesting intelligent and efficient.
Establishing an innovation platform to accelerate the landing of scientific research results
Aiming at the forefront of science and technology, rooted in industrial needs. In 2025, the Smart Ocean Information Technology Public Innovation Platform was officially unveiled. This platform, jointly established by Dalian Maritime University and Dalian Zhangzidao Fishery Group Co., Ltd. (大连獐子岛海洋发展集团有限公司), unites the Liaoning Provincial Underwater Robot Engineering Research Center, Dalian Xinghaiwan Laboratory (大连星海湾实验室), Dalian Haifa Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (大连海发智能装备有限公司), and other parties to accelerate the landing of scientific research results on the front line of production.
"We are based on the characteristic industrial belt of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea nearshore shallow sea, and promote the collaborative efforts of industry, academia, research, and application," said Wang Huibing (王辉兵), head of the platform. By integrating the scientific research resources of universities, the technical strength of scientific research institutes, and the industrial advantages of marine-related enterprises, it has built an open and shared public service carrier for marine information technology, enabling the scientific research direction of universities to better meet the needs of enterprises, and enabling enterprises' technical problems to quickly find scientific research solutions.
With the support of the platform, a professional pilot test base integrating marine environment simulation, real sea condition verification, and complete pilot test supporting facilities has emerged. In this pilot test base, the "Haiying (海鹰)," "Haiou (海鸥)," and other series of robots are rapidly iterated and upgraded, continuously adapting to the new needs of the marine industry.
Today, the platform's innovative achievements are widely serving major national projects: "Haiou I (海鸥Ⅰ号)" went to the site of the first 630 square millimeter cross-sectional area submarine cable laying project in Northeast China to complete underwater real-time supervision tasks and ensure construction safety; "Haiou II (海鸥Ⅱ号)" was involved in offshore drilling platform installation assistance and pipeline inspection work, safeguarding oil and gas development safety in the sea; the independently developed Arctic scientific research underwater robot followed the scientific expedition team to collect underwater environmental data; and the underwater dam defect detection robot was successfully delivered to a research institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, playing an important role in water conservancy projects and realizing cross-border applications in multiple fields.
Behind the innovation is talent support. "Tempering skills in practice is the appearance of youth," said Chen Hongming (陈鸿铭), a 26-year-old doctoral student at Dalian Maritime University, who is now deeply involved in several major underwater robot research and development projects. "We adhere to the talent training concept of 'growing in actual combat,' and reserve sufficient talent for innovation through industry-education integration and collaborative education," said Fu Xianping (付先平). Up to now, the Liaoning Provincial Underwater Robot Engineering Research Center has presided over the completion of nearly 60 various scientific and technological projects, published more than 300 papers, independently developed 10 generations of underwater robots, and won more than 20 various awards.
Above the azure blue, the wind of innovation is strong; in the deep sea, exploration never stops. From the deep-sea labor of "Hai Pengzi (海碰子)" to the efficient shuttling of underwater robots, from the perseverance of technical research to the landing and empowerment of innovative achievements, China's marine economy is breaking through with innovation and striving towards the deep blue.
Return to TopBy: 曹海军
The ocean is a strategic area for high-quality development. As the only coastal province in Northeast China, Liaoning Province has 2,200 kilometers of mainland coastline spanning the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, possessing unique marine resource endowments and location advantages. In recent years, Liaoning has thoroughly implemented the marine power strategy, integrated elements such as science and technology, talent, and industry, broken development bottlenecks, and promoted the transformation of the marine economy from factor-driven to innovation-driven.
Liaoning has complete innovation elements. There are currently 22 undergraduate universities in Liaoning Province involved in marine economy-related fields, 12 related doctoral programs, 39 master's programs, 7 provincial-level modern industrial colleges, and 145 various marine-related scientific research platforms, constructing a full-chain innovation carrier covering basic research to applied research.
In addition, Liaoning focuses on key areas, builds diversified innovation platforms, and empowers the upgrading of the marine industry. A number of technologically leading innovative leading enterprises integrate innovation resources such as universities, research institutes, and upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to jointly form innovation consortia, forming a good innovation ecosystem.
In the future, Liaoning needs to continuously strengthen platform collaboration, break down element barriers, improve policy and talent guarantees, deepen regional cooperation, and promote the quality and efficiency of innovation platforms. Taking platform innovation as an engine, it will continue to release the development potential of the marine economy, promote the high-quality development of the marine economy, and contribute to the construction of a strong marine country.
(The author is the Dean of the National Governance Research Institute of Northeastern University (东北大学), compiled by Liu Hongchao (刘洪超), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋朝军
"Your apples are really something!" The first-time buyer praised, examining the Red Delicious apples in his hand, using the Gansu (甘肃) dialect he had just learned, making Wu Shudong (吴曙东) next to him laugh. As the head of the Dongfengyuan Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative (东丰源种植农民专业合作社), he has been particularly busy lately.
In the Xintian Cold Storage (鑫田冷库) in Maiji District (麦积区), Tianshui City (天水市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), boxes upon boxes of Red Delicious apples are plump, large, and richly colored. More than 30 workers are skillfully packing and shipping them, with each apple being transported to all parts of the country.
Tianshui (天水) straddles the Yellow River (黄河) and Yangtze River (长江) basins, located at the junction of the north and south. Hills, mountains, and river valleys intermingle, with altitudes between 1,000 and 2,100 meters. The climate is warm and humid, with a large temperature difference between day and night, and the loess soil is rich in nutrients, making it an ideal ecological zone for apple growth. In the 1950s, the people of Tianshui (天水) cultivated the Red Delicious apple. At the beginning of this century, the local area built the Nanshan Red Delicious Apple Base (南山花牛苹果基地) and others, but the scale and quantity were still very limited.
In 2012, Wu Shudong (吴曙东), who was doing business elsewhere, returned to his hometown. On the winding mountain road, looking at the vast stretches of barren mountains, he felt a sense of urgency: "We shouldn't waste such good conditions." The following year, Wu Shudong (吴曙东) took the initiative to return to his hometown and established the Dongfengyuan Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative (东丰源种植农民专业合作社) in Maiji District (麦积区), planting fruit trees on 300 acres of barren mountains.
Selecting rootstocks, grafting, "laying the foundation" for fruit trees, supporting fertilization, nourishing roots and strengthening trees, irrigating and mulching... From 2019, thousands of fruit trees gradually began to enter their peak fruiting period. Especially in the past two years, the Red Delicious apples have won market recognition for their upright shape and delicate, dense flesh.
Quality is guaranteed, but the stamina must be sufficient. From 2024, Wu Shudong (吴曙东), together with experts from the Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (甘肃省农科院), Gansu Agricultural University (甘肃农业大学), and municipal and district agricultural departments, conducted experiments and brainstormed ideas in the forests and fields to gradually reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In 2025, in Wu Shudong's (吴曙东) orchard, organic fertilizer became the main force in each round of fertilization, and physical methods such as insecticidal lamps became the key to insect prevention. Chemical pesticides were nowhere to be seen, and the naturally formed Red Delicious apples were still crisp, juicy, and had five prominent ridges. "More scientific and greener planting gives us greater confidence," said Wu Shudong (吴曙东). He also switched from fan-cooled storage to a brand-new aluminum-row cold storage, which has a more uniform temperature distribution and longer storage time, ensuring better preservation of the apples.
Good apples bring a good life to the villagers. Picking, sorting, packing... each step is completed by the surrounding villagers. "There are 9 established villages nearby. During the slack farming season, villagers can come voluntarily and earn up to 150 yuan a day," Wu Shudong (吴曙东) introduced. In addition to harvesting, weeding, insect prevention, thinning flowers and fruits in the orchard also require the surrounding villagers. In addition to the more than 20 long-term employees, there are also 60 to 100 seasonal daily-wage villagers needed every day for more than half of the year. At the same time, more than 90 households can also have land transfer income.
The local planting and harvesting of apples are not a problem, but transportation has become a key factor. From 2024 to now, Maiji District (麦积区) has newly built 24 industrial roads, totaling more than 70 kilometers, and completed 87 village road safety life protection projects, totaling more than 210 kilometers. Red Delicious apples can be transported down the mountain more smoothly, and each small road connects national highways and expressways. "For most parts of the country, Red Delicious apples can be shipped out of the warehouse and arrive on the same day, and the farthest will not exceed 3 days," Wu Shudong (吴曙东) introduced.
As of the end of 2025, the apple cultivation area in Tianshui City (天水市) was 1.327 million mu, with a total output of 2.87 million tons. Among them, the Red Delicious apple cultivation area was 869,000 mu, with an output of 1.98 million tons.
"Let's work harder, the Red Delicious apples are red, and life will be even more prosperous!" Wu Shudong (吴曙东) wiped his sweat and continued to shuttle between the cold storage, semi-trailer trucks, and negotiation rooms.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Guangzhou (广州) March 26th dispatch (Reporters Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州) and Han Xin (韩鑫)) On the morning of March 26th, the key control project of the Lion Ocean Channel (狮子洋通道), a core hub project of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), the Lion Ocean Bridge (狮子洋大桥), achieved the capping of its east and west main towers, transitioning to the upper structure construction phase.
As the first double-layer composite highway channel in the Pearl River Estuary (珠江口), the Lion Ocean Channel (狮子洋通道) is another major transportation strategic project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) after the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) and the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge (深中通道), with a total length of approximately 35 kilometers. Its key control project, the Lion Ocean Bridge (狮子洋大桥), connects Nansha (南沙) in Guangzhou (广州) at one end and Dongguan (东莞) at the other, adopting a double-layer steel truss suspension bridge scheme to "cross the river in one span." Upon completion, the project will set five world records for the main span of double-layer suspension bridges, the number of lanes, the height of the main towers, the diameter of the anchorages, and the diameter of the main cables.
Once completed, the Lion Ocean Channel (狮子洋通道) project will play an important role in improving the road network structure on the east and west banks of the Pearl River (珠江), alleviating traffic pressure on cross-river channels in the Pearl River Estuary (珠江口), and promoting infrastructure connectivity in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)): The Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) released data on the 26th showing that in the first two months of this year, China completed a port cargo throughput of 2.87 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 7.2%. Container throughput reached 58.77 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%, of which foreign trade throughput increased by 13.7% year-on-year. Against the backdrop of deepening external environmental changes, foreign trade production has demonstrated strong resilience.
"Since the beginning of this year, many major transportation indicators have improved, and the overall economic operation has achieved a good start," said Zhou Jian (周健), Deputy Director of the Information Center of the Academy of Transportation Sciences of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部科学研究院).
The main freight indicators show good growth. In the first two months, 8.3 billion tons of commercial freight volume was completed, a year-on-year increase of 6.5%. By mode of transport, railway, highway, waterway, and civil aviation freight volumes were 820 million tons, 6.15 billion tons, 1.34 billion tons, and 1.6 million tons respectively, representing year-on-year increases of 1.6%, 6.6%, 9.0%, and 12.2% respectively. The main freight indicators have all maintained relatively rapid growth.
The flow of people continues to be strong. In the first two months, 12.38 billion inter-regional passenger trips were completed, with an average daily completion of 210 million trips. By mode of transport, railway and civil aviation passenger volumes were 760 million and 130 million respectively, representing year-on-year increases of 2.6% and 3.9% respectively; highways completed 11.45 billion passenger trips, a year-on-year increase of 0.5%.
The scale of transportation investment remains high. Driven by a number of major projects, the scale of transportation fixed asset investment has remained high since the beginning of this year. In the first two months, 355.8 billion yuan of transportation fixed asset investment was completed. By mode of transport, railway completed 72.2 billion yuan of investment; highway completed 244.9 billion yuan of investment; waterway completed 28 billion yuan of investment; and civil aviation completed 10.7 billion yuan of investment.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷)): The National Energy Administration (国家能源局) released data showing that as of the end of February, the country's cumulative power generation installed capacity was 3.95 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 15.9%. Among them, the installed capacity of solar power generation was 1.23 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 33.2%; the installed capacity of wind power was 650 million kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 22.8%.
From January to February, the country's newly added power generation installed capacity was 65.91 million kilowatts. Among them, newly added solar power generation was 32.48 million kilowatts, and newly added wind power was 11.04 million kilowatts, accounting for more than 66% of the newly added power generation installed capacity.
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the development speed and intensity of wind power and photovoltaic in China have been unprecedented. The newly added installed capacity has repeatedly reached new levels, with an average annual increase of 260 million kilowatts. By the end of 2025, the total installed capacity will reach 1.84 billion kilowatts, accounting for 47% of the total power installed capacity, historically exceeding thermal power and becoming the largest power source in the system.
The relevant person in charge of the New Energy and Renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局新能源和可再生能源司) introduced that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to fully expand the supply of renewable energy, promote the gradual coverage of newly added clean energy power generation to the newly added electricity demand of the whole society, and promote the construction of major projects, including accelerating the construction of new energy bases in the "Sand, Gobi, and Desert" (沙戈荒) areas, promoting the standardized and orderly construction of offshore wind power, and accelerating the planning and construction of integrated hydro-wind-solar bases in major river basins.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘鑫焱 郑洋洋
In Guangling County (广灵县), Datong (大同), Shanxi (山西) Province, entering the Qineng Technology (秦能科技) Super Energy Integrated Complex Computing Power Park, one sees rows of pure white, flat-roofed buildings rising from the ground. Inside the machine rooms, the indicator lights of high-density server rack arrays blink rhythmically. A group of locally-recruited operation and maintenance engineers are undergoing onboarding training, providing technical support for the stable operation of this computing power park.
"Unlike traditional data centers, this group of engineers has both computing infrastructure and new energy operation and maintenance talent, which can ensure the stable consumption of green electricity provided by the power generation base 20 kilometers away, realizing computing-electricity synergy and integrated energy-computing," said Xu Jun (许俊), General Manager of the Qineng Technology (秦能科技) Park Business Unit. The first phase of the Super Energy Integrated Complex Computing Power Park covers an area of 150 mu, with a planned total IT capacity of 120 MW, and is a computing infrastructure cluster that vertically integrates basic resources such as energy, computing power, data, and networks.
"Datong (大同) has obvious advantages in developing the computing power industry, which is very attractive to enterprises," Xu Jun (许俊) said. Datong (大同) is rich in energy resources such as coal power and new energy, and is also adjacent to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) computing power demand center, with a network latency of less than 3 milliseconds. In addition, the local climate is cool, with an average annual temperature of 6.4 degrees Celsius, and natural cooling lasts for 10 months, which can save 30% of energy consumption under the same technical conditions. Xu Jun (许俊) introduced that the park is equipped with a "wind and solar co-location" project 20 kilometers away, and a 250 MW ultra-large-scale photovoltaic power generation base has been connected to the grid, which can achieve an annual power generation of 450 million kilowatt-hours. The park will further realize the nearby consumption of green energy and computing-electricity synergy through methods such as direct green electricity supply. In addition, the park is also equipped with high-performance centralized energy storage to effectively reduce energy costs.
"Datong's (大同) industrial form is transforming from 'watts' to 'bits,' and resource advantages are gradually being transformed into development advantages," said Han Jie (韩杰), Party Secretary and Director of the Datong (大同) Municipal Data Bureau (大同市数据局). As a large comprehensive energy supply base, the proportion of new energy and other renewable energy installed capacity in Datong's (大同) current power installed capacity has exceeded 56%, which is at a leading level in the country. In recent years, Datong (大同) has orderly promoted the construction and layout of computing power centers, improved the supply capacity and resource utilization efficiency of intelligent computing resources, and built a closed-loop system of the computing power industry of "hardware manufacturing - computing power services - data application - supporting services," using the computing power industry to promote economic transformation, and striving to achieve a leap from "transporting coal and electricity" to "transporting computing power and services."
"Upstream, we have successively introduced industrial entities such as server manufacturing and power distribution facilities. Downstream, we have introduced and cultivated more than 60 call labeling data enterprises such as JD Logistics (京东物流) and Shanghai Runxun (上海润迅), cumulatively driving more than 33,000 person-times of employment nearby," said Han Jie (韩杰). At present, Datong (大同) has completed a total investment of over 30 billion yuan in computing power centers, and has built over 410,000 standard racks, with an overall rack occupancy rate of 92%. "Next, Datong (大同) will accelerate the integration of power and computing power, promote computing-electricity synergy reform, improve green electricity supply capacity, and build a green computing power industry cluster; at the same time, it will accelerate the construction progress of computing power centers under construction, and improve the local consumption capacity of new energy and computing power supply capacity," said Han Jie (韩杰).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter Gu Yekai (谷业凯)) The National Supercomputing Internet announced the launch of a new round of "word element" gifting activities on the 25th. This activity is open to all users of the platform, with a limited-time free distribution of up to 30 million word elements per person.
The National Supercomputing Internet, initiated and guided by the Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部), was officially launched in April 2024. It aims to bring efficient and inclusive computing services to various cutting-edge application scenarios, making computing power as freely circulating, efficient, and easy to use as water and electricity. As of the end of 2025, the National Supercomputing Internet has served more than 1 million users, with more than 7,300 application products, a peak of 1.03 million jobs processed per day, and a cumulative support for the operation of 196 million jobs, reducing computing costs and usage thresholds, and empowering innovation to accelerate.
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赏花
覆之如铃仰如爵，
赤瓣熊熊星有角。
浓须大面好英雄，
壮气高冠何落落。
——《木棉花歌》清·陈恭尹
The weather is gradually warming up. In Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), Sichuan Province (四川省), the kapok flowers are blooming vigorously. On the banks of the emerald green Jinsha River (金沙江), huge flowers are budding and blooming on trees dozens of meters high, exuding vibrant vitality.
Kapok flowers are also known as hero flowers. According to statistics, there are about 1.4 million kapok trees growing in Panzhihua City (攀枝花市). In 1987, the 29th meeting of the Third People's Congress Standing Committee of Panzhihua City (攀枝花市三届人大常委会第二十九次会议) determined the kapok flower as the city flower. A flower that blooms every year and a city that prospered due to the Third Front Construction (三线建设) are connected in the high mountains and deep valleys of the Hengduan Mountains (横断山脉), jointly writing a magnificent chapter of struggle.
The Flower of Entrepreneurship, Witnessing the Pioneering Journey
The Panzhihua (攀枝花) area has been documented in writing as early as 2,000 years ago. From the Ming Dynasty (明代) to before the establishment of the city, the city's territory was divided between Sichuan (四川) and Yunnan (云南).
In the 1940s, geologists Chang Longqing (常隆庆) and Liu Zhixiang (刘之祥) went to the Panxi (攀西) area to explore for minerals and stayed overnight in a small village with only seven households and a tall kapok tree at the entrance. Under the tree, they found two pieces of iron ore, thus discovering the Panzhihua (攀枝花) vanadium-titanium magnetite.
In the 1960s, the strategic decision of the Third Front Construction (三线建设) was established, and the construction of the Panzhihua (攀枝花) iron and steel industrial base began. "At that time, newly built large and medium-sized iron and steel joint enterprises generally adopted the model of 'large flat ground, large factory area, and large railway'," said Xu Peng (徐鹏), a fourth-level researcher at the Party History Research Office of the Panzhihua Municipal Party Committee (攀枝花市委党史研究室). The main factory site of Panzhihua Iron and Steel (攀钢) was located in Nongnongping (弄弄坪), with an area of only 2.5 square kilometers, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the river on one side. The natural terrain had a maximum slope of 50%, making construction very difficult. The designers, based on the actual situation, creatively carried out a multi-step vertical layout, leveling the hillside into 23 small terraces, and building a compact and complete iron and steel joint enterprise in a limited space. After the completion of Panzhihua Iron and Steel (攀钢), it was known as the "Miniature Steel City."
Simultaneous with the construction of Panzhihua Iron and Steel (攀钢), the Panzhihua Special Zone (攀枝花特区) was established in February 1965, implementing the integration of government and enterprise to ensure industrial construction. In April of the same year, the Panzhihua Special Zone (攀枝花特区) was externally called Dukou City (渡口市), and the young city began to grow rapidly. In January 1987, Dukou City (渡口市) was renamed Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), becoming the only prefecture-level city in the country named after a flower, and since then began to write the development poem of "a flower is a city, and a city is a flower."
Today, walking on the streets of Panzhihua (攀枝花), the mixed accents bring people back to the passionate years of the Third Front Construction (三线建设). "Hundreds of thousands of builders from all over the country dedicated their youth and shed their blood here, which led to the birth and development of Panzhihua (攀枝花)," said Xu Peng (徐鹏). They worked hard and built a vibrant city in the wilderness with no roads, no water, no electricity, and no housing. Many people have taken root here and have a common name - Panzhihua people (攀枝花人).
In Lanjian Community (兰尖社区), Guaziping Street (瓜子坪街道), Dong District (东区), the old site of "seven households and one tree" has been designated as the "city origin." "We are constantly enriching the connotation of the historical and cultural block by restoring historical buildings and building the Lanjian Story Museum (兰尖故事博物馆), so that more people can feel the 'Third Front Spirit' (三线精神) here," said Zou Lulu (邹璐潞), Secretary of the Party Committee of Lanjian Community (兰尖社区).
"Panzhihua (攀枝花) has witnessed the pioneering road of 筚路蓝缕 (bì lù lán lǚ - "driving a cart with a broken shaft, wearing tattered clothes," to start an undertaking in hardship), symbolizes the heroic spirit of selfless dedication, and is highly consistent with the city's pioneering and enterprising spirit," said Xu Peng (徐鹏).
The Flower of Endeavor, Accompanying Development and Transformation
At the Lazha Ancient Ferry (拉鲊古渡) in Dalongtan Yi Ethnic Township (大龙潭彝族乡), Renhe District (仁和区), a tall and vigorous kapok tree is in full bloom. Under the tree, some people look up to admire the flowers, some focus on taking pictures, and some rest and chat, which is very lively.
"This kapok tree is more than 300 years old, about 28 meters high, and has an average crown width of 31 meters. It is one of the most popular check-in points in the Jinsha River Grand Canyon Tourist Area (金沙江大峡谷旅游区)," said Liu Xing (刘星), Deputy Township Head of Dalongtan Township (大龙潭乡). The local area relies on the nearly 1,000 kapok trees distributed in the tourist area to attract tourists to admire the flowers, take pictures, and conduct research, and also plans to develop a series of seasonal flower-themed cultural and creative products, making the kapok flowers a bright business card to activate canyon tourism.
Yishala Village (迤沙拉村), Pingdi Town (平地镇), Renhe District (仁和区), in the tourist area, has red-walled and gray-tiled houses hidden among the green hills and fields, and tourists come and go in an endless stream. "As a famous Chinese historical and cultural village, our village has many ways to play. You can not only taste farm food and experience intangible cultural heritage skills, but also watch the stars at the Chuannan Astronomical Observatory (川南天文台) and enjoy the panoramic view of the Grand Canyon from the observation deck," said Mao Jianhua (毛建桦), Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Village Committee of Yishala Village (迤沙拉村). In 2025, Yishala Village (迤沙拉村) received a cumulative total of 887,000 tourists and achieved a business income of 146 million yuan.
The Jinsha River Grand Canyon Tourist Area (金沙江大峡谷旅游区) is an epitome of Panzhihua's (攀枝花) efforts to build a cultural tourism and health resort. The tourist area has a planned area of about 150 square kilometers and a core area of about 7.68 square kilometers. Construction began in 2022, and more than 500 million yuan has been integrated so far. By creating tourism routes such as water, iron, land, trails, and low-altitude, a three-dimensional tour system has been built, aiming to build a new landmark for cultural tourism and health, integrating canyon adventure, industrial exploration, ancient village exploration, and ecological exploration.
"The fiery red kapok flowers accompany us to explore the transformation and development path of resource-based cities," said Ma Wenchao (马文超), Chief of the Industry Section of the Panzhihua Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (攀枝花市文化广播电视和旅游局). By doing a good job in the integration of "health +" and promoting cultural tourism brands such as "Warm Flower City, Slow Life" (暖暖花城·慢慢生活), the construction of the health industry circle and strong chain has achieved good results. Panzhihua (攀枝花) has been among the top 20 cities in China for sustainable development of health for six consecutive years, attracting 500,000 people to spend the winter for health every year, and the added value of the cultural tourism and health industry reached 18 billion yuan in 2025.
The Flower of Happiness, Integrated into a Better Life
In Panzhihua (攀枝花), many residential areas are planted with kapok trees. When the flowers bloom, people pick up the flowers, wash and blanch the stamens, and then use them to stir-fry bacon, make cold dishes, and make soup to enjoy seasonal delicacies.
Kapok trees are majestic, with spreading branches and fast growth, and are native tree species, suitable as garden trees, street trees, and ornamental trees. In Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), there are 16,000 kapok trees used for urban landscaping.
In 2015, the Panzhihua China Third Front Construction Museum (攀枝花中国三线建设博物馆) was completed and opened. The special planting project of kapok trees around the museum also started. "We improved the soil in advance, selected seedlings cultivated from the local germplasm resource bank, and carried out refined maintenance such as watering, winter insulation, and prevention and control of diseases and insect pests. The small seedlings of that year have grown to 10-15 meters high, forming a 'hero flower corridor'," said Yan Guofu (闫国富), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Panzhihua Municipal Greening Service Center (攀枝花市园林绿化服务中心).
In the eyes of local residents, Panzhihua (攀枝花) is a city with a great sense of happiness. The sense of happiness is written in the ecological picture of blooming flowers all over the city, in the answer sheet of people's livelihood of living and working in peace and contentment, and even more in the ever-changing urban atmosphere -
Here, the construction of a common prosperity pilot zone is being steadily promoted. In 2025, the income ratio between urban and rural residents in Panzhihua City (攀枝花市) will be reduced to 2.0, and the proportion of middle-income groups will be increased to 54%;
Here, the entire region has been included in the Panxi Strategic Resource Innovation and Development Pilot Zone (攀西战略资源创新开发试验区), and there are 58 innovation platforms such as the National Vanadium and Titanium Magnetite Comprehensive Utilization Standardization Technical Committee (全国钒钛磁铁矿综合利用标准化技术委员会), and the comprehensive level index of scientific and technological innovation ranks among the top in Sichuan (四川);
Here, the construction of a gateway for Sichuan (四川) to open to the south is continuously being promoted. The new Chengdu-Kunming Railway (新成昆铁路) passes through the border, and the China-Laos train (Panzhihua) (中老班列（攀枝花）) realizes two-way monthly operation;
Here, efforts are being made to build a clean energy industry base, with multi-energy complementarity and coordinated development of "water, wind, solar, hydrogen, and storage," and the new energy industry ecosystem is accelerating its formation...
"Looking forward to the '15th Five-Year Plan,' our city will continue to be like the kapok flowers blooming enthusiastically, with petals depending on each other and flowers moving upward, constantly moving towards a better tomorrow with abundant industries, beautiful environment, harmonious culture, and sweet life," said Gao Di (郜迪), Director of the Social Construction Affairs Center of Panzhihua City (攀枝花市社会建设事务中心) and Deputy Director of the Municipal Common Prosperity Office (市委共富办).
Flower Note
Kapok Flower
Kapok flower, also known as kapok flower and hero flower, grows in dry and hot river valleys and sparse grasslands at an altitude of 1400-1700 meters, and can also grow in monsoon rainforests in valleys. The flowers are solitary at the top of the branches and in the axils of the leaves. The flowers are large and beautiful, with a diameter of up to 10-15 cm, usually red, and also have orange-red flowers, with fleshy petals. In dry and hot areas, the flowers open before the leaves. The flowers are edible and can be used as medicine.
The kapok tree is a deciduous large tree of the Bombacaceae family, with a height of up to 25 meters. The fruit is wrapped in white flocculent long fluff, and the fruit fluff can be used as environmentally friendly filling.
Source: Panzhihua Municipal Forestry Bureau (攀枝花市林业局)
By: 本报记者 王明峰
Whenever kapok flowers bloom all over the city streets and rural fields, some kapok trees with crowns like clouds, vigorous and upright, are particularly eye-catching. These are the ancient kapok trees of Panzhihua.
"There are a total of 44 ancient kapok trees in Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), Sichuan Province (四川省). The oldest is more than 300 years old, and the youngest is also 100 years old. Each one is a treasure in the hearts of the people of Panzhihua," said Zhang Guoxian (张国先), a senior engineer at the Forestry Technology Service Center of Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province. In the protection of ancient trees, the local area adopts management methods such as "one tree, one file" and "one tree, one policy" to allow the ancient trees to grow in a suitable environment.
In 2019, a kapok ancient tree growing on the bank of the Jinsha River (金沙江) had a significant reduction in flowering compared to previous years, which attracted the attention of Zhang Guoxian and his colleagues. While confirming that the ancient tree had not suffered from pests or diseases, they retrieved photos and other materials of the ancient tree for inspection. It turned out that a water plant was being built nearby, pushing soil around the ancient tree, making it impossible for the roots and trunk to breathe, resulting in a reduction in the amount of flowers. After cleaning up the piled soil, pest and disease prevention treatment and other treatments, the ancient tree recovered its vitality, and the following year it was full of flowers again.
In recent years, Panzhihua City has promoted the protection and utilization of ancient and famous tree resources, which not only protects the ecological value of ancient kapok trees, but also promotes their unique cultural value. Focusing on the integrated scenario of "ancient trees + culture + tourism," the local area has created 8 ancient tree parks, 4 of which are mainly based on ancient kapok trees. In the Lazha Kapok Ancient Tree Park (拉鲊木棉古树公园) in Dalongtan Yi Ethnic Township (大龙潭彝族乡), Renhe District (仁和区), lightning rods have been installed on the ancient trees; in the Sanyuan River Ancient Tree Park (三源河古树公园) in Yumen Town (渔门镇), Yanbian County (盐边县), retaining walls have been built around the ancient trees. "With our careful care, the ancient trees are growing well, and the ancient tree park attracts more than 300,000 tourists every year," said Zhang Guoxian.
Ancient kapok trees need to be taken care of as a priority, and the ancient tree "reserve force" cannot be ignored. Bao Xiaoqiang (包小强), Director of the Panzhihua City Forestry Bureau (攀枝花市林业局), introduced that there are currently 110 kapok trees in the city with ages ranging from 80 to 99 years old, and these subsequent resources of ancient trees have also received key attention and effective protection. In 2002, a planned urban road "collided" with two towering trees, one of which was a kapok tree. Move the trees or change the road? The local area chose to expand the road to both ends, retaining the area of the big trees as a road green belt. Today, the two big trees are lush, and this place has also become a bright "green island area" in the city.
From the protection of kapok trees, we can see the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" taking root. As a key state-owned forest area and water source conservation area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (长江), Panzhihua City continues to consolidate its ecological barrier, solidly promotes ecological environmental protection and ecological civilization construction, with a forest coverage rate of 62.4%, the rate of excellent and good ambient air quality maintained above 96%, the rate of excellent and good surface water assessment section water quality maintained at 100% for 7 consecutive years, and the per capita park green area reached 21 square meters. It has been awarded the titles of National Forest City and National Garden City.
"In 2026, we will promote the ecological protection and restoration project of the Jinsha River dry-hot valley, carry out mountain greening, create ecological forest belts, and accelerate the construction of a landscape garden city with 'clear water reflecting green mountains and sunshine shining on the flower city'," said Bao Xiaoqiang.
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Return to TopBy: 国防科技大学党的创新理论研究中心
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, focusing on "achieving the centenary goal of the army by the scheduled time and promoting the modernization of national defense and the military with high quality," proposed for the first time the requirement of "promoting the modernization of military governance." President Xi Jinping (习近平), when attending the plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force at the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress, emphasized "concentrating efforts to promote the steady and long-term development of the modernization of national defense and the military." This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and a crucial year for achieving the centenary goal of the army. Facing an important historical juncture and shouldering glorious missions and responsibilities, we must deeply understand the important significance of the modernization of military governance as an important aspect of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities. This is crucial for improving the quality and efficiency of the modernization of national defense and the military, promoting the steady and long-term development of the cause of strengthening the military, and continuously increasing the efforts in military governance to boost the high-quality development of the cause of strengthening the military with new enhancements in military governance.
Comprehensively strengthening military governance is a profound transformation of our Party's military governance philosophy and methods.
The level of governance determines the quality of development, and the modernization of governance is related to the process of strengthening the military. From the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposing "comprehensively strengthening military governance," to the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasizing "improving the military governance system," and then to the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposing the major proposition of "promoting the modernization of military governance," it reflects our Party's continuous and in-depth grasp of the laws of building and governing the military in the new era, reflects the overall requirements of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and will surely lead and promote the profound transformation of the concept and methods of governing the military.
President Xi Jinping's important thoughts on military governance mark a new height in our Party's understanding of the laws of Marxist military building and governance. In Marxist state theory, the state has the dual functions of "political rule" and "social governance," and the military, as an important component of the state apparatus, is an important guarantee force for national governance. Since the establishment of the People's Army, our Party has always attached importance to combining the basic principles of Marxism on governance with the specific practice of our army's military building and governance, and constantly explored the laws of operation of the military system, laying a solid foundation for the construction and development of the People's Army. From the promulgation of the "Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention" by our army in the early days, to the implementation of "Five Unifications and Four Natures" after the founding of New China, and then to the establishment of governing the army according to law and strictly governing the army as important guiding principles for army building after the reform and opening up, our Party's long-term emphasis on military governance has laid a solid foundation for the construction and development of our army.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping, focusing on boosting the new development of the cause of strengthening the military with new enhancements in military governance, explored the characteristics and laws of governing the military in the new era, made pioneering expositions on military governance, and scientifically answered the fundamental, directional, and overall major issues of comprehensively strengthening military governance. He put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new judgments on the great significance, scientific connotation, basic principles, goals and tasks, key points of focus, methods and paths, and responsibility requirements of comprehensively strengthening military governance. For example, in terms of leadership, he emphasized that "adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the army is the soul of strengthening the army," and comprehensively strengthening military governance is to better implement the fundamental principle and system of the Party's absolute leadership over the army, comprehensively and deeply implement the chairman responsibility system of the Central Military Commission, ensure that the gun is always under the command of the Party, and ensure that the People's Army will always be a strong pillar of socialism with Chinese characteristics; in terms of goal leadership, he emphasized that realizing the Party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era is the goal of comprehensively strengthening military governance, and also the direction of progress, "the entire army must accurately grasp this goal of strengthening the army and use it to lead army building, reform, and military struggle preparation"; in terms of fundamental standards, he emphasized "always adhering to combat effectiveness as the only fundamental standard," and comprehensively strengthening military governance must take improving combat effectiveness as the starting point and end result of the work; in terms of main content, he emphasized the systematic renewal of governance concepts and the profound transformation of military governance methods, realizing "the fundamental transformation from simply relying on administrative orders to administering according to law, the fundamental transformation from simply relying on habits and experience to relying on regulations and systems, and the fundamental transformation from blitz-style and campaign-style work to handling affairs in accordance with regulations," and improving the scientific, legal, and refined level of army building. President Xi Jinping's important thoughts on military governance are a profound summary of our Party's long-term successful experience in building and governing the military, reflecting the Party's profound understanding of the characteristics and laws of leading and governing the military in the new era, and providing direction and guidance for us to comprehensively improve our ability to win battles, improve the operational efficiency of the military system, and the efficiency of national defense resource utilization in the journey of strengthening the army and revitalizing the military.
The modernization of military governance proposed by our Party not only inherits the essence of excellent traditional Chinese military culture such as "the victory of soldiers lies in governance," but also absorbs the rational elements of Western military governance concepts. It is a theoretical and practical innovation based on China's national conditions and military situation. First, the modernization of military governance, as an important manifestation of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities in the military field, is both an activity and a process, and a state and a result; it is not only a comprehensive reflection of the army's construction and development status, operational management level, and functional role, but also embodies the dialectical development process of coordinating national governance and military governance, and strengthening the country and strengthening the army. Second, the modernization of military governance is a systematic design for the scientific governance of the army's entire field, all elements, and the entire cycle. It is the organic unity of the modernization of the military governance system and the modernization of military governance capabilities. It is necessary to optimize the allocation of subject powers, smooth the collaborative operation mechanism, substantiate the supervision and evaluation mechanism, and strengthen the supervision and enforcement mechanism through the construction and improvement of the military governance system, and also continuously improve the ability to manage, integrate, guide, adjust, and reform all aspects of military affairs in accordance with military policies and systems, and promote the development of national defense and army building. Third, the modernization of military governance enriches and expands the connotation and scope of the modernization of national defense and the military. It is not only a useful supplement to the modernization of military theory, the modernization of the army's organizational form, the modernization of military personnel, and the modernization of weapons and equipment, but also permeates the above modernization, promoting the effective improvement of the effectiveness of construction at all levels and in different fields. Finally, the modernization of military governance of our army has an essential difference in value pursuit from the military governance of all other armies of different natures: what we pursue is governance for the broadest masses of the people; capitalist military governance is governance for a few people, and is a tool and means for a few people to seek hegemony and seek private interests.
The modernization of military governance and the high-quality development of the army are interdependent and mutually reinforcing organisms, unified in the great practice of the modernization of national defense and the military. Development without quality, no matter how much is done, is useless, and some even become a burden and encumbrance to the troops, causing great waste. High-quality development, as the hard truth of the new era, further clarifies "what kind of development the People's Army should achieve," while the modernization of military governance answers the practical proposition of "how to support and guarantee the development of our army." Separated from the guidance of high-quality development, the modernization of military governance will lose its target direction; without high-level military governance, high-quality development will be difficult to sustain due to the lack of a stable environment and institutional guarantees.
On the one hand, the modernization of military governance provides impetus and support for the high-quality development of the army. To promote the modernization of military governance, it is necessary to build a complete, scientific, standardized, and effective socialist military system with Chinese characteristics, and effectively break through systemic obstacles, structural contradictions, and policy issues through institutional advantages, fully release the creative potential of various elements, realize the optimal allocation and efficient utilization of military resources, and clear obstacles, gather synergy, and inject momentum for high-quality development. On the other hand, the high-quality development of the army is a key yardstick for testing the level of modernization of military governance, directly reflecting the scientific nature of the military governance system, the effectiveness of policy implementation, and the coordination of institutional operation, and has a strong driving and enabling effect on the modernization of military governance, objectively forcing military governance to achieve adaptive changes in many aspects such as ideological concepts, systems and mechanisms, methods and approaches, and capacity guarantees. In general, both must unswervingly adhere to the Party's absolute leadership, adhere to the sacred duty of carrying guns for the people and fighting for the people, take advanced combat capability building as the direction, quality and efficiency as the core, technological innovation as the driving force, and systematic construction as the symbol, and promote each other and jointly act on the entire process of our army accelerating the modernization of national defense and the military and comprehensively building a world-class army.
Promoting the modernization of national defense and the military with high quality urgently requires doing a good job in this major article on the modernization of military governance.
Promoting the high-quality development of the army with the modernization of military governance is a major strategic issue that encompasses the overall situation, long-term construction, and dynamic development. To fully and accurately grasp its great significance, it needs to be understood in President Xi Jinping's grand strategy of governing the Party, the country, and the military, considered in the national governance system, and recognized in the great practice of strengthening the country and strengthening the army.
Incorporating the modernization of national defense and the military into the strategic deployment of Chinese-style modernization is the due meaning. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping, based on the "two overall situations," has comprehensively and systematically expounded the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements, and major principles of Chinese-style modernization, leading to the formation of a top-level design with goals, plans, and strategies, pointing out a broad road for building a strong country and national rejuvenation, and also clarifying the development direction and realization path of the modernization of national defense and the military. Among them, coordinating the promotion of high-efficiency governance and high-quality development is the overall and tractional task of promoting the modernization of national defense and the military. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the modernization of national defense and the military must shoulder the historical responsibility of supporting the construction of a strong country and the rejuvenation of the nation, and must plan and promote the modernization of military governance in the grand game of Chinese-style modernization in accordance with President Xi Jinping's strategic blueprint, ensure that the modernization of national defense and the military is promoted in conjunction with the modernization of national governance, resonate at the same frequency, achieve the synchronous improvement of national defense strength and economic strength, and promote the implementation of high-quality development in the field of national defense and military construction.
It is a realistic need to cope with unprecedented risks and challenges and achieve the centenary goal of the army as scheduled. The world today continues to undergo profound and complex changes, and strengthening the army and revitalizing the military faces new times and trends. On the road ahead, the risks and challenges we face will only become more complex, and we must be prepared to withstand major tests of high winds, rough seas, and even stormy waves. President Xi Jinping pointed out: "History and reality tell us that as long as we adhere to and improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and are good at using institutional strength to cope with risks, challenges, and shocks, we will be able to withstand pressure tests time and time again, and constantly turn crises into opportunities and be reborn from the ashes." Facing the rapidly changing international situation and the intricate and complex risks and challenges, it is urgent to accelerate the modernization of military governance and continuously improve the socialist military system with Chinese characteristics in order to achieve the centenary goal of the army as scheduled, and always maintain the vigorous vitality and strong execution of the institutional system, providing a strong guarantee for achieving the centenary goal of the army as scheduled.
It is an urgent move to solve the problem of the military system's unsmooth operation and accelerate the improvement of our army's development efficiency. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has actively promoted the exploration and practice of military governance, especially through deepening the reform of national defense and the military, promoting the rule of law in the military, and strengthening and improving the strategic management of the army, forming a series of brand-new systems and mechanisms, laws and regulations, and policies and systems. Our army's combat effectiveness has undergone chain fission and energy-level leap, and the People's Army has been reshaped, rebuilt, transformed, and upgraded, striding forward to become a world-class army. Today, our army is in a critical stage of improving quality and efficiency. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the tasks, standards, and investment in national defense and military construction are unprecedented, and extremely high requirements are put forward for precision, refinement, and leanness. However, our army still has problems such as the system's unsmooth operation, the lack of strong cross-domain coordination, and the inefficient integration of resources, which restrict the full release of system combat capabilities. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen military governance, strengthen the concept of the system and the thinking of the system, optimize the organizational form, straighten out command relations, integrate forces and resources, build a modern military governance system that promotes war preparation in an integrated manner and operates efficiently, and promote the modernization of national defense and the military to run out of the acceleration of high-quality development.
It is a way to strengthen the army by focusing on international military competition to seize the initiative and seek strategic initiative. President Xi Jinping pointed out: "Deeply promote reforms in leadership and command systems, force structures, and policy systems to provide strong institutional support for building a solid national defense and a strong army and winning military competitive advantages." At present, a new round of technological revolution and military revolution is accelerating, and the development of military intelligence is promoting major changes in the form of modern warfare. The concepts, elements, and methods of winning wars have undergone profound changes, and competition in the international military field continues to escalate. International military competition is ultimately a competition of military governance systems and governance capabilities. Whoever can maximize the integration of comprehensive strength and use strategic resources to promote innovation, especially technological innovation and the transformation of achievements, at the fastest speed and lowest cost, can seize the commanding heights and master the initiative. Only by closely following the trend of advanced technological change, building a "dual-wheel drive" model of system and technology, injecting technological momentum into system governance, promoting our army to achieve faster speed, higher quality, higher efficiency, and more sustainable development, transforming institutional advantages into development effectiveness, and forming a winning advantage with governance advantages, can we seize the initiative and win the future in the fierce international military competition.
Embark on a path of promoting the high-quality development of our army with the modernization of military governance.
With the continuous advancement of national defense and military construction, the overall, collaborative, and complex nature of the military system's operation has significantly increased, and the internal operating mechanism has undergone important changes. At the same time, our army has entered a critical period of transformation and leap, and puts forward newer and higher requirements for the operation of the military system. We must plan comprehensively, take into account all aspects, promote development with governance, and lead governance with development, and comprehensively improve the "quality" of modernization with the "governance" of modernization.
Transform ideological concepts. Promoting the modernization of military governance is a deep-seated transformation that touches the system and reflects the essence. It is also an all-round innovation from concept to method, from thought to action. We must promote the high-quality development of national defense and military construction with a broader vision and newer concepts. First, we must establish the concept of systematic governance. Be good at using systematic thinking to observe and analyze problems, strengthen the top-level design and strategic planning of military governance, do a good job in the overall connection of governance in various fields, the entire chain, and at all levels, and systematically promote it in a planned, focused, and step-by-step manner. Second, we must establish the concept of governing according to law. Run the thinking of the rule of law and the method of the rule of law through all fields and the entire process of military governance, give full play to the basic role of policies and systems in regulating military relations, standardizing military practice, and guaranteeing military development, and realize the transformation from "rule by man" to "rule of law" through scientific legislation and strict law enforcement, ensuring that military governance always operates on the track of the rule of law. Third, we must establish the concept of comprehensive governance. Fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of various governance forces, give play to the leading, standardizing, and guaranteeing role of the rule of law, and also pay attention to the nourishing, educating, and appealing role of moral governance; use both effective traditional administrative management methods and various high-tech means such as big data and intelligence to achieve the same direction of effort and collaborative governance. Fourth, we must establish the concept of source governance. Deeply analyze the deep-seated reasons that restrict the quality and efficiency of army building, grasp the source and fundamental factors such as policies and systems, systems and mechanisms, and standards and norms, and strive to eliminate various risks and hidden dangers in the bud through improving the source control mechanism, and realize the unity of symptomatic and radical treatment.
Grasping the Main Tasks. The modernization of military governance is a highly pioneering systematic project, involving all aspects of national defense and army building. First, we must continue to deepen political rectification. To promote the modernization of military governance, the primary task is to solve political and directional issues, and implement and reflect the Party's absolute leadership over the army in all fields and the entire process of army building. Political rectification is a strategic grasp to deeply promote political building of the army. We must fight a combination of punches to rectify ideology, rectify personnel, rectify organization, rectify work style, and rectify discipline, and continue to exert efforts to achieve political correction and ensure that the people's army is always pure and glorious. Second, we must do a good job in implementing reform tasks. Deeply implement the strategy of strengthening the army through reform, consolidate and expand the achievements of reform, and fully release the effectiveness of reform, so as to provide a dynamic system and mechanism guarantee for high-quality development. Third, we must strengthen and improve strategic management. Adhere to "achieving great breadth while exhausting subtlety," take effectiveness as the core and precision as the guide, update management concepts, optimize management processes, innovate management mechanisms, improve the strategic management chain of "demand-planning-budget-execution-evaluation," and improve the efficiency of the military system operation and the quality and efficiency of construction. Fourth, we must deeply promote the construction of the army's rule of law. Improve the military rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and form a complete, strict, and efficient military law and regulation system, military rule of law implementation system, military rule of law supervision system, and military rule of law guarantee system. Transform the way of governing the army in accordance with the requirements of the rule of law, promote the transformation of military management from traditional experience-based to modern legalization, and improve the operational efficiency of the military system. Fifth, we must strengthen cross-military-civilian governance. Development without supervision will inevitably lead to numerous malpractices. The junction of the military and civilian sectors is the focus and difficulty of supervision. At the beginning of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," we must establish strict regulatory rules, deepen cross-military-civilian reform, strengthen military-civilian integration supervision, adhere to construction under the premise of supervision, increase supervision efforts, do a good job in communication and coordination, straighten out the relationship of powers, improve the responsibility system, clarify the work interface, and form a cross-military-civilian work pattern with each performing its duties, close cooperation, standardization, and order.
Adhering to Scientific Methods. Correct practice cannot be separated from the guidance of scientific methods. To promote the high-quality development of our army with high-level governance, we must master and use scientific methods that meet the requirements of the times and reflect the laws of governance. First, we must combine systematic planning with precise policy implementation. Strengthen top-level design, carry out strategic planning from the overall situation and long-term perspective to ensure that the direction of governance is correct and the goals are clear, and adhere to specific analysis of specific problems, find the key points and breakthroughs for the characteristics of different fields, different levels, and different units, and improve the pertinence and effectiveness of governance. Second, we must unify reform and innovation with following the laws. Explore boldly, be brave in innovation, respect objective laws, and innovate on the basis of grasping the laws, so as to deepen the understanding of the laws with innovative practices. Third, we must connect process control with result evaluation. Not only pay attention to the results of governance, build a scientific performance evaluation system, measure the effectiveness of governance with advanced combat effectiveness standards, but also strengthen the dynamic monitoring and adjustment of the process, discover problems and correct deviations in a timely manner, form a closed-loop management of decision-making, execution, supervision, evaluation, and improvement, and achieve a step-by-step increase in the level of governance. Fourth, we must promote the mutual promotion of technology empowerment and system support. Give full play to modern technological means such as big data and artificial intelligence to improve the intelligence and refinement level of governance, use improved systems to standardize the application of technology, and use technology application to consolidate the achievements of the system, so as to realize the virtuous interaction between "tech governance" and "rule of law."
(Written by: Fu Wanjuan (傅婉娟), Zou Xiaojun (邹小军), Li Jun (李珺))
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"New officials light three fires," is often used to describe the ideas and practices of those newly appointed to open up the work situation at the beginning of their tenure. In the book "Get Rid of Poverty," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Whether or not to burn 'three fires,' and when it is appropriate to burn them, should all proceed from reality. We must go deep into the masses, conduct more investigations and research, find out the ins and outs of things, and then assess the situation. If it should be burned, then burn it; if it shouldn't be burned, never follow the trend and reluctantly 'burn fires'." This important exposition embodies the profound connotation of establishing a correct view of achievements, and points out the correct direction and provides fundamental guidelines for party members and cadres to start businesses, take responsibility, and act.
Party members and cadres taking up new positions must deeply consider and correctly answer the questions of whether to burn "three fires," how to burn them, and when to burn them, in the face of the organization's trust, the people's expectations, and the requirements of the cause. The "three fires" are a concentrated embodiment of ideas, methods, and action, and in essence, they are an external manifestation of the view of achievements, and a concentrated display of the original aspiration, mission, responsibility, and style. The "three fires" are like a mirror, reflecting whether the view of achievements is correct, whether the sense of purpose is firm, and whether the work style is pragmatic, reflecting the way of governing, the morality of governing, and the essentials of governing of party members and cadres. In this sense, the "three fires" should be burned if they should be burned. This enthusiasm and passion for wanting to do things and being able to do things embodies the vigor and responsibility of performing duties and deserves affirmation and encouragement.
Serving as an official for a term, benefiting one side. For whom the "three fires" are burned and where they are burned reflects the fundamental position and allows no hesitation or deviation. Only with a correct position can the "three fires" be burned with value and meaning; otherwise, if the position is biased, the earlier and fiercer the fire, the greater the harm. The power and responsibility in the hands of party members and cadres are given by the Party and the people, and the starting point and foothold for performing duties and doing things must be to create benefits for the people. Therefore, the "three fires" can only be burned for the people, for development, and for the cause, and must never be burned for personal face or promotion. We must always keep the urgent needs and expectations of the masses in mind, hold the safety and warmth of the people in our hands, focus on the hot issues of people's livelihood, the bottlenecks of development, and the difficulties of governance, and burn the "three fires" where the masses need them most and in the most critical links of the cause.
How the "three fires" are burned and how well they are burned tests the working ability and effectiveness of party members and cadres. We must not only be proactive and seize opportunities, but also accumulate momentum and grasp the "heat," so that we can burn the fire accurately, vigorously, and solidly. In reality, some party members and cadres are eager to light fires and create momentum as soon as they arrive at a new position, and they have great determination despite not understanding the situation; some are keen on "starting a new stove" and overturning the correct path of their predecessors; some prefer "large-scale and rapid construction" and "start a full-scale fire" as soon as they take office, blindly starting projects and spreading out. These "utilitarian fires" and "illusory fires" seem to be vigorous, but in fact, they are wasteful of manpower and money, which not only damages the development of the cause, but also overdraws the trust of the masses, causing great harm and extremely bad influence.
To burn the "three fires" well, we must adhere to starting from reality, go deep into the masses, conduct investigations and research, and then act after careful consideration. When Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) worked in local areas, he always insisted on investigation and research first, spending a lot of time going deep into the grassroots, visiting the masses, and finding out the truth. On the basis of fully grasping first-hand information, he assessed the situation, scientifically planned, and systematically deployed. He proposed the "semi-suburban" economic development path in Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北), advocated reading the "mountain and sea sutra" in Fujian (福建), coordinated urban and rural development and drew the "Thousand Villages Demonstration, Ten Thousand Villages Renovation" project in Zhejiang (浙江), and explored a new model of mega-city management in Shanghai (上海)... This clarity and determination demonstrates a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts and embodies the realm and responsibility of not necessarily having to achieve success in my term, but success must have me. History and practice have repeatedly proved that practicing a correct view of achievements must involve solid investigation and research, and the development foundation, resource endowment, contradictions, problems, and people's wishes must be thoroughly understood; we must adhere to starting from reality, respect objective laws, and take into account the continuity and pioneering nature of work; we must grasp the rhythm and intensity of work, not rush to promote, not rush to achieve success, and not pursue instant success. Only by burning the "real fire" that is in line with reality, burning the "slow fire" of long-term development well, and burning the "true fire" of solving problems vigorously, can the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee be implemented effectively and the cause move steadily and far.
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The vast number of party members and cadres, especially newly appointed leading cadres, must establish and practice a correct view of achievements, think more deeply, and not engage in blind and reckless actions; have more feelings for the people and take a dim view of personal gains and losses; and work for a long time and prevent quick success and instant benefits. Establish oneself with practical work, establish trust with practical achievements, and with solid work results, live up to the trust and expectations of the Party and the people, and show new responsibility and make new contributions in the great journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that implementing the national park system "is an important measure for China to promote natural ecological protection, build a beautiful China, and promote harmonious coexistence between man and nature." China promotes the establishment of a nature reserve system with national parks as the main body, and gradually incorporates the most important natural ecosystems, the most unique natural landscapes, the most quintessential natural heritage, and the most biodiverse natural ecological spaces into national parks for strict protection. On January 1 this year, the National Park Law officially came into effect; on March 12, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress passed the "Environmental and Ecological Code of the People's Republic of China," which incorporated the establishment and improvement of a nature reserve system with national parks as the main body into the code's norms. From the National Park Law to the Environmental and Ecological Code, it provides more systematic legal support for the protection and management of national parks, marking a new stage of legal and standardized development in the high-quality promotion of national park construction.
Implement zoning control in accordance with the law and strengthen the supervision of important ecological spaces. The National Park Law divides national parks into core protection zones and general control zones, and implements zoning control objectives into specific spatial units. For example, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park unblocks wildlife migration corridors, promotes the orderly withdrawal of production and living in the core protection zone, and takes various measures to improve habitat quality. Statistics in 2024 show that the number of Siberian tigers and Amur leopards increased from 27 and 42 at the beginning of the pilot to about 70 and 80, respectively. The key to zoning control lies in taking differentiated control measures, and through "implementing policies according to the area," human activities are generally prohibited in the core protection zone, and human activities are strictly restricted in the general control zone. This not only protects the bottom line of ecological protection and protects the parts that should be protected most, but also draws clear spatial boundaries for scientific utilization and innovative development, and realizes the combination of rigid constraints and flexible guidance in the system design.
Eliminate administrative barriers and improve synergy efficiency with the rule of law mechanism. The National Park Law effectively solves the problem of fragmented management of protected spaces with a systematic concept and realizes overall governance. The National Park Law clearly stipulates: "The state establishes a unified, standardized, and efficient national park management system" "The state adheres to the integrated protection of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and implements overall protection, systematic restoration, and comprehensive management of national parks in accordance with the characteristics and inherent laws of natural ecosystems." Wuyi Mountain National Park (武夷山国家公园) spans Fujian (福建) and Jiangxi (江西) provinces. The two provinces launched the "Wuyi Mountain National Park 110" ecological protection linkage mechanism and promoted cross-provincial ecological and environmental law enforcement cooperation. The two provinces simultaneously implemented the "Fujian Province Wuyi Mountain National Park Regulations" (《福建省武夷山国家公园条例》) and the "Jiangxi Province Wuyi Mountain National Park Regulations" (《江西省武夷山国家公园条例》), and set up special chapters on cooperation between the two provinces in the regulations. This inter-provincial collaborative legislative achievement for national parks promotes the standardization and legalization of national park protection and management. The National Park Law integrates decentralized local legislation and practice with unified legal rules at the national level, providing a higher-level legal basis for cross-regional collaborative governance. At the same time, the National Park Law establishes the statutory responsibility of the national park authority under the State Council (国务院) to uniformly be responsible for the supervision and management of national parks nationwide, and clarifies that the management agencies of each national park specifically undertake the protection, management, and administrative law enforcement responsibilities within their jurisdiction, realizing the centralized and unified management of natural resources and establishing a management system led by the state and vertically connected.
Use the rule of law to help international exchanges and cooperation, and promote mutual learning from national park construction experience. The National Park Law stipulates: "The state supports and promotes international exchanges and cooperation in the field of national parks in various ways." National park construction is a global practice. National park construction in various countries has accumulated rich experience in ecological protection, institutional innovation, community collaboration, and other aspects. Carrying out exchanges and cooperation helps to promote each other. For example, China Giant Panda National Park (中国大熊猫国家公园) and French Pyrenees National Park (法国比利牛斯国家公园) have established a partnership and carried out practical cooperation in biodiversity monitoring, flagship species protection and population restoration, community co-governance, and science popularization and education. China's national park system is based on the realistic national conditions of a large population and complex human-land relations, and has elevated effective practices to legal and institutional norms, forming Chinese experience that can be used for reference. The implementation of the National Park Law not only provides legal guarantees for high-quality promotion of China's national park construction, but also is an institutional practice for China to share ecological governance wisdom with countries around the world.
Adhere to the public welfare nature for all people, and deepen public participation and nature education on the track of the rule of law. National parks are public welfare undertakings for all people, and the core of their public welfare nature lies in realizing sharing by all people on the premise of strict protection. This kind of sharing is not simply opening up, but establishing order and clarifying boundaries through the rule of law. The National Park Law has a special chapter on "Participation and Sharing," which not only emphasizes strengthening the management and service of national park visitors, reasonably determining visitor capacity, and clarifying visitor behavior norms, but also encourages and supports public participation in national park protection, carrying out various forms of nature and ecological environment protection education, and cultivating the whole society's awareness of loving nature and protecting the ecological environment. For example, the "Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Regulations" (《海南热带雨林国家公园条例》), which will be implemented on May 1, 2026, stipulates the delineation of areas and routes for natural education, forest health preservation, tourism, and ecological science popularization activities within the general control area under the institutional framework of the National Park Law, and the construction of diversified display areas. National parks continuously carry out various forms of nature education such as research and study activities for the public, especially young people, which can guide the public to love nature and protect nature in the process of getting close to nature, share the sense of gain and happiness brought by the construction of national parks, and help build a Chinese-style modernization in which man and nature coexist harmoniously.
(Author's affiliations: China Institute for Education and Social Development, Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学); National Park Institute, Beijing Forestry University (北京林业大学))
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On a certain day in July 2025, Chen Mouchao (陈某超), dragging a small suitcase, arrived at the front desk of a hotel in a certain city to check in. He specifically requested, "Please arrange a room with a king-size bed for me, preferably at the end of the corridor, quieter."
After entering the room, Chen Mouchao (陈某超) immediately observed the layout of the room, looking for corners that ordinary guests would easily overlook. After selecting a location, he immediately opened his suitcase, took out some devices, a roll of thin wire, a miniature screwdriver, etc., and skillfully installed them.
After the installation was completed, Chen Mouchao (陈某超) sent a message through a foreign communication software and immediately received a reply: "Received. The fee will be settled after verification."
What device did Chen Mouchao (陈某超) install? Who was he contacting through foreign communication software? What exactly were these people trying to do?
"Mysterious" Guest Caught, Unveiling a Hidden "Stealth Photography - Extortion" Gray Industrial Chain
After receiving a tip about Chen Mouchao's (陈某超) involvement in hotel stealth photography, the case-handling police reported it to the Office of the Special Work Mechanism for Combating and Rectifying Illegal and Criminal Activities of Eavesdropping and Stealth Photography under the Ministry of Public Security. Under the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, public security organs in various places conducted in-depth investigations and careful investigations along the lines, and the truth gradually surfaced.
It turned out that Chen Mouchao (陈某超) was just an "installer" responsible for on-site operations in the criminal chain. According to the police officers of the task force, behind him was a criminal chain remotely controlled by overseas criminals, with multiple links of domestic division of labor and cooperation, specializing in illegally installing eavesdropping and stealth photography equipment in hotel rooms, stealing citizens' privacy information, and then carrying out extortion, which was a "technical modification - hotel installation - information theft - overseas extortion" criminal chain.
In this criminal chain, Cui Moujiang (崔某江) and others were "technical modification" personnel, who used the sale of ordinary electronic products on a certain e-commerce platform as a cover to illegally modify normal small camera modules into stealth photography equipment.
Zhang Mouda (张某达) and others were "contractors" responsible for "hotel installation." They received orders through a foreign communication software, received installation tasks and funds, and then assigned fellow villagers, acquaintances, etc. as "installers" to check into designated hotels - that is, the link responsible by Chen Mouchao (陈某超), to illegally install eavesdropping and stealth photography equipment.
Luo Mouhao (罗某豪) and others were responsible for "information theft." They also received orders through a foreign communication software, applied to become staff members of the target hotel, and used their work authority to query the personal registration information of the guests.
Zhu Mouping (朱某平) and others, hiding overseas, were the final "harvesters." After obtaining stealth photography information and personal information through the above-mentioned personnel, they sent extortion messages to the victims, attached screenshots of privacy scenes taken from the videos, and blackmailed them by threatening to disclose them to the victims' relatives, friends, and colleagues.
After accurately grasping the hierarchical relationship, personnel identity, activity patterns, and criminal evidence of the criminal network, the Ministry of Public Security adhered to the principle of "attacking the source, destroying the network, confiscating the equipment, and cutting off the chain," and in August 2025, directed public security organs in many places to launch a centralized arrest operation, and arrested 124 criminal suspects, including the backbone of each link in the case, seized and completely dismantled the stealth photography equipment installed in hotel rooms. The task force tracked along the lines, conducted a comprehensive investigation of all the hotels involved in the case, and timely blocked further infringements that might be caused.
Curbing the Frequent Occurrence of Eavesdropping and Stealth Photography, "Post-event Crackdown" Turns to "Pre-event Prevention, Mid-event Interruption, and Post-event Root Removal"
The police officers of the task force stated that this criminal model is extremely concealed, forming an "invisible" criminal chain, presenting the following four characteristics.
Cross-border Remote Control. The core organizers and extortion implementers of the gang are hiding overseas, using foreign communication software to establish groups for remote command. The "contractors" in each link in China (such as Zhang Mouda (张某达), Cui Moujiang (崔某江), Luo Mouhao (罗某豪)) each receive specific tasks, reimburse expenses, and settle "remuneration." There is no horizontal connection between the links.
Chain Subcontracting. The criminal process is "professionally" subcontracted. The overseas上线 is the "general contractor," and the "contractors" in each link are the "subcontractors." The "subcontractors" then recruit and train specific executors (such as the "installer" Chen Mouchao (陈某超)).
Online Sales. Illegally modified equipment is traded online through regular e-commerce platforms under the names of "electronic products" and "modified modules," which is highly concealed. The fund settlement in the criminal process is also carefully designed, intending to eliminate traces of the fund chain.
Precise Extortion. This criminal model illegally obtains the identity information of hotel guests through "internal agents" in the hotel, causing huge mental pressure and real threats to the victims, and has great social harm.
"In recent years, hotel eavesdropping and stealth photography incidents have occurred frequently, reflecting the evolution of criminal forms and the challenges faced by governance capabilities in the context of new business forms. Criminal organizations use multiple barriers such as cross-border isolation, encrypted communication, virtual currency, and hotel management loopholes to build a secret gray industrial chain." Cheng Lei (程雷), Vice Dean of the Law School of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), said that the public security organs timely and accurately analyze the causes and modus operandi of such crimes, adhere to the "full chain, attack the source, and destroy the network" combat strategy, and accurately respond to the new characteristics of cross-border, chained, and networked crimes, which is an effective practice of shifting from "post-event crackdown" to "pre-event prevention, mid-event interruption, and post-event root removal" systematic governance.
Breaking Through the Regulatory Barriers Between Online and Offline, Commodity Sales and Criminal Applications, Multiple Parties Work Together to Build a Protective Barrier
To fundamentally eradicate the breeding ground for eavesdropping and stealth photography, we should adhere to source governance, promote joint construction and co-governance, and unite legal, regulatory, industry, and social forces to build a solid protective network that makes eavesdropping and stealth photography nowhere to hide.
"Safety is the lifeline of a hotel, and privacy security is an indispensable part of it." Mr. Li (李先生), general manager of a chain hotel, admitted frankly that the case sounded the alarm. The hotel has upgraded the "Privacy Guardian" plan, systematically improving it from three aspects: system, technology, and human defense: incorporating anti-stealth photography inspection into the standard operating procedures (SOP) of room cleaning, and mandating inspection records for key parts; equipping professional detection equipment, with the security department conducting regular inspections and introducing third-party professional testing; all employees receive privacy protection training every year, and key positions need to pass special assessments. "We want to make employees the 'outposts' and professional tools the 'eyes'," said Mr. Li (李先生).
"The industry cannot 各扫门前雪 (gè sǎo mén qián xuě - "each sweeps the snow from his own doorstep," mind one's own business and not bother about others), we must jointly prevent and control." Mr. Gao (高先生), Secretary-General of the Tourism Hotel Industry Association of a certain city, pointed out that industry protection operation guidelines should be formulated to provide standardized references for member units; a risk information sharing mechanism should be established under legal premises, and internal warnings should be given for new types of equipment and modus operandi; at the same time, high-quality security resources can be centrally connected to strive for group purchase discounts and reduce the cost of individual hotels. "Through industry self-discipline and collaboration, we can form a 'group prevention and group governance' joint force and strive to ensure safe accommodation."
"At present, in the field of illegal circulation and modification of eavesdropping and stealth photography equipment, there is a real dilemma of 'difficult to discover, difficult to identify, and difficult to trace.' Illegal equipment and its modified accessories are sold semi-publicly in some e-commerce platforms, resulting in low costs of violation." Legal experts suggest that platforms should not only rely on keyword shielding, but should try to strengthen supervision. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China, the State Administration for Market Regulation and other departments can study and formulate operable identification standards or guidance catalogs for "special equipment for eavesdropping and stealth photography," and at the same time establish a normalized sharing and coordination channel for illegal information involving eavesdropping and stealth photography, breaking through the regulatory barriers between online and offline, commodity sales and criminal applications.
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Multiple Departments Jointly Rectify Illegal Production and Sales of Stealth Photography Equipment
Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), March 26 (Reporter Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹)) Recently, Huaqiangbei (华强北) Street in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) has continued to promote a joint special rectification action by multiple departments to address the problem of illegal sales of stealth photography equipment in the Huaqiangbei (华强北) electronic market.
In order to strengthen the awareness of legal operation of merchants and adhere to the bottom line of compliance, Huaqiangbei (华强北) Street urged the market management to hang warning slogans in obvious positions such as market entrances and exits and elevator rooms in SEG Electronics Market (赛格电子市场), Huaqiang Electronic World (华强电子世界) and other markets.
At the same time, in response to the behavior of individual personnel wandering on the streets and secretly peddling, Huaqiangbei (华强北) Street, together with the Market Supervision Bureau, the Public Security Bureau and other departments, continued to carry out rectification actions. A special inspection force adopted a combination of public patrols and plainclothes ambushes to implement dynamic deployment in key areas and key periods. "Once relevant illegal peddling behavior is discovered, it will be stopped, taken away for disposal, and relevant clues will be fixed in accordance with the law, and those suspected of violating laws and regulations will be transferred to relevant departments for investigation and handling in accordance with the law." A staff member participating in the joint law enforcement said. Since the beginning of this year, a total of 291 people who promoted illegal products with cards have been persuaded to leave, and 2 related cases have been investigated and dealt with, forming a continuous deterrent to illegal behavior.
In addition, Huaqiangbei (华强北) Street has announced reporting methods to the public through publicity columns, new media platforms and other channels, encouraging consumers and merchants to provide clues and participate in supervision and governance together.
Huaqiangbei (华强北) Street will continue to work with relevant departments to maintain a high-pressure situation, and will investigate and deal with illegal production and sales of stealth photography equipment and other behaviors as soon as they are discovered, and resolutely maintain a standardized, orderly, safe and secure market environment.
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Grassroots governance is the cornerstone of national governance. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has emphasized the importance of strengthening grassroots governance and upholding and improving the system of grassroots mass autonomy from the height of consolidating the Party's ruling foundation and ensuring the people's well-being and security. It has made a series of major decisions and deployments to improve the urban and rural grassroots governance system combining autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of Party organizations, and has achieved significant achievements. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee clearly required improving the grassroots mass autonomy mechanism under the leadership of grassroots Party organizations, and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee further proposed strengthening Party building to lead grassroots governance and the construction of grassroots political power. On October 28, 2025, the Decision on Amending the Organic Law of Villagers Committees and the newly revised Organic Law of Urban Residents Committees were adopted at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Peoples Congress. The Organic Law of Villagers Committees and the Organic Law of Urban Residents Committees (hereinafter referred to as the "Two Laws") uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership over grassroots governance, improve the provisions on the composition and responsibilities of village (neighborhood) committees, and enhance the legalization level of grassroots governance throughout the entire process of democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision, opening a new stage and new situation in the construction of grassroots governance legalization in the new era.
To provide legal guarantees for upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership over grassroots governance. The Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the most fundamental guarantee of socialist rule of law. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "comprehensively advancing the rule of law is, at its core, the organic unity of upholding the Party's leadership, ensuring that the people are masters of the country, and governing the country according to the law." The Two Laws fully implement the Party Central Committee's important decisions and deployments on strengthening Party building to lead grassroots governance, and further specify and institutionalize the Party's overall leadership over grassroots mass autonomy. First, it establishes the fundamental principle of "adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China" and stipulates that Party grassroots organizations lead and support village (neighborhood) committees in exercising their powers. Second, it actively and steadily implements the "one shoulder picks" (一肩挑) and "cross-appointment" (交叉任职) system. The Regulations on the Work of Party Branches of the Communist Party of China (Trial Implementation), the Regulations on the Work of Rural Grassroots Organizations of the Communist Party of China, and the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Strengthening the Construction of the Grassroots Governance System and Governance Capacity Modernization all have relevant provisions. The Two Laws stipulate that the secretary of the village (community) Party organization can serve as the director of the village (neighborhood) committee through legal procedures, which is an important institutional design to promote the implementation of the Party's overall leadership at the grassroots level and realize the effective connection between Party regulations and national laws. Third, it gives play to the leading and gatekeeping role of village (community) Party organizations, such as important matters that need to be decided by the village (neighborhood) residents meeting or the village (neighborhood) residents representative meeting should first be studied and discussed by the village (community) Party organization. These provisions of the Two Laws ensure that the Party fully plays its leading role in grasping the overall situation and coordinating all parties in the field of grassroots governance, and provide a solid legal guarantee for the Party's overall leadership of grassroots governance.
To provide legal guarantees for improving the urban and rural grassroots governance system combining autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of Party organizations. Grassroots governance requires autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue to play a role together, with autonomy to unite people's hearts, rule of law to resolve disputes, and rule of virtue to subtly influence people. The Two Laws thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee's deployment requirements and promote the improvement of the urban and rural grassroots governance system combining autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of Party organizations. First, to regulate and guarantee autonomy with the rule of law. The Two Laws take improving the grassroots mass autonomy system as the legislative purpose, clearly establish the combination of autonomy, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of Party organizations as the basic path of grassroots governance, stipulate that village (neighborhood) committees should be established in accordance with the principles of facilitating village (neighborhood) residents autonomy and being conducive to grassroots governance, and improve the working mechanism for the legality review, filing, and supervision of village rules and regulations and residents covenants; improve the village (neighborhood) residents meeting and village (neighborhood) residents representative meeting system, which not only guarantees the masses direct exercise of democratic rights, but also ensures the orderly and standardized village (neighborhood) residents autonomy activities. Second, to promote and guarantee rule of virtue with the rule of law. The Two Laws stipulate that supporting and guiding village (neighborhood) residents to practice socialist core values, forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, and advocate good social customs and civilized lifestyles are the statutory responsibilities of village (neighborhood) committees, and require village (neighborhood) committees and their members to be fair, honest, and dedicated to their duties, so as to strengthen the moral construction of grassroots masses in a legal way. Third, to promote the creation of a good legal environment with autonomy and rule of virtue. The Two Laws stipulate that village (neighborhood) committees have the responsibility to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of grassroots masses; require that the articles of association, village rules and regulations, residents covenants, and the decisions of village (neighborhood) residents meetings or village (neighborhood) residents representative meetings shall not conflict with the Constitution, laws, and regulations, and shall not violate public order and good customs; require village (neighborhood) committees to publicize the Constitution, laws, and regulations, and support and promote village (neighborhood) residents to fulfill their legal obligations. The Two Laws, by comprehensively regulating the behavior of grassroots mass autonomous organizations and village (neighborhood) residents, promote the socialist spirit of rule of law and legal culture, guide village (neighborhood) residents to handle affairs according to law, seek legal help in case of trouble, solve problems by law, and resolve conflicts by law, so as to create a good environment for strengthening the construction of a society ruled by law.
To provide legal guarantees for upholding and developing whole-process people's democracy in grassroots governance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that it is necessary to improve the institutional system for the people to be the masters of the country, develop whole-process people's democracy, ensure that the people are always the masters of the country, the masters of society, and the masters of their own destiny, and enjoy broader, more genuine, and more convenient democratic rights and freedoms. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has deepened its understanding of the laws governing the development of democratic politics and put forward the major concept of whole-process people's democracy. China's whole-process people's democracy not only has complete institutional procedures, but also has complete participation practices, and is the most extensive, most genuine, and most effective democracy. Grassroots governance is an important field for the broad masses of people to participate in the practice of whole-process people's democracy. Implementing mass self-management, self-service, self-education, and self-supervision in grassroots public affairs and public welfare undertakings is an important link in whole-process people's democracy, fully demonstrating the breadth and continuity of people's participation. The Two Laws elevate the mature practical experience of various places in recent years to legal provisions, clearly stipulating that village (neighborhood) committees "implement democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision," by enriching and optimizing election procedures, adding special provisions for democratic consultation, improving the village (neighborhood) residents meeting and village (neighborhood) residents representative meeting system, improving democratic management provisions such as articles of association, village rules and regulations, and residents covenants, and improving democratic supervision systems such as village (neighborhood) affairs disclosure and village (neighborhood) affairs supervision committees, so as to effectively guarantee the village (neighborhood) residents right to know, right to participate, right to express, and right to supervise, demonstrating the authenticity, breadth, and effectiveness of whole-process people's democracy, and is a vivid embodiment of the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of whole-process people's democracy in grassroots governance.
(The author is a researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to TopAccording to reports from Tianjin (天津) on March 26th (Reporter Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟)), the reporter learned from the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Justice (天津市司法局) that in order to further promote the standardization of administrative law enforcement and effectively reduce the burden on enterprises in welcoming inspections, starting from April 1st, 2026, the enterprise-related administrative inspection system will be officially launched on the Tianjin Municipal Administrative Law Enforcement Supervision Platform (天津市行政执法监督平台) (hereinafter referred to as the "Law Enforcement Supervision Platform"). Electronic administrative law enforcement certificates will be fully implemented throughout the city, and the "code and certificate display" work for enterprise inspections will be fully promoted.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Regulations of the State Council on Online Government Services," electronic administrative law enforcement certificates have the same legal effect as physical certificates. The "electronic law enforcement code" is uniformly generated by the Law Enforcement Supervision Platform and displayed in the form of a QR code. It is the unique digital identifier that associates inspection behavior and displays administrative inspection tasks. When carrying out enterprise-related administrative inspections, administrative inspection entities should proactively present the "electronic law enforcement code" and administrative law enforcement certificate (police officers present police officer certificates) to the enterprise, and the inspected enterprise scans the code for verification. After the inspection, the inspected enterprise can log in to the "Jin Xin Ban (津心办)" APP enterprise inspection evaluation terminal to evaluate the satisfaction of the administrative inspection.
The Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Justice (天津市司法局) is responsible for coordinating and guiding the city's enterprise-related administrative inspection work, and is responsible for promoting the city's "electronic law enforcement code" and electronic administrative law enforcement certificates. The Tianjin Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Commission (天津市市场监督管理委员会) is responsible for leading the city's "Double Random, One Open (双随机、一公开)" supervision work. Enterprise-related administrative inspection tasks carried out on the city's "Double Random, One Open (双随机、一公开)" supervision platform obtain the "electronic law enforcement code" through data interaction with the Law Enforcement Supervision Platform, achieving "**一码同源** (yī mǎ tóng yuán - "one code same origin," the same code comes from the same source) and **一码通用** (yī mǎ tōng yòng - "one code universal use," one code can be used universally)." The inspection results and evaluation feedback information of the inspected enterprises are shared synchronously with the Law Enforcement Supervision Platform.
Return to TopThe Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Dexing City (德兴市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), has been conducting high-quality farmer training in depth, carrying out follow-up services and return visits to trainees who have participated in the training, testing the effectiveness of the training, and helping trainees apply what they have learned and achieve success when returning to their hometowns to start businesses. The picture shows on March 25, a fruit tree planting "local expert" (right two) came to the Huangtao planting base of trainee Xu Yaoshun (徐耀顺) in Gangshou Village (港首村), Banda Township (昄大乡), Dexing City (德兴市), to guide him in peach blossom pollination, pest control and daily management.
Zhuo Zhongwei (卓忠伟) photo (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th. With the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission (中央纪委国家监委) filed a case for investigation into the serious violations of discipline and law by Liu Hui (刘慧), Deputy Director of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) Committee for Education, Science, Health and Sports (教科卫体委员会).
The investigation found that Liu Hui (刘慧) had lost her ideals and beliefs, betrayed her original aspiration and mission, discounted and distorted the implementation of major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, associated with political swindlers, anonymously made false accusations against others, resisted organizational review, and engaged in large-scale superstitious activities. She disregarded the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, accepted banquets that might have affected the impartial execution of public duties, accepted arrangements for tourism activities in violation of regulations, had serious privileged thinking, and sought special treatment in life security. She violated organizational principles by failing to report personal matters as required, and illegally sought benefits for others in cadre selection and appointment and accepted property. She lost her bottom line of integrity, accepted gifts in violation of regulations, and used her power to accept labor services free of charge for a long time. She illegally interfered in disciplinary and law enforcement activities. Without any bottom line of discipline and law, she transformed public power into a tool for seeking personal gain, wantonly accepted money and amassed wealth, used her position to seek benefits for others in business operations, work arrangements, and other aspects, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
Liu Hui (刘慧) seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and work discipline, constituted a serious violation of duty and was suspected of bribery crimes, and after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, she did not restrain herself or stop her actions. The nature of her actions was serious, and the impact was bad, and she should be dealt with seriously. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," and the "Law on Administrative Disciplinary Actions for Public Officials of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant regulations, after research by the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and approved by the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to give Liu Hui (刘慧) a punishment of expulsion from the Party; to cancel the treatment she enjoyed as stipulated; to confiscate her illegal gains from violations of discipline and law; and to transfer her suspected criminal problems to the procuratorial organ for review and prosecution in accordance with the law, and the property involved shall be transferred together.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shijiazhuang (石家庄) dispatch, March 26th (Reporter Ma Chen (马晨)) On March 26th, the 20th meeting of the 14th Hebei Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee voted and passed the "Hebei Province Regulations on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will be implemented on May 1st of this year.
The "Regulations" highlight the principles of prevention first, early intervention, and graded correction, promoting whole-chain governance, and mainly make special provisions in building a collaborative support system, strengthening network governance, preventing and controlling student bullying, and implementing care and assistance measures.
The "Regulations" clearly require the establishment and improvement of a collaborative support system involving departmental collaboration, grassroots linkage, social support, and public participation; cultivate, guide, and regulate social work service organizations and other social organizations, and social workers to participate in the prevention of juvenile delinquency; strengthen the professional capacity building of social work service organizations and the training, use, and volunteer service team construction of social work professionals for minors.
At the same time, taking preventive education as a starting point, the "Regulations" clarify the preventive education responsibilities of state organs, families, schools, and society, and stipulate that parents and other guardians of minors should perform their guardianship duties in accordance with the law. It also requires the establishment of a linked response mechanism for monitoring and prevention, discovery and reporting, assessment and referral, care and assistance, and disposal and intervention, giving full play to the function of the 12355 youth service hotline, and promoting the improvement of cooperation and referral mechanisms with related hotlines.
In order to prevent and control student bullying, the "Regulations" implement the responsibilities of education administrative departments and schools regarding bullying prevention, control, education, and disposal, and establish and improve the work process for the discovery, identification, and disposal of student bullying; schools should strengthen education and management of minor students who commit bullying in accordance with the law, according to the nature and degree of the bullying behavior, and for serious bullying behaviors, they should report to the public security organs and education administrative departments in a timely manner, and cooperate with relevant departments to handle them in accordance with the law, and shall not conceal or falsely report.
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For many years working in Guizhou, the two things that give Ma Zehai (马泽海) the most peace of mind are: "The money I earn is safely in my pocket, and my family at home is taken care of."
Ma Zehai (马泽海) is from Fengdu County (丰都县), Chongqing (重庆). Fengdu County (丰都县) has a total population of 850,000, with 265,000 people working outside the county year-round, meaning that on average, one in every three Fengdu (丰都) residents works elsewhere. On one side are the mobile populations traveling all over the country, and on the other side are the "old and young" left behind in their hometowns. How can we ensure that those working away from home can focus on their work with peace of mind and reduce their worries?
Since 2025, Fengdu County (丰都县) has established five "One Committee, Two Associations" (一委两会) work stations in Chongqing's (重庆) main urban area, Chengdu (成都) in Sichuan (四川), Guiyang (贵阳) in Guizhou (贵州), and other areas with relatively high concentrations of migrant workers. These stations, primarily composed of mobile Party committees, chambers of commerce in other places, and migrant worker union liaison service stations, provide follow-up services for issues such as safeguarding the rights of migrant workers, managing mobile Party members, and caring for the lives of left-behind elderly and children. Currently, they have incorporated 2,413 mobile Party members, united 389 members of chambers of commerce in other places, and covered 145,000 migrant workers.
Focusing on the needs of migrant workers, compiling a service list.
Helping to resolve salary and other disputes.
Last year, Ma Zehai (马泽海) encountered a problem. He participated in a photovoltaic project in Bijie (毕节), Guizhou (贵州), but did not receive his wages after completion. After multiple unsuccessful communications with the project contractor, at the end of 2025, Lao Ma (老马) sought help from the newly established Fengdu County (丰都县) "One Committee, Two Associations" (一委两会) Guiyang (贵阳) work station. A few days later, the 13,000+ yuan in back wages was fully paid.
The news of Lao Ma's (老马) successful wage recovery quickly spread in the WeChat group of fellow villagers.
Migrant workers working outside are most worried about unsettled accounts. "Fengdu County (丰都县) migrant workers mainly engage in scattered employment and project-based employment. Once the project ends and the employer loses contact, the difficulty of safeguarding rights increases sharply," introduced Cai Shiwei (蔡世伟), Deputy Director of the Fengdu County (丰都县) Bureau of Justice. Wage arrears and work-related injury compensation are the two most concentrated types of disputes for migrant workers, and the cost of individual cross-provincial rights protection is very high.
In response to this situation, Fengdu (丰都) has established a cross-provincial collaboration mechanism between the local trade union and the trade unions, human resources and social security departments, and judicial departments in the areas where migrant workers are employed. It has jointly built a one-stop platform for resolving conflicts and disputes that integrates "commercial mediation, assistance, education, review, and support," and has formed a special rights protection team composed of 11 lawyers. As of now, it has handled 17 wage recovery cases, involving an amount of 26,196,000 yuan.
"I used to feel that no one cared when I went out to work, but now the 'One Committee, Two Associations' (一委两会) is a bridge connecting us migrant workers, as caring as family!" said Tan Wenbin (谭文斌) from Qinglong Township (青龙乡), Fengdu County (丰都县). Some time ago, he solved his son's school transfer problem with the help of the Fengdu County (丰都县) "One Committee, Two Associations" (一委两会) Chongqing (重庆) work station.
Tan Wenbin (谭文斌) works as a decorator in the main urban area of Chongqing (重庆), and his son, Xiaoyu (小宇), attends school with him. Last autumn, when he planned to send his son back to his hometown to attend junior high school, the family did not know how to handle the transfer procedures. Seeing that the start of the school year was getting closer and closer, Lao Tan (老谭) decided to seek help from the Chongqing (重庆) work station.
"The child will be starting school in a few days, what should we do!" On the other end of the phone, Tan Wenbin's (谭文斌) voice was anxious. The staff of the work station first comforted him, and then immediately contacted the Education Section of the Fengdu County (丰都县) Education Commission to understand the various materials that needed to be submitted. Afterwards, they coordinated with the original school to issue documents, and arranged for the Qinglong Township (青龙乡) Party member volunteer service team to scan and upload them overnight. In less than a week, the electronic school record transfer was completed, and Xiaoyu (小宇) successfully enrolled.
The efficient handling of business is due to the establishment of a "cross-provincial handling" service list. Fengdu County (丰都县) focuses on the household registration, medical care, education, and other needs that migrant workers often need to return to their hometowns to handle, and has compiled a "cross-provincial handling" service list of 10 major categories and 32 sub-items. It has cumulatively helped handle 1,026 personal matters such as children's school transfers and ID card replacements.
Establishing a mobile Party committee to allow mobile Party members to actively participate in organizational life.
Providing employment consultation and other services.
Studying, working, doing business... among the people working outside, many are Party members. How can we ensure that Party members "do not leave the Party when they leave their hometown, and do not lose their identity when they are mobile"?
If Party members are to remain connected, the organization must first be able to receive them. Fengdu (丰都) established a mobile Party member committee within the county to provide overall guidance; outside the county, it established regional mobile Party committees relying on chambers of commerce in other places, with mobile Party members with high political qualities and a good mass base serving as secretaries, and the Social Work Department of the County Party Committee dispatched full-time deputy secretaries to the stations to carry out work.
Now that there are organizations in other places and activity venues, the next step is to find all the people. "Through mutual inquiries among fellow villagers and cross-verification through chamber of commerce channels, we gradually identify the whereabouts of Party members. Then, led by the Organization Department of the County Party Committee, we connect with the secretaries of the regional mobile Party committees in the areas where they are employed to find people," introduced Lan Zhengying (兰正英), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Fengdu County (丰都县) Party Committee.
Relying on this method, Fengdu's (丰都) 2,413 mobile Party members scattered across various places have returned to the organization's vision, with an incorporation rate of 100%, achieving "no one left behind" in the governance of grassroots Party organizations. The place of origin manages the source, the place of employment manages the daily routine, and collaborative management manages the entire process. This two-way co-management has increased the participation rate of mobile Party members in organizational life from 30.5% in 2024 to the current 85.2%.
Wang Shuangjiang (王双江) came to Guiyang (贵阳) to find a job after graduating from university, rushing to interviews during the day and browsing recruitment information at night. The Guiyang (贵阳) work station contacted him through a mobile Party member survey. Wang Shuangjiang (王双江) spoke about his repeated setbacks in job hunting at an organizational life meeting. The mobile Party committee took the initiative to connect him with work resources and organized a special sharing event to guide him on industry selection, job matching, and interview details.
"Now I finally have a job, and I feel at ease. It gives us hope," said Wang Shuangjiang (王双江).
As of now, the mobile Party committee has provided mobile Party members with employment consultation, legal aid, and other services more than 500 times, and has helped more than 40 mobile Party members return to their hometowns to start businesses and find employment.
Focusing on the "old and young" to ensure that companionship is not absent.
Enriching children's extracurricular activities and providing professional elderly care services.
Xiao Mei (小梅), a 12-year-old child from Fengdu (丰都), loves to cut paper-cuts. With a pair of scissors and a piece of paper, she can transform them into paper butterflies flying in her hands.
Some of the paper butterflies are to be given to her third uncle, who raised her, some are to be left for her parents who work away from home, and some are to be brought to "Mom Yang (杨妈妈)" of the mutual aid association.
"Mom Yang (杨妈妈)" is Yang Yuanfen (杨远芬), the president of the Longhe Town (龙河镇) Adolescent Family Education Mutual Aid Association in Fengdu County (丰都县). The mutual aid association was established in 2022. Parents at home, school teachers, and other volunteers take turns organizing left-behind children to carry out art, sports, mental health, social practice, and other activities on weekends. Originally introverted, Xiao Mei (小梅) cultivated her hobbies in the mutual aid association's activity classes and gradually opened up her heart.
"Many left-behind children lack family education. Many children play with their mobile phones as soon as they get home from school, indulging in the online world," said Yang Yuanfen (杨远芬).
Like Xiao Mei (小梅), there are a total of 9,525 mountain children in Fengdu (丰都) whose parents work outside. "The mutual aid association not only manages the left-behind children, but also cultivates their interests, making the children's childhood more colorful," said Sun Yingxia (孙应霞), Party Branch Secretary of the Fengdu County (丰都县) Family Education Research Institute.
At present, Fengdu County (丰都县) has established 1 county-level joint association of adolescent family education mutual aid associations and 41 township (street) and urban community mutual aid associations, where more than 7,300 left-behind children receive companionship.
For those working outside, the "old and young" at home are always a concern. In recent years, Fengdu County (丰都县) has built 57 elderly care institutions with a total of 3,319 beds, building a four-level elderly care mutual aid system at the county, town, village, and courtyard levels, providing professional and convenient elderly care services for the elderly; it has built 341 elderly canteens, benefiting more than 90,000 elderly people.
"With the acceleration of population flow and frequent regional exchanges, the unit of social governance should be a dynamic population. Creating a 'mobile home' outside and supporting the 'old and young' inside, serving people wherever they go, governance can 'reach' people's hearts," said Xiang Haijun (向海军), Minister of the Social Work Department of the Fengdu County (丰都县) Party Committee.
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The "14th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes "closely integrating investment in things with investment in people." The practice of establishing "one committee and two associations" workstations in Fengdu, Chongqing (重庆丰都) is a vivid example of "investing in people."
Currently, the growth rate of fiscal expenditure on social services is rapid, and the scale of investment is considerable. However, it still needs to be closely integrated with people's actual needs to avoid spatial mismatch of public services or public resources. At present, there is idle resources in some areas with net population outflow, while there is a shortage of public service supply in areas with net population inflow.
The spatial mismatch of public resources stems from the governance system lagging behind the mobile society. We have entered the development stage of a "dynamic society," and the governance thinking cannot remain in a "static society." Public resources are still allocated according to the administrative divisions of provinces, cities, counties, and townships, with the default premise that the population does not move (registered population). Taking transfer payments as an example, the existing policy orientation emphasizes tilting towards the central and western regions and rural areas, which are precisely the places with net population outflow. In contrast, developed areas with net population inflow already have gaps in the supply of public services, but cannot enjoy transfer payment support commensurate with the scale of population inflow because, affected by the vested interests pattern of the region, transfer payments are difficult to "follow people."
In order to truly "invest in people" and build a new system of public services that "follows people," it is necessary to promote institutional innovation. Establish a mechanism linking people, land, and money to achieve dynamic resource adaptation; reform the fiscal system and shift the authority and expenditure responsibility for basic public services upwards; and innovate a portable rights system to break down urban-rural institutional barriers.
It is necessary to reshape the logic of public governance with the "modernization of people." The establishment of "one committee and two associations" workstations in Fengdu, Chongqing (重庆丰都), creating "mobile homes" externally and supporting the "elderly and young" internally, grasps the social governance unit of "dynamic people" and breaks down administrative barriers and regional restrictions. It is a beneficial attempt to let public services follow people. In the past, we often focused on "material modernization," but now we have begun to pay attention to governance modernization and institutional modernization, and the modernization of people is the most important foothold. The strategic orientation of "investing in people" is closely linked to the modernization of people and is consistent with the connotation and logic of Chinese-style modernization. "Investing in people" is not a simple policy adjustment, but a deep-seated reform involving the system and mechanism. Furthermore, it is an important theoretical proposition concerning the transformation of the development paradigm.
(The author is the Vice President of the China Macroeconomic Research Institute. This article was compiled from an interview with Qi Zhiming (齐志明), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陆凡冰 曾华锋
Recently, sudden cardiac death has attracted people's attention. What is sudden cardiac death? What is the difference between it and myocardial infarction? How to identify and prevent sudden cardiac death?
Hu Rong (胡荣), Director of the Health Management Center and Chief Physician of Cardiology at Beijing Anzhen Hospital (北京安贞医院) affiliated with Capital Medical University (首都医科大学), introduced that sudden cardiac death and acute myocardial infarction are closely related, but the concepts are different. Sudden cardiac death is sudden death caused by all cardiovascular-related causes, while acute myocardial infarction is one of the causes of sudden cardiac death.
Myocardial infarction is caused by a blockage of the coronary artery of the heart, while sudden cardiac death is caused by the heart "stopping" due to various reasons. The coronary artery is like a big tree, with a trunk and branches. If the blockage occurs in the trunk, a large area of the heart will lose blood supply, which can easily lead to sudden cardiac death; if the blockage is at the end of a thinner branch, although it is also a myocardial infarction, the success rate of rescue is higher.
Why do some young people, who can run and jump and have no serious problems found in examinations, suddenly collapse?
Hu Rong (胡荣) analyzed that vascular stenosis in the elderly is usually a long-term chronic lesion, and the body can gradually establish collateral circulation for compensation. However, the inner walls of blood vessels in young people may only have slight plaques, and there are usually no obvious symptoms. However, if the "three highs" (三高) indicators are not well controlled, under the influence of long-term staying up late, smoking, and overwork, these unstable plaques may suddenly rupture, rapidly forming thrombi that block blood vessels. Due to the lack of collateral circulation compensation, once it occurs, it is often a large-area myocardial infarction, and the risk of sudden cardiac death is extremely high.
Before the heart "goes on strike," it often sends out warning signals such as chest tightness, palpitations, and even tearing pain in the back. While paying attention to warning signals, it is more important to establish a "healthy baseline" for the heart: the ideal blood pressure is controlled below 130/80 mmHg; the recommended low-density lipoprotein cholesterol for healthy people is below 2.6 mmol/L; blood sugar is maintained within the normal range; the body mass index (BMI) is controlled below 24; and try to fall asleep before 11 pm to ensure regular rest.
Sudden cardiac death events during running occur from time to time. What should be paid attention to during exercise?
Xu Shunlin (徐顺霖), Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Peking University Third Hospital (北京大学第三医院), believes that sudden death during running is likely to occur in people with underlying heart disease. Routine static electrocardiograms can only capture the electrical activity of the heart at the moment of examination, making it difficult to detect hidden problems. Therefore, 24-hour or longer dynamic electrocardiograms, cardiopulmonary exercise tests, and cardiac ultrasounds are needed to screen for occult heart disease.
"It is not that the more exercise, the better the body. From the perspective of cardiac exercise and cardiology, excessive exercise may cause myocardial strain and arteriosclerosis. Especially for people over 45 years old, excessive exercise is more likely to cause arteriosclerosis or produce arterial plaques, increasing the risk of sudden death," said Xu Shunlin (徐顺霖).
Hu Rong (胡荣) suggested that a safety assessment should be done before exercise. When starting exercise, control the heart rate within a safe range, which can be estimated using the formula: (220 - age) × 60% to 70%, and then gradually increase the amount of exercise. In addition, if the blood pressure is higher than 160 mmHg, do not try to lower blood pressure through exercise. Blood pressure should be controlled stably through medication and other methods first. When the body is extremely tired, do not challenge high-intensity equipment training or long-distance running. At this time, the heart is in a state of stress, and high heart rate exercise will directly increase the risk of sudden cardiac death.
What should you do if someone around you suddenly falls to the ground and loses consciousness?
First, determine the patient's condition. If the patient is unresponsive, not breathing, and has no pulse, emergency rescue should be initiated immediately. Designate someone nearby to call 120 and quickly find the nearest automated external defibrillator (AED). At the same time, let the patient lie flat, with their head tilted to one side, to ensure that there are no foreign objects in their mouth, and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). When the AED arrives at the scene, turn it on immediately and follow the voice prompts. Continue CPR and AED analysis until the patient resumes spontaneous breathing and heartbeat, or professional rescue personnel arrive at the scene.
Regarding emergency medications, Hu Rong (胡荣) introduced that nitroglycerin is only suitable for confirmed angina attacks. Sublingual administration can relieve symptoms, but for other heart disease patients, sublingual administration of the drug is of little significance; Su Xiao Jiu Xin Wan (速效救心丸) has the effect of aromatic resuscitation, but for myocardial infarction or ventricular fibrillation, its rescue significance is limited; aspirin is useful for confirmed coronary heart disease, but it does not help with sudden cardiac death emergency treatment. Timely CPR and defibrillation within the "golden 4 minutes" are the key to saving lives.
For people with "three highs" or a family history of cardiovascular disease, it is recommended to have regular heart-related physical examinations. Focus should be placed on basic indicators (blood pressure, blood sugar, four blood lipids, electrolytes), electrocardiogram indicators (resting electrocardiogram to rule out arrhythmia, myocardial ischemia, etc.), and cardiac structure and function (cardiac color Doppler ultrasound to assess ventricular wall thickness, cardiac function, valve condition, and screen for cardiomyopathy, etc.). If there are abnormalities, priority should be given to seeing a cardiologist and following the doctor's advice for further examination.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 余星馨
"Dreams come true! I didn't expect so many people to come." Jiang Debing (蒋德兵), a hairdresser and national "Most Beautiful Volunteer," couldn't hide his excitement.
On the second day of the second lunar month, the day of the "Dragon Raising Its Head," a "Hundred-Person Free Haircut" event was held at the Zunyi (遵义) Memorial Square in Guizhou (贵州). More than a hundred loving hairdressers and volunteers came from all directions to provide free haircuts for over 200 elderly people, children, sanitation workers, and people with disabilities.
This "Hundred-Person Free Haircut" public welfare activity was initiated by Taiwanese singer Wu Kequn (吴克群). "Without Master Jiang's (蒋师傅) 40 years of persistence, there would be no event today. Let's pass on this dedication together." Wu Kequn (吴克群) said that he was deeply moved by Master Jiang's (蒋师傅) kindness and good deeds, so he launched this "Love Relay."
Jiang Debing (蒋德兵), 64, is a member of the Communist Party. He learned hairdressing at the age of 18 and has been providing free haircuts to people with disabilities, widowed elderly, and other groups for 46 years. In 2018, he closed his barbershop and purchased and modified a "Lei Feng Service (雷锋服务)" tricycle, braving wind and rain, going through streets and alleys, and dedicating himself full-time to public welfare services. "They have difficulty moving around, so I go to them," said Jiang Debing (蒋德兵).
Over the past 46 years, Master Jiang (蒋师傅) has worn out more than 40 pairs of scissors and provided free haircuts to more than 20,000 people. In addition to free haircuts, he also carries disabled people out to bask in the sun, turns over and massages elderly people paralyzed in bed...
Over the years, Jiang Debing (蒋德兵) has been supporting this good deed with his savings from his previous shop and his monthly pension. "Some people say that I'm stupid for not making money and doing public welfare." Speaking of others' incomprehension, Jiang Debing's (蒋德兵) tone was calm, "It's not about the money. I helped so many people again today, and I'm very happy."
His journey on the road of public welfare volunteer service originated from the kindness Master Jiang (蒋师傅) received in his childhood. His mother passed away when he was 7 years old, and the care and companionship of his neighbors helped him grow up. "I received a lot of help when I was young, and now that I have the ability, I also want to help others." He always said that he was not doing enough, "Help as many as you can. 只管行善，不问前程 (zhǐ guǎn xíng shàn, bù wèn qián chéng - "just do good deeds, don't ask about the future," focus on doing good without worrying about the outcome)."
"I have always had a wish to drive more people to do public welfare," said Jiang Debing (蒋德兵). His 46 years of dedication have reaped warm responses. As Wu Kequn (吴克群) said, "One person can walk fast, but a group of people can walk further." Jiang Debing (蒋德兵) and his "Lei Feng Service (雷锋服务)" tricycle are like a seed, allowing love to take root and sprout in this spring.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 26 (Reporters Xu Penghang (徐鹏航) and Liu Zhen (刘祯)) - At a press conference held by the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control (国家疾控局) on March 26, disease control experts advised that various infectious diseases can be effectively prevented through vaccination, calling for timely vaccination to build a strong immune barrier.
Liu Qiyong (刘起勇), chief expert of vector-borne diseases at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (中国疾控中心), said that children under the age of 5 are a high-risk group for hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD), and timely vaccination with the EV71 vaccine is an effective measure to prevent severe HFMD. It is recommended that children of appropriate age over 6 months be vaccinated as early as possible, and it is encouraged to complete the entire vaccination process before 12 months of age in order to exert a protective effect as soon as possible.
Currently, the overall measles epidemic in China remains at a low level. However, Feng Zijian (冯子健), a member of the National Immunization Program Expert Advisory Committee and professor at the School of Public Health and Emergency Management of Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学), pointed out that in recent years, due to the decline in vaccination rates, many countries and regions around the world have experienced rebounds and outbreaks of measles epidemics, including countries bordering China, which has increased the risk of measles epidemics entering China. Key groups such as primary and secondary school students and medical personnel should conscientiously carry out supplementary vaccinations for measles and other childhood immunization program vaccines. Parents and caregivers of infants and young children should complete the prescribed vaccinations for their children in a timely and complete manner, and those who have not been vaccinated should be vaccinated in a timely manner.
Experts also emphasized that influenza viruses are prone to mutation and require annual influenza vaccination. The World Health Organization (世界卫生组织) has released recommendations for the composition of influenza vaccines for the Northern Hemisphere for 2026-2027, and all three viral subtype components of the trivalent influenza vaccine have been updated. The National Influenza Center (国家流感中心) has completed the passage and identification of vaccine seed strains and provided them to vaccine companies in need. "September to November is the best time for vaccination, and it is recommended to get vaccinated in a timely and proactive manner," said Feng Zijian (冯子健).
In addition, China has included the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the National Immunization Program (国家免疫规划). "Research has confirmed that all HPV vaccines currently available in China can effectively prevent at least 70% of cervical cancer cases," said Feng Zijian (冯子健). Timely HPV vaccination can more effectively reduce the risk of future cervical cancer and can also reduce other related diseases and virus transmission caused by HPV infection. It is recommended to complete the vaccination in a timely manner.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 26th (Reporter: Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)). Recently, the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (北京市人力资源和社会保障局) jointly released the "Capital Public Employment Service Map" with AutoNavi Maps (高德地图). Addressing the pain point of asymmetric employment information, the map integrates all employment service entities in the city, such as employment service stations, casual labor markets, training institutions, and evaluation institutions, pioneering "address as a service, location as a job," upgrading the map into a full-process service terminal.
Job seekers can open the AutoNavi Maps APP, enter the "Capital Public Employment Service Map" zone, view the contact phone numbers and service items of employment service entities, and navigate to them with one click. Among them, the Xicheng District Public Employment Service Station (西城区公共就业服务站), the Fengtai District Public Employment Demonstration Service Base (丰台区公共就业示范服务基地), and the Guangming Street Home Employment Service Station in Shunyi District (顺义区光明街道家门口就业服务站), three employment service demonstration sites, have taken the lead in carrying intelligent entity services. Clicking "Details" allows users to enter the institutions to view more employment activities, including recruitment activities, training courses, and job search services.
In the menu bar of the "Employment in Beijing (就业在北京)" WeChat official account, clicking "Service Map" can also find the "Employment Service Map." The system will automatically push service information within a range of 3 kilometers, 5 kilometers, 10 kilometers, and 15 kilometers based on the user's location. It also allows one-click job search, resume submission, activity registration, and career guidance appointment, realizing "open the map, and immediately enjoy the service."
In addition, the "Capital Public Employment Service Map" also constructs a "understands needs, predicts, and is more considerate" full-chain employment service ecosystem. It deeply integrates artificial intelligence entities and large model technology for the first time, proactively providing personalized services to job seekers. The system can intelligently generate supply and demand analysis reports and salary references, proactively push matching job information and training courses, answer policy inquiries at any time, guide resume optimization, and provide personalized support for diversified employment groups.
The Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (北京市人社局) will continue to promote the construction of service maps, deepen the "Internet + Employment" model, let data run more and the masses run less, and allow those who strive in Beijing (北京) to find their desired jobs at their doorstep.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陆凡冰
Walking into the home of Zhang Youdi (张友娣), a villager in Lingtou Village (岭头村), Liangnong Town (梁弄镇), Yuyao City (余姚市), Ningbo City (宁波市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), a faint scent of soap wafts through the air. Caregiver Huang Qiuqin (黄秋琴) is bending over, holding Zhang Youdi's left hand with one hand and using a warm towel with the other, carefully wiping her from her fingertips to her palm.
"Auntie, does it feel okay?" Huang Qiuqin asked softly. Zhang Youdi didn't speak, but her tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and a smile appeared on her lips.
In August 2023, Zhang Youdi, 66, accidentally fell while descending a mountain, injuring her cervical spine, resulting in high paraplegia. The long journey to seek medical treatment from Yuyao to Shanghai (上海) exhausted the family's savings. Zhang Youdi was paralyzed in bed, and her husband, who had been doing odd jobs everywhere, quit his job to take care of her daily life, and their days were shrouded in gloom.
The turning point came in May 2025. With the in-depth advancement of the long-term care insurance system pilot in Ningbo City, staff from the Medical Insurance Bureau discovered Zhang Youdi's situation during grassroots investigations and helped her apply for a long-term care insurance disability level assessment. In June, the assessment was passed, and in July, caregiver Huang Qiuqin entered this home.
Huang Qiuqin still remembers that when she first visited, Zhang Youdi's eyes were empty, and her husband's face was full of worry. In Huang Qiuqin's meticulous care, this home gradually changed. Every time Huang Qiuqin came, Zhang Youdi looked forward to having her hair washed and a sponge bath. For people with disabilities who cannot move their limbs, cleanliness is also a return to dignity.
After the care was completed, Zhang Youdi breathed a sigh of relief and said softly to Huang Qiuqin: "Qiuqin, I feel lighter and refreshed all over." The originally tedious and mechanical care process has become a time for the two to chat.
As one of the first batch of pilot cities for the national long-term care insurance system, Ningbo has been piloting the system since 2017 and has fully deepened the pilot in the entire region since 2023. In 2025, it has built a mature model of "full coverage, specialization, and digitalization." Adhering to the concept of urban-rural integration, the long-term care insurance covers all 8.3 million insured people in the city, achieving full population coverage and no difference between urban and rural areas. The funding standard of 90 yuan per person per year is jointly borne by individuals, units, and the government, solving the problem of "where the money comes from." At the same time, the list-based management of nursing service items not only allows disabled people to "have care," but also to "receive good care." People with severe level 1 disability like Zhang Youdi can enjoy 20 hours of professional door-to-door service per month, at 75 yuan per hour, with the fund paying 80%, which greatly alleviates the family's financial burden.
"Before, I took care of her myself. Although I tried my best, it was not professional. Now that the caregiver is here, she is not only efficient, but also has good techniques," Zhang Youdi's husband said with emotion. The 20 hours of professional service brought by long-term care insurance has become a key "fulcrum." With a regular professional helper, the husband can take a break from the daily routine and take on odd jobs at the village entrance to subsidize the family. These 20 hours are not only service hours, but also a "choice" that a disabled person's family has regained.
At Zhang Youdi's bedside, there is a confirmation form for long-term care insurance home care services. Behind this is the precise supervision of the "Yong You Chang Hu" (甬有长护) digital platform - the platform realizes closed-loop management of the entire process from application, assessment, service to supervision. For each care session, Huang Qiuqin uses a mobile APP to collect real-time location, duration, and service content. This digital closed-loop management ensures that every penny of the long-term care insurance fund is spent where it is needed.
By encouraging the participation of various nursing service institutions, Ningbo has established a service network covering counties, towns, and villages, realizing "wherever the disabled are, the tentacles of nursing services can follow." "Next, Ningbo City will focus on improving the funding standards for long-term care insurance, standardizing the long-term care insurance management procedures, building a fair and just disability assessment system, and improving the long-term care worker training mechanism, and continuously improve the long-term care insurance nursing service capabilities and management level," said a relevant person in charge of the Ningbo Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau (宁波市医疗保障局).
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田豆豆
Headline Highlights
Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) Province, guided by the "Great Yangtze River Protection," has fully connected the hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor. After the Jiangtan (江滩 - riverfront park) is connected, it strings together scenic spots and business districts, continuously gathering popularity and expanding development space.
"Come, let's go to the Jiangtan to enjoy the flowers!" In Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), the Yangtze River is mighty. On the winding Jiangtan, pink magnolias, bright yellow rapeseed flowers, and other flowers are connected into a romantic sea of flowers. People gather in groups of three or five, and making an appointment to enjoy the flowers has become a new fashion in spring. Under the azure sky, running children and girls in Hanfu (汉服 - traditional Han Chinese clothing) adorn the Jiangtan spring scenery with even more vitality.
"Click, click..." The sound of shutters rings out from time to time. At present, this scenic line, which is the most "photogenic" in the hearts of citizens and tourists, is the fully connected Wuhan (武汉) hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor.
After nearly 10 years, from the remediation of the riverfront coastline to the integration of river views and the city, the Wuhan (武汉) hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor has not only become a golden calling card for Wuhan's (武汉) cultural tourism, but also a vivid microcosm of Wuhan's (武汉) implementation of the "Great Yangtze River Protection" three-year action plan.
Coastline Remediation, Comprehensive Renovation of 63 Sluice Gates Completed Along the Jiangtan
Wuhan (武汉), the river city, is where the Yangtze River (长江) and Han River (汉江) meet, and water is the soul of the city.
The Jiangtan is an important part of Wuhan's (武汉) urban charm. However, the past Wuhan (武汉) Jiangtan had both highlights and breakpoints. Around 2016, there were still many sand yards and docks along the Jiangtan, which were both unsightly and polluting. Since 2016, Wuhan (武汉) has implemented a comprehensive remediation action for the environmental resources of the riverfront port coastline, providing basic conditions for the construction of the Jiangtan on both sides of the two rivers. Subsequently, Wuchang (武昌) Jiangtan, Qingshan (青山) Jiangtan, and others were built in phases and opened in sections, adding many bright colors to the city.
In 2020, Wuhan (武汉) launched the hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor project. According to the goal of "protecting a city's clean water, drawing a gallery of two rivers, and showing the beauty of the three towns," 16 key projects were planned and implemented to a high standard. In 2025, with the completion and opening of the Wuchang Bay (武昌湾) Jiangtan project, the Wuhan (武汉) hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor will be fully connected, and the Wuhan (武汉) Jiangtan will become a portrayal of the co-existence of ecology and humanities, and the integration of river views and the city.
The Wuchang Bay (武昌湾) Jiangtan is located on the former site of the Wuchang Shipyard (武昌造船厂). After the Wuchang Shipyard (武昌造船厂) was relocated, the builders found that the flood control walls and slope protection here were in disrepair for a long time, and the old site of the shipyard was almost all reinforced concrete, lacking greenery. Xiao Shuang (肖爽), an engineer from the Wuchang District (武昌区) River and Embankment Management Office, introduced that the builders first reinforced the slope protection and renovated the embankment, demolished the old flood control wall, and built a new reinforced concrete flood control wall.
"We construct flower and tree landscape belts in a stepped manner according to the height of the flood control water level, and set up catering and leisure service facilities to match different elevations," said Xiao Shuang (肖爽). Among the 16 hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor construction projects, each one embeds flood control projects such as slope protection and bank protection reinforcement and repair, and flood control wall and sluice gate repair and renovation. Nowadays, the Wuhan (武汉) Jiangtan has completed the comprehensive renovation of 63 sluice gates along the line, and all the Jiangtan sluice gates within the city's Third Ring Road have been replaced with assembled aluminum alloy flood control walls.
Adapting to Local Conditions, More Than 2.4 Million Square Meters of New Green Space Added
At present, the Yujiatou (余家头) Jiangtan Ecological Park is lush with vegetation and flowers are in full bloom. "This is the location of the Yujiatou (余家头) Water Plant in Wuchang District (武昌区), which is one of the water intakes for Wuhan (武汉) people. Before 2016, there were 11 docks and 9 sand and gravel operators here. There were no plants on the Jiangtan, and the water flowing from the docks to the Yangtze River was also yellow," said Liu Yiheng (刘一恒), deputy director of the Wuchang District (武昌区) River and Embankment Management Office.
In 2016, Wuhan (武汉) made great efforts to dismantle and ban all 200-plus sand yards scattered along the riverfront coastline, and then optimized and adjusted the dock coastline resources, re-greening about 70 hectares of the waterfront area, laying a good foundation for the construction of the hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor.
"The park has flowers in all seasons, and we are also trying to plant flower species that are more adapted to the environment," said Liu Yiheng (刘一恒). According to staff from the Wuhan (武汉) Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, in the construction of the Wuhan (武汉) hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor, 156 kinds of plants such as trees and shrubs were scientifically selected according to the flood resistance habits of the plants, and planted according to local conditions to construct wetland plant communities, adding 2,423,300 square meters of new green space.
Nanzuizui (南岸嘴), located near Qingchuan Pavilion (晴川阁) in Hanyang District (汉阳区), is an alluvial area formed by the confluence of the Yangtze River (长江) and Han River (汉江), and for a long time it was an ecological blank area in Wuhan (武汉). When planning the walkways and landscapes, the designer of the Nanzuizui (南岸嘴) project made way for the big trees, made micro-renovations to the shrub communities, and built a green open space with distinctive features and abundant species. Nowadays, the Nanzuizui (南岸嘴) Jiangtan Park has become a benchmark project for the construction of the hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor, which not only enhances the aesthetic appeal of the ecological environment, but also adds convenient facilities. Coming here to see the great river rushing and the confluence of the two rivers has become a popular choice for Wuhan (武汉) citizens and tourists from other places.
Jiangtan Connection Brings New Opportunities for Industrial Development
As dusk falls, the lights on both sides of the Yangtze River are bright and the night is charming. Next to the Hanyang (汉阳) Jiangtan, a coffee shop band performance has attracted many viewers. Not far from the coffee shop, tennis enthusiasts are sweating on the tennis court...
"For the construction of each Jiangtan, we not only carefully arrange the ecological landscape, but also embed the unique cultural elements of each district, and constantly innovate cultural tourism formats, hoping that tourists can experience Wuhan's (武汉) unique urban temperament," said Li Shi (李诗), director of the business department of Wuhan Hankou Jiangtan Industrial Development Co., Ltd. (武汉市汉口江滩实业发展有限责任公司). Tourists can visit the Wuchang (武昌) Jiangtan and check in at the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) from the best spot; at the Hankou (汉口) Jiangtan, they can visit the Yangtze River Crossing Museum (横渡长江博物馆), or board a cruise ship and immerse themselves in the Wuhan (武汉) style of a century ago; at the Hanyang (汉阳) Jiangtan, they can experience the construction enthusiasm of the new China from the industrial relics, or participate in the latest sports to feel the pulse of the city...
"The Jiangtan has a wide terrain, which is suitable for holding large-scale events, and large-scale events gather popularity for the Jiangtan," said Li Shi (李诗). According to statistics, the Wuhan (武汉) Jiangtan receives an average of 50 million domestic and foreign tourists every year. After the hundred-mile Yangtze River ecological corridor is fully connected, the Jiangtan is connected, linking scenic spots such as the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) and Qingchuan Pavilion (晴川阁), and also linking business districts in various districts, bringing new opportunities for Wuhan's (武汉) industrial development.
By: 孙小婷
The spring breeze carries more warm and humid air from lower latitudes or the ocean. Solar radiation increases, the duration of sunshine lengthens, and the amount of heat directly obtained by the human body also increases.
Recently, temperatures in many parts of China have rebounded rapidly, with green willows and singing orioles, and most of the southern regions have already entered spring. The spring breeze caresses the face, bringing warmth. So, why does the spring breeze bring warmth?
The warming of the earth is driven by the periodic changes in the distribution of solar radiation on the Earth's surface. After the vernal equinox, the direct position of the sun shifts northward from the equator, and solar heat begins to "favor" the Northern Hemisphere. The solar radiation energy received by the Earth's surface gradually increases, providing a sufficient source of heat for the atmosphere.
The seasonal adjustment of atmospheric circulation is also a key factor in the "spring breeze bringing warmth." In winter, East Asia is controlled by the Mongolian-Siberian high pressure, with prevailing cold and dry northwesterly or northerly winds. As time goes on, the subtropical high-pressure system over the Northwest Pacific gradually shows signs of increased intensity and westward and northward extension, allowing more warm and humid air from the eastern or southeastern parts of the low-latitude ocean to be transported to the eastern coastal areas of China.
China's complex and diverse topography also affects the rhythm of the "spring breeze bringing warmth." For example, due to the high altitude of plateau terrain, the air is thin, and solar radiation is easy to penetrate, but the surface heat capacity is small, and affected by the vertical temperature lapse rate, the daily variation of surface temperature during the warming process is significant. Plain areas have open and flat terrain, and their seasonal processes are mainly controlled by large-scale weather systems, showing obvious transitional and unstable characteristics. Taking the North China Plain as an example, winter and summer monsoons alternate here, and cold and warm air processes ebb and flow, causing the temperature to show an overall upward trend, but it is prone to drastic cold and warm fluctuations. It can be seen that the evolution of the transition from winter to spring in different regions of China is not a simple latitudinal progression, but a dynamic picture under the combined influence of various complex terrains.
People generally feel the spring breeze bringing warmth. For example, the spring breeze blowing on the face is no longer as dry as the winter wind, because the spring breeze carries more warm and humid air from lower latitudes or the ocean; at the same time, as solar radiation increases and the duration of sunshine lengthens, the amount of heat directly obtained by the human body also increases.
It should be noted that although the spring breeze brings warmth, the spring weather system is extremely unstable, and cold air activity is still very frequent, which can easily form a "cold snap" (倒春寒), and the public should pay attention to weather changes and reasonably increase or decrease clothing.
(The author is an associate researcher at the Climate Research Open Laboratory of the National Climate Center (国家气候中心), interviewed and compiled by Li Hongmei (李红梅), a reporter from this newspaper)
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Return to TopAs the weather warms up, Zhongwei City (中卫市), Ningxia (宁夏), is organizing desertification control workers to carry out replanting and supplementary planting work on the Tengger Desert (腾格里沙漠) sand fixation and border locking belt within Ningxia. By timely replanting drought-resistant desert plants, they are continuously consolidating desertification control achievements and building a solid ecological barrier in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
The picture shows desertification control workers replanting *Calligonum mongolicum* at the southeast edge of the Tengger Desert (腾格里沙漠) at the Changliushui Management Station (长流水管理站) of the State-owned Forestry General Farm (国有林业总场) in Zhongwei City (中卫市), Ningxia (宁夏).
Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporter Yang Zhishen (杨植森) photographed.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 26th (Reporter Kou Jiangze (寇江泽)) The "2025 South China Sea (南海) Marine Ecological Environment Quality Status Report" was recently released. Monitoring results show that the surface seawater quality in the South China Sea (南海) meets the first-class seawater quality standard, and the ecological environment of the main islands and reefs monitored in the South China Sea (南海) is stable.
The report shows that changes in water quality indicators such as pH, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients all conform to the natural distribution characteristics of the South China Sea (南海) waters. The concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and phenolic compounds are at low levels, and perfluorinated compounds and polybrominated diphenyl ethers are not detected. The activity concentration of artificial radioactive nuclides in the surface seawater is normal.
The average number of visually observed floating garbage on the sea surface in the South China Sea (南海) is 26.5 pieces/square kilometer, the main type is plastic, and the overall spatial distribution characteristic is that the western sea area of the South China Sea (南海) is higher than the central and eastern sea areas. The average density of microplastics in the surface seawater is 0.67 pieces/cubic meter, the main components are polypropylene and polyethylene, and the shapes are mainly films and fragments.
The report was jointly compiled by seven units including the National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center (国家海洋环境监测中心) and the South China Institute of Environmental Sciences (生态环境部华南环境科学研究所) of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部). Based on the results of ship fixed-point monitoring, mobile monitoring, and satellite remote sensing monitoring in 2025, the report analyzes the marine ecological environment of the South China Sea (南海) from the aspects of seawater environmental quality, floating garbage and microplastics on the sea surface, greenhouse gases, and the ecological environment of islands and reefs.
Return to TopAccording to a press conference held by the Information Office of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区政府) on March 26th, Nanning (南宁), during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangxi (广西) added 9649.39 square kilometers of soil and water loss control area, increasing the soil and water conservation rate to 84.90%. The area and intensity of soil and water loss have both decreased for eight consecutive years, providing strong support for building a beautiful Guangxi (广西) and strengthening China's southern ecological security barrier. This was reported by our reporter Zhang Yunhe (张云河).
Guangxi (广西) continues to deepen key soil and water conservation efforts and continuously improve governance effectiveness. Since 2023, the Autonomous Region's government has included soil and water conservation projects in the list of practical projects for the people for three consecutive years. A total of 399 soil and water conservation projects have been implemented, with the water conservancy industry controlling soil and water loss over an area of 4612 square kilometers, continuously enhancing the quality and stability of the ecosystem. The forestry industry has promoted comprehensive management of rocky desertification over 195,400 hectares, reducing the area of rocky desertification by 4% and increasing vegetation coverage to 47.21%. The Autonomous Region has built 80 ecological clean small watersheds featuring "green mountains, clear waters, beautiful villages, and prosperous people," and is exploring integrated approaches to small watershed comprehensive management at the village, township, and county levels in Lingchuan (灵川) and Jinxiu (金秀).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 江 萌
In the early morning, the Beichuan River Wetland Park (北川河湿地公园) in Xining (西宁市), Qinghai (青海) Province, is filled with the crisp laughter of children, and groups of people stroll leisurely along the boardwalk. The once black and smelly river has now become clear and the banks green, making the Beichuan River Wetland Park (北川河湿地公园) a great place for citizens to relax. "The Beichuan River (北川河) is really different now. It's our first choice for weekend outings with the elderly and children!" said Mr. Zhang (张先生), a resident of Xining (西宁).
"The change is not accidental," said Zhao Ping (赵萍), head of the Water Ecological Environment Section of the Xining Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (西宁市生态环境局). "We changed our thinking, not treating governance as a one-time project, but as a long-term action that is traceable, optimizable, and sustainable. On the one hand, we systematically implement specific projects such as wetland restoration, vegetation reconstruction, and river dredging. On the other hand, through monitoring, evaluation, and feedback loops, we ensure that every construction project meets ecological requirements."
As the capital city on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), Xining (西宁) is committed to making its green waters and mountains a development advantage. The water quality of the Huangshui River (湟水河) has remained stably at Class III since 2019, the compliance rate of centralized drinking water sources in the city has remained at 100%, and the separation of rainwater and sewage has allowed the old city to bid farewell to "streets becoming rivers" on rainy days. By 2025, the proportion of days with excellent air quality in Xining (西宁市) will reach 96.2%.
With the improvement of the ecology, the people feel it most deeply. Aunt Li (李阿姨), a resident of Zhonghua Lane Community (中华巷社区) in the Chengxi District (城西区) of Xining (西宁), goes to the bank of the Nanchuan River (南川河) to exercise every day: "The river water is clear, wild ducks are in flocks, and you can see many water birds. After exercising, when I return to the community, the garbage is sorted, and the roads are clean and tidy. Our old residential area has also been revitalized."
A good ecology also breeds new opportunities. "I heard that there are many rescued snow leopards in Xining (西宁), so I specially brought my child to see them," said Ms. Chen (陈女士), a tourist from Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province, while taking pictures of snow leopards at the Xining Wildlife Park (西宁野生动物园). Xining's (西宁) industrial transformation continues to move towards "new" and "green." IBC battery modules are heading to Europe, "Qinghai Intelligent Manufacturing (青海智造)" carbon fiber has broken the technological monopoly, cold-season vegetables are served on tables across the country, and Xining (西宁) has been selected as a national carbon peak pilot city, exploring the transformation of plateau cities.
From a river of clear water to a landscape of new greenery, from the micro-aspects of people's livelihoods to the overall pattern of industry, Xining's (西宁) development practice confirms that a good ecology leads to a good future. "We will take building a central city on a highland of ecological civilization with higher standards and building a central city on the 'four lands' of industry with higher quality as our guide, promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and accelerate the construction of a beautiful Xining (西宁)," said He Jianzhang (何建章), Director of the Xining Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (西宁市生态环境局).
Return to TopBeijing (北京), March 26th (Reported by Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋) from this newspaper) - This reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) that on the 26th, the preparatory works for the first phase of the Tai Pu River (太浦河) follow-up project officially commenced.
The construction site for the first phase of the Tai Pu River (太浦河) follow-up project is located in the Jiangsu (江苏) and Zhejiang (浙江) sections of the Tai Pu River (太浦河). The main project contents include dredging the section from the Tai Pu Sluice (太浦闸) to the Chuanjing Port (川泾港), implementing the Fenhu (汾湖) channel excavation, and other river courses totaling 22.1 kilometers; constructing 14.04 kilometers of new dikes; reinforcing 25.2 kilometers of the main stream dikes; constructing the new Nanyoujiagang (南尤家港) pump gate and Meitan Port (梅坛港) hub; merging the construction of the Luxutang (芦墟塘) pumping station and Taozhuang (陶庄) hub; reinforcing 8 existing gate structures; and demolishing and rebuilding 63 structures.
The Tai Pu River (太浦河) is 57.6 kilometers long, spanning Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江), and Shanghai (上海), and is the core water system of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone and a key ecological corridor for the ecological green development of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角). It is also the main channel and artery for flood control and water resource allocation in the Taihu Lake (太湖) basin.
The Tai Pu River (太浦河) provides important support for ensuring the water supply security of downstream areas. However, after years of operation, the project has experienced problems such as insufficient local flow capacity, aging dikes and revetments, and shoreline functions that are not compatible with the requirements of the demonstration zone. The implementation of the first phase of the Tai Pu River (太浦河) follow-up project plays an irreplaceable role in ensuring flood control security, water supply security, and ecological security in the Taihu Lake (太湖) basin, and also plays a very important role in promoting the economic and social development along the route.
The first phase of the Tai Pu River (太浦河) follow-up project involves Jiangsu (江苏) and Zhejiang (浙江) provinces, with a total project investment of approximately 7.62 billion yuan. The preparatory works for construction that have now commenced have a total investment of 178 million yuan, and the main project will fully commence construction before the end of this year.
After the completion of the first phase of the Tai Pu River (太浦河) follow-up project, it will improve the regional flood control and drainage capacity, water resource allocation capacity, and shipping capacity, improve the ecological environment of the riverside shoreline, and consolidate and improve the ecological base of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone.
Return to TopThis reporter learned from a press conference held by the Gansu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment that, as of now, 13 cities and prefectures and 39 counties and districts in the Yellow River (黄河) main stream and tributaries, Heihe River (黑河), Shiyang River (石羊河), and Bailong River (白龙江) basins within Gansu Province (甘肃省) have established a basin compensation mechanism, forming a collaborative governance pattern.
The Gansu Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, in coordination with financial departments, formulated and issued the "Implementation Plan on Further Improving the Horizontal Ecological Protection Compensation Mechanism," adhering to the principle of coordinated promotion of left and right banks, upstream and downstream, and accelerating the improvement of horizontal ecological compensation mechanisms within provinces and between provinces in the Yellow River, Yangtze River (长江), and inland river basins. At the same time, adhering to the principle of "shared costs, shared benefits, and collaborative governance," relevant pilot work plans have been formulated successively. Since 2020, a total of 360 million yuan of provincial funds have been arranged to support basin cities and counties in carrying out water pollution prevention and control and ecological restoration.
Return to TopRobots capable of completing high-difficulty movements, refrigeration air conditioners that can operate stably at a high temperature of 68 degrees Celsius, ceramic trees that integrate traditional Chinese craftsmanship and overseas cultures... In recent years, one after another "China Goodies" have crossed mountains and seas and gone to the world, enriching global consumer choices and playing an important role in ensuring the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to "accelerate the construction of a strong trading nation and promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of foreign trade." With increased efforts to stabilize foreign trade, in 2025, China's export scale reached 26.99 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality.
The reasonable growth in quantity stems from the effective improvement in quality. The popular "China Goodies" witness that China's innovation and development have become more colorful, the background color of green development is richer, and the true color of openness and win-win cooperation is brighter.
Data shows the trend, and the front line shows vitality. Recently, reporters from this newspaper walked into Gree Electric Appliances Inc. (珠海格力电器股份有限公司), Magic Atom Robotics Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. (魔法原子机器人科技（无锡）有限公司), and Fujian Dehua Xinliang Ceramics Co., Ltd. (福建省德化县信良陶瓷有限公司), and interviewed three business leaders. Through their practices, we observe the supporting force of China's green and low-carbon transformation, the driving force of scientific and technological innovation, and the communication power of excellent traditional culture, and explore why "China Goodies" are popular around the world.
"Pain points generate demand, and demand breeds business opportunities"
——Interview with Dong Mingzhu (董明珠), Chairman of Gree Electric Appliances Inc. (格力电器)
By Wang Yunna (王云娜), reporter of this newspaper
To serve high-temperature areas such as deserts, the "desert air conditioner" (超高温制冷空调) (ultra-high temperature refrigeration air conditioner) launched by Gree Electric Appliances Inc. (珠海格力电器股份有限公司) can operate stably in an environment of 68 degrees Celsius. On this basis, taking advantage of the good conditions of abundant sunshine in the desert, Gree has also developed green and low-carbon photovoltaic energy storage products—the Zero-Carbon Source Photovoltaic Storage Air Smart Energy System (零碳源光储空智慧能源系统) (hereinafter referred to as "Photovoltaic Storage Air System"), which can generate electricity and cool down at the same time, and store excess electricity for use at night or in cloudy environments. At present, nearly 10,000 sets of "Photovoltaic Storage Air Systems" have been put into use in the Middle East market, reducing carbon emissions by approximately 110,000 tons per year.
Recently, a reporter from this newspaper interviewed Dong Mingzhu (董明珠), Chairman of the company, to hear her talk about Gree's exploration and thinking in developing the global market.
Question 1: Supply and Demand: Since China proposed the "dual carbon" goal, the momentum of green development has continued to increase. At the same time, more and more countries are exploring green transformation, and the demand for green products continues to grow. Faced with this trend, how does Gree take the initiative to seek change?
Answer: Pain points generate demand, and demand breeds business opportunities. For a long time, air conditioners have been "large energy consumers." In 2013, I went to the Middle East to conduct research and found that the temperature there was very high, the demand for air conditioners was strong, and the annual usage time exceeded 300 days. Air conditioner energy consumption accounted for about 70% of building energy consumption. At that time, I thought, isn't this the application scenario and market potential of "desert air conditioners"? Solar energy is inexhaustible, so why not use it to solve the problem of high energy consumption?
In the early stage of research and development, "desert air conditioners" had shortcomings: there was a lot of sunshine, so there was a lot of electricity, and if it was not used up, it would be wasted. Later, after seven years of hard work, we finally developed the "Photovoltaic Storage Air System," which stores the electricity that the air conditioner does not use up for use by other household appliances or integrates it into the power grid, realizing the "power generation, storage, and use" cycle.
Years of sharpening a sword, the process is very difficult, but we always firmly believe that the market does not lack commodities, but "good products." The goal of the home appliance industry is to move towards green. Improving the "green content" of products can open up new market space.
Facts are the most convincing. A garment factory in Saudi Arabia used to install traditional air-conditioning equipment, and its monthly electricity bill was as high as 80,000 yuan; after adopting the "Photovoltaic Storage Air System," the monthly electricity bill dropped to 20,000 yuan, reducing carbon emissions by 2,000 tons per year.
In fact, achieving the adaptation of supply and demand is also a choice and determination of the development mode.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to "actively promote green and low-carbon products" and "accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development." The fundamental reason why we take the initiative to seek change and unswervingly make green products is that we believe that China, which is taking advantage of the comprehensive green transformation, will rise, and companies that are new and green have a promising future.
Question 2: Fast and Slow: In 2025, China's exports of household appliances exceeded 4.45 billion units, maintaining a high level. Business opportunities wait for no one. However, the research and development cycle of the "Photovoltaic Storage Air System" is relatively long. Why did Gree choose "slow research and development," and where does the determination come from?
Answer: The real innovation is not about who is faster, but about who can solve the problem better.
Although the development pace of the home appliance industry is fast, if we only hype concepts and focus on packaging, we will still not win the market. For example, some air conditioners look very beautiful and have many functions, but the cooling and heating effects are average, energy consumption is high, and noise is loud. This is putting the cart before the horse.
We do not make products that **本末倒置** (běn mò dào zhì - "invert root and branch," to put the cart before the horse). There is no shortcut to technological innovation. At Gree, there are 20,000 R&D personnel. "Slow R&D" can cultivate hard power, maintain true quality, and gain a good reputation.
Take the "Photovoltaic Storage Air System" as an example. Its research and development includes photovoltaic, energy storage, air conditioning, and energy information management systems. Each link has technical bottlenecks, and each step requires technical breakthroughs. But we do not give up and keep moving forward firmly.
In the past, because we did not master the core technology of air conditioner compressors, air conditioners often "went on strike" in high-temperature environments. Not to mention the desert, even in cities with high summer temperatures such as Chongqing (重庆) and Nanjing (南京), they sometimes couldn't withstand it. By facing difficulties and focusing on research and development, our compressors can now operate stably at a high temperature of 68 degrees Celsius, becoming the "heart" of the "desert air conditioner."
All of this is the accumulation of knowledge in the technical field, and it also reflects the company's firm commitment to green development. The "green content" of a product depends on the "new content." For "China Goodies" to go to the world, we must compete on technology and innovation so that customers can use them with confidence and comfort.
At the recent Two Sessions (全国两会), "innovation" and "reform" became hot words. This also inspires us to maintain our determination, base ourselves on innovation, and calm down to tackle tough problems.
Question 3: Internal and External: China has the most complete industrial categories and the most complete industrial system in the world, but on the other hand, some domestic companies are still limited to OEM production when going overseas. Gree's own brands account for nearly 70% of total export sales. What does it rely on?
Answer: Quality is the core competitiveness of a company and a brand. In the past, some people were not optimistic about "Made in China" because some products were not of good quality and the standards were not high enough.
Gree's own brands can go overseas because of product quality and technical capabilities. The world recognizes us because our products are excellent. The Middle East has high temperatures, a lot of sand and dust, and strong salt spray corrosion. Some equipment breaks down after one year of use, but "desert air conditioners" can be used for many years and have extreme performance such as corrosion resistance, sand resistance, and high-temperature resistance.
OEM production is processing according to other people's standards, while own brands set their own technology and standards. Once a new standard becomes a consensus, it can break prejudices and replace old rules. In recent years, the pace of global green transformation has accelerated. We have led the formulation of many green standards in the industry and promoted more green technologies to the world. This fully shows that China's green development and high-quality development also provide a "list of opportunities" for world development.
Guangdong (广东) has a good industrial base, complete supporting facilities, and a strong atmosphere of innovation and open development. This is the solid backing for Gree's own brands to go overseas. Rooted in this thick industrial soil, we always adhere to quality. For example, we have been cooperating with upstream suppliers for decades, and one iron rule remains unchanged: the quality must meet the standards, and any unqualified products will be returned. Strict standards drive the upstream and downstream industrial chains to transform and upgrade together.
In the future, we will continue to move towards green and intelligent directions, step by step, so that the world will fall in love with "Made in China."
(Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹) and Tu Sheng (涂胜) participated in writing)
"Popularity should be supported by products, not hyped up by topics"
——Interview with Gu Shitao (顾诗韬), President of Magic Atom
By Yao Xueqing (姚雪青), reporter of this newspaper
From stably completing complex movements such as high-speed rotation and aerial jumps to skillfully realizing life-like operations such as scooping noodles and controlling water, Magic Atom Robotics Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. (魔法原子机器人科技（无锡）有限公司) has continuously expanded the application boundaries of robots with one innovation breakthrough after another. At present, the company's business has expanded to 27 countries and regions.
Recently, a reporter from this newspaper interviewed Gu Shitao (顾诗韬), President of the company, to hear her tell the story of how the company embraces the global market with the power of innovation.
Question 1: Technological Sustainability: In recent years, the technological leap of robots has been amazing. Some people believe that robots will enter daily life more and faster; others think that this is just a fad and may not last long. What do you think?
Answer: Temporary popularity depends on luck; lasting popularity depends on strength.
Many people think that robots dancing and doing somersaults are just to attract attention. But from a technical point of view, this is precisely a manifestation of strength. Taking the "Thomas Flair" movement as an example, the robot needs to complete supporting, leg swinging, taking off, rotating, and re-supporting in a very short period of time, which is a great test for motion control algorithms and high-precision joint modules.
One minute on stage takes years of effort off stage. Popularity should be supported by products, not hyped up by topics. In the final analysis, innovation-driven development can forge core competitiveness.
The core project team of Magic Atom took shape in 2021. We started with the most basic joints, released the first humanoid robot in 2023, and have now completed five generations of product iterations. During this period, there was project support from government projects, and our little by little persistence and efforts overcame one key technology after another, which slowly built up the technical moat. Looking at the world, some of the company's technologies have moved from following to leading.
Innovation is not a solo show, but a concerto. In our team, R&D personnel account for 80%, and most of them come from top universities around the world. We have also established R&D centers overseas and maintain close cooperation with local research institutions. In this industry, cross-border cooperation, talent, and capital flows are very common. Any company that wants to go to the world must have the ability to integrate global resources.
Chinese robots are not just technological products. Their vigorous development represents an image and temperament: they have the sharpness of innovation, the courage to explore, and the open attitude and cooperative mind. I believe that in the future China, the development prospects of the robot industry are broad, and the pace of innovation will not stop.
Question 2: Development Driving Force: During the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Horse, four robot companies, including Magic Atom, made a concentrated appearance. Why has the robot industry ushered in a period of blooming in the past two years? What kind of development "spring breeze" has Magic Atom felt?
Answer: The emergence of the "entrepreneurial wave" is not accidental. Chinese robots have come out step by step in a solid manner.
On the production side, core components have achieved breakthroughs in localization, and costs have continued to decline; on the demand side, industrial upgrading and changes in population structure have brought about rigid demand; on the policy side, the state supports the development of embodied intelligence and other future industries. With clear direction and stable expectations, everyone dares to think and act.
The company's choice to deeply cultivate in this field is both in line with the trend and aims to take advantage of the trend.
As a young company, we face many challenges: we must iterate quickly in applications and accelerate the consolidation of underlying capabilities such as basic software and core component R&D. But developing hard technology is not a "sprint" but a "marathon." In the robot track, the R&D cycle is long, the investment is large, and commercialization is slow, making it difficult for companies to make profits in a short period of time.
Fortunately, Liangxi District (梁溪区) of Wuxi City (无锡市), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, where the company is located, has listed humanoid robots and industrial embodied intelligence as key development directions and established a mother fund and special industrial fund with a scale of 10 billion yuan to invest specifically in early-stage, small, and hard technology companies. At the beginning of the company's establishment, the district injected more than 100 million yuan in the form of "investment for recruitment" to help the company "get started." More importantly, the local government continues to build industrial platforms and open up application scenarios to promote the improvement of the entire chain of support capabilities from technology R&D and product verification to large-scale production.
Therefore, the reason why everyone sees the robot industry blooming and rising in the past two years is, from a deeper level, that the practices of respecting industrial laws, cultivating patient capital, and adhering to long-termism in various places have blossomed and borne fruit. This is the country's strategic determination to anchor the long term, and it is also the company's firm commitment to development.
Riding on the "spring breeze" of the industry, we will continue to cultivate deeply. We will make innovation solid, deepen technology, and optimize product iteration so that more "sharp-eyed and clever" robots can enter thousands of households.
Question 3: Market Competitiveness: Last year, China's industrial robot exports increased by 48.7% year-on-year. Magic Atom's business has expanded to 27 countries and regions. In your opinion, why are Chinese robot products favored overseas? What are your experiences in the company's globalization layout?
Answer: The fundamental reason why products are popular is innovation. In the short term, the market will pursue concepts; in the long term, it will still pay for value. The growth of China's robot exports is the result of consumers' recognition of the product's high certainty delivery, high scenario adaptation, and high comprehensive value.
Looking overseas, some countries and regions have problems with "difficulty in hiring" and "high labor costs," and many high-risk operation scenarios call for "machines to replace people."
Where there is demand, there is a market. Taking Magic Atom as an example, we have launched industrial quadruped robot solutions for night inspections and equipment inspections in confined spaces in some overseas factories; we have developed mobile operating robots that can cooperate with humans for the warehousing and logistics industry.
These scenarios have a common feature, that is, they do not pursue "complete unmanned operation," but make up for the part that humans cannot do, are unwilling to do, or are high-risk. The value of technology lies not in how dazzling it is, but in whether it is useful. Overseas consumers choose us because they also recognize the company's values: innovation must adhere to problem orientation and demand orientation.
In order to identify problems and discover needs, from the first day of its establishment, we did not take the old path of "first domestic, then overseas," but insisted on "born global." By 2025, the company's global sales network will be basically completed, and sales and after-sales support teams will be established in many countries and regions. The closer we are to customers, the more real the needs we hear, and the faster we react. The efficiency and innovation capabilities of the Chinese supply chain, coupled with the warmth of overseas localized services, are our advantages.
Having said that, the robot industry's going overseas must also cope with a complex trade environment. Technical standard barriers and differences in cross-border data supervision are all real challenges. In the next few years, the industry will move from the exploration period to the mature application period. We are willing to be advocates of technology openness, practitioners of responsible innovation, and promoters of value co-creation to help Chinese robots go out and take root deeply.
"Tradition is not a shackle to development, but a breeding ground for innovation"
——Interview with Lin Liangbi (林良壁), General Manager of Dehua Xinliang Ceramics
By Shi Yu (施钰), reporter of this newspaper
Fujian Dehua Xinliang Ceramics Co., Ltd. (福建省德化县信良陶瓷有限公司) has been focusing on the production of ceramic trees for 14 years. It insists on innovative research and development, integrates traditional Chinese craftsmanship and overseas culture, and has developed more than 4,000 ceramic trees for different overseas festivals, with a cumulative export of more than 50 million pieces. Ceramic trees have become "China Goodies" purchased by many foreign families for festivals.
Recently, a reporter from this newspaper interviewed Lin Liangbi (林良壁), General Manager of the company, to hear him talk about how to bring traditional Chinese craftsmanship to the world.
Question 1: Breadth of Integration: When it comes to ceramics, everyone first thinks of cups, bottles, bowls, plates, etc. How did you think of making ceramic trees? Nowadays, many companies are going overseas and gradually shifting from selling products to selling experiences and cultures. How do you view this?
Answer: In 2011, I returned to my hometown of Dehua County (德化县), Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建) Province, to start a business. The first thing I did was to study: What does Dehua have? What does the market want?
In 2006, the Dehua porcelain firing technique was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list. Dehua County (德化县) is an important production base of ceramic handicrafts in China. It can be said that Dehua ceramics has both traditional craftsmanship as the "base" and a complete industrial chain as the "backing."
But in the past, many ceramic factories were making cups, bottles, bowls, plates, etc., which led to homogeneous competition, thin profits, and fierce "competition." To succeed, you must choose the right track.
Once, while watching TV, I saw a report about foreign festivals. The Christmas trees in the program were beautifully lit, which inspired me. So I started researching how to combine LED lights and ceramics to design small, exquisite ceramic trees suitable for desktop display. In 2012, I sent samples to foreign customers, and they placed orders on the spot without even negotiating the price. The product profit was 15% to 20% higher than ordinary cups and plates, and it is still in short supply. This year, our orders are already scheduled until August.
I think the reason for our success lies in the openness and inclusiveness of culture. Ceramics have a warm texture and rich craftsmanship. Based on this, we have deeply studied overseas festival cultures and worked hard on color presentation and element design. For example, the ceramic tree products made for Thanksgiving incorporate elements such as turkeys and pumpkins. In the end, selling ceramic trees is not just selling goods, but also selling a sense of ritual; it is not only a decoration, but also touches consumers' emotions.
Products are carriers of culture. In recent years, many ceramic products have incorporated traditional Chinese cultural elements such as landscape paintings and paper-cut patterns into their designs, which are very popular at home and abroad. Recently, we have also been trying to integrate traditional cultural elements into the design of ceramic trees, so that consumers can see not only the exquisite craftsmanship of Dehua porcelain (德化瓷), but also the profound heritage of Chinese culture.
As early as the Song (宋) and Yuan (元) dynasties, Dehua porcelain (德化瓷) set sail from Fujian (福建), and was sold overseas along the "Maritime Silk Road (海上丝绸之路)." Today, our ceramic products are starting from here again, using culture as a sail to sail overseas.
In my opinion, there are really only three things for products to go overseas: you must understand yourself and the market; you must adhere to tradition and open your horizons; you must focus on craftsmanship and be able to tell stories.
Second question: The depth of cultivation: Since 2012, the company has been focusing on making ceramic trees. Why so determined?
Answer: The key to a company's products is not the number of types, but whether it can produce products that others cannot make and that customers cannot live without. In recent years, we have focused on doing one thing, which is to make ceramic trees the best they can be, accumulating "irreplaceable" advantages.
Innovation is the company's greatest bargaining power. We insist on investing more than 20% of our annual profits in research and development. This proportion is not low, but it is very worthwhile. For example, some time ago, we cooperated with a glaze factory in Foshan (佛山), Guangdong (广东) to develop a new type of glaze that can present a snow-like visual effect on ceramic trees, but still feels like ceramic. After applying for a patent, it was quickly put into production and has been on trial sale overseas, and is expected to become a hit.
In recent years, the foreign trade market has been quite turbulent, but we are not afraid. The market will eliminate products that do not change, but the demand for good products has always been there. Pressure is also motivation. I often ask myself, if I were a customer, would I buy this product? If not, it must be changed. The more complex the environment, the more proactive you must be in seeking change; the more intense the competition, the more determined you must be to follow your own path.
In cross-cultural dialogue, traditional skills are being revitalized.
Ordinary ceramic glazes are prone to cracking in ultra-low temperature environments. The glaze and some accessories of some ceramic trees we exported were frozen and cracked, and the company compensated more than 20,000 US dollars for this. The amount is not large, but the lesson is profound. The quality of the product is the company's confidence. If the quality is not good, no matter how good the design is, it will not work.
Starting in 2022, we will jointly carry out research with suppliers of raw materials such as porcelain clay and glaze, and suppliers of kiln equipment, relying on modern technology to adjust traditional formulas and firing processes. Now, the products can withstand temperatures as low as minus 35 degrees Celsius and as high as 60 degrees Celsius. Next, we also plan to develop outdoor ceramic trees of more than two meters to adapt to foreign courtyard scenes. As long as the product improves, the company will not stop.
Third question: The depth of the industry: In 2025, China's exports of high-tech products increased by 13.2% year-on-year. In the face of continuous optimization of the foreign trade structure and accelerated industrial upgrading, how should traditional manufacturing enterprises respond?
Answer: "Traditional" does not equal "low-end," and "old trees" can also sprout "new buds."
Dehua ceramics (德化陶瓷) has a long history, and what it leaves us is not a burden, but an advantage that cannot be moved away. For example, in order to ensure the uniqueness of the product, the core craftsmanship of ceramic trees, such as blank pulling and painting, still relies on handwork. Our factory has more than 100 skilled workers. Dehua's (德化) rich and stable human resources are difficult to compare with other places. For another example, ceramic trees involve ceramics, electronics, iron parts, etc., and require five or six parts suppliers, all of which can be found in Dehua (德化).
Of course, traditional industries also have shortcomings: insufficient intelligence and greening, and insufficient research and development capabilities. In recent years, the government has introduced support policies, and enterprises are also increasing investment in intelligent manufacturing. Everyone is working together to find ways to promote industrial transformation and upgrading. At present, in the front-end primary processing procedures, more than 60% of ceramic enterprises in Dehua County (德化县) have achieved automation, and the output value and benefits are increasing.
Taking our company as an example, we have introduced automated equipment in front-end processes such as rolling and grouting, allowing workers to free up their hands to do more "craftsmanship" and "brain work."
In terms of green transformation, equipment is also being upgraded. Seven years ago, the energy consumption cost of firing a 30 cm high ceramic tree was 2.8 yuan; now, using an energy-saving kiln, the energy consumption cost is only more than 1 yuan.
Tradition is not a shackle to development, but a breeding ground for innovation. By guarding our industrial advantages and cultural heritage, and actively upholding integrity and innovation, traditional industries can also take new paths and create new situations.
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Return to TopState Council Decree of the People's Republic of China
No. 833
The "Regulations on the National Agricultural Census," revised and adopted at the 81st Executive Meeting of the State Council on March 13, 2026, are hereby promulgated and shall come into effect as of May 1, 2026.
Premier Li Qiang (李强)
March 20, 2026
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the "Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China" to scientifically and effectively organize and implement the national agricultural census, and to ensure the authenticity, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of agricultural census data.
Article 2 The purpose of the agricultural census is to comprehensively understand the basic situation of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers in China, to provide a basis for studying and formulating economic and social development strategies, plans, policies, and scientific decision-making, and to provide statistical information services for agricultural producers and operators and the public.
Article 3 The agricultural census shall be organized and implemented in accordance with the principles of unified national leadership, division of labor and cooperation among departments, responsibility at different levels of local governments, and joint participation of all parties.
Article 4 State organs, social organizations, and units and individuals related to the agricultural census shall actively participate in and closely cooperate with the agricultural census work in accordance with the provisions of the "Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China" and these Regulations.
Article 5 The agricultural census leading group offices at all levels (hereinafter referred to as census offices) and census office staff, census instructors, and census takers (hereinafter collectively referred to as census personnel) shall independently exercise the powers of investigation, reporting, and supervision in accordance with the law, and no unit or individual may interfere.
The persons in charge of local areas, departments, and units shall not independently revise the agricultural census data collected and compiled by the census offices and census personnel in accordance with the law, shall not require the census offices and census personnel to fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data in any way, shall not explicitly or implicitly instruct subordinate units and their personnel or agricultural census subjects to fill in false agricultural census data, and shall not retaliate against units and individuals who perform their duties in accordance with the law or refuse to resist illegal acts in the agricultural census.
Article 6 News media such as newspapers, radio, television, and news websites, as well as network service providers, shall adopt various forms to carry out publicity and reporting on the agricultural census.
Article 7 The funds required for the agricultural census shall be jointly borne by the central and local people's governments at all levels and shall be included in the corresponding annual budgets, allocated on time, and ensured to be fully in place.
Agricultural census funds shall be managed in a unified manner, used for designated purposes only, and expenditures shall be strictly controlled.
Financial departments and auditing departments at all levels shall, in accordance with their duties, strengthen budgetary supervision and audit supervision of agricultural census funds.
Article 8 The agricultural census shall be conducted once every 10 years, with the year ending in 6 as the agricultural census year, and the standard point in time shall be 24:00 on December 31 of the agricultural census year. The agricultural census registration time in special areas may be appropriately adjusted with the approval of the State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office.
Chapter II Objects, Scope, and Content of the Agricultural Census
Article 9 The objects of the agricultural census are the following units and individuals within the territory of the People's Republic of China:
(1) Rural households, including rural agricultural production and operation households and other households;
(2) Urban agricultural production and operation households;
(3) Agricultural production and operation units;
(4) Villagers' committees;
(5) Township people's governments.
Article 10 Agricultural census subjects shall truthfully answer inquiries from census personnel regarding agricultural census-related issues, fill in agricultural census forms on time, and provide the information required for the agricultural census. They shall not provide untrue or incomplete agricultural census data, and shall not delay or refuse to report agricultural census data.
Agricultural census subjects shall cooperate with the statistical agencies of the people's governments at or above the county level in conducting supervision and inspection in accordance with the law, truthfully reflect the situation, provide relevant evidence and materials, and shall not refuse or obstruct inspection, or transfer, conceal, tamper with, or destroy original records and vouchers, statistical ledgers, agricultural census forms, accounting materials, and other relevant evidence and materials.
The requirements for agricultural census subjects to provide reports and materials shall adhere to the principles of necessity and standardization, streamline and integrate reporting items, strengthen data sharing and utilization, and reduce the burden on the grassroots.
Article 11 The scope of agricultural census industries includes: crop farming, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, and auxiliary activities for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery.
Article 12 The content of the agricultural census includes: agricultural production conditions, agricultural production and operation activities, agricultural land use, rural residents' lives, rural labor force and employment, rural industrial development, rural construction, and rural governance.
The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office may adjust the agricultural census content stipulated in the preceding paragraph according to specific circumstances.
Article 13 The agricultural census shall adopt the method of comprehensive investigation. The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office may decide to adopt methods such as sampling surveys and remote sensing measurement for specific content.
The agricultural census shall make full use of administrative records, social big data, and other materials.
Article 14 The agricultural census shall implement national statistical standards.
Article 15 The agricultural census plan shall be formulated uniformly by the State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office and submitted to the State Council for approval. The agricultural census shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of the agricultural census plan.
Provincial census offices may add agricultural census supplementary tables as needed, which shall be implemented after being approved by the State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office.
Chapter III Organization and Implementation of the Agricultural Census
Article 16 The State Council shall establish an agricultural census leading group and its office. The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group shall be responsible for organizing and leading the national agricultural census work. The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office shall be located in the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) and shall be specifically responsible for the organization and coordination of the daily work of the agricultural census. The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group and its office shall be automatically abolished after the completion of their tasks.
Article 17 Local people's governments at all levels shall establish agricultural census leading groups and their offices, and shall be responsible for the organization and implementation of the agricultural census within their respective administrative regions in accordance with the unified regulations and requirements of the State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group and its office. The survey organizations dispatched by the National Bureau of Statistics shall participate in the organization and implementation of the agricultural census as member units of the agricultural census leading groups and their offices. Local agricultural census leading groups and their offices at all levels shall be automatically abolished after the completion of their tasks.
Villagers' committees shall assist in the agricultural census work within their respective regions under the guidance of township people's governments.
Article 18 Relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall actively participate in and closely cooperate with the census offices in carrying out agricultural census work.
The agricultural census work of units affiliated with the military shall be organized and implemented uniformly by the military.
The agricultural census work of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) shall be organized and implemented by the Agricultural Census Leading Group and its office of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Article 19 On-site registration for the agricultural census in rural areas shall be conducted by census area. The census area shall be divided based on the administrative area of the villagers' committee, and each census area may be divided into several census blocks.
On-site registration for the agricultural census in urban areas shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the agricultural census plan.
Article 20 Each census block shall be equipped with a census taker, who shall be responsible for the interview registration and other work of the agricultural census. Each census area shall be equipped with at least one census instructor, who shall be responsible for arranging, guiding, and supervising the work of the census takers, and may also directly conduct interview registration.
Census instructors and census takers shall mainly be composed of rural cadres, village group leaders, and other local residents with higher education levels.
Census instructors and census takers shall be healthy and have a strong sense of responsibility.
Article 21 The census office may, according to work needs, hire or, in accordance with regulations, borrow personnel from other relevant units to engage in agricultural census work. Relevant units shall actively recommend qualified personnel to engage in agricultural census work.
Hired personnel shall be paid labor remuneration by the hiring unit. The wages of borrowed personnel shall be paid by the original unit, and their welfare benefits shall remain unchanged.
Appropriate work subsidies shall be arranged for census instructors and census takers in the agricultural census funds.
Article 22 The census office shall conduct business training for census instructors and census takers, and issue nationally unified census instructor certificates or census taker certificates to those who pass the assessment.
Article 23 When conducting an agricultural census, census personnel shall have the right to inquire relevant units and individuals about issues related to the agricultural census, require relevant units and individuals to truthfully provide relevant information and materials, and correct untrue or inaccurate information.
Article 24 Census personnel shall adhere to the principle of seeking truth from facts, abide by professional ethics, and refuse to resist illegal acts in the agricultural census work.
Census offices and census personnel shall strictly implement the agricultural census plan, truthfully collect and report agricultural census data, shall not fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data, shall not require agricultural census subjects to provide untrue agricultural census data in any way, shall not require census personnel or subordinate census offices to fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data in any way, and shall not have other acts that violate the provisions of these Regulations.
When census instructors and census takers perform agricultural census tasks, they shall present their census instructor certificates or census taker certificates; if they fail to do so, agricultural census subjects have the right to refuse to provide relevant information and materials.
Article 25 Census takers shall directly visit agricultural census subjects in accordance with the law, and conduct inquiries and fill in forms on the spot. After the agricultural census form is completed, it shall be signed or sealed by the agricultural census subject for confirmation. Agricultural census subjects shall be responsible for the authenticity of the agricultural census data signed or sealed by them.
Census personnel shall be responsible for the consistency between the agricultural census data they are responsible for registering, reviewing, and entering and the agricultural census data signed or sealed by the agricultural census subjects.
The census office shall be responsible for the authenticity, accuracy, and completeness of the agricultural census data it processes and compiles.
Chapter IV Data Processing and Quality Control
Article 26 The agricultural census data processing plan and implementation measures shall be formulated by the State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office.
The census office shall conduct data processing in accordance with the provisions of the data processing plan and implementation measures.
Article 27 The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office shall establish and improve the agricultural census data processing system, and strengthen daily management and maintenance updates to ensure data security.
Article 28 The state shall establish an agricultural census data quality control system.
The census office shall implement quality control and inspection and acceptance of each link in the implementation of the agricultural census in accordance with the relevant requirements of the agricultural census data quality control system.
Article 29 Census personnel shall implement a quality control work responsibility system.
Census personnel shall review, re-examine, and accept agricultural census data in accordance with the provisions of the agricultural census plan.
Article 30 The State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office shall formulate a post-census quality抽查 (chōu chá - "spot check," a random inspection) plan and uniformly organize the post-census quality抽查 (chōu chá - "spot check," a random inspection) work. The results of the post-census quality抽查 (chōu chá - "spot check," a random inspection) shall serve as an important basis for evaluating the quality of national and local agricultural census data.
Chapter V Data Publication, Data Management, and Development and Application
Article 31 The state shall establish an agricultural census data publication system.
Agricultural census summary data, except for those that are kept confidential in accordance with the law, shall be published to the public in a timely manner.
The national agricultural census data and the main agricultural census data of each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government shall be reviewed and approved by the State Council Agricultural Census Leading Group Office and published jointly with relevant departments of the State Council.
The publication of agricultural census bulletins by local census offices shall be reported to the higher-level census office for approval.
Article 32 Census offices and census personnel shall keep confidential state secrets, work secrets, commercial secrets, personal privacy, and personal information learned in the agricultural census work, and shall not disclose or illegally provide them to others; they shall not provide or disclose information collected in the agricultural census work that can identify or infer the identity of individual agricultural census subjects, and shall not use it for purposes other than statistics.
Article 33 Census offices shall establish and improve the preservation and management system of agricultural census data in accordance with relevant national regulations, do a good job in the preservation and management of agricultural census data, and promptly do a good job in the archiving and handover of relevant agricultural census data after the completion of the agricultural census work.
Relevant departments shall, in accordance with the law, do a good job in inter-departmental sharing of agricultural census data and providing services to the public, and develop and apply agricultural census data.
Article 34 Statistical agencies and relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level may, based on the results of the agricultural census, revise the historical data of relevant routine statistics, and the specific measures shall be stipulated by the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局).
Chapter VI Rewards and Punishments
Article 35 Units and individuals who conscientiously implement these Regulations, are loyal to their duties, adhere to principles, and make significant achievements shall be rewarded in accordance with relevant national regulations.
Article 36 If the person in charge of a locality, department, or unit commits one of the following acts, he/she shall be given a sanction in accordance with the law and shall be notified by the statistical agency of the people's government at or above the county level:
(1) Independently revising agricultural census data and fabricating false agricultural census data;
(2) Requiring census offices and census personnel to fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data;
(3) Explicitly or implicitly instructing subordinate units and their personnel or agricultural census subjects to fill in false agricultural census data;
(4) Failing to supervise serious inaccuracies in agricultural census data and serious illegal acts in the agricultural census that occur in their locality, department, or unit;
(5) Engaging in other acts of falsification and fraud in the agricultural census.
Those who retaliate against units and individuals who perform their duties in accordance with the law or refuse to resist illegal acts in the agricultural census shall be given sanctions and notified in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Article 37 If a census office commits one of the following acts, the people's government at the same level or the statistical agency of the people's government at a higher level shall order it to make corrections and give a notice; the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who are responsible shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law:
(1) Failing to implement the agricultural census plan;
(2) Fabricating or tampering with agricultural census data;
(3) Requiring agricultural census subjects to provide untrue agricultural census data;
(4) Requiring census personnel or subordinate census offices to fabricate or tamper with agricultural census data.
If census personnel commit one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph, they shall be ordered to make corrections and given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Article 38 If a census office commits one of the following acts, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who are responsible shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law:
(1) Illegally publishing agricultural census data;
(2) Disclosing or illegally providing to others state secrets, work secrets, commercial secrets, personal privacy, and personal information learned in the agricultural census work;
(3) Providing or disclosing to the outside world information collected in the agricultural census work that can identify or infer the identity of individual agricultural census subjects;
(4) Violating relevant national regulations and causing damage or loss of agricultural census data.
If census personnel commit one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Article 39 If an agricultural production and operation unit, villagers' committee, or township people's government, as an agricultural census subject, commits one of the following acts, the statistical agency of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections, give a warning, and may give a notice; the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who are responsible and are public officials shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law:
(1) Refusing or obstructing the census office or census personnel from conducting an agricultural census in accordance with the law;
(2) Providing untrue or incomplete agricultural census data;
(3) Refusing to report or failing to provide agricultural census data on time after being urged to report;
(4) Refusing or obstructing supervision and inspection;
(V) Transferring, concealing, falsifying, destroying, or refusing to provide original records and vouchers, statistical ledgers, agricultural census forms, accounting materials, and other relevant proofs and materials.
If an agricultural production and business unit commits one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph, it may also be fined less than 100,000 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, it may also be fined more than 100,000 yuan but less than 500,000 yuan.
If a rural household or an urban agricultural production and business household commits one of the acts listed in the first paragraph of this article, the statistical agency of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections and give criticism and education.
If an agricultural census subject commits one of the acts listed in Items (I) and (IV) of the first paragraph of this article and constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall handle it in accordance with the law.
Article 40 If an agricultural production and business unit, villagers committee, or township people's government, as an agricultural census subject, delays in reporting agricultural census data, the statistical agency of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections, give a warning, and may issue a notice of criticism; if the responsible leaders and directly responsible personnel are public officials, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
An agricultural production and business unit that delays in reporting agricultural census data may also be fined less than 50,000 yuan.
If a rural household or an urban agricultural production and business household delays in reporting agricultural census data, the statistical agency of the people's government at or above the county level shall order it to make corrections and give criticism and education.
Article 41 Anyone who violates the provisions of these Regulations and causes personal injury or property damage shall bear civil liability in accordance with the law; if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law.
Article 42 The census office shall set up a reporting telephone and mailbox to accept reports and supervision from all sectors of society on illegal acts in the agricultural census. Units and individuals who have made meritorious contributions to reporting shall be rewarded in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Article 43 If a subdistrict office or residents committee is involved in agricultural production and business activities, the provisions of these Regulations regarding township people's governments and villagers committees shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Article 44 These Regulations shall come into force on May 1, 2026.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (新华社北京) March 26)
By: 本报记者 程 焕
The spring breeze gently blows, and the land north of the Great Wall quietly awakens, sprouting new greenery. In Wengniute Banner (翁牛特旗), Chifeng City (赤峰市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Huang Zhanjun (黄占军), a large-scale farmer, squats on the edge of the field, grabs a handful of soil, which is loose and slightly moist between his fingers. He knows that he will soon be busy – the spring plowing is just around the corner. "A crop is like a flower, all depending on fertilizer. You have to have a clear understanding of which land lacks nutrients and which slopes need topdressing." This year, the cooperative will plant more than 20,000 mu of high-yield corn, and Huang Zhanjun dares not be careless in preparing fertilizer.
In the hinterland of central Guizhou (黔中), chunks of dark phosphate rock are mined from beneath the mountains of Kaiyang County (开阳县), Guizhou (贵州). After processing and refining, they arrive at the production workshop of Kailin Mining and Fertilizer Company (开磷矿肥公司) of Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) and are made into fertilizer granules. Robotic arms quickly package them, forklifts shuttle back and forth, loading them onto trucks, and bags of fertilizer are transferred to nearby stations via dedicated lines, being continuously sent to various places.
"This is the seventh year of using Guizhou (贵州) fertilizer." Watching trucks full of fertilizer drive into the village and the warehouse being filled to the brim, Huang Zhanjun's heart is at ease.
It is the season of spring plowing. As an important phosphate fertilizer production enterprise and agricultural supply force in China, Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) has formulated a spring sales plan based on market conditions. Its six major production bases are operating at full capacity, fully releasing production capacity through process optimization and closed-loop operations, ensuring that the production chain of downstream agricultural enterprises and farmers is uninterrupted.
To have sufficient output, it is even more important to have smooth transportation. Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) is clearing logistics bottlenecks by building a smart logistics system and a warehouse management system to improve logistics efficiency, allowing high-quality fertilizers to accurately reach the front line of spring plowing production.
"Through multimodal transport by road, rail, and sea, about 20,000 tons of fertilizer are currently in transit every day." On the wall of the office hang various transportation maps, and an artificial intelligence large model is running on the computer. Deng Wei (邓伟), Deputy Chief Economist and Minister of Logistics Management Department of Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团), and his colleagues are busy dynamically adjusting logistics plans. Factors such as cargo volume and transportation distance are constantly changing, and they must find the optimal transportation plan between transportation efficiency and logistics costs.
Fertilizer production is continuous, while market demand has peak and off-seasons. In order to regulate the production and sales rhythm, Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) has deployed 40 warehouses across the country, transferring fertilizer to forward inventory in advance during the off-season and shipping directly from regional warehouses during the peak season. "Exchanging space for time reduces logistics costs by an average of 40 to 80 yuan per ton," said Deng Wei (邓伟). Around the target of putting 1.845 million tons into the winter storage and spring sales, as of mid-March, Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) has cumulatively signed orders for 1.83 million tons and shipped 1.3 million tons.
In the Datang Village (大塘村) white tea base in Chongyi Township (崇义乡), Rongjiang County (榕江县), Guizhou (贵州), villagers are carrying bamboo baskets and busy picking tea leaves. "Previously, we lacked professional technology, and the yield per mu has not been improved. After deducting costs, there was almost no profit." A few months ago, Zhang Jiapin (张家品), Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Villagers' Committee of Datang Village (大塘村), still had a worried look on his face.
"Doing a good job in winter closure and protection of the garden, reducing the harm of pests and diseases to the tea garden, and then improving the yield and quality through scientific fertilization." In early winter last year, Tian Shugang (田树刚), a senior agronomist from Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团), came to Datang Village (大塘村), checked the growth of tea trees, and took soil samples for analysis, and then formulated a set of management and production improvement plans. In just a few months, the tea garden has become vibrant, and Zhang Jiapin (张家品) has a smile on his face.
From selling products to providing services, from supplying fertilizers to providing solutions, Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团) leverages its resource and technical service advantages to build a service system covering the entire planting cycle. "We are extending our service tentacles from the workshop to the field, promoting the integrated development of scientific fertilization and green planting," said Huang Guoping (黄国萍), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Agricultural Resources Company of Guizhou Phosphate Group (贵州磷化集团).
Return to TopHailan International Equestrian Club is located in Jiangyin (江阴), Jiangsu (江苏). The Chinese National Eventing Team has trained here many times. The picture shows athletes in equestrian training.
Photo by Wang Yao (王瑶).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊
At the St. Moritz ski resort in Switzerland, ski instructor Paolo Rossi calmly operated an electronic screen without removing his thick ski gloves. "These Chinese-made gloves not only heat up quickly but also allow for precise touch control. They've changed the way I work on the snow." These gloves, beloved by ski instructors, come from Jiaxiang (嘉祥), a famous glove city in Shandong (山东), China.
Walking into the R&D center of Shandong Jianhua Zhongxing Glove Co., Ltd. (山东建华中兴手套股份有限公司), General Manager Chen Xu (陈旭) was testing a new type of insulation material. "Traditional warmth retention involves addition, constantly filling materials; but we choose subtraction, letting technology bring warmth." The "secret" of this glove lies in its built-in intelligent heating system, driven by carbon fiber filaments and lithium batteries, which can meet different body sensation needs. "Supporting 3 levels of temperature adjustment, long-lasting heat retention... our electric heating ski gloves have been iterated to the fifth generation," Chen Xu (陈旭) introduced. Chairman of the company Chen Jianhua (陈建华) said, "We have cumulatively launched more than 200 new technology glove products and obtained more than 70 national patents."
"The temperature of a pair of gloves reflects the depth of an industry." Wang Zhe (王哲), Deputy Director of the Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) Bureau of Commerce, introduced that Jiaxiang (嘉祥) has become a well-known ski glove production base at home and abroad. Its industrial chain covers multiple fields such as new material research and development and intelligent system integration, and it is accelerating its transformation and upgrading from processing and production to innovation leadership. Today, Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) produces more than 80 million pairs of various gloves annually, with an annual output value of 2.5 billion yuan, and its products are sold to more than 60 countries and regions; among them, ski gloves account for about 60% of the domestic market share, and the export volume accounts for nearly 80% of the total export volume of the same industry in the country. Wini, a Polish ski equipment distributor, introduced that last ski season, they customized 30,000 pairs of electric heating ski gloves from Jiaxiang County (嘉祥县) to meet the market's demand for high-performance ice and snow equipment.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
Currently, the Middle East war continues to disrupt the global energy supply system. Many American experts analyze that U.S. domestic oil prices are highly integrated with the international market. Coupled with the transmission effect of supply chain shocks, a sharp rise accompanied by violent fluctuations in international oil prices will put the United States under greater inflationary and economic recession pressure. Recently, many institutions have raised the probability of the U.S. economy falling into recession.
According to a CNBC report on March 25, Moody's Analytics predicts that the probability of the U.S. economy falling into recession in the next 12 months has risen to 48.6%, and Goldman Sachs believes the probability of recession will reach 30%. Wilmington Trust and Ernst & Young-Parthenon estimate the probability of recession at 45% and 40%, respectively. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said that the worrying thing is that the risk of recession is "uncomfortably high and still rising," and economic recession is a real threat. If the current high oil prices continue until late May to the end of the second quarter, "the U.S. economy will fall into recession."
Analysts at Citigroup believe that due to the recent impact of the Middle East situation, global energy transportation has been hindered, and Brent crude oil futures prices may rise to $120 per barrel within a few days. If energy infrastructure suffers a wide range of attacks and the Strait of Hormuz is closed for a long time, the average price of Brent crude oil futures in the second and third quarters of this year may reach $130 per barrel. The latest data shows that the average national gasoline price in the United States has risen significantly to about $3.977 per gallon (1 U.S. gallon is about 3.785 liters). The average national diesel price is about $5.345 per gallon, which is at a relatively high level in recent years. Among them, the average diesel price in California rose to $7.018 per gallon on March 24.
In Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, local resident Kevin Losawicz complained, "Oil prices have risen too much. Now everything is expensive, and many people cannot afford basic living expenses." According to the latest estimates by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, affected by the Middle East war, U.S. families will increase their average fuel expenditure by $740 this year.
U.S. media analysis believes that before the outbreak of the Middle East war, the U.S. inflation situation was already not optimistic. The latest personal consumption expenditure report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that U.S. prices rose by an annualized rate of 2.8% year-on-year in January this year. Excluding the more volatile food and energy categories, the core inflation rate reached 3.1%, a new high in nearly two years. According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. producer price index rose 0.7% month-on-month in February, and the core producer price index excluding food and energy prices rose 0.5% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year, the largest year-on-year increase since February 2025, exceeding market expectations. Now that oil prices are rising, the pressure from inflation will continue to transmit to all areas of the economy and society. Rising inflation will further weaken consumer purchasing power and increase corporate costs; slower economic growth will lead to higher unemployment rates.
Todd Schoenberger, chief investment officer at a U.S. wealth management firm, believes that the current rise in energy prices caused by the Middle East war has not yet appeared in the data, and the impact of structural inflation caused by rising prices of industrial raw materials such as metals and manufacturing costs on monetary policy is likely to continue until the third quarter of this year. The market expects that as the energy shock effect gradually transmits, U.S. inflation will further rise. Olu Sonola, head of U.S. economic research at Fitch Ratings, said that the rise in inflation caused by the Middle East war may further squeeze U.S. household income, resulting in insufficient consumer momentum and endangering the U.S. economic growth prospects.
A poll released by Reuters and Ipsos on March 24 showed that 55% of respondents said that the rise in oil prices caused by the Middle East war has affected their own financial situation; 21% of people believe that rising prices have severely squeezed their wallets. Affected by this, Americans' evaluation of the government's cost of living management has deteriorated significantly, and only 25% of respondents recognize the government's handling of cost of living issues. Faced with higher oil prices and uncertainty, U.S. families and businesses have reduced spending. The Washington Post reported that soaring oil prices and geopolitical conflicts are costing the U.S. economy, "Now is a fragile moment." The report quoted economists as saying, "Inflation levels are worse than we thought, and the U.S. economy cannot afford oil prices above $100 per barrel."
According to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. federal government shutdown at the end of 2025 severely dragged down economic growth, with federal spending and investment falling sharply by 16.7%, directly dragging down the economic growth rate in the fourth quarter of last year by 1.16 percentage points. Currently, the negative impact of U.S. economic structural problems has emerged, and the risks in the labor market are particularly prominent. Economists had predicted that U.S. employment would increase in February this year, but the fact is that 92,000 jobs were lost. Tom Porcelli, chief economist at Wells Fargo, said that before the Middle East war, the U.S. employment situation was already not optimistic, "People originally expected fiscal benefits to boost the economy, but now that oil prices are high, the so-called benefits will be completely offset."
The latest poll results released by The Economist magazine and YouGov show that, affected by the Middle East war, Americans "suddenly tend to think that the U.S. economy is deteriorating," with 59% of people believing that the U.S. economy is deteriorating, which is the highest value of the poll since October 2022; 30% of Americans expect their household financial situation to deteriorate in a year; only 16% of people believe that the U.S. economy is improving. Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research recently lowered its 2026 U.S. economic growth forecast by 0.2 percentage points.
(This report is from Washington (华盛顿), March 26)
Return to TopBy: 沈小晓
Recently, the Rafah crossing has finally reopened. This marks the first time this "lifeline" to Gaza has resumed two-way traffic since the U.S. and Israel militarily struck Iran. On that day, approximately 1,950 tons of humanitarian aid once again entered this war-torn land, including food, medicine, tents, and daily necessities.
However, this is far from enough.
The Rafah crossing is the main channel for international humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. Since the Israeli military took control of the Palestinian side in May 2024, this lifeline has been essentially locked down. It briefly opened on February 2nd of this year, but on the first day of the U.S. and Israeli military strike against Iran, the Israeli side closed it again for "security" reasons. Opening and closing time and again, the hopes of the people of Gaza are being crushed little by little in the repetition.
How cruel is the reality? The data does not lie.
Since the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement took effect last October, Gaza has needed at least approximately 88,000 trucks to deliver aid, while only approximately 36,000 have actually entered – only about 41% of the required share. The fuel supply situation is even more severe, with only 14% of the oil tankers that should have entered actually entering, and the supply of liquefied petroleum gas simply reaching zero.
These are not cold numbers; this is a huge gap between survival needs and reality. More than 2 million people in Gaza are trapped in this gap: poverty is spreading, supplies are decreasing, and prices are soaring; power is cut off, water supply is in short supply, the medical system is on the verge of collapse, and sewage treatment and garbage removal have been completely suspended. The former homeland is turning into a "besieged city" with no way out.
This is not all. According to data released by the Gaza Health Department on March 16, 671 people have died in Israeli military attacks since the "ceasefire" last October. This number is increasing every day. The so-called "ceasefire" has never truly brought peace to Gaza. On the 23rd, Francesca Albanese (阿尔巴内塞), the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, submitted a report to the Human Rights Council, condemning Israel's long-standing systematic torture of Palestinians.
This is the nightmare that Gaza is experiencing.
However, Gaza seems to be being forgotten. Not because the situation has improved, but because the world's attention has shifted: the Iranian situation, the Lebanese situation, the security of shipping in the Red Sea... New hotspots emerge one after another, old sufferings are left behind, and the Palestinian issue faces the risk of being marginalized again. What is worse, these regional conflicts are making Gaza's situation even worse – shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is blocked, fuel prices are soaring, and transportation costs are skyrocketing; Israel, under the pretext of "security," has closed most of Gaza's crossing points, aid supplies are delayed, medical transfers are interrupted, and lifelines are being cut off one by one.
Obviously, the fate of Gaza is being controlled by external forces. How the ceasefire agreement is implemented, whether the crossing is open, and how much aid can enter – these issues that determine the life and death of Gazans are all determined by geopolitical games. But the cost of the game is borne by the people on that land. They are waiting for an arranged fate in endless poverty, hunger, disease, and darkness.
But the power of justice has never been absent. The Chinese Government Special Envoy on the Middle East Issue recently made it clear when meeting with the Egyptian Foreign Minister that the Palestinian issue is the core of the Middle East issue, which concerns the peace, stability, and long-term stability of the Middle East region, and must never be ignored and forgotten again. Previously, China had announced that it would provide 100 million U.S. dollars in humanitarian assistance to Palestine to alleviate the Gaza crisis and support post-war recovery and reconstruction. The European Union recently announced that it would provide more than 450 million euros in humanitarian aid to many countries in the Middle East, of which 124 million euros are specifically used to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Giving the Palestinian people justice safeguards the bottom line of international morality and the common future of lasting peace for mankind.
Gaza should not become a forgotten corner.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26th (Reporter Wang Chuntao (王春涛)) Defense Ministry Spokesperson Jiang Bin (蒋斌) stated at a regular press conference held by the Ministry of National Defense on the 26th that Japan's continuous hyping of so-called "external threats" is completely unfounded and harbors ulterior motives.
A reporter asked, according to reports, the Japanese Prime Minister stated that China and North Korea are increasing their military strength, Russia is strengthening cooperation with China and North Korea, and Japan is facing the most severe and complex security environment since the war. It is necessary to prepare for "new combat methods" that make extensive use of drones and for long-term warfare. What is your comment on this?
"I think everyone is clear about an ironclad fact: Japan has invaded all neighboring countries," Jiang Bin (蒋斌) said. A country that has brought profound disasters to the people of Asia and the world, a country that has not truly reflected on its historical crimes of aggression to this day, is again constantly hyping so-called "external threats," which is completely **无中生有** (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - "create something from nothing," fabricate; conjure up).
Jiang Bin (蒋斌) stated that Japan's attempt to shift domestic conflicts, mislead the international community, and seek "re-militarization" is obvious. Its promotion of revising the "Three Security Documents," vigorously developing offensive military forces, and even openly advocating nuclear weapons are dangerous trends that deserve high vigilance.
"We advocate learning from history and looking to the future, but we must also **以史为鉴** (yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn - "take history as a mirror," learn from history) and prevent historical tragedies from recurring," Jiang Bin (蒋斌) said. All peace-loving people around the world should unite to resolutely block the breeding and spread of Japanese "new militarism" and resolutely safeguard regional peace and stability and the safety and well-being of the people.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 26 (Reporters Xie Xiyao (谢希瑶) and He Xiao (何晓)) - At a regular press conference held on the 26th, Ministry of Commerce (商务部) spokesperson He Yongqian (何咏前) stated that China once again urges the Japanese government to earnestly reflect on its mistakes and create conditions for normal economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.
In response to a question, He Yongqian (何咏前) stated that China adheres to high-level opening up to the outside world and is committed to creating a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized. The latest questionnaire survey by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (中国日本商会) shows that the overall operating conditions of Japanese companies in China are improving, their satisfaction with China's business environment remains high, and they will continue to cultivate the Chinese market. A stable and healthy China-Japan economic and trade relationship is in the common interest of the people of both countries. We once again urge the Japanese government to earnestly reflect on its mistakes and create conditions for normal economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.
Return to TopIn Minas Gerais, Brazil, there is a small city called Ouro Preto (欧鲁普雷图). It was once the center of the Brazilian gold rush in the 18th century, hence the name "Black Gold City," and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, becoming a unique and niche tourist destination. The various soapstone souvenirs sold in the city's central market are very popular with tourists. This metamorphic rock is soft and easy to carve, and feels slippery like soap to the touch.
People's Daily reporter Chen Yiming (陈一鸣) reported and photographed.
Return to TopThe UN Defines the African Slave Trade as the "Most Serious Crime Against Humanity"
According to Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, March 25 (Reporter Pan Yunzhao (潘云召)) March 25 is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the same day, defining the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the objectification and enslavement of Africans based on race as the "most serious crime against humanity."
The UN General Assembly passed the resolution with 123 votes in favor, 52 abstentions, and 3 votes against. The United States, Israel, and Argentina voted against it. Ghanaian President Mahama, who submitted the draft resolution on behalf of the African Group, said at the meeting that the draft was reached after months of consultation, and its sole purpose was to achieve a unified position and build the final result on the basis of truth, compassion and moral conscience, commemoration, education, and dialogue.
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Ayorkor Botchwey told the media after the resolution was passed that the international community chose remembrance over silence, dignity over erasure, and the common nature of humanity over division. The passage of the resolution means a major step forward in the ongoing journey and collective dialogue to achieve "compensatory justice."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a speech to the UN General Assembly that the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity, striking at the core of personality, breaking up families, and destroying communities. He called on the international community to seize this opportunity to completely eradicate systemic racism, ensure the realization of "compensatory justice," and accelerate inclusive development.
German President: Trust in American Great Power Politics Has Been Lost
According to Xinhua News Agency, Berlin (Reporter Zhang Yirong (张毅荣), Li Chao (李超)) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (施泰因迈尔) recently stated that since the start of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, the cracks in transatlantic relations have deepened. Trust in American great power politics has been lost among allies and even worldwide.
Steinmeier (施泰因迈尔) said in a speech at a memorial event at the German Foreign Office that the military strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran undoubtedly violated international law and were a fatal political error. If the goal was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, then this military action could have been avoided and was unnecessary.
Steinmeier (施泰因迈尔) said that the importance of international law as an order framework, a rulebook, and a source of legitimacy has not diminished for Germany and Europe. In transatlantic relations, Germany must get rid of the dependence that makes it vulnerable.
Knife Attack in Tokyo Business District, Japan, Kills Two
According to Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, March 26 (Reporter Li Ziyue (李子越), Chen Ze'an (陈泽安)) According to Japanese media reports, a knife attack occurred in a business district in Tokyo, Japan on the evening of the 26th, resulting in the deaths of a male assailant and a female victim.
According to reports, at around 19:00 on the 26th, someone in the Higashi-Ikebukuro (东池袋) commercial district in Toshima Ward (丰岛区), Tokyo, reported to the police that a man had stabbed a store clerk with a knife. When the police arrived at the scene, they found that the man had stabbed a female store clerk near a game merchandise store and then cut his own neck. Both were in critical condition and died after being taken to the hospital.
Currently, the police are further investigating the relevant situation. The report said that the incident occurred in a commercial building about 600 meters east of Ikebukuro Station (池袋站), which is a densely populated area.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然
On the streets of Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡), South Africa, delivery personnel in green uniforms can be seen riding around from time to time. More and more people are accustomed to opening mobile phone applications to select milk, fruits, or daily necessities on e-commerce platforms, and easily receive goods at home.
With the popularization of mobile internet, the improvement of digital payment systems, and the continuous upgrading of logistics networks, South Africa's e-commerce industry is accelerating its development. The latest "South Africa Online Retail Industry Report 2025" released by an authoritative market research institution in South Africa shows that the scale of online retail transactions in South Africa will reach 130 billion Rand (1 RMB is approximately 2.5 Rand) in 2025, and the growth rate of online retail will far exceed traditional retail. The "Seizing Opportunities: Unleashing the Potential of E-commerce in South Africa" report released by the South African E-commerce Forum pointed out that in the past 5 years, the proportion of e-commerce in the retail industry in South Africa has increased from less than 1% to nearly 10%.
In recent years, South Africa has continuously improved its policy system to promote the standardized development of e-commerce. The South African government has introduced the "South Africa National Connect" project to increase broadband network coverage and accelerate the improvement of mobile payment and digital banking services. In July 2025, the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition launched multiple online e-commerce platforms to help small and medium-sized enterprises connect with markets, expand sales channels, and enhance the online competitiveness of their products. Driven by policies, traditional retail companies in South Africa have also accelerated their digital transformation, launching online shopping platforms, and improving user experience through instant delivery, membership services, and client applications. Many companies provide delivery services through the "store picking + instant delivery" model and form a delivery network, which greatly shortens transportation time.
South African consumers' shopping habits are quietly undergoing structural changes. Data shows that the internet penetration rate in South Africa has exceeded 70%, and the number of smartphone users continues to expand. Currently, the online consumer population in South Africa is extending from middle and high-income groups to urban youth and emerging middle classes, and the demand for fresh food, electrical appliances, and daily necessities is growing rapidly. At the same time, the demand for instant delivery has increased significantly, and consumers' service expectations for "same-day delivery" and "next-day delivery" are constantly increasing. The "South Africa Online Retail Industry Report 2025" shows that about 60% of South African online shoppers said that delivery speed and cost are key factors affecting shopping decisions.
In recent years, international e-commerce platforms have also accelerated their layout in the South African market. Chinese e-commerce companies are gradually becoming the main force driving local e-commerce innovation. Temu under Pinduoduo (拼多多) and fast fashion platform Shein (希音) have rapidly opened up the market with their price advantages and supply chain delivery efficiency. In 2025, in order to adapt to local regulatory requirements and enhance platform competitive advantages, Temu opened a local warehousing base in South Africa to shorten delivery times and improve logistics efficiency. Alastair Tempest, CEO of the South African E-commerce Forum, said that South Africa's e-commerce industry has great potential for development and is expected to become an important driver of the country's digital economy growth.
(Reported from Johannesburg (约翰内斯堡) by this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙广勇
Data recently released by the Department of Foreign Trade of the Thai Ministry of Commerce shows that Thailand's rice exports in 2025 reached 7.9 million tons, exceeding the original annual target of 7.5 million tons.
Rice planting and export are important pillar industries of the Thai economy. Data from the Thai Office of Agricultural Economics shows that the rice planting area in Thailand is 69.31 million rai (1 rai is about 2.4 mu), accounting for about 46% of the country's agricultural land, and about 30 million tons of rice are harvested annually, with some of the processed rice being exported.
The Thai Ministry of Commerce recently promulgated and implemented the "Ministerial Regulations on Rice Trade Fees," reducing and exempting rice export license fees for farmers, cooperatives, and small and medium-sized rice export enterprises. According to the regulations, farmer groups and cooperatives will be exempt from export license fees; small and medium-sized rice export enterprises with registered capital of no more than 10 million Thai baht (1 yuan is about 4.8 Thai baht) only need to pay 10,000 Thai baht, a substantial reduction from the previous 50,000 Thai baht. Thailand has significantly reduced the minimum inventory of small rice exporters from 500 tons to 100 tons. This fee reduction not only reduces corporate costs but also broadens the rice export platform.
In recent years, the market size and demand growth rate of the Thai rice industry have shown a good trend. However, facing competition from Vietnam, Myanmar, India and other countries, Thailand still needs to improve rice yield per unit area and product competitiveness. In this regard, the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives has increased investment in rice research, established a national rice research institute, and has 28 rice research centers. Each center is responsible for rice research in several provinces, forming a national rice research network. Chookiat Ophaswongse, honorary president of the Thai Rice Exporters Association, said that in order to promote exports, growers must continuously develop new rice varieties according to the consumption needs of various markets.
The Thai government and the private sector have strengthened cooperation to communicate and coordinate on the entire industrial chain of rice planting, processing, and export, aiming to further improve the competitiveness of rice and expand overseas market share. "The government encourages farmers to increase rice production and improve quality, while providing support in agricultural irrigation. Multiple departments strictly control all aspects of production, the purpose of which is to strictly manage production quality and ensure the high quality of Thai rice in order to promote Thai rice exports," said Thamanat Prompow (塔玛纳), Thailand's Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives.
In order to win more orders, the Department of International Trade Promotion of the Thai Ministry of Commerce actively consults with major trading partners and participates in important global international exhibitions, including the China International Import Expo (进博会), to increase export promotion efforts. Phumtham Wechayachai (素帕姬), Thailand's Minister of Commerce, said: "We will strengthen relations with major trading partners as a priority to expand new markets."
(Reported by the People's Daily in Bangkok (曼谷) on March 26)
Return to TopBy: 古花开
The Silk Road is a path of integration, exchange, and dialogue between the East and the West, and music culture is an important movement within it. The musical relics along the Silk Road are important material carriers of cultural exchange and integration between Eastern and Western nations, bearing the harmonies of the soul composed with wisdom by countless creators. The yellow-glazed flat pot collected by the Henan Museum (河南博物院) is a vivid note in this Silk Road movement. Through this cultural relic, we can listen to the echoes of Silk Road music and dance from more than a thousand years ago.
Dancing Huteng on the Artifact, Graceful Dance Shadows
The yellow-glazed flat pot in the collection of the Henan Museum (河南博物院) is a lead-glazed pottery from the Northern Qi Dynasty, unearthed in 1971 from the tomb of Fan Cui (范粹) in Anyang (安阳), Henan Province (河南省). The tomb owner, Fan Cui (范粹), was a General of the骠骑 (Piào Jì) of the Northern Qi Dynasty, 开府仪同三司 (Kāi Fǔ Yí Tóng Sān Sī), and the governor of Liangzhou (凉州). The pot is about 20 cm high, 16.5 cm wide, and 5.1 cm in diameter. It is shaped like a flat, round apricot kernel, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with a flared mouth and a short neck, and a perforation on each shoulder. The whole body is covered with yellow glaze, which is lustrous and resembles the embossed effect of gold and silver hammering.
The two sides of the pot's belly are molded with the same Huteng dance pattern: in the center of the picture, the dancer dances on a lotus seat, with his right arm raised and extended forward, his left arm extended downward, his palm facing backward, his feet leaping, and his head turned back. To the left of the dancer, one person claps and one person plays the flute; to the right of the dancer, one person strikes the cymbal and one person plays the pipa. All five people have high noses and deep eyes, wearing Fan hats, narrow-sleeved long shirts, belts around their waists, and half-tube high boots, which are typical images of people from the Western Regions. The shape of the yellow-glazed flat pot has the style of a leather bag on horseback of nomadic peoples. The pattern on the belly of the pot shows that the Huteng dance was popular in the Northern Dynasties, and together with the decorative patterns such as the beaded pattern, honeysuckle pattern, and lotus seat on the pot, it reflects the influence of foreign cultures.
Huteng dance is a male solo dance introduced to the Central Plains from Shiguo (石国) (present-day Uzbekistan) in Central Asia, named for its dance moves that are mostly based on leaping. The performers of Huteng dance are mostly Central Asians with high noses and deep eyes. When dancing, the dancer walks around quickly to the accompaniment of lively music, combining movements such as jumping, twisting the hips, lifting the waist, and rapid stomping. The dance steps are varied, sometimes firm and unrestrained, sometimes soft and elegant, making it quite ornamental. In the cultural relics unearthed along the Silk Road from the Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, images of Huteng dancers appear in large numbers, such as the green-glazed flat pot from the Northern Dynasties in Guyuan (固原), Ningxia (宁夏), the gilded bronze Huteng dance figurines from the Tang Dynasty in Gansu (甘肃), the music and dance paintings on the stone coffin of Yu Hong's (虞弘) tomb from the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan (太原), Shanxi (山西), and the music and dance murals from the Tang Dynasty in Su Sixu's (苏思勖) tomb in Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西). The popularity of this dance among people at that time is evident.
There are also many works describing Huteng dance in Tang poetry. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yanshi (刘言史) gave a vivid description in "Watching the Huteng Dance at Night in the Residence of Vice Minister Wang (王中丞宅夜观舞胡腾)": "People rarely see the Hu children from Shiguo (石国胡儿人见少), squatting and dancing in front of the wine vessel as fast as birds. The woven Fan hat has a virtual pointed top, and the fine Dié (氎) Hu shirt has small sleeves... Jumping and turning the hub, the treasure belt rings, and the feet are colorful and the brocade boots are soft. All four people are silent and staring, and the transverse flute and pipa are all over the head. The chaotic dance on the new carpet is like snow and vermilion hair..." The poem vividly describes the dancer's rapid squatting and jumping, the flying feet, the leaping and rotating, and the colorful feet, as well as the superb skills. It seems that the dancer's brocade boots are stepping and the treasure belt is ringing, and the figure is spinning like the wind in the seat; the guests in the four seats are holding their breath and concentrating, and the transverse flute and pipa are playing in harmony, a scene of music and dance helping the fun, and the banquet scene of drinking and exchanging cups is vividly displayed.
Western Regions Music and Dance, Gradually Spreading to the Central Plains
Since Zhang Qian (张骞) opened up the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains region, with its well-connected geographical advantages, has gradually become a stage for the collision and convergence of multiple ethnic groups and cultures. Especially during the Northern Dynasties, the rulers of the Central Plains region generally welcomed and encouraged foreign merchants. Envoys, monks, and merchants from the Dayuezhi (大月氏), Parthia (安息), Kangju (康居), and other countries in the Western Regions came to China one after another, and the Sogdians were also among them. According to the records in "Luoyang伽蓝记 (Luòyáng Qiélánjì)", "From west of the Congling Mountains to Daqin, hundreds of countries and thousands of cities, all rejoiced and attached themselves," people from the Western Regions came to the border one after another. Many people settled in Luoyang (洛阳) because they loved the customs and culture of the Central Plains, gradually forming a sizable foreign ethnic group.
The exchanges between the Central Plains and the Western Regions became increasingly frequent. Through various channels such as envoys' visits, trade activities, marriage migrations, and religious dissemination, the musical cultures of various ethnic groups along the Silk Road converged in the westward and eastward transmission. With the migration of ethnic groups around the Central Plains, the northwestern ethnic music of Qiuci (龟兹), Shule (疏勒), Xiliang (西凉), and Gaochang (高昌), as well as foreign music from Tianzhu (天竺), Anguo (安国), Kangguo (康国), Goryeo (高丽), and Yueban, were successively introduced to the Central Plains. Among them, the enthusiastic and unrestrained artistic style of Western Regions music and dance formed a sharp contrast with the implicit, elegant, gentle, and graceful aesthetic temperament of Central Plains culture. Its unique charm quickly won the love of the court and the people, and for a time, appreciating Hu dance and Hu music became a social trend.
During the Northern Dynasties, the rhythm, instruments, dance, tune, and music of Hu music were popular in the court and among the people. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the music of various countries in the Western Regions gathered in Chang'an (长安), and the court music of the Northern Zhou Dynasty mostly came from the Western Regions. A group of talented musicians from the Western Regions were treated with courtesy by the rulers. For example, during the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Hu musicians Cao Sengnu (曹僧奴) and Cao Miaoda (曹妙达), father and son, "were very favored for their ability to play the Hu pipa," and were granted the title of 开府封王 (Kāi Fǔ Fēng Wáng). By the Sui Dynasty, the three music departments of "Western Qiuci (西国龟兹)," "Qi Dynasty Qiuci (齐朝龟兹)," and "Tu Qiuci (土龟兹)" were popular in Chang'an (长安), and were loved by the court and the people. Western Regions music and dance were widely spread.
Sui and Tang Music and Dance, Integrating New Sounds
The diversity and difference of cultures are the inexhaustible source of cultural dissemination and development between regions and countries. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, foreign musical instruments and dances were continuously introduced, and they interacted and influenced each other with traditional musical instruments in the Central Plains. On the basis of inheriting the musical traditions of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Central Plains music absorbed a large amount of the essence of Western Regions music and gradually realized localized development. The open and inclusive attitude of Chinese civilization during this period promoted the mutual integration of Western Regions music and dance with Central Plains and various ethnic music and dance, changed the existing form of Chinese music and dance art, and also promoted the prosperity of Sui and Tang music.
During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Western Regions musician Su Zhi Po (苏祗婆) introduced the "five Dan and seven modes" palace mode theory of Qiuci music to the court. Sui Dynasty music inherited the musical achievements of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and established the musical system of "Seven Departments of Music" and "Nine Departments of Music." The famous musicians Zheng Yi (郑译) and Wan Baochang (万宝常) at that time developed the eighty-four mode music theory based on Su Zhi Po's mode theory, forming a complete mode theory system.
The Tang Dynasty court specially set up a music institution called "Jiaofang (教坊)," which created new sounds based on Central Plains folk music and drawing on Western Regions music, and various new forms of musical instrument combinations appeared. "Yuefu Zalu (乐府杂录)" records that there were about 300 kinds of musical instruments in the Tang Dynasty, which were widely used in Xiliang music, Gaochang music, Qiuci music, and other music. The Tang Dynasty inherited the Qing music tradition of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties, integrated the essence of music cultures from various parts of the Western Regions, and gradually formed the Sui and Tang Yan music, which combined various forms such as vocal music, instrumental music, song and dance, and acrobatics, writing a new chapter for Central Plains music and dance.
At the same time, the music and dance culture from foreign lands also enriched the artistic creation themes of literati and scholars. There are countless works in Tang poetry describing Western Regions musicians, music and dance, and musical instruments, and there are many famous masterpieces, such as Bai Juyi's (白居易) "Pipa Xing (琵琶行)" and "Hu Xuan Nu (胡旋女)," Li He's (李贺) "Li Ping's Konghou Yin (李凭箜篌引)," and Li Duan's (李端) "Hu Teng Er (胡腾儿)." Poets either write about the sound of the pipa like rapid rain and complex strings, or write about the Hu Xuan dance turning like the wind. The rhythm and mood of foreign music and dance are transformed into poetic sounds and flowing pictures. The rhythm of Western Regions music and dance injected new vitality into traditional Chinese culture and stimulated stronger artistic tension. Just as the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qi (李颀) wrote in "Listening to An Wanshan Playing the Bìlì Song (听安万善吹觱篥歌)": "Cut bamboo from Nanshan to make the Bìlì, this music originally came from Qiuci. It has been passed down to the Han land and the music has become more wonderful, and the Hu people from Liangzhou play it for me." In just a few sentences, he not only pointed out the origin of the musical instrument, but also wrote about the artistic charm of the music becoming more and more wonderful and moving after it was introduced to the Central Plains.
Ethnic groups and countries with different races, different beliefs, and different cultural backgrounds have achieved exchange, integration, and tolerance through the Silk Road. The music and dance transmitted eastward through the Silk Road broadened the cultural vision of Chinese civilization, and were gradually absorbed and integrated by Central Plains music and dance, enriching the ancient music and dance culture of the Central Plains, and making foreign music and dance finally integrated into Chinese music and dance culture, becoming an inseparable artistic whole. At the same time, the people of the Central Plains also spread their own music culture to farther regions in the continuous migration and exchange. The yellow-glazed flat pot, as a product of cultural exchange and integration between Eastern and Western nations, fully demonstrates the inclusive cultural spirit of Chinese civilization and the cultural confidence of embracing all rivers.
(The author is an associate researcher of cultural relics and museology at the Henan Museum (河南博物院))
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Crossing half the globe and enduring more than 20 hours of long-distance flight, I finally arrived in Lima (利马), the "Garden City" of South America. As the capital of Peru (秘鲁), Lima (利马) is located near the Pacific Ocean to the west and leans against the Andes Mountains (安第斯山) to the east, nestled on a coastal desert oasis. Influenced by the Peru Current, the climate here is mild year-round. Even in the humid and foggy winter, the average temperature is around 17 degrees Celsius, while in March, the summer average temperature remains around 22 degrees Celsius, with sunshine and blooming flowers.
Callao (卡亚俄) is the outer port of Lima (利马) and part of the Lima-Callao (利马—卡亚俄) metropolitan area. Driving along the Costa Verde (绿色海岸) highway connecting Lima (利马) and Callao (卡亚俄), the beautiful scenery of the sea and sky is refreshing. This Costa Verde (绿色海岸) highway is nearly 5 kilometers long and is a people's livelihood scenic line integrating rapid transportation, landscape greening, and coastal protection. This road, jointly built by Chinese and Peruvian companies, has shortened the spatial distance from downtown Lima (利马) to Callao (卡亚俄), solved the problem of traffic congestion, and become a vivid microcosm of friendly cooperation between China and Peru.
In 1537, the port of Callao (卡亚俄) was built by the Spanish colonizer Pizarro (皮萨罗) and is the main port on the Pacific coast of Peru (秘鲁) and an important logistics hub in South America, undertaking the main task of transshipping goods into and out of the country. The most important historical site in Callao (卡亚俄) is the Royal Fortress of Felipe (皇家费利佩城堡), which is one of the largest, most solid, and most complete military defense projects built by Spanish colonists in the Americas. This European-style castle has stood for hundreds of years in the surging tides of Callao (卡亚俄), still solid, guarding the entire port. Strolling along the seaside, streets, and castle of Callao (卡亚俄), one can feel the port's unique economic value and appreciate its important military function in history.
Callao (卡亚俄) has witnessed the centuries-long remote view and convergence of Chinese civilization and Andean civilization, and is an important witness to the long-term exchanges between the two ancient civilizations of China and Peru (秘鲁). More than 400 years ago, the Maritime Silk Road route extended here, opening the prelude to trade, culture, and personnel exchanges between the two countries. In October 1849, the first 75 Chinese laborers arrived in Callao (卡亚俄) aboard a Danish merchant ship after a difficult sea voyage. Since then, more and more Chinese have traveled across the ocean to Peru (秘鲁) via Callao (卡亚俄) to seek a living and start businesses. The Chinese culture and customs they brought have gradually integrated into local life - the unique cuisine in the thousands of Chinese restaurants in the city, the dragon and lion dance performances during the Chinese Lunar New Year, etc., all attract the footsteps and eyes of local residents and world tourists.
In 1999, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Chinese laborers, the Callao (卡亚俄) city government erected a gray conical monument inscribed with: "In memory of the pioneer Chinese immigrants who arrived on this beautiful coast, whose efforts and dedication contributed greatly to Peruvian agriculture, railway construction, guano mining, and subsequent commercial development, thereby promoting Peru's prosperity." The monument is located in a theme park next to the highway, where the trees are lush, the lawns are neatly trimmed, and the walkways are clean and tidy.
Arriving in the old city of Lima (利马), the square Lima (利马) Grand Plaza (利马大广场) is paved with heavy stones, and stout pigeons pace back and forth beside the magnificent central fountain. The famous buildings around the square, such as the Presidential Palace (总统府), the Lima (利马) City Hall (利马市政大厦), and the Cathedral (大教堂), are like open-air museums, telling the story of the ups and downs of Peruvian history and social changes.
After drinking a glass of freshly squeezed local lime juice from a roadside vendor, I continued on. Crossing the Lima (利马) Grand Plaza (利马大广场) and turning two more streets, I arrived at Lima's (利马) Chinatown (唐人街) - Capon Street (卡蓬街), which is also the oldest existing Chinatown in Latin America. At the entrance, the magnificent archway is inscribed with "中华坊" (Zhōnghuá Fāng), with a majestic stone lion on each side. The streets are lined with shops and bustling with people. The zodiac patterns on the floor tiles, the red-columned newsstands, and the strings of red lanterns hanging in the shops... all kinds of Chinese elements reflect the life of the Chinese. Today, the descendants of Chinese have integrated into the local society and are active in business, culture, education, and other fields, contributing to social development.
Lima (利马) is the cultural and educational center of Peru (秘鲁). The city is home to the National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History of Peru (秘鲁国家考古人类学历史博物馆), the National Museum of Peru (秘鲁国家博物馆), the Lima (利马) Art Museum (利马艺术博物馆), and the Gold Museum of Peru and World Arms (秘鲁黄金制品和世界兵器博物馆), bringing a cultural feast to visitors. In 2016, the "Across the World: Treasures of China Exhibition" was held at the National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History of Peru (秘鲁国家考古人类学历史博物馆). The 121 exhibits included exquisitely decorated Chinese jade and porcelain, as well as exquisitely crafted terracotta warriors and Tang Sancai, as well as cultural relics related to Chinese and foreign exchanges. The National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and History of Peru (秘鲁国家考古人类学历史博物馆) is the first museum in Peru (秘鲁) and the largest, oldest, and most representative museum in the country. The museum's bright yellow walls and exquisite green hollow doors and windows cleverly blend the architectural styles of the colonial and republican periods.
Strolling back, I realized that the Garden City is not only about the flowers and greenery in the streets and alleys - it is also a spiritual garden of cultural integration. 2026 marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Peru (秘鲁). Lima (利马) is like an open book, recording the encounter and acquaintance of two ancient civilizations across half the globe. Looking back, in that era when navigation conditions were extremely difficult and full of variables, simple wooden boats established a bond of civilization, and Chinese silk and Andean silver met across thousands of miles. Today, the improvement of transportation conditions has laid the foundation for deeper cultural exchanges. The two major civilizations are blooming with more dazzling light on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. As the cultural center of Peru (秘鲁), Lima (利马) tells every visitor in a simple and steady manner: civilization transcends mountains and seas and is never hindered by distance.
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In this era of rising AI (Artificial Intelligence), people are increasingly accustomed to using various AI tools to complete work in a time-saving and labor-saving manner, or to provide convenience in life. Undoubtedly, we should welcome the arrival of the AI era and enjoy the efficiency, value, or benefits it brings. However, the more we are in such an era, the more I, as a science popularization worker, believe that we need to spend some time embracing nature, receiving the nourishment of sunshine and rain, and going to the wild to admire every plant, tree, bird, and beast. This kind of personal experience cannot be replaced by AI, and it is of great benefit to our physical and mental health. Among them, the most effective and fun outdoor activity is bird watching!
On February 23 this year, the British magazine *New Scientist* published a study. Scientists have found that bird watching can reshape the brain and build a "buffer zone" against aging. The researchers used photos of 18 kinds of birds with extremely confusing characteristics, and displayed these photos within 4 seconds, allowing professional and novice groups to identify these bird species separately. As you can imagine, the professional group's recognition accuracy was much higher than the novice group's, and the activity of the bilateral prefrontal cortex, bilateral intraparietal sulcus, and right occipitotemporal cortex of these people's brains was significantly higher than that of people who rarely watch birds. These areas are related to object recognition, visual processing, attention, and working memory. Scientists therefore believe that regular bird watching is conducive to brain health and can slow down aging.
China has a profound history and cultural foundation for bird watching, as evidenced by vast ancient books: many chapters of the *Classic of Poetry* mention birds, beasts, insects, and fish, and "关关雎鸠，在河之洲 (guān guān jū jiū, zài hé zhī zhōu - "listen, listen, ospreys, on the islet in the river," describes the harmonious scene of ospreys calling on a river islet)" is a household phrase; many Tang poems and Song lyrics are related to natural elements, and among the more than 50,000 Tang poems that have survived, there are thousands of Tang poems specifically about birds; the *Classic of Mountains and Seas*, *Erya*, *Compendium of Materia Medica*, *Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from Ancient and Modern Times*, *Bird Manual*... all contain detailed observations and accurate knowledge of birds.
From a cultural perspective, modern bird watching originated in Europe and the United States. In the mid-18th century, the British aristocracy began to enjoy bird watching. Later, with the invention of the telescope, using telescopes to observe birds became a fashionable pleasure for the nobility. Bird watchers were also called "birders," and there were indeed many "birders" in the West, many of whom were naturalists, scientists, and ornithologists. British naturalist Gilbert White, Charles Robert Darwin, and other scholars and writers were famous "bird watching enthusiasts" in their early years. Of course, the vast majority of "birders" have no connection with scientific professions.
In the United States, the famous painter and ornithologist John James Audubon took North American bird observation to an incredible height, and his paintings are still repeatedly published by countless publishing companies. Subsequently, a large number of "birders" promoted the development of bird watching activities in the United States. The American "Bird Field Manual" is proof of this. In any bookstore or online store in the United States, you can find a variety of bird watching reference books, down to bird watching manuals for a state, a county, or a district. Large-scale activities配套 also emerged. In 1998, the American Birding Association officially launched the "Big Year": within one year, in the mainland or offshore areas of the United States and Canada, the species of birds sighted with the naked eye or binoculars are reported to the organization, and the person who records the most species wins. Although this competition has no rewards and no referees, relying entirely on the honesty or credibility of the participants, there are many participants.
*The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession* (see picture, data picture) written by American Pulitzer Prize winner and famous journalist Mark Obmascik was published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House (上海译文出版社) at the beginning of this year and included in the "Translation Non-fiction" series. After reading this book, I have a deeper understanding of the "Big Year" event.
Sandy Komito is a millionaire with money and leisure. After achieving financial freedom, he devoted almost all his energy to bird watching and is a long-term bird watching record holder; Al Levantin is a PhD in chemistry who, despite his loss of smell, pursues perfection in bird watching and does not miss any opportunity; Greg Miller, despite being divorced, seems to have found more happiness in bird watching life after being single, and he completed his bird watching Big Year in a "poor travel" manner. Through their stories, we can feel the fun of large-scale bird watching activities, and we will be moved by their persistent spirit of exploration.
The bird watching history of the characters in the book is part of the world's bird watching history and ecological civilization history. Personal history itself is a component of public history and social history. The growth and changes of each person are a microcosm of society, and each person's experience will find resonance in social history. After reading *The Big Year*, I couldn't help but recall my own bird watching history. In the 1980s, I started bird watching in Temple of Heaven Park (天坛公园) with the binoculars my father bought me from the Soviet Union; in October 1996, the environmental protection organization "Friends of Nature" (自然之友), led by teacher Gao Wu (高武) of Capital Normal University (首都师范大学), began to organize bird watching, and I was fortunate to participate in it. Since the opening of the National Zoological Museum of China (国家动物博物馆) in 2009, bird watching activities have been organized every spring and autumn, and now our footprints have spread across East Africa, South Africa, Southeast Asia, the North and South Poles, and the Amazon region.
It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 300,000 bird watchers in China, and the actual number may be even higher. Nature lovers and bird lovers have also promoted the bird watching industry in areas such as Gaoligong Mountain (高黎贡山) in Yunnan (云南) and Yingjiang (盈江), and have even greatly boosted the local cultural tourism industry. Bird watching activities are beneficial to people's health, and this is also an emerging industry that promotes new quality productive forces and the development of cultural tourism.
After reading the book *The Big Year*, I have a vision: the National Zoological Museum of China (国家动物博物馆) can also organize China's "Big Year" event to allow more people to get close to nature and love bird watching!
(The author is the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (中国科普作家协会), the Director and Researcher of the National Zoological Museum of China (国家动物博物馆))
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In Panfilov Park in the center of Almaty (阿拉木图), Kazakhstan, the softly colored Ascension Cathedral stands quietly. Its cream-yellow exterior walls are decorated with mint green and light pink accents, and its Byzantine-style onion domes are staggered and shimmer with a warm glow in the midday sun. From afar, the entire cathedral is beautiful and elegant, continuing the intricate aesthetics of traditional Russian architecture while incorporating the distinct colorful decorative art of Central Asia.
The local tour guide introduced that the Ascension Cathedral is "the second tallest traditional wooden structure still standing in the world, built without using a single nail," which made me marvel at its exquisite craftsmanship. The Ascension Cathedral was completed in 1907, with an overall height of 56 meters, and uses a mortise and tenon structure without nails. In 1911, Almaty experienced an earthquake of magnitude 8.2 on the Richter scale, and 90% of the city's buildings were reduced to ruins. Only the main structure of this church remained intact, with only a slight deformation of the cross on the bell tower, which can be called a miracle.
But why was this building constructed using a mortise and tenon structure? This stems from the meticulous design of the architect Andrei Zenkov (安德烈·泽科夫). Almaty is located in the Eurasian seismic belt and experienced two strong earthquakes in 1887 and 1889, causing a large number of stone buildings in the city to collapse. For this reason, Zenkov took a different approach, overcoming opposition to use a wooden structure, enhancing the building's elasticity and stability through precise mortise and tenon joinery, effectively absorbing and dispersing energy during earthquakes, allowing the main structure of the cathedral to remain intact during the 8.2 magnitude earthquake.
Today, the Ascension Cathedral has become a landmark destination in Almaty and even Kazakhstan, attracting countless tourists to explore the secrets of its construction. Stepping into the main hall of the church, the magnificent decorations are dazzling. The walls of the hall are covered with brightly colored paintings, vividly recreating story scenes; in the shrine behind the altar, gold-inlaid statues are closely arranged, showing solemnity. Upon closer inspection, Chinese elements were found - blue and white porcelain was used as a decorative material, which is rare. This unique fusion is the best testament to the inclusive coexistence of Almaty, a city with diverse ethnic groups and cultures.
This church, which survived the earthquake, was also converted into the Kazakhstan Central State Museum, and later used by various public organizations. An antenna was even installed in the bell tower, becoming the signal transmitting site for Almaty's first radio station. It was not until 1976 that the church was first restored, and again in 2017, that it regained its former glory.
Standing in front of the Ascension Cathedral, reaching out, it seems as if one can touch the texture of time. When sunlight passes through the stained-glass windows, dappled light and shadows slowly flow on the ground and walls, and the interplay of light and dark creates a bit of romance and depth as if gazing at the starry sky. There is no noisy crowd in the church, only the occasional soft prayer and the fine sunlight falling through the window lattices. Coming here, everyone will slow down, silently reading this unique century-old architectural history in the silence.
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By: 晓 熠
Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently announced the official release of the first domestically produced 20K solid-phase gene chip for rapeseed (Brassica napifera)—"Zhongxin Oil No. 1 (中芯油1号)". As a core tool for design breeding, solid-phase chips have long been monopolized by foreign countries. This domestically produced solid-phase chip with complete independent intellectual property rights will significantly improve the efficiency of rapeseed breeding in China.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The seed industry is the most important. To develop agriculture, we must promote the seed industry." Since 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has actively promoted the seed industry revitalization action in accordance with the overall arrangement of "making a good start in one year, laying the foundation in three years, achieving results in five years, and achieving major breakthroughs in ten years." Over the past five years, the answer from the seed, the "chip" of agriculture, has become increasingly confident.
Fields no longer "rely on the weather," and the distant hybridization wheat variety "Pubing 03 (普冰03)" is drought-resistant, cold-resistant, and alkali-tolerant, and can grow well even on the harsh sandy land of the Yellow River (黄河)滩 area; the potential of every inch of land is released, and the average yield per mu of the corn variety "Zhongyu 303 (中玉303)" exceeds 1,000 kilograms in the 100-mu demonstration field; breaking the foreign seed source monopoly, the white-feathered broiler seed source has shifted from long-term dependence on imports to independent research and development and export... The agricultural "chip" is constantly delivering new answers to ensure food security and promote industrial upgrading.
From the "selecting seeds by relying on the heavens" of traditional agriculture to the stages of hybrid breeding and molecular breeding, and now, breeding has entered an era of precise "customization." The rapeseed solid-phase gene chip released by Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences is like a "CT scan" for crop genomes, quickly generating a genetic "health check report" for rapeseed, accurately detecting flowering time regulation-related genes, cytoplasmic restoration genes, nuclear sterility genes, etc. All data are clear at a glance, providing strong support for researchers to formulate more scientific breeding programs.
This year's No. 1 Central Document (中央一号文件) proposed to implement the seed industry revitalization action in depth, accelerate the selection and promotion of breakthrough varieties, and promote the industrialization of biological breeding. In the future, with the empowerment of artificial intelligence, big data, etc., seed industry innovation will be further accelerated, and new requirements will be put forward for systematic layout and opening up the "last mile" of agricultural technology promotion.
Top-level design is further optimized, and the collaborative mechanism accelerates the pace of good varieties.
The process from breeding to implementation of excellent crop varieties goes through the entire process of selection, testing, approval, demonstration, and promotion. Only by opening up the integration chain of production, education, research, and application can good seeds reach the fields faster, and seed companies are the key "bridge." For example, the Crop Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (山东省农业科学院作物研究所) and Luyan Company (鲁研公司) jointly created an integrated model of wheat "breeding, propagation, promotion, production, service, and sales." The company provides feedback on market trends and field needs, and the research team makes precise improvements, successfully cultivating the high-yield and widely adapted "Jimai (济麦)" series of wheat varieties.
Grassroots promotion strengthens the foundation, and multiple parties work together to deliver good varieties to the "doorstep."
Strengthen the grassroots biological breeding promotion team, improve the professional ability of agricultural technicians through targeted training and special training, and make technical guidance more down-to-earth. At the same time, strengthen market-oriented promotion forces such as enterprises, cooperatives, and socialized service organizations, and use demonstration parks, digital platforms, and other carriers to teach farmers technology, use good seeds, and increase income.
Only by allowing more good seeds to take root in the fields can we give full play to the role of biological breeding technology in ensuring food security, improving agricultural production efficiency, and promoting agricultural transformation and upgrading, and let the agricultural "chip" lead the future of agriculture.
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"One year's good scenery you must remember, most of all when the oranges are yellow and the tangerines are green." In the taste memories of Chinese people, the appearance of citrus fruits is always accompanied by the slight coolness of autumn and winter. The moment you peel open a tangerine with your fingertips, the dense oil cells burst into the air with a hint of astringency and sweetness.
However, if you open a fresh food shopping app or walk into a fruit store on the corner, you will find that this "citrus fragrance" has long broken the shackles of seasonality. From the sugar tangerines in early spring, the chilled fresh-cut navel oranges in midsummer, to the "iced fresh lemonade" that Mixue Bingcheng sells over a billion cups of a year... This "national fruit" that has accompanied Chinese people for thousands of years is undergoing a whole industrial chain fission covering gene decoding, deep technological processing, and cloud cold chain. According to the latest survey data from the National Citrus Industry Technology System, in 2025, China's total citrus production will exceed 70 million tons, and the yield per unit area will increase by more than 21% compared with 5 years ago. One out of every three citrus fruits in the world is produced in China.
Seeking Freshness—
Unlocking the Family "Blind Box": How to Ensure the Fruit Plate is Full in All Seasons?
If a "Most Massive and Complex Family Award" were to be given to the fruit world, citrus fruits would definitely be the winner.
"Mandarins, tangerines, oranges, pomelos, lemons... Don't be fooled by the variety of citrus fruits on the market now, there are actually only 3 'ancestors': pomelo, mandarin orange, and citron." At a popular science exhibition at Huazhong Agricultural University, Professor Cheng Yunjiang (程运江), chief scientist of the National Citrus Industry Technology System, said with a smile, pointing to a long row of colorful fruits. In the long process of natural evolution, these 3 ancestors have continuously "intermarried across borders." According to the system's survey, there are more than 90 varieties planted on more than 10,000 mu in China.
Speaking of the "prosperity" of today's citrus family, one cannot avoid a key figure—Deng Xiuxin (邓秀新), the former chief scientist of the citrus industry system, who is affectionately known as the "Citrus Academician" by fruit farmers.
This academician has spent decades with his feet firmly planted in the orchards of the South. In the past, China's citrus fruits were highly concentrated on the market in autumn and winter. Deng Xiuxin keenly discovered the unique microclimate of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, which relies on large water bodies to increase temperature and has no frost damage in winter. He decisively guided fruit farmers to switch to the extremely late-maturing "Lunn Late" navel orange, forcibly keeping the citrus fruits until the early summer harvest of the following year, breaking the seasonal restrictions.
Not only must we cross the seasons, but also unlock the genes. In order to break the curse of citrus breeding being like "opening a blind box," in 2012, Deng Xiuxin led his team to create the world's first genome sequence map of sweet oranges. They even spent 9 years searching in the Nanling Mountains and found a rare "mini citrus" that can bloom when it is only "one palm high." This magical fruit tree broke the long juvenile period of woody plants and achieved the miracle of "sowing in the same year and bearing fruit in the same year," becoming a unique and valuable material in China.
It is on these solid foundations that Chen Shanchun (陈善春), a post scientist of the citrus industry system and a researcher at Southwest University, led his team to develop the world's first citrus whole-genome 40K liquid-phase breeding chip, "Ju Xin 1" (橘芯1号). This hardcore technology reduces the cost of gene typing to 1/10 of the traditional cost, allowing Chinese citrus to enter the "design breeding era."
The magic of gene decoding is directly reflected in the amazing taste on the tip of the tongue:
Afraid of your mouth going numb when eating kumquats? The "Crispy Honey Kumquat" (脆蜜金柑), an oil cell-free variety selected and bred in Rong'an County, Guangxi, has completely shed the spiciness and bitterness of the peel. And just recently, the citrus team at Huazhong Agricultural University precisely cracked the key gene (CsLMI1) controlling its oil cell development at the molecular level, revealing the secret of its "non-numbing mouth." This sweetness from the bottom of the gene is very popular in the market.
Hate getting juice all over your hands when peeling oranges? In the symphony of introduction, absorption, and local improvement, the slagging property of citrus fruits has also been brought to the extreme. For example, the "Early Red" navel orange is the world's first chimeric new variety of mandarin orange and navel orange. From around National Day to April of the following year, the fruit's harvest period lasts for half a year. Its sac wall is as thin as cicada wings, and the jelly-like, crystal-clear, and tender flesh turns into a pool of honey juice, making it a veritable "jelly orange."
Want a novel and complex taste? The "Zong Orange" (宗橙) discovered in Zigui County, Hubei Province, is covered in a rare brown coat, and its solid-acid ratio reaches 22.25, which is suitable for our taste.
Prefer a refreshing and invigorating taste? The "Perfume Lemon" (香水柠檬) expanded in Guangdong and Yunnan, when cut open, releases a rich aroma with a hint of lemongrass fragrance.
These individual breakthroughs that amaze the taste buds are converging into a grand map of the entire industry. In the past 20 years, the new citrus varieties cultivated in China account for more than 60% of the world's total. In the map drawn by agricultural scientists, by optimizing the structure of early, mid, and late-maturing varieties, the fresh fruit supply period of Chinese citrus has been forcibly extended from the past autumn and winter seasons to all seasons of the year. In the air-conditioned room in midsummer, you can still cut open a freshly picked, ice-cold, and juicy fresh orange—the dream of "fresh fruit in all seasons" has become a daily routine full of happiness.
Cross-border—
Playing with "Eating Clean and Squeezing Dry": How Can One Fruit Leverage a Hundred Billion Yuan Industry?
When the sweet fruits come down from the branches, what awaits them is no longer just the supermarket, but an industrial feast led by cutting-edge technology. This feast is forcing profound changes in agricultural planting with unprecedented intensity.
On the streets in summer, many young people are fond of holding a cup of "iced fresh lemonade." The protagonist behind this national drink, which sold more than 1.5 billion cups in 10 months, is the lemon produced in the Sichuan-Chongqing area.
Walking into the intelligent workshop of Mixue Bingcheng's Chongqing factory, the freshly picked lemons are undergoing a rigorous "audition." After being washed "three times," they are sent to a 12-channel high-speed sorting line produced by Greef Technology Co., Ltd. Here, infrared cameras and high-definition cameras are taking "360-degree physical examinations" of the lemons at a speed of 42 photos per second, and any tiny scars cannot escape. The subsequent dynamic weighing system tightly controls the sorting accuracy within ±1 gram. The A-grade fruits that stand out must also "sleep for no less than 30 days" in the cold storage warehouse to naturally degrade the preservatives and maximize the juice yield.
This extreme industrialization has completely subverted the fate of the source fruit farmers who "rely on the weather."
Li Zhi (李智), a 37-year-old large-scale grower in Tongnan District, Chongqing, stood in his 1,500-mu lemon orchard with a smile on his face. In the past, he was afraid of lemons rotting on the market, but now there is a guaranteed purchase, and more importantly, "pricing based on quality." The better the fruit is grown, the more expensive it sells. Under the guidance of this baton, Tongnan cooperative orchards have installed integrated water and fertilizer facilities. Drones can not only take to the air for aerial spraying and pest and disease monitoring, but also transform into "aerial fans" in the cold winter to provide winter frost protection for the orchards.
Looking at the whole country, modern agricultural industrial parks are becoming the main battlefield of this "intelligent manufacturing" baptism. From 2017 to 2025, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance approved the construction of 9 modern agricultural industrial parks with citrus as the primary leading industry. In the Wuming District Modern Agricultural Industrial Park in Nanning City, Guangxi, a "small Wo Mandarin" (小沃柑) has strung together a golden chain of prosperity for the people. The park uses an AI visual sorting line to complete quality inspection, with an accuracy rate of up to 98%. From IoT precision planting to digital twin systems to reduce losses, the entire industrial chain output value of "Wuming Wo Mandarin" in 2024 is nearly 10 billion yuan, driving more than 240,000 people to increase their income and become rich.
If juicing and sorting are physical efficiency improvement methods, then in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, the "eating clean and squeezing dry" of citrus fruits has entered the cutting-edge field of biomedicine.
The 60,000 tons of small pomelos produced each year due to fruit thinning are processed by processing enterprises using molecular extraction technology to extract flavonoid substances such as naringin to produce new sweeteners; the oil cell layer is extracted into essential oils, which become the raw materials for high-end cosmetics. From waste fruit to high value-added pharmaceutical and daily chemical products, this fruit has truly realized a nearly 10 billion yuan industrial closed loop of "eating clean and squeezing dry."
Going Out of the Circle—
Riding the Cold Chain "Overseas": How Can Fresh Fruits from the Deep Mountains Amaze the World's Taste Buds?
When citrus fruits have completed the sublimation of quality and the cross-border of form, how can they amaze consumers' taste buds in the best possible state? The rolling cold chain logistics and cross-border going overseas are paving a road to common prosperity that spreads fragrance all over the world.
For a long time, the post-harvest decay and loss rate of citrus fruits in China once exceeded 30%. It was not until Professor Cheng Yunjiang's team integrated heat treatment, real-time detection of green bactericides, and high-spectral non-destructive internal quality detection technology to develop clean and efficient commercialized processing intelligent equipment that the situation improved greatly. This black technology is like putting a layer of "protective armor" on fresh fruits, tightly suppressing the annual loss rate of demonstration enterprises to within 5%. The shelf life of fresh fruits has been greatly extended, and domestic fresh citrus fruits are exported to more than 40 countries and regions around the world.
With the escort of the cold chain, domestic new retail is accelerating its evolution. At the end of February this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a document, and the citrus management system in Qingshen County, Sichuan Province, was highly recommended as a typical case nationwide.
In Letian Orchard in Qingshen County, the organic Baba Mandarin (耙耙柑) ordered and planted by Meituan Xiaoxiang Supermarket grows up on organic fertilizer and grass fertilizer. After harvesting, they directly take the cold chain special line of the instant retail platform, arriving "in the evening and arriving in the morning," and can reach the tables of urban people directly from the branches within 24 hours at the fastest, maximizing the sweetness of the "freshness on the branch."
On the Pinduoduo platform, Cao Jie (曹杰), a post-90s merchant from Anyue County, Sichuan, has sold more than 1 million catties of lemons in total. Facing consumers complaining that the old fruits "are not yellow enough," Cao Jie sits in front of the computer every day and patiently popularizes: "The authentic old fruits of Anyue lemons become more and more yellow as they are stored, and the sour and sweet taste is just right. They taste better after being stored for a long time!" This direct-to-origin model has made the pockets of fruit farmers bulge, and even the old fruit farmers in the village have e-commerce orders.
Cold chain and going overseas also carry the global dream of farmers in the old revolutionary base area of Gannan. In February this year, Lu Jian (卢坚), a large-scale grower in Ningdu County, Jiangxi, received good news: his 4 containers of 80,000 kilograms of Gannan navel oranges successfully arrived in the Singapore market, and the wholesale price per kilogram was 0.6 yuan higher than that in China.
Gannan navel oranges have topped the national fruit category for 11 consecutive years with a brand value of 69.294 billion yuan. Not only are fresh fruits sold to 24 countries and regions overseas, but in Xinfeng County, Jiangxi Province, and other places, deep processing projects such as Nongfu Spring orange juice are operating at full speed.
The leap in quality and the escort of the cold chain have made Chinese citrus strongly transformed into a "foreign exchange earning fruit." Today, the "Lian Orange" (恋橙) in Wushan County, Chongqing, is being placed on the shelves of Singapore with the help of cold chain logistics; the annual export volume of lemons in Anyue County, Sichuan Province, which is as high as 100,000 tons, ranks firmly as the absolute main force of fruit exports in Sichuan; and relying on the overseas expansion of tea beverage giants, high-quality Chinese yellow lemons are sold to Indonesia and Vietnam along with the cold chain, truly realizing the feat of "global sourcing, made in China, and sold globally."
Rooted in the soil, fragrant for thousands of miles. From precision to molecular-level gene customization, to the millimeter-level competition in intelligent workshops; from the cold chain express that arrives directly on the table in 24 hours, to the 10,000-ton giant ships sailing to the deep sea to earn foreign exchange. This whole industrial chain "evolution" of Chinese citrus is a vivid record of embracing hardcore technology, integrating new business forms, and striding proudly towards the world. In this cycle of three meals and four seasons, that familiar citrus fragrance is brewing infinite sweetness and vitality.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
"Pick it leaf by leaf, don't pinch. Pinch it with your index finger and thumb, then gently lift it to pick it off." In the early morning, at the Wangpoling Tea Garden in Minjin Village (民进村), Fuxi Street (阜溪街道), Deqing County (德清县), Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江), Ma Qianyun (马倩芸) was doing a live broadcast on her mobile phone, enthusiastically introducing the tea-picking techniques of "Mogan Huangya" (莫干黄芽).
Ma Qianyun (马倩芸) is a "tea second generation" born in the 90s, and mobile phone live broadcasting is her forte. "Dear friends, this is the first batch of tea just fried, and it tastes fragrant and mellow when brewed. If you come to pick tea this season, you can also fry it and take it home..." She picked up a cup of freshly brewed spring tea, and before she finished speaking, the barrage had already filled the screen, and netizens in the live broadcast room gave her likes one after another.
In addition to live streaming and selling goods, the shared tea garden in Minjin Village (民进村) is also well-known.
In a tea garden by the reservoir, each plot is marked with an adoption sign, with the tenant's name written on it. "The village launched a tea garden sharing model, which just meets the desire of city dwellers to return to the countryside." Deng Zhaoqing (邓照清), deputy secretary of the Party General Branch of Minjin Village (民进村), said with a smile that tenants only need to pay 10,000 yuan in rent every year to adopt one mu of tea land and obtain exclusive naming rights. The tea garden provides basic services such as full maintenance, water and electricity, and agricultural tools. Adopters can bring their families to experience tea picking and tea making at any time, and all the harvested tea belongs to the adopters.
More and more new consumption scenarios are appearing in Minjin Village (民进村). Tea mountain camping, tea banquet experiences, and tea garden cute pets are becoming new choices for tourists, and many families even drive hundreds of kilometers to "check in." The ancient tea garden is resonating with young consumer demand, creating a vibrant scene.
March 15th was the first day of mining for "Mogan Huangya" (莫干黄芽). "Moganshan (莫干山) tea picking begins!" A long shout pierced the morning mist and echoed in the tea garden.
Among the layers of green tea trees, tourists wearing bamboo hats and carrying bamboo baskets shuttled through the green tea ridges, and with a flick of their fingers, "one leaf and one bud" fell into the basket. Jiang Ye (姜晔), a tourist from Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), held up his mobile phone and took a photo for his family: "In previous years, we bought tea to drink, but this year we brought our children to pick tea and stayed in a tea garden homestay, which is especially pleasant."
The immersive spring experience stems from Minjin Village's (民进村) reconsideration of the traditional tea industry. Minjin Village Shuangfeng Tea Garden (双丰茶园) has 1,000 mu of high-quality tea trees. In the past, it only sold one season of spring tea. This year, the tea garden has launched activities such as the yellow tea mining season and parent-child tea picking study tours, turning the single tea garden into a comprehensive agricultural, cultural, and tourism complex that can be visited, learned, and tasted. Ni Jintao (倪锦涛), general manager of Shuangfeng Tea Garden (双丰茶园), introduced that it has attracted more than 700 tourists and multiple study tour teams to come and experience it.
As one of the main producing areas of "Mogan Huangya" (莫干黄芽), Minjin Village (民进村) has deeply integrated more than 7,000 mu of tea gardens with cultural tourism, sports events, and e-commerce live broadcasts. It has built a 60-kilometer-long tea tourism loop line, with tea gardens, homestays, village cafes, camping, and tourism research projects along the line. It also holds cross-country running challenges, yellow tea opening seasons, and trade union employee tea picking competitions to drive income growth for the masses along the line.
"Once the tea picking season arrives, the village becomes even more lively, and homestays and farmhouses must be booked in advance." Zhu Minrong (诸敏荣), secretary of the Party General Branch and director of the Village Committee of Minjin Village (民进村), introduced that more than 3,000 tourists have booked tea picking experiences in the village's tea gardens for this year's "May Day" holiday, which can bring in more than 600,000 yuan in income, truly realizing the transformation from "selling tea" to "selling experiences."
At the other end of the tea garden, a unique live broadcast is underway. The Fuxi Street Federation of Trade Unions (阜溪街道总工会) organized a team of agricultural assistance anchors during the tea picking season. In just two hours, nearly 10,000 people poured into the live broadcast room, and the background order notification sounds rose one after another.
The changes in Minjin Village (民进村) go far beyond the "new ways to play" in the tea garden.
Along the winding tea tourism loop line, the originally bumpy village road has been transformed into a smooth asphalt road, and newly planted magnolia flowers and tea trees complement each other. "In the past, people couldn't be retained in the village. Now that the roads are better and the environment is more beautiful, more people come to play, and we have more confidence in returning to the village to start businesses." Chen Tingting (陈婷婷), the person in charge of the rural life homestay who returned to her hometown to start a business, said with a smile.
"Through the integrated development of 'tea culture + ecological tourism + rural beauty,' tea gardens have become scenic spots and tea seasons have become peak seasons." Zheng Tao (郑滔), secretary of the Party Working Committee of Fuxi Street (阜溪街道), said that tea farmers are no longer just focusing on growing and selling tea, but are running homestays and opening village cafes, and many villagers are making a living from "tourism." Young people have returned, new business formats have increased, and the village, which once relied on tea, is now "red" because of tea.
In Minjin Village (民进村), a new story of comprehensive rural revitalization brought about by a new tea leaf is constantly being written.
Return to TopBy: 邱超奕
The impact of artificial intelligence on traditional jobs is increasingly imminent. From some voices of concern, we can feel the pressure, but more importantly, we can see certainty and find new opportunities.
Recently, 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) issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Employment of College Graduates and Other Young People in 2026," making every effort to promote the employment of college graduates and other young people.
This year, the scale of college graduates in China has reached a new high, and the total employment pressure is not small. At the same time, as humanoid robots enter factories to "work," the impact of artificial intelligence on traditional jobs is increasingly imminent. From some voices of concern, we can feel the pressure, but more importantly, we can see certainty and find new opportunities.
In the past three years, China's GDP has grown at an average annual rate of over 5%, and this year's target is in the range of "4.5%-5%." In 2025, China's economic increment exceeded 5 trillion yuan, and this year it is expected to exceed 6 trillion yuan. The additional 1 trillion yuan also means greater employment driving force. In the past five years, China's annual new urban employment has remained stable at over 12 million people. With a larger economic volume this year, there is a better foundation for achieving employment goals.
Judging from the situation at the beginning of this year, the Spring Breeze Action and Employment Assistance Season activities have released 23 million jobs, and the resumption rate of enterprises and the return-to-work rate of workers after the Spring Festival have reached over 90%. It can be seen that stable employment has started smoothly and had a good start.
Looking at artificial intelligence again, when AI customer service and machine assistants are blooming everywhere, people inevitably feel anxious. Where are the new employment opportunities?
From another perspective, the more new industries, new technologies, and new business formats emerge, the more employment opportunities can be created. At least three opportunities can be seen at present:
For example, new occupations. Looking through the more than 70 new occupations released in recent years, most of them are concentrated in digital economy, new energy, intelligent manufacturing and other fields. According to some market data, the supply-demand ratio of artificial intelligence technical talents is 3.5:1; the supply-demand ratio of new energy technology engineers is 5.1:1, and the supply-demand ratio of robot industry technical talents is 5.2:1. The prospects for new occupations are promising. This year, the government will strive to subsidize skills training for more than 10 million people, and relevant departments are also deploying the "Extraordinary Layout Action for Urgently Needed Disciplines and Majors." New occupational opportunities are expected to be released faster.
Looking at new employment forms again. Thriving due to technology, new employment forms are increasingly becoming an important "reservoir" for employment. This year's "Government Work Report" explicitly stated for the first time that "policies will be introduced to support flexible employees and new employment form personnel to participate in employee insurance." By improving the distribution of benefits and enhancing rights protection, the future development of new employment forms will be more sustainable and attractive.
There are also new employment opportunities in the service industry. Compared with the primary and secondary industries, the service industry has a stronger employment absorption capacity, and there is still great potential for tapping into the energy level and quality efficiency of China's service industry development. From 2022 to 2025, China's service retail sales grew at an average annual rate of 10.4%. From the silver economy, ice and snow economy to the pleasing-oneself economy, people are increasingly willing to pay for emotional value and innovative ideas. It is foreseeable that when new service industry formats flourish and emerge frequently, employment will sprout more new growth points.
Opportunities will not automatically translate into jobs. It depends on the active efforts of the majority of workers and the continued efforts of policies.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) proposes "building an employment-friendly development mode," which points out the direction for employment work under the new situation.
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) is planning a number of pragmatic, useful, and high-value major employment policies, and responding to social concerns, mentioning "actively leveraging the role of artificial intelligence in creating new jobs and empowering traditional jobs." From the series of intensive policies launched, it is clear that the support for employment is increasing and the accuracy is increasing.
The more we are in a changing situation, the more calmly we must respond. The fact that this year's employment target is consistent with those of 2025 and 2024 also shows a kind of strategic focus. Facing difficulties and challenges, making good use of favorable conditions, and exploring potential opportunities to achieve overall employment stability and a positive trend, China has the ability and confidence.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王崟欣 游 仪 沈文敏
Vertical parking garages can park more vehicles in the same land area by efficiently utilizing vertical space. However, during investigative interviews, reporters found that the utilization rate of vertical parking garages in actual operation is not high: car owners complain that their cars cannot be parked or are difficult to park, construction parties complain about high initial construction costs and large operating costs, and it is difficult to recover costs later. Many vertical parking garages have even been built at a high price, but are ultimately left idle.
Originally a good way to alleviate the "parking difficulty," why is it not welcomed by all parties? How to solve related problems? The reporter interviewed car owners, parking garage owners, construction and operation parties.
Q:
Unwilling to park, unable to park, low utilization rate of vertical parking garages
At 9:20 a.m., the underground garage of the Sinar Mas Plaza (白玉兰广场) in the North Bund (北外滩) area of Hongkou District (虹口区), Shanghai (上海), ushered in the first peak of traffic flow of the day. Office worker Chen Jiatong (陈佳彤) drove into the underground garage, anxiously looking for a parking space.
The underground garage of Sinar Mas Plaza (白玉兰广场) has more than 1,400 parking spaces, consisting of flat parking spaces and vertical parking garages, of which more than 800 are mechanical parking spaces. Between the mechanical parking spaces and the flat parking spaces, Chen Jiatong (陈佳彤) decisively chose the latter. Soon, the flat parking spaces were filled with vehicles arriving one after another.
"It's not that I haven't tried to park in mechanical parking spaces, but I haven't been able to park in one once," Chen Jiatong (陈佳彤) said. She drives an electric car, which is larger than a gasoline car, making it difficult to park. The mechanical parking spaces have baffles on both sides, and the angle is limited when parking, so you can only go straight in and straight out. It not only takes more time to park, but also you can easily scratch the wheels on both sides if you are not careful.
In Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), citizen Wang Hui (王辉) drove a new energy vehicle and "ran into a wall" in the Yipark International City Design Industrial Park (驿停车国际城市设计产业园) parking lot. The vertical parking garage is several stories high and has many parking spaces, but there are restrictions on vehicle height of less than 2.05 meters and vehicle weight of no more than 2.35 tons. Because the vehicle did not meet the conditions, he had no choice but to drive away.
"I don't want to enter a vertical parking garage unless it is absolutely necessary," Wang Hui (王辉) said. Even if he barely parked in it, he still had to pay extra attention to the rearview mirror, worrying about scratches. "Some new energy vehicles' Bluetooth will automatically recognize, and the rearview mirror may suddenly open after the car is parked."
Chen Jiatong's (陈佳彤) and Wang Hui's (王辉) attitudes towards vertical parking garages basically represent the majority of car owners—"difficult to park," "scratching the wheels," "the car is too heavy, can't park"... Pan Yi (潘懿), the property garage supervisor of the Shanghai (上海) Sinar Mas Plaza (白玉兰广场) parking lot, introduced that although mechanical parking spaces currently account for the majority of the parking lot, most car owners will choose to park in flat parking spaces.
"The situation at Sinar Mas Plaza (白玉兰广场) is not an isolated case. Many vertical parking garages have been built, but the utilization rate is not high. The main reason is that they are difficult to park and cannot be parked, so car owners naturally do not want to park," said He Jiayi (何佳怡), Secretary-General of the Shanghai Parking Service Industry Association (上海市停车服务业行业协会).
Explore:
Vertical parking garages are unpopular for many reasons
Vertical parking garages are an important supplement to flat parking spaces. Why are they unpopular?
"Most of the existing mechanical parking space outline dimensions are designed according to the standards of gasoline vehicles, and new energy vehicles, regardless of size or weight, significantly exceed the original gasoline vehicles. Overweight leads to inability to park, and oversized leads to inability to enter," He Jiayi (何佳怡) explained. Taking Shanghai (上海) as an example, the construction standards for vertical parking garages refer to the "Shanghai Mechanical Parking Garage (Field) Design Regulations" (《上海市机械式停车库（场）设计规程》) issued in 2017. With the development of new energy vehicles in recent years, large and long vehicles have become mainstream, and the original design regulations are difficult to meet the existing parking needs.
"For example, according to the 2017 standard, the maximum load of a mechanical parking space is 2.5 tons, which was basically the weight of an SUV in the era of gasoline vehicles, but now many electric vehicles weigh more than 2.5 tons. Once the weight is exceeded, the safety hazards of the lifting equipment cannot be overcome first," He Jiayi (何佳怡) said.
Not only are car owners unwilling to park, but vertical parking garages are also unpopular with owners during construction.
"Vertical parking garages are too expensive to build and it is easy to lose money," Zhang Xiaojie (张晓杰), manager of the Engineering and Construction Department of the owner of Shanghai (上海) Sinar Mas Plaza (白玉兰广场), told reporters. Excluding the civil construction cost of the garage, a flat parking space only requires about 100 yuan for line marking, while a vertical parking space requires the addition of a control system and lifting equipment, costing as much as 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per space.
The operation and management investment after completion is also not small. In many vertical parking garages, car owners need to have someone operate the car when parking and retrieving it. Once the garage is put into use, manpower needs to be invested. "Normally, a group of 5 parking spaces requires 1 security guard. If it is operating at full capacity, 800 parking spaces will require at least nearly 20 security guards," Pan Yi (潘懿) said. There are also subsequent operation and maintenance fees, insurance fees, etc., which are not small expenses.
"Vertical parking garages have high investment and low utilization rates, but the fees cannot be increased. Under current regulations, the charging standards for vertical parking garages are the same as those for flat parking lots, which leads to a vicious cycle in the use of vertical parking garages," He Jiayi (何佳怡) said. Vertical parking garages are an important supplement to existing flat parking spaces, and it is very important to construct and operate them well. The key is to update the design and construction standards of vertical parking garages from the root, so that car owners can park well and be willing to park.
In addition to lagging design standards, there is also a mismatch between the number of vertical parking garages built and the actual use. For example, the parking lot at Sinar Mas Plaza (白玉兰广场) was approved for 1,423 parking spaces. "Only by reaching this number of parking spaces can the approval be passed," Zhang Xiaojie (张晓杰) said. In fact, the traffic flow in the parking lot is not saturated, and the flat parking spaces in the parking lot are currently sufficient, and the mechanical parking spaces are basically idle.
"When approving the construction of a parking garage, relevant departments in Shanghai (上海) will make requirements for the minimum number of parking spaces in the garage based on information such as passenger flow. It must reach this number before it can pass the acceptance," He Jiayi (何佳怡) introduced. "There are many reasons for the idleness. Some are because the passenger flow in the shopping mall does not reach the required level in the later period, and some are because the size standards of mechanical parking spaces are designed according to the lower limit in order to make up the number of parking garage acceptance indicators during construction, so they can only park small cars, which leads to many vertical parking garages being impractical."
Analysis:
Where is the road for vertical parking garages?
"To revitalize vertical parking garages, the key is to solve the problems of difficult parking, inability to park, and unwillingness to park," He Jiayi (何佳怡) said. Shanghai (上海) is revising the design regulations for mechanical parking garages, and is re-formulating practical parking space standards based on the existing vehicle size, weight, charging and other needs, to fundamentally solve the problem of vertical parking garages being "unpopular."
She suggested that, in response to the high cost of vertical parking garages and the low enthusiasm of owners, relevant departments could introduce separate charging standards for vertical parking garages, and at the same time introduce policies to encourage social capital to support the construction of smart vertical parking garages.
"Please check whether your items are complete, close the door, and retract the rearview mirror." At the parking lot of the Guanghua Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (光华中西医结合医院) on Yan'an West Road (延安西路) in Shanghai (上海), Mr. Qiu (邱先生), who came to visit his family, approached the garage storage door with his car. The door opened automatically, and under the guidance of the staff, he drove the car in. Then, Mr. Qiu (邱先生) checked the vehicle according to the voice prompts, left the car, locked it, and clicked the confirmation button outside the door, and the door closed. At this time, a robot transport trolley in the garage received the instruction and came to transport Mr. Qiu's (邱先生) car to a vacant parking space.
This is a standard smart vertical parking garage. "The smart vertical parking garage stores vehicles in a warehouse-style manner. Car owners can complete vehicle storage and retrieval at the storage door outside the parking garage, and the storage and retrieval is completed by a robot transport trolley," said Wen Zhenyu (闻震宇), founder of Shanghai Zhiyuanhui Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (上海智远慧智能技术股份有限公司), the designer of the garage.
"With a total area of 1,100 square meters, we have achieved 100 parking spaces. If it is a pure flat parking garage, the same 100 parking spaces would require at least 3,000 square meters," Wen Zhenyu (闻震宇) said.
Experts introduced that the space requirements for flat parking spaces, ordinary mechanical parking spaces, and pure warehouse-style vertical parking garages decrease in order.
In the parking lot of the Chengdu Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (成都市中西医结合医院) (Chengdu No. 1 People's Hospital (成都市第一人民医院)), Chen Bin (陈斌), a citizen of Chengdu (成都) who came to see his mother for a follow-up visit, was deeply impressed: by scanning the code at the terminal, the system can not only automatically retrieve the vehicle, but also complete the car head replacement to ensure that the car head faces forward when leaving the garage, without the need to reverse and turn around.
The garage is as high as 12 meters, with 5 layers of mechanical parking spaces stacked on top of each other. Yuan Ming (袁明), a staff member of the Logistics Support and Security Department of the Chengdu Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital (成都市中西医结合医院), introduced that the garage has introduced an intelligent parking system, and 14 storage and retrieval rooms are distributed on the first floor below ground. Car owners can store and retrieve their cars by swiping their cards or scanning the code.
It is very necessary to build vertical parking garages, but considering the adaptation of construction costs and later utilization rates, industry insiders suggest that priority should be given to construction in scenarios where parking demand is more urgent, such as transportation hubs, hospitals and other places.
"We should encourage scientific research institutions and manufacturers to carry out research and development of new technologies and equipment for vertical parking garages, improve the convenience of using vertical parking garages, reduce construction costs, extend service life, and alleviate the 'parking difficulty' problem to the greatest extent," He Jiayi (何佳怡) said.
This issue is coordinated by: Ge Mengchao (葛孟超)
Return to TopBy: 主讲人：中国好人、广东广州番禺区“2号餐”店主 黄展护
I am Huang Zhanhu (黄展护), a Chaoshan (潮汕) person who has been running a fast-food restaurant in Panyu District (番禺区), Guangzhou (广州) for over ten years. Many people know me because of the red sign at the entrance of the store that says "Free Meal No. 2."
The sign is not big, and the words on it are simple: "If you are working and living in Guangzhou (广州) and are temporarily experiencing difficulties and need help, tell our staff: 'I want a Meal No. 2.' Don't be embarrassed, just leave after eating. Everyone has difficult times. The owner is a retired soldier who has also received help from others."
I have had this sign up for almost 10 years. It was initially just a simple notice, but later I added the last sentence because I wanted to tell those who might be feeling embarrassed: It's okay, I understand your difficulties, and I have also been warmed by others.
My store mainly serves fast food, and most of the customers are nearby workers and neighbors. In 2016, when I was still doing lunchbox contracting, I often encountered people who were experiencing temporary difficulties for various reasons, and I had the idea of providing them with "free meals." But what would be a good name? Writing "Set A, Set B," I was afraid that the elderly wouldn't recognize the English letters; writing "Tell me if you want to eat" felt too direct.
Later, I accidentally saw a public service advertisement called "Meal No. 1" online and was immediately inspired. They do "Meal No. 1," so I'll do "Meal No. 2." My wife said that "2" sounds like "love" (爱) in Chinese, which is also good. So, the name "Meal No. 2" was decided.
Over the years, some people who have eaten "Meal No. 2" have only come once, while others are like family, making me worry about them.
I have a deep impression of a girl who came last year, wearing the same clothes every day and riding an old bicycle to pack "Meal No. 2." It was many days later that I noticed her. After chatting, I learned that she had been unemployed for two months due to depression and was renting nearby. I transferred some money to her for emergency use and asked her if she would be willing to work as a stocker in a supermarket—without having to face customers, the pressure would be less. She agreed. Now she has a stable job, her life is back on track, and she occasionally brings colleagues to eat, like friends. I am especially happy to see her condition improve.
Helping others not only gives them warmth but sometimes also warms oneself. I remember in early December 2025, the weather was very cold, and a young man had only 28 yuan left on him when he came to the store to order "Meal No. 2." After learning about his experience, I gave him some living expenses and introduced him to work as a security guard at the exhibition. After receiving his first salary, he specially brought a brocade banner and fruit to thank me. He said, "Brother, when I get better, I will help others like you." With these words, I feel everything is worth it.
Why do I insist on doing this? Because when I was at my most difficult, I was also helped by someone. In 2008, I failed in business and only had a little money left. I came to Guangzhou (广州) and wanted to find a small shop to work in. Through the introduction of a fellow villager, I went to work in a milk tea shop that was preparing to open. At that time, I couldn't even afford the deposit for renting a house. The landlady auntie heard that I was working in a milk tea shop in the community and thought it was a proper job. She waved her hand and said, "You go to work first, and we'll talk about the rent later." For the first month, I didn't pay any rent. When I got paid in the second month and wanted to make up for it, she said forget it, just consider it a month's rent waived. I still remember that trust and kindness.
Now, what makes me especially gratified is that "Meal No. 2" is no longer just a lonely sign. Under the advocacy and promotion of the Panyu District (番禺区) Party Committee and District Government, it has gradually become a charity brand. Now, nearly 40 restaurants in the entire Panyu District (番禺区) have put up the "Free Meal No. 2" sign. What I didn't expect was that this kindness has spread to the whole country, and restaurants in many cities are doing the same thing.
Everyone does a little bit, and when it comes together, it is a great force. I went from being a recipient of help to a transmitter of love, and I realized the meaning of this bowl of rice: it brings warmth and hope to strangers.
(Interview and compilation by Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 张双南
Philosophers say that no two leaves in the world are exactly alike. But this principle does not apply to the microscopic world.
Physics has a basic premise—particle indistinguishability: all protons in the universe are the same, all electrons are the same, and all neutrons are the same. No electron is so unique that it is worth collecting; they are more perfectly consistent than Lego bricks and can be completely interchanged. An electron in a rock on the Himalayas (喜马拉雅山) is no different from an electron in a drop of seawater in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Thus, unity brings simplicity, simplicity builds regularity, and regularity makes this world predictable.
However, if people in the macroscopic world were also exactly the same as electrons and protons, then the world might be very orderly, but it would not produce real creativity, let alone everything we have today. Because the development of science and the evolution of civilization are precisely based on the fact that "people are not the same." Some are better at executing, some are more accustomed to thinking, some are good at singing and dancing, and some like scientific research... A beautiful world grows out of richness.
In a sense, the stability of the microscopic world depends on the indistinguishability of particles; while the vitality of the macroscopic world, especially human society, depends on diversity and collaboration.
Today, entering the AI era, in the face of large models, whether you are an academic expert or an ordinary netizen, you seem to be "leveled" in terms of knowledge, and some people worry whether the diversification of human beings is being eliminated?
AI will certainly change many things, but it will not truly erase the deepest differences between people. I think the most important of these are curiosity and imagination.
Curiosity, the native and lasting driving force of scientific exploration
Liu Cixin (刘慈欣) wrote a very interesting plot in his science fiction novel *Towards the Dawn*: the alien civilization judged that Earth civilization had broken through the "warning threshold," not at the node of the industrial revolution or other technological explosions, but when the first primitive man began to look up at the stars. The truly great thing about humanity is not what we already know, but that humans can't help but ask what those things we don't yet know are.
In the history of science, many important discoveries did not start with grand plans, but with people taking an extra look, asking an extra question, and thinking an extra layer.
Before Röntgen, it was not that no one had come into contact with similar experimental devices, nor that no one had seen those strange phenomena. Only Röntgen stopped to think: since the light has been blocked, what is making the fluorescent screen glow? This led to the discovery and application of X-rays. Newton observed the falling of an apple, which was originally commonplace, but it prompted him to think deeply: why does the apple fall vertically to the ground? Why doesn't the moon fall to the ground? Later, through rigorous mathematical deduction, Newton proposed the law of universal gravitation, laying the foundation for the industrial revolution.
What drives a series of scientific revolutions is often not the simple accumulation of existing knowledge, but the questioning of existing knowledge. Many key advances initially came from seemingly "redundant" questions: why is this happening? Is there any other possibility? These questions may not have immediate answers, but they push research deeper and deeper. In other words, curiosity is the starting point of science.
The essence of curiosity is to maintain tension towards the unknown and to have the urge to explain the unknown. As Albert Einstein (爱因斯坦) once said: "I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious." This non-utilitarian, pure curiosity makes scientific exploration transcend realistic constraints and utilitarian motives, and becomes a lasting driving force for the evolution of civilization.
Today, it is becoming easier and easier to obtain answers. If people lose their curiosity, they are likely to be satisfied with ready-made answers, satisfied with standard paths, and satisfied with the explanations that others have already given. And truly new questions, truly important discoveries, will certainly not be born in this satisfaction.
Imagination, the key leap to break through cognitive boundaries
Curiosity asks "why is it so," while imagination asks "why can't it be that way." If curiosity raises questions, imagination provides a blueprint for answering them.
Science does not passively wait for reality to speak for itself. Faced with the same facts, what truly widens the gap between people is that some people can take a step further beyond existing experience and construct a new possibility in their minds. Without this step, many breakthroughs in the history of science would not have happened at all.
Galileo (伽利略) broke through the long-term constraints of Aristotelian physics with thought experiments. The free-fall thought experiment became the ideological prototype of the equivalence principle of general relativity; the inclined plane rolling ball thought experiment revealed the basic laws of inertial motion, laying the foundation for Newton's first law. He did not take a step forward by "seeing some new phenomenon," but by relying on imagination to first build a situation in his mind, and then use logic to force the old concepts into contradiction.
Scientific imagination often works like this. It is not a fantasy divorced from reality, but a way to open up a path in thought before reality has directly unfolded. This kind of rigorous logical deduction using imagination to construct ideal scenarios has become an important paradigm of modern scientific research.
When Albert Einstein (爱因斯坦) was 16 years old, he repeatedly thought about a question: if I chased a beam of light, what would I see? According to classical physics, this beam of light should seem to "stand still" in his eyes; but Maxwell's equations do not allow this to happen. This was the starting point for his proposal of the special theory of relativity. In 1907, Albert Einstein (爱因斯坦) further expanded his imagination: how can a person in a closed room distinguish whether he is standing on Earth or being accelerated "upward" in space? This is the introduction to the equivalence principle, which became the key entry point for general relativity.
The role of imagination in the development of science is not to make science "more romantic," but to enable science to truly cross the boundaries of the old framework.
Technological competition is not only a competition of results, but also a competition of soil
The AI era poses a challenge to the industrial-era education model characterized by unification and standardization.
The industrial-era education model originated in the second half of the 19th century. It designs the education process as a standardized production process similar to a factory, emphasizing the unitization and standardization of knowledge transmission, tending to regard differences as "noise," individuality as "problems," and growth that does not follow the standard path as "objects that need to be corrected."
Such an education system helps to improve efficiency, and also invisibly compresses the space for questioning and probing. Students are accustomed to looking for standard answers and are unwilling to question whether the problem itself is valid. Over time, curiosity and imagination cannot be fully developed, which to a certain extent weakens the potential for innovation and creation.
In human society, difference and collaboration are the norm. Collisions between different backgrounds, different experiences, and different interests are more likely to generate new ideas. Artificial intelligence can find the optimal solution in existing data, but what truly changes the problem itself is often those who do not completely think and explore according to existing paths.
I prefer to understand education as providing conditions rather than prescribing paths. Some students are good at abstract thinking, while others are more sensitive to practical problems; some like cross-field association, while others are suitable for deep cultivation in one direction. These differences are themselves an important source of future innovation. We do not have to use a single yardstick to measure talents, but to provide space for personalized and diversified growth, and protect everyone's different endowments, talents, and original thinking.
From a longer time scale, a country's technological potential depends not only on the current level of technology, but also on whether it provides a space for curiosity and imagination to continue to grow. Artificial intelligence can improve efficiency, but it is difficult to replace the human ability to ask new questions and open up new directions. How to leave more room for exploration while improving system efficiency is a topic facing education today.
**归根结底** (guī gēn jié dǐ - "to get to the bottom of things," ultimately; in the final analysis) technological competition is not only a competition of results, but also a competition of soil. Allowing people with different endowments to give full play to their strengths, and allowing the spirit of exploration to be more respected and promoted, will expand the boundaries of innovation and the world of development at a deeper level.
(The author is the director of the Particle Astrophysics Center of the Institute of High Energy Physics (中国科学院高能物理研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), the director of the Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, and the chief scientist of the "Insight" astronomical satellite ("慧眼"天文卫星)).
Return to TopBy: 郑 重
Recently, a 2025 national bestseller list for children's books has attracted attention: many of the books that made it to the top are tinged with success-oriented themes such as "The Way of the Wolf," "Winning with Breakthrough Thinking," and "Kids, You Need to Understand Social Skills," while many classic literary works and excellent original children's literature that once influenced a generation of children are ranked outside the top 50. According to Beijing OpenBook (北京开卷) data, the phenomenon of utilitarian children's books "dominating the charts" has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Some books lack humanistic content, deliberately create anxiety, and are full of the flavor of commercial hunting. Others have high prices, low discounts, no copyrights, and poor quality, yet they can drive out good books in the market through 劣币驱逐良币 (liè bì qū zhú liáng bì - "bad money drives out good," Gresham's Law, where inferior goods drive out superior ones). This situation cannot help but make people worry about the reading environment for children.
Who exactly stole children's right to choose what to read? Since 2020, the decline of physical bookstores and the rapid rise of new media e-commerce have changed the landscape for promoting children's publications. According to monitoring, the share of physical store channels in the book retail market in 2025 has fallen to less than 4%, and as much as 90% of books are paid for online by parents for their children, the children's reading preferences are essentially replaced by their parents' eagerness for quick success and instant benefits. A clear example is that, with the overall decline in publishing value, educational materials have become the only major category with significant growth, which is due to the fact that children's extracurricular reading time is being squeezed and independent reading is being marginalized.
What is even more worrying is that the traffic logic of new media platforms reinforces the utilitarian orientation of parents' book selection. Those topics that sell anxiety are more likely to gain traffic support, while literary works that are quietly profound are rarely noticed. The chaos of price comparisons on platforms has repeatedly pushed book prices to new lows. After deducting the cost of short video marketing, which accounts for more than 70% of book sales, the market space for high-quality original content is severely squeezed.
In fact, the significance of independent, non-utilitarian reading for young people far exceeds our imagination. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) reading conference once had a long-term theme: children who have received good reading training have unlimited potential. The reading here is mainly literary reading, especially fictional reading. In some developed countries, children's literature accounts for 70% of children's reading. Non-utilitarian reading makes children more empathetic and creative. Excellent children's literature can provide children with emotional value, bring spiritual comfort and growth power, and fill their lives with stories, poetry, and the distance. In recent years, the mental health problems of young people have become a focus of social attention, and the lack of literary reading is a factor that cannot be ignored.
More than 20 years ago, writer Wang Meng (王蒙) called in a speech: can our children's literature enable today's children to enjoy a beautiful and happy spiritual life? Can it fill the gap between the burden of schoolwork and children's pursuit of creativity, happiness, and playfulness? Since 2000, China's children's publishing has experienced 20 years of rapid growth, and children's literature once grew into the largest category of children's publishing, accounting for up to 43.5%, and accounting for more than 70% on the bestseller lists, which is close to the children's reading structure in developed countries such as Europe and the United States.
For a period of time, a group of original children's literary works such as Yang Hongying's (杨红樱) campus novels, Shen Shixi's (沈石溪) animal novels, Cao Wenxuan's (曹文轩) pure and beautiful novels, Zheng Yuanjie's (郑渊洁) fantasy fairy tales, and Tang Sulan's (汤素兰) "Silly Wolf" series were popular on campuses, snatching children away from TV screens and online games, allowing them to be close to their mother tongue and close to reading, forming a magnificent reading trend. In the past 5 years, changes in the channel ecosystem and other reasons have led to changes in children's reading, and the market share of children's literature has continued to decline, accounting for only about 16% in 2025.
Faced with the prominent problems of children's reading today, reshaping a healthy reading environment requires the joint efforts of the government, society, schools, and families. First of all, the whole society should establish the concept of "children's healthy and happy growth is the most important thing," and only with the correct concept can a healthy children's reading environment be created. Secondly, reshape the channel ecosystem, curb market chaos through legal means, especially the problems of low quality and low prices and traffic hijacking on e-commerce platforms, severely crack down on piracy and behaviors that disrupt market order, and allow high-quality original content to obtain the market space it deserves. Third, build good physical bookstores and public libraries, and give full play to the role of schools, communities, and the media, so that young people can independently explore and happily read in the ocean of carefully selected good books. Fourth, parents should complete the role transformation from "checker" to "companion," "co-select, co-read, and co-discuss" books with their children, and give children full autonomy in choosing books. Only when parents let go of their anxiety can children truly experience the joy of reading and form long-term reading habits. The imagination, empathy, and deep thinking ability cultivated in this way are precisely the foundation of innovation and creation.
Philosopher Oken once said: "The hope of eternal life arises from the pure childlike heart of mankind." When every child can freely roam in the sea of books, and when reading is no longer measured by the standards of "usefulness" and "uselessness," a nation can have endless innovative vitality, and the future generation can have a truly healthy, rich, and happy childhood.
(The author is the president of Zhejiang Juvenile and Children's Publishing House (浙江少年儿童出版社)).
Return to TopBy: 董 浩
Living to seventy, carefully savoring life, it truly is a mix of sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy – a complex blend of flavors! This lifetime has been busy, rushing here and there, with disturbances and also the glory of the spotlight. Suddenly, I recall a song that sings: "A game, a dream..."
In recent years, I often come across the view on my phone that "life has no meaning." In fact, I have always believed that the meaning of life is something that different living individuals find for themselves based on their different perceptions, entirely according to their own considerations and choices. Indeed, a person's birth means a game heading towards death. From a biological point of view, what is the difference between a person's life and the life of a puppy, a kitten, or an ant? But the meaning of life does not lie in how we are born, but in what way we live.
When we were young, we often had many fantasies and dreams, and we often daydreamed. This is normal human behavior, and everyone has experienced this stage. Later, we read some books, experienced some things, hit a few walls, and also learned about the difficulties of life. Thus, dreams and reality collide, and a sense of constraint or shackles arises.
Faced with this contradiction, some people will choose to lie flat and continue to daydream. But some people will advance despite the difficulties, cheer up, and use their hearts to pursue their dreams, to find the meaning of life, and to create their own life value! In this way, when you have identified your goal and are moving forward steadily, living one day has the meaning of one day, and doing one thing has the meaning of one thing. As long as life does not stop, your pursuit of the meaning of life will not stop.
In a word, life has no inherent meaning; it depends on what meaning you give it, and this depends on your firm belief. Children, instead of thinking every day about what the meaning of life is, dreaming of great victories without taking action, it is better to put in some effort from now on, take action, and do something interesting and meaningful in this life! Even if we know that we hold only a one-way ticket to death, we should soberly and happily pursue the truth and live towards the sun!
Some people will say that life is like a dream. But friends, even if life is a dream, we only come to this world once! We only have one chance to dream, so why not have a hearty and magnificent, brilliant dream? Once we have this belief, no matter what situation we are in, we can try to make changes, work hard to move forward, and have greater strength to face difficulties. You will be more determined and happier! Being happy is a day, and being unhappy is also a day, so why not be happy?
(This article is the preface to the book "I Hope You Are Happy, Like When You Were a Child." This edition has been abridged, and the title was added by the editor.)
Return to TopBy: 谢 冕
"It is precisely the beautiful scenery of Jiangnan, meeting you again in the season of falling flowers." On the way from Shanghai (沪上) to Hangzhou (杭州), these two lines of Du Fu's (杜甫) poetry lingered in my mind. Gathering in Hangzhou (杭州) to celebrate Lu Wenli's (卢文丽) new poetry collection, "Labor and Blooming," felt like a poetic reunion. This "season of falling flowers" not only reflects the current climate of Jiangnan (江南), but also subtly aligns with the flow of literary tradition in the poetry world. Generations of poets bloom and fade like flowers, while the long river of poetry flows endlessly, and there are always new blooms worth celebrating.
I first met Wenli (文丽) in June 1990 at the "West Lake Poetry Boat" competition held by *West Lake* (《西湖》) magazine. At that time, I and my colleagues Gong Liu (公刘), Chang Yao (昌耀), and Tang Xiaodu (唐晓渡) came to Hangzhou (杭州). That grand event, for the poetry world, was like a handover of eras. Wenli (文丽) took the stage as a young award winner, and we presented her with the award, which is still vivid in my memory. More than 30 years have passed in the blink of an eye. Wenli (文丽) and I occasionally exchange letters, and this friendship has become stronger because of poetry. The young poet who stood on the podium that year has now achieved remarkable success, not only writing modern poetry but also classical-style poetry. Recently, she released two poetry collections, "Only Holding Floral Fragrance and Affection" and "Labor and Blooming," one old and one new, like two璧 shining together. As a judge of that year and a witness to that grand event, having personally witnessed the growth and blooming of a poet, I can be said to have made a small contribution.
Opening "Labor and Blooming," there are several aspects that are particularly impressive: First, the warm and long-lasting emotional undertone. Wenli (文丽) writes about the fields of her hometown, the eaves of old houses, and relatives connected by blood, with a style like the misty rain of Jiangnan (江南), infiltrating people's hearts in silence. This warmth is the dialogue between the poet and the world with a soft heart after experiencing the vicissitudes of life, pure and moving.
Second, the elegant and self-preserving aesthetic style. Regardless of whether the subject matter is the everyday life of the city or the scenery of mountains and rivers, Wenli's (文丽) poetry always maintains a clear and transparent temperament, not chasing after superficiality. This reminds me of the "purity" advocated by ancient Chinese poetry criticism, an aesthetic pursuit that breaks away from vulgarity and returns to authenticity, a spiritual adherence to "a distant heart makes the place naturally remote." Wenli's (文丽) poetry precisely inherits this tradition.
Third, the meticulously crafted language skills. Poetry is essentially the art of language, and Wenli (文丽) understands this well. She does not deliberately pursue rare and obscure words, but can discover new meanings in ordinary words, and see the extraordinary in the ordinary. For example, "Lazy pond / Long streets and short alleys / Lyrically expressing old times" ("Dear Grass Leaf"), turning the word "lyrically expressing" into a verb, showing ingenuity between the words and sentences. Studying Wenli's (文丽) poetry, one knows how much she cherishes language.
The title of "Labor and Blooming" is itself a concise poetic proposition. Wenli's (文丽) decades of creative journey is an interpretation of this proposition. Following her own creative rhythm, she freely shuttles between the realms of modern poetry and classical-style poetry, cleverly combining the aesthetic beauty of the classical with the emotional expression of the modern, allowing tradition to焕发新的生机 (huàn fā xīn de shēng jī - "radiate new vitality," to bring new life to something).
In today's poetry world, there is no shortage of works that excessively pursue novelty of technique and become mere displays of skill, nor are there poems that indulge in personal emotional venting and are alienated from the times. In such a context, Wenli's (文丽) poetry maintains a rare purity and clarity. I often say to young poets, don't pretend to be profound, be innocent and pure. Wenli's (文丽) poems are exactly like this, moving because of their sincerity and powerful because of their accuracy. In "Labor and Blooming," I read a Jiangnan (江南) female poet's warm gaze on the world: every plant and tree in Jiangnan (江南), every meal and drink in life, and every subtle emotion are reawakened by her poetic eyes. This ability comes from her years of adherence to the art of poetry and her love for life.
It can be said that "Labor and Blooming" is not only a collection of poems, but also the crystallization of a poet's half-life of cultivation, a testament to Wenli's (文丽) deep dialogue with poetry, with life, and with the years. It allows us to see that in this era of浮躁 (fú zào - "restless," impetuous) hearts, there are still people who are willing to slow down for poetry, silently labor on the land of language, and quietly wait for the flowers of poetry to bloom. The meaning of poetry may be hidden in such "encounters"—the mutual understanding and契合 (qì hé - "agreement," harmonious connection) between the poet and language, the soul resonance between the work and the reader, and even more so, the reunion of old friends like us, sitting around and chatting, talking about the long years.
May Wenli (文丽)守着这份纯粹与赤诚 (shǒu zhe zhè fèn chún cuì yǔ chì chéng - "guard this purity and sincerity," to maintain one's original intention and pure heart), continue to cultivate diligently, and let the flowers of poetry bloom year after year, becoming more fragrant over time. And may we all live up to our poetic hearts, wait quietly for the flowers to bloom in our respective labors, and live up to the encounter.
Return to TopBy: 朱茂炎
Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? These three philosophical questions are also the propositions explored by paleontology. Studying the "Chengjiang Fauna" (澄江动物群) at Maotianshan (帽天山) in Chengjiang, Yunnan (云南澄江), answers the second question. In this Cambrian fossil group dating back more than 500 million years, over 21 phyla and more than 300 species of animal fossils have been discovered, including primitive vertebrates from the phylum Chordata, to which humans belong, and is hailed as "one of the most amazing discoveries of the twentieth century."
Why did life evolve slowly in the form of simple microorganisms for more than 3 billion years before rapidly appearing in the Cambrian in a "big bang" manner? This has been a century-old mystery perplexing the scientific community since Darwin founded the theory of evolution. The popular science book "Chengjiang Fauna: Witnessing the Fossil Natural Heritage of the Cambrian Explosion of Life on Earth" (written by Zhu Maoyan (朱茂炎) et al.; Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press) attempts to solve this mystery by combining the latest discoveries.
The uniqueness of the "Chengjiang Fauna" (澄江动物群) lies in the preservation of animal soft tissues and their tissues and organs, such as eyes, brain nerves, and intestines, which usually cannot be preserved as fossils. It rarely reproduces the full picture of Cambrian marine biodiversity, revealing the process of sudden acceleration of life evolution. Who would have thought that an inconspicuous fossil collected from Maotianshan (帽天山) in 1990, after restoration, would reveal the complete appearance of a "Anomalocaris" individual. The first discovery of this carnivorous animal with a pair of huge pincer-shaped appendages and sharp tooth-shaped mouthparts on its head indicates that fierce predators with individuals up to two meters in size had already appeared in the distant Cambrian ocean, comparable to giant sharks, witnessing the complex food chain of the ocean at that time. Its publication in the journal *Science* caused a sensation.
Similar surprises have occurred from time to time in the past 40 years. In 2020, we discovered a shrimp-like animal fossil whose body chimeraed multiple characteristics of "Anomalocaris" and arthropods, and was hailed as the "Kylin" of the Cambrian, named "麒麟虾" (Zhang's Kylin Shrimp). It is a typical transitional species, filling the missing link in the origin of arthropods and adding strong evidence to the theory of biological evolution. A news short video of this discovery published in the journal *Nature* exceeded 400 million views in just a few days. We, who are buried in fossils every day, suddenly discovered that so many people are attracted to the "Chengjiang Fauna" (澄江动物群).
In order to comprehensively display the scientific value of the "Chengjiang Fauna" (澄江动物群), we started writing this popular science book in 2020 to popularize geological knowledge to the general public. We have sorted out the research results of several generations, but new discoveries continue to emerge during the writing process. The most unforgettable is the debate about "Yunnan虫" (Yunnan虫). Is this small fish-shaped fossil really the ancient ancestor of our vertebrates? We found cartilage cell tissue on its gill arches. This result, which supports "Yunnan虫" (Yunnan虫) as the most primitive vertebrate, was published in the journal *Science* and was both recognized and received some doubts. This kind of collision of "old questions, new evidence" is precisely the norm in the study of the "Chengjiang Fauna" (澄江动物群).
Telling fossil stories naturally requires "no picture, no truth." The book features 137 kinds of animal fossils, more than 400 high-definition fossil pictures, and 132 black and white line restoration drawings, leading readers to appreciate the beauty of fossils while clarifying the complex animal "family tree" and understanding the early appearance of various animal phyla in evolution.
Fossils are the most direct and reliable empirical evidence of life evolution. Witnessing the key moments of life evolution through exquisite pictures, thinking about the position of human beings in the long chain of life, and the magnificence and magic of this blue planet that has stretched to this day, is the greatest significance of this book.
(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所)).
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